C)6 remarks on 'Thunderproof''s ef says. "^uly zr^. 



Scriicndi recti sapcre est et frmciflum ct fom. Horace. 



A little learning is a dangerous thing, 



Drink deep, or taste not the Pierean spring: Pope. 



Sir, To the Editor of the Bee. 



As fire is struck out by the friction of certain bodies 

 so truth frequently fhines forth amidst the collisi- 

 ons and jarrings of opposite opinions and sentiments. 

 For this reason the following animadversions on a 

 very censurable performance, entitled " remarks on 

 the political progrefs of Britain, by Timothy Thun- 

 derproof," will hardly need an apology to one whose 

 chief aim in his present lucubrations is the discove- 

 ry of truth, as well as the difsemination of usefu^ 

 knowledge. 



I fliall confine myself entirely to those " remarks," 

 'contained in your Bee of February 29th ; not that 

 tliese are more faulty than their predecefsors, but 

 because I ftiould otherwise swell my letter to a very 

 inconvenient size. 



Mr Thunderproof 's arguments, if such they may be 

 called, hardly merit a serious refutation. He seems 

 to be a gentleman whose temper of mind is soured by 

 disappointment, perhaps by misfortune, and on that 



his f.-^vouriies treated with a little freedom, he has only to go on a little, 

 and he will be pu: Into good hunaour, by seeing those he does not like be- 

 come in their turn the butt of this droll; who, like the wife of Bath, (not Chau- 

 cer's wife, but the old Scotch wife of Bafli) reads everyone their ditty, in or- 

 der to silence them; to humble their pride, by ihewing them that they are 

 themfclves no better thin they Ciould be, and that therefo.e they have no 

 right to hold others in contempt, who have not perhaps been so fortunate 

 as themselves i.j their journey through life. Men are perhaps as nearly 

 alike by their parity ift follies, as by any other circumst.ir.te. Ed';t. 



