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he is to bear, he can look forward to nothing 

 but DEATH, as the full expiation of his crimes. 

 Grant him but the choice of the mode, and he 

 will thank Heaven for the opportunity of de- 

 monstrating his attachment to his sovereign: 

 let but thousands witness that his last prayers 

 were for his country's prosperity, and it will 

 afford him more exquisite happiness in the ex- 

 treme moments of his life, than good men enjoy 

 when angels sing requiems to their departing 

 souls/* 



them, that her husband and herself had done nothing towards 

 me but their duty, and that they should not be prevented 

 from continuing to perform it, by any menace whatsoever. 

 One of those persons is since dead ; the other still exists an 

 ornament to her sex. Excellent woman! enjoying in af- 

 fluence, in the midst of thy children, and their children, the 

 calm evening of a well spent life, and looking forward with 

 a firm hope, inspired by our holy religion, to another and a 

 better state, though thou seemest already to possess as much 

 of happiness, as is compatible with the infirmity of our pre- 

 sent natures ; it may yet afford thee some momentary satis- 

 faction to know, that neither distance of place, nor interven* 

 tion of time, hath lessened my sense of thine unspeakable 

 goodness - } and that, at this moment, my bosom heaves and 

 my eyes drop tears, while I reflect, that without thy tender 

 cares concerning me, when sick and in prison, and far re- 

 moved from those, whose duty it was to render me service 

 under such distress, I might long ago have been numbered 

 with the dead. 



