PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION. IN the second and subsequent editions of this little work, a brief reference* was made to the character of our late revered Sovereign. Since the publication of the fifth edition, it has pleasedAlmighty God to exchange his earthly for an imperish- able crown. The writer feels a strong desire, though long confined to the bed of sickness, to bear her last testimony, weak and worthless though it be, to the memory of our now beatified Sovereign. If there be such a thing as a character formed of the elements of the land which gave it birth, it was realized in the present instance. Our King ex- hibited the exactest specimen of the * Page 49. A 2
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