THE

SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER:

DEVOTED TO

EVERY DEPARTMENT OF

LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS.

Au gré de nos desirs bien plus qu'au gré des vents.
Crebillon's Electre.
As we will, and not as the winds will.

RICHMOND:
T. W. WHITE, PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR.
1835-6.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II, NUMBER 5

[MSS. OF BENJ. FRANKLIN.]
[A LECTURE] on the Providence of God in the Government of the World.
[LETTER FROM ANTHONY AFTERWIT.]
[LETTER FROM CELIA SINGLE.]

[TO THE EVENING STAR]: by T. J. S.