wish to recollect the final feparation and earnestly invited me to return, between us. I can only fay, that my with her to their habitation, and to father was only disturbed in his last make it my home; but I could not moments by the thoughts of leaving think of accepting this offer, though me without any fupport, but what I for the shortest time; not that I was could acquire by my own industry. afraid of trusting myfelf with Mr. He left me, however, what was infi- Graham; I was only apprehenfive nitely valuable, he left me a collec- that my fifter, if fhe fondly loved him, tion of precepts for my future con- might confider every mark of civility duct in life, and that collection served from him to me, as a revival of that as a fortune to me: and I derived affection which he had once pretended from it more real happiness than the to have felt for me; and of which he moft affluent circumftances could have was apparently fenfible enough to acbestowed on me, had I been of a dif- cufe himself for having reduced me→ ferent way of thinking. in confequence of his defertion, in I felt the lofs of my father fo keen-favour of my fifter-to the fad neceffityly at first, that I thought I fhould of labouring for my fubfiftence-a nehave funk under it; but by ftruggling ceffity which Kitty alfo deplored; with my affliction, I, at length, fo and they both declared themselves unfar got the better of it, as to be ca- happy on my account. In fhort they pable of employing my mind about difcovered fuch strong figns of rethe most probable ways of procuring a morfe for what they had done, that decent fubfiftence. "My aunt very my diftreffes were doubled by them, kindly made me an offer of living and I was glad when I prevailed on with her, upon her fmall income, but them to leave me it was first agreed I could not think of incroaching up- between us, however, that as Kitty on her goodness: and indeed if I had had a home, and I no house at comaccepted of her kindness, the habi- mand, my father's goods, &c. would tual ease of an idle life might have be more fafe with her till my brother's rendered me more unwilling to work; return; and that they might then be for as her income arofe from an annu- divided among us three. When this ity, I could not expect to live always matter was fettled I prepared to go to in a ftate of idleness, nor did I wish my aunt, for a few days, to pay my to live fo. My mind, indeed, was refpects to her, and to confult her, as fo deeply affected by the late melan- my oldeft relation, my kindest friend, choly fcenes, in which I had been en- about the way of life which would be gaged, that I wanted employment; most eligible for me to pursue. I wanted to do fomething which would prevent me from dwelling upon what was fo diftreffing: I therefore declined my good aunt's affectionate offer, though not without promifing to make her a long vifit, as foon as I could properly fecure the little money my father bequeathed, between my brother, my fifter, and myfelf (amounting to no more than three hundred pounds) and the furniture, &c. On the death of my father, Kitty came immediately to fee me. During his illness he was at a diftance upon a tour with fome of Mr. Graham's relations. Mr. Graham, alfo, accompanied her to the vicarage, where we had once known fo many happy hours, At this moment Mrs. Mafters came to fee me, and infifted upon taking me home with her; telling me that I might send a letter to my aunt for her approbation: adding, at the same time, that he looked upon me as perfectly weil qualified to be a governefs to young ladies; and that he thought I fhould not only make a refpectable appearance in that character, but find it advantageous to me. Befides, Eliza, continued fhe, you were naturally born a governefs; have you not been one to all your fifters? more especially to that ungrateful, deceitful girl. Kitty ?" I told her I would be any thing the pleafed, provided the would not be fo fevere upon my fifter, who The Life of Mrs. Ann Baynard. 21 "Mrs. bout thirteen years old. "The work who was really not half fo much in | daughters, the eldest of whom was afault as Mr. Graham, if a man could be reasonably blamed for chufing the mot amiable woman for his wife. "Not the moft amiable, Lizzy," replied the, haftily: "the moft beautiful, if you pleafe, but not the most lovely, for all that: far from it." In spite of my grief, I could not help fmiling at Mrs. Mafters's eagerness to pay me a compliment, and, at lat, confented to go home with her, after having written to my aunt. I was received by her whole family with as much pleasure as I had been upon any former vifit: they all ftrove to amufe me, and to make me forget that I had any occafion for forrow, while