DEOICATIOK. 



I shall attribute three merits to yon, 

 which the whole world are acquainted 

 with ; passing over those others, which have 

 so firmly attached so many friends to you. 

 First, sir, your conduct in the Senate of the 

 Nation, for so many years, hat incontestably 

 proved you to be a true patriot, zealously 

 attached to the liberties and interests of 

 your fellow-subjects. Secondly, sir, you 

 have been a most laudable agriculturist, 

 expending tens of thousands of pounds, 

 experimentally, for the universal benefit of 

 mankind. Thirdly, sir, you are a good 

 sportsman, and a liberal one. 



I do not attribute this Ust quality to you 

 for that unbounded kindness you have 

 favored me with, by permitting me to 

 shoot over three whole parishes, all j^our 

 own lands; but from your well-known libe- 

 rality to many others. There is, in truth, 



