Finally do I wish your Honour & the whole your Noble Family a blessed & happy Exodum to this-most Ended year, & a prosperous Transitum & over step into the New year near by, The God of heaven & Eart Grant your Honour upon a New His Godly Patronage, favour Mercy, Wisdom, Strength & all Requisita, with which he has been pleased to Endow your Person this Manny Years to the best of Land & Church, as a faithfull Servant unto his Master the king, & that when your Days are spent, that I may have the pleasure to See you with this My Eyes in the Rest & happiness to Come after this Troublesome Life, So wishes he, who Dyes

Your Honours Most Dutifull Servant Jou. Caspr: Laprivs.

.D.M. P. S. My Neighboor John Abeel Acts the Mad man.

ie REV. FATHER ROBAUD TO SIR WM JOHNSON. ir

I am Extreemly sensible, and very readily acknowledge, the great honour you have done me, by your Jate obliging Letter. Every part thereof breath politeness, Witt and Generosity ; An open heart and Sincere, all declares the man of honour, and shews Monsieur le Chevallier Johnson. I have no Term ; no Expression can avail me, to render (or speak) all I naturally

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feel, at the sight of so noble, so generous a proceeding. I had not heretofore the honour to be acquainted with the English Nation. Born in the midst of France without being natural Subject of the French King, I had hitherto hardly known any but Frenchmen. But how truly can I affirm that Inever have seen in any one of them, any thing that approach in the least, of or Like that noble generosity, (or the great characteristick of the English,) so Remarkable amongst the English.