lowing sheets pretends to no other qualification than this, except that he also claims an inflexible fidelity. He professes to have enjoyed a long and intimate acquaintance with the distinguished individual whose Memoirs he now submits to the public-an acquaintance more intimate and unreserved than was enjoyed by any other person.. He has seen him in every shape and attitude, amidst his multifarious labours, and in the moments of relaxation; has known him in every difficulty, and shared with him all the pains and pleasures of life. How such intimacies originate, is not easily accounted for; the most genuine and the most gratifying are generally unstudied and unsought, and are both the cause and the effect of an unremitted intercourse. Such was the case in the present instance. The interchange of thought and feeling, by conversation, by letter, by preaching, by every mode of expression, was continued almost daily for a number of years, during the most active and enterprising period of life; and accompanied with a freedom, a collision, and a confidence that knew no bounds. Had the author employed the vigilance of a Lauterbach or a Boswell, amidst the innumerable opportunities which occurred, greater intellectual treasures might have been added to the present compilation; but they are now "like water spilled upon the ground, which cannot be gathered up." He can only present to the candid notice of the reader, the little which he happened to preserve, or which his recollection has been able to supply.