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To
The Right Honourable
Earl Fitzwilliam, &c. &c,
My Lord,
In dedicating the following pages to your Lordship, I am afraid I shall be thought presumptuous. It is very true, my Lord, they are unworthy of so great an honour; but experience of your Lordship’s kind and friendly condescension, leads me to hope they may meet with a reception they could have no pretensions to claim, on the score of merit.
The universal benevolence that so eminently distinguishes your Lordship’s character, and which was so particularly ex-
