Amidst the congratulations and praises of a free, a joyful, and now
united people, people, who are ambitious to express their duty and
their wishes in their various classes; I think myself happy to have YOUR
MAJESTY'S most gracious permission to approach You, and, after the
manner of the people whose character I have assumed, to bring an humble
offering in my hand.
As some part of my subject led me to consider the advantages of our
excellent constitution in comparison of others; my thoughts were
naturally turned to YOUR MAJESTY, as its warmest friend and most
powerful protector: and as the whole is intended, to recommend the
practice of virtue, as the means of happiness; to whom could I address
it with so much propriety, as to a PRINCE, who illustrates and enforces
the precepts of the moralist by his life.
I am,
May it please Your MAJESTY,
Your MAJESTY'S
Most faithful, most obliged,
And most obedient
Subject and Servant,
John Hawkesworth.