£ s.d. 			£ s.d.
Brought forward .. 		633 13 0 		969 4 8
For advertising in the London
and country papers, and in­
cidental expenses .. 		110 1 8
						743 	14 	8
Leaving a profit to the Author of	.. 	£225 	10 	0

which I have had the gratification of distributing as follows
			£		s.d.
	To The Printers’ Pension Society, at	the
	     Anniversary Dinner, in March,	1864,
	     per Chas. Dickens, Esq. ..	..	50	0	0
	,, Ditto, subsequently .. ..		2	10	0
	,, The Royal Hospital for Incurables..	50	0	0
	,, The British Home for Incurables..	50	0	0
	,, The National Orthopœdic Hospital..	10	10	0
	,, The City of London Truss Society..	10	10	0
	,, The West London Hospital ..	..	10	10	0
	,, The Great Northern Hospital ....	10	10	0
	,, The Epileptic Hospital .. ..	..	10	10	0
	,, The Alexandra Institution for the Blind 10	10	0
	,, The Sick Fund of the Morning	Advertiser 5	0	0
	,, The Sick Fund of my Printers’	Esta­-
	   blishment .. .. ..	..		5	0	0
						£225 	10 	0

So much as regards the fortune which it was very generally reported that I had made by the “speculation”!!

It may possibly interest the public to know the result of my own proceedings and personal experience since I published my third edition in 1864. My weight has continued at about ii stone, from which I have never varied more or less than 3 lbs., principally when I was experimenting to ascertain my own greatest dietetic enemy; and I have proved very satis­factorily that it is and was sugar and saccharine elements.

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