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carried on thefe with -ancommon interefl and vivacity : and Account of 



{ W. Tytkr, Efq;. 



the fame kind of impulfe which prompted his converfation (as 

 is juftly obferved by an author, who pubUflied fome notices 

 of his hfe and chara(fker in the periodical work entitled The 

 Bee) induced him to become an author. He wrote not from 

 vanity or vain-glory, which Rousseau holds to be the only in- 

 ducement to writing ; he wrote to open his mind upon paper j 

 to {peak to the public thofe opinions which he had often fpoken 

 in private ; opinions on the truth of which he had firmly made 

 up his own convicflion, and was fometimes furprifed when he 

 could not convince others ; it was fair to try, if, by a fuller ex- 

 pofition of his arguments, he could convince the world. 



With this view, he publifhed, in 1759, his " Enquiry, hifto- 

 " rical and critical, into the Evidence againft Mary ^leen of 

 " Scots, and an Examination of the Hiflories of Dr Robert- 

 " SON and Mr Hume with refpe(5l to that Evidence ;" in which 

 he warmly efpoufed the caufe of that unfortunate Princefs, at- 

 tacked with feverity the condu6l: of her enemies, and expofed 

 the fallacy, in many parts the fabrication, of thofe proofs on 

 which the charges againft her had been founded. This work 

 was the firft on that lide of this celebrated queftion which in- 

 terefted the public in general, and appealed in behalf of the 

 Queen to the judgment and feelings of the people. The learn- 

 ed and induflrious Mr Walter Good all had feveral years 

 before publifhed his examination of the Letters of Mary, on 

 which h.tr accufers had fo much refled as evidence of her 

 guilt ; but that examination, however elaborate and acute, was 

 not well calculated, either in form or flyle, for general perufal. 

 Mr Tytler's work gave to the arguments of Goodall the 

 concifenefs and compreflion neceffary to command the attention. 

 of the reader, fupported them by a variety of new proofs and 

 illuflrations, and drew from the general hiftory of the period 

 in queflion, and from the characters of the leading ad;ors of 

 the fcene, arguments more impreflive and intereiling than any 



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