labor, but as the completion of a confiftent and comprehensive defign. Hitherto, My Lord, I have been speaking of myself and not of my Patron. Your Lordship wants not the teftimony of a dedication; nor any teftimony from me: I confult therefore the impulse of my own mind alone when I declare, that in no respect has my intercourse with your Lordship been more gratifying to me, than in the opportunities, which it has afforded me, of obferving your earnest, active, and unwearied folicitude, for the advancement of substantial Christianity; a folicitude, nevertheless, accompanied with that candor of mind, which suffers no fubordinate differences of opinion, when there is a coincidence in the main intention and object, to produce any alienation of esteem, or diminution of favor. It is fortunate for a country, and honorable to its government, when qualities and difpofitions like these these are placed in high and influencing stations. Such is the fincere judgment which I have formed of your Lordship's character, and of its public value: my perfonal obligations I can never forget. Under a due sense of both these confiderations, I beg leave to subscribe myself, with great refpect and gratitude, |