ADVERTISEMENT. XVIl 



** One word more, while I complain of the ano- 

 ** nymous critic, who has attacked my Work with 

 '' fo much acrimony, I feel myfelf obliged to ac- 

 '* knowledge that he has pronounced an exceffively 

 '' fulfome elogium on my flyle. I know not, 

 ** however, which way to account for it; but I 

 " feel myfelf ftill more humbled by his praife than 

 '* irritated by his fatire. 



" I have the honour to be, &c. 

 *' Signed y 



" DE SAINT-PIERRE. 



" Paris, Nov. 22, 1787." 



The anonymous Reviewer promifed to enter 

 more minutely into an examination of my Book in 

 fonie following fheets of the Paris- Journal ; but 

 the Public having expreffed fome difpleafure at 

 feeing me attacked rather indecently, on a field to 

 which my friends had no accefs, the Editor of that 

 J(»urnal, willing to make a fliow of impartiality, 

 foon after publilhed a fragment of an epiftle in 

 vcrfe, intended to do me honour. This elogium 

 is hkewife the produd:ion of an anonymous Au- 

 th^r; for the virtuous conceal themfelves to do 

 go(>d, as the malignant to do mifchief. The verfes 

 detached from the piece, and which contain my 

 panegyric, are exceedingly beautiful; but there 

 are fome others in the reft of the epiftle, in my 

 opinion, ftill more beautiful. I would have expa- 

 VOL. V. b tiated 



