ERRATUM. Page 20 line 15, for "do so," read "make them known." 131 and throughout the Address, for " Bath Herald," The circumstance which led to the publication of these Addresses, may be understood from the following correspondence. "37, St. James's Place. 66 "MY DEAR SIR, 'SOME noblemen and gentlemen, who have observed with much interest, your exertions in defence of the Protestant Institutions of the kingdom, are desirous that the Speeches you delivered on various occasions, within the last year, should be collected and preserved in a permanent form; and are of opinion that their publication might render extensive service to the good cause in support of which they were spoken. In their behalf I am commissioned, and on my own I gladly accept the commission, to request that, in compliance with our wishes, you will publish a corrected report of those Addresses. "I FEEL honored by the request you have conveyed to me, and am very grateful for the kind, although too flattering terms in which you express your desire that I should comply with it. "That your praises of my humble efforts exceed their merits, I am, and must be sensible; but I feel it, at the same time, gratifying to know that those, who with you have been betrayed into this generous error, are conspicuous for their devotedness to the cause of truth; and that their favorable opinion is signified by one thoroughly acquainted with my natural disinclination to the exertions which have been so partially commended. You know with what reluctance I suffered the occupations of the quiet and happy obscurity in which Divine Providence had given me all that I desired, to be for a season interrupted; and you do not require to be informed that nothing but a paramount sense of public duty, and I may add, of public danger, could influence me to come forth for the purpose of aiding in the defence of our most precious and sacred institutions, and in the endeavour to procure justice for my cruelly persecuted brethren. "I shall pay to your request the respectful attention to which I feel it is entitled. Whatever my estimate may have been, of exertions which the difficulty of evil days constrained me to make, the opinion expressed by you, and by those in whose name you write, prescribes to me my course of duty. Addresses which you think worthy of being preserved in a permanent form, I shall endeavour to collect and arrange; and must ever hold it a subject of thankfulness, that they have been held useful, and have procured testimonies of approbation from so many of the wise and good. "I have the honor to be, |