surprising emulation, to enjoy the peculiar satisfaction of being permitted to approach this celestial being. Her fields and her garden are ploughed and dug by the friends, who neglect their own business to take care of her's; and the all-friend is so condescending, as not to refuse their services; she comforts them with a kind word now and then, makes inquiries after and provides for their health and welfare, and has the art of effectually captivating their affections, the more, perhaps, because she knows how to keep her votaries at a respectful distance. When the service was over, Jemima invited us to dinner. The hope of watching her more narrowly induced us to accept the invitation; but we did not then know, that it forms a part of the character she acts, never to eat with any one. She soon left us; and locking herself up with her female friend, sat down without other company, to an excellent dinner; we did not get our's till after she had dined. When our dinner was over, and also another, which was served up after our's, the sanctuary was opened again. And now Jemima appeared once more at the door of her room, and conversed with us, seated in an arm-chair, When strangers are with her, she never comes over the threshold of her bed-room; and when by herself, she is constantly engaged in deliberation how to improve the demesne of her friend. The house was, this day, very full. Our company consisted of exactly ten persons; after us dined another company of the same number; and as many dined in the kitchen. Our plates as well as the table-linen, were per

fectly clean and neat; our repast, although frugal, was yet better in quality than any of which we had partaken since we had left Philadelphia; it consisted of good fresh meat, with pudding, an excellent sallad, and a beverage of peculiar yet charming flavour, with which we were plentifully supplied out of Jemima's apartment, where it was prepared. The devout guests observed, all this while, a profound silence; they either cast down their eyes, or lifted them up to heaven with a rapturous sigh; to me they appeared not unlike a party of the faithful, in the primitive ages, dining in a church. The allfriend, had by this time exchanged her former dress, for that of a fine Indian lady, which, however, was cut out in the same fashion as the former. Her hair and eyebrows had again been combed. She did not utter a syllable respecting our dinner; nor did she offer to make any apology for her absence. Constantly engaged in personating the part she has assumed, she descanted in a sanctimonious, mystic tone, on death, and on the happiness of having been an useful instrument to others in the way of their salvation. She afterwards gave us a rhapsody of prophecies to read, ascribed to one Dr. Love, who was beheaded in Cromwell's time; wherein she clearly discerned, according to her accounts, the French revolution, the decline and downfal of popery, and the impend ing end of the world. Finding, however, that this conversation was but ill adapted to engage our attention, she cut short her harangue at once. We had, indeed, already seen more than Gg3

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enough to estimate the character of this bad actress, whose pretended sanctity only inspired us with contempt and disgust, and who is altogether incapable of imposing upon any person of common understanding, unless those of the most simple minds, or downright enthusiasts. Her speeches are so strongly contradicted by the tenor of her actions; her whole conduct; her expence compared to that of other families within a circumference of fifty miles; her way of living, and her dress, form such a striking contrast with her harangues on the subject of - condemning earthly enjoyments; and the extreme assiduity with which she is continually endeavouring to induce children, over whom she has any influence, to leave their parents, and form a part of her community; all those particulars so strongly militate against the doctrine of peace and universal love, which she is incessantly preaching, that we were all actually struck with abhorrence of her duplicity and hy pocrisy; as soon as the first emotions of our cucuriosity subsided. Her fraudulent conduct, indeed, has been discovered by so many persons, and so much has been said against it, that it is difficult to account for her having had any adherents at all, even for a short time. And yet she will probably retain a sufficient number, to increase still further a fortune, which is already considerable for the country in which she resides, and fully adequate to the only end which -she now seems anxious to attain; namely, to live independent, in a decent, plentiful, and even elegant manner. There are so many

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weak-minded religionists, and Jemima is so particularly careful to select her disciples among persons who are either very old or very young, that her imposture, however gross and palpable to the discerning, may yet be carried on for some time with success, sufficient to answer her ultimate purpose. If her credit should sink too low, she would find herself constrained to transplant her holiness to some other region; and, in fact, she had, last year, harboured the design of removing her family and establishment, and of settling in Carlton island, on the lake of Ontario, where she would enjoy the satisfaction of living under the English government, which, by her account, has offered her a grant of land.

WOLLASTON, (WILLIAM) an eminent divine, was born in Staffordshire in 1659, who distinguished himself by an extraordinary treatise entitled "The Religion of Nature delineated." A work which was purchased with such avidity, that upwards of 10,000 copies of it were sold in a few days; it is, however, a system of Deism, yet one of the best written books in the English language.. Wollaston died in 1724. WOLSEY, (THOMAS) Cardinal, and prime minister of Henry VIII. was born at Ipswich, in Suffolk, in 1471. Though only the son of a butcher in that town, he became archbishop of York, chancellor of England, cardinal priest of St. Cicily, and legate a latere. He was educated at Oxford, and had a fellowship in Magdalen college; and when he took the degree of master of arts, he had the care of

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the school adjoining to it. Having the care of three sons of the Marquis of Dorset, that nobleman gave him the living of Lymington in 1500. By artfully insinuating himself into the favour of several great personages, he procured a recommendation to Henry VII. who sent him on an embassy to the emperor Maximilian. He performed the object of his mission so much to the satisfaction of his master, that, on his return, he was made dean of Lincoln, and a prebend in the same cathedral. On the accession of Henry VIII. he became a favourite of that king, who gave him the rectory of Torrington, in Devonshire; soon after which he was made canon of Windsor, and register of the order of the garter. In 1512 he became a prebend in the church of York, and soon after dean of that cathedral. He attended the king in his expedition to France, and upon the taking of Tournay, Wolsey was made bishop of that city, in 1514. He was promoted to the see of Lincoln, in November following; made archbishop of York in 1515; cardinal of St. Cicely, by the interest of the kings of England and France; and in December of the same year, lord chancellor of England: he was also legate à latere to the pope. Having gained an entire ascendency over the king, he drew him at length into such measures abroad, that he frequently became the dupe of foreign powers; the cardinal's avarice being fed, and his ambition flattered, by the emperor, the court of France, and that of Rome, in their turns. In the character of a churchman, he was a disgrace

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