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advice, which has been given, and either discover your accomplices, or fall a sacrifice to their security.

JUNIUS


LETTER XLI.


TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD MANSFIELD.


14. November 1770.

MY LORD,

THE appearance of this letter will attract the curiosity of the public, and command even your Lordship's attention. I am considerably in your debt, and shall endeavour, once for all, to balance the account. Accept of this address, my Lord, as a prologue to more important scenes, in which you will probably be called upon to act or suffer.

You will not question my veracity, when I assure you, that it has not been owing to any particular respect for your person that I have abstained from you so long. Besides the distress