THE WANDERER IN AMERICA, OR Truth at Home ; COMPRISING A STATEMENT OF OBSERVATIONS AND FACTS RELATIVE TO THE UNITED STATES & CANADA, The Result of an Extensive Personal Tour, and INCLUDING SOIL, CLIMATE, MANNERS, & CUSTOMS, OF ITS BY C. H. WILSON, Iwill a round unvarnish'd Tale deliver." འ་་ཀླnothing extenuate, "Or set down aught in malice." SHAKESPEARE, THIRSK: Printed for the Author by Henry Masterman. 1822. To General the Right Hon. THE EARL OF DALHOUSIE, &c. &c. &c. K. C. B. GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF HIS MAJESTY's POSSESSIONS AND FORCES IN North America. May it please your Excellency, PROMPTED by no interested motive, or questionable adulation, permit me, my Lord, to intreat your acceptance of the following pages, as a trifling testimony of gratitude, which every man, acquainted with the Government over which you preside, will cheerfully corroborate. Your inflexible and sound policy as a RULER, and your unbounded benevolence and commisseration in private life, are equally conspicuous. Whether in the Senate or the Field, wisdom and courage are your's; and the hapless European Stranger, or dusky resident of the Wilderness are joint partakers of your sympathy and advice, all concur as a completion of evidence to apologise for the obtrusion of, My Lord, Your Excellency's, Obedient, devoted, humble Servant, Quebec, 1821, THE AUTHOR. |