Mr. Wyatt the great land-surveyor, with whom I was on terms of the greatest in

timacy, he said to me, George Hanger, you have had your estate surveyed, and, as I am informed, intend to sell it: I have been in your neighbourhood lately, and know, I believe, rather more of your estate than you do yourself." To which I readily assented, or he must have known very little of it indeed. Then," conti

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nued he, request; if you have any faith in my knowledge of estates, that you will put it into my hands to dispose of it,-but upon one condition, to which you must, before this company, pledge me your honour."I knew my man; and therefore, on my honour, I promised to assent to whatever he had to propose." I have," continued he, " a very good estateof my own, and, besides, I am paid very libe

rally by several noblemen and gentlemen for the management of their estates, and do not want to make any money of you: you must, therefore, faithfully promise me, that you will never request my acceptance of one farthing for my trouble; my expences I will charge you, and nothing more, as my design and wish is to serve you as a friend." Such was the generous and noble manner in which my friend Wyatt acted by me. "Your estate," said he, "is very valuable; far more so than you imagine. I have been acquainted with all the particulars of it by a skilful man, a surveyor who lives near you, who advised me to buy it; but I have just bought an estate, or I would have purchased it but that is out of the question, as I have no more money."

I thought myself inexpressibly fortu

nate to have met with a man of such known integrity, who came forward as a friend to serve me; and rejoiced in leaving my affairs, on my departure for America, in the hands of so honest and able a man: but, alas! cruel Fate, which has destined me to suffer misfortunes and misery in various shapes, had decreed it otherwise, by the sudden death of my friend a short time after I had left my native shores. This melancholy and unfortunate event proved my ruin: the particulars of which I shall relate in their proper place.

Mr. Wyatt passed several days with me and my steward in surveying the estate before my departure, when I gave him the fullest warrant of attorney that could be made by law, to sign, seal, sell,

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&c. &c. &c. and was happy in so doing. After Mr. Wyatt had completed the survey, and made his calculation on the estate, I asked him, if he had formed a sufficient judgment of it to tell me nearly what it was worth? He replied, "It is, honestly, worth twenty-four thousand pounds and, : and, I give you my honour, that if I had not lately bought an estate, I would myself give you that sum for it. I shall now for a time drop the subject of my estate; but I judged it necessary to mention the value at which he estimated it, on account of the sum for which it was sold some time afterwards.

I now returned to London, and was presented at Court, as a Hessian officer, by my friend Baron Kutzleben, the Hessian minister. This took place early in

January, and I sailed the fifteenth day of the ensuing March from Portsmouth for America,

I should be guilty of ingratitude if I did not acknowledge the singular kindness which Lord North shewed me when I first resolved on quitting the British service. I had the honour of being as well acquainted with him as his high rank as minister of the country, and my inferior situation, could admit; for I was accustomed to meet him oftentimes in many of the first and gayest circles in London for this able statesman, the best of private characters, the most pleasant, engaging, and amiable of mankind, did not bury himself in the inaccessible retreats of Downing-street; but, when affairs of state did not require his attention, relaxed himself in the fashionable