[This prayer was composed by Dr. Sutton, Archbishop of Canterbury, and will be found in the Gentleman's Magazine of November 1810, p. 484.]
Replies.
MRS. MACKEY'S POEMS.
(Vol. vi., p. 578.)
Mrs. Mary Mackey was "a real person," and the widow of a conveyancer in good practice. Of him she says (Scraps of Nature, p. 362.):
"The husband of poor Nature was a gentleman and an honest man, made a fortune and spent it nearly, in which his wife had no share, for that he governed and ruled the roast is well known to many: he had a noble and generous soul, but always kept poor Nature's talents under a bushel, where they shall never go again. He was old enough to be her father, and ever treated her like a child."
He left only enough to purchase for her a small annuity. She was uneducated, as she says, p. 274.:
"I never learned to write or spell,
Although I read and write so well;"