DEDICATION TO THE Yo PUBLIC. OUR candour is defired on the perusal of the following fheets, as they are the product of a genius that has long been your delight and entertainment. It must be acknowledged that a lamp almoft burnt out does not give fo fteady and uniform a light, as when it blazes in its full vigour; but yet it is well known that, by its wavering, as if struggling against its own diffolution, it fometimes darts a ray as bright as ever. In like manner, a strong and lively genius will, in its laft ftruggles, fometimes mount aloft, and throw forth the moft ftriking marks of its original luftre. Wherever these are to be found, do you, the genuine patrons of extraordinary capacities, be as liberal in your applaufes of him who is now no more, as you were of him whilst he was yet amongst you. And, on the other hand, if in his little work there thould appear any traces of |