often used to kill his birds by kindness, yet, when he saw my grief for it, he always indulged me with the pleasure of serving them again; and often took me over the dirtiest roads to get at a plant or an insect. He never walked out, I think, when quite a boy, without observation on the hedges as he passed; and when he took up a plant of any kind, he always observed it with care. Though I was but a child, I well remember his pursuits. He always seemed earnest in his recreations, as well as in school. Like the industrious bee, he was always gathering something useful. It seemed as if nature was fitting him for something great,-from a child forming him for future usefulness; while, at the same time, he was generally one of the most active in all the amusements and recreations that boys in general pursue. He was always beloved by the boys about his own age. Though his manners were rather awkward, and there was nothing in his person prepossessing to a superficial observer, yet the more intelligent could discover marks indicating greatness of mind and genius, even from childhood. An intelligent neighbor of ours used often to say, he was sure, if he lived to be ever so old, he would always be a learner, and in pursuit of something further. This remark has hitherto been verified. At the time brother lived at Leicester, a gentleman in our neighborhood was making particular inquiry of me about him. He seemed to think it a lamentable thing that he was a Dissenter. Never a youth promised fairer, he said, to make a great man, had he not turned a cushion-thumper. His natural

fondness for a garden was cherished, I think, by his uncle, Mr. Peter Carey, who was then settled in the same village, and at times, when able, followed that occupation, and often had his nephew with him, not having any child of his own. While brother continued at home, he seldom left any part of his father's garden uncultivated, he was so fond of flowers.

'While brother Carey was a boy, he was much afflicted with a scorbutic disorder in his face and hands. When he had been exposed to the sun in the day, he was in distressing agony through the night, On that account he never could work in the field, or

do any thing that exposed him long to the heat of the day. Nothing seemed to relieve this complaint for a long while. This induced our parents to put him to some trade. He accordingly was put apprentice to a cordwainer at Piddington, a respectable person, when he was in his sixteenth year. We were brought up to the Establishment; and brother Carey was rather prejudiced against Dissenters, though never permitted to discover his dislike to them; for though my father's situation in the school was connected with the clerk's place, as many others were at that time, yet father was always a lover of those he thought good people, and a great reader. He was particular, in his example as well as precepts, to inculcate the strictest habits of integrity and uprightness, in words and actions, before his children; and the person my brother was placed with was of the same disposition. He had an older apprentice, who was brought up a Dissenter, and I believe was, about that time, under serious impressions. It was in disputes with this young man that brother first discovered he was wrong; yet he would not give up his argument, or own he was vanquished, for some time: he was such a strenuous advocate for his church, it was mortifying to yield till he could no longer resist. He had before been rather inclined to be gay, which gave his parents, as well as his master, some little uneasiness; but the conduct, together with the powerful arguments of his young friend, connected with some other trifling circumstances, made an impression on his mind, which was soon after much strengthened by the death of his master, after a short illness. The master, before his death, I believe, felt his need of a Savior, and exhorted those about him to flee to Jesus as the sinner's friend; though beforé, he was a person of strict morality; he was whole, and felt no need of a physician, I believe, till his last illness.

'At the time of his master's death, brother was not master of his business, and was then put to a Mr. Old, of Hackleton, who agreed to pay his former master's widow so much for his time. This was not a necessary step, as the apprentice is free on the death of his master; but his father felt so much for the

widow's loss, that he inclined to the side of mercy rather than add to her distress. After he had been some little time with Mr. Old, he also was removed by death, I believe before the time of my brother's apprenticeship was expired. At that time he had formed a connexion with a young person, sister to Mrs. Old, whom he married soon after or before he was twenty.

'After Mr. Old's death, he took the stock and business. Trade at that time being very good, his prospects seemed promising, but soon after failed. A large order Mr. Old had engaged to supply was returned on my brother's hands, just after it was executed, so that he felt considerable embarrassment from it, and was obliged to dispose of the goods to great disadvantage.

