Your Lordships Approbation, and the splendid Marks of [2] Benevolence, with which You have honoured me, have afforded me a juster Discernment of the Importance of this Treatise, and have inclined me to hope, _most Illustrious, most Noble, and Magnificent Lords_, that You will permit this new Edition of it to appear under the Sanction of your Auspices; that while the Publick is assured of Your general Goodness and Beneficence, it may also be informed of my profoundly grateful Sense of them, on the same Occasion. [2] See the Author's Preface, immediately following this Dedication. May the present Endeavour then, in fully corresponding to my Wishes, effectually realize Your Lordships utmost Expectations from it; while You condescend to accept this small Oblation, as a very unequal Expression of that profound Respect, with which I have the Honour to be, _Most Illustrious, Most Noble, and Magnificent Lords,_ _Your most humble_ _And most_ _Obedient Servant_, _TISSOT._ _Lausanne_, _Dec. 3, 1762._ THE AUTHOR's _PREFACE._ _If Vanity too often disposes many to speak of themselves, there are some Occasions, on which a total Silence might be supposed to result from a still higher Degree of it: And the very general Reception of the *Advice to the People* has been such, that there would be Room to suspect me of that most shocking Kind of Pride, which receives Applause with Indifference (as deeming its own Merit Superior to the greatest) if I did not appear to be strongly impressed with a just Sense of that great Favour of the Publick, which has been so very obliging, and is so highly agreable, to me._