it feems, had, in confequence, followed him to St. Alban's and completely avenged his injury.' catching hold of the child with his mouth, landed it fafely on the thore. An anecdote related by Mr. Hope, and well authenticated by other perfons, thows alfo that this animal is both capable of refentment when in- Falfe Alarms in Places of Public jured, and of great contrivance to accomplith it; and that it is even poffeffed of power of Amusement. MR. EDITOR, pouting ideas and communicating a work entitled England Illuf. them to one of its own fpecies, fo as to produce a certain preconcerted confequence. A gentleman of Whitmore, in Staffordthire, uted to come twice a year to town, and being fond of exercife, generally performed the journey on horfeback, accompanied moft part of the way by a faithful little terrier dog, which, left he might lofe it in town, he always left to the care of Mrs. Langford, the landlady at St. Alban's: and on his return he was fure to find his little companion well taken care of. The gentleman calling one time, as ufual, for his dog, Mrs. Langford appeared before him with a woeful countenance:— Alas! fir, your terrier is loft! Our great houfe-dog and he had a quarrel, and the poor terrier was fo worried and bit before we could part them, that I thought he could never have got the better of it. He however, crawled out of the yard, and no one faw him for almoft a week, he then returned, and brought with him another dog, bigger by far than ours, and they both together fell on our great dog, and bit him fo unmercifully, that he has fcarcely fince been able to go about the yard, or to eat his meat. Your dog and his companion then difappeared, and have never fince been feen at St. Alban's: The gentleman heard the ftory with patience, and endeavoured to reconcile himself to the lofs. On his arrival at Whitmore, be found his little terrier and on enquiring into circumftances, was informed that he had been at Whitmore, and had coaxed away the great dog, who Dodfley, in 1764, there is an account of a most shocking catastrophe. The circumftances are almoft too dreadful for narration, but as they exhibit a picture of diftrefs and horror, which the execrable wretches who, from wantonnefs or a defire of plunder, may fpread fuch an alarm, can fcarcely imagine, the infertion of it in your valuable mifcellany may not be without its ufe. In the London theatres, the fpectators have been frequently thrown into confufion by thele fiitions reports, though providentially no fatal iffue has, within my recollection, been the result. Yours, &c. CANTAB. 'The most memorable event that appears in the hiftories of this county, [Cambridge] except thofe of a public kind, happened at Barnwell, a little village near Cambridge, on the eighth of September, 1727. It happened that fome ftrollers had brought down a puppet-fhow, which was exhibited in a large thatched barn. Juft as the fhow was about to begin, an idle fellow attempted to thrust himself in without paying, which the people of the flow prevented, and a quarrel enfued: after fome altercation the fellow went away, and the door being made faft, all was quiet; but this execrable villain, to revenge the fuppofed incivility he had received from the flowman, went to a heap of hay and ftraw, which ftood clote to the bara, and fecretly fet it on fire. The fpectators of the show, who were in the midft of their entertainment, were foon alarmed by the flames, which had communicated themfelves to the barn: barn: in the fudden terror which in- during the whole of the fcene, and ftantlyfeizedthe whole affembly, every having refolution enough not to move one rushed to the door, but it happened, with the crowd, but remain in my unfortunately, that the door opened feat, I had an opportunity of feeing inwards, and the crowd that was the whole, and have sent you as behind, ftill urging thofe that were follows:-Juft after half price had before, they preffed fo violently taken place, the ladies and gentlemeni against it, that it could not be opened, in one of the front boxes were alarmand being too well fecured to give ed by the cry of fire from behind the way, the whole company, confifting boxes, but not loud enough to be of more than 120 perfons, were heard by the houfe in general; they kept confined in the building, till immediately arofe, and feeing nothing, the roof fell in. This accident co- were inclinable to be feated again; ivered them with fire and smoke: but hearing it repeated, they began fome were fuffocated in the fmoulder- to make their way out of the theatre, ing thatch, and others were confum- and every part of the houfe was ed alive in the flames. Six only ef- immediately alarmed, and the greatcaped with life; the reft, among eft confufion took place. Many whom were feveral young ladies of from the gallery began to throw fortune, and many little boys and themfelves over into the pit: others girls, were reduced to one undiftin- ran to the ftairs and choaked the pafguishable heap of mangled bones and fage up, while fome fell headlong flefh, the bodies being half confumed, down the ftairs, and were trod upon and totally disfigured. The furviving by others paffing down. Ladies and friends of the dead, not