Many happy returns of the day to you--( it was the first of the new year)--I never spent so miserable a one.

I am not very tender-hearted; but really the distress here would even move a Neapolitan." Soon afterwards he wrote, "I have this day saved thirty thousand people from starving; but with this day my ability ceases.

As the government are bent on starving us, I see no alternative but to leave these poor unhappy people to perish, without our being witnesses of their distress.

I curse the day I ever served the Neapolitan government.

We have characters, my lord, to lose; these people have none.