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Excerpt from Selection From the Correspondence of the Late Macvey Napier, Esq.
Dear sir, - Dr. Pinckard's book1 is already in Mr. Brougham's hands. I would not give you the trouble of going over the Tableau ales Revolutions, as we have a pretty full article upon this subject already on Gentz's last work. I have not read Gordon's Ireland, but if you think it will afford matter for an interesting article, it will be very obliging in you to undertake it. You are aware, I believe, that we are all decided in favour Of Catholic Emancipation, and impressed with a strong conviction of the lamentable misgovernment of Ireland through the whole reign. Perhaps the book may not require you to express any Opinion on these subjects, but if it should, I am afraid I cannot agree to print anything very hostile to the tenets we have hitherto maintained. I give full licence of speculation to all my contributors, provided they are tolerably ingenious; but I never will publish anything which I believe to be pernicious as well as unsound. If you think Scott's Ethics worth while, you might make a short article of it. I just looked at the book, and thought it conceited and absurd. Let him have fair play by all means, but if he deserves to be laughed at, he should get his deservings. - Very sincerely yours.
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