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furnifh you with an opportunity of prov- 
ing him a liar, as you may referto your 
book to detect him. 
This is what I would do: I would 
{pecity in the fame magazine, in which 
he has attacked you, your real words, 
and thofe he has imputed to you, and then 
appeal to the equityof the reader. You 
may euefs that the fhaft comes*from fome- 
body whom you have cenfured, and 
thence you may draw a fair conclufion 
that you had been in the right to laugh 
at one, who was reduced to put his own 
words into your mouth, before he could 
find fault with them: and having fo done, 
whatever indignation he excited in the 
reader muft recoil on himfelf, as the of- 
fenfive paflages will come out to have been 
his own, not your’s. You might even 
begin with loudly condemning the words, 
or thoughts, imputed to you, as if you 
retracted them—and then, as if you turned. 
to your book, and found you had faid no 
fuch thing there, as what you was ready 
to retraét, the ridicule would be doubled 
on your ‘adverfary. Something of this 
kind is the moit I woud ftoop to: but I 
woud take the utmoit care not to betray 
-a grain of more anger than is implied in 
contempt and mxliculs. Fools can only 
revenge themfelves by provoking, for 
then they bring you to a level with them- 
felves. The good fenfe of your Work 
will fupport it and there is {carce a reaion 
for detending it, but by keeping up a 
controyerly, to make it more noticed: for 
the age is {0 idle and indifferent, that few 
objects ftrike, unlefs parties are formed 
for or againit them. I remember many 
years ago advyifing fome acquaintance 
of mine who were engaged in the direc- 
_ Watpoliana, No. X. 
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tion of the Opera, to raife a competi- 
tion between two-of their fingers, and 
have papers written pro and con—for then 
numbers woud go to clap and hifs the 
rivals refpectively, who woud not go to 
be pleated with the mutic. 
Dr. Lort was chaplain to the late 
archbifhop, Sir, but I believe is not fo _ 
to the prefent, nor do I know whether at 
ail connected with him. I-do not even 
now where Dr. Lort is, having fen him 
but once the whole fummer. I am ac- 
quainted with another perfon, who I be- 
lieve has fome intereft with the prefent 
archbifhop; buat I conclude that leave 
muft be aiked to confult the particular 
books, as probably indifcriminate accefs 
coud not be granted. 
I -have not a fingle correfpondent left at 
Paris. The Abbé Barthelemi, swith 
whom I was very intimate, behaved moft 
unhandfomely to me after Madame du 
Deffand’s death; when I had aéted by him 
in a manner that called for a very different. 
return, He coud have been the moft pro- 
per perfon to apply to; but I cannot afk a 
favour of one, to whom I had done one, 
and who has been very ungrateful. 1 
might have an opportunity perhaps e’er 
long of making the inquiry you defire, 
tho’ the perfon to whom I mutt apply is 
rather too great to employ; but if I can 
bring it about, Iwill; for I fhoud have 
great pleafure to aflift your purfuits, tho? 
from my long acquaintance: with the 
world, I am very diffident of making 
promifes that are to be executed by others, 
however fincerely I am myjelf 
Sir, your obedient humble fervant, 
Hor. WaLroure. 

POR Lisi A LL POR PRY, : 
To tie Editor of the Moxthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HE following lines were written on con- 
templating that heterog-neous mixture of 
war and religion which has been for fome 
time fo fafhionable. War and religion incor- 
porate like oil and vinegar ; they may be beat 
up tozether, but they di not unite kindly. 
here is however one de{cription of the mili- 
- tary, whofe profefional duty includes nothing 
Mit inimical to the pureft fpirit of chril- 
tianity. When a Citizen is armed for the de- 
- fence of his country, he has more need, as 
Uncle Toby obferves, to pray to God than 
any man alive; and he may confecrate his 
colours with a fafe con{cience.—Some friends, 
to whom I have read the following lines, are 
pleafed to obje& that the parties are not al- 
together fuch as I have reprefented them; 
that our priefts do now and then breathe holy 
surfes, and that our military aflociations have 
MONTHLY Mac. No, x11. 
not quite that ardent love for liberty which 
they are here fuppefed to have. To this I 
can only fay, that if they will not accept it 
as a repreienta ion of what is, they muft take 
it as a hint of what ought to be. a: 
Iam, Sir, your obedient fervant, X. Y. 
On the ConsecRATION of the Corours of the 
Miritary AssociaTion of 
PRIEST. 
WHILE S.bbath bells to worfhip chime, 
And voices chaunt the meafur’d rhyme, 
What means the drum’s tumultuous beat, 
And anfwering tread of marfhall’d feet? 
Why flath againft our ta<ering fpires 
The burniih d fteels’ refleéted (pires? 
With fiiken bann:rs proud and gay 
Where bend the ranks their impious way ? 
And why, fo near the houfe of pray’r, 
Are clafhing cymbals toff’d in air? 
Away—’ Tis cire Ambition’s brood ! 
€rofe, clole the gates to men of blood. 
Here 
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