ABSTRACT
The many statesmanlike qualities that reader brought into the world with them, sufficiently prove, that no man was ever more deeply indebted to the bounty of nature than their lordship. Their lordship is very cunning, but the author never imagined that they were remarkably wise. The talents they received at their birth, if the authors were to speak with mathematical strictness, should rather be denominated knacks, than abilities. They consist rather in a lucky dexterity of face, and a happy conformation of limb, than in any very elevated capacities of the intellect. Let every discarded, and let every would-be statesman, sow dissention in the royal councils, and pour the poison of his discontent into the royal ear. There is a contrivance that has occurred to the author, which, if it were not accompanied with a circumstance somewhat out of date, appears to him in the highest degree admirable.
