ADVERTISEMENT^ 



JLeipfic-fair, for the month of Odober 1787, an 

 Edition of my Studies of Nature, publilhed at 

 Lyons, by Piejîre and de la Molière, though I ne- 

 ver had any thing printed except at Paris. A new 

 Edition of the Work has jufl been publiihed at 

 Bruflels, in four volumes. A Gentleman, with 

 whom my Printer is acquainted, faw at London, 

 in the month of September laft, four different Edi- 

 tions of it, without being able to procure the ge- 

 nuine one. It may, however, be very eafily dif- 

 tinguiOied by the beauty of it's charafters, from all 

 the ipurious Editions, which, befides, can never be 

 any thing more than bad copies of an original Edi- 

 tion, revifed and correfled by my own hand, wiih 

 all the attention of which I am capable. All this 

 has not prevented the Public from welcoming them 

 with avidity. After all, the point to be aimed at, is 

 not to have no ground of complaint againft Man- 

 kind, but to take care that the World have no jufl 

 ground of complaint againft us. 



Suppofing it were not a matter of confcience with 

 me, to pradife juftice toward every individual, I 

 am under too many obligations to the Public, not 

 to ftudy their gratification, to the utmoft of my 

 ability. I have never enjoyed any other fteady de- 

 claration in my favour, but that of the public voice. 

 Qn the other hand, if the importance of the errors 

 which I have ventured to attack, and my perfonal 

 a 3 circymftances. 



