experienced too much indulgence and favour at your hands,
to suppose that you will withdraw it from one whom you
have honoured with repeated marks of approbation; but I
entertain some fears that I shall not be able to obtain
the time that is necessary for its completion, and that
if I can command the leisure, my health will insist on
a prior claim to its disposal.

If, however, I shall be enabled so to do, it is my
intention, hereafter to add another series of the Sayings
and Doings of the Attache, so as to make the work as
complete as possible.

I am quite confident it is not necessary to add, that
the sentiments uttered by Mr. Slick, are not designed
either as an expression of those of the author, or of
the Americans who visit this country. With respect to
myself no disavowal is necessary; but I feel it due to
my American friends, for whose kindness I can never be
sufficiently grateful, and whose good opinion I value
too highly to jeopardise it by any misapprehension, to
state distinctly, that I have not the most remote idea
of putting Mr. Slick forward, as a representative of any
opinions, but his own individual ones. They are peculiar
to himself. They naturally result from his
shrewdness--knowledge of human nature--quickness of
perception and appreciation of the ridiculous on the one
hand; and on the other from his defective education,
ignorance of the usages of society, and sudden elevation,
from the lower walks of life, to a station for which he