Hamilton did not survive her long. His health was already shattered by long confinement, and the chaffing of a proud spirit. Almira had died for him--and his own mother--oh! how cautiously did they whisper the sad truth, when he asked why _she_ who loved him better than her own life, had forsaken him in the hour of affliction--she, too, had sunk under the dreadful blow. His father lived a withered, melancholy man, crushed in spirit; and as his sister hung like a guardian angel over his death-bed, and he gazed at her pale, emaciated, sorrow-stricken countenance, he saw that she, too, would soon be numbered among the victims of this melancholy persecution. When, with his last breath, he suggested that they would soon meet, she replied: 'I trust that God will spare me to see your innocence established, and then will I die contented.' And her confidence was rewarded--for God does not disappoint those who put their trust in him. About a year afterwards, a wretch, who was executed at Natchez, and who was one of the three persons named in the commencement of this narrative, confessed that he had murdered Saunders, with a pistol which he had found at the place where the two friends had slept. 'I knew it would be so,'--was the only reply of the fast declining sister--and soon after she was buried by the side of Dudley and Almira.--Reader, this is not fiction--nor are the decisions of God unjust--but his ways are above our comprehension. EMILLION. LAW LECTURE AT WILLIAM AND MARY. A Lecture on the Study of the Law; being an Introduction to a course of lectures on that subject, in the College of William and Mary, by Beverley Tucker, Professor of Law.--Richmond: T. W. White. Nov. 1834.