. Letter to William Pulteney, esq. concerning the administration of affairs in Great Britain for several years passed, and the present state thereof, with observations on our polemical writers. Mc ^ (I. SIR, IS the Charader of a Patriotis that which you feem moftenamoured with, and moftafiiduous to gain, I doubtnot but this Enquiry intothe Adminiftration of ourAffairs will be grateful toyou, fince it is made with Impartiality, andwith a View to clear the Innocent from manyinjurious Rcfledions which have been caflupon them, and to fhew the Guilty in aproper Light. Fads faithfully related, andju


. Letter to William Pulteney, esq. concerning the administration of affairs in Great Britain for several years passed, and the present state thereof, with observations on our polemical writers. Mc ^ (I. SIR, IS the Charader of a Patriotis that which you feem moftenamoured with, and moftafiiduous to gain, I doubtnot but this Enquiry intothe Adminiftration of ourAffairs will be grateful toyou, fince it is made with Impartiality, andwith a View to clear the Innocent from manyinjurious Rcfledions which have been caflupon them, and to fhew the Guilty in aproper Light. Fads faithfully related, andjuft Reafoning on them, are the only Mean?to bring the inquifitive, and the prejudiced,A 2 to (4) ,to a right Senfe of Things ; Declamationhas as often caft a deceitful GJofs overFalfhood as it has been afliftant to Truth ;I fha]] therefore chiefly follow the firft Me-thod, viz. that of relating Facfts faithfully,and of juftly reafoning on them, in ordet- toanfwer the End propofed in this fmall detaining you by any farther Intro-du<5tion, I proceed to-the Work in Hand. The Duty ^of our Miniftry is to embraceevery Opportunity of adding to the Intereftof their Country, and to watch


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