TO THE READER, 



ON THE 



PUBLICATION OF THE ELEVENTH EDITION, 



IT would be a tacit acknowledgment of the 

 author's total insensibility to every gratification of 

 ambition^ was he to omit the communication of 

 acknowledgments, that, in their general diffusion, 

 contribute so very much to his own honour. And 

 he must ever consider it no small compliment to 

 his endeavouSj that the work is universally known 

 to liave been crowned with the most perfect suc- 

 cess. The very great and almost unlimited por- 

 tion of support that has so singularly sanctioned its 

 birth, sufficiently demonstrates the absolute want of 

 such a publication. 



This pleasing incense to literary vanity could be 

 iiicreased only by the constantly accumulating en- 

 eogniiums, and uio^t substantial proofs of private ap- 

 probation, from some of the first characters within 

 the circle of The Royal Hunt and Favour, Sports- 

 men, the propitious omen of whose patronage not 

 only reflects rays of additional honour, but v hose 

 judgment, equestrian knowledge, and practical ex- 

 perience, jointly establish a criterion o^ c quit if that 



