ADVERTISEMENT.

AMONG the papers of the late MAJOR RENNELL have been found a Memoir on the General Currents in the Atlantic Ocean, accompanied by a series of Charts, shewing their force and direction; and also a work on the Ancient and Modern Geography of certain parts of Asia, with twelve Maps engraved, and nearly completed.

The fruits of so much enlightened industry, and the occupation of so many years of his life, cannot fail of being interesting to the public; and as both these works appear to be ready for the press, as soon as arrangements can be made for this purpose they will be published; the former under the immediate and gracious Patronage of His MAJESTY.

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GEORGE-JOHN EARL SPENCER,

VISCOUNT SPENCER, VISCOUNT ALTHORP,

AND

BARON SPENCER, OF ALTHORP,

IN THE COUNTY OF NORTHAMPTON;

KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER, ONE OF HIS
MAJESTY'S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL, FIRST LORD

AND COMMISSIONER OF THE ADMIRALTY, ONE OF THE
ELDER BRETHREN OF THE TRINITY HOUSE,
&c. &c. &c.

MY LORD,

IN soliciting the honour of inscribing this book with your Lordship's name, the Author has no wish to intrude on the intervals of leisure, which the important duties of your high office occasionally admit; although he flatters himself that some parts of the work may afford occasional recreation, when your mind, oppressed by political labour, is compelled to seek relief in employments of a less fatiguing nature. Perhaps they may recal to your Lordship's mind, ideas respecting the history and policy of those nations of antiquity, whose learning and arts we are

ambitious of imitating; and whose liberty is a perpetual theme of praise, even amongst us, who have employed ages in perfecting a practical system of our own; which, although subject to decay, like all other human institutions, promises to be of much longer duration than any other on record.

To preserve this wonderful fabric entire, in all its parts, your Lordship joined your counsels and exertions at a MOMENTOUS CRISIS. History will relate the acts of YOUR DEPARTMENT—That from the GANGES to the NILE, and from the NILE to the shores of THE SISTER ISLAND, the desperate projects of the inveterate enemy of mankind, against the safety and the interests of THIS EMPIRE, were totally frustrated. Such is the sentiment of a GREAT, an INDEPENDENT, and a GRATEFUL People: and a conviction of its truth, constitutes, in a mind like yours, the proper and envied reward of great national ser

vices.

May your Lordship's exertions be still crowned with success; and the period speedily arrive, when those unprincipled men who have shaken the moral and social world to its centre; who keep their own country in chains, and the rest of Europe in alarm, in order to perpetuate their own atrocious system of arbitrary power, shall be dispersed and destroyed.

Happily, the effects of the intoxicating draught, administered to a credulous world, by this enemy to social order, have abated; the treachery concealed in the cup, is become manifest; and mankind are fast recovering that temper of mind, which is suited to their state of being, and to the unalterable laws of nature.