SELECTION

OF

CURIOUS ARTICLES

FROM THE

GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

CONTAINING

I. LETTERS TO AND FROM EMINENT PERSONS.
II. MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES, INCLUDING ANECDOTES
OF EXTRAORDINARY PERSONS, USEFUL PRO.

JECTS AND INVENTIONS, &c. &c.

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOK LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATER-

NOSTER-ROW; AND MUNDAY AND SLATTER, OXFORD.

Printed by Munday and Slatter, Oxford.

CONTENTS

OF THE

THIRD VOLUME.

LETTERS TO AND FROM EMINENT PERSONS.

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1. FROM Algernon Sidney, in answer to one persuad-

ing his return to England after the Restoration

II. Oliver Cromwell to his Son-in-law, Gen. Fleetwood

III. Oliver Cromwell to the Speaker of the House of Com-

mons on founding a College at Durham

IV. From Sir Robert Strange; containing an account of

some Pictures at Rome

V. Mr. Addison to a Lady

VI. From Dean Swift, on the Fishery

VII. Two Letters from the late Countess of Hertford, af-

terwards Duchess of Somerset, on the death of

her only son George Lord Viscount Beauchamp,

who died of the Small Pox at Bologna, in 1744

VIII. The Duke of Ormond to his Son

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