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Show T 0 THE R EAD E R. NOT HI N G is more difagrceal>le to a Perfou of any l'v1oJefly, than to be obliged to fpeak or write of himfelf. But it is fomctimes unavoidable, unltfs one wi!J put up with unjufl Rellexions, which is a Tafk flil! harder for e~n ingenuous Mmd. 'J'hc following P.uticulars <n;e publiihed merely for the fake of Truth, and without any Thought, or Intenti(m, of making any one appear in a more difadvantageous Light than he deferves to be ''iewed in; of which the Publ1c are left ahfolute ] udges. A Series of MISfortunes in the earlier Part of Life haJ determined me to brinf! my M1nd to Retirement, ancl a \ery moderate Jncumc. 'Vhen the unnatural Reb: Ilion in the Year r 7+5 was jufl: quieted, a Gentleman of great Wonh and Piety, in whofe intimate Friendlhip I was tOr fame Years happy, follicited me ro throw tvgethcr fome Thou~hts on the Occafion, to bt: publifhed in a Pamphlet, which he llattered me would be fcafonoble. I complied with his IJclire, and made a Prcfcnt oft he Manufcript to 1\llr. Freer, a StJtioner, ncur T c:mple-bar, an honc:ft auJ worthy Man. 1"'he Pit'Ce was intituleJ Britam's R,·•tumhrancer; and with all its Deficiem.:i~::;, of which ( am at ~is time very fenlible, met with fo much Candor A :1. fro~ -!:)9752 |