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Engraved for Murray's History of the American War

GEORGE H.

King of Great Britain &c.

Pollard fculp

Printed for T.Robson, Newcastle upon Tyne.

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NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE:

Printed for T. ROBSON, Head of the GROAT-MARKET,
R. Baldwin, No. 47, Pater-nofter-Row, London; N. Frobisher,
York; C. Elliot, Edinburgh; and Dunlop and Wilfon, Glafgow.

161661690

TO THE KING,

SIR,

As it is the happy privilege of all the dutiful fubjects of the British

empire, without regard to rank or diftinction, to addrefs their fovereign, it can be no prefumption in one who wishes well to the Revolu tion, and the illuftrious family of Brunswick, though remote from the throne, thus to addrefs your Majesty. To wish well to the rightfulLovereign of these kingdoms, is the duty of all Proteftants; and the hap-. piness of a Prince ruling by law, ought to be the prayer of all good fubjects. A reflection upon the unhappiness of former times, when tyranny, and the iron rod of arbitrary power, ruled over these realms, makes the dutiful fubjects of your Majefty rejoice, that they are, by the glorious Hanoverian fucceffion, set free from the apprehenfions of civil and religious slavery.

Your Majefty's true friends will always join the glorious Revolution, and the fucceffion of your family to the throne of these kingdoms, in their united thanksgivings to Heaven; and never forget the 5th of No vember, and the glorious firft of Auguft, when Popery and arbitrary power were so effectually baffled.

The warm expreffions of heart-felt joy, which your fubjects loudly manifefted at your acceflion to the crown of Great Britain, could not but declare to all the world, how happy they were, in having a Proteftant Prince born among them to be their King. Your Majesty's gracious fpeech on that occafion was received with raptures throughout the whole empire, and all ranks and degrees of your fubjects were transported with your royal fentiments.

There have been few fovereigns, fince the first inftitution of government, that have had all the fatisfaction they could have defired: Mifunderstandings and mismanagements, in high and low, are common in the prefent ftate of human nature. It requires a more exalted state of existence, than any rank of beings in this system arrive at, to be perfect. The fubject of this hiftory, thus addreffed to your Majesty, is a palpable proof of the weakness and imperfection of mortals in this world.

The far greater part of your Majefty's good fubjects, are much afflicted for the caufes and occafion of the prefent unhappy contention in the British empire, and from their hearts earnestly pray, that it may be speedily at an end; that your Majefty may enjoy the fweets of peace, and the real pleasure of ruling a dutiful and happy people.

Hiftory

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