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 inconstant tamper would make me always miserable.) And if ever we are united, I shall experience nothing but (the fearful hatred of my parents, added to an everlasting dis-) pleasure in living with you. I have indeed a faithful heart (to bestow but however, do not wish you to imagine that it is) at your service; it is impossible I should give it to one more (inconstant and capricious than yourself, and one who is less) capable to do honour to my choice and to my family. (Yes, madam, I beg and desire you will be persuaded that) I think sincerely, and you will do me the greatest favour (to avoid me. I shall readily excuse your taking the trouble) to give me an answer to this; your letters are full of (nonsense and impertinence, and have not the shadow of) wit or good sense. Adieu, and believe truly that I am (so averse to you, it is impossible I should ever be) your affectionate lover.

Reverend Sir,-—You have often, both in pubic and private, enlarged on those comforts and consolations which Christianity affords to the afflicted; and, if ever they were necessary to one under those circumstances, they must be to myself. About seven last night my wife died in child-bed, and I am left the disconsolate parent of five young children. Had you seen the excruciating tortures under which she expired, it would have reminded you of the emphasis of the curse pronounced upon our first parents’ for their rebellion against God. When she saw the king of terrors approach, she was all resignation to the divine will, and left this lower world in the same manner, and with the same cheerful alacrity, as if she bad been going to visit a friend, or attend the service of her Maker,