years. For the first forty years of her life, she was a slave. She sustained an excellent character, was for many years a professor of religion, and gave satisfactory evidence of sincere and lively piety. At the time of her death, she had acquired, by her industry and care, more than four hundred dollars, the whole of which, after paying the expences of her last sickness and funeral, she left by will, to charitable purposes.

SARAH HOAR.

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Died in Philadelphia, about the middle of the summer, 1824, Sarah Hoar, a woman of colour. In 1817, she went to a house in that city to ask for cold provision, and the people seeing her much afflicted, supplied her with food. She afterwards came frequently; and feeling desirous to know more of her situation and history, they made her a visit, and finding her statement of circumstances correct, were encouraged to assist her. She was afflicted with a cancer in her face, which had so disfigured her by its ravages, as to make it necessary to have it covered. In their frequent visits, they generally found her suffering with severe pain; and the disorder increasing, soon made swallow

ing difficult; till in time it so affected her eyes that she became entirely blind.

Inquiry being made whether she had a doctor, she said she had had a number, but none of them could cure her; that a doctor who lived near had been very kind to her-washed and dressed her face twice a day-gave her medicine, and did not charge her any thing for it, though he was a poor man." On making the doctor and his wife a visit, the wife said her husband sometimes scanted his own family, to give to this poor suffering woman. The doctor said he believed her to be a good woman, and it was for Christ's sake that he took care of her, and that he was kind to her because he thought it his duty; and he several times repeated with tears in his eyes, he believed when she died she would go to heaven.

When some of the family went to see her in extremely cold weather, they found the only covering to her bed was a few old rags; yet of this she had not complained, and they would not have known it, but for going into her lodging room to see what she stood in need of. She said, sometimes in the night her sufferings were so great, that she could not sleep, and she had got up and prayed to God for relief; after which the pain abated so that she could lie down and sleep.

A subscription was raised to pay her board, and the persons of her own colour, with whom she was placed, were glad to take care of her, and showed her much kindness; and of the great number who visited her, we never heard any speak a word to her disadvantage; but on the contrary, they often said that she was a good woman, and bore an excellent character.

After the disease had affected her eyes so that she could not see those who came in, a young woman who frequently visited her, says: "When I spoke she immediately knew my voice, and always shook my hand in the most affectionate manner possible, telling me how glad she was that I came to see her; and then making grateful inquiries about those persons who so kindly contributed to her support.

"The doctor told me he sometimes found her on her knees praying, and as she could not see him, and he was unwilling to disturb her, he generally waited quietly until she had finished, without her knowing that he was there.

"Many nights towards the last, her sufferings were so extreme, she could not even lie down to sleep; and yet in all her troubles she seemed grateful for the blessings she received, and I do not recollect that I ever heard her speak in a dissatisfied manner.

"Her children were worthless creatures, and

in her greatest affliction they deserted her. This, though a source of trouble to her, she endeavoured to bear patiently. I knew her seven years. In all that time she was in the situation described, and had been so a long time before,

"Some time had passed without my seeing her, when one morning the person with whom she had lived, came and told us she was dead. About four o'clock that morning she appeared as well as common, when the family heard her at prayer, according to her usual custom. At breakfast she seemed a little unwell, and had lost her appetite.

"They sent for the doctor, who, when he came and saw her, said she was dying, and soon after she breathed her last; and I firmly believe she is gone to a place of rest, where she will receive a reward for her long continued patience, during the many years of suffering allotted her. Let the reader of these few lines remember that God sees us in all our afflictions, and will comfort all who act correctly, and endeavour to keep the word of his patience."

EXTRAORDINARY MUNIFICENCE,

In 1825.

A paragraph has lately gone the round of the papers, announcing that a gentleman of Virginia has emancipated upwards of eighty slaves, and chartered a vessel to send them at his own expense to Hayti; but without giving the name of the author of so distinguished an act of munificence.

We think it due to justice, (says the Norfolk Herald,) to supply this deficiency, and to add the following facts which have been communicated to us by gentlemen familiar with them, as well as by Capt. Russell, one of the owners of the Brig Hannah and Elizabeth of Baltimore, the vessel chartered.

The gentleman who has thus distinguished himself, is Mr. David Minge, of Charles City County, lying near Sandy Point, on James River. Captain Russell states, that there were put on board the Hannah and Elizabeth, eighty-seven coloured people of different ages, from three months to forty years, being all the slaves Mr. M. owned, except two old men, whom he had likewise manumitted, but whom, being past service, he retains and supports.

The value of these Negroes, at the prices now