TO
LADY WARREN,
&c. &c. &c.
_MADAM_,
In dedicating the following Poems to your Ladyship, I cannot help
regretting that they are not more worthy of such an honour; that I
might consequently have used it as an humble mode of expressing my
sense of the happy and enlightened hours which I have passed in your
Ladyship’s society, and of the polite attentions which I have at
various times received from you, and the gallant object of your
connubial affection, particularly at the House of British Embassy at
Petersburgh, where you afforded to the Ladies of the North a just
representation of the dignified virtue, cultivated mind, and attractive
beauty, of the higher order of females of your own country.