I. L'original appartient maintenant à M. Broadley

you ai*e, thèse repealed attacks upon your patience may compel you to withdraw your assistance and leave me to lament the importunity of my applications. Thèse reasons however do not balance their opposite ones ; they oblige me to fear, but not to relinquish my purpose, and this long account is the resuit of a pain fui délibération on the propriety of writing it.

« I do not recollect the particulars of my first letter, but I believe, Sir, it informed you that my Father has a place in the Custom h'' at Aldborough, that he h ad a large family, a little income, and no œconomy : he kept me two years at a country boarding-school, and then plac'd me with an apothecary, who was poor and had little business, but the premium he demanded wassmall. I continued two years with this man, I read romances and learned to bleed; my master was also a Farmer, and I became use fui to him in this his principal occupation ; there was indeed no other distinction between the boy at the farm and myself, but that he was happy in being an annual servant» and I was bound by indentures. I do not mean Sir to trifle with you, but it is by no means a small matter with me how I stand in your opinion, and now when I spcak of my mingled follies and misfortunes, I wish to say ail I can consistently with truth in vindication of the former. I rebelled in mv servitude, for it became grievous. My Father was informed of his Son's idleness and disobedience ; he came, and was severe in his correction of them : I knew myself then injur*d and became obstinate, and a second ^âsit of my Father's put an end to my slavery ; he took me home with him, and with me two thirds of the money he had aJvanced. He then placed me on very easy terms with a man of large business in a more reputable Une ; but I was never considered as a regular apprentice, and was principaliy employée in putting up prescriptions and compounding medicines. T was, notwithstanding, well treated in every respect but the principal one, for no pains were taken to give me an îdea of ihc profession! was to live by. I read novels and poeti'y, and began to contribute to Magazines and Diaries. My Master occasionally prophesy'd my ruin, and my Father advised me to quit such follies ; but the former would sometimes laugh at the things he condemned, and my Father was a rhymer himself. I therefore paid little attention to thèse instructions, but was liappy to fîod my signature in the Lady's Magazine was known to ail the