THE EDITOR'S PREFACE AFTER I had published and circulated the First Part of this Ballad amongst such of my friends as were disposed to read and accept of it, (which circulation, by the bye, has extended far beyond the Metropolis, and the Ballad would ere this have been translated into German or Low Dutch, if the republican literary searchers in Holland had not arrested it in its progress to my friend Mr. Vander Sproegens, the medical professor at Leyden, on account of the religious principles and scriptural quotations which it contained), I received from the Author the following valuable continuation of his work, together with a letter from him, which I insert here by way of prefatory post- rider, not post-liminious preface, as Mr. Plowden ingeni- "the Public demands that I should not only make you 66 my acknowledgments for what you have done, but if "the task be a pleasing one to you, request that you will "take charge of the enclosed continuation of my ballad. “—It may be proper to inform you, in order to justify myself for obtruding more of this Brawl upon the public eye, that the Committee have proceeded in the 66 66 66 same line of insult and wrong towards the tenant of "their pew, in which they first set out, and to complete "their work, have by a vote very lately confirmed the "order which disposed of her seat to the Doctor, and "have offered her one in the body of the Chapel:-to this "offer she has answered; that as they have without any 66 ground whatever, taken from her the seat which she "then rented, and given it to the person who in an un 66 manly ruffian-like manner insulted her there, she "would not condescend to accept of a seat in any part "of the Chapel from a set of Committee-men, whose "acts in this instance were so contrary to Justice and "Propriety.---The consequence is, that she is no longer even the nominal tenant of part of a pew for which she paid rent to Christmas last, but which she has not ventured to occupy since Easter-day, when she was in 66 66 66 "sulted |