give
them up entirely." She continued with her sister till the house which
had been taken for the latter was ready; during which time a gentleman
from Ireland, then living near the encampment, had her children every day
to his house, and taught them to read. The remembrance of him will be
precious to them for ever. She came on the day appointed, and her
children were put to the Infants' School, where they have continued ever
since, clean and respectable, and very diligent in their learning. They
often explain the Scriptures to their mother. One of them has long been
a monitor in the school. May she continue a credit to the institution in
which she has been so far educated.

Although the mother of these children is not yet decidedly pious, she is
very much improved. She is now able to read her Testament with tolerable
ease, takes great pleasure in receiving instruction, and we hope is
deeply impressed with the importance of personal religion. She attends
public worship diligently, and loves Christians, whom she once hated.
She weeps with abhorrence over past crimes, and says she would rather
have her hands cut off, than do as she has done. For more than twelve
months after living at Southampton, she continued occasionally to tell
fortunes for the gain it brought her. But a remarkable dream led her to
see the wickedness of this practice; for it so terrified her that she
rose from her bed, lighted a fire, and burnt the book in which she had
pretended to see the fortune of others. Large sums of money had been
offered her for this volume; but, though in extreme poverty, she
determined to make any sacrifice, rather than enrich herself by its sale.
She dreamed that she was at the adult school, where she regularly
attended, and, that while she was reading her Testament, it changed into
a book of divination, and she began to tell the fortune of the lady who
was teaching her; and while thus employed, she thought she heard awful
thunderings, and the sound of trumpets; after which a tremendous tempest
ensued, during which she fancied herself in an extensive plain, exposed
to all the fury of the storm. She then thought the day of judgment was
come, and that she was summoned to render up her account. She awoke in
great terror, and as soon as she had a little recovered herself, arose
and followed the example of those we read of in the Acts of the
Apostles:--_And many of them which also used curious arts_, _brought
their