From personal respect and attachment, as well as from a long and perfect
knowledge of your sentiments with regard to the subject of these Verses
and Observations, I should, naturally, have been led to the
gratification of inscribing them with your name.—Yet, when I consider,
that you had the happiness to second that Motion, which, like the
impression of an oracle, has given the death-stroke to the disgraceful
and nefarious Traffic, I have the satisfaction to find, that propriety,
in this instance, is linked with estimation; and, that the convictions
of the understanding have, sometimes, the felicity of being associated
with the sensibilities of the heart.