Excerpt from Memoirs of Confessions of Captain Ashe, Vol. 2 of 3Mr. Udney was always esteemed on the continent as a very extraordinary man. At the time be honoured me with his notice, he was mellowmg rapidly from eccentricity and w'him into meritorious ness and admiration. Every hour his judgment forged an additional link of that chain, which time would have used to coerce his passions. His ample mind would not for a moment receive a guest so repulsive, so abhorred, as moroseness. I believe that at his luminous birth, the sun drew all such humours from him. The gentleness of his nature impelled him to be. Most civil, where incivility might have proved at¿ictive. His distinctions, on the points of administrative delicacy.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.