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Written by the Duchess in a severe 
Tliness, just after an Accession of 
Title and Fortune. 
You see that it hath pleased God to 
dash my outward prosperity with a 
painful illness ; but I hope I have re- 
ceived it without murmuring, or desiring 
ihe remoyal of it, till it has fulfilled the 
merciful design for which it was sent. 
If He had not scen the necessity of it, 
I know I should not have been visited 
with it; for He docs not afflict his poor 
sinful creatures for His pleasure, but 
for their profit ; and therefore 1 hope I 
can with truth say, [kiss the red and 
bless the power that smites me. I am 
every day more convinced of the ne- 
cessity of a Saviour, and that nothing 
icss than His merits and sufferings 
could farnish a glimpse of hope to such 
fallen degencrate creatures. 
Sept. 11, 1750. 
This is the anniversary of a day, 
which always must bring with it to me 
melancholy, though I hope not mur- 
muring, reflections; since, if I knew 
my own heart, it submits without re- 
pining to the all-wise and merciful dis- 
poser of life and death, for the more 
one sees how litt!e there is in this 
world worthy to attach us to it, or 
make us covet length of days, cither 
for ourselves or those we love, the 
more reason one finds to acquiesce un- 
der the loss of friends, and to be 
rather thankful when they are removed 
from the scenes of sorrow and snares 
of vice, which all are Hable to in this 
vale of tears. 
Jan. 1753. 
I have at present no company be- 
sides and , who go the end of 
this month; by that time the snow- 
drops and crocus’s will begin to peep 
in my. borders, which, by the help of a 
little work, sonie useful and entertain- 
ing books, writing to and receiving 
letters from my fricnds—I am _ not 
afraid will make solitude, 1 am ap- 
proaching to, appear half so formidable 
to me, as it sounds to those who had 
Novelties of Foreign Litcrature. 
[May 1, 
rather. bave bad company, than be 
forced to converse with themselves. 
{This exceJlent woman, . with birth, 
beauty, wit, fortune, splendid alliances, 
and an amiable family, suffered trials and 
afflictions of various sorts through her 
whole life. No advantages lessened at any 
time her humility, and no adversities over- 
came her resignation. She lived to July 7, 
1754 ; amid the most affecting losses, and, 
among others, the total loss of health, 
but was happy, active, beneficent, and 
diligent in the discharge of every social 
duty.] } 
LETTER OF LORD MELCOMBE. 
Dear Sin,—I am ashamed of, and 
very sorry for the depressed state of 
our country, and the representatives of 
it. If yon would have more done to 
awaken them, now that they are under 
the alarming circumstance of seeing 
a member of their own,* no way con- 
nected. with the army, taken from 
them by a military arrest, and under 
actual trial for his lifo, by a court mar- 
tial, I am at your service as far as my 
little powers extend. 
I am just going to La Trappe to 
forget it; but will Gf you command 
me) receive your orders in Solio- 
square, on Monday evening, or sooncr, 
if you think it necessary. 
I am, with the most affectionate respect, 
Your’s, &e. 
Georce DoppiNnGTon. 
Friday night, Feb, 29, 1728. 
*,* We are desired by a correspondent 
to state, that, having served with Lord 
Nelson afloat, and lived in his house on 
shore, Mr. Stephens’s account, giyen im 
page 526, of his lordship being “as impe- 
tuous in language as in gesture,—two or 
three times clapping his hand on his sword 
and once drawing it half out,” which must 
have been done with his left hand from his 
left side,—is extremely improbable. 
* This related to the affair of Lord G, 
Sackville’s trial, after having been dis- 
missed from the army. See Journal of 
House of Commons, 28th Feb. 1760. — Mr. 
Dodington spoke against the trial by court 
martial in this case. 
NOVELTIES OF F OREIGN LITERATURE. 
— 
é 
Constantinople and the Bosphorus, topo- 
raphically and historically described, 
é Joseph Von Hammer, 2 vol. 8vo. 
esth 1822. : 
O much has been written against the 
partition of Poland, that the Em- 
peror of Russia, who is a great coaxer of 
public opinion, has not bad the spirit to 
propose a partition of the ‘Turkish em- 
pire. Else the European sovercigns 
might easily have agreed on an expedi- 
ent subdivision, and, on the principle of 
co-extension, might cach have increased 
his share of territory, with obvious ad- 
vantage 
