my own country, it is at least flattering to me under that misfortune, to have endeavoured to make myself so, to that which has afforded me an asylum. Such has been my invariable object, whether on some occasions affecting severity, or on others giving way to that native gaiety, which is the only good that adverse circumstances have not been able to take from me. Light as my style and manner may sometimes be, after what I have said, it can scarce be necessary to add, that I can never by possibility have meant to offend. Never have I knowingly deviated from the exactest truth ; and never have I spoken truer, than when I now declare, that if restored to my own country, my dearest satisfaction would be, to try to return to my kind entertainers, that hospitality which it is my pleasure and pride to repeat, they have bestowed upon me.
