IV DEDICATION. 



your part I have ever entertained a pleasing and 

 grateful remembrance ; and it is this which consti- 

 tutes the private ground of my dedication. 



But I dedicate this work to you on a higher and 

 more important ground. I have for many years seen 

 in you the able and strenuous advocate amidst 

 much obloquy and misrepresentation of the rights 

 of that profession of which we are both members : on 

 this high ground I conceive you to be entitled to the 

 gratitude of your professional brethren ; and with 

 this feeling on my mind of your conduct and services 

 in a good cause, 



I beg to subscribe myself, 



Yours, very faithfully, 



THE AUTHOR. 



