but should I publish any favours done me by your Lordship, I am afraid it would look more like vanity, than gratitude.

I had a very early ambition to recommend myself to your Lordship's patronage, which yet encreased in me as I travelled thro’ the countries, of which I here give your Lordship some account: For whatever great impressions an Englishman must

have

have of your Lordship, they who have been conversantabroad will find them still improved. It cannot but be obvious to them, that, tho’ they see your Lordship's admirers every where, they meet with very few of your well-wishers at Paris or at Rome. And I could not but observe, when I passed through most of

the

the protestant governments in Europe, that their hopes or fears for the common cause rose

or fell with your Lordship's interest and authority in England.

I here present your Lordihip with the remarks that I made in a part of these my travels ; wherein, notwithstanding the variety of the subject, I am very sensible that I offer nothing new to your Lordship, and can

have

have no other design in this address, than to declare that I am,

My LORD

Your Lordship's most obliged and

most obedient humble Servant,

J. ADDISON.