the full and free exercise of their reli- | King, that he exclaimed-“Very well, gious principles was secured to them, you shall be my minister,"-addressed and the King to be allowed to enter him by the name of Father, and prothe town in a friendly manner, with his mised him his protection; and cir troops. A law at that time existed in cumstances soon occurred to try the France, that wherever the king resid- | faith of his Majesty's promise. St. ed, there should be no public exercise Jean De Angely having been besieged of any form of worship, different from and taken the subsequent year, Lewis that which he adopted; and accord- ordered M. de Vitry, one of his geneingly the magistrates of St. Jean De rals, to plant a guard at Mr. Walch's Angely requested Mr. Walch to for- house, that he might receive no inbear preaching on the ensuing sab- jury; and soon afterwards, himself bath. "It is making (says Walch and his family were conveyed, at his with his characteristic firmness) no Majesty's expense, to Rochelle." good requital to God for your deliverance, to hinder his worship; for my part, except I am violently hindered, I will go to the public place, and preach to any that come; and if none come, I will go home and bewail the miseries that are coming upon you." This resolute conduct was productive of the happiest effects. Not only was there a greater meeting than on any former occasion, but many persons of the Catholic religion, who belonged to the royal troops, were among the number of the hearers. The king hearing of the determination of Walch, and offended at his presumption, dispatched the Duke D'Esperan with some of the guards, to bring him from the pulpit into his presence. When Walch saw the Duke enter the church with an armed guard, he was not intimidated. Making a pause in his discourse, he ordered a seat to be set for the Marshal of France; and commanded him, in the name of God, whose servant he was, not to disturb his worship. The Duke, struck with the dignity of Walch, and the air of authority with which he spoke, involuntarily obeyed his command, and listened to the sermon with decorum and seriousness. When the service of the church was over, the Duke brought him before the King, who demanded of him, how he durst preach, it being against the law to do it so near the King? "If your Majesty," replied Walch, "knew what I preach, you would command others, and come yourself to hear it, for I preach salvation by Jesus Christ; and I am sure your own conscience tells you that your own works will never merit salvation to you. I preach that there is none on the earth above you, which none of those about you that adhere to the pope will say." This unexpected reply so pleased the ON GIVING LIQUOR IN SHOPS. MR. EDITOR. SIR,-The remarks which appeared in your valuable publication for July, col. 619, "On giving Drams, &c. to Porters, Coachmen, &c." have led me to address this epistle to you on a much more degrading practice, which operates as a fraud on the public. This is a custom prevailing much at present among modern tradesmen, particularly drapers, of treating their customers with malt and spirituous liquors. Being, about three months ago, on a market day, at a small town in Monmouthshire, I had an opportunity of visiting one of those respectable shops, from the external appearance of which, and the exhibition of goods. &c. I concluded I could be furnished with the article wanted. But on enter. ing the house, to my great surprise, I perceived the counters decorated with trays, decanters, glasses, plates, cakes, &c. and was instantly retreating, judging I had entered at a wrong door. This being noticed, I was closely followed by a youth, who accosted me with, "Sir, what shall I have the pleasure of shewing you! to which I replied, "Nothing in your way, I thank you; I thought it was a draper's shop." The youth, with astonishment, exclaimed, "It is, Sir; and after a more minute inspection, I found this actually to be the case, and soon procured the goods I required. But I must do these inventors of modern civility the justice of saying, that they did not ask me to partake of any of their attracting fascination. From the inquiry I made, and the information I received from a wor thy inhabitant of the above town, I am given to understand, that each of these shops draws as much malt liquor on a market day, as any one of the most respectable publicans. Now, Sir, if the customers were only to consider who pays for this supposed draught of civility, they would, without hesitation, conclude it is themselves. These practitioners do not only delude their customers, and prove exceedingly injurious to the publicans, but they also defraud government, by actually selling liquor to the credulous without a license. By giving the above a place in your publication, you may direct the attention of the inconsiderate to the imposition by which they are duped, and diminish an evil, which in some places has assumed an