PREFACE.
inhabitants, several of whom sunk under its influence.
Of the victims who narrowly escaped death was the mother of the authoress of these lines. When approaching convalescence, her younger daughter was sent to Wormleybury, the seat of Horace Smith Bozanquet, Esq., about a mile from her home, from a portion of the soup he was in the habit of providing for the poor of the neighbourhood. On
