capable of complimenting the " ingenuity”.

of them.

As to the Disrespect you affirm to have been fhewn me, by the Inhabitants of Windfor; Juftice to them demands my grateful acknowledgments, for a behaviour totally the reverse. They are not people after your heart at all. Confult your Lift, Sir, and fee what Representatives they are unanimous in sending to Parliament. Tell me, Sir, Is not the Town of Windsor, in the person of one of its Representatives, obnoxious and dreadful to your whole Party, beyond any other Borough in the kingdom? -However, I think it fair to acknowledge, that it is poffible you may have had fome foundation for this part of your general charge against me: but mere Abuse, as fuch, (whoever it comes from, Sir,) will give me very little uneafinefs; 'till you can prove the prudence and candor of others to depend upon my conduct, and the want of them in my enemies to be chargeable to my account. Once then, at Windsor, Sir, I was infulted; tho' never by any inhabitant of the place. The Gentleman infulting me, Sir, was a pupil of yours; for he spoke your scandal. He was therefore extremely fcurrilous and very profane; and had been, but a little while before, expelled one of our Univerfities for Blafphemy. His complaints were like yours:

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of Enemies to the University, &c. &c. But I fpare his name; becaufe, before we parted, he declared himself forry for having credited, what you ftill glory in having published to all the world.

In answer to your Fourth Article, it is abundantly fufficient to produce the paffage you refer to, viz. "A book entitled "POLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS, &c. tranf

lated into English by Dr. KING, with the

name of WILLIAM KING to the dedi"cation of it to a noble Duke. This " WILLIAM KING, whoever he was, tells "the Duke of Beaufort he dedicates to, "that the subject of his Papers made them

proper then to be prefented to his Grace. "This book appears to have been printed "the latter part of Queen Anne's reign; "in the beginning of that inglorious pe"riod, in which, was it not for the in"fatuation of fome now living, a veil

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ought to be drawn over the memory "and counfels of that unhappy Princess; "and feems to have been a comprehen"five plan for the operations of a BOLING

BROKE, &c." And farther; that the book is a very bad one, and very indifferently tranflated. The first part of the paffage, viz. POLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS, &c. TRANSLATED into English by Dr. KING, is literally copied from the title

page. Not a word is there mentioned about Dr. KING's being the author; about his writing the book; about the Principal of St. Mary Hall; about Falfe English, nor about Falfe Latin - which you likewise charge.

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To your Fifth head of complaint I shall . only reply, That the general prefumption is against you and That did wait upon one of his late Majefty's chief Ministers, on the occafion of your being a candidate for election into parliament; and that you gave him fuch affurances as were entirely fatisfactory, and procured in your favour all the interest he could make. In proof of this head; I also refer to the fudden defection from your intereft at the eve of that election; to the general light in which you have been confidered in the Univerfity ever fince; to your wanting from that time the common Confidence of your own Party (which is very feelingly complained of in the Dreamer), and to the ftrong Symptoms of disappointed ambition - a prevailing petu-. lance and peevishness of temper which has disturbed your whole character ever fince. -But here you have a great advantage; having outliv'd nine tenths of your acquaintance, and probably all your Friends.

I bring no charge against you, Sir, which your own Writings, or public Conduct will

not warrant.

The last general Imputation, you are

pleafed

pleafed to fpecify, you cannot defire to fee retracted. For, dare you deny the truth of it? This, Sir, you will hardly venture to do: for if you "have not the "vanity to arrogate (to yourself, I fuppofe you mean) the labours of another man's

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pen, I have a right to affign you, as the "author of that Work ;" and if ever you expreffly and publicly deny your being that author, you fhall know upon what grounds I accufe you of being fo. And a worse book than the Dreamer, both as to the fhameless Abuses it is filled with, the principles it is calculated to recommend; and for poverty of compofition, I think not easy to be found and I do affirm, that in that book "are libelled all ranks and orders of men both in "Church and State, even from Him that fitteth "on the THRONE to the lowest of his people."+ POLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS and THE DREAMER refemble one another little less in their general Demerit, than in the names and titles of the perfons they are afcribed to. But your character as a writer, and in general, I find fo copiously enlarged upon, in defence of a Gentleman, who does. equal credit to his Univerfity and the liberality of those Benefactors who procured him an Education in it, published on Monday laft, that you fhall be troubled with little more from me at prefent. What

TÆ * Maledictis refpondeat, and might fully fatisfy a stronger refentment than you are capable of exciting in me.

The Evening Advertifer likewife making fo distinguished a figure in your Apology, it seems proper to mention it here: And I do affure you, Sir, I fhall never think it ignominious to defend the Government, 'till it become difhonourable to fwear allegiance to it. The profeffed defign of that Paper is to counteract the poifon of your favourite London Evening Post; and that not by the Writings of any one Man, or Society of Men, but by being open (which no other Paper is) to receive communications in de-fence of His Majefty, the honour of His Government, and the characters of his Friends and Servants. In the infancy of that Paper, and after its firft declaring openly against principles like yours, you are welcome to fuppofe me affifting it frequently; and the doing fo, Sir, was equally as conformable to my invariable way of thinking and conduct hitherto, as your panegyric upon the London Evening Poft, can be agreeable to the Principles you have ever (generally) profeffed thro' life." But of late, Sir, the Evening Advertiser has received very few contributions from me: my end, at first proposed, being in a good * Apol. p. 44. 5.

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