alarming magnitude. Your's, &c. J. THOMAS. Penyclawd Park, July 6, 1822. CHRISTIAN CHARITY DEFINED. Communicated by R. Crofts. MANY are the dispositions and tempers of mankind, originating from divers motives and persuasions. Some characters appear so riveted in sordid, sensual, and rancorous passions, that it should seem they exult in torturing their fellow-creatures; others make a specious and superficial | show of friendship, under the colour of charity; but, alas! they too often resemble beautiful apples, which are rotten at the core. The former are laudable virtues, but real Christian charity crowns the whole. Oh that every professor were the felicitous possessor of this celestial gem! As puppets are made to mimic animation, so hypocrites seem to imitate sincerity; but when they can colour their deceit no longer, they endeavour to calumniate the objects they professed to serve. On public occasions, they seem to outvie all; by which they are rendered popular: but you may find them griping the poor to retrieve their loss; all their benefactions proceed from sinister ends. Let us inquire a little into the nature of genuine Christian charity. Some imagine it is confined to almsgiving; but St. Paul tells us otherwise, 1 Cor. chap. xiii. When a stubborn sinner is arrested and subdued by the grace of the gospel, he is at a loss to express his love to God and Christ his Saviour: his inmost soul rebounds with gratitude and praise for the inexpressible blessing, which causes him to wish to be instrumental in promoting his Redeemer's interest in the world, not only by evincing his regard to their temporal, but spiritual, and consequently eternal, welfare. When a humane person imbibes the spirit of the gospel, he manifests it in all the actions of his life; though it does not appear so conspicuous as in the former character, the change not being apparently so great and sudden. We find that all the gifts and graces of a Christian are defective without, and incomparable to, charity. Union of faith, concurrence of sentiment, knowOf these two characters, were I to ledge of the truth as revealed in the make a choice, (bad as the former word of God, and fellowship in the are,) I would give them the prefe- experience of the grace of the gospel, rence; because I should be the better will create that charity; which will prepared to guard against them, and eventually prove sincere and active in because there are greater hopes they doing every thing, not only to relieve may be reclaimed and converted ; the body, but to expel the perturbawhereas the latter characters are not tion of a distempered mind. Inspired only deceivers of mankind, but of them- with charity, the soul will ever be selves likewise, yet they cannot de-energetic in doing his heavenly Masceive God. They are calculated to do more mischief by their fine smooth insinuating language than a common reprobate! Philosophy teaches philanthropy; humanity dictates candour; but superlatively to these, Christianity manifests itself in holy love and charity, a gift which human reason cannot administer: it is a boon of heaven, and operates by divine influence. ter's will, to which the holy Spirit urgently presses him with alacrity and delight. Real, true, genuine, and evangelical Christian charity, embraces the whole world at one grasp, anxious to render every good to every one, friend or foe. It is an universally liberal principle. Unlike the circumscribed and secular imitation, whose views are base and pernicious, this true charity discovers all the beauties of moral virtues, and deco- | the lightest, and instantly flew up to rates them with the addition of heavenly embellishments. Here is depicted, not only the philanthropist, the man of candour, or whatever appellation you may give him, but a man whose soul is animated by peculiar indulgencies of divine emanations; who is ready, nay desirous, to emit the same, as abundantly as he can, to the gratification of every one who feels disposed to catch the invaluable communication. As the moon reflects the glory of the sun, so he desires to reflect the glorious radiance of a Saviour to perishing mortals! The grand criterion then, by which a professor of Christianity should examine his faith to prove its reality, as conducive to salvation, is this inestimable qualification. The apostle justly and wisely observes; "And now abideth faith, hope, and charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity." Howden, June 22, 1822. BUONAPARTE'S OPINION OF PATRON SAINTS. From O'Meara's "Voice from St. Helena." "I HAD a jocular conversation with him about patron saints. He asked who was my patron saint,-what was my Christian name? I replied, that my first was a family name; that I was called after Barry Lord Avonmore, an Irish peer. But,' said he, laughing, you must have some patron saint to befriend you, and plead your cause in the next world?' I mentioned my second Christian name. 