BATTLE with the best ferligatives or friends, near and dear; for DANEMARKABLE ACCOUNT OF A BATTLE ven of gibros BETWEEN TWO SNAKES. From Letters from an American Farmer, by d) MR. J. HECTOR ST, JOHN.~ As I was one day sitting solitary and pensive in my arbour, my attention was engaged by a strange sort of rustling noise at some paces distance. I looked all around, without distinguishing any thing, until I climbed one of my great hemp stalks; when, to my astonishment, I beheld two snakes of considerable length, the one pursuing the other with great celerity through a hemp stubble-field. The aggressor was of the black kind, six feet long; the fugitive was a water snake, nearly of equal dimensions. They soon met, and in the fury of their first encounter, they appeared in an instant firmly twisted together; and whilst their unit.. ed tails beat the ground, they tried with open jaws to lacerate each other. What a fell aspect did they present! Their heads were compressed to a very small size; their eyes flashed fire; and after this conflict had lasted about five minutes, the second found means to disengage itself from the first, and hurried toward the ditch. Its antagonist instantly assumed a new posture, and, half creeping, and half erect, with a majestic mien, evertook and attacked the other again, which placed itself in the same attitude, and prepared to resist. The scene was uncommon and beautiful; for, thus opposed, they fought with their jaws, biting each other with the utmost rage; but notwithstanding this appearance of mutual courage and fury, the watersnake still seemed desirous of retreating toward the ditch, its natural element. This was no sooner perceived by the keen-eyed black one, than, twisting its tail twice round a stalk of hemp, and seizing its adversary by the throat, not by means of its jaws, but by twisting its own neck twice round that of the water-snake, it pulled the latter back from the ditch. To prevent a defeat, the water-snake took hold likewise of a stalk on the bank, and by the acquisition of that point of resistance became a match for its fierce antagonist. Strange was this to behold; two great snakes, strongly adhering to the ground, fastened together, by means of the writhings which lashed them to each other, and stretched at their full length, they pulled, but pulled in vain; and, in the moments of greatest exertions, that part of their bodies which was entwined, seemed extremely small, while the rest appeared inflated, and now and then convulsed with strong undulations, rapidly following each other. Their eyes seemed on fire, and ready to start out of their heads ; at one time the conflict seemed decided; the water snake bent itself into two great folds, and by that operation rendered the other more than commonly outstretched; the next minute the new struggles of the black one gained an unexpected superiority; it acquired two great folds likewise, which necessarily extended the body of its adversary in proportion as it had contracted its own These efforts were alternate; victory seemed doubtful, inclining sometimes to the one side, and sometimes to the other: until at last the stalk, to which the black snake was fastened, suddenly gave way, and in consequence of this accident they both plunged into the ditch. The water did not extinguish their vindictive rage; for by their agitations I could trace, though not distinguish, their mutual attacks. They soon re-appeared on the surface, twisted together, as in their first onset but the black snake seemed to retain its wonted superiority, for its head was exactly fixed above that of the other, which it incessantly pressed down under the water, until it was stifled and sunk. The victor no sooner perceived its enemy incapable of farther resistance, than, abandoning it to the current, it returned on shore, and disappeared. THE POST OFFICE TAX. This must be considered either a tax on commerce, or a tax on the pleasure of familiar correspondence: and strange it is, that the public voice has not been raised, long ere this, for nearly its entire abrogation. In nine cases out of ten-perhaps forty-nine out of fifty-it amounts to an entire prohibition of one of the enjoyments most congenial munication of humanity the pleasure of com whom circumstances of necessity, or of duty, has compelle a separations How often are the tender sympathies of túre, or of affection, left to wither and die, becatíse proin v prohibits the sacrifice of frequent postage from the lit hard-won earnings of humble life; the young woman wa has left home for service or the young man who has a widowed mother or an aged pair, in rural life, whe they have its necessaries, but no more and he or who could save ten shillings in a half-year, and woul joice in adding to the comforts of declining age, must eve be forbidden the pleasure of mutual correspondence, ex at an expense which would absorb their whole saving a few postages to and fro, in the course of halfa. would; and then, if they should venture to drop a line a friend, they are liable to be mulcted in the penalty L for defrauding the post office! But, no; home is forg and the youthful friend together, with whom a kindred e respondence might, in other respects, that is, with easy tage, have been maintained and cherished