TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY

Sir,

Your Majesty having graciously accepted my two late essays, about
the cities and hospitals of London and Paris, as also my
observations on Rome and Rouen; I do (after six months' waiting for
what may be said against my several doctrines by the able men of
Europe) humbly present your Majesty with a few other papers upon the
same subject, to strengthen, explain, and enlarge the former; hoping
by such real arguments, better to praise and magnify your Majesty,
than by any other the most specious words and eulogies that can be
imagined by

Your Majesty's
Most humble, loyal
And obedient subject,
WILLIAM PETTY.



THE FIRST ESSAY.



It could not be expected that an assertion of London's being bigger
than Paris and Rouen, or than Paris and Rome put together, and