THE SPECTATOR. VOLUME the SIXTH. BIBLIOTHEQUE S. J. Les Fontaines 60 - CHANTILLY EDINBURGH: Printed for JOHN BELL, MDCCLXXVI. To the RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES EARL OF SUNDERLAND. MY LORD, VERY many favours and civilities (received from" you in a private capacity) which I have no c ther way to acknowledge, will, I hope, excufe thisprefumption; but the juftice I, as a Speator, owe your character, places me above the want of an excufe. Candor and opennefs of heart, which fhine in all your words and actions, exact the higheft efteem from all who have the honour to know You; and a winning condefcenfion to all fubordinate to you, made business a pleasure to thofe who executed it under You, at the fame time that it heightened her Majefty's favour to all who had the happiness of having it conveyed through your hands. A fecretary of ftate, in the intereft of mankind, joined with that of his fellow-fubjects, accomplished with a great facility and elegance in all the modern as well as antient languages, was a happy and proper member of a ministry, by whofe fervices your fovereign and country are in fo high and flourishing a condition, as makes all other princes and poten › tates powerful or inconfiderable in Europe, as they are friends or enemies to Great Britain. The im Vol. VI. A.2. portance |