OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS ОР BENJAMIN FRANKLIN LL.D. F.R.S. &c. MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY FROM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA POLITICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, AND MISCELLANEOUS WORKS, SECOND EDITION. VOL. V. POSTHUMOUS AND OTHER WRITINGS. LONDON: PRINTED FOR HENRY COLBURN, CONDUIT STREET. 1819. ON 1888 INST ΝΟΣ PREFACE ΤΟ THE SECOND EDITION OF THE POSTHUMOUS AND OTHER WRITINGS. WITH the present Volumes the Editor conceives that he has completely redeemed his pledge to the Public, and faithfully discharged his trust as the conservator of Dr. Franklin's literary remains. It is a common complaint that the reputation of men of eminence in the world of letters suffers by their posthumous works; nothing however of that kind is to be apprehended in regard to the present collection, for many the fugitive Essays here assembled, and the of |