nsparing hand would they bestow their
bounties, and with such magnificence reward desert; with such godlike
compassion cheer the afflicted, and just so make happy all around them:
but thou canst form no adequate idea, unless thou hast been in the
neighbourhood of that noble mansion, the seat of Mrs. Horner, at
Mulberry, Dorsetshire, where benevolence has fixed her seat. Permit me,
therefore, to transport thee thither, to bless thy sight with the
delightful scene. See, already, the parish church, rebuilt at her
expense, strikes the eye; it is she that has erected it to the honour of
her God. Thou art surprised, I see, to behold an eminent physician, who
is allowed a constant salary by her to visit the poor sick in her
neighbourhood, coming out of his chariot to enter the wretched huts of
poverty; but know, she has already paid his fees: see here another
compounding the choicest drugs and medicines for a whole neighbourhood;
it is her bounty that has supplied them. Cast your eye the other way,
and behold that company of aged and decrepid poor; they are going to
receive their daily bread at her table. But let us enter the poor
cottage; see, here are the holy Scriptures and other books of pious
instruction; and, hark! the lisping child is reading distinctly in one of
them; her munificence has bestowed these useful gifts, and instilled
instruction into that tender mind. Behold, with how dejected a look and
grief-swollen heart, with what a load of care, yon person enters the
mansion: but see, he returns--how changed his aspect! joy sparkles in his
eye, and thankfulness swells his exulting heart; content sits cheerful
upon his brow, and he no longer bends under his care: what wonderful
magic has wrought this sudden change?--the opening only of her beneficent
hand has done it.

What we are now going to relate will raise an honest indignation in the
breast of every true lover of liberty; for all such know that the
beauteous flower of liberty sickens to the very root (like the sensitive
plant) at the lightest touch of the iron hand of power upon any one of
its most distant branches.

Mr. Carew being in the city of Exeter with his wife, and, having visited
his old friends there, he walked to Topsham, about three miles distant,
leaving his wife in Exeter. Alas! little did he think this walk would
end in a long and cruel separation from his friends and country; little
did he imagine, that, in the land of freedom and justice,