ABSTRACT
T AM very glad of an Occasion, wherein I have the good Fortune to think the same Way with your Lordship, because I have very long suffer’d a great deal of Pain in reflecting upon a certain Virulence, with which my Zeal has, heretofore, transported me to treat your Lordship’s Person and Character. I do protest to you, excepting in the first Smart of my Disgrace, and Expulsion out of the House of Commons, I never writ any thing that ought to displease you, but with a reluctant Heart, and in Opposition to much Good-will and Esteem for your many great and uncommon Talents: And I take the Liberty to say thus publickly to yourself what I have often said to others, on the Subject of my Behaviour to you. I never had any other
