HA ADVERTISEMENT. AD I forefeen the fize to which the following volume was to grow, or the obftacles that were to retard its completion, I should probably have shrunk from the undertaking ; and perhaps I may now be fuppofed to owe an apology for offering it to the Public, after the able and masterly Publications to which this controverfy has given occafion, Many parts of it bear internal marks of having been written fome months ago, by allufions to circumftances which are now changed; but as they did not affect the reafoning, I was not folicitous to alter them. For the latenefs of its appearance, I find a confolation in the knowledge, that respectable Works on the same subject are still expected by the Public; and the number of my fellow-labourers only fuggefts the reflection—that too many minds cannot be em◄ ployed on a controversy so immenfe as to present the most various afpects to different understandings, and so important, that the more correct statement of one fact, or the more fuccessful illuftration of one argument, will at least rescue a book from the imputation of having been written in vain. Little Ealing, Middlefex, ADVER |