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1. May, 1771.
 * SIR

HET who object to detached parts of Junius's last letter, either do not mean him fairly, or have not considered the general scope and course of his argument.—There are degrees in all the private vices;—why not in public prostitution?—The influence of the crown naturally makes a septennial parliament dependent. Does it follow, that every house of commons will plunge at once into the lowest depths of prostitution?—Junius supposes, that the present house of commons, in going such enormous lengths,