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** tation on Final Causes, the translation of the Notes of the 
Author, and the additional notes, containing an account of 
‘those more modern discoveries in the sciences and arts 
“which tend farther to: the illustration of the subjects of the 
work, are all the original matter of the edition to which I 
have any claim ; so that the vanity of authorship has a very 
small share in the pleasure I enjoy from it. But when en- 
‘gaged in that work, I had a constant sense that I was well 
employed, in contributing, as far as lay in my power, to- 
‘those great and noble ends which this most worthy man 
proposed in his labours, by enforcing on the minds of man- 
-kind-the conviction of an all-wise and. all-beneficent Author 
of Nature. The» demonstration, in short, of that great and 
‘central truth, on. which depends our present happiness and 
-our future hopes. Since the publication of this edition, 
some other excellent works have appeared upon the same 
» subject, from which many valuable additions may be made 
to the Notes.on Deruam; and-I intend, accordingly, to make: 
those additions, if a-new edition should be wanted in my 
“ lifetime.” 
The year 1799 was distinguished by the agitation of the great 
question with regard to the Union with Ireland ; and in attend- 
ing to the debates it occasioned; Mr:'Tyrtxer thought that no: 
view of the subject.could be better fitted to conciliate the minds: 
of the Irish people to this important measure, than a represen-. 
tation of the benefits which Scotland had derived: from the 
Union with England. These observations he threw: into the. 
form of a letter; and they were published at Dublin, with the 
title of Ireland profiting by Example ; or the Question consider- 
ed, Whether Scotland has gained or lost by the Union? Of this. 
little work. it is enough to say, that.such was its merit, or its: 
- popularity, 
