CHAPTER XI. 



Conclusion ; Addressed to the Readers of the 

 Register, 



171. My friends, this concluding Chapter of 

 a book, which, on account of the importance of 

 the subject of which it treats, is likely to be 

 widely circulated, attentively read, and long pre- 

 served, I, from a sense of justice due to you as 

 well as to myself, address to YOU. To the 

 7iation'y or to the public, as it is called, I 

 owe not as much as the value of one of the 

 dead silks on one of my corn-ears. I owe them 

 nothing; and, if 1 had been as vindictive to- 

 wards them, as many of them have been to- 

 wards me, I should, when 1 had made this dis- 

 covery by experiment, have kept the fact hidden 

 in my own bosom, as an ill-treated and indig- 

 nant labourer does when he justly and quietly 

 puts his foot upon the nest of the pheasant or of 

 the partridge. To YOU, 1 owe a great deal ; you 

 have been the encouraging companions of my 

 studies; your faithful adherence, amidst all 

 the calumnies you have had to endure, has 

 been a source of great consolation to me ; and. 



