as secret as it was kind, by means which he would never reveal; with which, till within these, last few months, I have myself been unacquainted.

With what grateful delight do I cast, now, at the same revered feet where I prostrated that first essay, this, my latest attempt!

Your name I did not dare then pronounce; and myself I believed to be "wrapt up in a mantle of impenetrable obscurity^[1]." Little did I foresee the indulgence that would bring me forward! and that my dear father himself, whom, even while, urged by, filial feelings, and yet nameless, I invoked^[2], I thought would be foremost to aid, nay, charge me to shun the public eye; that He,