"My dear mother! with what agony of soul do I dedicate the few
last moments of my life, to bid you an eternal adieu! my doom being
irrevocably fixed, and ere this hour to-morrow I shall have quitted this
vale of wretchedness, to enter into an unknown and endless eternity. I
will not distress your tender maternal feelings by any long comment on
the cause of my present misfortune. Let it therefore suffice to say,
that impelled by that strong propensity to evil, which neither the
virtuous precepts nor example of the best of parents could eradicate, I
have at length fallen an unhappy, though just, victim to my own follies.
"Too late I regret my inattention to your admonitions, and feel myself
sensibly affected by the remembrance of the many anxious moments you
have passed on my account. For these, and all my other transgressions,
however great, I supplicate the Divine forgiveness; and encouraged by
the promises of that Saviour who died for us all, I trust to receive
that mercy in the world to come, which my offences have deprived me of
all hope, or expectation of, in this.
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