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 N? xxxvtzz. Terre. Filius: tho'in vaio, to deprive u of it for ever. I can- not therefore fo much as hope that h woukl con- tinue to us this inet!imable bitfling, unlefs I could Cuppole, (againt which fuppofition 1 have two or three private fcruples in m mind that, u on hi, �Y ) arttoni here, he would turn a good l)rotefiant, and a found member of .the ehurk o/' England, as ay laro eflat31ifl'd3 of which the liberty of the Pu�s is the greatell fupport, My judicious adverfmy cannot wonder t my zeal for the liberty f the PrEss, /inet he has told the world, that I make nvo hearty mea.ls a. upon thi one article of our prefent ccnlhtunon. I have al�o a feldoro-feelig l'br an honeit fociey of tradefmet, to whom every aut&r ha:., or ought: to have, a natural affec'tion. te 3ool.lle.  of Lon- don and Wettminflerl who, I fear, would be real: fufferers, and many cf them intirely ruin'd bygthis antkluated rewv'd I'cheme, which would inPallL bly make a dreadful havock in mo of their Shops, and condemn to the unmerciful flames raft multitudes of.falling books in all ficulties, which have been written, durivg theft latt thirty year, againIt his (pretended) majelty, and his (reputel) fither. The copies of book are to the/h men as good as !aded eftares, and defcend in the fame manner from generation to generation5 they are equally conver- tible into money, to let up their forts, and portion their daughters i I cannot therefore, without horror, think upon the mi[i:ry and confufion which would be brou ht upon the�e peo le, if this aecur.fi'd ro- 'e/hou!d �ucceed, which would de�1oofi them of their top,es s well as their books. I was tnfibly affe&ed with the concern of one o.thi profeflion, (more honelt than wife) who,. hying read tke- famous RI$TORWlON cam..

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