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connexion with the author; but, on the contrary, that you and your friends in America may be aware of the unconstitutional doctrines which are thereby propagated amongst us. I have not, indeed, had opportunity to peruse it regularly; neither do I now think it necessary to do so; for I was lucky enough, when I first took it up, to turn over a few pages in the fourth part, containing five propositions upon the point in question, whereby the author's sentiments and intentions may be sufficiently known without descending to his arguments upon them; for not one of them (not even the 5th and last, which he himself prefers) can possibly be reconciled either to Law, Equity, or sound Politics; so that if the doctor, with the fame neglect of Law and constitutional Principles, had multiplied his propositions to the number of an hundred times five, he would not have been able to lay down a plan or mode