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Intelligence
Letter from a Gentleman of Lincoln's Inn to a Clergyman his late Tutor at Oxford in the country giving an account of an late extraordinary conversion lately operated as Science of a very extraordinary notion is lately arrived
from Rome The Pope has actually himself discover'd
that he is Antichrist; & what is
more than one should expect in a Pope
has had the candour to confess it. One
may imagine how much the venerable penitent
was distressed for a Confessor on this
extraordinary occasion — Those who are bred
to the trade craft [were the last persons in the world]
of all other men were not to be trusted —
By the greatest good fortune in the world
it was just at a time that
A Royal Lady, who certainly has the best
right, observing her Lord uncommonly thoughtful in a mood of
thoughtfulness in which she had never seen
him in before, took the opportunity of a
moment of dalliance to squeeze it from out of
his lips + + I need tell you nothing further — One Every body knows what becomes of a
secret when it gets into the hands of a Woman
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conversion
I have it from a person in the train of
a Royal Duke, of whom you will hear
more by and by.
Least you should imagine
Some persons of less candour than yourself
might suspect
the familiar who constantly brings word to Mr
Woodfall & Mr Miller whenever the
his Majesty & Lord Bute at their Teteatite in the Queen's Closet say any thing
to one another that is worth repeating.
But you who have so often taught me to defy
the Devil and all his works
The truth is I came by it in a way altogether
natural
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The poor Gentleman ever since this extraordinary
discovery, has been afraid to
look in the Glass
The Cardinals who cannot but be struck attentive
to with this change of his intellects, without knowing the causes began
already to look out for a Successor — The
Jesuits it may be imagined are particularly active on the occasion
— There in hopes that a change
of heads in the church may produce
somthing favourable to their order
Had the news arrived but a very little
sooner the apostolic conqueror would could have
had no competitor for the late vacant
Bishoprick.
Envious of his rivals fame, & flushed
with the hope exempt of conquest — Dr Halifax
intends in a very short time it is said to take the Grand Lama in
hand — It is not yet determined what
shall be made of him — As Antichrist
is a strange beast, this perhaps may turn
out to be a queer fish — possibly the
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Leviathan
Grand Lamas Cake for Dr H.
as much superior to Mrs Trusber's cakes
as the annals of his sacred history or to
Dr Trusbers her Reverend Brother's Chronology, or his changes
to his Clergy are to Dr Trusber's Sermons
By a courier arrived past from Thibet
it seems that immortal personage is in
high spirits + + Annios, os &c at the news of the defeat
of the blow; even to his infallible rival.
It is thought by his Physicians
and that whereas it was only understood before
that he was to live for ever, it is now the
current opinion of the faculty that if no untoward
accident happens he may live
for ever and a day — That I remember
understanding from my nurse to be the largest
term within the sphere of possibility
I wish as in charity a man ought to do
for a heretic that this fatal contracoup
when it arrives may not cut the thread of his
life, & reduce it to its former line pitch of []
Pope.
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