An essay upon friendship; deliver'd with a view to an unhappy gentleman, decd. and a monster just strip'd of power, which he has abus'd and is lately return'd to England. ... By a faithful servant and soldier of his Majesty's.
Draper, Joshua.
London : printed in the year,
1725.
With a preliminary leaf bearing on the verso a Latin verse by 'Philenus', and a final errata leaf.
A faithful servant = Joshua Draper, Secretary to the Council of Madras; the 'unhappy gentleman' = Francis Hastings, ex-Governor of Fort St. George; the 'monster' = Nathaniel Elwick, a member of the Council of Madras.
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