ADVERTISEMENT. Ixxvil 



thofe whofe fouls are fimple, candid, gentle, inno- 

 cent, and endowed with fenfibility. They intereft me 

 much more, if ignorant rather than learned, fuffer- 

 ing rather than profperous, in cottages rather than 

 in palaces. They are the perfons for whom I com- 

 pofed my book, and they are the perfons who have 

 made it's fortune. They have done me more good 

 than I wiflied to them, for their repofe. I have 

 adminiftered to them fome confolations j and, in 

 return, they have conferred on me a tribute of 

 glory. I have prefented to them only the perfpec- 

 tives of hope ; and they, with emulous zeal, have 

 ftrained to accumulate upon me a thoufand real 

 benefits. My mind was engrofl'ed only with the 

 ills which they endure ; and they have reftlefsly 

 promoted my happinefs. It is in the view of ac- 

 quitting fome part of the obligations under which 

 I lie to them, in my turn, that I have compofed 

 this additional Volume. May it merit for me, 

 anew, fuffrages fopure, founbiafled, and (o affed:-, 

 ing ! They are the alone objedt of my wifhes. 

 Ambition difdains them, becaufe they are not pof- 

 feffed of power ; but time will one day refped 

 them, becaufe intrigue can neither give nor dcflroy 

 them. 



This Volume confifts of two Hiftories, of which 

 i give fome account in the particular advercife- 



ments 