till it proder the best of consequences. Think again of the laboure the peasant, not to speak of the widow, whose son has ge like many more, to America, to seek a better country, perhaps to meet with disappointment and delay; he kore what it must cost his parent to relieve his letter whe arrives, and therefore he does not write, till many t have gone by his letter arrives; his father's last week wages is gone; the letter lies in the post office till them turn of pay day, and with pleasure the parent parts with portion of his little all, to secure the precious packe which, but for this impolitic tax, he would have received a moderate rate. But the man of business must have hi letters, and that whether his profits are great or small, not unlikely his letters will be more numerous, if his ness has been depressed, and he has entertained the Isudah desire to extend it, or to seek new customers; his end are small and frequent, consequently, his postages are quent, and, perhaps, when he balances at the year's he finds that his business has been charged more th this impolitic tax than the whole amount of his net pr Still business must be done, and letters must be had: h when it is considered that nearly the whole of this taxis tax upon trade, and that it next to effectually operates 10 prohibition to friendly and social correspondence; the policy of the weighty tax on letters must be considered real grievance, and one to which the attention of om Parliament should be especially and immediately called A FAIR AND HAPPY MILKMAID. A FAIR and happy milkmaid is a country wench, is so far from making herself beautiful by art, that on of hers is able to put all face-physic out of countem She knows a fair look is but a dumb orator to comme virtue; therefore minds it not. All her excellencies stay in her so silently, as if they had stolen upon her with her knowledge. The lining of her apparel, which is be self, is far better than outsides of tissue; for though she not arrayed in the spoil of the silk-worm, she is decked ? | innocence, a far better wearing. She doth not, with long a-bed, spoil both her complexion and conditions:nature hath taught her too immoderate sleep is rust to soul-she rises, therefore, with chanticleer, her da clock, and at night makes the lamb her curfew. In ing a cow, and straining the teats through her finge seems that so sweet a milk-press makes the milk whiter sweeter; for never came almond-glare or aromatic oints on her palm, to taint it. The golden ears of corn fall a bound and led prisoners by the same hand that felled them kiss her feet when she reaps them, as if they wished to be Her breath is her own, which scents all the year Tons of June, like a new-made hay-cock. She makes her hand hard with labour, and her heart soft with pity; -hen winter evenings heel, he deance 2 sitting W to theel of fortune, accustomed morphosis, and multiplied according to use at her merry things with so sweet a grace, it seems igorance will not suffer her to do it, ill, being her mind = to: do well. She bestows her year's wages at next fair und in choosing her garments courts no bravery in the -orld 'like "dec "decency. The garden and bee-hive are all her hysic and surgery, and she lives the longer for it. She ares go alone and unfold the sheep in the night, and fears o manner of ill, because she means none; yet, to say truth, e is never alone, but is still accompanied with old songs, onest thoughts, and prayers, but short ones-yet they have eir efficacy in that they are not palled by ensuing idle ›ritations. ^› Lastly, her dreams are so pure, that she dares I then only a Friday's dream is all her superstition; at she conceals for fear of anger. Thus lives she, and all r care is, she may die in the spring-time, to have store of wers stuck upon her winding-sheet. leaves of mulberry. They worked, underwent their C THE SILK MANUFACTURE. THOUGH to ourselves "familiar as household words," e nature and origin of silk were but obscurely, if at all, Qwn in ancient times; and in the days of Aurelian it as valued at its weight in gold. This is probably owing the mode in which the material was procured by the archants; of Alexandria, who had no direct intercourse th China, the only country in which the silk-worm was m-reared. Though the manufactures of silk were lauded terms of the highest admiration both by Greek and Rom authors, they were in frequent use for several centuries fore any certain knowledge was obtained either of the antries from which the material was derived, or of the ans by which it was produced: By some it was supposed be a fine down, adhering to the leaves of trees or flowers; (others it was regarded as a delicate kind of wool or tton and even those who had some idea of its insectigia were incorrectly informed of the mode of its forma. The court of the Greek emperors, which surpassed en that of the Asiatic sovereigns in splendour and magnience, became profuse in its display of this costly luxury; Las the Persians, from the advantages which their local uation gave them over the merchants from the Arabian lf, were enabled to supplant them in all those marts of dia to which silk was brought by sea from the East, and as ey had it in their power to cut off the caravans which welled by land to China through their