THE MONITOR: O R, British FREEHOLDER, FROM AUGUST 7, 1756, to JULY 16, 1757, Printed for J. SCOTT, at the Black-Swan in 29 And the Right Honourable HENRY BILSON LEGGE, Efq; Chancellor and Under-treasurer of his Majesty's Exchequer. P ARDON, Gentlemen, our boldness, in taking this freedom with your names, without your confent or privity; for which we have nothing to plead, but a prefumption, that you are devoted to the fame caufe, and warmed by the fame principles, which these papers endeavour to fupport and inculcate; such prefumption is no more than common candour, when in your fhort-liv'd administration, you gave early proof of it, in the plan you had adopted, and the measures you pursued. And we cannot doubt, but the nation would in a little time have felt its good effects, had your power been as great, and as lafting, as your fellow citizens wifhed. THE neceffities of the times, and your confeffed abilities, which before called you to high places, have reinftated you in those places again : and fhall we queftion, whether you will react the great part, as before, when the reasons of doing it are more urgent than ever. A 2 TRUE |