knowing gentlemen from the upper boxes threw which was the relic that they fought, themfelves into the pit, and made a large hole was dug in the church their way over the orchestra on to yard, and all were promifcuoufly the ftage. Numbers of both fexes interred together. As it is not eafy were much bruifed and hurt; few to conceive any circumftance of limbs were broke; but I am forry greater horror, than thofe which to inform you that four lives were attended this catastrophe, neither is loft: two young women, about 22 it eafy to conceive more aggravated years of age, a girl about 11, wickedness than occurred in the per- a boy about 14; thofe were all in petration of it. The favour which the gallery, and were either trampled was refufed was fuch as the wretch on or preffed to death. Two others, had neither pretence to ask, nor reason a boy and a girl, were supposed dead, to expect. The barn did not belong but recovered last night. A gang of to the fhowman, and the fpectators pickpockets are fufpected to have were admitted only upon terms, with been at the fair, and it is fuppofed which he refufed to comply. The they fet on foot the falfe alarm, as particulars of his punishment, or his feveral ladies' pockets were cape, are not preferved with the off, watches and bracelets were loft, &c. The managers have offered 100 guineas reward upon the conviction of the offender or offenders. Cambridge, Sept. 26. Hory. The accounts are many and auJhentic as to the atrocious act itfeif, onand though diverfied, and apparently written by different authors, agree in one the truth of the story.' to Theatre, Stirbitch. A melancholy Laffair happened yesterday evening at theatre. Being in the theatre Prophecies. and Cut They are faid to have been uttered by the reverend Chriftopher Love, who was beheaded in the year 1651, for correfponding with Charles II. and confpiring against the republican government. How they apply to the events which have hitherto occurred, we leave to the calculation of others. It is certain that they appeared (whoever may have been the prophet) long antecedent to the earliest dates in queftion. A fhort work of the Lord's in the latter age of the world. Great earthquakes and commotions by fea and land, fhall happen in the year Great wars in Germany and America, 1780. The deftruction of popery, or Babylon's fall, in 1790. God will be known by many in 1795. This will produce a GREAT MAN.* The ftars will wander, and the moon turn in blood in 1800. Africa, Afia, and America, will tremble in 1803. A great earthquake over the whole world in 1805. God will be univerfally known by all. Then general reformation and peace for ever. The people fall learn war no more. Happy is the man that liveth to fee this day.' R Omnia penes Deum. Real Friendship. EAL friendship is rarely to be found. Antiquity furnithes but few inftances of it; the prefent age scarce one. An example of this generous, difinterested, and virtuous paffion, is found in the hiftory of Poland. Octavius and Leobellus, two young gentlemen of Wilna in Lithuania, were bred up together, and were infeparable companions. They feemed to have but one will, or two N 0 T E. *By many alledged to be Bonaparte. bodies actuated by one foul: fo that Gelafius prevailed with Paulina's a ve a very unequal fight. At the first thruft, he laid Gelafius dead; and then turning upon Megafius, wounded him and made him fly, he himself having received no hurt; but Octavius was defperately wounded. This affair was reprefented by Megafius to the friends of Gelafius, to be a treachery contrived by the two friends, who had affaulted them in the dark; which being depofed betore the magiftrates, Octavius was taken, but Leobellus made his efcape, concealing himself, with hopes to find an opportunity to prove his own and his friend's innocence. However, Octavius was tried, and upon the fole evidence of Megafius was fentenced to lote his head and he was already brought upon the scaffold to be executed, when Leobellus, rufhing through the crowd, called to the executioner to ftay his hand, for that he himself was the only perfon guilty; and, mounting the fcaffold, declared the truth of the matter to the magiftrates, cleared his friend, and offered his own life to fatisfy the law. The whole multitude cried pardon, and the magiftrates carried back the two friends to the hall, to re-hear the caufe; when, in the prefence of the palatine of Wilna, the two friends generously contefting which fhould die to fave the other, he patiently heard every circumftance of this dark affair; and having heard, with pleasure and furprife, Leobellus plead for his friend's difcharge, faid- So far am I from judging you guilty, or condemning you to death, that I cannot but look upon what you have done to be a glorious action. I therefore acquit you both, and adjudge Megafius to lofe his head for his treachery and perjury; and request, as a favour, to be admitted the third perfon into your friendship.'