DEDICATION 
TO JAMES ACE RBI. 
MY DEAR FATHER, 
IN looking around me for a name 
truly great to prefix to my work, my country offered 
many, difiinguifhed for intelligence, for patriotifm, 
and even for great achievements : but the feelings of 
a fon prompted a different choice, and with emotions 
of gratitude and affedlion for the bleffings of exig¬ 
ence, education, and example, to you I dedicate the 
firfi: fruits of your bounties. The name of a hero or 
fiatefman might flatter my vanity, but your’s affords 
a more tender gratification. Your name has not been 
found in the annals of Europe—I congratulate you 
upon it. A great name is dangerous. Your private 
condition 
