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LONDON:
PUBLISHED BY T. HAMILTON, 37, PATERNOSTER-ROW, AND

R. OGLE, 295, HOLBORN ; OGLE AND AIKMAN,
PARLIAMENT-SQUARE, EDINBURGH ; AND

M, OGLE, WILSON-STREET, GLASGOW,

1808.

Printed by J. Muirhead, Edinburgh,

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Adaag 1907 1.2

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

CHARLES LORD HALIFAX*.

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MY LORD, SIMILITUDE of manners and studies is usually mentioned as one of the strongest motives to affection and esteem; but the passionate veneration I have for your lordship,

* This very distinguished wit and statesman was fourth son of the Hon. George Montague, of Harton, in Northamptonshire, son of Henry, the first earl of Manchester, and born April 16, 1661. He was educated at Westmin. ster-school, and at Trinity-college, Cambridge; shewed very early a most pregnant genius, and quickly made great progress in learning. In 1684 he wrote a poem

« On the Death of King Charles II.” in which he displayed his genius to such advantage, that he was invited by the earl of Dorset to London, where he soon increased his fame, particularly by a piece which he wrote in conjunction with Matthew Prior, and published in 1687, under the title of “ The Hind and the Panther, transversed to the Story of the Country-mouse and the City-mouse." Upon the abdication of king James II. he was chosen one of the members of the convention, and recommended by the earl of Dorset to king William, who immediately allowed him a pension of five hundred pounds per annum. After some time, having given proofs of his great abilities in the house of commons, he was made one of the commissioners of the treasury, and soon after chancellor of the exchequer; in which post he brought about that great work of recoining all the current money of the nation. In 1698 he was

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