TO THE 



KIN G. 



SIR, 



TT has been the invariable object: of your 

 -■^ Majefty's reign to enrich your people, by 

 inciting their induftry; to refine them, by 

 encouraging the arts 5 to enlighten them, by 

 the cultivation of fciencej and to fecure their 

 enjoyments, by ftrengthening the conftitution. 



But to a people, whofe renown and whofe 

 fafety are derived from their (hipping and 



A 2 ' navigators, 



