Both Mrs Nelson and Martha were surprised and exceedingly frightened. by the sudden appearance of Mr. Nelson. Infidel reclaimed page 155 NEW-YORK. J & J. HARPER 82 CLIFF ST THE CLERGYMAN'S ORPHAN; OR, THE CHILD OF PROVIDENCE. A TALE FOUNDED UPON FACTS. BY A CLERGYMAN OF NEW-YORK. NEW-YORK: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. & J. HARPER, AND SOLD BY THE BOOKSELLERS GENERALLY THROUGHOUT [Entered according to Act of Congress, by J. & J. Harper in the year 1833, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New-York.] PREFACE. "Is it true?" This is one of the first and most obvious inquiries made by the youthful mind, when listening to or perusing any interesting narrative. After the attention has been engaged, and the feelings excited by some account of remarkable incidents, it is painful to find that our sympathies have been awakened by fiction—that the occurrences to which we have attended have existed in the imagination of the narrator only, and that our sensibilities have been excited in behalf of persons or facts which were but the creatures of a sportive fancy. At once, then, to satisfy his readers, the author of the following tale informs them that it is founded upon facts; that with most of |