HE extreme utility, as well as intrinfic merit of Th the following Work, is fo obvious, that the Editor has little more to obferve, than that it will be found equally candid and impartial. While, however, he experiences every satisfaction in the confidence he has, that it will have its admirers for fome of the fineft reading to be met with, he suffers much in the fear he has, of being exposed to the cenfure of others, who may probably think he has either neglected them, or failed in the attempt he has made to do them juftice. In his defence, he thinks it neceffary to reprefent, that the Debates of Parliament, for the last fifty years, were found to produce fo many beauties, that it would have been altogether impracticable, however defirous he might have been of doing it, to have selected them all, at leaft, without running into a very expenfive and voluminous work indeed. He was, therefore, under the painful neceffity of paffing by a number of beauties deferving notice, and could only make choice of thofe that were the moft ftriking; determining, at the fame time, to give as much variety, and to include as many speakers as poffible. Notwithstanding thefe difficulties in the way of rendering that complete and general fatisfaction he wifhed to afford, he trufts the Work will, nevertheless, be found worthy univerfal patronage and fupport. To the Public in general it will furnifh much useful and entertaining matter, while the Politician, and Member A 3 39X677 Member of Parliament in particular, will find it a fource of the most neceffary information and inftruction. will be found to contain the Speeches of the firft Speakers that ever ornamented the British Senate, and their opinions on the most important and interesting The whole is fo arranged, as to exhibit, in one point of view, all the Eloquence, the Wit, or Satire, &c. that Those Beauties that would, from the nature of them, admit of it, will be found fhort and concife; others more at large, either as meriting it from their excel- lence, or to prevent their being disjointed or unintelli- gible; whilft fome are felected entirely from the vaft mass of matter they contain, or the great fund of know- Upon the whole-the Editor flatters himself, that the BEAUTIES of the BRITISH SENATE will prove January 26, 1786. |