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

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 another, 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 owned 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 Kioso
without any other business upon the face of God's
Earth, but to kiss you and hug you, & all that
because you had been a good Boy and so forth.
I, who happened to be ten years older than his the literal Translation
of a Lt.
Colonel's Title in
Russ. High nobleship,
observed to him that all That was very pretty, and might
have been feasable at another Time, but as matters & things
then stood, would be impossible. It was but the day before,
that having learnt from Countess Scavrouski, who
called here in her way to Petersburg, that the Prince
of Princes had given up his intentions of coming here,
it was but the day before, I say, that having received

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