ABSTRACT

The beauty of the historical allusion to Prince Prettyman, need pointed out to our readers; and the presage that the fame of this Royal personage shall be lost and absorbed in the rising reputation of the ingenious divine, is peculiarly ingenious and well turned. The next character is most ingeniously described, but like a former one, containing some personal allusions, requires in order to be fully understood, a more intimate acquaintance with the exterior qualifications of the gentleman in question, than can have fallen to the lot of every reader. From this difficulty, however, he relieves himself, by a contrivance equally new and arduous, viz. by verifying the bill of indictment, and inserting in it a flaw, by which they are saved from condemnation.