WHen these Our Letters shall be so happy, as to come to your Majesties sight, I wish the spirit of the righteous God may so direct your mind, that you may joyfully embrace the mes­sage I send, presenting to you the means of exalting the Majesty of God, and your own reward amongst men. The Royal Power alloted to us, makes us Common servants to our Creator, then, of those people whom we Govern; so that observing the duties we owe to God, we deliver Blessings to the World; in providing for the Publick good of Our States, we magnifie the honour of God, like the Celestial bodies which though they have much Veneration, yet serve only to the Benefit of the World. It is the excellency of our Office to be instruments, whereby happiness is delivered to the Nations. Pardon me Sir, this is not to instruct, (for I know I speak to one of a more clear and quick sight than my self) but I speak this, because God hath pleased to grant me a happy Victory over some Parts of those rebellious Pirates, that have so long molested the peaceful Trade of Europe; and hath presented farther occasion to root out the Generation of those who have been so pernicious to the good of our Nations, I mean since it hath pleased God to be so Auspicious to our beginnings in the Conquest of Sally, that we might joyn and proceed in hope of like success in the War against Tunis, Algier and other places (Dens and Receptacles for the Inhumane Villanies of those who abhor rule and Government) Herein whilst we interrupt the corruption of malignant spirits of the World, we shall glorifie the great God, and perform a duty that will shine as glorious as the Sun and Moon, which all the earth may see and reverence, a work that shall ascend as the perfume of the most pre­cious Odours, in the Nostrils of the Lord; a work grateful and happy to man