'Ah!' said he, then he will plead for you. St. Napoleon ought to be very much obliged to me, and do every thing in his power for me in the world to come. Poor fellow, nobody knew him before. He had not even a day in the kalendar. I got him one, and persuaded the Pope to give him the fifteenth of August, my birth-day. I recollect,' continued he, when I was in Italy, a priest preaching about a poor sinner who had departed this life. His soul appeared before God, and he was required to give an account of all his actions. The evil and the good were afterwards thrown into opposite scales, in order to see which preponderated. That containing the good proved much the beam. His poor soul was CODdemned to the infernal regions, conducted by angels to the bottomless pit, delivered over to devils, and thrown into the flames. Already,' said the preacher, had the devouring element covered his feet and legs, and proceeded upwards even unto his bowels; in his vitals, oh! brethren, he felt them. He sunk, and only his head appeared above the waves of fire; when he cried out to God, and afterwards to his patron saint: Oh! patron,' said he, 'look down upon me; oh! take compassion upon me, and throw into the scale of my good deeds, all the lime and stone which I gave to repair the convent of His saint instantly took the hint, gathered together all the lime and stone, threw them into the scale of good, which immediately preponderated; the scale of evil sprung up to the beam, and the sinner's soul into paradise at the same moment. Now you see by this, brethren, how useful it is to keep the convents in repair, for had it not been for the lime and stone bestowed by this sinner, his poor soul would even now, children, be consuming in hell-fire; and yet you are so blind as to let the convent and the church, built by your forefathers, fall to ruin.-At this time, (continued he, laughing,) these canaglie wanted to get a new convent built, and had recourse to this expedient to procure money, which, after this, poured in upon them from all quarters.' OBSERVATIONS ON HUMPHREYS AGAINST CARLILE. MR. EDITOR. SIR,-About a week ago, I was induced to read Mr. James Humphreys "Scientific Demonstration that Matter is not eternal, &c." in a letter to Richard Carlile. Though not much captivated of late years with metaphysical disquisitions, before I began, I determined to go through the work, having heard that it possessed considerable merit, and could be fairly judged of only in this way; and besides this, I found my mind somewhat interested in the production, from the consideration of its having been both written and printed in the town in which I now reside. In the course of reading, I met with much that excited my astonishment, and that convinced me the author possessed sterling genius, and a mind of no ordinary cast, yet I could not I but regret his evident want of litera#ture-there was, to use a figure, a strong, healthy, luxuriant tree, that needed training. I have since, for the first time, seen and conversed with Mr. H. and my conviction of his extraordinary powers is confirmed; and I begin to feel myself bound to endeavour, in some way or other, to serve him. I was not long in discovering that you, Sir, may render him essential service, by perusing his production, and animadverting upon it in your excellent Magazine, in such a manner as to point out some of its defects in punctuation, style, unwarrantable harshness of expression, &c. &c.; and yet furnish him with encouragement to proceed in a course of intellectual improvement, by directing his attention to such particulars as would not only tend to mature the powers of his mind, but give the ability to communicate his thoughts in the best possible manner. I am fully convinced, Sir, that any useful suggestions from you, would by him be gratefully received, and duly appreciated: : and I am willing to hope, too, from what I can learn of your character and conduct, and from what I know of you by your writings, that you will feel interested for the individual in question; and especially after I have laid before you a very summary account of him, and the circumstances under which he has had, and still has, to cultivate his mind. C friends, closely given to devotion, meditation, reading, and writing. With this address, I intended to furnish you with a copy of Mr. H.'s reply to Richard Carlile; but since I formed the determination, I have learned that some friend has engaged to forward you one in some other way, and that probably it is in your possession at this time. Since Mr. H. has published his book, he has had to defend it against the attacks of Carlile. His defences, and the replies to them, have appeared in different numbers of Carlile's Republican. (Perhaps you see the work, and may recollect the name.) The controversy has now closed, at least in the Republican; for although its atheistical editor engaged, at the outset of the controversy, to insert whatever Mr. H. might write, if under a given number of