&c. &c. &c.

_MADAM_,

In dedicating the following Poems to your Ladyship, I cannot help
regretting that they are not more worthy of such an honour; that I
might consequently have used it as an humble mode of expressing
my sense of the happy and enlightened hours which I have passed in
your Ladyship's society, and of the polite attentions which I
have at various times received from you, and the gallant object of
your connubial affection, particularly at the House of British Embassy
at Petersburgh, where you afforded to the Ladies of the North a just
representation of the dignified virtue, cultivated mind, and
attractive beauty, of the higher order of females of your own country.

I have the honour to remain,

Madam,

Your Ladyship's

Obedient faithful Servant,

JOHN CARR.

_Temple. June_ 1809