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society, gendemen, is only the effect of the graci- 

 ous confidence of the king, who supposes me to 

 pofs€fs abilities which I could desire to have, but 

 wliich I must own I have not. The different of- 

 fices that I have been called to fill, demand abili- 

 iies of a kind quite different from those which this 

 place requires ; But if this consideration prevents 

 me, gentlemen, from fliaring the honour which, 

 belongs to you alone, I wi£h to say, that in accom- 

 plifhing the work entrusted to our care, I fhare, 

 neverthelefs, with all my cotemporaries, and with 

 all the Swedes yet unborn ; the respectful and pro- 

 found gratitude to which his majesty is entitled, 

 by nev/ rights, in consequence of an institution, 

 which, of necefsity, ought to augment our esteem 

 for ourselves, since its members Ihall celebrate, in 

 our own language, with becoming energy, the glo- 

 .rious exploits of the kings of Sweden, and the fide- 

 lity and bravery of the Swedifh people. But when 

 posterity fhall read, in the works of this academy, 

 that this kingdorp was re-establifliedby Gustavus i. 

 that its independence, its settlement, and glory, 

 are the works of Gustavus Adolphus, the extent 

 of its frontiers, that of Charles X. it fhall still re- 

 spect the virtues of Gustavus III. who has had the 

 ijiagnanimity to restore liberty to his nation whcu 

 It had already lost it. 



^0 the Editor of the Bee. 

 Sir, 

 As a contrast to the prices of Mr Fowler'-; 

 ♦yattle, and at the same time a specimen of the spirit 

 voj.. vii. I + 



