The* person whom you have chosen, or what 

 is, in fact, the same thing; who has taken upon 

 himself to advocate jour, cause, has, in the 

 abundance of his zeal, thought proper to address 

 his farrago of assertions to a personage who has 

 ever favored all attempts at improvement; and in 

 whom the arts have never failed to meet protec- 

 tion : his name has therefore given it a kind of 

 consequence ; otherwise unanswered, and un- 

 noticed might it have remained for me, the very 

 first page being so gloriously absurd as to deter 

 any person whose good opinion is worth a second 

 thought, from cutting open the leaves. 



Yet, as yaur loving relative has taken up- 

 on him to doubt whether the Prince Regent 

 has patronized this Institutionf, and as its 



* This man, I have heard, was a quondam dealer in bon- 

 nets, bombasines, sarcenets and shoe-ties, but when you, 

 his cousin, attained your present rank, spurning the yard-wand, 

 Iris mighty heart beat also for preferment. Twelve months 

 under your tuition dubbed him doctor ; and exchanging his 

 tlucapes for a diploma, he slipped into a regiment, where his 

 ignorance might have dozed 'espectably on through life, had 

 he not, in the plenitude of his vanity floundered before the 

 public in your defejice. 



f Ho v imperfect must have been his means of obtaining 

 information ; for surely even he would not have had the 

 iu'.rclihood to have asserted that the Prince's name was used 

 without permission, unless he had really supposed it to have 

 been the case ; but if he will condescendingly move his doc- 



