or ten hours of severe suffering wore out nature's strength, and the honoured and talented statesman ceased to exist!

Thus perished-prematurely perished-in the midst of enjoyment, and in the height of public favour, a man who, whilst, by his private excellence, he won general esteem, by his public character, gained for himself most extensive admiration. The greatest commercial economist, probably, of the age, he became the idol of the mercantile world; the man to whom multitudes looked up for national greatness, and commercial prosperity. When, however, in the midst of many honourables, Liverpool would have done the highest honours to him whom they had elected as their representative-a man whose soundness of mind, and integrity of principle, were relied upon for domestic prosperity, he was suddenly and unexpectedly slain. Out of near five hundred thousand individuals congregated on that great occasion-he, who would have been perhaps the very last to have been given up voluntarily, was selected from among the vast assemblage-the others were left! The admonitory counsel of the Psalmist, seems here to have special application in regard to those who had made the lamented sufferer the idol of their dependence," Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help: his

breath goeth forth; he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.”

In this awful dispensation, it might be truly said," A great man hath fallen!" but his fall, apparently so contingent, was in the hands and under the controul of Him, who is "too wise to err, too good to be unkind." The calamity was designed, doubtless, to read to the world some impressive and profitable lesson. Oh that our merchants, and great men might, from such a solemn dispensation, be taught spiritual understanding, to learn not to trust, as the foundation of their dependence, in an arm of flesh, nor in the wisdom of man; but to trust in Him who ordains and controuls the powers that be; to seek blessings from Him whose blessing maketh rich -and to pursue after His favour by whom they are enabled to prosper!

During our residence in Liverpool-for the period of five years in which I held the Chaplaincy of the Mariners' Church-Frederick was generally with me at home. His health and strength, which had previously been so very feeble and critical, became considerably improved. He was subject, indeed, to occasional colds, and suffered, if not carefully tended, from indigestion; but at length he gained such a fair measure of health, as seldom to give us much anxiety. He

so improved in the strength and firmness of his limbs, as to be enabled to enjoy, among other modes of exercise, that of skating; and he became capable, without particular inconvenience, of walking considerable distances. Having also passed the ordeal, safely, of all the diseases incident to children, we began to have good hopes of his rising into manhood, and of his attaining to some approved condition of usefulness in life; but God saw it right and good, for him, to appoint otherwise;-when our hopes had risen the highest, God then had said that his days were numbered.'

In wisdom, the foregoing memorials sufficiently testify, that he advanced and grew: in mere learning, he made some progress, but not in like proportion: in stature, he made but slow advances, being very small and short, and child-like for his years.

CHAPTER V.

REMOVAL TO EXETER ;-RELIGIOUS PROGRESS AND
STATE OF FREDERICK'S MIND, AS ELICITED BY

HIS LETTERS, ETC. TO THE TERMINATION OF
HIS FIRST RESIDENCE FROM HOME.

The lov'd-ones we cherish, but cannot secure,
For this world too fondly we train ;-

Oh, let us make second'ry the things which allure,
And seek for our offspring those first which endure,
'God's kingdom and righteousness,' which all things make sure
To work for eternity's gain!

Of this period of the dear boy's life-comprising an interval of nearly three years-I find few or no memoranda. Reflections, observations, or sayings, indeed, which were striking and remarkable in a child, were now, in the case of a youth who had attained to Frederick's years, less particular; and hence the records previously made were discontinued. As to the particulars of his intelligent reflections, or of interesting conversations with him,-memory, unfortunately, supplies but little; though, as to these general facts, the impression is sufficiently clear and decisive-that

his observations, as formerly, were often very striking, and his conversations, occasionally, truly interesting; and that his meditations on his own spiritual condition, and his strivings against prevalent and constitutional besetments, were both frequent and manifest. His letters, however, after he was sent from home-in the concluding year of his brief life-afford, as far as they go, an interesting supply of materials; though unhappily, one, if not more, of the most striking of these documents, was destroyed. From these which remain, we derive some important and pleasing indications of character, as well as of the order and condition of his mind,-indications which become the more really charasteristic from his being encouraged to write without reserve.

Previous, however, to the giving of these particulars, the Author feels that it may be useful, for the sake of connection in the narrative, to say a few words in respect to his own removal to Exeter, because of the necessary bearing of that circumstance on the subsequent history of the subject of this Memorial.

Not to enter into personal history, however, more than absolutely necessary-the writer may briefly state, that his resignation of his post of so much importance at Liverpool, was occasioned, simply, by the unremitting sufferings of his be