of Mrs. Rowe's Works, and an English Bible. Whilft thus employed, he was much charmed with the near refemblance between the English and Swedish Bibles, and his mind alfo began to be influenced by ferious thoughts of God, his foul, and eternity. He of courfe began to be anxious to quit a fituation which was in every refpect unfuitable to his views and feelings. Providence favoured his defire, and he was once more at liberty, and now attend. ed the means of grace at the Swedish Chapel and other places. Under the miniftry of the Rev. Mr. Bryfon he was led ferioufly to devote himfelf to God, by becoming a member of the Church, in communion with which he continued until the Lord took him to himself. He proved an honour to that fociety, by exhibiting in his character found nefs of judgment, a powerful experience of the truth upon his heart, and a walk and converfation both humble and holy. He now married a ferious young perfon of the fame church, and went into bufinefs, thinking to give over a fea-life; but through perfons getting into his debt, and the bufinefs yield, ing a very fmall profit, he loft all the property he had realized. He now went to fea again, in the employ of the Sierre Leona Company, which he left after the first voyage. He was then fome time out of fervice, and, with his amiable partner (who was at this time very ill) was reduced to great difficulties; but they exhibited a fubmiffion to the will of their heavenly Father, which was an honour to their chrifs tian profeffion. After this, the Lord graciously appeared for him, by in ducing Mr. M, an uncle of Mrs. G's, to put him into a fhip of his, as Captain, and he ultimately became a partowner of this fhip. Being a foreigner he failed under a neu tral flag: and though many trials attended this fituation, Providence fmiled upon his endeavours, and he was rifing in profperity when he made his laft voyage. He went down to the Nore in the latter end of November; Mrs. G. was with him, and had fome thoughts of going the voyage, which he had done more than once. They spent the two laft Lord's days together at Mr. Fowler's Meeting, Sheernefs; and they had not long before received the Lord's Supper together, for the laft time, at Mr Bogue's. When they were about to part, to fee each other no more upon earth, he faid to Mrs. G. whilft walking together on the quarter-deck, "My dear Betfey, I fear we love each other "too much, which may give our heavenly Father dif "pleafure, and caufe him to feparate us, for he will have no "idols; but, can they love too much who love in the Lord?" They then fung VOL. II. G "Bleft be the dear uniting love We ftill are join'd in heart." So reciprocal were their feelings at this interefting moment, that they mutually obferved they never before felt such peculiar tranquility at parting, or were fo fully difpofed to give up each other to the will of the Lord. On Mr. G's arrival at Hamburgh, he spent fome time in procuring a new fhip's company, and taking in a cargo for St. Lucar. During this time the weather was extremely boisterous, and Mrs. G. was much diftreffed at not receiving letters; but in a day or two after fhe received a letter, dated Bremen, December, 1798, faying, that he expected to fail the next day. From this letter we give the following extract: "Happy am I to hear of the progrefs of the Miffionary caufe, and that our dear minifters perfevere in the good work: give christian respects to them. Oh! may God blets you abundantly when fitting under the vine of divine ordinances, and grant that we may foon fit together! It is now near nine years fince that fweet day when you gave me in full trust fo beloved a charge as your whole and dear self; you became entirely mine, fo far as God hath ordained and doth allow creatures to be wholly each others. Bleffed be the remembrance of that day! Oh, my love! what shall we render to the Lord for all his fweet and numberlefs mercies through all these years which we have paffed? Still can we fing at times, cast down but not destroyed, but every time lifted higher and higher. O may the Lord continue to bless us to each other, and both to himfelf! May we still daily ftrive to love and be more lovely to each other, study how to become more pleasing and lefs hard to please; the latter does not belong to you. The Lord has given us children, and exalted them to his own manfions, fo that we are fure they are most happy. He has left us one as a particular monument of his mercy, now being as promifing as formerly he feemed the other way. Our temporal affairs, how are they changed for the better! and you, my love, with refpect to bodily health and ftrength, as well as myfelf, who am in daily and numberlefs dangers from without and within. But above all, let us be thankful that he has chofen us for himself, fo that neither of us is going alone in the heavenly road, like a dove mourning its mate; but we are enabled to take each other by the hand, and help to chear each other as we run in the heavenly way, afcend the mount of difficulty, or go through the gloomy valley. Such is our happy lot, and a thoufand things more might be faid. Oh, may the fame grace fill our hearts, lips and lives, with love and gratitude and may it be our continual concern while we live, and wherever we be, to praise and blefs his holy name. But I must now conclude: farewel, my dear love; our wedding anniversary is foon coming, if you fhould have no more, keep this letter for a wedding day compliment. May the Lord abundantly blefs and preferve thee many wedding days, as a happy wife and mother, with the happiest of husbands, A. GOTHER." TWO days only had elapfed after the receipt of this letter, which had diffipated her fears and gladdened her coun tenance, when one of the owners wrote to a friend of Mrs. G. that his hip's papers had been taken up under fuch circumftances as gave reafon to fear the veffel was loft, and all on board perished. She received thefe