“Philo-Nauticus* presents his compliments to the Editor of the ‘Literary Gazette,’ and begs leave to ask whether his last letter, stating that Fitzadam was on his way to London, and expressing a wish to introduce him, has been duly received. Fitzadam has since arrived; but, as the usual courtesy of acknowledgment to correspondents has not appeared, P. N. is naturally led to infer, either that his letter has been mislaid, or that he has perhaps carried his officiousness on behalf of depressed genius to the point of intrusion, in which latter case, however mortifying at this moment, a due sense of delicacy would compel him to spare the editor further trouble. If, however, P. N. only deceives
* Afterwards made himself known as Mr. H. Nugent Bell, whose celebrated research into the Huntingdon Peerage, made him as high an authority in genealogical cases as Sir Harris Nicolas was as his successor in practice. |
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