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THE INTELLIGENCER.
No. 3.

Upon the whole, I deliver my judgment, that nothing but servile attachment to a party, affectation of singularity, lamentable dulness, mistaken zeal, or studied hypocrisy, can have the least reasonable objection against this excellent moral performance of the celebrated Mr. Gay.





THE INTELLIGENCER. No. 19.


Having, on the 12th of October last, received a letter signed Andrew Dealer and Patrick Pennyless, I believe the following Paper, just come to my hands, will be a sufficient answer to it.


Sic vos non nobis vellera fertis, oves.
Not for yourselves, ye sheep, your fleeces grow.


N. B. In the following discourse, the AUTHOR personates a country gentleman in the north of Ireland. And this letter is supposed as directed to the Drapier.


Sir,


I AM a country gentleman, and a member of parliament, with an estate of about 1400l. a year; which, as a northern landlord, I receive from above two hundred tenants: and my lands having been let near twenty years ago, the rents, until very lately, were esteemed to be not above half value; yet, by the

intolerable