X DEDICATION. 



fraud and luxury. A country, whose inliabltants 

 may enjoy a life of the greatest ease and satisfac- 

 tion, and pass away their hours in solid content- 

 ment. 



Those charms of liberty and right, the darlings 

 of an English nature, which your lordships grant 

 and maintain, make you appear noble patrons in 

 the eyes of all men, and we a happy people in a 

 foreign country ; which nothing less than ingrati- 

 tude and baseness can make us disown. 



As heaven has been liberal in its gifts, so are 

 your lordships favorable promoters of whatever 

 may make us an easy people, which, I hope, your 

 lordships will continue to us and our posterity; 

 that we and they may always acknowledge such 

 favors, by banishing from among us every principle 

 which renders men factious and unjust; which is 

 the hearty prayer of, 



My Lords, 



Your Lordships most obliged, 

 Most humble and 



Most devoted sen^ant, 



JOim LAWSOjST. 



