By the Rev. A. C. Smith. 



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And of this treatise, too, at least a second edition or reprint im- 

 mediately followed the first : — 



" Printed for Stanley Crowder, Bookseller, No. 12, Paternoster Row, and B. C. 

 Collins, in Salisbury." 



In this, too, there is no cine to the identification of the author 

 beyond the date at the end of the preface (page vii.), "Market 

 Lavington, Wilts " : and after the last page, on the inner sheet of 

 the cover, the following advertisement appears : — " This day is 

 published, price 1*., a Discourse on the Emigration of British Birds 

 &c, &c. By a Naturalist. 



There was yet a third little book of a wholly different character, 

 entitled : — 



" Meditations and Reflections on the most important subjects, or serious 

 Soliloquies on Life, Death, Judgment, and Immortality. Ry the author of the 

 Emigration of British Birds, &c, &c, Printed at Salisbury by B. C. Collins. 

 1789." 



Published anonymously. It contains maxims of piety, reflections 

 on a future state, and much self-condemnation, and shows not a 

 little alarm on account of future retribution for sin. It bears 

 evident marks of long and severe bodily suffering, and of a mind 

 ill at ease, with a morbid inclination to look at the dark side of life : 

 and in it the author, though only thirty-four years of age, speaks 

 of himself as 



"long afflicted with a violent nervous disorder, attended with lowness of spirits, 

 and great weakness of body .... which gradually debilitated my con- 

 stitution," which determined me to retire from the world, and give myself up to 

 a recluse life, and close retirement, and to spend the remainder of my days in 

 quiet, in religious contemplation and peaceful serenity." (page vii.). 



This pamphlet gives a further clue to the identification of our 

 anonymous author, for previous to the date at the end of the preface 

 (page x.), "Market Lavington, Wilts, Oct. 2, 1788," we have the 

 important addition of the author's initials, "J. L." Again, bound 

 up and paged with the same treatise is another short pamphlet, 

 entitled " Meditations in a Churchyard, or, Farther Reflections on 

 Death and Immortality. By the Author of Emigration, &c. " : and 



