To Mr. HENRY DAVIS, Bookfeller, in London. Abergavenny, Aug. 4. I RESPECTED SIR, HAVE received your efteemed favour of the 13th ultimo, whereby it appeareth, that you have perufed those fame Letters, the which were delivered unto you by my friend the reverend Mr. Hugo Behn; and I am pleased to find you think they may be printed with a good profpect of fuccefs; in as much as the objections you mention, I humbly conceive, are fuch as may be redargued, if not entirely removed-And, first, in the firft place, as touching what profecution may arife from printing the private correfpondence of perfons ftill living, give me leave, with all due fubmiffion, to obferve, that the Letters in queftion were not written and fent under the feal of fecrecy; that they have no ten-; dency to the mala fama, or prejudice of any person whatsoever; but rather to the information and edification of mankind: |