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FOR THE EDITOR,

AND PUBLISHED BY J. LIMBIRD, 355, STRAND.

1820.

PUBLIC

ΤΟ

SIR W. W. WYNN, BART. M. P.

PRESIDENT

OF THE

METROPOLITAN CAMBRIAN INSTITUTION.

SIR,-When about to complete the first Volume of the CAMBRO-BRITON, I was naturally anxious, that it should appear under the sanction of some name, which, from its estimation amongst our countrymen, might confer a value even on this humble production. And, I hope, I shall not be suspected of the proverbial sycophancy of dedicators, when I declare, that the permission, you have so kindly given me to make this use of yours, has satisfied my utmost wishes in this respect. At any time I should have deemed this a very flattering distinction, reflecting, as I must have done, on your hereditary worth, as well as upon that, which is more emphatically your own. moment this permission brings and a heightened gratification, since the patriotic alacrity, with which you have acceded to the wishes of your country, in assuming the Presidency of her new Institution, distinguishes you, in a particular manner, as the appropriate Patron of a work dedicated to a cultivation of the Literature and Language of Wales.

But at the present with it a peculiar