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min. The devouring element, agi- future punishment, is unable to resated by a boisterous wind,had chang-train the violence of human pasd its direction, and the palace of sions:-his own vices have brought sered meeting its rage, was, in a upon him his present sufferings; ew moments, levelled to the dust. already is the work of retribution ts iniquitous master was saved with begun.-Tekah is innocent-not ifficulty from the tumbling roof from inclination, but the force of nd being insensible from his wound education, which induced him, to nd bruises, was conveyed to the tremble at the consequence of crime. ouse of a neighbour, where, in his The first virtuous action of his life, elirium, he accused himself of so arising from purity of intention, was any crimes, together with the pre-preferring the safety of Nour Hali ent outrage, that it becamene ry to inform the Cadi, who is ces to his own, to the casket of jewels, and this action will be rewarded by writing of detention, till the affair the love of that amiable maid :-grathould be more minutely examined.itude already fills her heart. Her The palace of Tekah had suffered lover, the weak-minded Nolah, was rescued from death by my care. ly in the womens' apartments; at the slave who had taken the was I who sent him to warn Tekah of his danger; but the temptation wels was no where to be found, da reward was proclaimed for his was too strong; he fancied to escape detection, but the eye of Providence covery; to which his indiscretion offering the gems for sale, soon was upon him, and while he grasped the gems, he forfeited life and Nour Hali, who, from the moment she learns his perfidy, will despise and detest him.O then, ye people! and thou, O Sultan! be assured, that if sometimes justice lifts the sword and poises the scale in this life, much more shall the next be accountable The hall was extremely crowded, for the actions of the present--Visht Sered (though labouring under ni, who stands there, wrapped in rsonal derangment) had recover- confusion, is an evil genii, who inhis reason; and there being no sidiously, and by representing man sitive accusation, the sentence of in false but glittering colours, dazquittal was about to be pronounc-zles and deceives your minds; bewhen the nor his doc

ter led.

Sered appealed from the power the Cadi to an higher tribunal; d the Sultan resolved in person to itness the trial of a man, who had cused himself in the ravings of lirium.

Jem entered gervises Vishni and lieve neither him the Sul

when thed the hall.

Unmindful of the royal presence, ey advanced through the crowd,

trine.” “And how,”

tan," shall we believe thee?". "This," cried Salem, his eyes spark placing themselves at the footling with heavenly fire, "this is the the throne, Salem bowed thrice, token of my truth!" d began

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At that moment the hall was illuSovereign of kings deign to mined with a blaze of impervious ceive instruction from the inci- light. The forms of the dervises nts before you; and ye people, were lost in air; and of the spot end the moral of this transaction, where Vishni had stood remained 1 be wise!Sered is guilty-be-only a heap of ashes. ise reason, without a dread of

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of revelation; who could see causes and consequences in one now; “in comprehension, how like a God ?" PITT! that great man in spite of fortune. Others are great because they, succeed. PITT perished in the struggle with success, leaving him victory, but not triumph. The bolt of heaven strikes down giants. But their prostration is uo evidence of want of strength. PITT weigh

MELANCHOLY is the pleasure of contemplating the ruins of magnified the kingdoms of the world in a cence, of musing on the wreck of balance. The liberties of the earth mind. We gaze and are proud; hung on his arm alone and it upheld for they are relicks of greatness. them. In the conflict for empire, We ponder and are sunk in dismay in the commotions of dominion, he that for greatness there is a grave, kept them secure and unmoved. We see majesty in desolation; be-Life at length failed. Heaven withold the waste of mind; and rumi-nessed his fall and almost relented nate on the brevity of the sovereignty of intellect, though established by the divine right of the distinctions of nature, and confirmed by the laborious exertions of art. The understanding, like the arrow, is honored only in its path. Both, while in motion, "whir by" our ears, but no sooner strike their destined mark, than both fall to the ground, to the eye of sense equally undistinguished, "unknowing and unknown." BURKE, PITT, Fox, where are ye? Ye mighty monarchs of mind, have ye risen to crowns of glory? Your places know you no more. Places, that, but for you would have known compar-pendence to wealth; who knew no atively nothing. BURKE! that difference between splendor and prophet without inspiration; to poverty, but that in splendor he whose prescient mind the light of was poor, and in poverty splendid.. history rendered needless the light The profound reasoner; the pow

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from its decree, that to deserve should not be to command success. CHARLES Fox! that man of all parties and honored by all; the known enemy of NORTH and the avowed advocate of his views; of the Court party and in opposition; the friend of the king and the man of the people; consistent only in his zeal for liberty and his exertions to abolish the barter of men! The man of principle, yet dissolute; of ardent temper and cool judgment; in whom ambition and love of pleasure were alike insatiable; a philosopher and a rake! Who sacrificed wealth to poverty, and inde

erful statesman; the vehement ora- kindle to conflagration. We gaze tor!

at his course, and, though his motion be too rapid for the eye to follow, we may catch him at points of his progress.

