Excerpt from Thoughts in Prison: The Imprisonment, the Retrospect, Public Punishment, the Trial, Futurity

The Work now offered to the Public, was the last performance of one who often afforded amusement and instruction; who possessed the talents of pleasing in a high degree; whose labours were devoted to advance the interest of Religion and Morality; and who, during the greater part of his life, was esteemed, beloved and respected by all to whom he was known. Unhappily for himself and his connections, the dictates of prudence were unattended to amidst the fashionable dissipation of the times. With many advantages, both natural and acquired, and with the most flattering prospects before him, he, by an act of folly, to give it no worse a name, plunged himself from a situation, in which he had every happiness to expect, into a state, which, to contemplate, must fill the mind with astonishment and horror.

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