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Six—The assertion in your last Review, that lids is the
second time within two years that I have been honoured
by your enmity, is quite correct; and I begiu by acknow-
!edging Ibis solitary truth in your entire article. I appealed
to the public in the first Matinee; I du so now imam, quite
clement, even though the same derision should provoke the
third invective of mortified self-suMciency. You have cons-.
booed with mine, in this renewed attack, the name of Mr.
Finlay; a man ahuvc both my defeuer and your accusation.
Be amused, his character stands much too high to be af-
fected by the Pieter of an habitual liteelier. lu the context
between us you hare a great advantage; the concealment
of your name giver a curressey Its the scandal, which might
1w deprived of all credit by its disclosure. It is said, in
deed, that you nre a measlier of the Scottish bar, but I
casuist believe it ; if you were, you would know too well,
mid I hope estimate you generously, the dispiriting digital!.
lies of that profession, to 'ltem'', to crush a young man
just struggling upon its threshold. You would have felt
that no adventitious diseouragements were necessary; that
rompeliti eeee , envy, and the ahstraseness of the science, were
in themselves asefficient ; sod you would not have disgraced
your high pre/hoodoo, by soliciting the wages of mercenary
derooori„,.
If disappointment even didsour you into a cynic, and that
you questioned the talents which you could not emulate,
your caluentson would have taught you, at least the princi-
ples of a Gentleman, and you would have disdained to sub-
statute falsehood fur farts, and pee siessalities for criticism.
However, your name or your professiun is of little conse-
quence ; you have surrendered the one for the mean trade of
wholesale calamity, and you are very right out to consign
the other to infanta, ley its publication.
1 shall now, Sir, just etcansine a passage or two in the
article before no., that the public may sae how admirably
the spirit its sehich it asiginampal ',airborne -follerwirtf up by
Its veracity. You first accused me of having peed al
speeches; you then affected satisfaction that your false.
hood was exposed ; nod immediately after this extorted re-
traction, you reiterate Olt me the refuted charge of profes-
sional " euipiracisne.'•—" The confidence." you say, " which
dictated this publication, was a plant of an sickly growth."
What a right the man who produced this sublime and novel
image has to accuse sue of metaphor!
Now let us see what it was which really did "dictate this
publication." Early in my profession, I had made a speech,
which, very soon after its delivery, was reported in the
Newspapers 'flee publication was, in many respects, a mu-
tilated and incorrect one; but I hail caused a very ample ver-
dict fur my client, null was, it appears, too culpably negligent
of my personal reputation. The speech, sack as it was, was
instantly printed by 110 less than three* different uncon-
nected booksellers in Loudon, and by the provincial printers
in tannest every town in England. I appeal to each 44'11141W
gentlemen, whether I inside to him the slightest personal
comennuication—whether the pulelicatiois was out au expe-
riment for the purpose of his own individual profit—whe-
ther he had ever seen my face, or submitted a proof sheet
fur my currection—•lsether, it, short, to oar your owe
phrase, it was " my confidence" or leis own onsolicited en-
terprise, wheal dictated the ieraceediug ? $4) say I was nut
gratified by this, as it was, singular distiliction, would be
adopting your sawn example, anal saying!. what MSS not true.
It slid give me greet gratification, a feeling in au way dated-
isished by the reflection that Ile moral of that speech at
!cast, more than equalled its imaginary merit. 1 even sub-
mitted silently, on that accosted, to the additional piracy of
an Edo:Omagh publisher, and as I never blame Huy thing
that is national, I foresee hum his rapnedy.
But though I submitted to Scotch Mosey, I hail no idea
of conuteisaucitio Scotch misrepresentation. Yon instantly
pounced ou the little pamphlet, attacked it virulently, as an
authorised publicatiots, and visited tiptoe me the rouse.
quetaces of your try's avarice. With characteristic
Vellollll you mu 44444 need your dello wallabies) to watch my
entire professi 111 l al life, and never omit an opportunity of
reviling mi•. It was a sualegnaut promise, and therefore
you have kept it. Thus menaced, I was compelled to col-
lect those fivoifive trifles, and incur at least the erasure of
no errors but my own.
Now, Sir, with the km 1,11,1.4110 of those facts, confessed by
you—ail). the full CoUVlCtitill me your mind, that the 'medi-
cation was furred foam me by she anonymons slander of,
perhaps sonic lesflted rival—how MI nu expect credit for
the rept:Wished falss boost, dint it orioleated in " my owes
empiricism S.) la for the truth sal' your very first as-
sert . is it followed up by a literary criticisms, or a per-
sonal attack "'dr. l'oslay:' you say, " must know that it
ass the speech of a person of Utile or ao pearl be ; and wbu,
probably, swede no other speech fur long before and after it
was delivered." The latter part of this sentence is not true.
fiat you were softie 'tidy to take it for granted, and argue
away a man's pa ofessa 111 l al character use mere "probohilifies"
It may be as well here just to reload:, cis peasant, in
proof elf your incredible carelessness of every thing but
abuse, that after a lalemeriol criticism upon this speech, you
have the iMpll.lellee to declare, that " it is not is the en-
Innie In the very outset, I coat-eased that I hail Never be-
fore spoken in a ('unit of Justice. bolted, how could I ?
I was but a year called au the bar, mid I will venture to say,
that it was ucvcr Its e known in the prole-Kama that so
y g a 111411 had Fuels a case cutionitted to his inexperi-
ence Rut my cheot was my owai personal friend, and,
thank God, as far at least IN depended use his berriatera, he
.11.1 not suffer by his generates cuufideuce eta their exertions.
The Jury awarded him 5,0001.

