VI PREFACE. 



Feeling his inability to detail the information acquired by 

 experience in the pleasing manner he could wish , he craves 

 the indulgence of his readers ; he offers no speculative 

 theory, clothed in visions of fancy, to their notice ; his are 

 the proceedings of a man, who, used to move in a respect 

 able sphere, felt the reverses brought about by political 

 causes, and who, as a true citizen of the world, sought the 

 reinstatement of his former circumstances by seeking a 

 place, where his diminished means, his personal labour, and 

 the resources of his mind, could be actively employed ; and 

 he trusts his information will not be less valued, from being- 

 conveyed in a plain unvarnished style. 



