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have returned it you before now. I will send it you with
the &c's in a day or two. What he wants to do with it
I don't know: possibly to show it to Randal.
As to the course of the Post, your folks know nothing of the
matter. If your letter is at the P. House here on Wednesday
night it is quite time for enough. What they say about
the revolt of the Hessians is all stuff. we have not here
so much as a report of it were any such report. So your worship's destruction
scheme may sleep for this bout. I hope wile you brood
over your destruction Scheme you have not the inconsequence
to rail at the Americans for burning our Dock-Yards.
Oh - I must tell you news ; which you perhaps may
think bad news. To me it is neither good nor bad.
Elmsly has givn the 2d Vol. of the Incas to another
man. He says he told me he should: but I did not
understand him so. Both Vol's are now come over. I
have got them. Mine contains but 333 pages + 5
of Table of Titles of Chapters + 7 of Epistle dedicatory.
5 1/4 of these arewill be equal to 4 of the English.
From these data you may calculate what I shall have.
It is said that the burning schemes have actually been traced to Silas Dean, the
American emissary at Paris. The following are His particulars I have
heard. There was a painter worked at Ld Temple's at Stow who
hearing the description of the man who is custody on that account
under the name of John Hill otherwise John the Painter, thought
he knew him it was a man he knew, had worked with and been pretty intimate with.
He communicated these suspicions to my Lord, who gave him instructions
and sent him up to town to speak with Hill and endeavour
to get something out of him. He did so, and managed so well as to
work himself into Hill's confidence. After a while L.d T.'s painter
contrived to introducing a friend: this friend was one of the
Clerk's of the Admiralty who had disquised himself for the purpose.
The grand topic of conversation always was along how to con-
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