To the Right Honourable PHILIP Lord HARDWICKE, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain*.

My Lord,

A

S no one has exercised
the Powers of Speech

with juster and more univerfal
applause, 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 Lord-
ship's Patronage, by being
connected in fome degree with
that politer Literature, which,
in the most important scenes

*The above Dedication is printed as it originally food, the Author being defirous that what he intended as real Respect to the noble Lord, when living, fhould now be confidered, as a Teftimony of Gratitude to his Memory.

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