Letters to the inhabitants of Northumberland and its neighbourhood, on subjects interesting to the author, and to them : part I[-II] / by Joseph Priestley, L.L.D. F.R.S. &c.

  • Joseph Priestley
Date:
MDCCXCIX [1799]
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Credit: Letters to the inhabitants of Northumberland and its neighbourhood, on subjects interesting to the author, and to them : part I[-II] / by Joseph Priestley, L.L.D. F.R.S. &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of looking for it, I fhall reprint the whole of it at the ma of thefe Letters. This, however, is all that I have written till the prefent time. But tho' I have written nothing more than this finglearticle myfell; yet approving of Mr. Cooper's Ef- fays in your Gazette, I contributed one dollar towards printing a few extra copies of one of them, before it was known they would all be reprinted in the form of a pam- phlet. However, to make amends for this fault, and to Ihewmy impartiality, and my defire to promote the free difcufiion of fubjecls of importance to the commu- nity, 1 here promife that if any Federalift will give as comprehenfive and as difpaffionate a view ol what they have to advance in (upport of the late meafures, as Mr. Cooper has done againlt them, I will give another dol- lar towards that publication. I fear, however, it will not be in the power of Mr. Cooper's antagomft to ful- fil the conditions on which I make this promife. Per- fons writing in fupport of any government, being fure of protection, if not of reward, are apt to indulge themfelves in intemperate language, as a mark of their zeal in the caufe ; while the dread of penal laws natu- rally makes the oppugner of them timid, and confe- quently more guarded and decent in his language, mindful of the Latin adage, leniter in mc do for titer in re. The writer who flilcs himfeif MaJJachutenfis, gives me more merit than I am entitled to with refpecl to Mr. Cooper's publication, when he fays that I took great '• pains to circulate it, that I travelled thro' the country for the purpofe, and that I was, in fatt, the patron of it. The faft was, that I never law any of the pa- pers till after their publication, and all that I did with refpecl to the circulation ol the extra copies was to car- ry a bundle of them from the printer's to the houfe of a brother democrat in this town, which might as well have been done by the printer's boy. I do
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