{ ADVERTISEMENT. Tis well known that the public papers have been honoured with a great number of very excellent letters and effays, particularly during the late political difputes, on fubjects the most important and interefting to the liberties and welfare of this country. To collect thefe into volumes has been the frequent recommendation of many perfons; who: occafionally admired them in the fugitive order of their first appearance, and confidered them as papers too valuable to fociety, to be configned to be configned to oblivion with the common news of the day. A collection of them was therefore published a few years ago in fmall volumes; and the favourable reception which that little work met with, although the period which it included was only from May 1762, to May 1765, fhewed the wisdom of the advice which had recommended the plan. That collection has for fome time been entirely out of print; and being frequently afked for, has induced the editor to offer it again to the public; but with such ADDITIONS, as the fubfequent occurrences, not only made neceffary, but muft render the work particularly ufeful and eftimable. These I ADVERTISEMENT. f T is well known that the public papers have been honoured with a great number of very excellent letters and effays, particularly during the late political difputes, on fubjects the most important and interefting to the liberties and welfare of this country. To collect thefe into volumes has been the frequent recommendation of many perfons; who occafionally admired them in the fugitive order of their first appearance, and confidered them as papers too valuable to fociety, to be configned to oblivion with the common news of the day. A collection of them was therefore published a few years ago in fmall volumes; and the favourable reception which that little work met with, although the period which it included was only from May 1762, to May 1765, fhewed the wisdom of the advice which had recommended the plan. That collection has for fome time been entirely out of print; and being frequently afked for, has induced the editor to offer it again to the public; but with such ADDITIONS, as the fubfequent occurrences, not only made neceffary, but must render the work particularly useful and eftimable. These These are the letters on the feveral late changes of administration, on the taxation of the colonies, the dearnefs of provifions, and a variety of other interefting fubjects. And in order to form fomething like a fe- ries of the whole, this collection begins with the acceffion of his prefent majesty; and throughout this firft volume, feveral papers which had been omitted in the for- mer work, are inferted in their proper places. In a word, juftice to the argument, and impartiality to the caufe, have been the guides by which this collection has It is an obfervation in Kennet's Register, which lord Somers has taken for his motto papers which daily come out, as con- |