U PON

HUNTIN G.

IN A SERIES

FAMILIAR LETTERS

TO A FRIEND.

BY PETER BECKFORD, Esq.

SI QUID NOVISTI RECTIUS ISTIS,

CANDIDUS IMPERTI: SI NON, HIS UTERE MECUM.-

A NEW EDITION.

Hor.

SARUM: PRINTED BY E, EASTON:

SOLD BY P. ELMSLY, IN THE STRAND; J. ROBSON, NEW
BOND STREET; J. DEBRETT, PICCADILLY, LONDON.
AND W. SOLLERS, BLANDFORD.

MDCCLXXX11.

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S the author of the following letters hath been charged with inhumanity, and yet conjectured to be a clergyman; it is now become neceffary to publish his name: and tho' it may not be usual to answer an anonymous writer, yet, as it is not impoffible that some readers may have adopted his fentiments, this confideration, and this alone, induces the author to answer the objections which the critic hath fo, wantonly, made. Whatever may be the imperfection of these letters, the author is defirous that it fhould fall, as it ought, upon himfelf only. The objections, which he thinks were unneceffarily made,

he

he has endeavoured to remove.

All intentional cru-

elty he entirely difclaims. His appeal from that
accufation lies to thofe, whom he addreffes as his
judges; not (as the critic may think) because they
are equally barbarous with himself; but, because
portfmen only are competent to decide,

ERRATA.

Page 107. 1. 2. for any ways read anywife.
168. 1. 3. for mufes read meuses.
250. 1. 19. for bad read badly.

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