TO THE RIGHT HON. EARL FITZWILLIAM, ETC., ETC., ETC. MY LORD, I beg You to accept the Dedication of this Volume. It is written upon a theme which has ever commanded Your close attention, and respects cause which has ever received Your munificent support. As a Treatise, it is not improbable that it may contain opinions with which Your judgment does not coincide. Its spirit of freedom and candour I am confident that You will approve. Did I presume to address Your Lordship, as did Walker King * at an early period of Your life, it would be to say how every augury of Your then opening career has been fulfilled. In Your comparative Bishop of Rochester, in a Dedication prefixed to an Edition of Burke. |