1791 she resigned the situation of governess, and visited England. She resided some time in that country, and made a tour through various parts of the kingdom. She returned to Paris in September, 1792, but was ordered to quit France in forty-eight hours after. She now determined to take up her residence in England, but was entreated by the Duke of Orleans to accompany his daughter to Tournay, and stay with her, till he could engage a proper person to take the place of governess. To this she consented. Circumstances having prevented the Duke from procuring another governess for his daughter, she remained under her care. When the Austrians reconquered Flanders, she withdrew with her pupil to Switzerland, and afterwards to the convent of St. Clair. The Princess of Orleans quitted her there, and went to remain under the care of her aunt, the Princess of Conti, who at that time resided at Friburgh. Madame de Genlis quitted the convent in 1794, and went to Altona, whence she removed to Hamburg. She afterwards retired to Sielk in Holstein, where she wrote her works entitled "The Knight of the Swan;""Rash Vows," ""The Rival Mothers;" "The Little Emigrants;" and "A Refutation of the Calumnies which had been heaped upon her, for her Conduct during the Revolution." In the year 1800, she obtained leave to return to France; Napoleon gave her apartments in the arsenal, and a pension. Since that period her pen has been constantly active. Her works are numerous, and all of them written in an elegant style, with much fancy and very far above mediocrity. They have been read by all classes of readers, and many of them translated into several different languages, and may be said to have

contributed in no small degree to the improvement of

the rising age.

GLENORCHY.

WILHELMINA MAXWELL GLENORCHY, distinguished in the last century for her benevolence and piety, was born at Preston, in North Britain, in the year 1742.

This worthy lady, whose tenderness for orphans was increased by her own premature widowhood, was formed for a superior place in society. Her understanding was 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 engaging, her fancy brilliant, and attended by a constant flow of spirits and good humour. Born to wealth, and allied to a rich and noble house, she was fitted to make a distinguished figure among the great, and to shine in courts. In early life, as might be expected from these circumstances, this accomplished young lady was filled with vanity, was fond of dress, and attached to gay amusements. But, as Moses, "when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater than riches, than the treasures of Egypt:" In like manner, she, in all the bloom of youth, with all worldly pleasures at her command, laid herself, her fortune, her honours, and her talents, at the foot of the cross of Jesus.

About the twenty-third year of her age she was visited with sickness: in recovering from which, her thoughts were involuntarily turned to the first question and answer of the Assembly catechism: "What is the chief end of man? It is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever:" musing on these words they arrested her attention, and naturally led her to put to herself the important queries. Have I answered the design of my being? Have I glorified God? Shall I enjoy him forever.

Reviewing her life of thoughtless gaiety, she found there was no connexion between such conduct, and the glorifying and enjoying of God: and that consequently, hitherto, she had not answered the chief end of her existence. Her conscience was awakened, and for a considerable time she laboured under that anxiety and fear which usually attend such a state of mind. But on reading the fifth chapter of the epistle to the Romans, she discovered the way whereby the great God could 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 sometime she endeavoured to avoid the ridicule which attends the true religion, by concealing it, and mingling in the society and amusements to which she had been accustomed; but she soon found it impossible to support the spirit and practice of religion, and at the same time be conformed to the manners of the world. She therefore openly avowed her religion, and renounced the sinful enjoyments of the world. From this time her whole life was one con

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tinued course of devotion: her closet was a little sanctuary for God, to which she habitually retired with avidity and pleasure. In her family there was always an altar to God; and from which, with the morning and the evening, regularly ascended social prayer and praise. She loved the house of God; and the most painful circumstances of her frequent ill health in the last years of her life, was, her being detained by it from public worship.

Lady Glenorchy had drawn much information concerning the most useful subjects, from reading, from conversation, and correspondence with a numerous circle of worthy friends, and from acute observation of what passed within and around her. She entered into conversation with much affability, and communicated ideas with uncommon perspicuity and readiness. The vivacity of her temper, the justness and sweetness of her remarks, could not fail to render her company acceptable to any society. But important obligations of a spiritual kind afforded her little leisure or inclination for mixed company. Her courage in avowing and endeavouring to promote on every occasion an attachment to the gospel, was truly admirable. None had more boldness, nor more ability in introducing religious discourse, and directing the attention of those with whom she conversed to subjects that were spiritual and edifying. None could sit, for any time at her table, or in her company, without hearing some truths, which ought to be profitable to their souls. In her religion she wore no morose or forbidding appearance. Her temper was cheerful, her conversation and manners, though remote from the dissipation of the age, exhibited piety in a pleasing form, and conveyed the idea that, "wisdom's

ways are ways of pleasantness, and that all her paths are paths of peace.” She was an enemy to the theatre, cards, and some other amusements, in which multitudes waste much precious time. She spake from experience of their hurtfulness to our best interests: she thought it her duty to warn others of their danger, and to urge them to employ their time in a manner more suitable for immortal creatures, more improving to themselves, and more useful to society.

She expended much money in printing and circulating religious tracts; and at her desire and expense, was composed and published a Gaelic translation of "Alleine's Alarm to the Unconverted," which has been productive of much good in the highlands of Scotland. She used to say that she considered herself as a steward of the gifts of God, and as accountable for the discharge of the important trust committed to her. Her life indeed was spent under the influence of this important truth. She considered her fortune and her possessions not as her own, but God's, and to be employed for his glory. She retrenched many personal expenses, and denied herself those luxuries which were likely to interfere with her schemes of doing good. Her charities were very extensive, and many of them were distributed with such secrecy, that the benefactress could hardly be traced. She sometimes expended hundreds of pounds in relieving indigence, and placing the family of those of the household of faith in situations of comfort and usefulness. She directed her attention to the most useful of all charities, the religious education of youth. For this purpose, she employed teachers of acknowledged