surprising veracity,--truthfulness unimpeachable, if you will read

well. What promptitude, too;--what funds for conversation, when

needed! This scraggy Piece, which is better than the things people

often talk to one another, was evidently written as fast as the

pen could go.--"It is done, if such a Hand could have DONE it, in

the manner of Bachaumont and La Chapelle," says Voltaire

scornfully, in that scandalous VIE PRIVEE;--of which phrase this

is the commentary, if readers need one:--