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It is certainly some consolation to me, to find myself sinning against Mr. Bakewell's decrees in favour of popery, in such noble company as the Dukes of Newcastle and Wellington, Lord Kenyon, Mr. Peel, and a whole host of the first ranks of society in England and Ireland, now happily forming themselves into "Brunswick Clubs," upon the foundation of those principles which I have endeavoured, however feebly, to advocate and support. And, sir, were I to retire into a corner, some of those illustrious defenders of the British constitution might possibly be found qualified to grapple with Mr. B.'s authority, as well as with his intellect, in the decision of the question. But I want not their aid, sir, in the present contest: give me only a clear stage and fair play,” and I will endeavour to lay Mr. B. gently on his back, where he may rest himself and recover his wind, until his friends O'Connel and Sheil shall come to take him up. I assure you, sir, if I restrain some portion of the indignation naturally excited by so intemperate and unprovoked an attack as I have sustained from that man, it is out of pure respect to the medium through which my defence is conveyed to the public eye, and not at all to the intellectual powers of the man who made that attack.

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of "a heated imagination." Sir, I have resided nearly forty years in Ireland, and I was there when, in 1798, the barn of Scul labogue was heated by the burning flesh and bones of nearly three hundred unoffending Protestants; and since that period, I have heard the reiterated threats of the same direful faction which perpetrated that savage atrocity, regretting the partial and inefficient extent of their vengeance on that occasion, and calling "the blessed virgin" to witness how much more faithfully they will do their duty, at the next oppor tunity. And, sir, I should be a stupid dupe indeed, if my blood did not boil, as well as my imagination be alive to the contemplated and avowed design of a repetition of such scenes. Cajoled and deceived by the treacherous placidity shining in the countenances of his popish friends and "priests," Mr. B. is cherishing in his bosom the most ruinous serpent that ever lurked under a mask of religion in the plantations of Christianity; nor will any thing short of feeling its mortal sting, open his eyes to the sophistical deception under which he is completely blinded.

"Nervous timidity!" No, sir, I repel the charge with just indignation. Although all that is dear and valuable my heart in this world, is in Ireland, yet I view the alarming state of that distracted country with the calmest equanimity; perfectly con

ments!

But I am also "intolerant:" yes, sir, and so is the Bible; and so is its Divine Author; and so was the late Rev. John Wesley, who truly declared, that " Popery ought not to be tolerated in any Protestant state." In such respectable company I confess myself so intolerant, that I think God's sentence against popery ought to be carried into effect by the British government; and every British subject rescued from its destructive fangs; and this, not by investing it with civil power and political influence, but by banishing it for ever from the whole empire.

But my observations have been the result

Controversy with Father O'Leary.

in the hands of its divine Author, from all the open violence and secret machinations of its sworn and mortal foe. And yet, sir, if I even should be the subject of some anxiety for the fate of the nation, and the ark of its religion, at such a critical mo ment, I should not stand alone under such a sensation! witness the following extract from a recent article in "The Times" newspaper:-"We tremble at every wind that blows from Ireland, and our fears are outstepped by every day's communication; so much more terrible is the reality when it reaches us, than our wildest fancies had anticipated. The island is on the brink of open war!" And we all know, sir, (except Mr. B.) what will be the object of that war when it does break out, as well as of the yells that are now proclaiming its approach, it will be the subversion of the British constitution in church and state, either by intimidation or by force.

I can assure Mr. B. that although some portion of my hostility to popery is derived from those "old books" called the Bible and Testament, and has been confirmed by reading Fox's Martyrology, and other authentic records, relative to the behaviour of

his popish friends, in past ages; yet it is upon a practical knowledge of Roman Catholics," that my propositions are founded; because, sir, let the natural dispositions of papists be what they may, as popery is at open war with both nature and grace,* * so its wretched dupes and deluded votaries are all compelled, when the hour of trial approaches, to obey the most sanguinary dictates of the priesthood, on pain of eternal damnation!

Sir, my premises are founded on the immutable basis of "the infallible decrees of a church that can never err!" And my conclusions are most just, and accurately corresponding with the premises, viz. "That inasmuch as no conscientious papist can bear true and cordial allegiance to a Protestant government, in church and state, so they ought not to be invested with either civil or ecclesiastical power in such a Protestant state." This, sir, is my fundamental principle; and I challenge the universe to overthrow it. Persecuted, abused, and threatened, I may be, in the true spirit of popery, for my principle; but it stands firm as the rock of truth on which it is erected, and bids defiance to the united efforts of slander, malice, and revenge, to overturn it. I am, sir, most respectfully yours, S. TUCKER. Birmingham, 7th October, 1828.

