TO 



HIS GRACE 



THE 



DUKE OF PORTLAND, 



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My Lord, 



The motives which induced me to request your 

 Grace to take the first Edition of this Work 

 under your protection, have been so fully justified 

 by the event, that I trust your Grace will not 

 refuse the continuance of that Patronage, the ad- 

 vantage and honour of which my gratitude is 

 unequal to express. 



I have the honour to be, , 



My Lord, 



Your Grace's 



Most dutiful servant, 



W M ' Speechly. 



