THE

Political Writings

OF

Sir Richard Steele.

Mala Opinio, Bene parta, delectat. Sen.

LONDON:

Printed for 7. T. and Sold by Owen Lloyd near the
Church in the Temple, and J. Brown at the Black
Swan, without Temple-Bar. 1715.

DOW

To the Right Honourable the

EARL OF CLARE.

My LORD,

HE following

Papers

were

written to confront daring

and wicked Men, in the

Profecution of Purposes deftructive to theirCoun