the Place You allow me in your Friendship and Familiarity. I will not ac knowledge to You that I have often had You in my Thoughts, when I have endeavoured to Draw, in fome Parts of thefe Difcourfes, the Character of a Good-natured, Honest and Accomplished Gentleman. But fuch Reprefentations give my Reader an Idea of a Perfon blameless only, or only laudable 4 laudable for fuch Perfections as extend no farther than to his own private Advantage and Reputa tion. BUT when I speak of You, I Celebrate One who has had the Happiness of poffeffing also those Qualities which make a Man useful to Society, and of having had Opportunities of Exerting them in the moft confpicuous Man ner. A 3 THE THE Great Part You had, as British Embaffador, in Procuring and Cultivating the Advantageous Commerce between the Courts of England and Por tugal, has purchased You the lafting Efteem of all who understand the Intereft of either Nation. THOSE Perfonal Excellencies which are over-rated by the ordinary World, and too much neglected by Wife Men, You have ap applied with the justest Skill and Judgment. The moft graceful Addrefs in Horsemanship, in the Ufe of the Sword, and in Dancing, has been employed by You as lower Arts, and as they have occafionally ferved to cover, or introduce the Talents of a skilful Minifter. BUT your Abilities have not appear'd only in one Nation. When it was your Province to Act as Her |