IN FAMILIAR LETTERS TO HIS FRIEND. LONDON: Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars , FOR JAMES HARPER AND CO., 46, FLEET-STREET. 1816....

The friend who has ventured to send these letters to the press feels it necessary to state, in apology for the insufficiency of such a trifle to meet the public eye, that they are actually published without the knowledge of Peregrine (who is still abroad) and chiefly with the view of giving copies to the numerous friends by whom he is so justly regarded. The editor, therefore, relying on the indulgence of those friends, humbly also deprecates the stranger critic's censure, both for poor Peregrin

Paris, December 14, 1815. MY DEAR FRIEND, Arrived safely at this interesting metropolis, I take the earliest opportunity of relieving the affectionate anxiety you expressed over our parting glass, by the assurance that I have happily escaped all the evils prognosticated by some of our acquaintance from a journey at this inclement season. Those indeed of the inquisitive family of John Bull, who look only for luxury and convenience in travelling, will do well never to leave the comforts of their o

Creil, a dirty little town between Clermont and Chantilly. Jan. 14, 1816. MY DEAR FRIEND, I take the opportunity of the return of a brother officer to England, to send you a brief continuation of my journal, knowing that you will make every reasonable allowance for its imperfection. In my last, which I wrote to you soon after my arrival at Paris, I believe I conducted you with me as far as Amiens, a large city, possessing a beautiful cathedral, which however I had not then an opportunity of seei

From my thatched mud apartment at Tinques, a miserable village between St. Pol and Arras. May 26, 1816. MY DEAR FRIEND, In compliance with your request, I continue my little journal, and shall be glad if it afford you half the entertainment which you have been pleased to say the former part has done; for I fear that the most interesting of my adventures have already been recounted. Having learnt, soon after my arrival at my quarters, that the whole division of Lieutenant-General Clinton was unde