A letter to the author of the pamphlet called An answer [sic] to the…A letter to the author of the pamphlet called An answeer [sic] to the…

As to your appearing Mr. Breck's Advocates in the Court, before you came to a Result, we ever thought it to ⟨p. 55⟩be very improper for those that are called to be Judges in a Cause, to appear to be Advocates for the Person that is to be tried any where at all; and that for this plain Reason, because acting as a Man's Advocate, and being engaged in pleading his Cause, naturally tends to give a Bias to his Mind in his Favour.

As to your appearing Mr. Breck's Advocates in the Court, before you came to a Result, we ever thought it to ⟨p. 55⟩be very improper for those that are called to be Judges in a Cause, to appear to be Advocates for the Person that is to be tried any where at all; and that for this plain Reason, because acting as a Man's Advocate, and being engaged in pleading his Cause, naturally tends to give a Biass to his Mind in his Favour.

With Respect to our saying that the reading Declarations on Horse back in the Street, in the midst of a Multitude of People, to represent Mr. Kirtland and Mr. Clap to be Liars, we presume was of the Council's ordering, because done so publicly under their Window: You sarcastically say, Here our Reason is admirably strong! Certainly as strong as your's is, Page 79, where only from our being entertained at the Tavern where the Justices kept, and knowing of their Design, you don't only say you presume, but venture boldly to assert, not only that we approved of it, but called in their Help, and GOT 'em to interpose; and much stronger, for the People that especially did this, under your Window, were and had been at the House, as waiting on you, in an Affair, wherein it is notorious, they were wholly under your Direction▪ But however,

With Respect to our saying that the reading Declarations on Horse back in the Street, in the midst of a Multitude of People, to represent Mr. Kirtland and Mr. Clap to be Liars, we presume was of the Council's ordering, because done so publickly under their Window: You sarcastically say, Here our Reason is admirably strong! Certainly as strong as your's is, Page 79, where only from our being entertain'd at the Tavern where the Justices kept, and knowing of their Design, you don't only say you presume, but venture boldly to assert, not only that we approved of it, but called in their Help, and GOT 'em to interpose; and much stronger, for the People that especially did this, under your Window, were and had been at the House, as waiting on you, in an Affair, wherein it is notorious, they were wholly under your Direction But however,