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DONALDSONIAD.J N -D "N DETECTEDOR,^An Account lew the authentic Addrefs of the C ivcisdifcQvered.In a Letter from A. M. Student inDivinity to C. H. Efq.rpHE r.oife that has been ma^ie here about thefahlfyingof the C ^e addrefs mufl, I fuppofe, havereached you. it is really an odd incident, and hathoccafioned much fpeculation. But as the matter isnow cleared up, and the authentic addrefs difcovered,an account of this curious affair will probably beentertaining to you ; and this I the more readily undertaketo give you, as I have the following particularsfrom fuch authority as may be depended upon/With regard to the addrefs that was printed in thenewfpapers, every one muft have perceived (thoughno perfon had taken the pains to ftiow it in printjthat it was fpurious, and could not pofTibly be theproduftion of a learned fociety. But the queftionwas, how the C——e ought to behave in fuch delicatecircumilances-? For fhould they difavow the addrefspubliflied in the newfpapers as being fuppofititious,whilft they could not fliow how it came to befo, the public would not believe them. " You have(it would be faid) prefented to his jMajefty a very ridiculousaddrefs, and now, when all the world decriesit as a flupid and pitiful compofition, you difownit, and pretend it was forged and vitiated." Thati\:ch like refle^ftions would be thrown out in public