formerly taught among them. And he continued to exhort them, till his tongue, fwollen by the violence of his agony, denied him utterance.

7. Ferrar,.bishop of St. David's, alfo fuffered this terrible punishment in his own diocefs; and Ridley, bishop of London, and Latimer, formerly bishop of Worcester, two prelates venerable by their years, their learning, and their piety, perished together in the fame fire at Oxford, supporting each other's conftancy by their mutual exhortations.

8. Latimer, when tied to the stake, called to his companion, "Be of good cheer, my brother; we fhall this day kindle fuch a flame in England, as I trust in God will never be extinguished."

9. Sanders, a refpectable clergyman, was committed to the flames at Coventry. A pardon was offered him, if he would recant; but he rejected it with difdain, and embraced the ftake, faying, 66 Welcome, cross of Christ ! welcome, everlasting life!"

10. Cranmer had lefs courage at firft. Terrified by the profpect of those tortures which awaited him, or overcome by the fond love of life, and by the flattery of artful men, who pompously reprefented the dignities to which his character ftill entitled him, if he would merit them by a recantation, he agreed, in an unguarded hour, to fubfcribe to the doctrines of the papal fupremacy, and the real presence.

II. But the court, no lefs perfidious than cruel, determined that this recantation fhould avail him nothing; that he fhould acknowledge his errors in the church before the people, and afterwards be led to execution.

12. Whether Cranmer received fecret intelligence of their defign, or repented of his weaknefs, or both, is uncertain; but he furprised the audience by a declaration, very different from what was expected.

13. After explaining his fenfe of what he owed to God and his fovereign, "There is one miscarriage in my life, faid he, of which, above all others, I feverely repent; and that is, the infincere declaration of faith, to which I had the weakness to fubfcribe.

14. "But I take this opportunity of atoning for my error, by a fincere and open recantation; and am willing to feal with my blood that doctrine, which I firmly believe to be communicated from heaven."

15. As

15. As his hand, he added, had erred, by betraying his heart, it fhould firft be punished by a fevere, but just doom. He accordingly ftretched it out, as foon as he came to the stake; and without discovering either by his looks or motions, the leaft fign of weakness, or even feeling, he held it in the flames till it was entirely confumed. 16. His thoughts, to use the words of an elegant and learned hiftorian, appeared to be totally occupied in reflecting on his former faults; and he called aloud feveral times, "This hand has offended! This wicked hand has offended !"

17. When it dropped off, he discovered a ferenity in his countenance, as if fatisfied with facrificing to divine juf tice the inftrument of his crime. And when the fire attacked his body, his foul, totally collected within itself, feemed fuperior to every external accident, and altogether inacceffible to pain.

STORY OF LOGAN, A MINGO CHIEF.

IN the fpring of the year 1774, a robbery and

murder were committed on an inhabitant of the frontiers of Virginia by two Indians, of the Shawanete tribe. The neighboring whites, according to their cuftom, undertook to punish this outrage in a fummary way. Colonel Crefap, a man infamous for the many murders he had committed on those much injured people, collected a party, and proceeded down the Kanhaway in queft of vengeance.

2. Unfortunately, a canoe of women and children, with one man only, was feen coming from the oppofite fhore, unarmed, and unfufpecting any hoftile attack from the whites. Crefap and his party concealed themselves on the bank of the river; and the moment the canoe reached the shore, fingled out their objects, and, at one fire, killed every perfon in it.

3. This happened to be the family of Logan, who had long been diftinguifhed as the friend of the whites. This unworthy return provoked his vengeance. He accordingly fignalized himself in the war which ensued.

4. In the autumn of the fame year, a decifive battle was fought at the mouth of the Great Kanhaway, between the collected forces of the Shawanefe, Mingoes, and Delawares, and a detachment of the Virginia militia. The Indians were defeated, and fued for peace.

5. Logan, however, difdained to be feen among the fuppliants; but, left the fincerity of a treaty fhould be distrusted, from which fo diftinguished a chief abfented himself, he fent by a meffenger, the following fpeech, to be delivered to Lord Dunmore.

6. "I appeal to any white man to fay if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him no meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the laft long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace.

