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Show ' I I • • • 4 , I l I - ':~ :· . No';). ::23, 1710. SIR, AS little as I love Scandal, whatever fide it comes from, I have prevail'd with my felf, in Obedience to your Commands, to run over the Bundle you fent me; and knowing you to be a Perfon of that Integrity and Honour, as to have more Rcg1rd to Truth than Party, I will without more Ceremony give you my Thoughts as you delin!, upon iilch Parts of th~m as relate to the Management of the War, which I hope you will find not to be the lefs true or jull: for the Harte they are writ in; for plain Truths need no Difguife ; Ficrion and Ornament are of no Advantage, but when they ferve a Caufe, that can't bear ro he feen in its t1 ue Light. This I hope wi ll be Excufe enough, for the many Marks of Harte and Negligence you will meet with in t his long Letter. You won't expeCt I Ihould confider eJch of thefe Papers by themfeives, that would be gi; ring too much trouble to one, who, I know, is too good a Judge to think them of [o much Confequence. The Letter to the Examiner is a mere Declamation, and confid er'd in that View is a pretty fmart Performance, and you may read it to be entertain'd, bm not to be inform'd i there is fome Fire and Imagination, B hut |