DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR HUSSEY VIVIAN, BART. M.P. MASTER GENERAL OF THE ORDNANCE, ETC. ETC ETC. SIR, The honour you have conferred on this first effort cannot be otherwise than gratifying to my feelings, by evincing your confidence in the character of a work, at the head of which you have allowed me to place your name. At the same time my satisfaction is not unalloyed by fear, lest the expectation raised by your patronage should be disappointed. It |