latter. God "honours those who honour him ;"-and every where it will be seen, that "the hand of the diligent maketh rich."

At an early age my daughter was placed in a respectable ladies' school at Brighton : but so strong were her attachments to home, that I believe she was far from being happy in the new circumstances in which she found herself. Her agitation, I have since learned, on receiving the first letter from me, was so great, that she held it for some time in her hand in a state of stupor, and then burst into a flood of tears. The first unfavourable impressions of school were never afterwards completely worn away; and though her excellent governess showed her much kindness, I found the return to Brighton, after every vacation, was so painful, that I removed her at length to Kensington Square, a much shorter distance from home; and on that, as well as some other accounts, more accordant with our mutual wishes. Change of situation,

increase of years, and greater firmness of mind, rendered her future continuance at school far less disagreeable than it had been before; but still, her affections were so entirely domestic, that I believe she always considered her absence from home as a necessary evil, which it was her duty to bear with as much fortitude and composure as she could acquire. Had it been as much a matter of choice, as it was of necessity, I believe that these separations, so painful to both parties, would never have taken place : but my own scholastic engagements utterly precluded her being kept at home. And it is in this way, I presume, that the general question, as to the expediency of sending daughters from home, to receive their education, usually resolves itself. It is not so much an affair of comparative advantages and disadvantages, as it is of imperious circumstances; and against these it is in vain to contend.

It was to the pious and affectionate, but firm and prudent management of her excellent governess, that I attribute, under God,

much of the character for which she was afterwards distinguished. Early impressions of the best nature had undoubtedly been previously made, and the good seed had taken some root; but as yet nothing decisive of character had taken place. The mind was flexible; evil tendencies were strong; and pious habits were yet unformed. Much depended on the individual to whom she was now to look, not only for instruction, but example, whether her previous impressions should be deepened and become permanent; or whether they should be entirely effaced: whether the seed should produce fruit, or be choked with weeds; and happy was it, both for our beloved daughter and ourselves, that we had not mistaken the character to whom we had intrusted her education. The instructions of her early infancy were ably seconded; and an example as amiable as it was correct, and as prudent as it was Christian, was constantly before her. The result was such as might be anticipated: the suitable means had been employed, in hope of God's

blessing upon them, and that blessing was abundantly bestowed. Our dear daughter was at length restored to the bosom of her family, to our mutual joy, not only with a mind well stored with the most useful and ornamental elementary knowledge, which was a matter of great importance; but, what was paramount to every thing else, with a heart duly affected towards God, and religious truth; prepared to advance to higher attainments in the divine life, and ready to take an active part in promoting whatever might bring glory to God, or good to man.

It affords me a high gratification to add, that a mutual esteem and affection ever afterwards subsisted between my beloved daughter and Mrs. Bowden (for this was the name which her governess, Miss Hance, afterwards acquired by marriage ;) and a correspondence was kept up between them to the last nor was it a little affecting to us, that, after more than a year's interruption to their letters, one from Mrs. Bowden, written, it should seem, about the time

when the spirit of my dear daughter was quitting its earthly tenement, arrived at Chobham, when she lay a corpse in her chamber. Her mother and myself had that morning been talking over the events of her life, and endeavouring to fix on the particular periods of it when her mind seemed to have received its strongest impressions of religious truth, and the most decided bias to a Christian course: and we dwelt, with peculiar thankfulness, on that portion of her time which she had spent with this lady. At the reception of this letter I need not say that the fountain of our tears was again opened. We said to each other, O, how delighted would our dear Hannah have been, had she been permitted to receive this renewed token of the affectionate remembrance of one, whom she never thought of but with the kindest recollections; and never mentioned but with the greatest respect. In one part of this interesting letter, Mrs. Bowden observes, "Our knowledge of each other is a link in Providence, connected with so many others,