of ARC, that illustrious and immortal martyr to her noble spirited and generous enthusiasm, after she had saved France by her unparalleled talents and valor, from being conquered by the British arms! They were the Guises, royal dukes of France, and their noble and respectable associates, who gave rise to the massacre of St. Bartholomew, during which thirty thousand protestants, with the venerable and brave Coligny at their head, were murdered in cold blood. It was Henry VIII. the very powerful and no less respectable King of England, who cut off the heads of his unhappy wives, as coolly as he would have done those of so many chickens; and finally turned protestant, after writing learnedly against Luther, and in favor of popery, and committed the most horrible excesses of tyranny and cruelty against his catholic subjects, and their monasteries, because the Pope would not consent that he should realise the fable of Belphegor, by divorcing or murdering one wife, and marrying another, whenever he should take such an amorous and affectionate whim into his royal and respectable head! It was the daughter of the same respectable king, the no less respectable queen Elizabeth, who murdered "her dear sister and kinswoman," Mary, because the latter was more beautiful, and might have become more respectable than herself!

One of the most unjust, cruel, and bloody transactions, recorded in history, was that of the massacre of Glencoe, in which a large por

tion of the Macdonalds, an ancient and powerful Scottish clan, were murdered in cold blood, by order of the respectable William, Prince of Orange, then on the British throne; and we think it probable, at least, that this same respectable monarch, while Prince of Orange in Holland, was at the bottom of the mobocratic massacre of the virtuous and patriotic De Witts, to which we have already alluded.

They were the representatives of revolutionary France, the respectable Robespierre, Danton and Marat, who executed hecatombs of such men as Brissot de Warville; and it was a no less respectable personage than the Duke of Orleans, father of the present Louis Phillippe, who, during the same bloody era, united with such monsters as Robespierre and Co. in bringing his own brother, the mild and benevolent Louis XVI. and the young, gay and beautiful companion of his bosom and his throne to the scaffold and the guillotine! And shortly afterwards, it was the respectable Napoleon Bonaparte, who usurped the empire of France, and involved all Europe in blood and slaughter, to gratify his own wild and wicked ambition. The only difference between this respectable monster, and the respectable monsters who had preceded him, was, that while they murdered the men and women, and even children of France alone, he murdered the men of all Europe, in the vain hope of erecting over it all, his blood-stained and blood-cemented throne! In the interior of R*

France the respectable Robespierre and Co. sent their victims boldly and in broad day-light to the guillotine; but the respectable Bonaparte despatched his secretly within the dark recesses of a prison-house, to which the ghost of Pichegru might be called up to attest, were ghosts now allowed to walk abroad. It was this same respectable usurper, who made a secret and very respectable proposition to the British government to divide the United States between them!-for nothing is impossible in the eyes of such respectable tyrants, robbers, and murderers! And in our own country, was not Benedict Arnold, at one time, as respectable as any other general in our army, Washington excepted; and yet he would have betrayed that army, and with it the liberties of the land that gave him birth!

If you have never done it before, you must now, I trust, my young readers, perceive the emptiness, generally speaking, of human precedent, or example, in enabling you to judge rightly of what t is either right or wrong to do in this life: For hese precedents, these examples, alas! are too often like two-edged swords, which are as likely to cut on the wrong side as the right. We have seen that if you cannot follow the multitude, neither can you safely follow the great ones of the earth. "Surely," says the sacred volume, "men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degrees are a lie”—Psalms, lxii. 9. How vividly does this passage justify all that we have said of

earthly precedents and examples. Where, then, must we look? methinks I hear you ask. Need you be told to look to the book of God for direction, for light to guide you in all that relates to the science of the heart? Oh! what an exhaustless fountain of truth and of light, is that despised and neglected book! Rely upon it, that that infallible record of God's eternal wisdom, will never fail to show you the right way, in every possible case of conscience that can arise. Make that, then, your study above all other books; and you will never want the advice of A MAN OF SIXTY, or of a HUNDRED either, to direct your footsteps into the paths of wisdom, virtue and peace: And next to the study of that sacred volume, the more necessary, on account of the weakness or wickedness and futility of all mere human precedent; the portrait I have drawn of the conduct both of the little and the great ones of the earth, the MOB on the one side, and the PRETENDED MAJESTY on the other, deeply inculcates the necessity of thinking for yourselves, of cultivating stern independence of mind, as well as stern integrity of heart; of taking no man's principles or professions on trust; but candidly and calmly investigating every important subject before you decide, avoiding most carefully all hasty conclusions: And on one grand and all-important, and all-absorbing subject, in particular, beware of rash judgment; but study it seriously, investigate it thoroughly, and think deeply upon it, before you

decide: And then I fear not, you will become the fast friends and the faithful advocates and devotees of RELIGION; for that is the subject to which I allude-the subject, of all others, in which just conclusions are to be found only in diligent research, and deep reflection, while erroneous ones, which are always hastily imbibed, are sure to lead to the most dreadful end.

And have we, then, perhaps you ask, had no great and good men in our native land, whose examples we might safely follow? Certainly we have had some very great and good men too. We have had a Washington-a Jay-a Clinton-men bred in that old school of virtue and science, liberty and religion, which existed and flourished among us, before we became too intimately acquainted with, and too deeply immersed in, the false philosophy of Bolingbroke, Hume and Voltaire; in the idle, worthless and wicked Theatres, Circusses, Race-grounds, and a number of other equally detestable, and ever to be detested, licentious and profligate institutions, principles and practices of Europe. We could indeed name a few more-a precious few, whom the grave has swallowed up of the men of that good old school; but precious and brilliant as are these great and good examples, and worthy as they are of all imitation-yet there is one so far above them all, that no comparison can be made between them and HIM: And if you will but make HIS life-нIS infallible precepts and principles--and His divine grace-the