To the Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders of the County of MIDDLESEX.

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GENTLEMEN,

Cannot fupprefs the emotions of a grateful heart. I must pay you my best tribute of thanks for the many proofs of a noble and generous friendship, which you have continued to me in this prifon now for above fix months. I will not lament my paft fufferings, nor even a harsh and cruel fentence, because I find that your favour and protection are extended to me in proportion to the encrease of the perfecutions I undergo. Every day gives a fresh mark of your kindnets and affection; I trust that I may add likewife, my firmness in the cause, as well as fteady attachment to my friends, the fupporters of freedom, and the conftitution of our native country.

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The parliament being fummen'd to meet the next week for the difpatch of bufinefs, I think it my duty to submit to you the particulars of my future conduct. I mean to petition the house of commons as the grand inqueft of the nation, in the full hope of a redrefs of all my grievances, which have arisen from various acts of arbitrary power exerted by the minifters, the illegalities refpecting the two trials, and especially the alteration of the records. I have already lodged an appeal against the two fentences before the bonfe of lords, as the fupreme judicature of this kingdom, and I fhall bring before their lordships the whole ftate of the legal proceedings, which I believe are no lefs erroneous and invalid than thofe have already been declared to be, which refpected the out-lawry. The meeting of parliament will fufpend the important, public cause against lord Halifax, which cannot be tried till the term following the next prorogation.

I look forward, gentlemen, to the happy moment of regaining my freedom, and of giving you in a British senate the cleareft demonftration that the principles of liberty have taken a deep root in my heart. You fhall find me a faithful guardian of the civil and religious liberties of the people of England, ftrenuous and unwearied in my endeavours to deftroy all the remains of defpotic power among our free-born countrymen. I fhall think it a glorious reward of my tails, if in one inftance only, a point of the utmost moment, grand juries may thro' my efforts recover the power and right given them by the first principles of the conftitution, which are at present entirely loft in the mode of proceeding by information, fo long, to the great grievance of the fubject, practis'd both by the attorney general, and the judges of the court of ling's bench. In this, and every other point of national liberty Ccc 2

I fhall earnefty beg your affiftance. I hope at all times in public bufinefs to have the advantage of your councels to perfect the plan of fecuring and guarding the liberties of the freeft nation in the world, against future attacks of wicked minifters, or even encroachments of the crown; which fecurity can only be obtained by the most wholesome laws and the wifeft regulations, built on the firm bafis of magna charta, the great preferver of the lives, freedom, and property of Englishmen.

I am, Gentlemen,

Under encreafing obligations,

Your faithful and obedient humble fervant,

An enquiry into the Doctrine lately propagated concerning attachments of contempt, the alteration of records, and the court of ftar-chamber. 4to. 5s. Williams."

WELL

WELL worthy the perufal of the gentlemen of the law; and indeed of every perfon who would form a tolerable judgment upon fome late tranfactions, which, by the doctrine laid down in this book, and which feems to be the true conftitutional doctrine of England, have been arbitrary, oppreffive and illegal. The following extract concerning the alteration of records may perhaps not be unacceptable: "Motion in arreft of judgment on an indictment for libelling the government, and the objection made was, for that the charge, which was laid to the defendant, was not fo certain and particular as it ought to be, for the libels were not fet forth in hac verba, as they ought, neither was the defendant charged directly with writing or making the very words and fentences expreffed in the indictment, but only that he made and wrote libels, in which among others, was contained" according to the tenor" and "to the purport (Carth. 408. 3 Salk. 226. pl. 5.) following." After the above cafe had depended in the king's bench several terms, and after it had been several times argued at the bar, it was argued by Holt chief justice, Rokeby and Turton juftices, upon folemn argument on the (Lord Raym

Raym. 415.) bench, that if the indictment had been for a libel, containing, among others, "to the purport following,' it had been (11 Mod. 218. 3 Salk. 226. pl. 5.) ill, because it had not imported, that the words were the specific words which were in the (Lord Raym. 415. 3 Salk. 226. pl. 5.) libel. The court must be judge of the words themselves, and not not of the conftruction the profecutor puts upon them, but "according to the tenor following" ime" ports the very words (11 Mod. 79. 85. 96. 3 Salk. 226. pl. 5.) themselves. For the tenor of a thing is the (2 Salk. 661. 3 Salk. 225. 226. pl. 5.) transcript; and Rokeby faid the words" to the purport," were loofe and ufelefs words; and the words "according to the tenor" being of a certain and more strict fignification, the force of the latter was not hurt by the former, which Holt chief juftice agreed (2 Salk. 417.) to; and if on the trial, the words in the libel had not been exactly the fame, with the words in the indictment, the defendant could not have been found guilty (12 Mod. 218. 219. 3 Salk. 225.)

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HEWS in a very clear and mafterly manner the state of the public debt, the product and application of the finking fund, the falfe policy pursued by feveral late minifters whose measures have increafed inftead of alleviating the public diftrefs. In a word, it is a tract highly deferving the most serious attention of every gentleman in the kingdom.

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THIS

"HIS is a collection of a variety of pieces, chiefly poetical, remarkable for their wit and humour, and which we do not remember to have seen in any other collection. Several of the pieces have great merit, and it is doing a real service to the public, by preferving these foundlings, whofe parents are either unknown, or too great to look upon them. The following is a lift of the pieces in this little volume; The offer of a young minifter. The prefent age. To the P. of W. with a pair of doves. Epigram on the fuppofed retirement of the favourite. On the king. An ode. Epigram Another, by an Eton boy. Upon St. George for England. Epigram on a faft. The loyal pair. On a Printing houfe. On the Scotch pavement. The Thane's dance. On a late promifed refignation. The rats and the cheefe. Epigram. Dialogue between Ralph and Hodge. Political death of a late commoner. On a whimsical

whimsical event at a Marlborough inn. On the death of Sir H. Bellendine. On Mr. Churchill's death. Cure for the king's evil. Verfes in a cottage. The e-l of Nn's toalt. Elegy on Admiral Byng. Imitation of Ode IX. Book IV. of Horace. Elegy on lady Aberg--n--y. Mr. Garrick to a gentleman. On the new buildings near the Royal Exchange. The mirror of Knighthood. Curfe of Avarice. Epigram. The honeft confeffion. The morning vifit. Dialogue at lady Ramble's. A modern gloffary. On the ladies head dress in 1768. Song for the Mall. On the Templars. Answer. Defcription of Dublin. Sketch of Paris. Bachelor's choice

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Ntended as an explanation of his former work, for an account of which, fee Political Regifter, Vol. I. p. 261.

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Defigned to recommend a new invention of broad rollers.

Melancholy doctrine of predeftination expofed. By Edward Harwood, D. D. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Becket.

Well worth reading.

Labour and genius, a fable. By R. Jago, M. A. 4to. Is. Dod

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Below the author.

A fuccino

Afuccinct account of the attempt of Meff. Harrison and le Roy for finding the longitude at fea, and of the proofs made in their works. 4to. 2s. 6d. Newbery.

HEWS that Mr. Harrison was not the first inventor of the time-piece.

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The rudiments of the English language, adapted to the use of Schools. By Jofeph Priestly, L. L. D. 12mo. 2s. 6d. Becket. Judicious.

The modern wife, a novel. 2 vol. 12mo. 6s. Lowndes.

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NE of thofe novels which are written, printed, published and condemned in a few days.

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Mormo, the British hero. folio 1s. Evans,

Nonfenfe.

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PROPER only for the faculty.

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Infipid.

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Poffeffed of fome wit, and humour.

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