TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS 



THE DUKE OF YORK. 



SIR, 



IN times like these, when the wicked 

 intentions and wild chimeras of misguided or de- 

 signing men have so widely disseminated prin- 

 ciples of a fallacious equality as to shake all 

 Europe to its foundation, it becomes the duty of 

 every reasonable person, especially the inhabitant 

 of this truly free nation, to manifest a lave of 

 order, by proper expressions of regard for high 

 station and illustrious ancestry. Yet it was 

 not this consideration alone which made me 

 solicitous to obtain that leave for the present 

 dedication which your Royal Highness, with 

 such ready condescension, has been pleased to 

 grant me. 



In the following pages, I have endeavoured 

 to spare my country the loss of many a valu- 

 able, though humble, member, whom misrepre- 



