Obituary.

should swear that you hat ! borne a child . ' She soon after married a young man who hadcourted . lersoiue time . Sh ' esaid , that , some time after her marriage , her husband asked her what became of her pregnancy previous to their marriage ? To which , she said , she replied , // never came to good !' It surely came to evil for a )) parties . Immediately thisphvsician of the soul

upon , a was sent for , and , soon , two more divines ; all ; or at least some one , earnestly exhorted her to fly to Christ , shewing , or rather endeavouring to shew her , the gracious promises of ( he . Redcemer to all who vvillcometo him— 'Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out "— 'Though sins be as scarletthey shall be white

your , as snow Mhough they be red as crimson , they shaffbc as wool . ' Isaiah . But , alas ! for her , poor , unhappy woman , she was not enabled ; o come ; for , heruniform reply was , when she was entreated to cry to the Lord J ^ sus for mercy and pardon , ' I cannot even namebisname /—I cannot utter it!—I am d 1 | toalleternitv!—I see

, I feel the flames of Hell within and all around me ! ' Thus died this unhappy woman , of , as all said about her , no disorder but a wounded spirit ; not having-, as the medical men who attended her said , any bodily disorder—only the horrible agonies of her mind !

In a parish poor house in the vicinity of London , Thomas Troughton , originally a plasterer , but latterlya painter . He was remarkable for being the writer of a narrative of extraordinary-cruelty suffered by him and 2 / more , in a state of slavery , under Muley Abdullah , Emperor of Fez and Morocco , from January , 1745 , to December 175- ? when tney wereali relieved

, , by the privatebounty of his late Majesty , George II . through the medium of W . Lattou , Esq . ambassador to Morocco . — After theirdeliverance , they shewed themselves publicly at Sadler ' s Wells , where they had a benefit , and wore the very irons they had on in their stale of slavery . A new edition of this book was published at Exeter

, by Brice , in 1787 , for the benefit of Timothy Lebeau , one of the crew , and who had long kept the Turkey Slave public-house in Brick-lane , Spita ! -fie ! ds , and is now a watchman in the ward of Broadstreet , near St . Bennet Fink church , — Troughton's book is curious , as it contains traits of the unnatural policy

many of the despot of the country , and mav be presumed to be true , as the work was vouched for , upon oath , before F . Cockayne , Mayor , at Justice-ball , in tbe Old Bailey , April 22 , 1751 . From this it appears , that they were part of the crew of she Inspector privateer , of London , Capt .

Veale ' commander , who were wrecked in Tangier Bay , on the coast of Batbary , Jan . 4 , 174 ; , and aftewards"Became slaves to the Moors for near six years , till they were brought home in the 13 landlord man of war ,. which arrived at Portsmouth , March 22 , 1751 . This poor man was many years afliii ted with an unseemly excrescencea fistulait is believedin his face

, , , , which at last deprived him of one of his eyes . " ' . ' In an obscure lodging in the neighbourhood of the Borough of Southwark , in his 74 th year , Thomas Smith , Esq . whose life was a compound of luxury and distress ; who , partly by his own imprudence , and partly by the villainyofothers , ran through '

a property that falls to the lot of a few , and was reduced to subsist , for some few years previous to his death , in a great measure , on the liberality of others . He ivas only son of Col . Thomas S . of the Coldstream regiment of foot guards ; at whose death , in 1742 , he inherited the paternal estate at Perbeck-heathcoHants

,. , worth 1400 I . a year , which he sold to Pe .-ter Taylor , Esq . for 22 , 5 col . In 1762 he succeeded the late Edward Smith , Esq . ( who was 30 years M . P . for the county of Leicester ) ' in all the large and valuable estates of Sir Edward Smith , bart . of Edmomhorpe , in thesaid county . The

mansion of the estate at Edmonthorpe he sold to the present possessor , William Pochh-, Esq . for 25 , 000 ! . He was patron of the advowson of Husbands Bosworth , worth 700 I . per annum , which he disposed of to the lady of Sir Richard Hughs , for $ iccl . Other estate ' s , at Melton Mowbray and Eye Kettleby , in the said county , now worth Sool annumhe sold for zyoaj .

. per , His fine estate at Great Carlton , co . Lincoln , the annual rent of which is more than 1000 I . with the patronage of the rectory of Little and Castle Carlton , he mortgaged to the late John Manners , Esq . and , by neglect in paying either principal or interest , suffered a foreclose ! to take place by degree of the Court of Chancery ,

and was deprived of it for little more than half its value . He was possessed of other estates in the counties of Middlesex and Rutland , which were disposed in a manner similar to the above . He married Jane , eldest daughter of John Bridger , Esq . of Rutbourn , co . Sussex , by whom he lias left three sons and three daughters .

He was one of the verdurers of the forest of Bear , co . Hants , and by his death there becomes a vacancy , but no salary is annexed thereto . * . Lately at his seat at Steeple-Aston , co . Oxford , after a . most agonizing illnes , Edward Taylor , - Esq . B . CL , ' ile was