DEDICATION. 
to mcj not only highly appofitc, butjuft 
and conclufive. 
" The advantages the company and colo- 
nies might draw from this fine country,'^ 
(fays Valliant) could never have efcaped 
the obfervation of the Governor, who once 
vifited it ; but the truth is, public good is 
iifually fubordinate to the private advanta- 
ges of fome needy adventurers who are in- 
terefted to fupprefs every thing that tends 
to the diminution of their profits. What 
is a Governor ? Generally an unfeeling be- 
ing, blind to the public good, who is not 
ftimulated, nor has any energy but for his 
own private advantage ; who confents to 
exile himfelf from his native country for a 
time, and the firft article of whofe political 
creed is, that being rapidly to acquire a 
large fortune, every means tending to the 
accompliiliment of his views, are good and 
JawfuL Full of thefe ideas he departs for. 
his government, arrives, realizes his de- 
figns, and returns to his country to infult 
his fellow-citizens by an infolent difplay of 
that pride and riches, which muft oneday 
open the eyes of his fuperiors to meansof * 
redrefs, that v/ould not fail to operate to^ 
the advantage and profperity of a numerous 
colony. He is replaced by a fuccelior who 
enriches himfelf in his turn, and the farce 
is thus played a hundred times over."" 
I believe, Sir, this gentleman has draw^a 
tiie curtaia and developed the material fest- 
