Printed for F. and C. RIVINGTON, N° 62, St. Paul's Church-Yard;

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J. DODSLEY, Pall-Mall. 1795.

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PREFACE.

T is with extreme regret that we find ourfelves under the neceffity of apologizing for the late appearance of the prefent Volume. In confequence of MR. DODSLEY's advanced time of life (whose zeal and affiduity in effecting a regular publication of many preceding volumes will not, we not, we trust, be forgotten by the Public) we have been unwillingly compelled to engage with a new Publisher, and that too at a period when the Volume ought to have been actually in the prefs. Reduced to the unpleasant alternative, either of relinquishing the Work entirely, or of profecuting it with redoubled and unremitting vigour, we hefitated not a moment to adopt the latter determination; but it was impoffible to form a contract, and fettle arrangements of fome extent, without incurring a confiderable delay.