ABRIDGED BY A GENTLEMAN OF BOSTON, "When the ear heard him, then it blessed him; and when the eye saw him, it gave witness to him. Because be delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, ord him that hednove to help him." Boston: LINCOLN AND EDMANDS. 1831. DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit: BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the third day of February, A. D. 1831, and in the fifty-fifth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Lincoln & Edmands, of said district, have deposited in this office, the title of a Book, the right whereof they claim as Proprietors, in the words following, to wit: "Memoirs of Howard, compiled from his diary, his confidential letters, and other authentic documents. By James Baldwin Brown. Abridged by a Gentleman of Boston, from the London quarto edition. "When the ear heard him, then it blessed him; and when the eye saw him, it gave witness to him. Because he delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.' " In Conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned ;" and also to an Act, entitled, "An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned: and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of Designing. Engraving, and Etching Historical and other prints." JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. CONTENTS. Page From the death of Mr. Howard's second wife in 1765 to the autumn of the year 1769, including a particular account of his treatment of his son, during his infancy, and the earlier period of his childhood, and a view of his religious opinions and associations up to his departure from Eng- Mr. Howard's fourth journey to the Con- tinent in the year 1769-70, including various extracts from his journal and pri- |