A letter to the Right Honourable Mr. Secretary Harley, by Dr. Browne : occasion'd by his late commitment to New-Gate. Together with his interpretation of that paper, called, the country parson's advice to my Lord keeper, laid to his charge. Answer'd paragraph by paragraph.

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Credit: A letter to the Right Honourable Mr. Secretary Harley, by Dr. Browne : occasion'd by his late commitment to New-Gate. Together with his interpretation of that paper, called, the country parson's advice to my Lord keeper, laid to his charge. Answer'd paragraph by paragraph. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    22/L- C f ) The True L E T T E R /o tBHRght Honou¬ rable Mr. Secretary Harley. I 5 Right Honourable, Write not this out of any Vanity or Oftentation that I am proud of the Honour you have done me5 nor do I defign to flatter you, nor have I the lead thought to injure or blaft the Fame you have fo juftly acquired among Men of Letters * and which will un¬ doubtedly be perpetuated by fome Learned Pen, better able and more polite than mine. An fwer, Dr Brown ! your Ironical and Satyrical Letter which you have {hirriloufly Writ and made Publick, upon fuch a Right Honourable Per- fon as Mr. Secretary Harley is, was writ not only out of Spleen, but the greateft Vanity and Oftentation imaginable » and fince I do not defign to flatter you no more than you have done the before mentioned Honourable Perfon, if he has done you that Juftice in (ending you to, and making you one of that Colledge, called Newgate, inftead of making you one of that of the Phyficians which is adjacent to it, and you are more proud of the Honour he has done yeu, in rather fending you to, and making you Fellow of the one than the other, much good may it do you. Such vad Defigns, Sir* are not in my View ^ but this humble Letter creeps into the World with no other In¬ tention, I folemnly declare, than to do its Author Ju- ftice^ for that I think is a Duty all Men are allow'd td pay to themfelves in the firft Place *, therefore I fhall ob- ierve that inviolably, and then leave the World to judge; as candidly of Mr. Secretary Harley’s Proceedings, as the Nature of the Circumftances will give leave. Anf. If your Letter comes out creeping as you fay, then according to the Worlds judgment it comes out with, and upon no good Defign, for truth never fecks corners or any lurking or dark places to creep out of. But before I proceed any further, I fhall not forget to declare to the World, the Obligations you laid upon me, when I had the Misfortune, as I may call it, to fall under your Cenfure fome time ago, and when you was pleas’d to treat me, without any pretence that I could lav claim to, of the lead Favour from you, and not on¬ ly gcneroully, but like a Patriot, you gave me friend- '