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THE Memoir, with the omission of an 

 anecdote, which might have given pain to 

 a family with which the author had been 

 on terms of great intimacy, and of a name 

 and designation, which it was believed the 

 very respectable person referred to might 

 wish to be suppressed, and with a very 

 slight alteration in a very few expres- 

 sions, is precisely as it was left by the 

 author. He dictated it to his friend Mr. 

 Patrick at intervals during his illness, 

 after he had lost all hope of recovery, 

 and while he was uncertain whether he 

 should live to finish it, and when he w r as 

 too feeble to speak long, or to write 

 much. It must be considered a proof 

 of extraordinary composure and vigour of 

 mind in such circumstances. 



