Fortunate will the present Editors consider themselves, if they can succeed in following strictly the steps of so excellent an Exemplar; and to be found worthy, at the end of their career, of such an honest Chronicler of their endeavours for the public good. The character they are anxious the Magazine should still maintain, is "usefulness combined with rational entertainment." They rely with confidence on their numerous Correspondents and Contributors; and, thus powerfully supported, they doubt not of the continued success of their Publication.

Before concluding this part of their Address, they have to acknowledge, with the deepest gratitude, the sympathy of their Correspondents on the loss of the late Editor; and to apologize to some of their Poetical friends for the non-insertion of Tributes to his Memory ;-had these all been printed, the circumstance might have appeared to some as a display of ostentatious vanity; but they cannot resist the temptation of here inserting the following elegiac stanzas, by G. D. of Islington:

Sovereign Parent! holy Earth!

To thy bosom we commend
Nichols, full of years and worth,
Johnson's last surviving friend!
He was of that glorious time,

Of that bright, transcendant age,
When immortal Truth sublime
Dropp'd like manna from the Sage.
Call'd to fill that honour'd chair
Johnson once so nobly grac'd,
He essay'd with pious care
Still to guide the public taste-
Attic wit, and sense profound,

'Mid the Muse's humble lay,
Truth divine, with Science crown'd,
All their various powers display.
Many a name, to Learning dear,

Bears his faithful, fond record

Greet his mem'ry with a tear!

Give his name the like reward!
Rich in antiquarian lore,

Pageants quaint, and deeds of arms;
He from History's ample store

Drew its most romantic charms.
Blest with candour, liberal praise,
Years beheld his fame increase-
Cheerfulness, and length of days,
Friendship, competence, and peace!
To no quibbling sect a slave,

His religion was from Heaven;
And to want he freely gave

What to him was freely given.
Thoughts of those that once had been,
Sweet remembrance of the past,
Cheer'd him thro' life's closing scene-
Of those honor'd Names-the last!

The struggle of the Papists for political power, and for the abolition of the Tests which have hitherto happily protected our invaluable Constitution in Churoh and State, together with their zeal for making converts to their insidious and dangerous doctrines, have induced us to devote no small portion of the present Volume to their exposure. Let it always be remembered, however, that it is with the errors of Popery we contend, and not with individuals, —many of whom we respect in private life, and doubt not their honourable feelings in being attached to that faith which was delivered to them from their ancestors.

Liberal politics can only flourish pre-eminently in a Protestant Land; and we most sincerely wish success to the present struggle for Constitutional Principles in the Peninsula. Under the guidance of the highlygifted Statesman, now at the helm of our Foreign affairs, we doubt not that this Country, as the strong palladium of rational liberty, will prove herself the able Protector of her antient Ally; and long may the Queen of the Ocean remain the exalted head of the civilized world!

Dec. 31, 1826.