Select passages from the diary and letters of the late John Blackader, Esq.

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caufe it leads me to an infinite inexhauf-
tible fountain and magazine of all I need.
7. Sabbath. I blefs the Lord for fleep
and fweet reft after fatigue. The moil
of the world, by not knowing the want
of them, do not enjoy the pleafures of
thefe common mercies of meat, drink and
fleep, as we foldiers do. Many poor fol-
diers at this liege are expofed night and
day to fatigue and danger, and get not
fleep one night in a week-.
8. This is a thoughtful time ; many
poor fouls hurried into eternity every
night at this town, where bombs, cannon
and mufket bullets are flying like hail-
flones all the night over.
10. Our regiment went into the
trenches this morning. Our poll was
not fo liable to forties as the laft, but
more to the bombs, &-c. and moft to our
own, which falling fhort of the town did-
incommode us, but, blefled be God, we
had no lofs. He lets us fee that he can
make the trenches to be as fafe a habita-
tion as my houfe i'n Ghent. It is all one
thing, where his prefence and protection
are.
11. The Britifh got feveral things to
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