Mary Cut and Come again< no role > This name instance is in set 3487. , otherwise White< no role > This name instance is in set 3487. , seemed to have but little sense of her state as a sinner, though very much shocked at her approaching fate; she seemed to wish, by the example of her companions, that the spectators would pray for her, and would have prayed for herself if any notion of that kind could have been inspired into her, who was a stranger to the very nature and use of prayer; considering all things, and her unhappy ignorance, she went out of the world as much like a Christian, as could be expected from one of her miserable character.

Lettice Lynn< no role > , behaved very well; confirmed her former confessions; owned the justice of her sentence; hoped for mercy through Christ as a real penitent, and died in peace with all the world.

POSTSCRIPT.

THE Ordinary having consented to commit the conduct of this paper for the future to a new editor, who has more at heart a due care and concern for truth and the welfare of society, than regard to the profits it may produce; it is much to be hop'd, that such papers as appear hereafter, will have the happiness to please people of the best understandings, by letting them into a true light of the causes of all the robberies and mischiefs committed by an unhappy set of people, who are, if I may so speak, regularly educated in villainy, and who have not, generally speaking, so much notion of happiness either here or hereafter, as to be acquainted with the terms, by which it is to be insinuated into them.

Had this paper been set out at first on a right principle, it's highly probable, that the situation of these unhappy people had been consider'd, and some natural remedies applied long ago; but as they have been hitherto generally farce and invention, contrived by the editor rather to lengthen out the paper, than to convey adequate ideas of the facts; so have they been accordingly esteemed, and rarely perused by any, but such as had as little understanding as the editor: When as nothing is more evident than the utility of such paper, wherein the lives and manners of those who are the enemies of society, are fairly and honestly delineated; it may contribute to the amusement of some, the information of others, and the emolument of many. To those who are bad it may be a terror; to those who are wavering between good and evil, a check; and to those who are good, by a natural contrast, illustrate their happiness, which is never so well understood as by a retrospect to misery. It may prove in the event the means of inducing some, who by a kind of natural benevolence are turn'd to good offices, to consider the lowest of their fellow