4 TRAVELS IN UPPER 



who only possCvSsed tlie inrrit of having been use- 

 ful. He was made to drink deep of the bitter cup 

 of neglect, and it was apparent that endeavours 

 were made to excite regret in him, and to give 

 him cause to repent of the labours he had en- 

 dured. He who had claims upon the national 

 gratitude, was disregarded by a government, 

 which had long before renounced the privilege of 

 being its interpreter; and just rewards were of 

 such difficult attainment, their sordid parsimony 

 contrasted in a manner so mortifying with that 

 profusion with which favour remunerated the co- 

 hort of its adorers, that with the smallest degree 

 of honest pride a man chose rather to renounce his 

 claim, than to make it good by solichations too 

 frequently inefTectual, and always degrading. 



This v/as the course which I constantly pur- 

 sued. Proud of having, in the prosecution of my 

 labours, no other motive to excite me but the love 

 of my country, I have with perfect disinterested- 

 ness pursued a career in which I might probably 

 have had some success, had I been better seconded, 

 had fney understood how to turn my dispositions 

 to a good account, and to make a more advan- 

 tageous use of a zeal which obstacles inflamed 

 instead of damping. Never have I been seen 

 harassing a man in power with my importunities, 

 or basely paying my court to subalterns; and if a 



just 



