XVI ADVERTISEMENT. 



** what I never did fay j that fuchcnticifm is with- 

 ** in the reach of every fuperficial, idle, and dif- 

 ** honeft man, who can hold a pen ; that neither 

 ** my health, my time, nor my tafte permit me to 

 •' confute fuch fpecies of differtation, even had the 

 " author the manlinefs to Qiew himfelf : I declare, 

 " therefore, that in future, I will not deign to repel 

 ** fuch attacks, efpecially on the field of the public 

 ** papers» 



** At the fame time, if there be any friend of 

 " truth who (hall difcover errors in my Book, 

 *' which, undoubtedly, may eafily be done, and 

 ** who Ihall have fo much friendQiip for me, as ad- 

 *' drefs himfelf diredly to me, I will take care to 

 .*' have them corrected, and will openly acknow- 

 *' ledge the obligation in terms of the higheft re- 

 ** fpeâ: ; becaufe, like that man, I aim at nothing 

 " but truth, and honour thofe only who love it. 



** I ftand, Sir, quite alone. As I belong to no 

 " party, I have no one literary Journal at my dif- 

 " pofal. It is long fmce I knew by experience, 

 *' that I had not the credit to get any thing in- 

 '* ferted in that of Paris, even in the fervice of the 

 " miferable. Permit me to intreat you, then, to 

 " find a place in your impartial paper, for this my 

 '* prefent reply, accompanied with my folemn 

 *' proteflation of filence for the future. 



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