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Rh playwright; scraps of Latin thrown out to bother the Reverend Mr. My, and to remind him of Inverness and Gibraltar,—together with a dozen other incongruities.

If those clergy, as they are improperly called, familiarize with your families, and under the garb of sanctity, obtain the ear and the of its females (all for pure christian love.) There are

Who are no less dangerous, if admitted into your friendship or that of the female part of your family. One of these, named, was lately discovered debauching the wife of his benefactor under circumstances of the most aggravating nature. Many of them pay attention to the pecuniary concerns of your families, whilst pretending to administer to their corporeal evils: such fellows contrive to become executors to the wills of their dying patients, or to marry the daughters of such as are tolerably rich; and then they become (what is called) "regular;" though their previous education, in most cases, only qualify them for serving in a haberdasher's or a draper's shop, or probably the still more honourable employment of shaving and