Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1812. Excerpt: ... any communications, are requested to be sent post paid. The Philosopher will be sent to subscribers previous to its being sold to the public; they are therefore requested to favour me with their addresses with exactness, in order to avoid delay or mistakes. REPLY TO CRITICS. WHEN I determined to espouse the British cause, my dearest hope was to be enabled to fight against Buonaparte with the English army; for I had never imagined, that I should have been obliged to drop the sword and take up the pen as my only means of subsistence. I had quitted France to avoid humiliation and poverty, for as such I could not but consider the obligation of serving under the orders of my former aides-de-camp, and to subsist merely upon my appointments. Could I have foreseen that I should have been so ill-treated in England, after having had the most brilliant promises made me, and from being not only invited but even dragged from the camp of Boulogne? From the mistrust (little deserved on my part) with which I am overclouded more from interested motives than mere measures of safety, I conceive that the conduct of Buonaparte, in refusing to confer honours and wealth on me, arose from prudential considerations. He was not ignorant that I was married to an English lady, he knew that one of my brothers in law was secretary to his royal highness the Duke of Sussex; and he was informed that that brother in law had spent several days with me at my country house near Paris in time of war: he might then think it necessary to remove me to a distance from him, not on my own individual account, but with regard to my connexions, and I am now fully convinced that they are the cause of my present uncomfortable situation. Have. I then deserved the treatment I experience? And I think I can...
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