JAMES Currie, of Liverpool, M.D.F.R.S. &c.

DEAR SIR,

HEN your letter, commercial and poli

tical, came out, under the name of JASPER Wilson, I was busy, during the mornings, with my usual duties, and, during the evenings, with very different studies. 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 sophistry.

Amidst those engagements, and under that apathy, I had remained some months, when I was told by our common friend, that you were the real author of Jasper Wilson's letter. A few days had only passed away, when I heard the booksellers runners loudly announcing, in booksellers shops, that Doctor Currie, of Liverpool, was the true Jasper Wilson. Ah! thought I, my old acquaintance, by revealing his own fecret, has furnished his adversaries wich half an answer to his letter; as he has enabled them to ask, who, and what, is he? why doch he

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