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E, are unwilling to fend inte the world this Tuirp. 
Votume of our Mifcellany, without taking occa~ 
fion to exprefs the gratitude and fatisfatiion we feel for 
_the liberal fapport of every kind with which we. have 
been favoured. We may now prefume to hope, that 
the literary charaéter of our undertaking is fully eftab- 
lifhed—that its fpirit has fufficiently declared itfelf—that 
the abundance of its refources is experimentally proved— 
and that its friends and contributers may henceforth look - 
with confidence to the duration of a plan, which they 
have honoured with their approbation. We truft, it 
willhave appeared to the candid, that though-our work 
has decidedly taken its fiation among thofe intended to 
favour the progreffional improvement of mankind, in its 
moft important concerns, and which are enflaved to no. 
fyftems of human authority ; yet, that it has difplayed no 
partial adherence to any one fet of opinions, but has 
freely admitted arguments on oppofite fides, when ra- 
tionally and liberally a 
We have, as much as poffible, endeavoured to accom- 
rhodate our matter to the iaftes'of thofe who may be fup- 
pofed to form the general body of our Readers; and if, 
in each Number, there may be parts not interefting te 
every individual, we hope, that all will acquiefce in the 
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