206 on Thunderproof’s efsayss Fume 133. 
wifh to raise the character of your work, permit the 
most unbounded freedom of discufsion where polite- 
nefs and truth are observed. But guard, above all 
things, against censures of any kind of dega/ establifh- 
ments, where these censures are not clearly autho- 
rised by the strictest reasoning’ from the facts and. 
premises adduced. 
Now, Sir, it appears to me, that from some innate 
prejudice, probably imbibed in his youth, your in- 
genious correspondent frequently departs from. strict 
accuracy of reasoning, when he thinks he can get a 
wipe either at the constitution of this country, or at 
the family of Brunswick, towards whom, he seems. 
to have no friendly bias. Neither am 1a bigot in 
favour of either of these; nor fhould I have any ob- 
jection to expose the defects of the one or of the other, 
where this could tend to any good purpose, and-where 
these defects could be fairly attributed to either of 
them, and not.to circumstances that only chance to be 
incidentally connected with them. I have ever thought 
that Hume and Gibbon have demeaned themselves. 
exceedingly,. by their continual attempts to attribute: 
the common weaknefses of humanity, which are to be 
found among all clafses of mea, the one, to the cle- 
rical order in general, and the other to those who. 
profefs the Christian religion in particular. Did 
ever a man of sound understanding believe that any 
kind of institution or profefsion of faith, could so far- 
overcome human pafsions as to insure angelic perfec 
tion among all the members of any community ? 
Upon the same plan with these respectable patterns,, 
proceeds your redoubtable correspondent, Thunder. 
