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Copy of a Letter to Prince Dashkoff. from M. Jy. B.

July. 19. 1786.

Yesterday's Post brought my Brother a Letter
from Count Mellin; we had got hold of some others,
which, at another Time, would have been interesting,
I happened to open That; The first sentence which
I communicated to him, before I went on to any
other, rivetted the attention of us both to that Letter,
and every thing else was flung away. The result
drew Tears of Joy into his Eyes: from the Beginning
of that unhappy Affair, He now own'd to me, he
could never think of you with that pleasure,
nor behave to you with that Cordiality, that he
had done before; now he turned Crasy the other
way, now nothing would serve him, but he must
scamper away to Kiors without any other business
upon the face of God's Earth, but to kiss you & hug
you, and all that, because you had been a good
Boy, & so forth. I, who happened to be nine years
older than his The literal Translation
of a Lieutt
Colonel's Title in
Russ. High-Nobleship, observed to him,—
that all that was very pretty, and might have
have been feazable at another time, but as matters
and things then stood, would be impossible; It was

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