Whatever may be the fate of this publication, nothing can deprive me of the satisfaction, that my testimony is borne to LIVING MERIT. While some still wait for the grave to close on the worth they love, and then decorate its tomb; it has been my wish to encircle the brow of the man, with that wreath which they will place on his bust! I much prize the word of good men; and, as far as this work goes, I hope to have it: but, as the poet of the pulpit well sang,

But all is in His hands whose praise I seek.'

LONDON, July 24, 1809.

ONESIMUS.