INTERCEPTED LETTERS;

OR, THE

Twopenny Post-Bag.

TO WHICH are added,

TRIFLES REPRINTED.

BY

THOMAS BROWN,

THE YOUNGER.

Elapsæ manibus cecidêre tabellæ.

OVID.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. CARR, 56, PATERNOSTER ROW.

1813.

DEDICATION.

ΤΟ

STN WLRE, ESQ.

MY DEAR W- -E,

Ir is now about seven years since I promised (and I grieve to think it is almost as long since we met) to dedicate to you the very first Book, of whatever size or kind, I should publish. Who could have thought that so many years would elapse, without my giving the least signs of life upon the subject of this important promise? Who could