University of Virginia Library

With view to which, I've his command
To beg, Sir, from your travell'd hand,
(Round which the foreign graces swarm )
A Plan of radical Reform;
Compil'd and chos'n as best you can,
In Turkey or at Ispahan,
And quite upturning, branch and root,
Lords, Commons, and Burdétt to boot.
 

“The truth indeed seems to be, that having lived so long abroad as evidently to have lost, in a great degree, the use of his native language, Mr. Leckie has gradually come not only to speak, but to feel, like a foreigner.” —Edinburgh Review.