MRS.CLOUGH
DIED, JUNE 30, 1827.
Mrs. Clough, daughter of Mr. Morley of Doncaster Her early Piety.—Death of her Mother.—Her progress in Religion.—Her active Benevolence.—Her Manners.—Becomes a Teacher in the Sunday-school.—Her Public Spirit.—Her Spirituality of Mind.—Her visit to London at Missionary Meetings.—Her Reflections on attaining her twenty-first year.—Her acquaintance with Mr. Clough—His account of it, and of their Marriage.—Mrs. Clough's account of her State of Mind Of her Marriage, and embarkation for Ceylon.—Her experience at Sea.—Her Letter to her Parents from the Isle of France.—Friends on the Island.—Arrival at Ceylon.—Union of the different Missionaries.—Religious Society at Ceylon.—Religious Tract Society Mrs. Clough's first Child— Missionary Prospects.—Public Meeting.—Her Illness by Fever.—Her Religious Experience.—Her Health and Prospects.—Her last Letter to her Mother.—Her Death.—Account of her Illness, and her Character by Sir R. Ottley.
Mrs. Margaret Clough, wife of the Rev. Benjamin Clough, Wesleyan Missionary in Ceylon, was the daughter of William Morley, Esq. of Doncaster, where she was born, November 3, 1803. 'When four years of age she was taken to reside with her grand-parents at Hull: her mind seems to have been impressed with the necessity and value of religion at an early period; and her seriousness appears to have been increased by means of the death of her mother. This lamented event is thus recorded by her biographer:
"When Margaret was only nine years of age, God