At this time he was increasingly thoughtful, and very jealous for the Lord of Hosts. Like Gideon, he seemed for throwing down all the altars of Baal in one night. When he came home, we used to wonder at the change. We knew that before he was rather inclined to persecute the faith he now seemed to wish to propagate. At first, perhaps, his zeal exceeded the bounds of prudence; but he felt the importance of things we were strangers to, and his natural disposition was to pursue earnestly what he undertook; so that it was not much to be wondered at, though we wondered at the change. He stood alone in his father's house for some years. After a time he asked permission to have family prayer when he came home to see us; a favor which he very readily had granted. Often have I felt my pride rise while he was engaged in prayer, at the mention of those words in Isaiah, 'that all our righteousness was like filthy rags.' I did not think he thought his so, but looked on me and the family as filthy, not himself and his party. Oh, what pride is in the human heart! Nothing but my love to my brother would have kept me from showing my resentment; but I could not bear that others should think diminutively of him; so kept it to myself. My attachment to him was great, and, as brothers and sisters, I trust it was firm and unshaken, and ever will remain so. We always felt each other's joys and sorrows our own, so far as we knew them. O that an

eternity may be spent in happy union with each other, where nothing exists to deplore!

'About this time a few of the friends of religion wished our brother to exercise his gifts, by speaking to a few friends in a house licensed at Pury; which he did with great acceptance. The next morning a neighbor of ours, a very pious woman, came in to congratulate my mother on the occasion, and to speak of the Lord's goodness in calling her son, and my brother, two such near neighbors, to the same noble calling. My mother replied, 'What, do you think he will be a preacher?" "Yes,' she replied, 'and a great one, I think, if spared.' From that time till he was settled at Moulton, he regularly preached once a month at Pury, with much acceptance. He was at that time in his twentieth year, and married.

'Our parents were always friendly to religion; yet on some accounts, we should rather have wished him to go from home, than come home to preach. I do not think I ever heard him, though my younger brother and my sister, I think, generally did. Our father much wished to hear his son, if he could do it unseen by him or any one. It was not long before an opportunity offered, and he embraced it. Though he was a man that never discovered any partiality for the abilities of his children, but rather sometimes went too far on the other hand, that often tended a little to discourage them, yet we were convinced that he approved of what he heard, and was highly gratified by it.

'After our brother's marriage, I think he first settled in a small neat house at Hackleton. Here he soon cultivated a neat garden. His first child was born there, a fine girl, named Ann. She died of a fever in her second year. My brother at the time was in great danger from the same disorder. He sent over for his mother: but the Lord mercifully spared his life, though his child was taken away. My mother observed at that time, that they seemed much distressed in circumstances. We knew of his difficulties respecting his business after Mr. Old's death; but he studiously kept every thing he could from us, not to grieve us. After the fever was removed, an ague followed, and for more than a year and a half, I think, never could

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be removed. Often has he travelled from place to place, to dispose of his stock, with the greatest difficulty, from the affliction. At this time, his brother,— then quite a youth,—had so great concern for him, that he saved out of his own earnings, and other little trifles he had for his own property, keeping it together till it was a considerable sum; he then presented it to his brother, who received it with emotions of tenderness and gratitude. The kindness was felt very tenderly, when he considered the age of his brother, and the small privations he had felt on his account. trifle, with a small collection made by some of his friends at Pury, afforded our dear brother a seasonable relief at the time. We often had him home for change of air, but nothing removed the ague for long, till he left Piddington for Moulton. He had left Hackleton, and resided at Piddington at the time of the child's death: there he also cultivated a garden; and near the garden, which he seldom failed to occupy early and late, was a marshy piece of ground, and a fog arose often from the damp. This he thought was one cause why the ague never wholly left him till he removed to Moulton, to a drier soil. The ague was the cause of his hair coming off, which never grew again. It was likewise attended by a very affecting cough, that never wholly left him in England. It always affected him more or less in the winter. The scorbutic disorder he had when a boy, he always felt while in England, if he was for a short time exposed to the sun. Yet he has remarked, that the hottest day in India never affected him; till in one letter, of so late a date as 1810, he said that he had felt a little alarmed of late, at finding some return of his old disorder, after it had lain dormant for nearly thirty years. It was not, however, he said, so as to occasion much pain; and having recourse to a medicine, much used in India in similar diseases, he had no doubt but it would prove effectual through a divine blessing. He adds, "The medicine is nitric acid, perhaps better known to you by the common name of aqua fortis. I take eighteen or twenty drops twice a day, diluted in water, and wash my hands in the same: the effects are astonishing.'

'Thus we may observe much of the goodness of Je