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MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE

(OFFICIAL AND FAMILIAR)

OF

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SIR ROBERT MURRAY KEITH, K.B.,

ENVOY EXTRAORDINARY AND MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY AT THE COURTS OF

DRESDEN, COPENHAGEN, AND VIENNA, FROM 1769 TO 1792.

WITH A MEMOIR OF

QUEEN CAROLINA MATILDA OF DENMARK,

AND AN ACCOUNT OF THE REVOLUTION there in 1772.

EDITED BY

MRS. GILLESPIE SMYTH.

Letters-the living thoughts of a race departed; the record of their playful humours and buoyant
fancies, their fresh, cordial, overflowing love!
We go through the world, blaming its
coldness, and cursing its cruelties, and its crimes; but all unconscious of the vast riches of joy, and
intellect, and affection, which hem us in on all sides, and overflow continually into the Eternal Sea.
Thanks be to an all-gracious God, who has caused them to flow!-HOWITT

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER,

GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.

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THE COUNTESS DOWAGER OF HARDWICKE,

ONE OF THE FEW SURVIVORS OF

THE WORTHIES COMMEMORATED IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES:

REGARDED THROUGH LIFE WITH PARENTAL PREDILECTION BY THEIR SUBJECT,

AND WITH FILIAL VENERATION BY THEIR EDITOR;

THEY ARE, WITH ENHANCED GRATITUDE FOR THE KIND PERMISSION,

AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.