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ADVERTISEMENT

TO THE THIRD EDITION.

SINCE the publication of the last edition of these Letters, they have excited the animadversions of Miss Helen Maria Williams, in her recent work" on the Events which have happened in France since the Restoration." She condemns my observations respecting the state of religion amongst the French Protestants, as too severeand more than hints that they approach to calumny. At the same time, however, she frankly acknowledges that she has never read my book; and it will afford a sufficient proof of Miss Williams'