PROFESSOR IN THE EAST INDIA COLLEGE, HERTS; AND LATE FELLOW NEW-YORK: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. & J. HARPER, AND SOLD BY THE PRINCIPAL BOOKSELLERS THROUGHOUT 1832. Jift Toppon Pres. Ou 4-29-1932 PREFACE.. THE object of the following work is to produce, within a reasonable compass, the substance of the information which has been preserved to us, relative to a very extraordinary man; a man whose strength of character, doubtless, made an impression, on the mind of his country, which has never been effaced. The notice of him by Fox has been compared to a piece of quaint and fantastic Mosaic. Like the other writings of the martyrologist, it affects us in something of the same manner, as the portraitures and groups on the "storied window" of one of our cathedrals. We retire from the contemplation of it with certain feelings of veneration and delight, which a more finished and artificial masterpiece might, possibly, fail to inspire. In this instance, however, his work is far too indistinct and imperfect to satisfy the taste, or the |