Royal Highnels the chief right to this addrefs, both from the fame elevation of rank, and the fame amiablenefs of charadler. But confcious of my own defers in the compofition, I cannot, without diffidence, approach your Royal Highnefs on this occafion ;a diffidence abated only by your known candour and ge neral benevolence, and by the hopes, that the variety and importance of the fads now firft offered to the public, rnd the fidelity of the narration, will be confidered as the befl: recommendation, as they are the moft effential qualities, of an hiftorical performance.
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