In my Clofet, at the distance of many thousand miles from every perfon within the British Empire, it cannot be flattery to write with my PEN, what if I were able, I might truly proclaim to the whole world with my TONGUE, viz. MOST HELPLESS, AND HER GODLIKE COMPASSION FOR THE WEAKEST AND MOST WRETCHED OF THE HUMAN RACE WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN. AND THAT POSTERITY MAY WELL DOUBT THAT ANY PERSON IN IN THIS AGE POSSESSED SO MUCH HUMANITY AND PIETY, AND SHONE WITH SUCH SUPERIOR LUSTRE IN THE MORAL WORLD. EXTRACTS FROM THE LETTER, WHICH THE LADY, MENTIONED IN THE NARRATIVE, WRIT TO HER FRIEND ON THE SABBATH. SIR, Having no more to commu nicate to you on the business, with which you entrusted me in your last letter, I now affure you, that all your friends here, among whom I take pride in standing foremoft, are extremely forry to receive fuch un unfavourable accounts of your health, but we hope that the gout, which is your principal complaint, and is often as fudden in its departure as in its approach, will foon take leave of you, and allow you to use that kind of exercise, which is so neceffary for your general health. At prefent, I am very particularly interested in your speedy recovery; for I am involved in difficulties, out of which I have no doubt you will do your utmost to extricate me. From the alarm I have given, you will conclude perhaps, that my house has been burned, or that my little improvements, with which I am so often amused, have been injured, or that fome perfon in a whisper has faid a worse thing of me than I deferve. I am I am thankful to Almighty God, (and I never can be fufficiently thankful to him) that none of these things have happened to me but I am threatened with a matter much worse in many refpects.---Several perfons, fir, whom I never fufpected of evil defigns, have confederated and combined, I fear, to deprive me of very valuable things, of which I have had quiet poffeffion for a confiderable part of my life; and if they cannot deprive me of them, it is evidently their intention to moleft and disturb me. As I am advised by able council, and as I verily believe, that I have a juft and good title to them, it is my duty to defend the poffeffion, while I am able, and to call on my honest neighbours to affist me, rather than fubmit to fo cruel and lawless an attempt. The The principles of my religion are the things, of which they would deprive me ; and I trust, that by my conduct through the course of a long life, I have put it in your power to believe, that I am fincere in declaring, that they are infinitely dearer to me, that my apparel or my jewels, or any other thing I poffefs in this world. These enemies of my happiness, (for fuch I must deem them) have already gone fo far as to tell me in plain terms, that I must, and that I ought, as well for my own cafe and comfort, as for their fatisfaction, totally to furrender fome of my religious principles, and that there are others, which if I fhould hold, I must confider them as held, not on the ground of right, but merely as matters of favour and indulgence, and on the condition, that I fhall occupy and use them in fuch a man |