TO THE READER
An invidious falsehood having appeared in the Oracle of the 25th, and the Star of the 27th of April 1792, with a view to hurt my character,[1] and to discredit and prevent the sale of my Narrative, asserting, that I was born in the Danish island of Santa Cruz, in the West Indies,[2] it is necessary that, in
this
- ↑ — "Speak of me as I am,
Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught
In malice." — - ↑ I may now justly say,
"There is a lust in man no charm can tame,
"Of loundly publishing his heighbour's shame;
"On eagles wings immortal scandals fly,
"But virtuous actions are but born and die."
London. The County Chronicle, and Weekly
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