counties who have done me so great an 

 honour, and, I trust, conferred upon me 

 so lasting and solid an advantage, by 

 permitting me to place their powerful 

 names on my subscription list, have been 

 mainly induced to do so, through a cer- 

 tainty that nothing frivolous nothing 

 dishonourable nothing immoral no- 

 thing irreligious in fine, nothing un- 

 worthy of the notice of the Noblemen 

 and Gentlemen of Derbyshire and Staf- 

 fordshire could appear fostered by the 

 auspices of the Houses of Boothby and 

 Russell. Gentlemen, need I then aver, 

 that I feel myself bound towards you and 

 your families by ties of the most fervent 

 and undying gratitude ? If it be at all 

 necessary to make such an asseveration, 

 I will do so with the profoundest humility 

 and sincerity, and with a fixed determi- 

 nation, strong and immoveable as human 



