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CHAPTER X.

"List to the journal of my exile!
The history of my sufferings !

A treasure useful to my fellow creatures :
It tells them NEVER TO DESPAIR!

It teaches them to put their trust

In that ALMIGHTY POWER DIVINE,

Who can befriend the wretched outcast!"

We have arrived at that period of our labour which demands from us a detail of the voyage, captivity, and sufferings of Mrs. Fraser, as they were communicated to us by her own lips; and ere we conclude, we shall notice the providential manner by which she was released from, we had almost said, a worse than satanic bondage; and when we detail the manner of her deliverance, and the instrument by which it was effected, it will, we think, cause even the sceptic to exclaim, "Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?"

This narrative will show that the Almighty often effects his purposes by an agency, which to our limited comprehension, would appear very unlikely. Who of our captive party would have imagined on the 14th of August, last year, (1836) that on the following day they would be liberated

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from thraldom, and that too, by the undaunted courage and persevering efforts of a man who had been banished England as as an unworthy cumberer of her soil, and hence transported to a distant colony, and one too, who for breaking the colonial law, had been from thence banished to the penal settlement of Moreton Bay, there to linger out the prime of his life in darkness, chains, and solitude? Such, however, was the fact; and ere we conclude our labour, we shall make some remarks on the life and character of the brave though guilty Graham, which, we think, will go to prove that good qualities are frequently latent in the minds of the most abandoned, and that a fit opportunity is only wanting to cause their develop

ment.

Well indeed might Mrs. Fraser and her "redeemed " companions be enamoured of the beautiful hymn of Cowper, on the providence of God— than which nothing could have been more applicable to their experience. We give it insertion, not only on account of its applicability, but because we are aware that it is a great favourite with such as are overwhelmed in, or have been delivered from a sea of trouble.*

*The writer of this narrative well remembers the Olney poet; and in the days of his boyhood rambled through the rural groves, whose delightful scenery was the solace of Cowper in the hours of his despondency.

HYMN.

"GOD moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;

He plants his footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm.

Deep in unfathomable mines
Of never-failing skill,

He treasures up his bright designs,
And works his sov'reign will.

Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take
The clouds ye so much dread
Are big with mercy, and shall break
In blessings on your head.

Judge not the Lord by feeble sense,
But trust him for his grace;
Behind a frowning providence,
He hides a smiling face.

His purposes will ripen fast,
Unfolding ev'ry hour;

The bud may have a bitter taste,
But sweet will be the flower.

Blind unbelief is sure to err,
And scan his work in vain ;

God is his own interpreter,

And he will make it plain."

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OLNEY HYMNS.

At the very moment we had concluded our preliminary remarks on the narrative we are about to send forth to the world, a letter came to our hands, which had been written in reply to a communi

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