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Rh, than in the intervals of a hurry of business. Read Erasmus's life, and you'll find it was almost a continual journey. You see how malicious some are toward you, in printing a parcel of trifles, falsely, as your works. This makes it necessary that you should shame those varlets, by something that may enlighten the world, which, I am sure your genius will reach, if you set yourself to it. If I had the honour to have any correspondence with my lord treasurer, I would certainly complain of you to him, and get his lordship to join in this request, which, I persuade myself, he would readily do, if put in mind. I do not in the least fear that you will be angry with me for this, since you cannot suspect my sincerity and kindness in it: and though I shall be angry with you, if you neglect yourself and interest, yet it shall go no farther, than to be a trouble to myself, but no abatement of the real friendship of

WILL. DUBLIN.

REVEREND SIR,

ERHAPS it will not be ungrateful to you, to know our session of parliament ended on Friday last. We threw out in the house of lords, two bills; that against fines in the city of Dublin, and about quit-rents; and voted an address, in opposition to the commons address about revolution principles. We. XI.