cution, we are enabled to state, that, perhaps, no criminal ever received more pious and holy exhortations than were given to Holloway by his friends; and by which, according to his own professed statements, he profited so considerably. The whole of his correspondence forms a singular assemblage of opposite opinions, entertained by the different writers on the great question of salvation after death, and the contrariety of which must, in some measure, have had the injurious tendency of distracting the mind of the individual to whom they were addressed, rather than confirming him in the one grand and leading principle of the redemption of man through the blood of Jesus Christ. Some of the letters addressed to him would form a real curiosity in epistolary writing; and, perhaps, the following will be pronounced as not the least curious, and especially when it appears as a kind of partnership letter, having been signed by three different persons, although evidently written by one.

'DEAR SIR,

'Early in the Morning, 17th September, 1831.

I really feel for you as a poor sinner, lost to all hope in the world. Looking in the Morning Herald, I see your letter, dated September 6. It came in my mind, the Thief on the Cross. I looked to the 3d chapter of Genesis, verse 1st,

Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field, which the Lord God had made; and he said unto the woman, yea, hath God said, ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden." The woman was taken out of the man, I mean the rib-the man and the woman were naked, and were not ashamed; last verse of 11th chapter. 15th verse," and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed, and it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise her heel. Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow; thou shalt bring forth children, and thy husband shall rule over thee." I have as good a wife as can be, I have lived with her for thirty

four years, next 24th of the month, but I have seen the woman, and I have seen the deceit of the heart-she is a good wife to me. Solomon says, that "A good wife is from the Lord," J. W. LITTLE. Amen and Amen. Dear Lord Jesus Christ. Now, Isaiah saith, "The heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked," and who can know it but the Lord Jesus Christ who made it. So, brother, are you and I, and all of us. Read the 33d Psalm and the 15th verse. "He fashioneth their hearts alike, he covereth all their works.". Amen. The man who wrote the Psalms was David, his name was five letters, and so is Celia-that is the five senses of a man, Abram, yours is the same, five letters. 15th of Genesis, read the whole chapter. Read the whole history of Abraham 17th and 5th verse. There God calls his name Abraham; your name is Celia Holloway; this is the same number as Abram Abraham. 22d of the whole chapter, it begins 3d verse, you see "He rose up early in the morning and said, he saddled his ass," &c. &c. Part of 18th chapter. Sarah laughed, then Sarah denied, saying Abraham told a lie, and said, "She was my sister, for I was afraid of my life." Look at David, a man after God's own heart, but an adulterer and a murderer. Look at his son King Solomon, King of Israel, the great type of Jesus Christ our Lord. Nehemiah

13th, did not Solomon, King of Israel, sin by these things, yet amongst many nations there was no king like him: who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel, nevertheless, even him did outlandish women bring to sin. Now read 12th chapter of St. Matthew, all the chapter through, but especially 31st verse; read 10th ditto of St. Luke, and you will find out the devil's tricks; the 16th chapter of the Apostle St. John, and the 13th chapter. 13th, 14th, 15th 16th and then our Lord's Prayer. In the 17th John, “If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will do it." 16th and 24th, "Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name, ask and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full." Then the Lord's Prayer. 17th John, 9th verse, "I pray for them the elect, I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me, for they are thine." But for all read the 8th of the Romans, "All things work for good," &c. 10th chapter 5th verse, "The remnant according to the election, and the rest were blinded," Corinthians 2d and 3d, "But if our Gospel be hid, it is only to them that are lost for ever." Read all the

Apostle. I was reading that, on Thursday, 28th July, when you see me; had on a white hat, remembers you well. JAMES VINSENT, Brother. I have lost my left eye, you must remember, was on the Chain Bridge one morning about half-past four.

'W. L.

Now, brother, I recommend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to support you up, and to give you a place among all those who are sanctified. Amen. Brother, farewell.

'W. Little, Camberwell Green, Surrey. E. Little, Old Kent Road, London. Thomas Pearsey, Borough, Southwark.

