I am a native of London, and a member of

I am a native of London, and a member of the honourable society of Lincoln's Inn. I was born in the year 1770, and have consequently just completed my eighty-first year. I have spent the greater part of my life in honourable and active, though not lucrative, pursuits; and have uniformly endeavoured to act up to the precepts of honesty and honour. I have never been ashamed of acknowledging my religious principles, which are those of the church of England; and I have