FEB 1 1910 ΤΟ JOHN HILEY ADDINGTON, Esq. JOINT PAYMASTER-GENERAL OF MY DEAR SIR, Vicar's Hill, Jan. 8. 1808. IT is a pleasure to me, that these litt\.e publications afford me an opportunity of giving a testimony of my affection to some of my early friends, whose conduct in life has given me so much satisfaction. 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 should not think the welfare of my Country ran much risk, under the influence of an opposite maxim. I dare even venture to conceive, the influence of A 2 private 2 for from Ciro, Dept. |