“My heart is already too much affected. Your letter only adds affliction to my bonds. But I forbear. I would have called on you this morning, but I was too low in mind to speak to any friend but Jesus! _There_ I am truly comfortable. Pardon me; but I make no remarks on what you have been told. I must bear it, though I am able to contradict _three things_ I would rather not. Mr. and Mrs. Patrick have always dealt kindly to me. I am only grieved that dear Mrs. P. whom I really loved, that she should try to injure me in the estimation of those who are real friends to my dear children. The thought affects me. Why hurt my poor family? But I am too much depressed to enlarge. I shall never forget their kindness. God will reward them, as he has many who have dealt well to me. But he will resent cruelty in those who have and are still trying to degrade me. Mrs. P. will live to see it. Dear Mrs. Hunter, I am grieved at heart I cannot relieve your mind. I am truly sorry to lose you as a hearer, because your soul has been blest; and you know both the plague of the heart and the value of Jesus. May he be increasingly present to you in his person, love, and grace! Farewell, my dear kind friend! The Lord Jesus will reward you for your love to me, and your kindness to mine. God is not unrighteous to forget your work of faith and labour of love. With many tears I write this. May we meet in glory, when no enemy shall distress my mind, nor sin nor death shall part us more! I need not remind my dear friend that I am a _Child_ of _Peculiar Providence_; and that _heart_ of eternal love, and that _arm_ of invincible power has protected me—has called me to himself; and for every act of straying, will correct me with _his own hand_, but will resent _every other hand_, sooner or later. This you will live to see. “_Adieu_, _dear friend_, _accept the starting tear_, “_And the best wishes of a heart sincere_. “Your’s, truly, “Till we shall meet above.” Mr. MARRYATT.—My Lord, that is the case on the part of the prosecution. DEFENCE. Mr. GURNEY then addressed the Jury on the part of the defendant, as follows:— May it please your Lordship—