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DEDICATION.
To you, Sir, it is owing that this Hiſtory was ever begun. It was by your Deſire that I firſt thought of ſuch a Compoſition. So many Years have ſince paſt, that you may have, perhaps, forgotten this Circumſtance: But your Deſires are to me in the Nature of Commands; and the Impreſſion of them is never to be eraſed from my Memory.
Again, Sir, without your Aſſiſtance this Hiſtory had never been completed. Be not ſartled at the Aſſertion. I do not intend to draw on you the Suſpicion of being a Romance Writer. I mean no more than that I partly owe to you my Exiſtence during great partof
