lord mayor's, where you was the first toast. I like the young man very well, and he has great obligations to you, of which he seems sensible.
I hope Dr. Delany is well, and that you see one another often, and then the doctor would not have leisure to pursue his dissertations[1], or to answer the reverend prelate[2] on your side, who I hear has answered him. As I have not read the dissertations, so I shall not read the answer; which, I hope without offence, I may suppose to be your case. If so, I hope you will endeavour to keep me well with the doctor, who took it a little unkindly of me, that I would shut my eyes to such revelation, so demonstrated. I have a great esteem for him, to which nothing that he can write upon those subjects can make any addition: and therefore, I would run no risk as to altering my opinion of him by reading his books.
That health and prosperity may attend you, is my sincere wish; and I entreat you to believe that I am, with great truth, sir, your most humble and obedient servant.
- ↑ Revelation examined with Candour.
- ↑ Dr. Robert Clayton, bishop of Killala, Jan. 23, 1729; translated to Corke, Dec. 19, 1735; and to Clogher, Aug. 26. 1745. He was the author of " A Vindication of the Old and New Testament, &c." against lord Bolingbroke, and of many other valuable treatises.
