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P.S. What a blessing it is for poor Mr. Dawkins 

 that he has such a woman of business to manage his 

 affairs! He is a well-meaning man, but he'll never do 

 jor Galway, 



" * J. g: 



" Had I been ten times over the tame wretch I was, 

 I could not be insensible to the deep treachery of this 

 worthless woman, who had ruined my property, and 

 would now incarcerate my person. In spite of 

 remonstrances upon its apparent inhospitality, I 

 abandoned the * impious feast,* and while my absence 

 was neither missed nor regarded, I stole from the 

 accursed spot, and by bribing a wandering stocking-man, 

 was enabled to make my way to the coast, and procure 

 a fishing-boat to place myself beyond the power of 

 arrest. The same bad luck appeared to follow me : 

 The drunkenness of the scoundrels threatened to 

 interrupt my escape, and even place my life in peril. 

 From these mishaps you have delivered me, and by your 

 prompt assistance I shall affect my retreat from a 

 country I must ever recollect with horror. When I 

 reach England, I will seek reparation for my injuries ; 

 and though all besides is gone, I shall at least endeavour 

 to liberate myself from the worthless woman who 

 abused a weak and too confiding husband. 



" Alas ! gentlemen, what a stream of misfortunes 

 will sometimes originate in a trifle. A Margate steamer 

 entailed a life of suffering upon me. My fortune 

 vanished, my wife deceived me — laughed at by my 

 friends, and ridiculed by my enemies — from all these 

 complicated misfortunes, I have learned but one simple 

 fact — Alas ! * That I should never do Jor Galway 1' *' 



