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Dissenters I would tolerate and cherish as the establishment; but I would not create more.To puritanize is to revolutionize the people, and to revolutionize is to confound all order, subordination, religion, and regular government. He, or she, therefore, that puritanizeth, "does not "deserve well of his or her country."

THE END.

APPENDIX.

To prove the literary larceny committed by

H. More, and her uniform practice of calumny, alluded to in this work, the following extracts are made from Mrs. Yearsley's NARRATIVE to the Public, in 1787.

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"But should be obliged to her if she would return my manuscript copies."

"Miss More replied, They are left at the printers, "Mrs. Yearsley-Don't think I shall make any use of "them. They are burnt.' 'Burnt!!' said I!! She "seemed confused-My heart felt for her;those short 66 pauses convinced me that she was hurt, and from that "consideration I was silent; but am still concerned that "she would not return those poems which are not pub"lished." Page 20.

In a note Mrs. Yearsley says, dignifying H. More with the title of Stella

"Stella wrote to London, that I dashed the money in "her face, and that I was otherwise very violent. I de"clare those charges to be totally without foundation: the "money lay on the table, but was not touched by me.

"Motives the most powerful and natural that can possess "the female breast, urged me to require a copy of the deed; "nor can I now at this present period repent the requisi"tion, though it has been attended with so much calumny

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"and so many false representations. My character, "which in one moment appeared so bright, and in the next tinged with every vice that can disgrace the sex, excited "many gentlemen and ladies to visit me. To these I simply rehearsed the real fact, and produced the copy of the "deed. None could justify it :-but I am particularly in"debted to Mr. Shiels, for his generous and disinterested friendship. On reading the copy, that worthy gentle66 man wrote to Miss H. More; but received no answer. "Instead of answering his letter, the ingenuous Stella "wrote to a lady in London, desiring her letter might be "read to Mr. Shiels. It was, and contained all those false charges on my character which I have here mentioned. "Mr. S. immediately wrote to Miss More, desiring he ་ might be allowed a copy of this scurrilous letter; but he "received no answer." P. 21.

"Shielded by popular opinion, the ungenerous H. M. "aims at a defenceles breast-Her arrows are of the most "malignant kind-Yet her endeavours to crush an insigni"ficant wretch need not be so amazingly strenuous; for I “ should have sunk into obscurity again had not my repu"tation been so cruelly wounded.—I have to lament, that "it does not require one short hour for this expeditious lady "to make her wonderful transit from the zenith of praise "to the centre of malicious detraction. For all the per"fection, fame, or virtues, she can boast of possessing, I "would not be so much a Proteus!" P. 24.

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