8 MEMOIR OF 1)R WRIGHT. 



" I am weary of this famous city already, and thankful I 

 leave it so soon. 1-1 



This letter is quoted at length, as affording a fair 

 specimen of M r Wright's early correspondence, and as 

 placing the native simplicity of his character in a point 

 of view which cannot he mistaken. The frankness 

 and condescension of Lord Bread albane had cheered 

 his drooping spirits. But the experience he was daily 

 acquiring in the ways of the world, and the confidence 

 he began to repose in his own resources, enabled him, 

 in a short time after this period, to affix a very mode- 

 rate estimate to the patronage of the great. 



In answer to a suggestion of his brother, that he 

 should wait on Barcaldine, " I could wish," he 

 says, " for an opportunity to thank him for his good- 

 ness, but I have no desire to give him any farther 

 trouble in recommending me. I shall endeavour to 

 carry it through myself. If I succeed I shall value it 

 the more, as being free and independent. Had you 

 any idea of the servility and degradation which it is 

 necessary to undergo, and the protestations of grati- 

 tude which are expected, you would be of my opinion." 



The sickness, anxiety, and embarrassment which 

 attended Mr Wright on his first arrival in London, 

 appear to have destroyed that sense of novelty and en- 

 joyment, on which it is usual for the youthful stran- 

 ger to place so high a value. The attentions which 

 he received from his brother's family left him only 

 with a keener sense of desolation, while preparing to 

 make his final plunge into the ocean of life. " Oh ! " 



