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THE

CORRESPONDENCE

OF

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

SIR JOHN SINCLAIR, BART.

WITH

YORK

REMINISCENCES OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED, CHARACTERS WHO
HAVE APPEARED IN GREAT BRITAIN; AND IN, FOREIGN
COUNTRIES, DURING THE LAST FIFTY YEARS.

ILLUSTRATED BY FACSIMILES OF

TWO HUNDRED AUTOGRAPHS.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN AND RICHARD BENTLEY,

NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

1831.

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NOTE.

THE Author regrets much to find that in the narrative of the singular train of circumstances connected with Mr. Windham's Excursion to Scotland, (See vol. I. page 144,) there are some mistakes, which it is proper to correct. He is assured, that it was another lady, and not Mrs. Dick, who had an interview with Messrs. Burke and Windham, and afterwards with Lord Melville. Indeed, Mrs. Dick was then in the East Indies, with her husband. He also finds, that Doctor Dick did not owe his appointment to Lord Melville; and that he "succeeded to Tullimet," which was a family inheritance.

It was owing to some mistake which cannot now be explained, that Lord Melville had supposed that the person for whom he procured the appointment in the East Indies was Doctor Dick.-These alterations, however, will very little affect the interest of the narrative.

MEA AOBK

ADVERTISEMENT.

An old and much respected friend, the Abbé Gregoire, Bishop of Blois, recently sent me the History of the First French Convention, with the following inscription, written in English with his own hand :

"Presented by the Author, To the most indefatigable man in Britain; and to the man in Europe of the greatest acquaintance."

To be "indefatigable," is a characteristic of the Scottish nation; and a person who, for so many years, has been incessantly occupied with public transactions,— has been engaged in such extensive inquiries,—and has travelled so much in foreign countries, must have" a very numerous acquaintance." The inscription, therefore, was in some degree appropriate, though strongly expressed, and heightened by foreign courtesy.

But, besides a mere acquaintance, there is perhaps no private individual, who has carried on a more extensive correspondence, with so great a number of distinguished characters, both at home and abroad. The truth of this will appear by the following selection from my Domestic Correspondence, and the reminiscences

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