Mrs. Agreeably to Mrs. Mafters's recomMafters bufied herfelf in finding out a mendation, I was received by Mrs. family that wanted a young perfon to Grantum with civility, mingled with infract their daughters, in French, haughtinefs. She did not ask me a nee le work, &c. &c. The young fingle queftion with regard to my beladies, following the example of their ing capable of inftructing her daughmother, in difcovering an alacrity to ters, but only dwelt upon my being of serve me, advised me to apply myfelf a good family, and upon my having to mufic, as they thought that I always lived like a gentlewoman, denight, with my natural tafte, im-claring, that she could not bear to have prove myfelf enough to make it of a vulgar perfon about her girls. use to me. At first I did not listen to (To be continued) the advice of thefe young ladies, recollecting the reafons which both my father and mother had urged against the ftudy of mufic; but Mrs. Mafters very juály obferved, "that when they difapproved of my being fond of it, the did not forefee that it could be of any fervice to me---but now," added the, "I think that if you can make yourHIS fenfible, learned, and pious felf capable of giving the flightest in- gentlewoman was born at Prefftructions to the children who may be ton, in Lancashire, and was the belovcommitted to your care, you will find ed daughter, and only child, of Dr. it a profitable accomplishment." I Edward Baynard, fellow of the coldid not, however, immediately at-lege of Phyficians in London, a gentend to my mufic, not imagining that tleman of a very ancient and refpectaI fhould have time to make any figure ble family, by Ann his wife, daughwith it; but having always had a frong inclination that way, I, infenfoly, fell into it, and as it diverted my attention from what only made Epitome of the LIFE of Mrs. ANN [From Dr. GIEBONS' Memoirs of emi- THIS ter * Mr Collier, in his great Historical Dictionary, derives his defcent from the famous me unhappy, I was prompted to pur-Ralph Baynard, who came into England with fue it with avidity. During my ftay with Mrs. Mafters, which was not long, as the foon heard of a family where a young perfon was wanted to act as governess to four King William the First, and who, for his conduct and courage at the battle at Haftings, was rewarded by the Conqueror with eighty five lordships, wh ch are specified in Dugdale's Baonage,. Vol. I p. 461. He made a great figure at that time, as appears froig feveral of our fed up in the knowledge of thefe things. and had made fuch a great progrefs in them, that at the age only of three and twenty years he had attained to the knowledge of a profound philofopher. But that which most challenges our ter of Robert Rawlinfon, efquire, of Cark, in the fame county. The father, upon the difcovery of his daughter's elegant and fprightly genius, joined with a natural propenfity to learning, moft generously gave her a very liberal education, which the improved to the best and nobleft pur-admiration is that one fo young, of an pofes. For her character we are in- infirm conftitution, and the tendereft debted to the reverend and learned fex, not accustomed to the advantages John Prude, M. A. who preached her of the philofophic fchools, fhould in funeral fermont, and who tells us the hard knotty arguments of metain the introductory part of it, " phyfical learning be a moft nervous that as the learned and ingenious young and fubtle difputant. From her agentlewoman never made a fhow of mazing fuccefs let none defpair or any fondness or affectation in her out- complain of the roughness of the path, ward drefs, when living, fo a plain or the acclivity of learning's hill, for and ordinary one may be the better fhe was a clear and lively inftance that excufed, now the is dead. neither the crabbednefs of languages,. nor the abftrufenefs of the arts and sciences are too hard to be conquered by indefatigable dilligence and application. As for learning, fays he, whether it be to understand natural caufes and events, to know the courfes of the fun, moon, and ftars, the qualities of herbs, and plants, to be acquainted with the demonftrable verities of the mathematics, the study of philofophy, the writings of the ancients, and that in their proper language, without an interpreter, thefe, and the like, are the most noble accomplishments of an human foul, and accordingly bring great delight and fatisfaction along with them, and in these things this young lady was not only converfant, but he was miftrefs of them, and that to fuch a degree as few of her sex have ever arrived. She had from her infancy been train hiftorians. Mr. Collier makes it a queftion which had done more honour to the name and family of