ESSAYS ON SUBJECTS OF MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE. Printed by William Folds, ON SUBJECTS OF MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE. BY WILLIAM HENRY TURNER, A.B. T.C.D. M.D. LICENTIATE OF THE KING AND QUEEN'S COLLEGE OF LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. DEBRETT, PICCADILLY. 1803. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM WICKHAM, CHIEF SECRETARY TO HIS EXCELLENCY PHILIP, EARL CITY OF CASHEL. SIR, I SIT down to execute a tafk of confiderable difficulty. difficulty. Addreffes of this kind fuffer under fo peculiarly unfortunate a fufpicion, that I hesitate to join the expreffion of individual with national fentiment, in effufions of gratitude or demonftrations of respect. Thus precluded from fpeaking truth, leaft I fhould be fufpected of adulation, A |