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I discovered six young trees about half a foot high, which 

 upon enquiry I found to be raised from seed, which the 

 gardeners had -sown some time ago. 



As, by your correspondence, I find the tree in your 

 garden, was last month in'flower, you will be well pleased 

 at the above information, and the ease wich which the 

 tree may be propagated, — and by your writing to Mr 

 Powney at Travancore, I have no doubt but you might 

 obtain any quantity of the seed you wi(h. I remaia, &c, 



Tritchinofoly . March 2. 1791. 



A PROVIDENTIAL DELIVERANCE. 

 The following account of the interposition of divine pro- 

 vidence, in favour of a widow and her family, near 

 Dordrecht, in the province of Holland, is copied from 

 the Leyden gazette. This industrious woman was 

 left by her huA)and, who was an eminent carpenter, 

 a comfortable house, and some land, and two boats 

 for carrying merchandise and pafsengers on the canals. 

 She was also supposed to be worth above ten thousand 

 guilders in ready money, which (he employed in an hem- 

 pen and sail-cloth manufactory, as the means not only of 

 increasing her fortune, but of instructing her children, 

 (a son and two daughters) in those useful branches of bu- . 

 sinefs. One night, about nine o'clock, when the work- 

 men were gone home, a person drefsed in uniform, with 

 a mufket and broad sword, came to her house, and reques- 

 ted lodging : " I let no lodgings, friend," said the widow, 

 " and besides, I have no spare bed, unlefs you sleep with 

 my son, which I think very improper, being a perfect 

 stranger to us all." The soldier then (hewed a discharge 

 from Dieibach's regiment, (signed by the major, who gave 

 him an excellent character.) and a pafsport from compte 

 <jc Maillebois, governor of Breda. The widow believing 

 the stranger to be an honest man, as he really was, call 

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