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[ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL.]

LONDON-James Nichols, Printer, 46, Hoxton-Square.

ADVERTISEMENT.

MR. M'NICOLL has left no journal, or papers of any description, by which his experience as a Christian, or his habits of study as a man of letters, might be traced.

In consequence of this want of information, the Memoirs are necessarily defective, unworthy of their subject, and, it is feared, must greatly disappoint the expectations of his numerous friends, and the public.

Biography ought to be a faithful portrait of the departed, to speak his language, and to exhibit his opinions: This, however, can never be effectually accomplished, except through the medium of documents from his own pen. The dead are often the mere mouth-piece of the living, and made to give utterance to sentiments not their own. No attempt

of that kind has been made on this occasion; and all that remained.was, the collection of such fragments as could be met with, illustrative of the mental power, the religious experience, and the ministerial labours, of this eminent man.

LIVERPOOL,

November 28th, 1836.

J. D.

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