Quis furor iste novus? quo nunc, quo tenditis⸺

Heu! miseri cives? non Hostem, inimicaque castra,

⸺ Vestras Spes uritis.

Virg.

By RICHARD PRICE, D. D. F. R. S.

THE EIGHTH EDITION,
With Corrections and Additions.

LONDON:
Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand.
M.DCC.LXXVIII.


PREFACE
TO
The FIRST EDITION.

In the following Observations, I have taken that liberty of examining public measures, which, happily for this kingdom, every person in it enjoys. They contain the sentiments of a private and unconnected man; for which, should there be any thing wrong in them, he alone is answerable.