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GLASGOW:

Printed by David Diven;
YOR ). D'UNCAN, J. & M. ROBERTSON, DUNLOP, & WILSON,
J. & W. SHAW, R. FARIE, A. ORR, A. M'GOUN, AND A.
MACAULAY, GLASGOW.-J. DICKSON, E. BALFOUR,
P. HILL, J. HUNTER, AND J. & J. FAIRBAIRN,

EDINBURGH; AND W. COKE, LLITU.

Anno 1791.

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SIMI

IMILITUDE of manners and studies

is usually mentioned as one of the Atrongest motives to affection and esteem; but the passionate veneration I have for your Lordship, I think, flows from an admiration of qualities in you, of which,

, in the whole course of these

papers,

I have acknowledged myself incapable. While I busy myself as a stranger upon earth, and can pretend to no other than being a looker-on, you are conspicuous in the busy and polite world, both in the world of men and that of letters: While I am

: silent and unobserved in public meetings, you are admired by all that approach you:

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