a little of it whilst the recorded incidents were yet passing; the greater part of it was wrote in the midst of fatigue, in moments unfavourable to precision, and unfriendly to reflection, save only to such reflections as naturally rose out of the occurring events.
The Editor, who cannot plead indifference to these Letters and their Author, finds himself impelled to anticipate the Reader's approbation of that spirit of tenderness and benevolence, that animated warmth for honestly avowed, and fo feelingly exerted in the defence of freedom and the interests of humanity, which abundantly display themselves in the pages now before us.
The Author's declining to give her name to so circumstantial a narrative, as renders it singularly improbable it should long remain concealed, seems to call for some
