ERRAT Á Page 7 Note, line 11. for with read about. 31 line ult. for συνάπτεται read συνάπτεται. 75 Note * line s. for κυβερνάτηρ read κυβερνατὴρ. tos Note, line II. for Φιλοπροεδρίαι read Φιλοπροεδρίαι. ibid. line 6. from bottom, for waitŵy read távtwvi 182 line 3. after or infert to. 196 line 9. for respectively read respectfully. 199 line 34. read contemplating the fair, or, I fhould rather fay, the foul, &c. 213 line 3. for republishing read introducing. CONTENTS. Page Letter from the Rev. Mr. Eyre and Dr. Marsh to the Printer of the St. James's Chronicle Letter from Mr. Curtis to the fame Reply of Mr. Eyre and Dr. Marsh An Interview proposed between Dr. Parr and Mr. Curtis They meet at the House of Dr. Marsh Mr. Curtis circulates a printed Paper Correfpondence between Dr. Parr and Mr. Curtis on the 44 Civil and ecclesiastical Reformations should not be violent · 52 Advantages and Inconveniences of the French Revolution 57 Remarks on Mr. Burke's Opinion on the Affairs of France 63 Much of Mr. Paine's Theory false Interference of foreign Potentates in fettling the Affairs of Farther Animadverfions on Mr. Paine Mr. Rous's Principle of excluding Members of the legisla- tive Body from a Share in the executive Government, ib. Commencement of the Acquaintance between Dr. Parr and Dr. Parr opposes Dr. Priestley's Endeavours to procure a Mr. Curtis's Defence of himself for fending Dr. Priest- Riots at Birmingham reprobated Animadverfions on Mr. Curtis's Conduct in transmitting Correfpondence between Dr. Parr and the Hon. Mr. An- nesley, on the Subject of the second anonymous Letter 139 PREF A C E. BEFO EFORE the appearance of the printed paper circulated by Mr. Curtis, I neither intended nor wifhed to be inftrumental in making our difpute a fubject of converfation in the neighbourhood. The business, I thought, might with confummate propriety have refted, where it ftood after the interview at Coventry, and there, I believe, it would have refted, if the event had depended upon the delicacy of our friends, or upon my own judgment. In fuch a cafe the affair would have been known, where only it ought to have been known, within a very narrow circle, and even in that circle it would have been forgotten after a very short time. But from the obfcure intimations, and the known irritability of Mr. Curtis, I was not wholly without expectation of fome ftrong meafure upon his part; and Mr. Curtis, I find, has, in this respect, not difappointed me. Fortified, it fhould feem, by his opulence, and emboldened a little by his ftatión, he has not yet been compelled to learn that leffon which the wholefome difcipline of experience has long ago taught me, that they, who from b ་ from their natural difpofition feel warmly, fhould ftrive to acquire the habit of acting circumfpectly. The attention of the public is a moft gracious. Soliciting Public alte boon, which they, who follicit it, fhould alfo be ready to deferve by the judicious choice, and the skilful management of their fubject, by livelinefs of imagery, or folidity of reasoning, by defcriptions that may captivate, or by difquifitions that may improve. But nothing can be more irkfome to an ingenuous mind, than to call the notice of a reader to a topic merely perfonal, and by which, therefore, few will be amufed, and none, probably, can be instructed. With a narrative, indeed, of fuch caufes as produce, and of fuch circumftances as inflame, the quarrels Personal cont of private men, it is not eafy to interweave any truths of high and extensive usefulness *; and as to the advantage to be derived from thofe moral reflections which may be excited by the conduct =roversy. * In this pamphlet I have ftated, without referve, what I think upon the politics of France; and as my purpose in doing fo, has been very inaccurately reprefented in the public papers, it is neceffary for me to lay before the reader the fubftance of a letter, which, in the month of December 1791, I was obliged to fend to the English Chronicle. "In confequence of a well-written paragraph, which appeared in your Chronicle of December 17th, I beg leave to inform "the author, that I do not intend to enter into the wide range of French politics. I have, indeed, perfonal reasons "for touching upon them incidentally in the course of my "ftrictures upon that undisciplined rabble of words, which "lately have been let loose upon me by one Mr. Charles "Curtis, a Birmingham Rector. But I have nothing to fay upon the fubject, which is meant to inftruct or gratify "readers of tafte." I have not the paper, but I believe the foregoing to be nearly my words, 66 of |