{"product_id":"2940013763357","title":"Letters from an Exile at Botany Bay","description":"Embracing the opportunity of a returning vessel, I would waft you, from\u003cbr\u003ethis place, a second testimonial of my insuperable attachment and\u003cbr\u003eremembance. My first letter per the Atlantic, I hope you have received\u003cbr\u003ebefore; but should it be otherwise, after speaking to the present state\u003cbr\u003eof my mind, I shall hastily recapitulate its principal contents.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn my saddest hours, and God knows there are many of them, I have\u003cbr\u003eobserved you are then most busy with my memory. Melancholy's sombre\u003cbr\u003eshadow louring over my soul, endears the fleeting moment by impelling me\u003cbr\u003eto write to you. Indeed, it is solely owing to this despondent state of\u003cbr\u003emind, that ought I have produced for those last four years proceeds. When\u003cbr\u003ethis gloom frowns dreadful over the vista of my being, I but too much\u003cbr\u003eindulge the dreary prospect--exploring the wide domain of adversity\u003cbr\u003eterminated only by the impending darkness;--hence it is, that whatever\u003cbr\u003eflows from my pen, or is laboured by my pencil, affects, in some degree,\u003cbr\u003ethe tone of mind that possess me at the period of its production.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecurring now to my former letter:--it informed that I had wrote you from\u003cbr\u003eRio de Janeiro; that I had escaped at the Cape of Good-Hope, where I was\u003cbr\u003ebetrayed by the mercenary Dutch, and remanded to captivity; whence, after\u003cbr\u003eseven months of imprisonment, the Royal Admiral E. Indiaman landed me\u003cbr\u003ehere; where the pur-blind jurisprudence of a Scottish tribunal,\u003cbr\u003edoubtless, first intended me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo lead you through the labyrinth of all my sufferings, from the 28th of\u003cbr\u003eDecember, 1791, down to the present period, is a thing utterly\u003cbr\u003eimpossible; neither is it my duty to harrow up your feelings by the\u003cbr\u003eattempt.--It better becomes me to soothe those sorrows that vague report\u003cbr\u003ein the public prints has most likely excited, than to give an additional\u003cbr\u003estab to so valued a life --a life I have already, though innocently,\u003cbr\u003ealmost extinguished.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet not to pass over all too rapid; and to shew how dear you were to me\u003cbr\u003ein my most prosperous state, take the subsequent specimen intended for\u003cbr\u003eyou, when I deemed myself a favored denizen of heaven--breathing a few\u003cbr\u003ehours of inestimable liberty.","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152757801200,"sku":"2940013763357","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013763357_p0.jpg?v=1763589937","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013763357","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}