The lives of these illustrious characters furnish the moralist with causes for the most important reflections. We behold BURKE, poor He came forward under all the at the outset, scorn every mean of favorable auspices of talents and bettering his fortune, but what the fortune. The son of Lord Holland, most dignified delicacy would pro- his patrimony was great; the fanounce honorable. We see him vorite of Lord Holland, the greatest sturdy in precept, and an example patrimony would have been no comin practice of the perfection obe-petence. The fond weakness of a lience to his precepts would tend doating father, that can make abto produce. We behold at length surdities reasonable, could alone juspensions magnified and made hon-tify his education. We find him orable by being conferred upon soon reduced from affluence to need, him. Yet throughout his whole standing in the cabinet of his counlife, from his cradle to his grave, try an animated, mouldering monthe man of candor cannot discern ument of the folly of extravagance even a momentary sacrifice of in-and the worthlessness of hereditary dependence of mind. wealth. When we compare him PITT was perhaps the most con-with the mighty lexicographer, sistent statesman that ever lived. SAMUEL JOHNSON, how the statesBorn to no title, he asserted the man shrinks by the side of the prerogative of nature and became scholar? See JOHNSON at his outset the source of title to others. Re- in London, in the most abject and peatedly the first minister in the unremitted drudgery for daily subkingdom and commanding inex-sistence! that the palate should haustible foreign resources, he lived in splendor, because he could not otherwise live with honor, and, to die in glory, he died poor. His funeral honors added indeed to his renown, for his estate could not pay the expense. With more power than ARISTIDES, he had the same inflexible justice.

CHARLES JAMES Fox we behold making laws for his country at an age, when those laws would not allow others to make contracts for themselves. PITT seemed formed for the centre of a system, round which the planets were to revolve in regular order. Fox seemed designed for a comet, to throw every system into confusion. He was flaming as a comet and irregular as its path. At a distance his beams would impart a genial influence. On approach they would scorch and

taste, it was first necessary, that the head should think and the hand move. Goaded on by necessity, he goes forward with manly, but reluctant march, till he stands firmly fixed in the trenches of independence. View Fox at his outset in parliament, in all the splendor of affluence and the factitious dignity of rank! His talents and estate are almost equally objects of envy.— Let a few years pass, and behold him depressed in circumstances and humbled in mind! Who is he, that can contemplate JOHNSON, rising from penury to competence, and towards the close of life and in sickness declining the offers of pecuniary aid, made by the magnanimity of THURLOW, the delicacy of GERARD HAMILTON, and the utmost refinement of the most refined of men, and then glance upon Fox,

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sinking from opulence below medi- ment. The more private duties of ocrity, till he accept the proffered the clerical profession are not less boon of an annuity fund to be raised interesting to the heart. The conby his political friends, and not be versation of a man who has made forcibly struck with the vanity of religion his study, is oftentimes of human grandeur and the uncertain- wonderful consolation in the chamWhen discase ty of fortune? We gaze, in the one bers of sickness.

case, and are ready to fall pros-immoveably fixes the eye on the trate at the pedestal of sturdy inde-great concerns of futurity, the voice pendence. We look on, in the of a friendly instructor is listened other, and see independence, bound to with gratitude; the hope he inhand and foot, brought by extrava-spires dwells sweetly on the heart, gance to the altar, and revolt indig- and his kindness rests in the memnant at the sacrifice, made necessary ory through the period of future by the wantonness of prodigality life. and the madness of gaming. Fathers should pause and ponder, on the vicissitudes in the life of Fox, and read a most solemn lesson a gainst giving improper directions to the mind of a son by indulgent education, lest they should thus one day make the wealth they would leave him only an aggravation of his distress, when the feeling sense of the want of property should be rendered more acute and poignant by the consciousness of having once amply possessed it.

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It is peculiarly the happiness of a gospel minister that a faithful discharge of his professional duties creates an affection and attachment to his person. The promulgation of those awful and sublime truths which revelation discloses, and the inculcating of that pure and moral benevolence which the scriptures enjoin, gives room for the display of every mental qualification, and exercise for every virtuous senti

In those misfortunes and bereavements, where the christian finds no consolation but from the voice of religion, the tenderness and attention of its public professors is a balm that quiets the agony of the wound. When, these duties are performed by the public teachers of divinity, they invariably create among a christian people a love and esteem that is not easily diminished. It is equally honourable for the ministers and people of New-England, that no where is the clerical profession held in higher respect. Their own good understanding bas generally kept them within the line of their duty, and the discharge of that duty has created a great share of public confidence and esteem..

The subject of this memoir is a striking instance of the foregoing remarks, since few men were more beloved by their friends or better esteemed in society, and none more zealously engaged in the great work of the gospel.

Samuel Stillman was born in the city of Philadelphia, on the 27th February, 1737. After having been instructed in preparatory studies in South-Carolina, he entered the college of his native State, and receivIn ed its first honours in 1759. the summer of the same year he