ADVERTISEMENT. THE indulgence which I hitherto have experienced from the public, has encouraged me again to become a candidate for its favour. On this occafion, it is upon the merit of Hume that I principally ftand; and if I fhould be found to have traced in two volumes, faithfully and clearly, the most important events which that hiftorian has recorded and adorned in eight, I fhall have attained to the full extent of my labours. The Author of the Abridgement of the Hiftory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. |