66 LETTERS. 
and parental letter, in answer to which 
I now communicate to you the melancholy 
issue of it, which, as I desired my friend 
Mr. Graham to inform you of immediately, 
will be no dreadful news to you. The 
morning lours, and all my hope of worldly 
joy is fled far from me. On Tuesday morn- 
ing, the 18th inst., the dreadful sentence of 
Death was pronounced upon me; to which 
(being the just decree of that Divine Provi- 
dence who first gave me breath) I bow my 
devoted head, with that fortitude, cheerful- 
ness, and resignation which is the duty of 
every member of the Church of our blessed 
Saviour and Redeemer Christ Jesus. To 
Him alone I now look up for succour, in full 
hope, that perhaps a few days more will open 
to the view of my astonished and fearful 
soul His kingdom of eternal and incompre- 
hensible bliss, prepared only for the righteous 
of heart. I have not been found guilty of 
the slightest act of the detestable crime of 
mutiny, but am doomed to die for not being 
active in my endeavour to suppress it. Could 
the evidences who appeared in the court- 
martial be tried, they would also suffer for 
