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

226 EXTRACTS OF LETTERS
of, and Lieutenant Cockburn is fliot
through the body. Serjeant Wilfon is
wounded in the arm. I have three men
killed. We buried the Colonel, Captain
Shaw and Inglis, yefternight at the co-
lours. It is put upon you to prepare
Mrs Cranfton, and to give her the dole-
ful news ; every body fympathifes ten-
derly with her, and none I am fure more
than me ; none more univerfally regret-
ted than he.
My deareft, what reafon have we to
adore the Divine goodnefs, who puts fuch
fongs of praife in our mouth, while others
are employed in mournful lamentations
and forrow ! Go as foon to her as you
can, for fhe will be fufpicious at not get-
ting a letter with the firft. We find a
letter to her in his pocket, which he
wrote that fame morning I wrote the in-
clofed, but none of us could fend it away.
You are almoft the only wife in the re-
giment who will not be in tears and anx-
iety either with grief or concern about
their friends and hufbands. Let us have
our hearts the more filled with thankful-
nefs, and our mouths with praife, to the
God of our mercies, and who gives us fuch