If you seek to prevent your friends raising you in the world, be a drunkard, for that will defeat all their efforts.

If you would effectually counteract your own attempts to do well, be a drunkard, and you will not be disappointed.

If you wish to repel the endeavours of the whole human race to raise you to character, credit, and prosperity, be a drunkard, and you will most assuredly triumph.

If you are determined to be poor, be a drunkard, and you will soon be ragged and penniless.

If you would wish to starve your family, be a drunkard, for that will consume the means of their support.

If you would be spunged on by knaves, be a drunkard, and that will make their task easy.

Witness the celibacy of its clergy. 119.-VOL. X.

If you wish to be robbed, be a drunkard, which will enable the thief to do it with more safety.

If you wish to blunt your senses, be a drunkard, and you will soon be more stupid than an ass.

If you would become a fool, be a drunkard, and you will soon lose your understanding.

If you wish to incapacitate yourself for rational intercourse, be a drunkard, for that will render you wholly unfit for it.

If you wish all your prospects in life to be clouded, be a drunkard, and they will soon be dark enough.

If you would destroy your body, be a drunkard, as drunkenness is the mother of disease.

If you mean to ruin your soul, be a drunkard, that you may be excluded from heaven.

If you are resolved on suicide, be a drunkard, that being a sure mode of destruction.

If you would expose both your folly and your secrets, be a drunkard, and they will run out, while the liquor runs in.

If you are plagued with great bodily strength, be a drunkard, and it will soon be subdued by so powerful an antagonist.

If you would get rid of your money without knowing how, be a drunkard, and it will vanish insensibly.

If you would have no resource when past labour, but a workhouse, be a drunkard, and you will be unable to provide any.

If you are determined to expel all domestic harmony from your house, be a drunkard, and discord, with all her evil train, will soon enter.

If you would be always under strong suspicion, be a drunkard, for little as you think it, all agree that those who steal from themselves and families will rob others.

If you would be reduced to the necessity of shunning your creditors, be a drunkard, and you will soon have reason to prefer the by-paths to the public streets. If you like the amusements of a court of conscience, be a drunkard, and you may be often gratified.

If you would be a dead weight on the community, and "cumber the ground," he a drunkard, for that will render you useless, helpless, burdensome, and expensive.

If you would be a nuisance, be a drunkard, for the approach of a drunkard is like that of a dunghill.

If you would be odious to your family and friends, be a drunkard, and you will soon be more than disagreeable. 3 s

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If you would be a pest to society, be a drunkard, and you will be avoided as infectious.

If you dread reformation of your faults, be a drunkard, and you will be impervious to all abomination.

If you would smash windows, break the peace, get your bones broken, tumble under carts and horses, and be locked up in watch-houses, be a drunkard, and it will be strange if you do not succeed.

Finally, if you are determined to be utterly destroyed, in estate, body, and soul, be a drunkard, and you will soon know that it is impossible to adopt more effectual means to accomplish your-END.

THE SECOND ODE OF THE FIRST BOOK OF HORACE; WITH SOME PRELIMINARY REMARKS ON POETRY.

Laurea demandus Apollinari.

POETRY may be defined the universal language, which has existed from the earliest times. "In the prime of days," when nature was incomparably more beautiful than it is at present, and the knowledge of its Maker and his attributes more distinctly perceived, our first parents, it is reasonable to think, "begun the tuneful song." Created a little lower than the angels, and "rapt to the seraphim," their pure minds continually dwelt on those sublimities which are the essence of poesy, and their lofty song rose to "the heaven of heavens,' with the breathing winds, and the voice of the water

streams.

When this "golden age" had passed away, and the human mind, enslaved by its pollutions, was bound to earth, and had been deprived of those illuminations, and that near approach to perfection, which it before enjoyed, there yet remained in the soul of man a spark of ethereal fire"the love and admiration of " things excellent." Hence, in every age, and among every people, the philosophic spirit has spoken in the language of poetry; which is at first bold and nervous, coming from, and speaking directly to, the heart. As a people advance in refinement, their poetry improves in melody; though in some instances, that noble simplicity, which is the distinguishing mark of true poetry, is sacrificed to mechanical harmony, and the intricacies of verse. There are moments when every individual possesses feelings which human language cannot adequately express, and of which the common forms of speech can convey no idea; so far every one is a poet; but only he is so called, who can

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embody sublime and elegant ideas in imaginative and beautiful language.

