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Dr. PrieJJlej/ and Mr. liurkc. 



[Jan. 1 , 



eoolin;; their water and wine. This fel- 

 low takes ii fmall tub, and throwing in 

 two or three pounds of i'ait-pctie, pours 

 a quantity of water on it, and then 

 keeps Itirring the mixture witti his bot- 

 tles of wine or water, which he holds bv 

 tlie neck until they arc futiicicntiy cool ; 

 ■when he proceeds with otiier bottles, and 

 fo on, till the mixture ceafes to give out 

 any more cold, and oiilii^es him to throw 

 in more falt-pc.tre. About (even-tenths 

 of this, fait is recovered, by evaporating 

 the water in boiling, and fuJlering tlie 

 cryftals to Ihoot in the cold. 



We hat! oppf)rtunities of feeing ele- 

 phants and tigers at this place, of the 

 lareeft fize : indeed, we every day found 

 freth objects to engage our attention, and 

 contribute to our entertainment. It 

 ■was, tiiercfore, with liie ntmoft reliirl- 

 ance we bade adieu to this liofpitablc 

 and elegant i'ettlemont, in order to re- 

 turn on board the fliip, whicii was now 

 preparing for lea. I. 



[It dcferves to be recorrfcd in the Monthly 

 Magazine, that the Inji literary cmploy- 

 ment of the juftly celebrated Ur. Prieftley 

 was to write the following Letter to this 

 MilcclUny. After the Doctor'^ death, it 

 was deemed too precious .i relic to be parted 

 ■with by his i.imily, and was not fcnt to 

 us, but has fince ;ip|)earcd in the account 

 of the Li.'e of the Doctor, puhliihcd by hii 

 fon at l'hiladclphi.».] 



To the EdilO}- nj the MonMy 2Iagazine. 

 sin, 



HAVING, in my defence of Dr. 

 Franklin, puhlillied in the Month- 

 ly MaiJazine for Febrnary 1803, men- 

 tioned a rircinnllance\\lnch implied that 

 at that time there fnbliltcd a confidera- 

 ble degree of intimacy between me and 

 Mr. Burke ; and feveral jicrfons will wilh 

 to know how that intimacy came to 

 terminate, and what could he the caufe 

 of the inveteracy with m hich fonie years 

 before his death he took every opportu- 

 nity of treating me, efpecially by ftudi- 

 Oully iiitroducing my name, in a manner 

 calculated to excite the ftrongeft refeiit- 

 inent, in his fpeeches in tlie lloufe of 

 Cominons, to which he knew it was not 

 in my power to make any reply, I have 

 no objei'tion to giving the bcft account 

 that i can of it. It Ihall be diftinft, 

 fair, and candid. 



We were tirlt introduced to each other 

 by our common friend Mr. John Lee, 

 -ivhile T lived at Leeds, and we had then 

 no dilference of opinion whatever, that 

 I knew v)f, on any fubjeft of politics, 

 except that he thought tiie power of tkc 



crown would be checked in thebeftman- 

 nei- by increaling the iniliience of the 

 great whig fainilies in the country ; 

 wliijp I WHS of O|)inion that the fame end 

 which we both aimed at would be moll 

 eifectually feciired by a more equal rc- 

 prefentatiou of the Commons in Parlia- 

 raeiit. But thi.s fubjeCt was never the 

 occalion of any dil'culiion or flebalc be- 

 tween us, except at one time, in the 

 preltjnce of .Mr. Lee, at .Mr. Burke'a 

 table ; and this was occalioned by a re- 

 cent publication of his, on the caufe of 

 the difcontcnts which then prevailed very 

 generally in the kingdom : a pamphlet 

 of which neither Mr. Lee nor myfelf 

 concealed our difapprobation,' tiiinking 

 the principles of it much too ariftoera- 

 tical. 



^^'hen tlie American war broke out, 

 this dilference of opinion did not feeiii 

 to be thought of bv either of us. We 

 had but one opinion, and one willi, on 

 that fubject ; and this was the lame with 

 all who were clalfed by ns among the 

 friends of the liberty of England. On 

 tiie inobable approach of that war, but 

 a few years hetore it actually took place, 

 being Hill at Leeds, I wrote two ivnony- 

 nious pam|)hlets, one entitled " 'J'he pre- 

 fent State of Liberty in Great Britain 

 and the Colonies, which gained me the 

 fricndlhip of Sir (ieorire Savillo, the 

 good opinion of the AJarquis of llock- 

 ingliJim, and many other pcrfons, then 

 in oppolition to the niiniilry. Cheap 

 cflitions were foon printed of that pam- 

 phlet, and ihey were diflributed in great 

 number through the kingdom. Soon af- 

 ter this, at the earncft and joint requed 

 of Dr. rrankiiti and Dr. Fothergil, I 

 wrote another pamphlet, entitled, an 

 Addrefs to Diireiitcrs on the fame fub- 

 jett, one fentence of which was written 

 by Dr. Franklin, who corrected the 

 prefs, as was mentioned in my lalt. 

 This panipiilet was circulated with inor& 

 alfiduity, and was thought to have iiad 

 more ctVect, tiian any thing that was ad- 

 dreflcd to the public at the time. Dr. 

 Franklin faid that it was his ferious 

 opinion, that it was one principal reafon 

 witli the miniftry of that day for dilfolv- 

 ing the parliament a year fooner than 

 ufual ; and at th.e next meeting of par- 

 liament, I heard Lord Suli'olk, then fe- 

 cretary of Itate, a\ow that it was done 

 to prevent the minds of the people from 

 being poifoned by artful and dangerous 

 publications, or fome exprellions of an 

 equivalent nature. 



So far Mr. Burke and I proceeded 

 with 