-He alfo procured Octavius the happiness of his Paulina, married Leobellus to a relation of his own, and recomJanuary, 1803. mended them both to advantageous pofts in the court of Poland. On the Words Rebel and Infidel. [From the Monthly Magazine, a London Publication.] A MR. EDITOR, MONG the various ways prac tifed by mankind of injuring and infulting each other, a common one is the application of certain terms in a reproachful fenfe, which are in their own nature indifferent, and imply criminality only as ufed by the fronger party relatively to the weaker. I all explain my meaning by the inftance of two words, which ftand prominent in political and religious diíputation, viz. rebel and infi del. Rebel is by derivation a term perfectly neutral in a moral fenfe--rebellare, to fight again. Indeed, it rather implies refiftance than aggieffion: and though the meaning now affixed to it is refiftance to lawful or established authority, yet it is eafy to difcern, that this fignification has arifen from fuch authority,' as being originally derived from conqueft. A ftrong and martial nation invades a weak neighbour; they are opposed, they prove victorious in the conteft, and the vanquished, to avoid utter ruin or extirpation, make a temporary fubmiffion. Prefently, oppreffion and infult inflame their paffions, they become afhamed of their former want of fpirit, they re-affume their arms, and drive away their tyrants. It is now in the order of things that they thould be termed rebels, and their manly attempt to recover their rights a rebellion, expofing them to all the penalties of high treafon. Thus it was that the Romans, who had perfuaded themfelves that univerfal dominion was their natural and indefeafible right, treated all the people who did not, after the first trial, fubmit E quietly quietly to the law of the ftrongeft; and their generals never hesitated to put to death all the magiftrates, and fell for flaves all the people, of a ftate which, after once acquiefcing in their ufurped authority, endeavoured to regain its independence. The great nation of the prefent day feems fully difpofed to adopt this principle of the jus gentium; and we thall probably foon fee the unfortunate Swifs denounced as rebels in a fenatus-confultum dictated by the great conful. But, although this term may at pleasure be affixed by fovereign power, it is fuccefs alone that must decide upon the permanency of its application. Most of us may remember the peremptory tone in which the name of rebels was pronounced against the Americans at the early period of their revolt. In the fastday prayers, the Almighty was folemnly told, that we confidered the word does not believe what I do. them as fuch, and hoped he would do the fame. The politeness of general Gage deftined meffrs. Han cock and Adams to the cord; and the Heffians treated Yanky geefe and turkeys as declared rebels wherever they met with them. After Burgoyne's capture, the term began to lofe ground in the prayers, the and his prophet! choose between tribute, the fword, or the koran.' Meantime, the Chriftian preaches a crufade against the infidel Mahometan, and burns the infidel Jew at a ftake. I remember a pamphlet, written by an Oxford doctor, in which, with the true fpirit of his fchool, the writer called that zealous defender of revelation, dr. Priestley, a bufy infidel.' Probably both doctors would concur in lamenting the infidelity of the age; in which they would be joined by the pious catholic, who would exemplify the fact, by remarking the criminal fcepticism with which the flight of the holy houfe of Loretto, and the liquefaction of St. Januarius's blood, is treated. Thus the fame term is made to denote widely different fates of unbelief; and, in reality, it means no more than this, that he to whom I apply There is, it is faid, in this country one believer of the ancient heathen fyftem of mythology. Suppofing himfelf the reprefentative of Gentile orthodoxy, with what difdain might he treat all the votaries of modern religions as upftart infidels! How juftly might he re place the apoftate Julian by the apoftate Conftantine! Americans were our deluded fellow- One certainly would not propose fubjects; and in the gazettes, fimply to the fatellites of lordly establishments provincials.' The bufinefs termi- the difufe of fo convenient a mode of nated in their being the united filencing an adverfary, as fixing upon states' and the rebellion was converted into a revolution. A late rebellion has been lefs fuccefsful, and therefore has retained its name. him an odious appellation. They are in poffeffion of the right of doing it, and, while backed with the civil power, it aufwers their purpose Infidel, unbeliever, incredulous, all extremely well. But, it may be equally imply a deficiency of faith worth the confideration of thofe who or belief; but, with relation to are conscious of being themselves difwhat, or in what degree, they do fenters from authorifed fyftems, how not exprefs: they are, therefore, far they are politic or confiftent in properly middle or neutral terms. branding thofe who deviate fomewhat Yet, the firft of these terms has been farther, with opprobrious epithets, converted into the most opprobrious which are fo easily retorted upon of appellations. Thou infidel dog themselves. Softening down infidel (fays the Turk to the Chriftian, Jew, to unbeliever, which I obferve pracor idolater), thou enemy to God tifed by fome of the gentler and civiller polemics, |