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vi. Though praie is a kind of tribute due to hining merit and abilities; yet, Sir, even envy mut confes, that your well-earned laurels, the meed of military virtues, obtained in the service of the Honourable the Eat India Company, have been too eminently conpicuous, to receive any additional lutre from the language of Encomium.

Your repectable name prefixed to thee pages, cannot fail to hield them with the armour of ecurity, as the judicous mut be highly gratified with the peculiar propriety of incribing them to a Gentleman o perfectly converant with cenes, which I have attempted to decribe. Allow