You Know With What Eagerness I Fled From My Country As A Scene Of
Illiberal Dispute, And Incredible Infatuation, Where A Few
Worthless Incendiaries Had, By Dint Of Perfidious Calumnies And
Atrocious Abuse, Kindled Up A Flame Which Threatened All The
Horrors Of Civil Dissension.
I packed up my little family in a hired coach, and attended by my
trusty servant, who had lived
With me a dozen of years, and now
refused to leave me, took the road to Dover, in my way to the
South of France, where I hoped the mildness of the climate would
prove favourable to the weak state of my lungs.
You advised me to have recourse again to the Bath waters, from
the use of which I had received great benefit the preceding
winter: but I had many inducements to leave England. My wife
earnestly begged I would convey her from a country where every
object served to nourish her grief: I was in hopes that a
succession of new scenes would engage her attention, and
gradually call off her mind from a series of painful reflections;
and I imagined the change of air, and a journey of near a
thousand miles, would have a happy effect upon my own
constitution. But, as the summer was already advanced, and the
heat too excessive for travelling in warm climates, I proposed
staying at Boulogne till the beginning of autumn, and in the mean
time to bathe in the sea, with a view to strengthen and prepare
my body for the fatigues of such a long journey.
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