OBSERVATIONS ON THE APP E AL FROM THE NEW ΤΟ THE OLD WHIGS, AND ON MR. PAINE's RIGHTS OF MAN. IN TWO PARTS. BY SIR BROOKE BOOTHBY, BART. A2 2043 LONDON: PRINTED FOR JOHN STOCKDALE, PICCADILLY, 1792. ADVERTISEMENT. THE following pamphlet was defigned for anonymous publication. A confideration which I had not fufficiently weighed, determines me to put my name to it. In the difcuffion of characters and facts, something must always reft upon the fuppofed integrity and judgment, and knowledge of the Authour; and I will not mislead the Reader to give more or lefs of this fort of credit than I can justly claim; I feel it therefore neceffary to declare in my own name, that my authorities are derived folely from the common fources of obfervation and enquiry, equally open 4 to ADVERTISEMENT. to all; that I am unconnected with any party, and write without any concurrence or communication what ever. Under the fhade of an anonymous character, I have perhaps expreffed myself with fomewhat lefs reserve of men and things than I might have been inclined to use in my own perfon; but to reduce this work to a lower and more modeft tone, the whole of it must have been cast over again; a disgustful and laborious task ; I therefore fay with Pilate, "what I have written, I have written." I have afferted nothing that I do not believe, and perhaps nothing of which I am fure; for though I may have employed abfolute modes of expref |