LETTERS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS. BY THE REV. JAMES CAUGHEY, OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. VOL. V. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO., STATIONERS' HALL COURT. ROBERT PILTER, HUDDERSFIELD. 1847. 210. i. 496. PREFACE. TO MESSRS. JOSEPH WEBB AND THOMAS MY DEAR BRethren, New York, Nov. 8th, 1847. IT has been suggested by some of my friends, that a short account of my late voyage, and of my reception in America, would be the most acceptable Preface I could write for my Fifth Volume of Letters. As the English public have already been made acquainted with the proceedings at my "farewell meetings" in Sheffield, Birmingham, and Liverpool, a repetition of them here will hardly be considered necessary. It is, however, my intention, should life be spared, to publish "in due course," my letters descriptive of these neverto-be-forgotten services. Let it suffice for the present to say, that on the 20th day of July, 1847, after taking a most tender farewell of a large number of precious |