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preface* χίχ
degree unexampled by other cammunities of
public men, characterizes the East-India Com*
pani/, cannot appear new wherever the name,
of Britahi is known. The condescension of
it in mi/ favour, is indeed a powerful claim
upon my personal feelings, (and those feelings
will never abjure it) but it cannot heighten
the habitual principles of attachment, Λvhich
calls upon the votaries of science to. revere^
and love the men, Avhose public s}>irit has
given a new, and brilliant hemisphere to the
literary world.
General Vallancey, Avhose ingenuity, and
learning, have been of great use to me, though
I do, by no means, adopt all his opinions —
with a liberality of spirit, inseparable from
those Avho are scholars, and gentlemen, has
patronized me, without calculating whether
I was friend, or adversary, to his conjectures,
or to his inferences.
Mr, Astle, to whom I was under literarij
obligations (before I Avas honoured Avith hÍ5