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inconstant temper would make for ever 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 I 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 desire and beg 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 answer to this, your letters are full of nonsense and impertinence, and bave 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.
From a Gentleman, whose Wife was lately, dead to a Clergyman in the neighbourhood.
Reverend Sir,-You bare often, both in public and private, enlarged on those comforts and consolutions which Christianity affords to the afflicted and if ever they were needful to one under those circumstances, it must be to myself. About seven o'clock last night, my wife died in child-bed, and I am now the disconsolate parent of five young children. Had any person seen the excruciating tortures under which she expired, it would have reminded them 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 spirit, as if she bad been going to visit a friend or to attend the service of her Maker.