pages, he has broken his contract, and declared he will print no more; and this he has done, after inserting one of Mr. H.'s letters exactly as he received it, written late at night, after a day of hard labour, and under circumstances so peculiarly pressing, as not even to allow Mr. H. or any of his friends, time to look over it; and of course containing many glaring orthographical errors. It is evident that this was done by Mr. Carlile to abash the young man, by exposing his want of learning to the public. But he knows not the man. The constitution of his mind, I am convinced, is not thus to be shaken: and however desirous he may be to possess such a skill in the art of composition as shall bid defiance to captious criticism, and render his productions reputable for literary merit, his object in appearing before the public as a writer at this time is much higher; it is to overturn the flimsy structures of daring impiety reared among us by some modern visionaries, for monstrous purposes, and, by placing his feet upon their ruins, to reach and exhibit the stable and uninjured SACRED THRONE OF TRUTH. He is a young man, of low extraction, almost without education, a gardener by trade, and regularly works upon an average 12 hours a day. About five years ago, he became decidedly pious, at which time he could scarcely, to use his own expression, So write as to be able to communicate with his friends by letter; and even now his pretensions to scholastic attainments are so low, that he is conscious of his deficiency, not only It is also evident, I think, that Mr. in the elements of English composi- Carlile has herein discovered a shametion, but even in orthographical skill. ful want of candour, especially when His acquaintance with human au- it is told that he had, in the fulness of thors is very limited, and it must his affectation for fairness, corrected remain so for some time, for want of other letters of Mr. H.'s, and in his leisure and means: what leisure he remarks upon them had acknowledged has, is, however, as I learn from his that Mr. H. possessed a powerful to speak to you, because he is going elsewhere; and when he gets there, he is too late for his business; or be must hurry away to another before he can finish it. Punctuality gives weight to character: "such a man has made an appointment-then I know he will keep it.' And this produces punctuality in you, for, like other virtues, it propagates itself. Servants and children must be punetual where their leader is so. Ap owe you punctuality, if I have made an appointment with you; and you have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own." mind, and extensive capabilities. But as he could no longer grapple with the giants of Humphreys' army, he now meanly and cowardly seizes some of the pigmies, and, in the true spirit of disingenuous fool-hardiness, shouts victory, though expiring from the wounds inflicted upon him while he dared to engage in the manly department of the warfare. I have read the controversy this day; and, just now, I think I see the vanquished coward sneaking from the ground of danger,pointments, indeed, become debts. I and yet, to appear brave, he is dealing out his rebounding blows, as he retires from the heat of fight, to lie down and die unobserved. But vain is the attempt. For those who have skill in the tactics of intellectual warfare, and have witnessed the fight, saw the vaunting hero, of haughty mien, enter the field full plumed, and with weapons of high polish, as if to scare with the swellings of his vanity. But plumes, you know, Sir, though showy, are not proof against forcible and welldirected blows;-weapons designed for execution should do more than sparkle in the sun-they should be well tempered, and have an edge, and they should be under the direction of judgment, and wielded by arms of nerve. But I must not forget myself. If you have seen the controversy, you can judge of its merits. I write principally to afford you an opportunity of directing and encouraging worth and talent; and I think I have furnished you with a proper object, by directing your attention to Mr. Humphreys. I am your well-wisher in all your departments of life, and especially in your public services, WM. SHUTTLEWORTH, Minister. High Street Chapel, Huddersfield, 16th July, 1822. PUNCTUALITY. "METHOD is the very hinge of business; and there is no method without punctuality. Punctuality is important, because it subserves the peace and good temper of a family. The want of it not only infringes on necessary duty, but sometimes excludes this duty. The calmness of mind which it produces, is another advantage of punctuality: a disorderly man is always in a hurry; he has no time POETRY. KAMES. ON TROUBLE.-By a Young Lady. Á lonely path, a prospect drear, In trouble. Not one consolatory gleam, With trouble. My trouble! Hush, murm'ring soul, repress that thought, God shall sustain you; oh be taught Pray that humility may bind In trouble. |