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Brissotines, and on their fall under Robespierre she was in danger, and she was actually imprisoned in the Temple in Paris. Other works by her were :&quot; A Translation of Humboldt s Per sonal Narratives of his Travels,&quot; 1815 ; &quot;A Narrative of the Events which have taken place in France, from the Landing of Napoleon Buonaparte till the Piestoration of Louis XVIII., &c., 1815 ; also, a work &quot; On the Late Persecution of the Protes tants in the South of France,&quot; 1816. She was also at one time a contributor to the &quot;New Annual Register.&quot; She died in Paris, December, 1827.

��THOMAS KELLY.

17691855.

THOMAS KELLY was the only son of Judge Kelly, of Kellyville, near Athy, Queen s County, Ireland. He was educated at Portar- lington and Kilkenny, and afterwards passed with honours through the Dublin University. Being designed for the bar, he entered at the Temple, and while in London enjoyed the friendship of the celebrated Edmund Burke.

Before being called to the bar, his reading of Hutchinson s &quot; Moses Principia &quot; led him to study Hebrew, and this led him to the use of Romaine s edition of Calasio s Hebrew Concord ance, and subsequently to inquire about Romaine s evangelical doctrines. While studying the gospel doctrine he became con vinced of sin, and was filled with great anxiety about his state before God. To remove his distress, he made attempts at self- reformation, practised asceticism, and put his life in jeopardy by fasting. But at length he had peace with God through the Lord Jesus Christ, by that way of &quot;justification by faith &quot; of which he became afterwards so firm and faithful an advocate.

In conjunction with several others as evangelical as himself, he was ordained a minister of the Established Church in 1792. The gospel was preached in few churches in Ireland at that time ;

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