own northern proaces, Constantinople thus became dependent on a rival wer for an article which its sumptuous nobles deemed to the enjoyment of refined life. Of course the rslans, with the accustomed and long-continued rapacity monopolists, raised the price to an exorbitant height, and" my attempts were made by Justinian to free his subjects' am such exaction. An accidental circumstance is said have accomplished what the wisdom of the great legisNor was unable to achieve. Two Persian monks who ad been employed as missionaries in one of the Christian urches established in India, had penetrated into the Matry of the Seres, that is, to China, where they observed Mataral operations of the silk-worm, and acquired a knowdge of the arts of man in working up its produce into so any rich and costly fabrics. The love of lucre, mingled peraps with a feeling of indignation that so valuable a branch of mmerce should be enjoyed by unbelieving nations, induced en to repair to Constantinople, where they explained to the inperor the true origin of silk, and the various modes by hich it was prepared and manufactured. Encouraged by he most liberal promises, they undertook to transport a ficient supply of these extraordinary worms to Constanople, which they effected by conveying the eggs in the nterior of a hollow cane. They were hatched, it is said, the heat of a dunghill, and the larvae were fed with the We take this from an old writer recommended by lazliti, William and wont; and, in the course of time, have become extensively cultivated throughout all the southern countries of our continent,-thus effecting an important change in the commercial relations which had so long existed between Europe and the East. It is curious to consider how the breeding of a few millions of caterpillars should occasion such a disparity in the circumstances of different tribes of the human race. When the wife and empress of Aurelian was refused a garment of silk on account of its extreme costliness, the most ordinary classes of the Chinese were clad in that material from top to toe; and although among ourselves week-day and holiday are now alike profaned by attire," yet our own James VI. was forced to borrow a pair of silken hose from the Earl of Mar, that his state and bearing-might be more effective in the presence of the ambassador of England; "for ye would not, sure, that your king VIII. was the first of the English sovereigns who wore silk should appear as a scrub before strangers." King Henry stockings-Edinburgh Cabinet Library, India. uncouth forms, whose vast circumference is clothed "in silk THE BLIND BEGGAR OF BAGNOLET. Or late I met, at Bagnolet, A grey-beard with a constant smile; And poor, he begs, and sings the while; Ah! give a trifle, give, I pray,- A little damsel guides his way, "Like you, I danced in former years! Ah! give a trifle, give, I pray; In youth, I did not oft despair, Ah! give a trifle, give, I pray, No vintage-gleanings to the poor! Ah! give a trifle, give, I pray, Ah! give a trifle, give, I pray, Ah! give a trifle, give, I pray, Than near the tavern on the green: "Ah! give a trifle, give, I pray, Tail's Magazine. SCRAPS. FANCY versus REALITY.-Few people properly estimate the power of poetry. We eat, drink, and sleep, under illusions for which we are indebted to the fictions of poets. Who disputes the good cheer of old times? Who doubts the genial breath of spring? Who does not imagine it to be a fine thing to read books in the open air, or under a greenwood shade? Whose imagination does not kindle at the idea of beholding Rome, the Eternal City? Who does not revel in the idea of a vintage in the south of France? And yet the truth! Food was scarcer, and fare much harder in the good old times than the poorest of us would relish. Spring demands a great-coat, and carries consump-boiled, only pressing in his hands those that were raw, tion on its easterly wings. The leaves of your book can never be kept down in the open air, nor your attention confined-a garret and a chair and table are less poetical, but more practical. Old Rome, to the unprejudiced eye, is a mere heap of broken bricks and battered stones; and a vintage is a very dirty, dull, and laborious thing. Vines, too, which the untravelled Englishman, misled by poetical description, imagines to hang in graceful festoons on the laughing bank of a mountain side, or to invite him with their rich and tempting bunches from luxurious trellis-work, by the margin of gaily-flowing streamlets, by no means correspond with his expectations. The formal rows of dwarfish plants twining round a moderate pea-stick in a manner not half so picturesque as the raspberries of our gardens, he can scarcely believe to be the vineyards of Burgundy; and the grapes, little dirty dull bunches of large black currants, infinitely inferior both in size and flavour to those of our hot-houses, are tasted, and turned, and picked, and looked at, and tasted again with an air of unhappy incredulity. All travellers, one after the other, have gone with the same expectations, and have been successively disappointed; and yet poetry maintains her spell over our senses. THE LAW OF LIBEL! We remember once to have been present at a controversy on this subject between two very able arguers. One of the parties was proceeding to justify, with great ingenuity, the justice of the maxim, "The greater the truth the greater the libel," when the other sharply replied, in the form of an impromptu, AN ODD FISH.