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THE HORRID MYSTERIES.

as it may, I will meet futurity with a cheerful confidence; and I expand my hands peacefully towards you, ye fields of higher knowledge and experience! no matter whether you be strewed with the roses of sweet tranquillity, or the thorns of sorrow. I suffer myself, impelled by stern necessity, and too weak for resistance, to be hurried onward, without anxiety, by a torrent which is limited and directed by a Superior Power.

The history of my eventful life proves how little all human strength, and a well tried and circumspect experience, can prevail over the secret plans of certain unknown persons, who, behind the impenetrable veil of mystic concealment, invisibly watch over a great part of the world. Their plans and proceedings frequently have been closely observed: however, I seem to have been doomed exclusively to penetrate to the centre of their abode. Every action of my life seems to me to have been computed and arranged in their

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