CAROLINE,

PRINCESS OF WALES.

MOST AMIABLE PRINCESS,

In dedicating this small Treatise to your Royal Highness, which is intended to raise the Female Sex to their entitled rank in Society, I was influenced by two motives: Mankind always look up to and endeavour to imitate those whom Nature has placed in exalted situations, and closely adopt either their virtues or their vices. Your Royal Highness, in quitting your Friends and Country to bless this happy Kingdom, brought with you that amiable simplicity of manners, which only requires you to be known to insure you universal love.

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would not add one word that might wound your delicate sensibility, and I have not the vanity to suppose that any thing I can say can add to your Royal Highness's reputation; but this Work required a Dedication to some exalted character, who resembled that which it recommends. It is not that I am dazzled by the glare of rank or establishment; but when I witnessed, at Charlton, the old, the lame, and distressed cottager, with tears of gratitude, calling for blessings from Heaven on your Royal Highness, who, laying aside Pomp, deigned to enter the lowly habitation of Penury and Want, and lighten the afflictions of your distressed fellow-creatures, it was for godlike private acts like these that I selected your Royal Highness to dedicate this Work to. You, most amiable Princess, have found the key to the hearts of Britons, who, although naturally rough and unpolished, if once their affections are awakened by tenderness and a wish to ameliorate their conditions, there is not a danger or hard

ship they think too great to requite their benefactor. In this virtue you resemble his Majesty, who may truly be called the Father of his People;-and when, in due time, you and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales shall ascend the Throne of these Kingdoms, that he may concentrate the affections of all his Subjects, and convince surrounding nations that Britons have but one heart, and that their King ranks in their affections, is second to none but their God, is the sincere wish and hearty prayer of one who is entirely devoted to every branch of the Royal Family,—and who begs leave, with the greatest respect, to subscribe himself,

Your Royal Highness's

Most obedient

And humble Servant,

ALEXANDER MORRICE.