-In Lardner's Cyclopedia we find the following strange circumstance recorded, taken from th old Chroniclers, and not questioned :-Some fishermen e Orford caught in their nets what the chroniclers call a f but which they describe as "resembling in shape a wi or savage man; he was naked, and in all his limbs 2 members resembling the right proportion of a man; had hairs also on the usual parts of his body, albeit t the crown of his head was bald; his beard was long -rugged, and his breast hairy." The fishermen prese him to Sir Bartholomew de Glanville, who had then keeping of Orford Castle. When meat was set before ha he greedily devoured it; and he ate fish, whether raw of he had squeezed out the moisture. "He would get h to his couch at the setting of the sun, and rise again at the rising of the same. He would not, or could not, utter a speech; although, to try him, they hung him up by the heels, and miserably tormented him." His after-us must have been exceedingly kind, and he must have leof a most forgiving temper not to resent this cruelty: it seems that he was well reconciled to living ashore. day they took him to the haven, and, enclosing a part e with their strong nets, to prevent, as they though, escape, they let him take the water for his diversion presently dived under the nets, rose beyond them, spart about as if mocking at his keepers, and then, of his o accord, returned to them, and remained their guest two months longer; then, being weary of a land life, à took an opportunity of stealing to sea. Strange as story is, and incredible as it will be deemed by readers, it is inserted here, because there is complete e dence that a similar circumstance occurred in the lar part of the seventeenth century, on the coast of Spain, wi this remarkable difference, that the man who had the chosen an aquatic life, was recognised, and the history his disappearance known at the place where he was posed to have been drowned in bathing; he was came back to his mother's house, remained there nine years, then took again to the water. CONVICTS. The expenses of the convict establishme in England, from January 1 to June 30, 1832, was 34,1018s. 2d., and the total earnings 23,2871. 93. The" If the greater the truth be the greater the libel, of the Bermuda establishment for the half-year end Permit me to ask what becomes of the Bible? Dec. 31, 1831, was 94727. 13s. 9d.; earnings of the This was certainly a poser. No sophistry can extricate victs, 13,5647. 4s. On the first of Jan. 1832, there any one, professing a particle of belief in Christianity, from 4139 prisoners on board the hulks in England, since what, the meshes of this interrogatory couplet. When our there have been received at the several depots 4712, Saviour called, and justly called, the Pharisees or Jewish cluding 85 from Bermuda. Of these 3877 have been tran saints of his day "vipers, whited sepulchres, generation ported to New South Wales and Van Diemen's La of hell," and moreover accused them of leading the people 120 to Bermuda; 690 discharged by pardon and expirat astray by their gross perversions of the law of Moses, he of sentence; 4 escaped; 262 died (of which 110r 1 was eminently guilty of "scandalum magnatum." He cholera ;) and 3898 remained in the hulks in Engwas manifestly a criminal by that law of libel which the January 1833. For the last half-year the expenses canting hypocrites of the present day defend, on the score, England were 34,8117. 9d.; the earnings 25,3661. 1& forsooth, of "preserving the sacredness of private charac- For the first half-year of 1832, the expense at Berm ter !" Godwin, in his "Political Justice," has well was 87641. 14s. 4d.; the earnings 13,0431. remarked, that "the mind spontaneously shrinks from instituting a prosecution for libel ;" and though we are of opinion that any one who can be clearly proved in court to have written or printed deliberate calumnies on private character, should be legally punished-since, without moral character, life should always be regarded as insupportable-we think that on that very account no person who may be truly arraigned by the press for individual or political profligacy, should be allowed to extract money from the editor of a paper, by the way of healing an incurable reputation with a golden plaster! We have been led into these remarks by the annexed observations from Chief Justice Doherty, on a recent libel prosecution between the proprietors of two Belfast journals, the Guardian and the Northern Whig. His Lordship said, "he had never understood that character could be freed from any imputation by a criminal prosecution for libel "" After this declaration from such an unexpected quarter, we have only to exclaim 'with the Indian Rajah, "What can we say more ?"