Sir,
Amidst the congratulations and praises of a free, a joyful, and nowunited people, people, who are ambitious to express their duty and their wishes in their variousclasses; I think myself happy to have YourMajesty's most gracious permission to approach You, and, after themanner of the people whose character I have assumed, to bring an humbleoffering in my hand.
As some part of my subject led me to consider the advantages of our excellent constitution in comparisonof others; my thoughts were naturally turned to Your Majesty, as its warmest friend and most powerful protector:and as the whole is intended, to recommend the practice of virtue, as themeans of happiness; to whom could I address it with so much propriety, asto a Prince, who illustrates and enforces the precepts of the moralist by hislife.
I am,John Hawkesworth.