[21] John Quincy Adams was at this time Ambassador at St. Petersburg.

[22] "Memoir of S. E. M. Quincy."

[23] "Memoir of S. E. M. Quincy."


Transcriber's Note:

Obvious punctuation errors were corrected.

Varied hyphenation was retained, such as "a-piece" and "apiece", "bed-chamber" and "bedchamber", and "cox-comb" and "coxcomb."

The remaining corrections made are listed below and also indicated by dotted lines under the corrections. Hover the cursor over the word and the original text will appear.

Page 53, "cirumstances" changed to "circumstances" (singular circumstances attended)

Page 109, "scarely" changed to "scarcely" (scarcely find a well person)