The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-10-16 00:00:00

LID!' GLEAORCHY'S CONVERSION.

Wilheltnina Maxwell, Lady Clmorchy, was the
younger of two daughters left by Dr. William Max.
well, of Preston, a gentleman of high respe&s-
bility and large fortune, in Galloway, North Britain;
and was born at Preston, an. 1;42. Dr. Maxwell
died four months before the birth of his youngest
daughter; and his widow, now the venerable Lady
Alva. wishing to perpetuate the n.une of a husband
so dear. called the fatherleas child Wilhelmina. She
watched over the education of both daughters with
maternal wilicitude. and endeavoured to preserve
them from the vortex of fashionable pleasure The
oldest was married at Edinburgh. 1761, to William
Earl of Sutherland; the youngest was married at
London same months afterwards, to John Lord Vis-
count Gleoorrhy. only son of the Earl of Bresial.
lame The Earl of Sutherland and his Countess
died within a few days of each other, and left an
only daughter two months old. That daughter,
the present Marchioness 4if Stafford, formerly
Countess of Sutherland, was educated under the
direction of her grand-mother. Lady Alva; and
received kind attention from her aunt, Lady Gle.
acrrehy. _ _

This worthy Lady, whose tenderness for orphans-
was increased hr her own premature widowhood.
VMS fosme,s for a superior place in society. Her
understanding was naturally strong and capacious.
and her memory retentive. Her mind was polished
by a liberal education, and richly furnished with
ideas. Her person was agreeable, her manner en-
Raging, her fancy brilliant, and attended by a con-
stant fl .w of spirits and wind hitmour. Born to
wealth, and al/iesi to a rich and noble house, she was
fitted to make a distinguished figore among the
great. and to shine in courts. In early life. as might
be expetled from these circumstances, this accom-
plished young Lady was filled with vanity, was fond
of dress, and etachcsi to gay amusements. But, as
Moses. .4 when h• was come to years, refused to be
called the son of Pharaoh's daughter. chusing rather
to suffer atilidion with the people of God, than to
enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season ; esteeming
the reproach of Christ greater riches than the trea-
sures of Egypt,"—in like ma;'ner, she, in all the
bloom of youth, with all worldly pleasures at her
command, hid herself, her fortune, her honours;
and her talents, at the font of the cross.

About the t;enty-third year of her age she was
visited with sickness: in recovering from wh:ch, her
thoughts were involuntarily turned to the first ques-
tion and answer of that lorm of round w••rds which
is given in the Assembly's Catechism " What is
the chief end of man ? It is to glorify God, and to
enjoy him for ever?" Musing on these words, they
arre.ted her attention, and naturally led her to put
to bcrselt the important queries: Have I answered
the design of my being ? Have I glorified God ?
Shall I enjoy him for ever?
Reviewing her life of thoughtless gaiety, she found
there was no connection between such condua and
:he glotilying and enjoying of God; and that. con-
sequently, hitherto, she had not answered the chief
end of her existence. Her conscience was awake,-
ed ; ~nd, for a considerable time, she laboured
under that anxiety and fear which usually attend
such a state of mind.

Ent, en reading the sth chapter of the Epistle to
the Romans. the discovered the way whereby the
great God eptild be just. and yet the justifier of the
believer in Jesus. She believed, her understanding
was enlightened, her conscience relieved, and her
mind restored to peace. The fruits of her faith
soon gave the most unequivocal evidence to the
truth of the happy change which had taken place in
her mind. For some time she endeavoured to
avoid the ridicule which attends true religion,
by concealing it. and mingling in the society
and amusenizots to which she had been accus-
tomed ; but she soon found it impossible to sup.
port the spirit and prat:et of religion, and at the
s one time be c:nformed to the manners of the
She therefore openly as owed her religion,
and renounced she sinful eni-yments of the world.
this time, her whole life was one continued
course of devotion : her closet was a little sanSu.ry
for God, to which the habitually retired with avi-
chty and pleasure. In her family there was always
an char for God, and from which, with the morning
and the evening, regularly ascended social prayer
and praise. she bred the hPuse of God ; and the
most painful circumstance of het frequent ill health.
in the last years of her life. was, her being detained
by it from public worship.

PRICE OF HkY AND STRAW.
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Head of Cattle this Day.
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WENVIALL MAR I:I:TS.
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MARRIIGES.
Thursday se'itni‘ht, at Waltham Abbey, the Rev.
Mitchel, Fat/ of Worcester COMPQC, tv M its 1104,4.4
ilaitgliter•in•law 'film Recorder of the CU) of London.
Lately, at High Wyconib, Be ks, S onuel T. 4.. n R she",
Esq. an eminent oierc:t.tot in the p ria...f Saviour,
rough of Southwark, to Mow Hadey, of Ugh Wycomb.