"nued until the middle of the next day. "The violence of the complaint had fo "enfeebled her that the phyfician pro"nounced it impoffible that fhe could "furvive three days. When the con"vulfions ceased, she seemed fenfible of "her approaching diffolution, and for "the first time fince our meeting, spoke "to me, on being affured that you were « still living. 'I have written (said she) "for his perufal, a journal of the events "that have befallen me fince I laft faw "him. I fhall now add to it a few lines; "it is the laft fad comfort that I can feel; "that my child, in perufing the errors of "his parent, may from them learn not to "fwerve from the path of rectitude, and "own, while he drops a tear to my me mory, that mine were the indiscretions of "weakness, and not the vices of habitual "depravity. Having fent for the trunk " which "which contained the manufcript, fhe "was engaged for fome time in writing, "after which she folemnly charged me to "deliver it, with her parting bleffing, to you the funk back exhausted with "these exertions, and in two hours after, "her repentant fpirit flew to the awful prefence of her Creator-Merciful "powers, do I live to tell it, after finding my foul's first darling washed white as "fnow by penitence and forrow, and "fondly hoping that happiness might still "be for me, to receive only her part - ing breath, to witness only the filent "anguish of her contrition; but Provi"dence is ever juft, and to its difpenfa "tions I humbly fubmit.-While I bent "over the pale corpfe, not a figh heaved my bofom, not a tear came to my re"lief-mine was mute unutterable woe. "From "From this fituation I was taken by the "kind Dr. Barlow, who infifted on my "taking a strong opiate. Late the next "morning I awoke somewhat refreshed, "and on the following Monday com"menced my journey to Seldon, whither "I have arrived with the faded relics of my once lovely Clara. As I knew, my "child, the inutility of increafing your "affliction, by fummoning you to the "burial, I had the body interred under "the old cypress, near that spot in the church-yard where you, when a child, "so often fat, and wept over the grave of your play-fellow Charles Melvin. I "have written to your grandfather, Ge"neral Cleveland, who has arrived from "6 India, but have received no answer. I "feel myself unwell, and wish to see you "immediately. Should I not furvive, " however, however, to breathe a laft benediction " over you, Remember, that he who 'tem pers the wind to the fhorn lamb,' is "fufficient to make fmooth the rugged path of life for you, as long as you con"tinue to deserve His protection. Pre"ferve inviolably those principles of "Christianity which I have endeavoured "to inftil into your youthful mind; 'tis "these alone will make you rejoice when "the vast fabric of the world fhall crum"ble into diffolution, and time itself fink "into the bofom of eternity. That every bleffing may attend you, my Henry, is "the prayer of your affectionate parent, "LIONEL LENOX." B CHAP. III. Oh may I readily learn this important leffon of morality, that my own turn is haftening too; fuch a little hillock shall shortly arise for me in some unknown spot of ground; it fhall cover this flesh, and these bones of mine in darkness, and fhall hide them from the light of the fun, and from the fight of man, 'till the heavens shall be no more. WATTS. HENRY, during the perufal of this letter, was agitated with the most painful emotions. Tears rolled in quick fucceffion down his cheeks as he read the account of his mother's death; but on coming to the paffage in which his father mentioned |