To Rev Dr Thomas Blacklock, Edinburgh, from Aberdeen Everybody here has been dying with an epidemical cold and fever which he thinks has been pretty universal. Beattie's family has beeen affected in different ways. Has weighted what Blacklock says about Priestley's book and does not think Blacklock should honour it with any further notice. Seems to be going into oblivion. Blacklock writing further against it might delay this, and he should not be surprised that the Edinburgh Magazine and Review has been so little read in London. Beattie is inpatient to read Lord Hailes's History of Scotland. Is the Edinburgh Magazine and Review likely to continue? Its conductors show an unaccountable want of consideration. What has the public to do with their private quarrels? Mr Nisbet deserves a little chastisement for some things he set his name to in print, but there has been too much of that controversy. 10 December 1775