Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. But' there are fituations, in which, not only general aflent feems to'juflify a man in {peaking of himfelf, but in which alfo no little confideration ought: to be admitted to the mind. Such will be the cafe, if lam not deceived, when the interef'ts of the public are bleiided with thofe of the individual and II hen his very errors may ferse as infiruetion to others. Misfortunes which awaken fenfibility will' bea further, and aperfu'afive call, upon the attention of the public; and it will amount tma claim upon their jar/lice, if. He can fbew that he. Has been injurioufly treated. U ponmaturely weighing thefe and feveral other circumf'tances, afteri had' been denied a profeffional examination of. My condue'c, and difappointed of aparliaine-utary one, I determined to lay. Before the public a {late of the cxpeo dition from Canada, in 1777, inn my own name. And my firf't defign was to do it under the title, and with the latitude of' Memoirs as a mode by which I could-heft open the principles of my aaions, and introduce, with molt propriety, collateral charaelers, incidents, and as they might occafionally tend to illufirate the main fubjeel.
