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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 ob 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
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