Select passages from the diary and letters of the late John Blackader, Esq.

PREFACE.
THE Letters here prefented to the
Public, were providentially pre-
served from being deftroyed as wafte pa-
per, by coming, after having been thrown
afide and neglected for many years, into
the hands of a perfon who knew their
value.
When I was favoured with the perufal
of a few of them, I felt a ftrong defire
that they might be printed ; and if they
Ihould be fent to the prefs, I promifed to
recommend them (fo far as my poor name
and judgment can be a recommendation)
by a fhort Preface. I have fince read
them all; and am now called upon for
the performance of what I promifed.
Some Memoirs are to be prefixed by a
Gentleman competent to the fervice. It
appears from his letters that he was an
Officer of rank in the army of the Duke
of Marlborough in Flanders, during that
war with Fiance which was terminated
by the peace of Utrecht. He was a mar-