each other, as to the common Good and Support of the Whole. AND, for your Particular, MY LORD and GENTLEMEN of this great City, that Peace may ever reign within your Walls, and Plenty overflow your Palaces; that every useful Art may florifh among You, and that your Trade and Commerce may be extended, with due Honor and Emolument to your worthy Sons, as far as the utmoft Bounds of the Globe; that You may live long and happily to use, not to abufe, the Gifts of Fortune; that You may ever be senfible, your Wealth and Power can never be applied to better Purposes, than to the Promotion of Virtue, true Religion and Loyalty, and to the Prefervation and Security of the Rights and Liberties of yourselves and Fellow-Subjects, univerfally; but rather, than the Opulence which Trade may bring, fhould be perverted to introduce that deftructive Fiend, Luxury amongst You, which never fails of opening a fatal Inlet to Corruption and concommittant Slavery; that righteous Agar's Prayer may be fulfilled to You, or even, that primitive British Indigence, or more than Spartan Penury, may be your Portion. AND these are the moft ardent Wishes and Prayers of, May it pleafe YOUR LORDSHIP and HONORS! Your great Admirer, Moft fincerely affectionate Friend, and Moft faithful Servant, C. LUCAS. The End of the DEDICATORY ADDRESS. WITH BETTY'S REMARK S. Hiberna And therefore met in consultation, HUDIBRAS. BOD DUBLIN: PRINTED FOR THE COMPANY OF BOOKSELLERS, BY BYRN AND SON, SYCAMORE ALLEY. M DCC LXXIX. 226. i. 168.(2) payment of money, I could not for a mo ment fuppofe that a paltry 50l. a year was intended any otherwife than as a mere compliment of good humour and difpofition towards me: I truft I fhall therefore ftand excused to my friends for introducing a few Morning Scenes to their obfervation, and at the fame time that I fhall be forgiven for adding fome general remarks, which have occurred to me in the courfe of them. It may be a matter of furprize to the world that I should fet my name to a publication of a political nature; but the precepts I have received from my friend Mrs. Mac--lay (now the amiable Mrs. Gr-h-m) taught me never to be ashamed of truth from the fear of cenfure. To ufe the words of a very great man (the Earl of Chatham), I no longer hesitate to renounce principles incompatible with freedom, dangerous in their tendency, and fubverfive of the conftitution. Henceforward I bid adieu to the pine, the orange, and the oppofition, and commence purveyor of politics for the future. ELIZABETH O'NEIL St. James's Street, May 21, 1779. MINUTES. MINUTES. Nov. 6, 1778. PRESENT, in the Back Room at BETTY'S, sDuke of R——————d, Lord J. Csh, Select Meeting. Mr. F—x, General C Mr. John L-¤, Mr. T-T-d. Secretaries, Mr. B ke and Mr. Bg -by at the door. upon ftools at the bottom of the table. Dr. Br Refolved unanimously, TH HAT it is effentially neceffary to open the political campaign upon as broad a bottom as poffible. THAT it is expedient to negociate with those parties who may be confidered, in fome degree, as detached from the phalanx, and who may probably be advancing towards the enemy. THAT |