officious in his profeſſions of gratitude; for whereas, like all other authors, I would willingly believe, that the great encouragement, which the town has given my book, proceeds from its own intrinſick merit; it is, you may think, no ſmall mortification to hear him conſtantly drinking your health, and ſtrongly intimating, that he looks upon the quick ſale, which it has met with, to be leſs owing to my abilities as a writer, than to that publick notice, by which you have diſtinguiſhed it as a cenſor.
I preſume however, (even under the ſuppoſition of your being in earneſt) that you will ſo far agree with the reſt of the world as to allow that, in whatſoever manner your prohibition may diſcourage the ſale of any book, yet it ought not to be eſteem'd a full confutation of the matter which it contains, or a convincing argument that its author has neither integrity nor underſtanding.
I muſt beg leave to obſerve farther (according to the ſame ſuppoſition) that you ſeem to be guilty of ſome Partiality in thus publickly branding and forbidding my book, as a libel upon the Univerſity, and ſuffering another to be ſtill openly vended within your juriſdiction, which, I think, I have demonſtrated (and, as I am inform'd, to the
