IV DEDICATION. 



in every point eligible^ to the more accom* 

 plished and refined of her own sex, could not 

 fail to have been approved by her, who knew 

 and exemplified so well the value and im- 

 portance of such pursuits, and their inesti- 

 mable effects upon the mind. These hopes % 

 which my late honoured friend and patroness 

 had, with her usual benignity, encouraged^ 

 are now most unhappily defeated, and I 

 have no resource but in your Lordship, who 

 is no stranger to my pretensions, nor to my 

 sentiments, and in whom I have not now for 

 the first time to seek an able and enlightened 

 patron. I remain> 



with the profoundest respect y 

 my Lord, 

 your Lordship's most obliged 

 and obedient servant, 



J. E. SMITH. 



Norwich, 

 Not. 15, 1807. 



