_‘The Author, when at +Paris+, sold the Copy to a Person, who sold it again to a Bookseller in +Holland+; and the latter was actually going to print it when he heard that I was just ready to publish the +Letters+ of the Baron +de Pollnitz+, (the same that are the Subject of our two first Volumes). The Title-Pages of the one and the other had such a Resemblance, that the Bookseller in +Holland+, who purchas’d the Copy, of which these two additional Volumes are a Translation imagin’d it to be the same with the other, and laid the +MS.+ by. But not long after this, he took it into his head to review it, and by comparing it with the former Volumes, he found this a quite different Treatise. He saw, that it not only contain’d a History of the Author’s +Life+ and +Family+, but an Account of several Courts and Courtiers of +Europe+, very circumstantial, and altogether new; and that here was a Relation of several Travels of our Author, that to +Spain+ in particular, of which there’s not a Word in the former Volumes; in short, that this Copy of his was the Account of the Baron’s +first Travels+, antecedent to those already publish’d.’_ _Upon his communicating this Discovery to M. +Changuion+, the latter bargain’d with him for it, and has just published it in +Holland+, as a Sequel to the former Volumes, tho’ if he had had the +MS.+ sooner, he would undoubtedly have given it the Preference._ _At the End of the last Volume there is a Translation of a remarkable Piece from the +Italian+ Original, which is the +Confession of Faith+ made by the Baron +de Pollnitz+, and his Motives for changing his Religion._ _The said Bookseller thinks, that the Author (tho’ he has since abjur’d the +Romish+ for the +Protestant+ Religion, as may be seen in our Preface to the first Volume) will not be angry with him for publishing that Piece, because it has such a tendency to confute the malicious Insinuations which he complains of in his +Memoirs+, and proves, that if he did not then embrace the +True Religion+, he took the Pains however to examine it._ _On the other hand, the Publication of this ample +Confession+ will demonstrate to all Catholics, that whatsoever Arguments they employ against Christians of the +Protestant Communions+, the latter are not afraid to let them see the Light._ _To conclude; tho’ some Places are here and there mention’d in these Volumes, which are also to be found in the Two First, and with that Conformity indeed betwixt them, which the +Truth+ unavoidably demanded; yet ’tis proper to observe, that the Descriptions are sometimes more copious, the Reflections almost every where different; and that in both there is an agreeable Variety and Vivacity which we flatter our selves will not fail to recommend +These+ to the same good Acceptance from the Public, with which it has favor’d the +former+ Volumes._ MEMOIRS OF THE Baron de POLLNITZ.