But this with you 1.4 Ili, t tileri.tn, though in She very next
me you most contittently rely upon it lesser verdict sit mu
argument for my condemns,. . Behold She Weir of the
tieutrif Reek:wet ! He etiarges ewe with not attempting to
1' colonice sir persuade," situ when I produce the instances
where I have both " ctiminced and perstiatled," Is. will ac-
kiwowletlige ISt list hilt of 11114 oa n creation. An Irish Jury, it
Perms, ate bad judges—`• no worse test cm' he cuttreixte—
that is, alit leg. they flout artimt SW, sisal then their jnilg•
meat is a. the w whim of Daniel!—Olt ! t notable Aril".

• Mr. Aspernr, Combat ; Mr. itunr, B.u!.yi and
Mr Lbcre► O 1 Boad •Irert.

I have now, Sir, selected such specimens of your conduct
as will, I hope, citable the public to appreciate your mo-
tives. We are in the face of day at issue berore them, and I
appeal to any man of sense, whether your object was to criti-
cise or. to crash me. Since the very Watley (avow net -ire,
you hate invariably attacked every Author who has loot the
luck not to he born on the northern side lathe Tweed. Your
policy is of genulue Highland origin. The predatory ban-
ditti of the mountains, who hated the superiority, and lived
by the plunder of Ilw•ir southern ceighboulF, are the exact
model of your literary harderers. •
Aleneorsble iodertl are the instanter of this spirit, and
memorable the exposures into which it has betrayed yon.
You attacked Lord Byron, and he chastised, lather than
shamed you into a recantatiots. You libelled Moore, and
you have chaustled your palinode in a moat insidious ar.
title, in which Homer and Mr. Walter Scutt are clearest
together! You denounced the pious and the gifted Motor).
ant impious industry, you raked into the
very Peeve of Swift for the materials of pine v ilifica-
lion. Yriu Called the orations of our stadium Curran.'
"Met ravings of a notorious Irish barrister:" anal I conclude
my examples wills that characteristic sentince, because it
.exhibits a most adauirable compeudistin of your individual
envy, and your siatiamal prejudice. In all these instances
you were au indifferent critic, nod rot timately fur the cha-
racter of the country. psi were a worse prophet You are
quite safe, however, from critical retalirt• . Where is the
single speech of your own upon which the public eye has
rested fur a moment ? Does one solitary page attest your
claim to character ? Have you ever, in your life, mad,
literary a furl, except in depreciating the fame of others
Whet ate you, in short, beet the awas'eed robber of eirery
mase's reputation ?—Your bread ()Waisted by purveying to the
worst passions, and your character by traducing the brightest
ornaments of society!
Remember, Sir, I dill not seek this contest—you have at-
tacked me twice in toy character and my profession, and
you have basely affrcled a regret at doing au ; because, for.
Booth, our political principles coincided! Your political
principles use, in my mind, as much an article of traffic as
your libel., anal )our friendship so match the more dan-
gerous that, Four enmity, because it would add the enjoy-
ment of perfidy to that of defamation.
I stow, Sir, take my leave of von —I have the consolation
of ilaiukiug, that the sale of thourands opus, thourands of
dome speeches, affords me at once a clue it) your motives,
and a proof that your op. s are at least not universal—
that they are translated, not as you insinuate, in the mere
newspapers, but in separate pamphlets, bolls in France and
Italy—that their tendency is the very reverse of yours, to
promote happiness, liberty, and relielun—and that thsough
the kind partiality of my countrymen, every term is adding
to them.
Compelled thus unwillingly to speak of myself, I abandon
the topic with mock more pleasure than I commenced it. I
am unite viewer, in the acknowledgment of " nay innoneera-
tile errors." They are slot, however, the trims of the heart,
and, therefore, let me hope, are not incorrizilile; but, re.
haps, even cynicism could scarcely have expreteil front live
years of professional life, all the results of experience.
I am, Sir, &e.
CHARLES PHILLIPS.
I Dublin, January 10, 1818.

• See the Review of Mr Payne Knight's work ON Taste.
Mr. Hone state*, in a note at the end of the Letter, that
hr sold 41.000 copies of Mr. Phillips'• speeches, and that be
believes 150,000 copies (including the Provincial Editions)
were circulated tbritagh England.

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