of the late Doctor Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of HIS LIFE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF, together with Efsays, Humorous, Moral & Literary, THE SPECTATOR. IN TWO VOLUME S. VOL. II. LONDON: Printed for G.G. J. and J. ROBINSON, Pater-nofter Row. 1793. THE volumes that are here prefented to the It is already known to many, that Dr. Franklin amufed himself, towards the close of his life, with writing memoirs of his own hiftory. Thefe memoirs were brought down to the year 1757. Together with fome other manuscripts they were left behind him at his death, and were confidered as conftituting a part of his pofthumous property. It is a little extraordinary that, under these circumstances, interefting as they are, from the celebrity of the character of which they treat, and from the critical fituation of the prefent times, they fhould, fo long have been with-held from the Public: A tranflation of them appeared in France near two years ago, coming down to b the |