These Verses, as I said before, were published in the _Plain Dealer_, to whom Mr. _Savage_ afterwards wrote a Letter himself, that was printed in that Paper, in which he says: I am, Sir, that unfortunate _Richard Savage_, the peculiar Circumstances of whose uncommon Treatment from a Mother (whose fine Qualities make it impossible to me not to forgive her, even, while I am miserable, by her Means only) induced you some Months since, in your _28th Paper_, to publish a few ineffectual Lines, which I had written, on her surprising Usage of me: To which your Humanity was pleas'd to add certain Reflections, in my Favour, which I remember, with due Gratitude; and am encouraged, by that Instance of your Goodness, to make the present Application. When you shall have perus'd my extraordinary _Case_, and those convincing _Original Letters_, which I have entrusted with the Gentleman, who brings you this, I shall need say no more, to satisfy you, what _Right_ I have to _complain_, in a more _publick Manner_, than I have, yet allowed myself to resolve on.--The Papers, in the Order you will see them, are prepared for a Hand, too _Just_, and too _Powerful_, to leave me the least Distrust of being, shortly, _less oppressed than I have been_; but I judged myself obliged to lay them under your Eye, that you might be sensible, you said less, of my _Wrongs_, and my _Sufferings_, than the unhappy _Truth_ could have justified. He afterwards, in the same Letter, mentions his Subscription, and begs those, who think _him_, or his _Design_ worth their Notice or Encouragement, to send their Names, and the Number of Books they subscribe for, to _Button's Coffee-house_. Accordingly when his List of Subscribers was printed before his Book, the following Names were distinguished from the rest, and which I mention here, to do them Honour, as having sent their Subscriptions without any other Sollicitation; prompted only by the Influence of Compassion, and the Greatness and Generosity of their own Tempers. Her Grace the Dutchess of _Cleveland_. The Right Honourable the Lady Viscountess _Cheyney_. The Right Honourable the Lady Viscountess _Castlemain_. Mrs. _Mary Floyer_. The Right Honourable the Earl of _Gainsborough_. The Right Honourable the Lady _Gower_. The Right Honourable the Lady _Lechmere_. The Right Honourable the Lord _Milsington_. Mrs. _Sofuel Noel_. His Grace the Duke of _Rutland_, for Ten Books. Her Grace the Dutchess Dowager of _Rutland_. Her Grace the Dutchess of _Rutland_. The Right Honourable the Countess of _Strafford_. Mr. _John Savage_. The Right Honourable the Countess Dowager of _Warwick_.