W. Bingley thinks it his duty a to inform the reader, that the Author of the following Memoirs is mistaken in one material point, namely the marriage of Miss Johnson with Mr Fleming, such an event, he is well assured, never having happened, that gentlewoman being now the Lady of a Scotch Peer, and having never been married to any other person. But this is a circumstance, which, it is probable, the Author designedly misrepresented, in order to save the honour of the noble family, with which by her marriage she is now connected; of perhaps, being only a collateral subject, and introduced with the sole view of carrying on the History of Miss Faulkner, he might think himself at liberty to use the common licence of a novella, and to set it in whatever light might best suit his purpose.

            The publisher returns his most grateful thanks to the Authors of the Letters, which he has inserted by way of Supplement at the end of the work, and humbly hopes the faithful manner, in which he has printed them, will entitle him to their future correspondence.

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