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 by evil example and precepts, first to the commission of crimes, and then to the suffering of punishments; let them contemplate with agony and horror the fate of those sufferers, and view in it the impending fate of their own wicked offspring, whose unhappiness it is that they have been born of such wicked and unfeeling parents.November, 1814.

A LADY, in the neighbourhood of Dundee, going to visit a poor woman in the town,'was directed, by mistake, to the lodging of another person, and knocking at the door, was desired, in a low female voice, to come in.

On going into the room, she found a poor helpless woman on a bed, who seemed to be in a miserable situation, in consequence of a paralytic stroke which she had had five years before.

Her friendly visitor pitying her condition, was surprised to hear her say, that she thought herself one of the happiest of mortals; and on desiring an explanation, the poor woman related the following particulars.

In the younger part of life she was left a widow, with an only son; who, when she had the stroke, was