the were committed by the justices and that it was but lying in prison a few weeks, and then she must be quitted and set as liberty. Thus she says, they flattered, and flung her out of her defence.

It was further urged to her, you persstoin affirming that Alice Diamond< no role > brought those files, to your room unknown to youWere there no circumstance to prove, that you made an ill use of those files, Were there no light guineas, or goldust found upon you when apprehended She answered, No such things;money but a few halfpence Had you heused a these files in filing of guineas a Instead of a direct negative she said, no one could say such a thing, her is there any such thing proved in the trial or so be seen in the Sessions paper.

Though she was brought up in the church of Rome the frequently attended divine service with us and when reproached for it by some foolprisoners, she declared, "No man should hinder her from hearing the word of God." But she held this good purpose no longer than till the next visit from a priest of that persuation, whose undue (not to say) tyrannic influence over their people, depends on their ignorance of the sacred scriptures, and whose authority in this nation they know will never prevail but in proportion as they can by every are seduce unwary people from the knowledge, veneration and love of the scriptures, and those ministers who teach themand sidelity profaneness and fects without numbers make way for popery. These thoughts are published free as they arise on this occasion not quire unprovoking on seeing this and another poor convict who had made the like honest profession and practised accordingly, remanded back from the light and liberty of truth into the chains of error and darkness, for they dared no more appear at our chapel, where the word of God is daily read and explain'd to them, before which the dangerougs delusions of popery cannot long maintain their ground.

I Know it has been often said that Popery is the finest religion in the world to be hanged with" but. I could never see the truth or reason of this unweigh'd opinion. If to go out of the world without making any true acknowledgment or satisfaction to the offended public of private party, if to die with alie in their month, and this relying on the false peace of an absolution obtained by an auricular a confession to a priest, instead of trusting to the only comfortable absolution by divine authority promised on the sure terms of true repentance and faith unfeigned, if this be the comfort they give to dying sinners in will never he envied them by any intelligent christian. Nor can the idolatrous worship paid to the host in their sacrifice of the mass, nor their prayers offered up to faints and angels. their new mediators, afford them any true consolation in compa-