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S held forth by the advertiser,
he purposed placing his sons under his care, and to do so, desired
that forty pounds might be remitted him at once, to pay his journey
to England, for which convenience he, the writer, would not alone be
obliged, but also extend his patronage to the lender,
by recommending

him to his friend Sir Hugh Rose, who was himself
desirous of sending his sons to be educated in England. The address
of a banker was given
to whom the money should be remitted, and an immediate reply
requested, or "application should be made in some other quarter."
Now, the clergyman did not answer this strange appeal, but he
inserted another advertisement, changing, however, the symbol by
which he was to be addressed, and appearing
in this way to be a different person.
To this new address there came another letter, perfectly identical in
style and matter: the only change was, that the writer was now at the
Hotel de la Reine d'Angleterre
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