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Excerpt from A Letter to Cleomenes King of Sparta, From Eustace Budgell, Esq.: Being an Answer, Paragraph by Paragraph, to His Spartan Majesty's Royal Epistle Published Some Time Since in the Daily Courant; With Some Account of the Manners and Government of the Antient Greeks and Romans, and Political Reflections Thereon
Which he has printed as the Initial Letters of his proper Name, one would almofi fufpeet him to be a well-known Gentleman, of whofe Lahoars and Zeal for the Intercjt of a certain nohle Pedon, the Journals of the Briti/h Houfe of, Commons are {lands ing and undeniable Evidences. The Stile of this Pamphlet is not ex'treamly fahlime, tho' it muf't be confefi'ed, that in many Places it is hardly intelligihle. Whatever it afferts as Matter of Fall, is, generally fpmking, diree'tlyfaye. The Author's prin-l cipal Dcfign, if I guefs right, was to pro voke me by theic faye Alfiertions (added to the mo? ahcyive Langaage and cruel In-s felts, upon my heing antler Confinement) to fay fomething in Anfwer to him, which might be laid hold of by my Adverfaries; with whofe tentler Mercier I am already too well acquainted, to entertain the leafi Doubt about their applying to the Secalar firm, and making a fall Uje of any fuch ?aw tage. Tho', as foon as Ifaw this Pamphlet, I refolved never to give it a formal ?nfwer, I {hall quote enough of it to convince my Readers that I have not mifreprefented MIL. R. M the worthy Author. B 9.
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