Xll PREFACE. 



of other years/' Above all, the learned 

 protector of my early pen, he, whom I 

 have already mentioned, and of whom I 

 never think without emotion, is long since 

 no more ! But in appearing before an Eng- 

 lish tribunal, I will not fear injustice, if I 

 have nothing to hope from partiality ; and 

 whatever may be the fate of my imperfect 

 copy of a sublime model, I shall never feel, 

 that the moments were mispent, which I 

 have employed in so soothing, and so no- 

 ble a task. 



HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS. 



