t a friendship was then contracted, which time, and
a more intimate knowledge of each other, have mellowed into a regard
that forms at once the pride and happiness of my life.

It is long since I have been returned and settled in the bosom of
competence and peace: my translation frequently engaged my thoughts, but
I had lost the ardour and the confidence of youth, and was seriously
doubtful of my abilities to do it justice. I have wished a thousand
times that I could decline it altogether; but the ever-recurring idea
that there were people of the description I have already mentioned, who
had just and forcible claims on me for the due performance of my
engagement, forbade the thought; and I slowly proceeded towards the
completion of a work in which I should never have engaged, had my
friend's inexperience, or my own, suffered us to suspect for a moment
the labour and the talents of more than one kind, absolutely necessary
to its success in any tolerable degree. Such as I could make it, it is
now before the public.

----majora canamus.

FOOTNOTES:

[F] I began this unadorned narrative on the 15th of January, 1801:
twenty years have therefore elapsed since I lost my benefactor and my
friend. In the interval I have wept a thousand times at the recollection
of his goodness: I yet cherish his memory with filial respect: and at
this distant period, my heart sinks within me at every repetition of his
name.

[G] Many of these papers were distributed; the terms, which I extract
from one of them, were these. "The work shall be printed in quarto
(without notes) and be delivered to the subscribers in the month of
December next."

"The price will be sixteen shillings in boards, half to be paid at the
time of subscribing, the remainder on delivery of the book."

FOR THE MIRROR.

SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF THE LATE MR. HODGKINSON.

(_Continued from page 380._)

We have now brought the extraordinary personage who makes the subject of
this memoir to that time of life when his character assumes a high rank,
and his conduct an importance, which entitle him to a much more serious
consideration from the reader. As a strict regard to truth forbids us to
deny that, in common with all his fellow creatures, he deserves censure
for some part of his conduct in life, so candour, and indeed common
integrity, enjoin it upon us to accompany that acknowledgment with all
such circumstances, and the reasonings upon them that occur to