INTENDED CHIEFLY FOR THE USE OF THE BY WILLIAM GILPIN, M. A. PREBENDARY OF SALISBURY, AND VICAR OF BOLDRE, IN NEW FOREST. ΤΟ JOHN HILEY ADDINGTON, Esq. JOINT PAYMASTER-GENERAL OF MY DEAR SIR, IT Vicar's Hill, Jan. 8, 1808. T is a pleasure to me, that these little publications afford me an opportunity of giving a teftimony of my affection to fome of my early friends, whofe conduct in life has given me fo much fatisfaction. With various branches of your family I have had much intimate acquaintance, if I may not call it friendship; among whom I have seen all the duties of private life very pleasingly fulfilled. It has been the impudent boast of profligacy, that private vices are public benefits. I fhould not think the welfare of my Country ran much risk, under the influence of an oppofite maxim. -I dare even venture to conceive, the influence |