-The Dublin Evening Freeman. CONTENTS OF NO. XLII. Notes on the Sandwich Islands... THE STORY-TELLER-What everybody says must be true.... Remarkable Account of a Battle between two Snakes... A Fair and Happy Milkmaid.. The Blind Beggar of Bagnolet.. SCRAPS-Fancy versus Reality-The Law of Libel-An Odd EDINBURGH: Printed by and for JOHN JOHNSTONE, 19, St. J THE AND EDINBURGH WEEKLY MAGAZINE, CONDUCTED BY JOHN JOHNSTONE. THE SCHOOL MASTER IS ABROAD. LORD BROUGHAM. No. 43-VOL. II. SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1833. SLAVERY REPORT. PRICE THREE-HALFPENCE true that the social condition of the workmen of Britain and Ireland is worse than that of the negroes in the West India Islands, why, then, by the memory of the Past, and the hopes of the Future, let them instantly arise, and change, and better it. Worse, more degraded, it cannot be. It will, however, take a few more witnesses, ducal and reverend, to persuade us of the truth of this favourite the Protestant Established Clergy. The Rev. J. there are witnesses in favour of slavery even among Curtin of Antigua, who has nineteen slaves of his own, believes the negroes the happiest race in the world! their proprietors the most generous and civilized of mankind. We can spare room for only a few instances of the beatitudes of the slaves. What thinks the reader of the following suggesthinks that switches, which draw blood, but do not tion for an improved whip? "Mr. Edmund Sharp whip. This substitution of the frying-pan for the leave marks," might be substituted for the cartfire is strongly illustrative of plantation humanity. Against the worst accounts that we obtain of the slave states of America, and we do not conceive How is it that whenever people hear of a Parliamentary Commission, or a Committee of the House of Lords, the idea is immediately suggested of a piece of machinery set agoing to elude, or at least delay, a demand for justice? The humane demand that young children shall not be worked to death, or not be kept above ten hours out of the twenty-assertion of the planters; for, we grieve to say, four, at hard duty in the unwholsesome atmosphere of a factory, was, we should have thought, not so very unreasonable. The desire that some slender means of subsistence should be secured to the famishing, and consequently infuriate people of Ireland, from the soil which they cultivate, was nothing so wonderful in its nature that solemn inquiry must first be instituted into facts that stare every one in the face; but, above all, we had, in fifty years of horrible experience, acquired as much information on the evils and enormities of slavery, and the condition of the negro population in our Colonies, as might have sanctioned legislation on this subject, without much longer delay. But here again it was necessary or expedient to interpose a committee, and, to mend the matter, a committee of the Lords. The evidence elicited is precisely of the nature which previous experience led us to anticipate. It is reported in a goodly volume, containing many new, but no strange facts. Unhappily, the atrocities and horrors of the slave islands are but too familiarly known to be longer startling. The first witness examined was one equally. entitled to take precedence from high rank, and the official station he had held for eighteen years, as Governor of Jamaica. This was the Duke of Manchester, who almost admits that he knows very little about the acts and events of his own long administration; but, at the same time, is perfectly confident that the treatment of the slaves is humane and excellent, their food and clothing abundant, their labours light and considerate, their cabins so many black paradises, and their situation altogether far superior to that of the greater part of the labourers of this country. This assurance, so often, and so pertinaciously and impudently made, if it be good for anything, furnishes the strongest argument for rebellion at home that reason or manliness could listen to. If it be indeed those lately given by Mr. Stuart one whit exaggerated, we have to set the fact that the slaves there increase their numbers; while, in our islands, with all the motives to maintain the breed given by the abolition of the direct traffic, and the difficulty of finding a supply, the negro population decreases. One of the witnesses, the Rev. John Barry, "Is of opinion, that the slave population decreases from be excessive punishment, which is sometimes so severe as causes connected with slavery; one of these, he believes to to occasion death. He detailed several cases of oppression arising out of the power possessed by masters and overseers when travelling, he was arrested by the shrieks of a woman, to oblige female slaves to submit to their desires. Once, who was undergoing punishment with the cat. She was raised from the ground, on which she had been extended, on his coming up, and sent to her work; but she was unable to stand upright, so severely had she been punished. An old lady in Spanish Town, on being requested to allow one of her slaves to meet in religious society, replied, "I certainly cannot allow her to pray; she is young, and I must keep her to breed." William Taylor, Esq. states, that he has known eighteen lashes (inflicted on a young girl) cause a degree of suffering that was dreadful, and called for notice; but the law having allowed thirty-nine, the parties who sought redress were completely baffled. The overseer set them all at defiance, by simply pointing to the statute; the spirit of which, by-the-by, is evaded by a subsequent shillings should go towards