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the Editor of the Lancafter Gazette, Septem- 
ber ro. Carlifle, 29th dug. 1803, Monday. 
Dear and Rev. Sir, + 
‘¢ | take the earlief opportunity to fay 
how very much I am obliged by your excel- 
lent Letter 5 it reached my hands whilft Mr. 
Mark was doing duty in the chapel, after 
having beftowed the comfortable facrament 
of our bleffed Lord upon me. The ftate of 
my mind {is very pleafing to Mr. Mark and 
Mr. Patterfon, whofe attendance on me is 
very valuable 5 but folitude fuits'me be(t— 
alone with Gop, and his word, J find a peace 
which paffeth all underftanding ; and it pro- 
duces a defire to go hence, notin fpleen or 
difguft; Oh, no! very far, very far, from 
it. I feel a comfort in praying heartily for 
thofe who have been the principal procurers 
of my death; and fo I ought, forthey have 
already caufed me more real fatisfaction than 
any previous moments of my eventful life 
had afforded. Be affured you will not hear 
of my departing with any thing like the 
“<Bravo”’ in my manner—all my peace, all my 
fireng th,arifes from himin whomalone I truft. 
Nine months of previous confinement, and an 
accurate knowledge of the difpofitions of thofe 
who were fet againft me, have been circum- 
fiances of great value —they led me to feek 
belp. I long prayed for ftrength to meet 
whatever wes permitted to befall me, and 
have received fufiicient for my day—for ftill 
.my cry has been, Lord, let me go in thy 
firength to every trial; and under whatever 
thou permitteft to befall me, enable me to 
fay, in the true fpirit of humble refignation, 
** Oh Lorp,thy will be done!” Iam indeed 
fenfible of the goodnefs of Gop, in granting 
me the abuiidant preparation | have had; and 
have been taught to compare the walt diffe- 
rence between fuch a louked for death, and 
the tremendous vilits it pays every moment 
around us. lam aware, dear Sir, that repentance 
requires morethan mere fhame for the a@s, 
and forrow for the confequence. The fpirit 
of truth requires-a far more efficacious atone- 
ment for our brutal violation of its ‘majefy. 
Ihave fought, and hope I fhall to the lat 
continue to feck, all, through a bleffed Re- 
DEEMER—in him only do I truhl—through 
His fulferings and nis mediation ALONE car 
_1 hope to fee my God in peace. I have 
long been blefled with thar faith, and it fted- 
. faftly abides in me—but I cannot tall of fuch 
CERTAINTIES, fuch EVIDENCES ascertain 
- gealous Chriftians recount to me on ‘paper— 
if I was to. be damned, if I did not fay fo, I 
| @ANNOT, WILL NOT, say, “© I know 
that I am Chrift’s, and Chrift is mine— 
I am tleffed with a firm truft in his 
mere’. a firm belief in its efficacy, and 
a vily earneft feeking for it-——the  ref{t 
I leave at the foot of Gop’s Turone, 
_ where do I hope to be prefented in his name. 
_ The good people I have mentioned have taken 
 Sreat pains about me, but it having ‘pleafed 
_ Almighty Gon! to beftow on me Chriftian 
Be fcidance from gentlemen of the eftablihh. 
aR 
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a. 
Cumberland and 1eftmoreland. 
£83 
ment, under which I formed my early opi-~ 
nions, and never having had any caufe to 
doubt the foundnefs of them—I decline all 
other PERSONAL Offices, HERE, though 
truly defirous of being juftly thankful for all 
their kind offers, which have indeed beentender- 
ed by almoft every denomination of Chriftians 
within fearch of me; For your prayers 
on Saturday next [ fhall be truly thankful— 
for here, infigated doubtlefs by humane mo- 
tives, they do not execute rill after the poft 
comes in, and that is fometimes near three 
o'clock. My expeétations on that day are of 
a very different kind. Mr. Mark has taken 
your addrefs, and will fend the mufic you 
defire, With the trueft refpe&, 
Gratitude and affection, 
Dear & Rev, Sir, 
Tam, 
Your very much 
Obliged humble Servant, 
Joun HaTFiELp. 
P.S. I could with much pleafure to my- 
felf extend this Epiftle very much, but many 
afteétionate claims are made on the time I al- 
lot for writing, and four of yefterday remain 
yet unaniwered. May every blefling be yours ! 
On Tuefday, Auguf g, at Whitehaven, 
the fhipping of coals commenced, from the 
New Rail-roadon the north wall; when every 
part of the procefs anfwered in a very exact 
and fatisfactory manner :—and the circum- 
ftance will, no doubt, contribute largely to 
the future convenience and profperity of the 
port and town. A hurry was fixed at a pro- 
per place (diftant about 300 yards from the 
inner end of the wall) to which the brig 
Mary Anne, Captain J. Jordan, a veffel be- 
longing to the port had been previoufly hauled. 
The coals with which the Mary Ann was to 
be loaden, had been brought from the taft 
funk pit, diftant about 720 yards from the 
place of thipping.—-A part of this New Rail- 
road lies over the handfome gateway, com- 
monly known by the name of Branfiy Arch. 
By the prefent mode of conne€ting the dif- 
ferent parts of the coal works, this arch an-. 
{wers a fimilar purpofe to that of the aque- 
duct bridge of a canal. On the a& of dif- 
charging the firft five waggons re{peGively 
(which were feen majeftically defcending the 
inclined plane} and on dropping their car- 
goes down inte the fhip, a fignal gun was 
fired, and immediately anfwered by a volley 
of fmall arms from the fhip, a falute from a 
number of field pieces planted on Windmill 
Hill, the Light Houfe, the Fort, the fhipping, 
&c with a difplay of flags on different parts 
of the adjacent grounds (with which all the 
fhips in the harbour were likewife deco- 
rated) to the amount of between twenty and 
thirty. Other,waggons were afterwards fent 
down in like manner, and in the {pace of 
about three hours, the veflel, which was pro- - 
fufely decked with colours, was completely 
loaden and hauled into the. inner part of the 
harbour.—-As the above event is certainly of 
confiderzble confequence tg the town and 
 Oo2 neighboushocd 
i 
Ellerton, Colton, 
near Ulveriftone. 
Reverend Mr. } 
