To the Right Honourable PHILIP Lord HARDWICKE, My Lord, A S no one has exercised the Powers of Speech with jufter and more univerfal applaufe, than yourself; I have prefumed to infcribe the following Treatife to your Lordship, its End being to investigate the Principles of thofe Powers. It has a far ther claim to your Lordfhip's Patronage, by being connected in fome degree with that politer Literature, which, in the most important scenes of A 2 *The above Dedication is printed as it originally ftood, the Author being defirous that what he intended as real Refpect to the noble Lord, when living, fhould now be confidered, as a Teftimony of Gratitude to his Memory. |