CONTENTS OF THE FIFTH VOLUME. PAGE. Copy of the Proclamation for apprehending the Prin ters of The Gazetteer and The Middlesex IF I had been so fortunate as to have found you at home this morning, I should have taken the liberty to solicit your advice, and perhaps assistance, on a matter in which, though not personally affecting myself, I am very much interested. It is this: An old friend of mine, major Gall, has at this moment two daughters in Paris, whom he carried thither, when children, for their edu cation; and left them there about the time in which the war broke out, under the care of a near relation. He has heard that they are in circumstances of distress, and is anxious to proceed thither for the purpose of affording them relief, and of endeavouring to get permission to bring them to England. He has accordingly applied for, and obtained, a passport from this government to go to France; but he has none for his admission there, nor any means of applying for it. He has been told, that Mr. Swinburne is on the point of going to that country with a commission to settle a cartel for an exchange of prisoners; and has mentioned to me his wish to be recommended to that gentleman, to be allowed. to attend him as one of his suite. My compassion for his situation, which is every way deplorable, compels me to transgress the bounds of propriety in troubling you on this business; but, it is one of those cases in which a man may be justified to himself, but must appear unreasonable to every one besides. |