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Show A. vi P R E I? A C . ‘ 9v". mrfi-m'fl' kamQWWQW-‘I"1: 73"} E. ‘PREFAC-E. vii voured to be concealed, I will lay before poor Culprit was thus deteéted in an Ofthe Public. fence of lb heinous a Nature, againf't the eternal Truth and Reélitude of Things, AT the very Time, when Dr. FRANK» great were the Exultations ofthe Doétor and LIN oppofed the Stamp-Aét, as being un-~ conflitutional, and fubverfive of the Li-2 berties of America, he was by the Favour his patriotic Friends. Reader, Iplead guilty to the Indiét'ment ; larder (072 Lt€77t67fl ream. Therefore I will lay Dr. FRANKLiN's own of his prefcnt Majefi‘y, continued Polt- State of the Cafe before you ;---and this M‘afi‘er General for the Province of Pwfll- @4222}; :--An Odice this! which, accord~ ing to his own Doe‘trine, was created by an mum/1'23utz'wm/ Act of a Zyraizizzkzz/ P211‘-~ liament in the Reign of (hiCCfl.ANN, and: during the Adminif'cration of the VVHIGS. However, as he could reconcile it to his the rather, becaufe his republican Agents and Abettors, the Monthly Reviewers, have dared me to publifh his own Account; hoping, I fuppofe, that «I had mif~laid my Voucher. - IN a Letter of his to me, dated Marc/z 2, Conl‘cienee to enjoy this zmconflz'z‘wz'wml, 1774., lucrative Place ; {o it Items, that after the Stamp Bill had pail into a Law, his Confci~ ence became lets fqueamilh in regard to that alio, as will appear by the Sequel. " Some Days after the Stamp-Aét was Now, in the firi'c and flcond Editions of my Fourth Tract, unhappily for me, I had charged him with procuring a are thefe identical Words :--- " pailed, to which I had given all the Op- " pofition I could with Mr. GRENVILLE, " I received a Note from Mr. ‘WHEAT- " LEY, his Secretary, [the fame VVHEAT- LEY, whofe Papers were afterwards/Inlay, and co;zfi1fl&d to be in the PofiEfiion of Dr. FRANKLIN, and whole Nephew was in Danger of being fizerdt'rsa', for endeavour- Place for film/35%" in the Aizzem'c‘axz StampOil'ice; whereas, alas! it proved to be ing to trace out the original Theft] not for big/£9, but for his Fran/20'. " deliring to fee me the next Morning. - And as Poor ‘ AA. L "1 |