Excerpt from The Spectator, Vol. 6 My Lord, Very many Favours and Civilities (received from You in a private Capacity) which I have other Way to ackwledge, will, I hope, excuse this Presumption but the Justice I, as a Spectator, owe your Character, places me above the want of an Excuse Candor and Openness of Heart, which shine in all your Words and Actions, exacts the highest Esteem from all who have the Hour to kw You, and a winning Condescension to all subordinate to You, made Business a Pleasure to those who executed it under You, at the same time that it heightened Her Majesty's Favour to all who had the Happiness of having it convey'd through your Hands, A Secretary of State, in the Interests of Mankind, joined with that of his Fellow Subjects, accomplished with a great Facility and Elegance in all the Modem as well as Ancient Languages, was a lumpy and proper Member of a Ministry, by whose Services your Sovereign and Country are in so high and flourishing a Condition, as makes all other Princes and Potentates powerful or inconsiderable in Europe, as they are Friends or Enemies to Greats Britain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.