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INSTRUCTIONS
TO A
Statesman.
HUMBLY INSCRIBED TO
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
George earl temple.
M.DCC.LXXXIV.
To the right honourable George earl temple.
My lord,
The following papers fell into my hands by one of those unaccountable accidents, so frequent in human life, but which in the relation appear almost incredible. I will not however trouble your lordship with the story. If they be worthy of the press, it is of no great consequence to the public how they found their way thither. If they afford your lordship a moment’s amusement, amidst the weightier cares incident to your rank and fortune, I have obtained my end.
I have endeavoured in vain to investigate who was their author, and to whom they were addressed. It should seem, from the internal evidence of the composition, that they were written by a person, who was originally of a low rank or a menial station, but who was distinguished by his lord for those abilities and talents, he imagined he discovered in him. I have learned, by a kind of vague tradition, upon which I can place little dependence, that the noble pupil was the owner of a magnificent chateau not a hundred miles from your lordship’s admired seat in the county of Buckingham. It is said