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requefted him to reconfider it, to fee how far he thought it proper for the public eye, on the fup- pofition that it had efcaped his notice through inadvertency. But to publifh it in that imper- fet ftate, though contrary to the exprefs orders of the writer, repeatedly inforced, without giving him even a hint of fuch an intention, was ufing a freedom which no man, whatever his fituation in life may be, has a right to take with another. The law has provided a punifhment for him who injures his neighbour’s good name. The injury may be as great when it is done in this Way as any other, though it has, perhaps, hitherto efcap- ed the notice of legiflators. With thofe who fhall read this letter, perhaps@ part of the i injury may be done away; but Sir John ought to con- fider that thoufands may have feen the publica- tion alluded to, who may never haye an Oppor- tunity of reading this, and that the writer muft continue to be defpifed by them till the end of

time. Befides the circumftance above alluded to,

there are other blameable particulars originating from the publication of that performance by the board of agriculture, that muft affeét the charac- ter of the writer; for fo little attention has been

paid to the printing, that, from the incorreétnefs