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After five years residence in London, her 
husband’s friends saw the propriety of with- 
grawing them from a situation where health 
was daily sacrificed, and where, had he con- 
tinued mach longer, death must inevitably 
have awaited him. They removed in con- 
sequence to Huntspill, her husband’s native 
plage; and here, for the last six years, have 
they resided. At this place Mrs. Jennings’s 
sphere of usefulness soon began to evolve; and, 
after many a watchful hour over the aguish 
shivering of her. sick children, she felt it her 
duty to attend to the distresses of rhe neigh- 
bouring poor: chearfully and.with anxious 
pleasure did she visit them; her means for 
their relief gradually augmenting 3 and there 
can be no doubt but, had she lived, she must 
have shone, as she began to be, one of the 
brightest ornaments of human nature. Cour- 
ted, as she was, by’ the respectable inhabi- 
tants of the neighbourhood, she declined 
their solicitations ; and has, beyond qu<ftion, 
received more pleasure from contributing to 
the relief of the comfortless and: destitute, 
than she could possibly promise herself, or 
find, in quadrille or ombre. To every tale 
of woe she lent a willing ear. She knew, 
she felt, that she could not, she durst not, 
live for herself. Asa mother she was kind, 
tender, and affegtionate, to the last degree. 
Having been visited with so much sickness, 
both in herself and her children, she was 
lessoned long in deepest sympathy Feeling 
and knowing the kindness and attention which 
sick children require,~her advice was ever 
ready respecting their management 3 and, of 
how much comiort she has been the cause to 
those little tendrils is impossible to say; but 
her efforts are recorded in unperishable sculp- 
ture. When we hear. of a woman stepping 
forward to succour the distressed it is im- 
possible not to feei an elevated pleasure ; but 
ifa sullen and unfeeling husband interposes 
his scowling front, on all her well meant and 
anxious endeavours, how painful must be her 
Situation ; happily however for Mrs. Jennings 
such was not the case. Her husband was 
proud of her labour in the vineyard of charity, 
and seconded her endeavours with every 
Wish of his soul: happy would he be could.he 
hail her mistress of the vineyard still. She 
delighted in the beauties of nature; and the 
Season of spring was to her the season of plea- 
Sure: surpassed indeed when she ¢¢ taught 
the young ideas how to shoot, and poured the 
fresh instruction o’er the mind.” An adept 
an the scieace of music, she solaced herself 
and her family, occasionally, with an air on 
the harpsichord; her execution upon which, 
was tasteful and masterly; latterly however, 
that pleasure gave way to more momentous 
concerns. She was well acquainted with the 
most celebrated composers ; Corelli was her 
greatest favourite, Often has she touched 
that sublime Giga; that mixture of lively 
and grave, which, who that has heard can 
scarcely forget, and he who has net can hardly 
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-Her' picty was unafiected; Her 
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conceive; that which is said to be engraved 
on the composer’s tomb. It was in the nicest 
harmony with her feelings, and gave ber in- 
finite delight. She hada competent know- 
ledge of the French language , and an inti- 
mate acquaftance with our own could not 
escape her. In poetry she delighted ; Shaks- 
peare was interwoven with her language ; 
Shenstone too, she much admired. Of living 
peets, Southey and Colcridge had much share 
of her attention; and the elegant, the plain- 
tive Bowles, 
‘< Her temples trembling texture seem’d 
to suit, : 
As airs of sadness the responsive lute.” 
The tedious trash of novels she rarely, in- 
deed, looked over: Werter and Makenzie’s 
Man of Feeling must, however, be excepted. 
But in what, as a mental accomplishment, 
_ she peculiarly excelled, was an all-comman- 
ding and irresistible eloquence. Her Copia 
Verborum, was cansiderably more extensive 
than falls tothe lot of most women; and Her 
appropriate collocation -: ‘words and elegant 
terseness of erpresoioni, were surprizing. It 
is impossible ws aescribe what effect her so- 
lemn, yet animated conversation had upon 
your mind. It got possession of you, as it 
were, in-spite of yourself, and hurried \ou 
irresistibly away. One anecdote is sufficient : 
Having visited a poor, filthy and neglected 
sick woman, whom scarcely any one, even of 
the poor, would visit or assist, because she 
was filthy; having washed her tace, -and put 
her on some clean linen with her own hands 5 
and laying at the same time a so’t pillow, 
instead of a bundle of ‘rags, under her head, 
she was impellec immediately ailterwaras, to 
visit some of her inends with the avowed 
design of awakening them to the wonian’s 
distress and danger.- She found them at the 
usual routine or company, but no sooner had 
she proceeded in her tale, than every tongue 
was silent; and at length, involuntary tears 
rolled down their cheeks at her emphatic, 
yet true description. From this moment the 
poor woman found iriends, ( who had indeed 
heard o; her situation. betore, but they could 
not believe that it was half so bad, ) and there 
is great reason to believe that Mrs. Jennings’s 
interposition saved her Jie. It certainly 
cannot be ill-timed to remark that this case 
of distress was known, therefore it could not 
be passed over: how many of the kind are 
unknown, and the sufferers conseqnently 
sink, is leit to the humane to tconjecture.| 
religion 
without cant: and, trusting in the revealed 
will of Deity, she oftered in simplicity, her 
supplication to the Father of Metcies. The 
complaint.of which she died was a very vio- 
lent one, termed by the faculty, pneumonie. 
In the seventh month of her pregnancy with 
her seventh child she was seized on Monday 
evening, April the 6th, having, however, 
previously complained of indisposition for a 
week; she miscarried the next night—her 
disease, 
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