The English Galindos

but too public what sacrifices I made for Mr. G. and what the return you have caused him to make me.
I have by you lost all that could make my life valuable; my children and myself are reduced to comparative beggary, my friend (perhaps my only one) engaged to pay what is alone Mr. G.'s debt to you; my spirits so broken, and my health so much impaired by what I have suffered for these many years, that perhaps the publication of this will be the last actof my life. This is therefore the wretched legacy I now prepare to leave you.
I have now, Madam, little more to add but that I shall produce to the public a few of your letters, some written to me, others to Mr. G which I was entrusted with, as I suppose, with your leave, the better to blind your dupe.
Those tender epistles that were written, as I have before described were carefully concealed from my view, only I once by accident saw them: the accumulated wrongs which I have been obliged to endure for your sake, the sacrifices which I shall still be forced to make, excuses me for renouncing that submission to the will of Mr. G. that hitherto I have practised.
Though by this public disclosure of your conduct, the bonds which you vainly tried to break should be for ever rent asunder, that even shall not deter me from the fixed purpose of my heart.
Without any claim upon the public, but what their pity and their justice may grant to an unfortunate being, who appeals to their tribunal against one of the most practiced hypocrites that ever imposed upon the world; unassisted, oppressed by illness and