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stitution give them, whether luxuriating 

 in the voluptuous pleasures of the east, 

 or penetrating with indomitable courage 

 and perseverance the recesses of savage 

 nature in the west, also cherish a 

 vivid remembrance of the home of 

 their fathers, and a proud regard, if not 

 a latent hope for, a return to it. 



Now, it is no affectation to say, that it 

 was with some such feeling as this I 

 left my native county. It is true, I was 

 but little removed from it ; but as for 

 again enjoying the society to which I 

 had been accustomed, or indulging in 

 the pleasures her beautiful hills and dales 

 afforded me, I might as well have been in 

 the Bush in Australia for even there my 

 thoughts could only revert, as here they 

 have never- ceased to do, to times and 

 scenes of the past. 



As my father still retained one of the 

 minor establishments in London, and had 



