TO 
J. P. BASTARD, Esq. and Sir L. PALK, Bart, 
Whose senatorial career has been animated by an ardent 
love of their country^ and the placid scenes of whose private 
life distinguished by those social and domestic virtues^ which are 
the firmest pillars of individual happiness^ and iiational pros- 
perity^ the following Work is, by their permission, respectfully 
inscribed by the 
AUTHOR, 
