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Aetat. 33] Letter ,' which I am confident was never printed. I think it will not do by itself, or in any other place, so well as the ''Mag. Extraordinary''. If you will have it at all, I believe you do not think I set it high, and I will be glad if what you give, you will give quickly. 'You need not be in care about something to print, for I have got the State Trials, and shall extract Layer, Atterbury, and Macclesfield from them, and shall bring them to you in a fortnight; after which I will try to get the South Sea Report.' [No date, nor signature.] I would also ascribe to him an 'Essay on the Description of China, from the French of Du Halde .'† His writings in the Gentleman's Magazine in 1743, are, the 'Preface '† the 'Parliamentary Debates,'† 'Considerations on the Dispute between Crousaz and Warburton, on Pope's Essay on Man;'† in which, while he defends Crousaz, he shews an admirable metaphysical acuteness and temperance in controversy ; 'Ad Lauram parituram Epigramma ;'* Rh