Works lately published by the same Author. ESSAYS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS. "The treatises you were pleased to send me convince me your talents are of no ordinary kind; they unquestionably display a considerable range of knowledge, and a great com. mand of style." ROBERT HALL, (author of "The Effects of Infidelity," &c.) an utter stranger to the author, thus expresses himself, concerning these Essays, in a letter to him, dated Bristol, 3 May, 1830. "These Sermons contain a great deal of sound doctrine." Christian Remembrancer. AN EXTRAORDINARY BUT AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF THE PENITENCE AND DEATH OF THE NOTORIOUS MRS. D***. BY THE REV. HENRY REVELL MA. AUTHOR OF ESSAYS AND SERMONS, &c. LONDON: J. HATCHARD AND SON, 187, PICCADILLY. 1832. 250. PREFACE. THE great end of writing is to convey useful knowledge and sound learning, by the most pleasing arts and seductive allurements. To betray the curious unwittingly into the discipline of morality, or the casual listener into the school and practice of divinity, is an event which is ever regarded by the writer and preacher as a satisfactory recompence to all their labours. The sager maxims of life, correct remarks in the science of self-knowledge and divinity, are often found in works which make no pretensions to more b |