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" tation on Final Causes, the translation of the Notes of the 

 " Author, and the additional notes, containing an account of 

 "those more modern discoveries in the sciences and arts 

 "which tend farther to the illustration of the subjects of the 

 " work, are all the original matter of the edition to which I 

 " have any claim ; so that the vanity of authorship has a very 

 " small share in the pleasure I enjoy from it. But when en- 

 " o-acred in that work, I had a constant sense that I was well 

 " employed, in contributing, as far as lay in my power, to 

 " those great and noble ends which this most worthy man 

 " proposed in his labours, by enforcing on the minds of man- 

 " kind the conviction of an all-wise and all-beneficent Author 

 " of Nature. The demonstration, in short, of that great and 

 " central truth, on which depends our present happiness and 

 " our future hopes. Since the publication of this edition, 

 " some other excellent works have appeared upon the same 

 " subject, from which many valuable additions may be made 

 " to the Notes on Derham, and I intend, accordingly, to make 

 " those additions, if a new edition should be wanted in my 

 " lifetime." 



The year 1799 was distinguished by the agitation of the great 

 question with regard to the Union with Ireland ; and in attend- 

 ing to the debates it occasioned^ Mr Tytler thought that no 

 view of the subject could be better fitted to conciliate the minds 

 of the Irish people to this important measure, than a represen- 

 tation of the benefits which Scotland had derived from the 

 Union with England. These observations he threw into the 

 form of a letter; and they were published at Dublin, with the 

 title of Ireland profiting by Example ; or the Question consider- 

 ed, Whether Scotland has gained or lost by the Union f Of this 

 little work it is enough to say, that such was its merit, or its 



popularity, 



