SE QUE L

TO THE

PRINTED PAPER

LATELY CIRCULATED IN WARWICKSHIRE

BY THE REV. CHARLES CURTIS,

BROTHER OF ALDERMAN CURTIS,

A BIRMINGHAM RECTOR, &c.

Ὅρκοις τὰ μὴ δίκαια μὴ νικᾶν λέγω

Æfchyl. Eumen. line 432.

THE SECOND EDITION, CORRECTED.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR CHARLES DILLY, IN THE POULTRY,

MDCCXCII.

FROM the refpect I bear to the critical powers of Mr. Curtis, when exerted upon his own compofitions, I fhall mark the following variations in the readings of the St. James's Chronicle from thofe of the printed paper originally written, revifed, and circulated by Mr. C. himself. I hope, therefore, to efcape the flighteft imputation of injuftice, either to the meaning and the ftile of the author, fuchi as they are, or to the tafte and zeal of the republisher, whoever he may be.

VARIE LECTIONE S.

For, Of Mr. Curtis's having written, as it ftands in the proem of the printed paper, the Chronicle reads that the Rev. Mr. Curtis, Rector of Solihul (brother to alderman Curtis) had written

At the beginning of the 4th sentence of the great work itself, that is inferted in the printed paper, and omitted in the Chronicle before the words, he then fufpected. Anonymously in the first page of the printed paper, is fpelled anonimoufly in the first column of the Chronicle; but the Italics are preferved.

Letters, page 3d line Ift of the printed paper is made letter in the fecond column of the Chronicle.

Cut of in the printed paper is made cut off in the Chronicle.

Author in the printed paper is uniformly spelled authour in the Chronicle.

N. B. Upon the application of my Bookfeller, I have permitted a fecond edition of the sequel to be published: I have corrected fuch errors of the prefs as I could difcover in the first, and I have introduced some enlarged, and fome additional, notes into the Appendix. In refpect to Mr. C., I have made a few obfervations upon his late.narrative about the riots, and affigned my reafons for making them. But I have forborne to avail myself of those important illustrations which fome recent difcoveries about the charity schools at Birmingham, would have enabled me to throw upon his talent of forgetfulness.