that, I will add ten more to make up the price of a new one." In every respect, the Wesleys divided with him, according to their power and by his humble and upright conduct in the early part of his life, he repaid their kindness. When he got orders, Mr. Wesley made him his curate in Wroote: and having en. gaged Miss Mary's affections, they were married, and Mr. Wesley gave up to him the living at Wroote. Her sister, Wright, the most interesting of the Wesley family, composed some lines to her memory, which contain an affecting allusion to her own fate. "If blissful spirits condescend to know, And hover round what once they loved below; To her, who glories to have called thee friend! * With business and devotion never cloyed, Mistook her wond'rous love for worth in me. ANNE, afterwards Mrs. Lambert, was married to a gentleman of the name of John Lambert, a land-surveyor in Epworth, of whom and their children, if they had any, we know nothing. Mr. and Mrs. Lambert are probably the persons meant by Mr. John Wesley in his Journal, under date Tuesday, June 8, 1742, where he says:-"I walked to Hibaldstone, about ten miles from Epworth, to see my brother and sister;" but he mentions no name. On Mrs. Lambert's marriage, her brother Samuel presented to her the following verses:— No fiction fine shall guide my hand, Which I, in giving rules, employ Repose that riches cannot give ! No daughter more beloved than thre ! Who tive contented to be low. And thou a wife as good as mine! There is much good sense and suitable advice in these verses; and they give an additional testimony to the domes tic happiness of their author. "I wish," says Dr. Clarke, "they were in the hands of every newly married coupit in the kingdom." SUSANNA, afterwards Mrs. Ellison, was born about year 1701. She is reported to have been good-natured, rem facetious, but a little romantic. She married Richard Es son, Esq., a gentleman of good family, who had a respecta establishment. But though she bore him several childre... the marriage, like some others in the Wesley family, . not a happy one. She possessed a mind naturally strong which was much improved by a good education. His m was common, coarse, uncultivated, and too much inche to despotic sway, which prevented conjugal happiness. I fitness of minds more than circumstances, is what i neral mars the marriage union. Where minds are uns means of happiness and contentment are ever within rest What little domestic happiness they had, was not cut interrupted, but finally destroyed, by a fire which to place in their dwelling-house. What the cause of this f was, is not known: but after it took place, Mrs. El would never again live with her husband! She wen London, and hid herself among some of her children, w were established there, and received also considerable from her brother John, who, after the death of his brother Samuel, became the common almoner of the family. M Ellison used many means to get his wife to return; baté utterly refused either to see him, or to have any further in tercourse with him. As he knew her affectionate dispe tion, in order to bring her down into the country, he adi tised an account of his death! When this met her er immediately set off for Lincolnshire, to pay the last trib of respect to his remains: but when she found him e alive and well, she returned, and no persuasion could in her to live with him. It does not appear that she com nicated to any person the cause of her aversion; and atte this lapse of time it is in vain to pursue it by conjectar MEHETABEL, afterwards Mrs. Wright, (called the Hetty, and, by her brother, Samuel, sometimes Kit gave, from infancy, such proofs of strong mental pow as led her parents to cultivate them with the care. These exertions were crowned with success; for a the early age of eight years, she made such proficiency r the learned languages, that she could read the Greek text She appears to have been the most eminently gifted of h female branches of the Wesley family. She had a talent for poetry, and availed herself of the rich, sweet pensive warblings of her lyre, to sooth her spirit under t pressure of deep and accumulated calamity. At the tale of her afflictions every feeling heart must sigh. Religion the balm which allayed her anguish; and the sorrows the moment, now enhance her eternal joy. From her ch hood she was gay and sprightly; full of mirth, good mour, and keen wit. She appears to have had many suite but they were generally of the thoughtless class, and de suited to make her either happy or useful, in a matrimo life. To some of those proposed matches, in early life, the lowing lines allude, which were found in her father's hands writing, and marked by Mr. John Wesley to her Mother."— "DEAR MOTHER, "You were once in the ew'n, "Hetty's less In the spring freshness of youth and hope, her affectam were engaged by one who, in point of abilities and situation might have been a suitable husband; some circumstano however, caused a disagreement with her father. This terference did not move Hetty. She refused to give la lover up; and had he been faithful to her, the connexi in all probability, would have issued in marriage: bu whether he was offended with the opposition he met with or it proceeded from fickleness, is not known. He, how vr |