OPINIONS RESPECTING BURNET

A small *catena patrum* has been given respecting Burnet, as a historian, in No. 3. pp. 40, 41., to which two more *scriptorum judicia* have been appended in No. 8. p. 120., by "I.H.M.". As a sadly disparaging opinion had been quoted, at p. 40., from Lord Dartmouth, I hope you will allow the following remarks on the testimony of that nobleman to appear in your columns:— "No person has contradicted Burnet more frequently, or with more asperity, than Dartmouth. Yet Dartmouth wrote, 'I do not think he designedly published anything he believed to be false.' At a later period, Dartmouth, provoked b…