ABSTRACT

It was farther set forth, that the said Author, not content with this Theft, had broke open the Garrets of no less than three Gentlemen now employed by the said Booksellers at the high Rate of one Guinea per Sheet, to compose certain Essays, vulgarly called Libels, against the said Ministry; and had there taken and carried away every Thing which the aforesaid Gentlemen had to say on the Subject of the Peace, whatever it should be; the said Observations not containing a single Line, which is not the Property of the said Booksellers, save only two or three in the Title-page, which neither they nor their Authors can read, and of which consequently they do not know the Purport.2