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Show PREFACE. PREFACE. his own ideas : if he difapproves, it is be« canfe it is repugnant to his own ideas :- Should the end propofed by them be in it‘ he keeps hirnfelfin fufpenfe, it is becaufe it is partly conformable, and partly of having ferved my country.---Should it totally fail, there is no demerit in the en.- repugnant. There appears to me to be no more indecency in one of thefe operations than in another. If it be thought arrogant deavour. vi to exprefs that opinion, I have only to vii any degree attained, I {hall have the merit The motive Ican be fure of : it IS of the puref't kind ;-the with of doing good;-- unconneéted with any party; too proud to be dependent on any: of too little con- fay, that even. in the moft defpotic go- fequence to be fought by any, I fpeak, but vernments it is allowed to fpeak freely of drawn! five/*v'zgmr-In France it is per- as I feel.--VVherever I think parliament has acted as the faithful guardian of our mitted; in Egypt it was ordained. In this country, which forne are pleafed to call free, though not pleafed, we find, with the only means by which it can be kept (0 ;_-in this country a diIIolved parcliament is a deccafed fovereign.---In Egypt, :1 dcfpotie government, the cuf'tom of pro~ nouncing orations at the embalming of their kings, was ef'tablifhed as a means of inciting the reigning prince to reform the rights and liberties, I {hall gratefully applaud :-where I think it has facrificed them,--I fhall as freely cenfure. For this I plead my motto in excufe. To the feeond charge, that of offering but a part of a work to the public, I can only fay, that t/zz‘r part is all that is now ready: --that it takes in the whole of the particular fubjeét it treats of; and that this fubjeét would form 2. errors, fupply the defef‘ts, and perfect the good defigns of his predecefibr.--Let thefe 70/1010 of itfelf:---it is independent of, and Remarks he confidered in the fame 1i gilt.- but accidentally connei‘ted with any other: --if A 4 Should |
