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[This piece being on the same subject, and very rare, we have thought fit to add it, though not written by the same hand.]
N. B. In the Dublin edition it is said to be written by the late N. Rowe esq. which is a mistake: for the reverend Dr. Yalden, preacher of Bridewell, Mr. Partridge's near neighbour, drew it up for him.
'SQUIRE BICKERSTAFF DETECTED;
OR, THE
ASTROLOGICAL IMPOSTOR CONVICTED:
BY
JOHN PARTRIDGE,
STUDENT IN PHYSICK AND ASTROLOGY.
IT is hard, my dear countrymen of these united nations, it is very hard, that a Briton born, a protestant astrologer, a man of revolution principles, an assertor of the liberty and property of the people, should cry out in vain for justice against a Frenchman, a papist, and an illiterate pretender to science, that would blast my reputation, most inhumanly bury me alive, and defraud my native country of those services, which in my double capacity, I daily offer the publick.
What great provocations I have received, let the impartial reader judge, and how unwillingly, even
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