TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE PH HILIP EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. MY LORD, TH HATI prefume to dedicate the first volume of the WORLD to your Lordship will, I hope, be forgiven me. It is not enough that I can flatter myself with having been frequently honoured with your correfpondence; I would infinuate it to the public that, under the fanction of your Lordship's name, I may hope for a more favourable reception from my readers. If it fhould be expected, upon this occafion, that I fhould point out which papers are your Lordship's, and which my own, I muft beg to be excufed; for |