PRINTED BY JAMES CHAVE, HIGHER BACK-STREET. And Sold by Messrs. Trewman and Wolmer, Books llers, THE ENLIGHTENED PUBLIC of the COUNTY OF DEVON, This, and all succeeding Numbers of the Devonshire Adventurer, Are with perfect respect & due humility, Inscribed by the CONDUCTOR. A ****************************** PREFACE was formerly considered one of the chief labours of an Author, who on that account often procured some learned friend to write it for him. I shall however spare myself pains on this occasion. The literary diffidence of a man caught in the very act of publishing must be somewhat questionable; and any attempt to palliate a manifest presumption appears to me in the light of insin 1 indand con mon The only excuse we can offer for the errors of the press in bian use terciore no moneycu sem temen a work, but whether censure arms or withdraws her sting, I shall appeal directly to the feelings of my Readers, and throw myself on the generosity of that Public whom I have invoked. A Local Periodical Work is a medium, which may be em. ployed to spread useful intelligence, or to diffuse speculative knowledge. It offers a channel, by which any literary productions of merit, whether pertaining to religion, or morals, |