SHERWOOD, GILBERT, AND PIPER, PATERNOSTER-ROW;

MADDEN AND CO., 8, LEADENHALL-STREET.
SUTHERLAND, CALTON-STREET, EDINBURGH; J PORTER, GRAFTON-ST.,

AND FANNIN AND CO., GRAFTON-STREET, DUBLIN; SPIERS, OXFORD;
STEVENSON, CAMBRIDGE; HALL, BIRMINGHAM. R. & C. CHALMERS
MONTREAL. LATTEY, BROTHERS, AND CO., AND THACKER AND CO.,
CALCUTTA.

WHOSE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE VIRTUES HAVE MARKED HIM AS AN EXAMPLE

WORTHY OF EMULATION ;

AS DISTINGUISHED FOR MASONIC ZEAL AS GIFTED WITH POWERFUL ELOQUENCE,

GRACED BY COURTEOUS DEMEANOUR, IN SUPPORTING

THE PRINCIPLES OF THE CRAFT,

IN THE VINEYARD OF WHICH HE HAS, FOR A PERIOD OF THIRTY-TWO YEARS, BEEN A FAITHFUL LA BOURER, OPPOSING AND EXPOSING, WITH MANLY

DIGNITY, THE ENCROACHMENTS OF FOLLY AND PREJUDICE ;

AND UPON NO OCCASION WITH GREATER TRUTHFULNESS THAN ON THE LATE

MEMORABLE EFFORT,

WHEN HE WAS DEFEATED BY CIRCUMSTANCES AS UNLOOKED FOR AS UNMASONIC ;

TO THIS BROTHER,

WHOSE VALUED SERVICES ARE REGISTERED WITH RESPECT AND GRATITUDE BY

A VERY NUMEROUS AND ADMIRING CIRCLE OF MASONIC FRIENDS, THIS

THE FIFTEENTH VOLUME,

OF

The Freemasons' Quarterly Review,

IS FAITHFULLY AND FRATERNALLY DEDICATED.

1848.