PREFACE. WHEN an Author announces that he publishes his work in compliance with the wishes of his friends, . for whom it was originally and exclusively designed, the public care not to be apprized of so uninteresting a fact, and not unfrequently receive it with doubt and distrust. I therefore offer no such apology for the following ephemeral Sketches; but solicit the indulgent consideration of the reader for the faults he may detect in the unpretending little work thus submitted to his notice. A. C. A. London, July, 1860. |