Life and diary of Lieut. Col. J. Blackader

VU1 PREFACE.
especially from the Lives of those military men who
have acted upon Christian principles, and while fight-
ing under the banners of an earthly sovereign, have
not forgotten that they were soldiers of the Cross.
The favourable reception of Dr. Stuart's Extracts,
encouraged the present Publisher to undertake the
work on a more full and comprehensive plan. He
had, besides, other inducements ; as various attempts
to republish Colonel Blackader's Life and Diary have,
from time to time, been made, by those who had not
access to the original sources of information, and were
therefore in danger of obtruding upon the world de-
fective and inaccurate editions. In the present work,
these faults have been avoided, so far as care and re-
search could accomplish it.
The engraving of the Colonel is taken from the
original Family Painting; which appears from the
style and superior manner of execution, to be the
workmanship of some foreign artist.
Subjoined is a Poem, by Colonel Blackader, in-
tituled, " A Vision of the Last Judgment," though it
is more properly a vision of the latter days, decrib-
ing the degeneracy of man, the dissolution of the mate-
rial universe, &c. It seems only the commencement
of a larger poem ; but the piece, so far as it goes, gives
strong indications of an original mind, and of a poeti-
cal imagination.
Edinburgh: )
September 10, 1824. J