If you want to see me I will come down in the beginning of next week, as I shall go into Kent with two friends this day week. You must write on Monday, the 19th of this month.'

The most curious part, however, of this most extraordinary epistle, was the address.-On one side was written, John William Holloway, prisoner, Horsham Jail, Surrey-and on the other side, Celia Holloway, Horsham Jail-September 17th 1831.— Dear Brother, I have sent you a sovereign to comfort you, take good port wine to strengthen your stomach, will call and see you when you please.Farewell, Brother.

Mr. Little not having received any intelligence of the receipt of his sovereign, writes the following letter on the 21st of September, addressed to Holloway.

SIR,

• Camberwell Green, 21st Sept. 1831.

'I sent you Holloway, to the care of you, which you know, jailor of His Majesty's prison of Horsham, in the county of Sussex, sent him a sovereign, paid 1s. 2d., not having had no answer, will write this night to the Master-General of His Majesty's Government Post-office to know the reason why.

'I remain, your obedient,

'WILLIAM LITTLE.
'Sept. 21, 1831.'

The decyphering of the orthography of these letters can only be compared, in difficulty, with that of the solution of an Egyptian hieroglyphic. The motive of the writer is unquestionably good and kind; but whether the contents of the letter, of which we are certain that Holloway could not read a single line without an interpreter at his side, could possess any beneficial influence on his mind or heart, is a question by no means difficult of solution.

Amongst the various pursuits to which Holloway attached himself in life, he was particularly skilled in the carving and rigging of little boats and cutters, which he was in the habit of disposing of to the young gentlemen who frequented the Chain-pier, and from which, at times, he derived considerable emolument. On one occasion he had rigged a cutter for a young gentleman, then residing in Marine-square, Brighton; and amongst the papers of Holloway, we find the following

'From the young gentleman whose cutter you rigged, while he was in Marine-square, Brighton."

Who sincerely deplores your melancholy circumstances, and earnestly prays that the accompanying sermon may be blessed by leading you to repentance, and giving you a hope in the same Saviour who died to save sinners, and who hath promised "That him that cometh unto me, I will in no wise cast out,"―(John, ch. vi., v. 37); and that "Whosoever believeth in me shall not perish, but have eternal life."—(John, ch. iii., v. 15).

From this sermon Holloway made several extracts, which are found amongst his papers. The following are some of them :

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"In other respects the Holy Scriptures encourage and excite us to a cheerful and "animated attachment to the love of Jesus "Christ, and to an affectionate confidence in "his all-redeeming grace. When a soul with

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draws itself from the world and the sins there "of with real earnestness, and turns with faith "to Jesus Christ, it will be certain of finding grace; and he who finds grace will also find "love and peace. If he does not always find a sensible, sweet, and consoling love in him, "he will still find a love of esteem, of such a "love, the result of which is, that he renounces "everything besides, and yields up his heart to Jesus, as his eternal and inalienable pro"perty. Like that great sinner, (Luke vii.) "who came to Jesus weeping, and with a broken heart, behold she implored not only forgiveness of her sins, but she desired also, that her heart "might be filled with the love of Jesus. Your

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many sins are forgiven, said the Saviour, "This is a proof that one of his creatures has "found grace with God, if his heart has been "inflamed with the love of God, from whom the

grace has been received. So also is it con"stituted with other poor sinners, who confide "seriously and incessantly on Jesus, and from 66 whom they receive the eternal grace of his "love. Oh, how low, how humble is then the "heart-how is it oppressed and afflicted, "when a great and profligate sinner-when “even a murderer finds grace with Jesus "Christ! Then, he exclaims, in the depth "of his humiliation, shall I ever be able to "obtain grace? will Jesus forgive my sins? "shall I be received amongst the children "of God? am I worthy that Jesus should have "turned his eye upon me? am I, a poor degraded sinner, worthy, that he should "think of me? Oh, what compasssion! what "a proof of benevolence and love! Are then my sins no longer to be remembered in eter"nity? and shall I become a child of Jesus?

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