The NATURE and EXTENT of SUPREME POWER, in a Letter to the Rev. DAVID
WILLIAMS, (Author of Letters on Political Liberty) shewing the ultimate
end of Human Power, and a free Government, under God; and in which Mr.
Locke's Theory of Government is examined and explained, contrary to the
general construction of that great Writer's particular sentiments on the
Supremacy of the People. By M. DAWES, Esq. Price 1s.
INSTRUCTIONS
TO A
STATESMAN.
HUMBLY INSCRIBED TO
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
GEORGE EARL TEMPLE.
M.DCC.LXXXIV.
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE GEORGE EARL TEMPLE.
MY LORD,
The following papers fell into my hands by one of those unaccountable
accidents, so frequent in human life, but which in the relation appear
almost incredible. I will not however trouble your lordship with the
story. If they be worthy of the press, it is of no great consequence to
the public how they found their way thither. If they afford your
lordship a moment's amusement, amidst the weightier cares incident to
your rank and fortune, I have obtained my end.
I have endeavoured in vain to investigate who was their author, and to
whom they were addressed. It should seem, from the internal evidence of
the composition, that they were written by a person, who was originally
of a low rank or a menial station, but who was distinguished by his lord
for those abilities and talents, he imagined he discovered in him.
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