gers and congregation he was solicited to become their pastor. Mr. Jones had been known to, and had repeatedly preached for, some of the members of the Scots Presbytery in London. By that Presbytery, accordingly, he was taken on trials, and ordained to the office of the holy ministry, in a Scots Presbyterian Chapel, Peter street, Soho. In little more than a month after his ordination, Mr. Jones was introduced to his people in Edinburgh by Mr. Walker of the High Church. Thus did Lady Glenorchy's perplexities, in regard to the appointment of a pastor in her chapel, at length come to a close; and she had the comfort of witnessing the harmony which prevailed in the congregation on the reception of Mr. Jones. Nor were their expectations disappointed, for, whether in point of ability, or pastoral fidelity, or Christian consistency, no minister has ever approved himself more highly in the estimation of the whole Christian community of Edinburgh ;-and now, that after more than half a century, spent laboriously in the service of his Master, Dr. Jones has been summoned to his final reward, his memory still lives in the affections of a warmly attached congregation.

Immediately after Mr. Jones had commenced his services in the chapel, Lady Glenorchy retired to Taymouth, where she spent several months, and returned to Edinburgh, as usual, in the beginning of winter. In the following summer she set out for England, accompanied by her very dear Christian friend Lady Henrietta Hope, daughter of the Earl of Hopetoun. On reaching London, Lady Glenorchy was taken alarmingly ill; but, by the kind providence of God, she

speedily recovered so far as to be able to leave town, and set out for Exmouth. When formerly in England, she had fitted up a chapel in that town, and she had now the pleasure of seeing it in a very prosperous condition. On her way home, she visited Miss Hill at Hawkstone; and, after a short stay at Buxton, she set out for Taymouth. Her health was at this time very delicate, and she was strongly recommended by her physicians to spend the winter in England. She therefore set out for Bath, and after remaining there two months she went to London, then to Bristol, and finally to Buxton. While residing in this last town, she was joined by Lady Henrietta Hope, who, her father being dead, took up her abode with Lady Glenorchy, and commonly accompanied her wherever she went, acting at once as a counsellor and a companion. In passing through Carlisle on their way to Scotland, an event occurred which shewed Lady Glenorchy's anxiety to embrace every opportunity of doing good. Observing that an old Presbyterian meeting-house in that town was now deserted and shut up, she purchased it, procured a minister, and assisted the congregation in supporting him.

Soon after her arrival in Scotland, Lady Glenorchy was called upon to perform the last sad offices to her revered parent, Lord Breadalbane, who died at an advanced age in his apartments at the palace of Holyrood House. This event she thus notices in her diary: "Yesterday it pleased God to take Lord Breadalbane suddenly away, ten minutes after Dr. Cullen had pronounced him much better, and that he probably would be up in his chair in a few days. I have cause to re

mark many kind providences in this event with regard to myself, that I was so much recovered as to be able to go to town on Thursday to attend him, and had the comfort to see him pleased and happy in having me about him. This day I feel more sensibly the loss than yesterday, yet I dare not murmur,—to the Lord belongeth the disposal of all events,-to his sovereignty I desire to bow, and to rest assured that he doth all things well. What am I that I should reply against God? Be still, my soul, and harbour not a thought inconsistent with total submission to God! The Lord he is God: Let his blessed will be done!"

In the summer of this year, she paid another visit to Buxton in company with Lady Henrietta Hope, and the following summer they spent at Moffat. In 1784 she again went to England, and having occasion to reside some time in Matlock, she purchased a chapel, where the Gospel still continues to be preached. On way home she visited her early friend Miss Hill at Hawkstone.

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Anxious to extend her means of doing good, Lady Glenorchy came to the resolution of selling the Barnton estate, which was accordingly purchased by William Ramsay, Esq., then an eminent banker in Edinburgh. She now set out for Matlock, whence she removed to Bristol hot wells, for the sake of Lady Henrietta's health, as well as her own. Here, however, this excellent lady, who had for some years been the constant companion of Lady Glenorchy, grew rapidly worse, and died, leaving two thousand five hundred pounds to aid her friend in building a chapel in Bristol. Before leaving the place, therefore, Lady Glenorchy made arrange

ments for building a neat place of worship, which, in memory of her dear friend, she proposed to call Hope Chapel. She next went to Devonshire, and there visited her chapel at Exmouth, after which she returned to Bristol and Bath. In her way to Scotland she stopped at Workington in Cumberland, where she purchased ground for the erection of a chapel, and saw the work commenced. On her arrival at Edinburgh, her friends observed with regret a most unfavourable alteration in her appearance.

Her last

Her time was at first much occupied with the completion of the sale of Barnton. This was the last business in which she was engaged. illness was of very short duration, and she died as she had lived, in the faith of a crucified Redeemer, and in the assured hope of a glorious immortality." Well, if this be dying, it is the pleasantest thing imaginable,” were among the last words she was heard to utter. To her, death had long been a conquered foe, and now that she was called to encounter this last enemy, she felt in all its force the truth of the Apostle's remark, in reference to his own experience, "To me to live is Christ, and to die unspeakable gain."

CLEMENTINE CUVIER,

DAUGHTER OF BARON CUVIER, THE CELEBRATED

NATURALIST.

THE name of Cuvier is familiar to men of science as a household word. In the departments of natural history and comparative anatomy, and more especially by his researches in fossil geology, he has acquired higher fame than almost any other of his cotemporaries. Though sprung of comparatively obscure parentage, he rose, under Providence, by the force of genius and unwearied application, to be one of the most distinguished men of modern times. "Those who have known this great man," says a writer in the Edinburgh Review," and have followed him through his brilliant and diversified career, will not charge us with overstrained panegyric, when we say, that in all the lists of fame which we have enumerated, he not only attained a pre-eminent distinction, but acquired a reputation in each, which might have gratified the ambition of any common aspirant for fame." His character ranked high both as a philosopher and a statesman. Our object, however, at present, is to exhibit him in neither of these capacities, but as the father of the amiable, the accomplished, the pious Clementine. Dutiful in her conduct, and affectionate in her disposition, he loved her perhaps too strongly; and when, at length, by the mysterious arrangements of Him who cannot