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may make, that the Public will be enabled to esti- mate their pretensions ; they who have most reason to fear exposure, will naturally cry out the loudest, or, as in the old adage ' The worst spoke in the wheel will crack first.' Leaving, however, the facts to speak for them- selves, and my Readers to draw their own conclu- sions from those facts, I shall now proceed to the second, though not less important, part of this Treatise.