Baynard, the first Ra ph, or the laft Ann. We are perfuaded if Mr. Collier had given the palm to the lads, that it had been a juft award; for what are the trophies of he field to the acquefts of found learning, or the power over men to the internal powers of godlinefs, which, as on the wings of eagles, carry us into the bofom of our God, and the glories of eternity? At the parish church of Barnes. The fr mon was printed and cedicated to the lady Mary Fane; the lany Ca hatine Longueville, the lady Rachel Delves; malam Mary Bampfield; madam Diana Montague; madam Mary Ewer; and madam Catharine Broncker; the three laft relfed to, and all admirers of the deceased, and equally admired by her. She took great pains to perfect her knowledge in the Greek tongue, that the might with the greater pleasure read that elegant father faint Chryfoftome, in his own pure and native ftile; and her good acquaintance with the Greek Teftament, in which the was much converfant, was a great help to her improvement in that language. She was not fatisfied with reading only, but fhe fet herfelf to the compofing of many things in the Latin tongue, which were uncommon and useful in their kind, and were written in a beautiful ftile. She had indeed a vast and comprehenfive knowledge, a large and exalted mind, and a strong and capacious memory, and was ftill coveting more and more knowledge, and in this particular alone fhe would of ten fay, "It was a fin to be contended with but a little." But after all thefe acquifitions and endowments, with profound humility, and proftration of mind, the would cry out with the Apostle Paul, "I count all things but lofs for the excellency of the knowledge of Chrift Jefus my Lord," in which knowledge the was no fmall proficient. Phil. iii. 8. She The Life of Mrs. Ann Baynard. She has been heard to fay, "that human learning was worth nothing unlefs as an handmaid it led to the knowledge of Chrift revealed in the Gofpel, as our only Lord and Savi our." She would difcourfe finely after this manner, by which the evinced the devotion of her fpirit, and how well religion was understood, and how much it was preferred by her. "What avails Solomon's skill in all the works of nature, if by them we are not brought to fee the God of nature? What is it to be fo fkilful in aftronomy, or the knowledge of the heavens, as that we can foretel things to come, if we never ftudy by our holy practice to arrive at thofe bleffed regions?-What is it to be so skilful in arithmetic, as that we can divide and fubdivide to the fmalleft fractions, if, as God hath revealed unto us in his holy word, we do not fo learn to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wifdom *"What is it for a phyfician to be fo fkilful in forefeeing and preventing the diseases of the body, if, as God hath revealed unto him, he knows not where to find that balm of Gilead, the wine and oil of that Samaritan, the Lord Jefus Chrift, to pour into the fettered wounds of his own feul and confcience +? 23 heaven, as knowing that the furest way of overcoming the world, and living above it, was, to withdraw herself from it, and that the best preparatory for death was to die daily in holy folitude and privacy. By this practice he had difpofed her mind for the time of her diffolution, and it appeared that it pleafed God to give her fome distant prefages of it. About two years before her death her meditations leading her in her folitary walks into the church-yard, and refting herself in the porch there, and no doubt ruminating on her mortality, which the place fuggefted to her, a fudden thought, a ftrong impulfe broke in upon her mind, that in a fhort time the fhould die, and be buried in that church-yard. The impulfe was fo far from cafting any horror or melancholy into her mind, that on the contrary it made her in love with the place, and the was ever after defirous to retire there, and accordingly chofe it for the spot in which he would be buried. We shall not do justice to the character of this young gentlewoman, if we do not mention her charity, which indeed in her circumstances could not be very extraordinary as to fums, but it was truly fo in the cheerfulness and contancy of her giving, for, whatever her allowance was, the duly laid afide Such was her frequent difcourse. a certain portion of it for benevolent This the heavenly manna that often and pious ufes. But her charity did dropt from her lips. As further evi- not top here, but raised itself to an dences of her piety, he gave her con- higher degree of fpirituality, and beftant attendance on the word and fa-yond the fcene of this world. She had crament, and the daily prayers of the church, and was never abfent from them unless prevented by fome