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to give it pect as a shrewd conjecture of theirs
that they had seen the Pretender. This spread abroad
and he got a collection of I think 250£ sent
to him with which he made off.
Who should this be after all but a younger
Brother of the Duke of Courland's. He had
twice paid his depts for him after having given
him his portion but he still continued this
profession of defrauding which he seemed to do for
the sake of the pleasure of arising from the success
of his contrivances, for he was not a man of
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Samuel Bentham |
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