KEEPER OF HER MAJESTY’S PRIVY SEAL
ETC., ETC., ETC.
My Lord,
I feel it not only a gratification but an honour to be permitted to dedicate these volumes [0] to your Lordship, the more particularly as they are connected with Spain, a country in which it was so frequently my fortune to experience such prompt and salutary aid from your Lordship in the high capacity of representative of our Gracious British Sovereign.
The remembrance of the many obligations under which your Lordship has placed me, by your energetic and effectual interference in time of need, will ever in heartfelt gratitude cause me to remain, with unfeigned sentiments of respect,
My Lord,
Your most devoted Servant,
GEORGE BORROW.
PREFACE
It is with some diffidence that the author ventures to offer the present work to the public.