A TOUR THROUGH SICILY AND MALTA. IN A SERIES OF LETTERS ΤΟ WILLIAM BECKFORD, Esq. OF SOMERLY IN SUFFOLK; PRINTED FOR W. STRAHAN, AND MDCCLXXIV. ADVERTISEMENT. HAD there been any book in our language on the fubject of the following Letters, they never should have seen the light. The Author wrote them for the amufement of his friends, and as an affiftance to his memory; and if it will in any degree apologize for their imperfections, he can with truth declare that they never were intended for publication: nor indeed was that idea fuggefted to him, till long after they were written. One principal motive he will own, was the defire of giving to the world, and perhaps of tranfmitting to pofterity, |