** To the Right Honourable CHARLES, Earl of SUNDERLAND, Baron Spencer of Wormleighton, Firft Lord Commiffioner of his Majesty's Treasury, Groom of the Stole, and Firft Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to his Majefty, one of the Lords of his Majefty's moft Honourable Privy Council, and Knight of the moft Noble Order of the Garter. MY LORD, T HE following Sheets, as they have had Your Lordship's Encourage ment, humbly claim Your Pro tection. You are, by virtue of Your high Truft, a Guardian of the Publick; and as the Arguments in these Papers concern the great and only real Treasure of England, her Publick Commerce, they will invite Your Perufal: This I venture to fay with more Authority, as they are the applauded Labours of feveral very ingenious Men,who ftood up in the Defence of our Trade, at a Time when it was attack'd even by National Treaties. I am perfuaded Your Lordship, whofe Heart and Hands have always continued pure, even in these wicked and calamitous Times, and who ardently ufe Your utmost Endeavours to turn turn the Inclinations and Wealth of the People of England, moft grievously perverted by Fraud and Avarice, into her natural Channels again; will accept this Treatife, which proves thatGreat Britain can be only truly Great and Powerful by Trade and Industry. While a Manly, a Graceful, and Perfuafive Eloquence fhall be of ufe in Publick; while Natural Humanity cultivated and improved by the politer Arts fhall continue to give Influence or Example to Virtue; while a warm and an active Zeal in the fervice of our Country fhall fupport and animate the Cause of Liberty, and preferve the Dignity of Human Nature; Your Lordship's A 3 Lordship'sName will never want a Herald, nor I an Excuse for my Ambition in prefixing it to this Epiftle. But I fear my Gratitude grows importunate, therefore I dare not detain Your Lordfhip any longer, and have only to beg that you will be pleafed ftill to continue your Protection to me, and fuffer me to fubfcribe my felf, MY LORD, Your Lordship's Moft Obliged, Moft Obedient, and Moft Devoted Humble Servant, " Charles King. |