A CORDIAL FOR LOW SPIRITS. BEING A COLLECTION of curious TRACTS. .1750. Author of the INDEPENDENT WHIG, and other In THREE VOLUMES. The third Impreffion, Revised and Improved, with Hah! Hah! Hah! MILTON, VOLUME THE FIRST. LONDON: Printed for Meffrs. WILSON and FELL, at the Angel, in Pater-nofter-Row. MDCCLXIII Price Half a Guinea. THE PREFACE. T HESE Volumes made their first appearance fome years ago, in Separate publications; when, in general, they were well received by the friends of truth and liberty, many of whom expreffed their high approbation of the work, and greatly promoted the fale. That they are now republished is owing to their fcarcity, and to the continued demand for them. At the fame time I have taken occafion of enriching the work with additional traits, to render it ftill more compleat: and I hope these additions will be found equally inftructive and entertaining to the reader. But left the purchafers of this new edition fhould apprehend any future publication, with farther improvements; 1 bere declare, that as this edition is the best, it shall be the last from my Hands. A 2 Cordials Cordials should not be made too cheap, or too common: therefor, let thefe volumes be confecrated to the delight and entertainment of the difcerning few. SIC VOLO. The first end propofed in making this collection was to preferve from oblivion Mr. Gordon's tracts, whofe merit, as a writer, will be confeffed by all candid men, and competent judges. Our language is much indebted to him for many excellent productions. The Independent Whig, Cato's letters, the Humorift, the tranflation of Tacitus, and difcourfes on that author, to which may be added the difcourfes on Salluft; are noble monuments of his genius, and will tranfmit his name with honour to pofterity. That the traits afcribed to him in the first volume of this collection (and to those only have I put his name) were really written by him, is well known to fome of his intimate friends ftill living. The two apologies for Cardinal Alberoni first recommended him to the favour and friendShip of Mr. Trenchard, from which he reaped fuch great advantages. See his preface to Cato's letters. In Mr. Collins's catalogue (a book still extant in the libraries of the curious) thefe traits are |