The author of these imperfect sheets cannot present them a second time to the world, before he has expressed his gratitude for the extreme candour with which they have been treated by the _Monthly Reviewers_. If _J. N._ has not availed himself of all the corrections designed for his service, it is because the able critic who proposes them has been deluded by intelligence manifestly erroneous. _J. N._ received each particular he has mentioned, in respect to the assistance bestowed on _Hogarth_ while his _Analysis_ was preparing, from Dr. _Morell_, a gentleman who on that subject could not easily mistake. Implicit confidence ought rather to be reposed in a literary coadjutor to the deceased, than in any consistory of females that ever "mumbled their wisdom over a gossip's bowl." Authors rarely acquaint domestic women with the progress of their writings, or the proportion of aid they solicit from their friends. If it were needful that Dr. _Morell_ should translate a _Greek_ passage[1] for _Hogarth_, how chanced it that our artist should want to apply what he did not previously understand? I must add, that the sentiments, published by the _Reviewer_ concerning these _Anecdotes_, bear no resemblance to the opinion circulated by the cavillers with whom he appears to have had a remote connection. The parties who furnished every circumstance on which he founds his reiterated charges of error and misinformation, are not unknown. Ever since this little work was edited, the people about Mrs. _Hogarth_ have paid their court to her by decrying it as "low, stupid, or false," without the slightest acknowledgement for the sums of money it has conducted to _The Golden Head_ in _Leicester Fields_. While the talents of the writer alone were questioned by such inadequate judges of literary merit, a defence on his part was quite unnecessary. He has waited, however, with impatience for an opportunity of making some reply to their groundless reflections on his veracity. This purpose he flatters himself will have been completely executed after he has observed that all credentials relative to his disputed assertion shall be ready (as they are at this moment) for the Reviewer's inspection. _J. N._ cannot indeed dismiss his present advertisement without observing, that though the amiable partialities of a wife may apologize for any contradiction suggested by Mrs. _Hogarth_ herself, the _English_ language is not strong enough to express the contempt he feels in regard to the accumulated censure both of her male and her female Parasites. _J. N._ _Nov._ 1, 1782. [1] Whereabouts is this translation of a _Greek_ passage to be found in the Analysis? It may have escaped my hasty researches. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION.