ΤΟ THE READER. Unknown and uneducated, I published, in the Spring of 1800, the Poem of Beaumaris Bay-the pleasure of composition, the reception it has met with, and even the criticism which it has given rise to, are now sources of satisfaction to me; thus gratified, and thus encouraged, it will excite no surprise that I continue to pursue the paths which I love (those of Literature); nor that I entertain a hope that my Country will behold these PAGES and those of Gayton Wake, with the same favorable eye with which it regards those which are already before it. BEAUMARIS, Oct. 15, |