John Hawkesworth
MDCCLXI.
VOLUME FIRST.
TO THE
KING.
Sir,
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.