r--we regret and pity her. We wonder she was so good--we
sorrow at the impurity,--not so much of the beset actress, as of her
position. We know that, though fallen, she was not depraved. She was not
avaricious, nor intriguing, nor ill-tempered, nor unjust. Her regard for
literature (though she could hardly sign her own name) proved the
up-looking of her better nature; and her charity was unbounded. Shall
we--reared and instructed in all righteous ways--shall we show less
charity to the memory of one who in her latter days rose out of the
slough into which circumstance--not vice--had plunged her? Shall we be
less charitable than the bishop who honored her memory and his own
character by recording her benevolence, her penitence, her exemplary
end? The good bishop's testimony renders it needless that we "point a
moral." There was "joy in heaven" over one sinner that repented. Who but
One can judge the heart? Let charity hold up her warning finger, often,
when we "think evil:" and consideration, "like an angel" come, when
harsh judgment dooms an "erring sister." Above all, let us adopt the
sentiment of the poet (and our pilgrimage to Sandford Manor House will
not be in vain):

"If thy neighbor should sin, old Christoval said,
Never, never, unmerciful be!
For remember it is by the mercy of God,
Thou art not as wicked as he!"[K]

FOOTNOTES:

[B] The appearance of Whitehall from the Thames in the reign of Charles
II. may be seen in our woodcut. The beautiful Banqueting-house of Inigo
Jones was crowded among a heterogeneous mass of ugly buildings connected
with the exigencies of the court. Beside the houses, to the spectator's
left, was a large garden extending to the river, with fountains and
parterres. A small garden also projected into the river in front of the
buildings; and here Charles used to view the civic processions of the
Lord Mayor, who on the day of his taking the oaths at Westminster,
generally gratified the sovereign and other sight-seers with a pageant
on the Thames, in some degree adulatory of the monarch. The king resided
here so constantly, that the most striking pictures of his private
manners are recorded to have happened at Whitehall, and for which the
graphic pages of Pepys, Evelyn, and De Grammont may be consulted.
Whitehall, indeed, has obtained its chief interest from its connection
with the Stuarts. The Banqueting-house, erected by James I., in front of
which his unfortunate son wa