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puces-; and for the fame Reafon has forborn to complain of 
Mr, Leibnitz, untill it was ihewed him that he flood accufed 
-of Plagiary in the Acta Lipfu, and that what Mr Kdll had 
publillied was only in hisDefence from theGuilt of thatCrime. 
lx has been faid the Royal-Society gave judgment 
againfl: Mr. Leibnitz without hearing both Parties. But this 
is a Miftake. They 'have not yet given judgment in the 
Matter. Mr Leibnitz indeed defired the Royal-Society to 
•.condemn Mr. Keill without hearing both Parties ; and by 
the fame fort of Juftice they might have condemned 
Mr. Leibnitz without hearing both Parties ; for they have 
an equal Authority over them both. And when Mr. Leib- 
nitz declined to make good his Charge againfl Mr. Keill, 
the Royal- Society might in juftice have cenfured him for 
not making it good But they only appointed a Commit- 
tee to fearch out and examin Rich old Letters and Papers as 
were (till extant about thefe Matters, and report their Opi- 
nion how the Matter flood according to thofe Letters and 
Papers. They were not appointed to examin Mr. Leibnitz 
or Mr. Keill, but only to report what they found in the an- 
cient Letters and Papers : and he that compares their Re- 
port therewith will find it juft. The Committee was nu- 
merous and skilful and compofed of Gentlemen of feveral 
Nations, and the Society are facisfied in their Fidelity in ex- 
amining the Hands and other Circumftances,and in priming 
what they found in the ancient Letters and Papers fo exa- 
mined, without adding, omitting or altering any thing ik 
favour ©f either Party. And the Letters and Papers are by 
order of the Royal-Society preferved, that they may be con- 
fulted and compared with the Commcrciim Bpjlolicanty when* 
ever it fhali be defired by Perfons of Note. And in the 
mean time l take the Liberty to acquaint him, that by tax- 
ing the Royal-Society with Injuftice in giving Sentence 
againft him without hearing both Parties, he hastranfgrefted 
one of their Statutes which makes it Expuifion to defame 
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