2° letter from Senex. Sept. h, 
heart was big with strong emotions, and hastened to 
present his son, a pleasing child of two years old, 
whose little prattle in a fhorttime called off our at- 
tention from thoughts that ought not perhaps to be 
too much indulged. In this delightful family, I 
have experienced a degree of felicizy that | believed 
had for ever been banithed from me; and having re- 
covered unwonted strength, | have now come back 
to settle some little affairs that the hurry of my de- 
parture, and. the uncertainty about my future des- 
tination prevented me from doing before I went. If 
it fhall please Heaven to grant health, I intend, to 
return thither, and bid an eternal adieu to this part 
of the world, where now I have scarcely the ap- 
pearance of a tie to bind me to it; for my friend 
the good doctor, who was so anxious about my fate, 
has himself paid the debt of nature before me. He 
was Strong and healthy : but all are subject to the 
‘power of the grim tyrant; and of every man that 
breathes it may be truly said, that ‘* the place which 
now knows him will soon remember him no more.”! 
In my pleasing retreat, it was a great consolation 
to me that I had the satisfaction of reading your 
miscellany. Many copies of it circulate in that island, 
and I found one of them appropriated by my friend, 
He is much pleased with it, and means from time 
to time to contribute his mite, as he says, to the ge- 
neral store. Julia, though naturally chearful, has 
yet a cast of seriousnefs; aud the delights, as you will 
perceive by some exprefsiois above, in those kind 
of religious exercises, that carry the mind forward 
from this transitory world, into:the regions of spi- 
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