ABSTRACT
It should seem, from the internal evidence of the composition, that they were written by a person, who was originally of a low rank or a menial station, but who was distinguished by his lord for those abilities and talents, he imagined he discovered in him. The author have learned, by a kind of vague tradition, upon which he can place little dependence, that the noble pupil was the owner of a magnificent chateau not a hundred miles from their lordship's admired seat in the county of Buckingham. It is said that this nobleman, amidst a thousand curiosities with which his gardens abounded, had the unaccountable whim of placing a kind of artificial hermit in one of its wildest and most solitary recesses. Virtue of the first impression was never yet separated from genius. The authors will trust then in the expedients of his inexhaustible mind. We will look up to him as our assured deliverer.
