то THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD KENY ON, LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF HIS MAJESTY'S COURT OF KING'S BENCH, &c. &c. Ата Ta time when abilities and talents are most shamefully prostituted to the execrable purposes of decrying fubordination to civil power, and enervating the arm of lawful government, my grateful boast is the permission to dedicate to your Lordship these humble efforts to explain the nature and reafons of our conftitution and government to the ignorant, and to enforce their energy and obligations against the malevolent. Your exemplary leffons upon the perfections of our conftitution and government have taught the nation to admire your ability, A 2 ability, and exult in your disposition to preserve them in full purity and vigor. And I feel the fatisfactory conviction of bearing a truly patriotic attachment to our conftitution, whilft I am permitted to have the honor of subscribing myself, with refpect and MY LORD, YOUR LORDSHIP'S DEVOTED HUMBLE SERVANT, FRANCIS PLOWDEN. |