PREFA CE.

In the preceding Volume the Editor of THE POLITICIAN'S CREED has attempted to give the effence or forms of different Governments, and, as far as could be done, confiftent with the general defign of this work, to afcertain our MIXED FORM of Government.

In these we are not to confider, whence power is derived; but the acts of Legislation: not what conftitutes a Government; but what are the emanations of established Forms.

The writer of THE POLITICIAN'S CREED wishes the reader carefully to difcriminate between As

of Legiflation and Forms of Government.-Thus a chancellor may be corrupt, a particular jury may

be prejudiced, a minifter improvident, a commander indiscreet; nevertheless these offices or forms are as much a fubject of admiration as before.

As, on the one hand, all parties have approved our MIXED FORM of Government, and here our political knowledge was reduced to a science; fo on the other hand, as the practical part must depend much upon circumftances, we fee opened a wide and endless field for difputation.

Some general maxims, however, concerning COMMERCE, TREATIES, TAXES, WAR, &c. are attempted, and hereafter these feveral fections may be better filled up by fome enlightened politician, whom the Editor wishes the fame motive, that has guided him in this work-a bias to TRUTH,

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rather than to any prevailing party, and the heartfelt pleasure of beftowing the PROFITS on perfons deferving of the firft confideration ; it being intended that the profits of this work should go to the fund for the relief of the widows and orphan children of those brave men, who may die fighting for their king and country, during this war, against an ambitious power, that wishes to overstride all Europe.