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LETTER TO THEEDINBURGH REVIEW

OF the letterswhich have been sent us by our learned Correspondents,we have room to publish no more in this number, except the following .It is long; butwe are sure the publicwill reckon themselves indebted to usfor i t .We hope this ingenious and learned Gentleman,will continuetofavour us with his assistance ,for enlarging our plan in the mannerwhich he proposes ,andwhichwe very much approve.We shall always acknowledge our obligations to anywhofavour us with literary memoirs, observations or criticis m s ,and take thefirst proper opportunity of transmitting themtothe world [Alexander Wedder bu rn, edi t or] 1 A LET T

ERtothe Authors oftheEdinburgh Review.

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ENTLEMEN,

iItgivesme pleasureto see a work so generallyuseful, asthatwhich yo uhaveundertaken,likelytobe so well executedinthis country. I a mafraid,however, youwillfind it impossibleto supportitwithany degree of sp i r it , w h i l e y ouconfine yourselves almostentirelyto an acco u n tofthebooks publishedinScotland. This country, which is but ju s tbeginningto attempt figuringinthe learned world, produces as ye tso few works of reputation,thatit is scarce possible a paper w hi c hcriticisesuponthem chiefly, should interest th e p ub l i c f o r any con si dera b letime.The singular absurdity of some performances w hi c hyouhave so well represented in your firstnumber, might d i v e rtyour readersfor once:Butno eloquence could supporta paper wh i c hconsisted chiefly of accounts of suchperformances. zItis uponthis account ,thatItakeuponme,inthe name of several of yo u r readers,to proposeto you,thatyoushould enlarge your plan; th a tyoushould still continuetotake notice, withthe samehumanity an dcandour, of everyScotch productionthat istolerably decent. But th a tyou shou ld o b serve wi thregardto Europein generalthe same plan w hi c hyoufollowed with regardto England, examining such performances only, as,tho'they may notgodowntothe remotest pos t er it y,have yeta chance ofbeing remembered forthirty or forty year s t o co m e, a ndseeminthe meantimeto add somethingtot ha t s t ock of li t erary am u semen twithwhich the worldis atpresent provided.You willthusbe abletogive all proper encouragement to s u c heffortsasthis country islikelyto maketowards acquiring a I[SeeStewart, I.Iz. Wedderburn was Solicitor-General (x78o),Lord Chancellor (x793-x8ol),

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s slyn (18ox). In1778he invitedSmithto write a memorandum onthe likely outcome ofthe American War.Thepiece is reprintedin Corr.,and was firstpublished by G. H. Gu tt ridgeintheAmerican Historical RevJiew, xxxviii (1933).]

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