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 Virtue: That if any Desertion be shameful, it is the Desertion from Truth and the Welfare of their Country: If any Attachment be honourable, it is an impartial Attachment to the public Weal, unbiassed by private Affections and Regards. If any Acknowledgment be the certain Mark of a great and ingenuous Mind, it is the Acknowledgment of its own Errors, or those of a Patron, Friend, or Ancestor.

These Remarks the Writer submits to the Impartiality and Candor of his Countrymen; desiring that they may be regarded as his Mite, thrown in towards the Accomplishment of the Sovereign's Wish, on his Accession to the Throne; that of "founding the Liberty and Happiness of this Kingdom on the solid Basis of Religion and Virtue, and uniting in the steady Prosecution of this great Purpose."