COPY of a
LETTER

From a Gentleman at Cambridge to his Friend at Lynn.

Dear Sir,

Dated APRIL 23d 1767.

COMMON Justice and common Sense will not suffer me to keep silence, after reading the favour you sent me; being a printed Letter, TO THE WORTHY FREEMEN OF THE TOWN OF KING'S-LYNN. I do not remember to have ever seen so fair a Party-Paper in my Life—If the facts were not true, that Writer has most evidently too much Spirit to inflect them: and if they be true, he has shewn an uncommon degree of Candour and good-breeding in flating them as short as possible: instead of indulging himself and readers, with the great variety of sharp reflections, that naturally arise from so many fameful truths; and that his pen, whoever he is, could have urged againft his Culprit, with an agreeable clearness and propriety.

If such a Paper as this is to be the consequence of Sir John's Vindication of his conduct, in all the other articles of accusation, as well as that of his duty in P—!—t let some friend advise him to plead guilty, rather than be proved so by so dangerous an Adversary, and rely entirely upon the mercy of the Town; where he will find some ready to pardon him, OUT OF MERE OPPOSITION AND JEALOUSY TOWARDS THE REST.

It often happens in Party matters of this sort, that some furious Genius takes upon him to scribble, for Candidates and Voters on his own side of the Question, and fays a thousand absurd things, as the sentiments of them all; which they are atham'd to read, and which do the Caufe more hurt than good.—But the writer of that letter advances nothing but what, EVERY MAN that has a property in the Town of LYNN, riling and falling in its value with every encouragement and check to Trade; EVERY MAN that has children or connections he wishes to see flourish; EVERY MAN that understands, a Representative goes to meet the King in Parliament in behalf of the RIGHTS, LIBERTIES and INTERESTS of HIS CONSTITUENTS, and not to fell them all for his own private wants and extravagance; in short, EVERY MAN that dares to promote the most valuable independence of your families, and prosperity of your Town, would gladly subscribe his name to, and would more gladly have been the Author of.—There is something to satisfactorily and unanfwerable in his facts, dates and reasoning, that I own my self convinced, as a disinterested Spectator, there is great reason to try a New Member, and will be likewife great reason to change HIM in the same manner, if he turns out your Enemy instead of your Friend.

I am, Sir, Your's, &c.