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 property, interet, and privileges, however mall, in that ociety; and that, for my own particular, I am reolved to aert my Right, and defend the little I have left, to the utmot of my power; unles I find it neceary to acrifice even that alo to the ervice of my Country.

With this reolution I undertook the following work, and, having received ome marks of digrace and ill-uage in the univerity, evdeavoured, by a very jut Recrimination, to vindicate myel, and expoe thoe who had deprived me of my Right. I hall not, in this place, trouble the reader with the circumtances of my cae, and the treatment I met with at Oxford, having been, perhaps, too prolix upon that head, in one of the following papers, to which I refer.

As for the 'Imprudence of this undertaking, which has frequently been objected, I confes it to be uch, and that I have al along proceeded, in the bold earch of Truth'', without a ingle view to my own interet, without any promie or expectation of the mallet reward, even that of being preented to a Doctor' degree by the univerity, in return for all my indutry, and the pains which I have taken in its behalf.