 from Mrs. Blackburn, informing him, that her husband was in the hands of the sheriff's officers, and, if he did not take compassion upon him, he must be immediately removed to prison, as they were not able to discharge the debt, and the creditor refused to take Mr. Blackburn's bond, knowing his whole fortune was mortgaged.
Fewer intreaties would have sufficed to bring Mr. Ellison to their relief. He set out in all haste on horseback, but had not gone three miles, when his horse threw him. He was at first intirely stunned by the fall; but pain in a short time brought him to himself, and convinced him that his thigh was broke. His servant sent off a messenger to a surgeon to meet him at his own house, and with great difficulty got him home.
Mrs. Tunstall was shocked to the greatest degree at this melancholy news, and immediately

determined that the want of the marriage ceremony should not prevent her attendance on him, during his confinement. She had once acted this part from gratitude; and trusted she might now, without censure, be allowed to perform it through affection. Her tender attentions greatly alleviated Mr. Ellison's pains, but could not effect his cure; the third day after the fracture, a mortification began, which gave the surgeons the most alarming apprehensions.
Melancholy as his situation was, no dejection appeared in his countenance, and, as soon as he apprehended his life was in danger, he considered of the best methods of preventing others from suffering by his death. He charged on his fortune the support of all the charities and benevolences he had established. He discharged Mr. Blackburn's debt, and bequeathed ten thousand pounds to Mrs. Tunstall; and, as his son's fortune could not fail of being great, since Sir William's estate would come to him, he charged it with annuities for all his dependants; he had not a

servant to whom he did not leave some token of his bounty, and, not confining his thoughts to England, obliged his son to leave his Jamaica estate in the hands of his steward, as long as he should live, providing for all the Negroes that should remain on the plantation at the time of his steward's death.
His hardest trial was yet to come, the taking leave of his son and intended spouse. For the form•••• felt a thousand fears, lest his unguided youth might be led into some of the many errors to which that season of life is prone; and he did not more grieve than
