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— In presenting the following translation to the English philanthropist, I trust that the sound views, liberal sentiments and unaffected benevolence, so clearly and beautifully expressed by the Royal Author, may not have suffered so much from their change of dress, as to render them less evident to the English than they are to the Swedish reader. A translation can scarcely be expected to retain the same degree of pureness and ease as the original; but in the present case I feel assured, that the comprehensive and clear flow of the amiable Author's style, will strike the mind of every one, even through the disadvantages of a translation. It will probably be thought, that this work should not have been kept so long from the English public<footnote>There are two German translations, two French and one Norwegian.</footnote>, and had I not hoped, that some one, better capable than myself of doing justice to the original, would have undertaken it, I should certainly long since have entered upon the pleasing