Poetry was at first employed in the worship of the Deity, and in holding up to admiration men eminent for virtue, wisdom, and valour. The first poems were short effusions, poured forth in the moment of inspiration, and were remarkable for beauty and simplicity. They were sung on public occasions, for the purpose of transmitting to posterity that form of religion which their fathers had adopted, to perpetuate the memory of great and good men, and to animate youth to a love of what is noble and praiseworthy. In the course of time these wild verses were sung to the lyre, and hence this sort of composition obtained the name of Lyric Poetry. It was cultivated and brought to the highest perfection by the Greeks and Romans; among the latter, the great master of lyric poetry was Horace. His odes abound with grand and lofty images, and delight the ear with their exquisite melody.

The second ode of Horace is extremely fine. In it the poet enumerates all the which attended the death of prodigies Cæsar, and insinuates that Jupiter sent a god, under the form of Augustus, to expiate the guilt of Caesar's murder.

Lib. 1. Ode 2.

TO AUGUSTUS CAESAR. "Jam satis terris," &c.

THE Father of the gods hath sent his storms,
And with his red right hand hath overthrown
The sacred temples, and hath terrified
Th' amazed city.

The nations are affrighted, lest the time

of Pyrrha should return, when Proteus drove
His sea-calves through the waters to the tops
Of the high mountains.

Then clung the fishes to the lofty elm,
The pigeons' seat: and, all their native woods
And hills sunk in the flood, the timorous deer
Swum in the ocean.

We have beheld the troubled Tiber's waves
Cast violently from the Etruscan shore,
Threaten destruction to the king's palace
And Vesta's temple.

For love of Ilia and her lament,
The Tiber left his channel, to avenge
Caesar's death, and inundate the city,

But Jove approves not.

Or thon to whom love and pleasure wait around,
Oh smiling Venus, come; or thou our sire,
If thou regardest thy neglected race,
And thy descendants.
With pity and compassion, long withheld;
Thou, whom the clamour of the war delights,
And the shining helm, and the soldier's frown
On his enemy.

Or thou swift Ales chaste Maia's son,
If dwelling with us in Augustus' form,
Thou, Mercury, art willing to become
Caesar's avenger.
Remain a long time with us, and return
Late into heaven; nor on the rapid gale,
Offended at our own impious crimes, depart
And leave our city.

Enjoy the triumphs which await you here;
Remain with us, our father and our prince;
Revenge us on the Persians, Oh Cæsar,

A REPENTANT CONVICT.

A GENTLEMAN, returned from New South Wales, has favoured us with the following: "Having occasion to pass from Sydney to Darling harbour, being always ferried across by an old, honest-looking, sea-faring man, I was once induced to ask him the cause of his transportation. The question brought a tear from his eye, and, as it glistened on his cheek, he told me he was one of the crew of the Royal George, at the time of her sinking at Spithead. I was sitting between decks,' said he, 'looking at some young gentlemen, who were playing cards for a considerable sum, when the alarm was given. They immediately dropped the cards, and flew on deck, leaving about ten guineas on the table, which I took the liberty to put into my pocket, and seeing the water rush in at one side of the ship, I jumped out of a port-hole on the other, and was immediately taken up by a boat, which landed me and a few others at

Portsmouth.

66 6 Fearing I might meet the young gentlemen whose money I had, I set off for London, where my friends lived. The dishonest act I had committed, weighed heavily on my mind; but, instead of resolving to return the money, I got into bad company, who led me to greater crimes, and, in less than a year, I was capitally convicted at the Old Bailey, and should have been hung, had not a friend, who, influenced by the afflicting account I gave him of the loss of the brave Admiral Kempenfelt, and of my shipmates, and my providential escape, obtained a remission of my punishment to fourteen years' transportation. I was sent out among the first of the convicts to this colony, where I have endeavoured to atone for the violation of the

laws of my country at home, by strict conformity to them here; and I trust, by sincere repentance and gratitude to the God of all goodness, for thus affording me time and disposition, I have obtained forgiveness. In this country, sir, where there are so few incitements to evil, and so many to honest industry, callous indeed must be the heart which does not get rid of vicious propensities. I married soon after I got here, and my wife and myself have brought up a large family, and have now several grandchildren, and I thank God they are all sober, honest, and industrious. My bowels often yearn to revisit the dear land of my fathers, but that cannot be; I cannot leave my children; poor old John Waters will never see Old England again. Forty years have I been here, praising the mercy that spared me from an ignominious death, and the bounty that has blessed my exertions to provide for my numerous offspring.""

BRITISH MISSIONARY SOCIETIES.

