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the Heads of a Declaration which it was thought desirable thatJames should publish at the moment of his landing. There werealso six or seven letters from persons of note in the Jacobite party.Most of these letters were parables,but parables which it was notdifficult to unriddle. One plotter used the cant of the law. Therewas hope thatMr.Jackson would soon recover his estate. Thenewlandlord was a hard man,andhad set the freeholders against him.A little matter would redeem the whole property. The opinions ofthe best counsel were in Mr. Jackson’s favour. All that wasnecessary was that heshould himself appear in Westminster Hall.The final hearing ought to be before the close of Easter Term.Other writers affected the style of the Royal Exchange. Therewas a great demand for a cargo of the right sort. There wasreason to hope that the old firm would soon form profitableconnections with houses with which it had hitherto had nodealings. This was evidently an allusion to the discontentedWhigs. But, it was added, the shipments must not be delayed.Nothing was so dangerous as to overstay the market. If theexpected goods did not arrive by the tenth of March, the wholeprofit of the year would be lost. As to details, entire reliancemight be placed on the excellent factor who was going over.Clarendon assumed the character of a matchmaker. There w r asgreat hope that the business which he had been negotiatingwould be brought to bear, and that the marriage portion wouldbe well secured. “Yourrelations,” he wrote, in allusion to hisrecent confinement, “have been very' hard on me this lastsummer. Yet, as soon as I could go safely abroad, I pursuedthe business.” Catharine Sedley entrusted Preston with a letterin which, without allegory or circumlocution, she complainedthat her lover had left her a daughter to support, and beggedvery hard for money. But the two most important despatcheswere from Bishop Turner. They were directed to Mr. and Mrs.Redding: but the language was such as it would be thought