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saw,) asked my permission, which was most readily granted, toprint three thousand copies, to be distributed amongst his ownworkmen; many thousands were printed also at Dundee , and inother places of Scotland and England at a small price, withoutany profit or wish of profit to myself.

I received many pleasing letters from individuals acknowledg-ing the benefit they had derived from the perusal of the Apology;nor was its utility confined to Great Britain , as may appear fromthe following letters from America and from Ireland : —

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“ My Lord,

“ Deeply impressed with a grateful sense of the blessings de-rived to the Christian world, by your eminent abilities being sofrequently employed in defending its cause against the virulentattacks from its enemies, particularly in your excellent defenceof Christianity against the writings of Thomas Paine , the Con-vention of the Episcopal Church of Connecticut , at their meetingin October last, directed me to address you in a letter of thanksfor the same.

“ The reputation which that writer had obtained in this countryby his political pieces during the American Revolution , and thegreat lukewarmness and indifferency towards the Christian Reve-lation visible among too many of our citizens, were very alarmingcircumstances, and led us to apprehend some ill effects from hiswritings: but happily for us, and we trust for the world at large,that so able a champion for Christianity has again taken the field,and so successfully combated its enemies. Happy we are to findthat your excellent defence has (in this country), in a good