propensity to Liquor, which so compleatlydeprived him of the use of those faculties Nature had endowed him with, that he never did anything worth mentioning. His Deathhappened a short time after Lucy's depar::ture & was the natural Consequenceof this pernicious practice. By his de::cease, his sister became the sole inheri::treſs of a very large fortune, which asit gave her fresh Hopes of rendering her::self acceptable as a wife to Charles Adamscould not fail of being most pleasing to her — & as the effect was Joyfull the Cause could scarcely be lamented.

Finding the violence of her at::tachment to him daily augment, she