Mr. Coleridge expressed his esteem for Mr. Stuart and sense of his kindness very strongly in letters to himself, but not more strongly than to others. He speaks of him in a letter written about the beginning of 1809, addressed to a gentleman of the Quaker persuasion at Leeds, as "a man of the most consummate knowledge of the world, managed by a thorough strong and sound judgment, and rendered innocuous by a good heart"--as a "most wise, disinterested, kind, and constant friend." In a letter to my Mother, written on his return from Malta, he says, "Stuart is a friend, and a friend indeed." I have thought it right to bring forward these particulars,--(I and those equally concerned with myself)--not only out of a regard to truth and openness, that the language of this work respecting _The Morning Post_ and _The Courier_ may not be interpreted in any way contrary to fact, which, I think, it _need_ not be; but also in gratitude to a man who was serviceable and friendly to my Father during many years of his life; who appreciated his merits as a prose writer when they were not generally known and acknowledged; and by whose aid his principal prose work, _The Friend_, was brought before the public. I do not complain in the least of his stating the facts of my Father's newspaper writings; in the _manner_ in which this was done--as was pointed out at the time--there _was_ something to complain of. Let me add that I consider his representation of my Father's feelings on certain occasions altogether incredible, and deeply regret these pieces of bad construing, dictated by resentment, in one who was once so truly his friend.