the Memoir delivered in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It is not improbable, that many of the facts stated in both editions, may assume a new face to several readers -so much so, perhaps, as scarcely to be recognised by those who may be in possession of the hundredth oral edition; but to such persons as are aware how much the same tale will become metamorphosed, in its passage through a score of different lips and minds, it will not be surprising that the writer should differ in some important particulars from vague report. He might state that he has received communications from different persons, each professing to have received the intelligence from the lips of Samuel himself, yet widely different often, both in the principle and in the detail. This could be accounted for from the circumstance of Samuel having entered into particulars in one instance, and only named the naked fact in another; and also from the different impressions produced on the minds of the persons themselves, none of whom might have thought of a publicity beyond the domestic circle; and in each case the lapse of years seriously affecting the memory. Yet, with these inconveniencies, and others that will naturally suggest themselves to the reader, every individual is certain in the integrity of his heart, that his is the only CORRECT VERSION. This, as so many extraordinary tales have been handed round respecting the subject of the Memoir, is admonitory of caution; and as the writer has had access to the original documents, as far as penned by the subject himself, and from only part of which a mutilated copy has been obtained, any other separately published Life—under whatever pretensions-should be received with suspicion, both as to its details, and the motives for publication.