Excerpt from Miscellanies in Prose and Verse Rory of my adventures in' America, allowed that I had a claim on government, I deter mined to make it. I therefore drew up a me morial to his Majef'ty, fetting forth, that my grandfather, my father, arid myfelf had all been captains in the 17th regiment of foot, and my uncle Lieutenant Colonel to that re giment, &c. To this Iannexed the follow ing Journal. But having in vain fought a mediator between Majefiy and me, I dropt all thoughts of the memorial. It happened foot; after ...
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Excerpt from Miscellanies in Prose and Verse Rory of my adventures in' America, allowed that I had a claim on government, I deter mined to make it. I therefore drew up a me morial to his Majef'ty, fetting forth, that my grandfather, my father, arid myfelf had all been captains in the 17th regiment of foot, and my uncle Lieutenant Colonel to that re giment, &c. To this Iannexed the follow ing Journal. But having in vain fought a mediator between Majefiy and me, I dropt all thoughts of the memorial. It happened foot; after that I entreated a refpe???table gentleman of my acquaintance, a man of letters in Whofo judgmentl place implicit faith, to criticife' my tranflation of Racine's Phaedra. This he very kindly undertook, and even {poke to Mr. Harris concerning it, who, With great politenefs, offered me his theatre, if a princi pal performer, whom he named, would 1m. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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