THE following brief notices of the various British Missionary Societies, arranged in the order of their establishment, are chiefly collected from "The Spirit of British Missions," (octavo, 1815, pp. 195,) published under the sanction of the Church Missionary Society :

1. The oldest Missionary Society in England is that called the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts. It was established by Act of Parliament in 1647; but the civil wars which followed, and which ended in the death of king Charles, suspended the execution of its plans. At the restoration of Charles II. a charter was granted, and the work resumed ; and in the year 1701 the Society was incorporated by charter, under royal patronage. Its great aim has been to promote Christianity in the British West India colonies, and in North America. Mr. Elliot, "the apostle of the North American Indians," was supported by this Society, and the missionary family of the Mayhews also laboured under its patronage. It has now but few missionaries in its employ.

2. The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, formed in the year 1698, and countenanced by the nobility and bishops of the realm, has devoted a portion of its funds to the first Protestant mission founded in India; though its principal efforts are directed to the furtherance of religion at home. The names of Ziegenbalg, Schwartz, Gerick, Kolhoff, and others, adorn the history of its labours in India. 3. The New England Company is a

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old establishment, formed for the instruction of the Indians in New England, and the parts adjacent, but now limited chiefly to the Indians in New Brunswick.

4. The Society for the Conversion and Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the British West India Islands, founded by the late Bishop Porteus, and supported principally by the proceeds of an estate left by the Hon. Robert Boyle, in 1691, for the advancement of the Christian religion among infidels.

5. The Society in Scotland for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge, which has for its object the instruction of the ignorant in the Highlands and Isles of Scotland, and the propagation of the gospel in foreign countries, was formed in 1701, and incorporated in 1769. David and John Brainerd were among its early missionaries to the North American Indians.

6. The United Brethren's Society for the Furtherance of the Gospel, or Moravian Missions. These missions began in 1732; the society in London was established in 1741, to co-operate with the principal society in Germany. There has also latterly been established in London an association, not consisting of persons connected with the Moravian church, in aid of the above mis. sions: their stations are thirty-six; missionaries and their wives, 185. Their annual expenditure is £10,000.; towards which the Brethren themselves can scarcely raise £2000.; for the remainder they have to look to the liberality of other churches.

7. The Wesleyan Methodist Missions commenced regularly in 1786. Indeed, in 1769, the Rev. Mr. Wesley sent missionaries to North America; and from the year 1760, there had been preaching by the Methodists in the West Indies. Mr. John Wesley himself, and his brother Charles, had also been sent as missionaries to the new colony of Georgia, in 1735. At present, the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society employs a larger number of missionaries than any other British society :its stations are 138; its missionaries, not reckoning wives, catechists, schoolmasters, local preachers, &c. are 190, including twenty-one who preach in the native Irish tongue.

8. The Baptist Missionary Society, established in 1792, employs a number of missionaries and translators in the East Indies; it has also missionary stations in other parts of the world. A separation has recently taken place between the society at home and the missionaries at Serampore, and they are henceforth to be considered as two distinct and independent bodies.

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9. The Missionary Society, usually called the London Missionary Society, (the title resolved upon in 1818,) was established in 1795. It is principally in connexion with, and under the management of, the Independents, though other bodies of dissenters unite in its support; it has also a sermon preached in its behalf an nually in the Church of England. In 1826 it had upwards of eighty missionaries, besides native teachers, readers, &c.

10. The Edinburgh Missionary Society was formed in 1796. It has some important missions in Russia.

11. The Church Missionary Society, established in 1801, is conducted by members of the Church of England, under the patronage of various peers, spiritual and temporal, and other distinguished person.s. It has nine missions, in which are fifty-six stations, employing thirty-four English clergymen, and fourteen Lutherans, besides a large number of native teachers, &c.

12. The Continental Society was formed about ten years ago. Perhaps it may not be strictly correct, however, to rank it among those societies which are properly missionary.

13. The same observations may, perhaps, be applied to the Language Institution, just established, although it promises to be of considerable benefit to the missionary work generally,

THE TWO OMINOUS HOLLY TREES.

"It were better both died, Than that either were single."

THE following tale may be deemed romantic, and perhaps improbable, nevertheless it is true; and I myself was a spectator of the circumstance which occurred, when I was a mere child; but being so closely connected with one of the most beloved members of our household, even at so early a period, it could not fail to impress me with a lasting recollection; and I think too, at that age our memory is more tenacious, perhaps because it is not then crowded by those numerous recollections which throng in after life, and make their lasting abode in bosoms, which perhaps love them too well to deem them obtrusive.

It is now about nine years since, a young officer, of an unimpeachable character, and of manners which were gentleness and unaffected elegance, in the very morning of youth and zenith of happiness, fixed his affections on a young lady equally deserving. The attachment was mutual. They had neither loved before, and consequently