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Rh Hold, hold, I beeech you: your anxiety makes you forget yourelf. If your imprudent dicoure hould get abroadtwo or three unfortunate anecdotes have lately circulated among our country readers. The well-known dicovery on the ubject of ‘thoe truly original and excellent dicoures’ involved our corps. Poor Bk hould have kept his ecret better. And the learned Doctor, who tranlates Greek orations out of French, was near poiling all by his eagernes. His critique had almot tepped into the world before his hitory. The management in this cae was much too gros.

In fact, if it was known that an individual critic, and not a ociety, as it is given out, is oppoed to an individual author—and that the former individual is ometimes a friend, ometimes an enemy or a rival of the latter, our articles would often be read as mere advertiements—Take away our magic, our ideal aociation, and our tanding joke, , and hould be able to do as little execution upon the race of writers as  without her tanding army upon the nations of infidels—So not a word more on this ubject, I beg.

now reume our judicial capacity, and proceed to public entence. Here we brook neither interruption nor dipute, witnes our, in which we o cavalierly garble, mirepreent, and confute the remontrances of the damned, whenever we do not find it more convenient to uppres them. Rh