part of the Nation. But tho' this Lord had all the faculties of an orator; yet, not having time to exercise himself in the art of writing, he defir'd Mr. LOCKE to draw up this relation; which he did under his Lordship's infpection, and only committed to writing, what my Lord SHAFTSBURY did in a manner dictate to him. Accordingly, you will find in it a great many strokes, which could proceed from no body, but my Lord SHAFTSBURY himself; and among others, the Characters and Elogiums of fuch Lords, as had signaliz❜d themselves, in the cause of publick Liberty.

This Letter was privately printed foon afterwards; and the Court was fo incensed at it, that at the next meeting of the Parliament,

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towards the end of the year 1675; the Court-Party, who still kept the afcendant in the House of Lords, order'd it to be burnt by the common hangman. The particular Relation of this Debate, fays the ingenious Mr. MARVEL, which lasted many days with great eagerness on both fides, and the Reasons but on one, was in the next Seffion burnt by Order of the Lords, but the Sparks of it will eternally fly in their Adverfaries Faces *

This Piece was grown very fcarce. It is true it was inferted,

* An Account of the Growth of Popery, and arbitrary Government in England: more particularly from the long Prorogation of November 1675, ending the 15th of February 1676, till the last meeting of Parliament, the 16th of July 1677. By ANDREW MARVEL Esq; p. m. 89.

in the year 1689, in the first volume of the State Tracts; but in fuch a manner, that it had been far better not to have reprinted it at all. And indeed, among numbers of leffer faults, there are feveral whole periods left out; and many places, appear to be defignedly falfified. It is likely all this was occafion'd by the Compiler's making use of the first printed Copy that fell into his hands: without giving himself the trouble to look out for more exact ones. That I might not be guilty of the fame fault, I have fought after all the editions I cou'd poffibly hear of: and have luckily met with two printed in the year 1675, both pretty exact, tho' one is more fo than the other. I have collated them with each other, and with that

that contain'd in the State Tracts. In fhort, that this piece might appear with the best advantage, I have taken the fame care, as if I had been to publish some Greek or: Latin Author from ancient Manufcripts. And truly, when a man undertakes to republish a Work that is out of print, and which deferves to be made more easy to be come at; be it either ancient or modern, it is the fame thing: the Publick is equally abused, if instead of restoring it according to the best editions, and in the most correct manner that is poffible, the editor gives it from the firft copy he chances to light upon, without troubling himself whether that copy be defective

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The third piece in this Collection confifts of Remarks upon fome of Mr. NORRIS's Books, wherein he afferts Father MALEBRANCHE'S Opinion, of our feeing all things in GOD. It is in a manner the fequel of a much larger difcourfe, printed in the year 1706, among the pofthumous Works of Mr. LoCKE. Our Author had refolved to givé that fubject a thorough examination; and this small piece is but a sketch, containing fome curfory reflections, which he had thrown together, in reading over fome of Mr. NORRIS'S Books. Accordingly, I find these words in his Manuscript, written before thofe Remarks: Some other Thoughts, which I fet down, as they came in my way, in a hafty perusal of fome of Mr. NORRIS's Writings,