THE CIT SPECTATOR. VOL. VII. The TWELFTH EDITION. DUBLIN: Printed for PHIL. CRAMPTON, Bookfeller, at Addison's-Head, opposite to the Horse-Guard, in Dame-Street. MDCCXXXVII. Tis with very great Pleasure I take an Opportunity of publishing the Gra titude I owe you, for the Place you allow me in your Friendship and Familiarity. A 2 I I will not acknowledge to you that I have often had you in my Thoughts, when I have endeavoured to draw, in some Parts of these Discourses, the Character of a Good-natured, Honest and Accomplished Gentleman. But such Representations give my Reader an Idea of a Person blameless only, or only laudable for fuch Perfections as extend no farther than to his own private Advantage and Reputation. But when I speak of you, I Celebrate One who has had the Happiness of poffeffing also those Qualities which make a Man useful to Society, and of having had Opportunities of exerting them in the most Confpicuous Manner. THE THE Great Part you had, as British Embassador, in Procuring and Cultivating the Advantageous Commerce between the Courts of England and Portugal, has purchased you the lasting Esteem of all who understood the Interest of either Nati on. THOSE Personal Excellencies which are over-rated by the ordinary World, and too much neglected by Wife Men, you have applied with the justest Skill and Judgment. The most graceful Address in Horsemanship, in the Use of the Sword, and in Dancing, has been employed by you as lower Arts, and as they : A 3 have |