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power, by publifhing my letter, to correé&t me if I mifreprefent the fact. If I have ftated it juftly, it is incumbent upon you to make fuch an apo- logy as one gentleman ought to give, and another to receive.

What adds zmjury to the zn/ult, on the prefent occafion, is, that-from the whole tenor of the writing, it was obvioufly intended for private in- formation only, and not at all for the public ufe; and if you had taken the trouble to read, with an ordinary degree of attention, the firft fentence

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only, you could not have failed to perceive it, You need fcarcely be told it may be extremely proper to exprefs in a particular way, what was obvioufly calculated for the private perufal of a few gentlemen only, who were about to judge of matters that were not within the fphere of their obfervation, though it would be exceedingly prepofterous to make ufe of the fame expreffions, when intended to be laid before the beft informed profeffional men in the Soy The obferva- tions which, in the one cafe, would only be cal- culated to induce that cautious circumfpeCtion which men of profeflional knowledge in any line, are in fome meafure required to ufe, when called upon to affift thofe of lefs experience, whofe fitua-

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