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    Jand . I savv , and tjfce captain sent / or me up to , see the gsfrden jof Eden *; and I was i ** a ; rapture at * he sight , and bumJbrth in these yvortls ; Ol England ! sweet and pleasant soil , All other lQnds are but thy foil ! J-ong banished have I been from thee ;

    Endured much on earth and sea ; But if again on thee I trea ^ d , And find a place to rest my head , lfo > more from thee -will e ' er I part , Till I > eath has struck me with his dart ! *—then made nay exit immediately , leaving the captain and ship ' s crew laughing apd staring , not presently concluding

    what sort of mortal I was ; some thinking the peyil was in me— -others an angel ; which opinion prevailed I know riot , and ' tis certain I care not : in the zeal and glee of my Jieart I vented my rapture . '

    1 was so ill for the first 5 weeks I came mboxe ? that I was confined to my cham-. jber , and forced to undergo discipline to Aring myi constitution to , rights again , ^ tat ^ uifered m much frona the ej&tremity S * nd change of climates , both these , at * ea and , here 4 th ©/ I bore it very well at not sick all

    ^ e ^ a ^ an 4 ' W ^ at ; I am a * Fftry good &ea > woman . J have had a 4 blt «< iiijg at i » y cose for three days , . irel ^ chfeg hte ^ edmeaHttlejnot being us'd $$ i st h ' I attribute it ttothe violent motion < pf l ^ e sjii £ and my fright together , but | £ j » 5 v « 8 it . did . me no harm buj : rather 3 £ pod , ( for people often Meed to prevent * he effects of a frjgh ^ ypu , know , ) for my jurra could not be opened , and nature

    ^ ew it ' off that way . Thank Ood , for , jfcis-. 'tyeek fast I haye beep q uite well . I've long wished jco be able to write to fiear Mrs Say ; I long to know boyyr you doanda&l ybur ^ and friends at Ipswich , ; &r t tjii p k ' tis fifty years siocc I be ^ rd ^ ug ht of ^ ou . ; , , I i , hal i give ypa some accoqnt haw I : ^ a | »^ i p leave ^ Sweden . There is none ca # giv ; e a r ^ gttjt * ^ ffp unt of the cir ^ - pf

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    consent to have an Eoglishwottian , she having a dislike 'to ail nations but far own , and ail their customs ? add tt > th 18 she has had a sordid education herself and is very silly , and ill-natured to the last degree , and miserably covetous 5 and for the last four years has fceeri crazy at times , or mad yoa may call it . She will

    not let any thing be altered in the children , tho * Ijwent there t 6 reform them both in body and mind , and teach theft * what it was my place to do . Mr ^ Campbell was in hopes she would have let him have the over-seeing of me , being his country- woman and understanding hioi

    and she not understanding me , nor I tyer ; an ^ if we did , he knew her inability t © give any direction in the education of his children , he knqwing a Swedish one to be the worst , and they having ; suffered so much by it ; for they £ ring them up to very little else than lying and stealing , and all manner of vile

    enormities in Words and actions ; these are the vices of the country , fortljere are few exempt : some , I hope , have escaped the contagion % and there may be fifty if a prophet sould intercede for the city ? - ** Mr . Campbell is one . So ignorant are the Swedes , that they rarely know

    before twenty who made them , so that , -they know not their sin , and do every thing without shame or remorse ; they faarwe the constant example of mothers and maicUservants ; fpr the men are irot half so prone- to it as pur sex , hoe a father ' s instructions hs . ve i > ut little force

    when they are not regarded by the wiftf , and he has so- little of the children ' s com * pany coo . As soon as T had taught them English enough to understand me , I made itiny business to tell tlierft , in the jnildest terms , the wickedness and folty , and the meanness of such , pf ^ actiees . With two of them it had the desired effect ;< bat

    the two oldest ,- —I was to thejn astheiK cii ^ my because I told them the troth , and could never have the 7 pleasure to « ec I ha , d reduced them in &nf chingy 1 « hcy Are so ; headstrong and brutish VMd ? fostead of ireforaiirtig-, they committed but t he more wickedness , and ioi « ed ^ 4 th atest

    the maids offttimes to do me tWgr ^ injury tfecy jcoqld in \ enty a ^^ bueakfng loc ^ fr and stealing wha t they 1 covH& gtt . Ipto my threatenin ^^ enr co Ctomj ^ ajii ^ o ihe magi ^ tra > t : e # ' of lth e city f ^ ri mte&s 9 «| iey ; brought t mts f&o $ t > fa * 'HM ? i ^ 9 $ **** I # iad )> bd [ itois >> & < £ < xi ! frfirit& 4 ^ tJffbirJcyw » Mita m ^ thf ifr ^^ t ^ ciAArr jiwif gn&toty Kfc » Wte 4 ^ et ^ cM ^ fiillftfl i ^^

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    588 The Say Paper ^ - ^ Qri ^ fidlljetter& vfiMTsr . &keppard ' $ s — Ltit . %

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1809, page 588, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1742/page/2/