ADVERTISEMENT. Lately published, by the fame AUTHOR, for 1. THE Life of THOMAS RUDDIMAN, A. M. the Keeper, for almoft Fifty Years, of the Library belonging to the Faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh: To which are subjoined, New Anecdotes of BUCHANAN, and prefixed a Head. of RUDDIMAN, by BARTOLOZZI. 2. A COLLECTION of TREATIES between Great Britain, and other Powers. 3. The Life of DANIEL DE FOE, prefixed to the Hiftory of the Union. 4. The Life of SIR JOHN DAVIS, prefixed to his Hiftorical Tracts. 5. A PREFATORY INTRODUCTION to Dr. Johnson's Debates in Parliament. ALUSE IN JAMES CURRIE, of Liverpool, M. D. F.R.§. &ë, DEAR SIR, W HEN your letter, commercial and poli tical, came out, under the name of JASPER WILSON, I was bufy during the mornings, with my usual duties, and, during the evenings, with very different ftudies. I little heeded Jasper Wilfon, or his letter; thinking him to be one of those patriotic writers, who dash out on the call of the moment, to alarm by their vehemence, or to delude by their fophiftry. Amidst those engagements, and under that apathy, I had remained fome months, when I was told, by our common friend, that you were the real author of Jafper Wilfon's letter. A few days had only paffed away, when I heard the booksellers runners loudly announcing, in bookfellers fhops, that Doctor Currie, of Liverpool, was the true Jasper Wilson. Ah! thought I, my old acquaintance, by revealing his own fecret, has furnished his adverfaries with half an answer to his letter; as he has enabled them to afk, who, and what, is he? why doth he publish? wherefore this fury against the funding system, and this violence for peace? they will fay with Lord Bacon, whom you are ftudious to quote, "That in dealing with cunning perfons, we must ever confider their ends, to interpret their speeches." I haftened |