us both of the corruption of her nature, and the
deficiencies of her life. This consciousness I trust will continue
to stimulate her vigilance without which all religion will decline,
and to maintain her humility, without which all religion is vain.

"My dear Charles! a rational sense of felicity lies open before you
both. It is lawful to rejoice in the fair perspective, but it is
safe to rejoice with trembling. Do not abandon yourself to the
chimerical hope that life will be to you, what it has never yet
been to any man--a scene of unmingled delight. This life, so bright
in prospect, will have its sorrows. This life, which at
four-and-twenty seems to stretch itself to an indefinite length,
will have an end. May its sorrows correct its illusions! May its
close be the entrance on a life, which shall have no sorrows and no
end.

"I will not say how frequently we talk of you, nor how much we miss
you. Need I tell you that the person who says least on the subject,
is not the one that least feels your absence? She writes by this
post.

"Adieu, my dear Charles! I am with great truth your attached
friend, and hope before Christmas to subscribe myself your
affectionate father,

"FRANCIS STANLEY."

Delightful hope! as Miss Stanley, when that blessed event takes place,
will resign her name, I shall resume mine, and joyfully renounce forever
that of

C[OE]LEBS.

THE END.

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