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 And you, Magnificent and mot Honoured Lords; you, the worthy and repectable Magitrates of a free People, permit me to approach you in particular with my Duty and Homage. If there is among Men a Rank qualified to give a Lutre to thoe who fill it, it is no doubt that which both Talents and Virtue combine to betow; that, of which you have rendered yourelves worthy, and to which your Fellow Citizens have promoted you. Their Merit adds coniderably to the Splendor of your's; and conidering that Men capable of governing other Men have choen you to govern themelves, I deem you as much above other