examination of such points: greatly however do I honour thofe who have the ability and patience to go through the work, as I muft own it is of the most importance, and that the orthodox faith is a fad thing, if the truth be, after all our Athanafian believing, that Chrift is no more than God's inftrument, as St. Peter and St. Paul name him; a fuccefful teacher of wisdom, righteousness, fanctifi cation, and redemption: and that God is to be owned and praised, as the true, chief, and original cause of all fpiritual bleffings, according to the counfel of his own will, his own good pleasure, purpose, &c. without partner or second perfon, to intreat and fatisfy for us. If this be the cafe, may the Lord have mercy on our poor orthodox fouls: and as it may be fo, I honour you for enquiring into the matter, and especially for your good Spirit in preferring the things that are eternal, when what you thought truth could not be held with things temporal. I have (Mr. Harcourt continued) a very great esteem for you on this account, and if I can be of fervice to you, I will. He imagined I might want money, and if I did, he would lend me a hundred guineas, without intereft, payable on my note of hand, when I could. He immediately took out of his pocket-book a bank note for that fum, and preffed me to accept accept it. He likewife invited me to stay at his houfe, while he continued in the country, which would be for a month longer. "He affured me alfo, that I might make it my refidence after he left it, if I pleased: there would be two fervants to attend me, and there was excellent mutton, and other things, for my table. Nor is this all; you shall have the key of my ftudy. Thefe offers aftonished me, and I faid, most generous Sir, I return you the thanks of a grateful heart, and will ever remember your goodness to me with that fenfe fuch uncommon kindness deferves, tho' I cannot enjoy the benefits you would make me happy with. As to money, I do not want any yet, and when I do, it will be time enough for me to borrow, if I fhould find any one, like you, fo benevolently difpofed as to lend me cafh without fecurity and intereft: and as to ftaying at your houfe, that offer I cannot accept, as I am engaged to a near and rich friend, who will be to me a fubaltern provi-dence, if he can be found, and fecure me from the evils my attachment to truth has exposed me to. One week however I will ftay with you, fince you are fo good as to invite me in this kind manner. Here then I stayed a week, and paffed it in a moft happy way. Mr. Harcourt was Cc 2 fond power fond of me, and did every thing in his An account 75. Reader, this young lady, Harriet of Harriet Eufebia Harcourt, was the foundrefs of a reHarcourt. ligious houfe of proteftant reclufes, who are Eufebia ftill a fociety in that part of Richmondshire, where first I saw her and her father. They are under no vow, but while they please to continue members, live as they do in nunneries; and in piety, and in all the parts, of the chriftian temper, endeavour a refemblance of their divine Lord and Master; with this diftinction however, that to the plan of the regards due from man by the divine law to God, to his fellow-creatures, and to himfelf, they add mufic and painting for their diverfion, and unbend their minds in these delightful arts, for a few hours every day. This makes them excel in these particulars. They are great mafters in all kinds of mufic, and do wonders with the pencil. Eufebia was but juft turned of twenty when I firft faw her, in the year 1725, and then her musical performances were admirable her pictures had the ordonnance, colour colouring, and expreffion of a great mafter.' She was born with a picturefque genius, and a capacity to give measure and movement to compofitions of harmony. Her mufic at the time I am speaking of had a moft furprizing power and in painting, long before this time, the astonished. When he was a child, nine years old, and had no mafter,' she would sketch with a black lead pencil on a fheet of paper the pictures of various kinds that came in her way, and make fuch imitations as deserved the attention of judges. This made her father get her an eminent' mafter, and she had not been long under his direction, when she was able to infufe a foul into her figures, and motion into her compofitions. She not only drew landskips, and low fubjects with a fuccefs great as Teniers, but evinced by her paintings, that she brought into the world with her an aptitude for works of a fuperior clafs. Her pictures fhew that fhe was not the laft among the painters of hiftory. They are as valuable for the merit of the execution as for the merit of the fubjects. of Mifs 76. Her hiftories of the Revelations of St. An account John, which the finished a little before her Harcourt's death, from the firft vifion to the laft, de- pictures of monftrate a genius very wonderful, and that lations of her hand was perfected at the fame time St. Jobu Cc 3 with the Reve Pictures. with her imagination. If this series of pictures is not in every respect equal to Giotto's on the fame fubject, (which I have seen in the cloyfter of St. Clare at Naples,) yet these paintings are treated with greater truth, and fhew that the imagination of the painter had an hand and eye at its difpofal to display the finest and compleateft ideas. The great artift is obvious in them. The first picture in this Series is a reprefentation of the infide of the glorious temple, (that was made the grand scene of all the things St. John faw in the Spirit), the golden lamp-fconce, called the seven candlesticks, which afforded the fanctuary all its light, and the auguft perfonage, who appears in refulgent brightnels in the vifion, in the midst of the feven golden candlesticks. The majestic and godlike form which the apoftle beheld is wonderfully painted. He is reprefented with more than human majefty. Like Raphael, in his picture of the Eternal Father, in one of the Vatican chapels, fhe does not infpire us merely with veneration, fhe ftrikes us even with an awful terror: elle n'infpire pas une fimple veneration, elle imprime une terreur refpectueuse. In his right hand, this grand perfon holds the main shaft that fupports the fix branches of the fix lighted lamps, and the seventh lamp at |