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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 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 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 in a mood of thoughtful
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
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
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 Tetralite 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
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 charge of his intellects, without knowing the cause began
already to look out for a — 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 consequence 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
Leviathan
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