This leads me to a little enlargement on the peculiar circumstances in which I am now placed.

Mr.Allston's letter by the same cartel will convince you that industry and application have not been wanting on my part, that I have made greater progress than young men generally, etc., etc., and of how great importance it is to me to remain in Europe for some time yet to come.

Indeed I feel it so much so myself that I shall endeavor to stay at all risks.

If I find that I cannot support myself, that I am contracting debts which I have no prospect of paying, I shall then return home and settle down into a mere portrait-painter for some time, till I can obtain sufficient to return to Europe again; for I cannot be happy unless I am pursuing the intellectual branch of the art.

Portraits have none of it; landscape has some of it, but history has it wholly.