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TO HIS
ROYAL HIGHNESS.

WILLIAM
Duke of Cumberland,

CAPTAIN GENERAL of all His Majesty's Forces, &c.

May it pleaſe your Royal Highneſs,

WITH great Submiſſion, I beg Leave to approach your Preſence, and to lay at your Royal Highneſs's Feet, the Production of my leiſure Hours, during the Intervals of my Duty. And tho' the Preſent I here preſume to offer to your Royal Highness may appear to ſome but inconſiderable, yet I am not without Hopes it will meet with a favourable Reception; when your Royal Highness will

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