piety and abilities, by whom hundreds of children were trained up in the knowledge of our holy religion, and fitted for useful stations in society. In Edinburgh she erected a large chapel capable of holding two thousand persons, and which has, for many years, been attended by a numerous congregation. To this chapel, she added a free-school, to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic, which she endowed. She also erected and endowed a church at Strathfillan, and another at the Hot-wells, Bristol; besides, educated many young men of piety for the holy ministry. Sensible that ignorance and irreligion, idleness and vice, go together, she founded and endowed schools, and set on foot manufactories for the poor. In private, the widow and the fatherless, the stranger and distressed, experienced her abundant beneficence. To enable her to prosecute these schemes of benevolence, she herself carefully looked into all her affairs, and studied the strictest economy.

Deeply was lady Glenorchy sensible of the necessity of watchfulness and prayer, and spent much of her time in the duties of secret devotion. She was careful to have her servants duly instructed in religion, as well as the worship of God, regularly maintained in her family. She failed not to give her frequent advice and assistance to all under her roof, as to the concerns of their souls and eternity. Her breast glowed with the most fervent love to the divine Redeemer of a lost world. His unparalleled condescension and grace were the favourite subjects of her attention and discourse. She thought she could never do enough to testify her gratitude to this most gracious benefactor and her attachment to the gospel. It was this principle which excited an affec

tionate concern and many kind endeavours for her relations and friends. It was this motive which influenced her to devote her substance to the purposes of piety and beneficence. After all these exertions, none was more fully convinced, or more ready to acknowledge, that we are not justified by our own works, but freely, and only by the redemption that is in Jesus Christ.

Her incessant and varied occupations appear to have injured her health; and she had scarcely attained to years of maturity, when the world and the church were deprived of this friend of religion and humanity. Though her health declined, her activity and usefulness were unabated; till on the 17th of July, 1780, she was summoned to receive that reward, which on every diligent and faithful servant, God has promised to bestow. She bequeathed by her will, £5000 for the education of young men for the ministry in England; £5000 to the society in Scotland for the propagation of christian knowledge; and the greatest part of the residue of her property to charitable and pious purposes.

Her life and writings have been published since her death in two volumes, 8vo.

GODWIN.

MARY GODWIN, better known by her maiden name of Wolstonecraft, a writer of considerable, but eccentric genius, was born in London in the year 1759. Her parents, whose circumstances were humble, afterwards removed to Beverly, in Yorkshire, where she attended a day school. She afterwards returned to London, but

nothing remarkable appears to have taken place until after she had attained the age of twenty-four, except her adoption of very singular opinions in respect to the privileges of her own sex, and on religion, politics, and matters generally. At Newington Green, she opened a school in conjunction with her sisters, and obtained the notice and friendship of Dr. Price. About this period she wrote a pamphlet, entitled "Thoughts on the Education of Daughters;" the copy right of which she sold for ten guineas to Mr. Johnson, a bookseller, who afterwards proved one of her most liberal patrons. For some time she acted as governess in the family of an Irish nobleman, in quitting which, she had recourse to her pen for support, and produced "Mary, a Fiction;" 'Original Letters from Real Life;" "The Female Reader," and some articles in the Analytical Review. She was, also, one of the first to answer Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution, which was followed by her celebrated "Vindication of the Rights of Women." The eccentricity of her theory was altogether equalled by the singularity of her practice, which led her first into the indulgence of a romantic, but fruitless attachment, to Mr. Fuseli, and afterwards with Mr. Imlay, an American, whose desertion caused her to attempt suicide. This ardent passion, like the former, was, however, overcome by a succeeding one, the object of which was Mr. Godwin, author of "Political Justice," "Caleb Williams," and other well known productions. This connexion, however, proved unfortunate, as she died in childbed, after being delivered of a daughter, in Angust, 1797.

From the account given of her by her biographer, it appears that she was a woman of great, but undisciplined, natural powers, and strong passions, to the sugges tions of which she yielded, as to the voice of nature. As a companion, she was intelligent and entertaining. Besides the works already taken notice of, she published a "Moral and Historical View of the French Revolution," and "Letters from Norway," which are written with great sense and elegance. After her death, Mr. Godwin published in four volumes, 12mo. some miscellaneous letters, and an unfinished novel, with a life of the authoress, almost as curious as herself, and which, it is apprehended, will do little to advance the credit of the theory under which she acted.

GOMEZ.

MAGDELEN ANGELICA POISSON GOMEZ, a French writer of romances, was born in Paris, about the year 1684, and died at Germaine-en-laye, in 1770. She published "Les Journées Amusantes," eight volumes; "Crementine," two volumes; " Anecdotes Persans," two volumes; "Hist. du Comte d'Oxford," two volumes; " La Jeune Alcidiane," three volumes; "Les Cent Nouvelles," eight volumes; all of which are written in a fascinating style, and are still admired. She also wrote some tragedies, which were unsuccessful.

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GRAHAM.

ISABELLA GRAHAM. This pious, charitable, and intelligent woman, was born in Scotland, in the county of Lanark, on the 29th of July, 1742. Her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. John Marshall, were both religious people, and not only educated their daughter in the principles of the church of Scotland, but instilled into her young and tender mind, the value of that religion, the truths of which she exemplified in her maturer years. Mrs. Graham spent the first years of her valuable life at an estate of her father's at Eldersley. She was accustomed, from her infancy, to habits of industry; and one great, and pleasing instance, of her fondness for learning, was displayed by her before the age of ten years. Her grandfather, who was particularly attached to her, at his death, bequeathed her the sum of several hundred pounds, which she wisely requested might be devoted to the improvement of her mind. She was, therefore, committed to the care of an intellgent, well-informed woman, of the name of Elizabeth Morehead, as distinguished for her piety and worth, as she was for her intellectual and literary endowments. The valuable lessons which this excellent woman impressed on the flexible mind of her beloved pupil, were never forgotten by her. Isabella for some time enjoyed the pastoral exertions of the late excellent Dr. Witherspoon, president of Princeton College; and, when she had arrived at the age of seventeen, she was admitted by him to the sacrament of the Lord's supper. In the year 1765, she became acquainted with Dr. John Graham, a physician