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[ Note by the Editor.—It is much to be regretted that the original papers belonging to this correspondence, including all the notes and letters, which Mrs. Beaumont either wrote herself, or those, still more important, which she caused to be written by her confidential amanuensis, which would doubtless form all together a body of domestic diplomacy equally curious and useful, are irrecoverably lost to the world. After the most diligent search, the Editor is compelled to rest under the persuasion that they must all have been collected and committed to the flames by the too great prudence of the principal party concerned. Had they been trusted to the discretion of a friend, the public would, doubtless, long since have been favoured with the whole.]
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[ See Bacon on Cunning.]
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[ See Annual Register, 1761, for an entertaining account of the trial of Mr. M’Naughton.]
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[ Supposed to be from the pen of Mr. Twigg, who was presented with a living in the gift of Mrs. Beaumont.]
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[ Literally copied from a family receipt-book in the author’s possession.]