7. "Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they paffed by, and faid, Logan is the friend of white men. I had even thought to have lived with you, had it not been for the injuries of one man. Colonel Crefap, the laft fpring, in cold blood, and unprovoked, murdered all the relations of Logan, not even sparing my women and children.

8. "There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. 1 have fought it; I have killed many; I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace; but do not harbour a thought that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to fave his life. Who is there to mourn for Logan? Not one."

THE AGED PRISONER, RELEASED FROM THE

BASTILE.

NOWHERE elfe on earth, perhaps, has human mifery, by human means, been rendered fo lafting, fo complete, or fo remedilefs as in that defpotic prifon, the Baftile. This the following cafe may fuffice to evince; the particulars of which are tranflated from that elegant and energetic writer, Mr. Mercier.

2. The heinous offence which merited an imprisonment furpalling torture, and rendering death a bleffing, was no more than fome unguarded expreffions, implying disrespect towards the late Gallic Monarch, Lewis fifteenth.

3. Upon the acceffion of Lewis fixteenth to the throne, the minifters then in office, moved by humanity, began their administration with an act of clemency and juftice. They inspected the registers of the Bastile, and fet many prisoners at liberty.

4. Among thofe, there was an old man who had groan. ed in confinement for forty-feven years, between four thick and cold stone walls. Hardened by adversity, which ftrengthens both the mind and conftitution, when they are not overpowered by it, he had refifted the horrors of his long imprisonment with an invincible and manly fpirit.

5. His locks, white, thin, and fcattered, had almost acquired the rigidity of iron; whilft his body, environed for fo long a time by a coffin of ftone, had borrowed from it a firm and compact habit. The narrow door of his tomb, ́ turning upon its grating hinges, opened, not as ufual, by halves, and an unknown voice announced his liberty, and bade him depart.

6. Believing this to be a dream, he hefitated; but at length rose up and walked forth with trembling steps, amazed at the space he traverfed. The ftairs of the prison, the halls, the courts feemed to him waft, immense, and almost without bounds.

7. He stopped from time to time, and gazed around like a bewildered traveller. His vifion was with difficulty reconciled to the clear light of day. He contemplated the heavens as a new object. His eyes remained fixed,

and he could not even weep.

8. Stupified with the newly acquired power of changing his pofition, his limbs, like his tongue, refufed, in spite of his efforts, to perform their office. At length he got through the formidable gate.

9. When he felt the motion of the carriage, which was prepared to tranfport him to his former habitation, he fcreamed out, and uttered fome inarticulate founds; and as he could not bear this new movement, he was obliged to defcend. Supported by a benevolent arm, he fought out

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the street where he had formerly refided: he found it, but no trace of his house remained; one of the public edifices occupied the fpot where it had ftood.

10. He now faw nothing which brought to his recollection, either that particular quarter, the city itself, or the objects with which he was formerly acquainted. The houses of his nearest neighbours, which were fresh in his memory, had affumed a new appearance.

II. In vain were his looks directed to all the objects around him; he could difcover nothing of which he had the smallest remembrance. Terrified, he stopped and fetched a deep figh. To him what did it import, that the city was peopled with living creatures? None of them were alive to him; he was unknown to all the world, and he knew nobody; and whilst he wept, he regretted his dungeon.

12. At the name of the Baftile, which he often pronounced and even claimed as an afylum, and the fight of his clothes which marked his former age, the crowd gathered around him; curiofity, blended with pity, excited their attention. The most aged afked him many questions, but had no remembrance of the circumftances which he recapitulated.

13. At length, accident brought to his way an ancient domeftic, now a fuperannuated porter, who, confined to his lodge for fifteen years, had barely fufficient strength to open the gate. Even he did not know the mafter he had ferved; but informed him that grief and misfortune had brought his wife to the grave thirty years before; that his children were gone abroad to distant climes, and that of all his relations and friends, none now remained.

14. This recital was made with the indifference which people difcover for events long paffed, and almost forgotten. The miferable man groaned, and groaned alone. The crowd around, offering only unknown features to his view, made him feel the excefs of his calamities even more than he would have done in the dreadful folitude which he had left.

15. Overcome with forrow, he prefented himself before the minifter, to whofe humanity he owed that liberty which was now a burden to him. Bowing down, he faid, "Reftore me again to that prifon from which you have taken me. cannot furvive the lofs of my nearest relations; of my

friends;