N? xxxvtzz. Terre. Filius: tho'in vaio, to deprive u? of it for ever. I can- not therefore fo much as hope that h? woukl con- tinue to us this inet!imable bitfling, unlefs I could Cuppole, (againt? which fuppofition 1 have two or three private fcruples in m mind that, u on hi, �Y ) arttoni here, he would turn a good l)rotefiant, and a found member of .the ehur?k o/' England, as ay laro eflat31ifl?'d3 of which the liberty of the Pu�?s is the greatell fupport, My judicious adverfmy cannot wonder ?t my zeal for the liberty ?f the Pr?Ess, /inet he has told the world, that I make nvo hearty mea.ls a. upon thi? one article of our prefent ccnlhtunon. I have al�o a feldoro-feeli?g l'br an honeit focie?y of tradefmet?, to whom every aut&r ha:., or ought: to have, a natural affec'tion. t?e 3ool.?lle. ? of Lon- don and Wettminflerl who, I fear, would be real: fufferers, and many cf them intirely ruin'd bygthis antkluated rewv'd I'cheme, which would inPallL bly make a dreadful havock in mo? of their Shops, and condemn to the unmerciful flames raft multitudes of.falling books in all ficulties, which have been written, durivg theft latt thirty year?, againIt his (pretended) majelty, and his (repute?l) fither. The copies of book? are to the/h men as good as !a?ded eftares, and defcend in the fame manner from generation to generation5 they are equally conver- tible into money, to let up their forts, and portion their daughters i I cannot therefore, without horror, think upon the mi[i:ry and confufion which would be brou ht upon the�e peo le, if this aecur.fi'd ro- 'e?/hou!d �ucceed, which would de�1oofi them of their top,es ?s well as their books. I was t?nfibly affe&ed with the concern of one o?.thi? profeflion, (more honelt than wife) who,. h?ying read tke- famous RI?$TOR?WlON cam?..
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