v, / 



TO 



William Mitford, 



LIEUT. COL. OF THE SOUTHERN BATTALION 

 OF HAMPSHIRE MILITIA; 



AND 



ONE OF THE VERDERORS OF NEW-FOREST. 



Vicar's-hill, March 4, 1791. 



DEAR SIR, 



WHEN your 



friendftiip fixed me in this pleafmg 

 retreat, within the precinfts of 

 New-foreft, I had little intention 

 of wandering farther among it's 

 fcenes, than the bounds of my 

 own parifh ; or .of amufmg myfelf 

 ril b any 



