considered as necessary to this collection; interspersed
with chosen pieces, and curious essays, extracted from
the most celebrated authors; So that, blending PHILOSOPHY
with POLITICKS, HISTORY, &c., the youth of both sexes
will be improved and persons of all ranks agreeably
and usefully entertained. And upon the whole we will
labour to attain to all the exactness that so much
variety will permit, and give as much variety as will
consist with a reasonable exactness. And as this part
of our project cannot be carried into execution without
the correspondence of the INGENIOUS, we shall take
all opportunities of acknowledging our obligations,
to those who take the trouble of furnishing any matter
which shall tend to entertainment or instruction. Our
Intentions to please the _Whole_, without offence to
any _Individual_, will be better evinced by our practice,
than by writing volumes on the subject. This one thing
we beg may be believed, that PARTY PREJUDICE, or
PRIVATE SCANDAL, will never find a place in this PAPER.




GOVERNOR CARLETON
1766-1774

The twelve years of Carleton's first administration
naturally fall into three distinct periods of equal
length. During the first he was busily employed settling
as many difficulties as he could, examining the general