America, in the view of depreffing Great Britain. Louis confidered it as an unfair and un

generous measure, and threw away the pen when urged to fanction it with his fignature. But in an evil hour for himself and his family, he relented, on repeated importunity; he figned the fatal inftrument which involved both hemifpheres in the horrors of war, and in fo doing, he remotely figned the warrant for his own execution. Another leffon to princes!

AN

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

JOHN LORD CARMICHAEL,

PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE KINGDOM OF SCOTLAND,

ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY

COUNCIL,

AND CHANCELLOR OF THE COLLEGE OF GLASGOW.

MY LORD,

THE honour I have in being related to your Lordship, and the happiness I enjoy in being acquainted with you, do not only encourage me to prefix your Lordship's name to the following Difcourfe, but allow me alfo to believe you will not take it amifs that I do fo. And fince you have fo lately laid me under new ties to your Lordship, in de

figning my promotion to fo confiderable an office as that of Principal of the College of Glasgow, I find myself obliged to lay hold on this first opportunity of declaring to the world the grateful sense I have of fo great and undeferved a favour; and the rather, because my circumftances have not allowed me the satisfaction of complying with fo kind and generous an offer. But feeing it is to my own lofs and disadvantage only, that I have declined fo very honourable and beneficial a place, and that therefore I must be supposed to have acted thus from confiderations of another nature, I know your Lordship will judge, from the true regard you have to conscience yourself, that some straitening circumftances of this kind must have been (as indeed they were) the only remora that prevented my being fo happy as your Lordship designed I fhould; and that therefore you will not be dif

pleafed