the Poor in Bavaria. 309 



the irresistible charms of eloquence ; but, as examples of 

 success are sometimes more efficacious in stimulating 

 mankind to action than the most splendid reasonings 

 and admonitions, it is upon my success in the enterprise 

 of which I have undertaken to give an account that my 

 hopes of engaging others to follow such an example are 

 chiefly founded; and hence it is that I so often return 

 to that part of my subject, and insist with so much perse- 

 verance upon the pleasure which this success afforded 

 me. I am aware that I expose myself to being suspected 

 of ostentation, particularly by those who are not able 

 to enter fully into my situation and feelings ; but neither 

 this, nor any other consideration, shall prevent me from 

 treating the subject in such a manner as may appear 

 best adapted to render my labours of public utility. 



Why should I not mention even the marks of affec- 

 tionate regard and respect which I receive from the 

 poor people for whose happiness I interested myself, 

 and the testimonies of the public esteem with which I 

 was honoured ? Will it be reckoned vanity, if I men- 

 tion the concern which the poor of Munich expressed in 

 so affecting a manner when I was dangerously ill ? that 

 they went publicly in a body in procession to the cathe- 

 dral church, where they had divine service performed, 

 and put up public prayers for my recovery ? that four 

 years afterwards, on hearing that I was again danger- 

 ously ill at Naples, they, of their own accord, set apart 

 an hour each evening, after they had finished their work 

 in the Military Workhouse, to pray for me ? 



Will it be thought improper to mention the affecting 

 reception I met with from them, at my first visit to the 

 Military Workhouse, upon my return to Munich last 

 summer, after an absence of fifteen months, a scene 



