APPENDIX.

The motive which has induced me to present these letters to the public is to corroborate the principal events in the foregoing narrative, such as my engagement at Covent Garden theatre; the friendship the writer professed for me, and the pains taken to blind me by writing to Mr. G. in such a style of friendly regard for us both as might silence all suspicions as to the true nature of their attachment.
I was always intrusted with these letters, as they were generally directed to me, though they are chiefly addressed to Mr. G.
As I never saw those Mr. G. wrote to Mrs. S. I cannot therefore say whether his letters were answers to those or others he might have sometimes received privately. I shall further trouble my readers with a few observations on some of those letters which might not be intelligible: otherwise they have been correctly and minutely copied from the originals; the emphatic marks observable throughout them are those of the writer; the breaks and omissions are only where persons are mentioned, who I know could not approve of their names being inserted, and some circumstances improper to mention, as not, having any connexion with the purpose of this publication.

LETTER I

Holyhead, Sunday, 12 o'clock. For some hours we had scarce a breath of wind, and the vessel seemed to leave your coast as unwillingly as your poor friend. About six o'clock this morning, the snowy tops of the mountains appeared, they chilled my heart, for I felt that they were emblematic of the cold and dreary prospect before me. Mr.— has been very obliging, he has just left us, but it is probable we may meet again upon the road. I thought you would be glad to know we were safely landed. I will hope, my beloved friends, for a renewal of the days we have known, and in the mean time endeavour to amuse and cheat my melancholy, with the recollection of past joys, though they be "sweet and mournful to the soul."
God bless you all, and do not forget

your faithful, affectionate


S. SIDDONS.


Written on leaving Ireland,:
in April, 1803.