<* What, alas! has since followed, has been a scene of almost
uninterrupted calamity and cruel disappointment. Some of
the gentlemen here present, will no doubt remember, that in
order to conduct the business of my sale in Edinburgh, above
alluded to, in person, I had to go west in the beginning of Sep-
tember in a state of lameness. In the beginning of October
following, 1 was still able to undertake the same journey,—^
but from that time to this, have never been able to repeat
the visit.
<< Having made my arrangements for an active campaign,
during the winter, I commenced my sales in the Town hall,

Dunbar, on Monday the October. On the third night,

at an early hour, as you will see by the small return of that
date, (statement D.) I had to give it up in consequence of
inability to stand on my foot.
<< Since that time to this, I have been rendered almost incapa-



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bleof personal exertion,and for a great proportion of it^ su£fered
under a painful confinement, from what at first appeared to
be only a dight injury of the great toe, but which, at last,
assumed a serious aspect.
<* Compelled by circumstances to Iceep my sales going for*
ward during that confinement,— *and finding my returns falling
short of my expectations in one quarter, — I was in the act of
sending ofi^a pretty large supply to another, where my pros-
pects were more flattering, — when, I had the mortification to be-
hold, the whole, or almost the whole, destroyed by shipwreck.
