As the profest defign of this work is to entertain its readers in general, without giving offence to any particular person, it would be difficult to find out so proper a patron for it as you this general approbation, had they not been accompanied with that moderation in an high fortune, and that affability of manners, which are so confpicuous through all parts of your life. Your aversion to any oftentatious arts of fetting to show those great services which you have done the public, has not likewife a little contributed to that universal acknowledgment which is paid you by your country. The confideration of this part of your character, is that which hinders me from enlarging on those extraordinary talents which have given you so great a fi gure in the British Senate, as well as on that elegance and po liteness which appear in your more retired conversation. I should be unpardonable, if, after what I have faid, I should longer detain you with an address of this nature: I cannot, however, conclude it without owning those great obligations which you have laid upon, SIR, YOUR MOST OBEDIENT, HUMBLE SERVANT, THE SPECTATOR. A Description of jealousy No. 170 172 173 - - from one who had married against her father's con- On the advantages of exercise and temperance On the forte of custom, with some rules for conversation 197 |