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ADVERTISEMENT.

Miss HANNAH MORE having, with unmerited severity, nay, illiberality, attacked the poor poets en masse, alias in a lump, in the following terms, viz. ‘The poets again, who, to do them justice, are always ready to lend a helping hand when any mischief is to be done;’ I have, unlike Miss Hannah, preserved a Christian spirit on the occasion, a spirit whiich she every-where so fervently recommends, and meekly made my complaint in poetical expostulation, hoping that she will, with the usual assistance of her good friends the clergy, vouchsafe me an answer, in some measure to justify the slander, or expunge it in the next edition of what are called her Strictures on Female Education .

P. P.
 

Vide Strictures on Female Education, vol. ii.