bodily infirmity, with which in the latter part of life fhe was much afflicted. Nor were her private devotions lefs than thofe that were public. In her dofet, with holy David, the communed with her own heart, and fecretly examined the ftate and condition of her foul, that the might ftand in awe, She readily embraced all opportunities of retirement that fe might have the better intercourfe with a great love for the fouls of men, and was heavily afflicted with the errors, follies, and vices of the age, to fee that thofe, who called themfelves Chriftians, fhould by bad principles, and worfe practices, difhonour their profeffion, and not only hazard their own falvation, but that of their weak brethren too, for whom Chrift died; and this temper of mind made her not only importunate in her interceflions for the good of the world, but gave. her courage and difcretion above her years and fex to benefit the fouls of thofe with whom the converfed By friendly friendly reproof, good counfel, or fome learned or pious discourse. In the exercife of this Chriftian love fhe lived, and in this fhe died: " and here, fays the minister abovementioned, who preached her funeral difcourfe, that I may not be thought to flourish, be pleafed to understand that fhe defired me on her death-bed, that I would exhort all young people to the ftudy of wisdom and knowledge, as the means to improve their virtue, and bring them to the trueft happiness, and this I think I cannot do better than in the words which were taken from her own mouth, just upon her departure, when her foul was hovering upon her lips ready to take wing for that other world. Her words were thefe, which were faithfully penned down, and delivered into my own hands." I defire, fays fhe, that all young people may be exhorted to the practice of virtue, and to increase their knowledge by the study of philofophy, and more especially to read the great book of nature, wherein they may fee the wisdom and power of the great Creator in the order of the univerfe, and in the production and prefervation of all things. It will fix in their minds a love to fo much perfection, frame a divine idea, and an awful regard of God, which will heighten devotion, lower the fpirit of pride, and give an habit and difpofition to his fervice. It will make us tremble at folly and profanenefs, and command reverence and proftration to his great and holy name. That women, fays fhe, are capable of fuch improvements which will better their judgments and understandings, is past all doubt, would they but fet to it in earnest, and spend but half of that time in study and thinking, which they do in vifits, vanity, and folly. It would introduce a compofure of mind, and lay a folid bafis and ground-work for wifdom and knowledge, by which they would be better enabled to ferve God, and help their neighbours." Mr Prude being minifter of the parish, had fundoubtedly frequent op portunities of forming a right judgment of the lady. But though he has given us fuch a large and fatisfactory account of her excellencies, yet he feems to lament it as his infelicity that he knew her but fo little a time before fhe was removed from our world, and he was called to preach her funeral difcourfe. " I should otherwise, fays he, have learned much more from her; I fhould, as the wise man speaks of wifdom in general, have attended to her wifdom, and bowed my ear to her understanding." (To be continued.) An affecting Inftance of PARENTAL W ERE men convinced that their virtues, their vices, and confequently their happiness and mifery depended on the manner in which they fuffered the fenfations of their hearts to regulate their actions, they would affiduoufly watch these tender emotions; and fo far from employing them as chance directed, they would take the utmost care to render them conformable to the dictates of reason. The inftance I am going to relate will be fufficient to fhew, that paternal affection will fometimes carry us to the greatest excefs. Perfons may boaft of the tenderness of the pelican for its young; but we fhall here fee a father offer his life, nay more, his hopes of future happinefs, to fupport his family. I do not pretend to excufe this excefs of paffion; I know it is highly criminal: "but while we condemn the action, we must admire the motive. It may also serve as a lesson to thofe unfeeling mortals whose hearts are ftrangers to the tender pleadings of compaffion, and from whofe breafts the griping hand of intereft has banished every fenfation that has a tendency to render man a worthy member of fociety. Such perfons, indeed, are unworthy to be joined with the bears and tigers; thefe favage inhabitants of the defart will not treat their own species with cruelt |