TO THE PUBLIC 



acu 



THESE RESOLUTIONS, though 



they afforded no real affiftance, ferved to 

 eftablifh the ufefulnefs of the plan. Ihe 

 means of carrying it into execution remain- 

 ed now the only object of cpnfideratlon. 

 An application to PARLIAMENT was 

 thought of, and ftrongly recommended ; 

 but at a time when public economy had 

 become a necellary and prevailing principle, 

 and when the immediate prefervation of 

 the flate called for every hour of parlia- 

 mentary deliberation, it would have beeai 

 highly improper to have attempted to 

 draw off the attention of Parliament to 

 any other objed:, however ufeful. 



But being thus embarked, it was thought 

 advifeable to proceed fo far, at leafl, as to 

 make the Plan know?! to thofe whom it 

 particularly concerns ; — and it was ac- 

 cordingly communicated to feveral of the 

 principal Nobility, and to fome few Gen- 

 tlemen of landed Property. Its reception, 

 however, was not fuch as I confidered it to 

 be intitled to ; and in this fpecimen there 

 were fufficient grounds to convince me of 

 what might be expeded from Individuals. 

 - I have 



