The other letter was in the following terms.

“To the ’Examiner.’

“SIR,,

“I am a country member, and constantly send a dozen of your papers down to my electors.  I have read them all, but I confess not with the satisfaction I expected.  It is plain you know a great deal more than you write; why will you not let us have it all out?  We are told, that the Qu[een] has been a long time treated with insolence by those she has most obliged; Pray, Sir, let us have a few good stories upon that head.  We have been cheated of several millions; why will you not set a mark on the knaves who are guilty, and shew us what ways they took to rob the public at such a rate?  Inform us how we came to be disappointed of peace about two years ago:  In short, turn the whole mystery of iniquity inside-out, that every body may have a view of it.  But above all, explain to us, what was at the bottom of that same impeachment:  I am sure I never liked it; for at that very time, a dissenting preacher in our neighbourhood, came often to see our parson; it could be for no good, for he would walk about the barns and stables, and desire to look into the church, as who should say, These will shortly be mine; and we all believed he was then contriving some alterations against he got into possession:  And I shall never forget, that a Whig justice offered me then very high for my bishop’s lease.  I must be so bold to tell you, Sir, that you are too favourable:  I am sure, there was no living in quiet for us while they were in the saddle.  I was turned out of the commission, and called a Jacobite, though it cost me a thousand pound in joining with the Prince of Orange at the Revolution.  The discoveries I would have you make, are of some facts for which they ought to be hanged; not that I value their heads, but I would see them exposed, which may be done upon the owners’ shoulders, as well as upon a pole, &c."

These, Sir, are the sentiments of a whole party on one side, and of considerable numbers on the other:  however, taking the medium between these extremes, I think to go on as I have hitherto done, though I am sensible my paper would be more popular, if I did not lean too much to the favourable side.  For nothing delights the people more than to see their oppressors humbled, and all their actions, painted with proper colours, set out in open view. Exactos tyrannos densum humeris bibit aure vulgus.[12]

But as for the Whigs, I am in some doubt whether this mighty concern they shew for the honour of the late ministry, may not be affected, at least whether their masters will thank them for their zeal in such a cause.  It is I think, a known story of a gentleman who fought another for calling him “son of a whore;” but the lady desired her son to make no more quarrels upon that subject, because it was true.  For pray, Sir; does it not look like a jest, that such a pernicious crew, after draining our wealth,