The following prose compositions are included in the poetical volumes, and the _Apologetic Preface to Fire, Famine and Slaughter_, containing a comparison between Milton and Jeremy Taylor, is placed at the end of Vol. I: _An Allegoric Vision_, first published in _The Courier_ in 1811, and _New Thoughts on Old Subjects_, which first appeared in _The Keepsake_, are inserted in Vol. II. The whole of the Poetical Works, except a few which have been reprinted in the _Literary Remains_, are contained in the stereotyped edition in three volumes. The Poems without the Dramas have been collected in a single volume,[70] from which some of the Juvenile Poems, and two or three of later date, are excluded, and which includes a few not contained in the three vol. edition. I now proceed to Mr. Coleridge's compositions in Prose. _Conciones ad Populum_, are two addresses to the People, delivered at the latter end of February,[71] and then thrown into a small pamphlet. "After this," says Mr. Cottle, "he consolidated two other of his lectures, and published them under the title of _The Plot Discovered_." A moral and political Lecture delivered at Bristol by Mr. C. was published in the same year. I do not know whether he printed any of his other Bristol orations of the year ninety-five. _The Watchman_ was carried on in 1796. The first number appeared March 1; the tenth and last, May 13. These were youthful immature productions. Whatever was valuable and of a permanent nature in them was transferred into his later productions, or included in later publications. _The Friend_, a Literary, Moral, and Political Weekly Paper, excluding personal and party politics and the events of the day, was written and published at Grasmere. The first number appeared on Thursday, June 1st, 1809, the 27th and last of that edition, March 15, 1810. _The Friend_ next appeared before the public in 3 vols. in 1818. This was "rather a rifacimento," as the Author said, "than a new edition, the additions forming so large a proportion of the whole work, and the arrangement being altogether new." (Essays V-XIII, pp. 38-128, treat of the _Duty of communicating truth, and the conditions under which it may be safely communicated_; Essay V is _on the expediency of pious frauds, etc._). The third edition of 1837 gave the Author's last corrections, an appendix containing the parts thrown out in the recast, with some other _miscellanea_, and a synoptical table of the contents by the Editor. There is now a fourth edition.