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 "When thy sad spirit, freed from misery's load, "In trembling expectation, sought its last abode. "Though vice awhile obscur'd thy rising fame, "And stamp'd with early infamy thy name. "Yet o'er thy grave, mid sober evening's shade, "The muse with pitying tear shall swell the glade, "And tell the villain's guilt, whose perjur'd art, "From virtue's path allur'd thy simple heart, "When without parents, in that early day, "When youth most wants a guide to lead the way, "Then false to honour, truth, and promis'd love, "Left thee alone in life's wide course to move."

Notwithstanding the misfortunes of such poor young creatures are truly pitiable, others there are whose case is still more lamentable. But to conduct my readers to the various avenues which lead to the destruction and misery of the female part of the creation, would swell this volume to a greater bulk than is intended; therefore shall content myself with just touching upon a few characters, who have been plunged into this dreadful pit of destruction, by the known misconduct of connections, or the mishap of human events. From such as these it is we must gather our information. Doubtless, imagination might lead to a num-