text:  In the preliminary account of certain boyish adventures which had exposed me to suffering of a kind not commonly incident to persons in my station of life and leaving behind a temptation to the use of opium under certain arrears of weakness I had occasion to notice a disreputable attorney in London who showed me some attentions partly on my own account as a boy of some expectations but much more with the purpose of fastening his professional grappling-hooks upon the young Earl of A----t my former companion and my present correspondent