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TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.

tors. The author of the subsequent pages has had but too many opportunities of making a similar experience with Baron de Knigge, and also was a member of the Order of the Illuminators, which he left before its dissolution. He has been driven out of his native Country by the secret persecutions of his former brethren, whose intrigues he exposed; and now resides at Algeziras, in Spain, deploring that he has suffered himself to be made a dupe to the ambitious views of a set of men, who promised him the possession of higher knowledge, and a share in the reformation of mankind, while their sole intention was to make him subservient to their private interest; and lamenting that he has sacrificed the best time of his life in hunting after a deluding phantom.

The events related by Marquis Carlos de G****** constitute a great part of his own history, which ought to be a serious warning to all those that listen to the seducing voice of secret, corresponding, andother

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