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HE Author begs leave to acknowledge to his subscribers, that they have a further claim upon him for Two Volumes more than thefe delivered to them now, and which nothing but ill health could have prevented him from having ready along with these.

The Work will be compleated and delivered to the Subscribers early the next Winter.*

The Author died foon after the Publication of thefe Two Volumes, before he was able to fulfil the above Engagement.

A

Sentimental JOURNEY

THROUGH

FRANCE and ITALY.

HEY order, faid I, this matter better in France

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-You have been in France? faid my gentleman, turning quick upon me with the most civil triumph in the world. Strange! quoth I, debating the matter with my felf, That one and twenty miles failing, for 'tis abfolutely no further from Dover to Calais, fhould give a man these rights-I'll look into them: fo giving up the argument-I went straight to my lodgings, put up half a dozen fhirts and a black pair of filk breeches - -"the coat I have on, faid I, lookA 4

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"ing at the fleeve, will do" took a place in the dover ftage; and the packet failing at nine the next morning by three I had got fat down to my dinner upon a fricaffee'd chicken to inconteftibly in France, that had I died that night of an indigeftion, the whole world could not have fufpended the effects of the Droits d'aubaine - my shirts, and black pair of filk breechesportmanteau and all must have gone to the King of France even the little picture which I have fo long worn and fo often have I told thee, Eliza, I would carry with me into my grave, would have been torn from my neck. - Ungenerous!

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to seize upon the wreck of an unwary paffenger, whom your fubje&s had beckon❜d to their coaft-by heaven! SIRE, it is not well done; and much does it grieve me, 'tis the monarch of the people fo civilized and courteous, and fo renown'd for fentiment and fine feelings, that I have to reafon with

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* All the effects of ftrangers (Swifs and Scotch excepted) dying in France, are feized by virtue of this law, tho' the heir be upon the spot the profit of thefe contingencies being farm'd, there is no redrefs.