XVI PREFACE TO THE 



For myself it remains only to pledge, as 1 hereby 

 do, my character as a Man graciously honoured 

 in being the servant of His Majesty — that the 

 above suspicions and insinuations are absolutely 

 unfounded ; — that Dr. Anderson not only did 

 not write one line of my book, but never saw 

 my work till the MS. (composed entirely by 

 myself) was in a complete state of preparation for 

 the press, nor even read a page of it in that state ; 

 — that the Doctor never was chargeable with such 

 absurdity, as to expect or desire to share in the 

 profits of a Publication, of which he had neither 

 designed nor executed the smallest part ; — and, 

 that, so far from my having distinguished myself 



propose, that when you next come to London (which I under- 

 stand you usually do once a year,) you will be so candid as to 

 appoint a day and hour when you will meet with me in Ken- 

 sington Gardens, accompanied by some Gentlemen of sound 

 understanding, who are capable of observing facts, and of 

 drawing just conclusions from them ; and if I shall then fail 

 in proving to their full conviction, from undeniable evidence to 

 be then produced, that you have published in that work 

 unfounded and injurious calumnies, and that you have repre- 

 sented things in a manner very different from what, on a 

 thorough examination, they will be found to be, I shall submit 

 to any punishment that these Gentlemen shall please to award, 

 on the supposition that you previously agree to submit to their 

 award, should the case be reversed. This is the only answer 

 that your book seems to claim from, 



" JAS. ANDERSON. 



** hlemrthy December 20, 1802." 



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