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As to the Doctor, I would recommend it to him to be quiet. If not, he may, perhaps, hear, again from Junius himself.

PHILO JUNIUS.


Postscript to a Pamphlet, entitled, 'An Answer to the Question stated'. Supposed to be written by Dr. Blackstone, Solicitor to the Queen, in answer to Junius's Letter.


Since these papers were sent to the press, a writer in the public papers, who subscribes himself Junius, has made a feint of bringing this question to a short issue. Though the foregoing observations contain, in my opinion, at least, a full refutation of all that this writer has offered, I shall, however, bestow a very few words upon him. It will cost me very little trouble to unravel and expose the sophistry of his argument,

'I take the question, says he, to be strictly this: Whether or no it be the known established law of Parliament, that the expulsion of a member of the house of commons, of