from the Confent of the Learned, the Judicious, and the Difinterested Part of Mankind.

BUT in one Point I must be allowed to be the most proper Judge: And to mention it will justify Me in the present Addrefs to Your MAJESTY: That had Dr Clarke himfelf been to direct, To Whom these Difcourfes of His fhould be infcribed; He would have named no Other, than That QUEEN, in whofe Favour He himself had lived from whofe Patronage He had enjoyed fo much Honour ; and of whofe high Accomplishments He had conceived fo great an Opinion.

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UPON these Subjects, MADAM, I have a Right to speak ; And it would indeed, be Injuftice to his Memory for Me to be filent, who was, through fo many Years, a Witness to the Sentiments he expreffed upon Them. He would often be fpeaking of them, not fo much with the Pleafure of a Perfon highly distinguished by the frequent Attendances upon Your MAJESTY, to which He was admitted; as with the Satisfaction of a truly Philofophical and well-difpofed Mind, delighted with the Sight and Profpect of Something of Univerfal Good In

fluence.

COMPLIMENT

COMPLIMENT and Courtliness towards the Appearances of Gran

deur; an Undue Elevation of Heart upon the Uncommon Share of Favor He enjoyed; or a Selfish Application of Soul to make it fubfervient to his own Gain or Advancement : These were far removed from the Turn of his Mind; and never once appeared either in his Difcourfe, or in his Behaviour. The Satisfaction which used to fhew itself in Him, was Manly and Christian: and the Perfonal Honour done to Himfelf was the Least part of it. If indeed, He had not entertained and express'd a due Sense of Your MAJESTY's particular Regard to himself; He had been Unworthy of it: But This

was not the Agreeable part of the Subject to Him.

YOUR uncommon Capacity, and Extenfive Underftanding; Your Quickness in appre hending the Force of Evidence, and Your Sagacity in difcovering the Failures in the most plaufible Pretenses to it; Your Impartial Regard to Truth, and Conftant Enquiry after it; Your Univerfal Charity and Tenderness to All, amidst our Various and Contradictory Opinions; Your Generous Concern for Religious and Civil Liberty, and Abhorrence of Every Sort and Every Degree of Perfecution and Oppreffion; Your Love of the Happiness of Mankind in General, and Your Paffion for the Interefts of this Nation in par

ticular :

ticular:

-Thefe were the To

pics, upon which He would with pleasure enlarge. From thefe He prefaged great Good to Religion itself; and Happiness to All who fhould live within the Influence of so many Excellencies placed in fo

fo

Exalted a Station.

AND as These Expreffions of Regard to your High Accomplishments, are the Testimony of a Person, who formed his Judgment upon Experience; and a Teftimony often given in private, where He could have no Temptation either to disguise his Real Thoughts, or to profess any Other; it is impoffible that Flattery can be supposed to have had any part in Them. They were the Sentiments

of