LETTERS Of the RIGHT HONOURABLE Lady M--y W---y M---e: Written during her TRAVELS in TO Perfons of Diftinction, Men of Letters, &c., WHICH CONTAIN, Among other CURIOUS Relations, ACCOUNTS of the POLICY and MANNERS, Drawn from Sources that have been inacceffible LONDON: Sold by M. COOPER, R. BROWNRIG, J. DULTON and A. PATERSON. MDCCLXXIX. PREFACE, BY A LADY. Written in 1724. I Was going, like common editors, to adver tife the reader, of the beauties and excellencies of the work laid before him: To tell him that the illuftrious author had opportunities, that other travellers, whatever their quality or curiofity may have been, cannot obtain; and a genius capable of making the beft improvement of every opportunity. But if the teader, after perusing one letter only, has not difcernment to distinguish that natural elegance, that delicacy of fentiment and obfervation, that eafy gracefulness and lovely fimplicity (which is the perfection of writing) and in which thefe Letters exceed all that has appeared in this kind, or almoft in any other, let him lay the book down,, and leave it to thofe who have. The noble author had the goodness to lend me her MS. to fatisfy my curiofity in fome inquiries I had made concerning her travels; and when I had it in my hands, how was it |