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 Terrt. Filiu. N came to me IaPc week, and ask'd me, with tears in his Eyes, ISrhether I thought there .ILlas ! fiid he, 0 c ther i leggin, g ; you know, Sir, my bole depen. da. nce the copy of-.- and I am .luff now I, rtntmg another edition of it, I ho I need not ufe any ar ments to convince my brother writers of the whggijh clati oftheeffe&s of this popijh reftoration, they have often reprefented them to their readers in the .molt glaring colours, and cannot therefore. h. elp perceiving them th:mfelves. If they have the bo,,cls of parents in them, and are not the moll unnatural wretchez upon earth, the? canno.t bear the thoughts of ieeing their retty ie dragg d flong the ftreets to a pots!fh pik: of faggots. d confumed amidit: the infults and conclamation. of a rathal;y Mob. I am lure, for my part, I would rather bear any' thing this world could lay upon me, than live to tie my favouri,e boy T�uu. 90vh he is grtwn up t,o a vo:'ume, and handsomely d eli d in a �uit of calve . leather cloa:hs, finely erfibroidered) lugg'd out of nurfi Francklin's l,op, and ud in this barbarou= manner. find yet this I mull fee, i ! live to fee what I am quite tick of mentioning. This brings to my mind another evil conquence, which would give me rome uneafineli i for, as my works would, in fuch a cafe, le dellroy'.d, fo the deftgn of them would alfo be frailrated, the R- formation of the univerfities, which I have �o much at heart, would then be entirely laid aftde, and the op?reffors of the mufe would be {ecured in. whatever a&s of tyranny they fhould pleafe to com- mit. At prent, indeed, under a irotefint govern- ment, this neceffiry undertaking is for a while fuf- nded, and the engines of peffecution are per- mitted

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