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PG-P.730.037
30 Apr-7 May 1730:31 (77)
Burlington, April 27, 1730. Sir, As I am your sincere
friend and well-wisher, it is with a great deal of pleasure,
I have observed your prudent management of the news-paper,
in which, till last week, there has been no one thing seen
that might justly give offence either to church or state . .
. [3 lines, but] I am puzzled to think what could induce you
to insert that odd letter of the Drum in your last gazette.
. . [16 lines. The author's] depreciating the holy
scriptures, by insinuating that the story of the Drummer of
Tedsworth is a better attested one than that of Saul and the
Witch of Endor, as also his satyrical sneer at the meeting
of those Reverend gentlemen to prevent the growth of
atheism, I pass over at present without any further remark;
. . .
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