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together with the Failure of three foreign Merchants whom he had truſted, compleated his Ruin. He was then obliged to call his Creditors together, who took his Effects, and being angry with him for the imprudent Step of not inſuring his Ships, left him deſtitute of all Subſiſtence. Nor did the Flatterers of his Fortune, thoſe who had lived by his Bounty when in his Proſperity, pay the leaſt Regard either to him or his Family. So true is another Copy, that you will find in your Writing Book, which ſays, Misfortune tries our Friends. All theſe Slights of his pretended Friends, and the ill Uſage of his Creditors, both he and his Family bore with Chriſtian Fortitude; but other Calamities fell upon him, which he felt more ſenſibly. in this Diſtreſs, one of his Rela-