THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ROBERT LORD VISCOUNT MELVILLE. &c. &c. &c. MY LORD, Ir is with respectful gratitude that I acknowledge the distinction conferred upon me, by your Lordship, in permitting the following Pages to appear under the sanction of your name. THE value of your Lordship's condescension, on the present occasion, is very considerably enhanced, in my estimation, by the opportunity, thus afforded me, of testifying my high sense of the obligations I am under, to that eminent Statesman, accomplished Nobleman, and pious Christian, your late |