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 ink to comfort the calls of declining nature, or teret enonghenough [sic] to recue them from the horrors of a gaol;—the accumulation of uch, is more than ufficient to excite , but not always ufficient, as we find by  example, to obtain relief.

So udden an alteration, is enough to hake a that has not before been tried; and  a change is ufficient to excite those complaints  are caued by diappointment, but which  be born with patience, and finaly overcome  calmnes and reignation. If meet with, are we alone unfortunate? If we loe our l, are we the only beggars? How many are to penury who cannot work! What numbers without help, or are entombed alive without  and yet how many emerge from ditres and ant, by a manly fortitude, and teady pererverance  conduct! The hand of power may oppres; but has its peculiar triumph, as miery  reach the grave; for that is the retreat of, her conummation, and her end.

I can hardly prevail upon myelf to believe, that united violence of all the winds that ruh from  heavens, blown through one tub, and directed  one pot, could have occaioned uch detruction,  in o hort a pace of time, as that of which I  an unfortunate witnes, and of which I am now  the feeble recorder. If we even conclude it that the ruins of our buildings could have  occaioned by the concentration of its fury,  are we to account for ome phænomena of  we were the uffering and ed ? How account for the udden irruption of riers, the lapes of earth, the diunion of rocks, fiures of mountains, and for other objects of  ublime and terrible, which have changed and