_PREFATORY NOTE.

‘Tue following Letters were, with a few exceptions, published
in the C.M. Intelligencer and the O.M. Gleaner. Thanks
are due to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel for
kindly allowing the use of two or three letters originally
addressed to them.

The lines at the head of each chapter are taken from .

poems by Bishop Ridley.
A. Sid: