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For the correctness of the preceding- portrait, 

 I do not choose to pledgee myself, although it 

 was taken from the life ; and as I have been 

 desirous, throughout the Work, to observe a 

 uniform impartiality in the dispensation of my 

 tokens of veneration for the learned frater- 

 nity, I shall forbear mentioning the name of 

 the Original, and leave it to the members of 

 that learned profession to contend for the 

 honour of the likeness. With regard to the 

 engraving, I had some difficulty in deciding 

 whether it would be most proper to execute it 

 on wood or on brass. After some hesitation, I 

 determined on adopting the former. The force 

 of the impression^ however, I leave to the judg- 

 ment of the cognoscenti in those matters. 



riUNTED BV R. JABET, HERALD OFFICE, BIRMINGHAM. 



