OR, THE UTTERANCE OF THE HEAR T; IN THE COURSE OF A REAL CORRESPONDENCE. Hæc res et jungit, jun&os et fervat amicos. HOR. Lib. i. Sat 3. As in water face anf wereth to face, fo the heart of man to man. PROV. xxvii. 19. BY JOHN NEWTON, RECTOR OF ST MARY WOOLNOTH, LONDON. IN TWO VOLUME S. VOL. I LONDON: Printed for J. JOHNSON, No. 72. St Paul's Church-yard. TH ADVERTISEMENT. HE deference due to the Public feems to require an apology for committing letters of private correfpondence to the Prefs, while the Writer is yet living. He is fenfible that fending them abroad without his name prefixed, will not of itfelf be fufficient to obviate the charge of egotifm. The manner of expreffion and thinking, where an author has been repeatedly in print, will mark him out to good judges when they fee him again, fo as to render any farther defcription unneceffary. The folicitation of friends, though a trite, is not always an improper plea, and would probably in the present case be admitted, if he had not determined to conceal the names of his correfpondents likewife, and to fupprefs, as far as poffible, every circumftance which might lead to difcover them. For they certainly did recommend the publication, and return him their letters purposely that a selection might be made. But as he does not think himself at liberty to declare them, he muft forego the advantage of fcreening himself under the fanction of their judgment. Pofthumous Letters are ufually published to a difadvantage. If it be fuppofed that the Au thor |