MEMOIRS

OF

RICHARD CUMBERLAND.

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

MEMOIRS

OF

RICHARD CUMBERLAND.

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

CONTAINING

AN ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS,

INTERSPERSED WITH

ANECDOTES AND CHARACTERS

OF SEVERAL OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED
PERSONS OF HIS TIME,

WITH WHOM HE HAS HAD INTERCOURSE AND CONNEXION.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR LACKINGTON, ALLEN, & Co,

TEMPLE OF THE MUSES,

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My orders were to wait at Lisbon till Mr.
Hussey wrote to me from Aranjuez, and ac-
cording to the tenor of his report I was to use
my discretion as to proceeding onwards, or re-
turning home; and this being a point decisive
as to my credit or discredit in the management
of the business I was entrusted with, I was
most urgent and precise with Mr. Hussey in
conjuring him to be extremely careful and cor-
rect in his report, by which I was to guide my-
self, and this he solemnly promised me that he
would observe. On the 19th and 20th I pre-
pared my dispatches, and on the 21st delivered
them to the pacquet master, who took his de-
parture that
very day.