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Terr,e-Filiut. ever Inc fpoke, it was not with any defign to affront himi and deftred him that, fince Mr. W,tJite did no: take him at the tavern, and fince he him?qlf' was ?he only �er�on, whom he had any .way offended, he would be pleafed not to deliver h?m up to I4%ite, but inflic'? upon him what punilhment he 'Sought dr, which he would willingly fubmitto. I-le prefs'd him, as far as was p.r. oper, to cogent to if, is, but was not able to prevail. fr?The Reader cannot help remarking, that there 4' nting anct imprqer words, about which all thi? ?ir was macle, were only thole which are printed in Iralick characters, deftring the Proflor to drirl?} X? .:g Georges health ?vtth the company. They may, for ought 1 know, be im?roperl andl don't in the teatt doubt, but that they were affronting: but yet, n, et?inks, the j9?bmi?on which Mr. Meadovcourt rn-ce was enough to appeafe an ordinary rc�ent- ment. The d=v ft:t?owintt, Mr. Meadovaeourt waited on r.,r. 1? taae, to whom he was now ai'fign'd over iay I?lr. Holt. I will not believe fo unchril?ian a thing of Mr. White, as to fuppofe that he deftred the proi?cution of Mr. Meadovacourt,.in order to gra- tii?r an old grudge againPc him l though, by his be. ing fo very cffaotu in fuch an ill-natur'd off:ice (which motif peop?e wou?d rather avoid than t9ele) he has given occafion to fuch an uncharitable re- flexion. ' Mr. 3?'e?doroeourt, the firll time he waited upon 1Sir. White, found him in a molt ungovernable pail f[on l infomuch tkat he ofien brandit?ect his arm at him, and told him, that the members o?' the Confli- rution clu$ were the molt ?ro?ate fellows in the univerfity, and all deferred to be exlael]'d, for lPre- tenCling to have more loyalty(very profligate in- deed !) than the tell of the ufiiverfity; he wondered ? - could l?ow tb? 2, ?ho, were but an handful, of men, have