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Title: Some Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. J[ohn] H[ill], Inspector-General of Great Britain. In a Series of Letters from a Gentleman in Town to his Friend in the Country. With occasional Hints relative to a Parallel Performance of a certain noble Earl. These Letters are printed as a supplemental Volume to the Inspectors, and all H[ill]'s other Writings,....
Description: London: Printed for W. Owen, 1752. First Edition, 64 pp., disbound. John Hill, who called himself "Sir John", as a member of the Swedish order of Vasa. He contributed a daily letter to the "London Advertiser and Literary Gazette" called the "The Inspector", the letters first appeared in March 1751 and continued for over two years. They were later described by D'Israeli as being 'a light scandalous chronicle all the week with a seventh-day sermon'.

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