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tion ;-whether it be the church, the chapel, or the school, the dispensary for the sick, or the cottage for the poor,-it is your Grace's name which so amply occupies the rolls of charity. Such Christian works empower your Grace to confer a sanction which I can gratefully value, though I vainly endeavour to deserve.

If it were necessary to adduce the wonted motives for publishing, I might say, that to back the flattering request of some to whom these Sermons were delivered, the advice-I own the partial advice-of friends, was not wanting; neither am I without the humble, yet earnest hope, that I, too, may do my mite of good.

I beg to remain,

My Lord Duke,

Gratefully and respectfully,

Your Grace's obedient Servant,

WHITTINGTON H. LANDON.

TAVISTOCK.

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