T

HE following Life was written, at

my request, by a gentleman who

had better information than I could eafily have obtained; and the publick will perhaps with that I had folicited and obtained more fuch favours from him.

"Dear Sir,

In confequence of our different converfations about authentick materials for the Life of Young, and in confequence your fears left, for want of proper

of

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information, you might fay any thing of the father which fhould hurt the fon, I

fend

you the following detail. It is not, I confefs, immediately in the line of my profeffion; but hard indeed is our fate at the bar, if we may not call a few hours now-and-then our own.

Of great men fomething muft always
Of the great

be faid to gratify curiofity. Of the author of the Night Thoughts much has been told of which there never could have been proofs; and little care appears to have been taken to tell that of

which proofs, with little trouble, might