PREFACE
As the Author of the following Letters has been charged with inhumanity, and yet conjectured to be a Clergyman, it is now become necessary to publish his name: and, though it may not be usual to answer an anonymous writer,1 yet, as it is not impossible that some readers may have adopted his sentiments, this consideration, and this alone, induces the Author to answer the objections which the critic hath so wantonly made. Whatever may be the imperfection of these Letters, the Author is desirous that it should fall as it ought, upon himself only. The objections, which he thinks were unnecessarily made, he has endeavoured to remove. All intentional cruelty he entirely disclaims. His appeal from that accusation lies to those whom he addresses as his judges; not (as the critic may think) because they are equally barbarous with himself, but because Sportsmen only are competent to decide.
THE AUTHOR
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