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Show F. Sh(JlJerl, J ton., Printer to lJ,R.II. l'rioee Albert, Rttpert ~treet. PREFACE. The following sketches were not originally intended to meet the public eye, having· been hastily thrown off for the amusement of the writer's family in England; and now, if in yielding to the earnest and repeated solicitations of perhaps over-zealous and too partial friends, he should subject himself to the charge of temerity, by giving them a more extended circulation, he trusts that some indulgence will be shown him, on the ground that the scenes he describes have excited more than a passing interest in the public mind, and that little has as yet been published that is calculated to satisfy it. If time had admitted of it, the Author would have preferred giving the narrative some other forn1 .. • |