AGENT FOR THE COLONY OF NEW YORK &c. 2 IN ANSWER TO HIS PRINTED SPEECH, SAID TO BE SPOKEN IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS BY JOSIAH TUCKER, D. D. GLO CESTE R: T. CADELL, IN THE STRAND, LONDON, M. DCC. LXXV. 226. j. 254. ADVERTISEMENT. T HE prefent critical Juncture obliges the Author to poftpone his Animadverfions on Mr. LOCKE's Theory of Government for fome Time longer. But the Public may be assured, that he has not dropped the Defign; and that he only poftpones it, because the prefent Subject feems to require a more immediate Attention. In the mean while, the Learned and Judicious will eafily perceive from feveral Parts of this Difcourfe, and particularly from what he has advanced, Page 11, that he is fixed in his Plan, and that he has felected thefe Pofitions out of Mr. LOCKE's Book for his future Animadverfion, which are the most inconfiftent with any Form of Government, Republican or Monarchical, and therefore the most dangerous to real Liberty. 1 то EDMUND BURKE, Efq; MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR THE CITY OF BRISTOL, AND AGENT FOR THE COLONY OF NEW YORK, &c.'' A SIR, S you have been pleased to bestow much Abuse and Scurrility on me in your public Speech of the 19th of April, 1774; and alfo many Commendations in private both before, and fince that Publication;-I fhall take no other Notice of either, than just to affure you, that I am neither elated by your Praises, nor chagrined at your Cenfures; and that I hold myself indifferent in refpect to both. My Business with you is |