melancholy tidings, through the medium of fome friends, with the spirit of a Christian; but ftill cherished a hope that her much loved partner had efcaped, either in the boat, or in fome veffel in fight, which had not yet reached a port, or at least a distant one. Her mind was at laft fettled in a conviction of his lofs by the following circumftances :-A friend of her's was fpeaking on the next Lord's day of this melancholy intelligence in the Veftry of, when a gentleman prefent obferved, that a friend of his was in town from the coast of Effex, and had mentioned that part of the cargo and fome other effects of a fhip, fuppofed to have foundered at fea, had been taken up, among which, was a filver-headed cane. On reporting this to Mrs. G. fhe faid her husband had one which he much valued, because it was the gift of a particular friend; and that he always took it to fea with him, and mentioned the initial letters which were engraved on the head. On fending the defcription of it, it was found to be the fame, and it appeared that it came on fhore faftened with a cord to a large piece of wood. The poor man who found it, on receiving a prefent from the widow, willingly reftored it to her. piece of wood, in hope that it would ultimately reach the British fhore, and indicate what had befallen him, or whether he had, as a last effort, committed himself and his papers to this plank, is all uncertain; nor can the time, place, or manner of the fhip being loft, be precifely ftated, as no individual furvived to tell the pitiable tale. One thing is Whether it was thus faftened to this fure in the eftimation of his partner and friends, that he was an eminent Chriftian, and that their lofs is his eternal gain, ME MOIR OF THE REV. GEO. PATTRICK, LL. B. Late Vicar of Aveley; Joint Lecturer of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, and evening Lecturer of St. Bride's, Flect-street, London. [In a Letter to the Editor.] REV. AND DEAR SIR, TREADILY communicate fuch particulars concerning my much-loved friend as have occurred from perfonal obfervation, and have been obtained from fources of information which are authentic, though on leffer points, fuch as dates, &c. they may not be altogether accurate. This will, however, be of no material confequence. My intention being to prefent a faithful outline, and not a finished portrait. The Reverend George Pattrick was born at Marks Tey, a fmall vilage near Colchester, Effex, and defcended of a very refpectable family. His firft deftination in life was to the practice of an Attorney, and having ferved his clerkhip at Colchester, he entered on the practice, and was for a fhort period at Dedham, famous for the miniftry of Mr. Burkit, the vicar thereof, whofe Expofition of the New Tellament has been extenfively circulated, and defervedly efteemed.* At this time, or foon after, he took, chambers in the metropolis; but having diffipated a confiderable part of a moderate fortune left him by his father, and having little practice in the law, he was induced to change his profeffion, and entered himself as Fellow Commoner, at Sidney College, Cambridge: whence he proceeded, after the ufual exercifes, LL. B. Prior to this he had taken holy orders, and became curate of Aveley, Effex, the living of which he afterwands obtained from the late Bishop Lowth, through the interest of Lord Dacre, of Bell Houfe, in the parish of Aveley, who appointed him his Chaplain, and in whofe family and circle. of acquaintance he almoft wholly lived for many years, * Lately printed in a neat folio volume by the Editor and Pubfisher of this selection. His manners and converfation were fuch as rendered him petuliarly agreeable to the polite and fashionable world, and when eventually he became loft to their fociety, few men have ever been more regretted. Long, however, were fuch connexions a fuare to him, and his emancipation from the fhackles in which they held him was flow and gradual, He From the letter of a mutual and intimate friend I tranfcribe the following extract: "My acquaintance with him commenced, if I remember right, in the year 1786, at a period when he had fcarcely any other ferious friend at leaft, in London. He had been then feveral years under ferious impreffions, but it was ftill fome time longer before the religious world had any general knowledge of him. has told me how his views firft began to alter; and I think it was by the converfation of a female parishioner, who oc cafionally went to London, and heard the Rev. Mefirs. Newton, Foster, Cecil, &c. She earnestly recommended to him the hearing of them likewife, and his curiofity was excited to fulfil her wishes; though I remember hearing him fay, that he kept it from her that he did so; and always affected to receive her counsel with contempt. It pleafed God that he did not hear in vain; and having once heard, he heard frequently; he came often to town, and at length took lodgings, I believe chiefly with a view to fteal more time from his worldly connexions, and spend it unobferved in attending the preaching of the Gofpel. Of what he heard in the courfe of the week he always took notes, and thefe, a little enlarged, he ufually delivered to congregation on the Lord's day following. his own Thus he went on gradually acquiring light and ftrength, until he was appointed Chaplain of Morden College, on Blackheath, about the year 1787, through the interest of the late Lord Dacre, of Lee, his worthy friend and patron, to whom he had been Chaplain from the decease of his predeceffor in the title, Lord Dacre of Aveley, before mention ed. His preaching foon attracted a large congregation to the College Chapel; and his zeal here flamed out in a manner which furprized all who had not previously marked his progrefs. He now opened his houfe two evenings in the week prayer and expofition of the Scriptures, and that these exercifes firft initiated himself into the practice of extempora ry preaching. for |