serting his wife-and whether, or not, be (Mr. J—,) considered it likely that Lord Byron had had himself, (Lord Byron,) in his eye, in drawing the character of the Corsair and oh, now, Mr. Jeffrey, don't you think Gulnare so romantic a name? I wish I had been christened Gulnare. Can people change their names, Mr. Jeffrey, without an estate? Why, yes, ma'am,' replied the critic-after a most malicious pause, by being married.' 'Mr. Jeffrey,' exclaimed a fierce ciple, in the literary circles of Edinburgh. But, unfortunately, his views of religion are undefined and wavering. What shall we think of the man who bestows equal applause on the soft sentimentalism of Alison, in which not one trace of the gospel can be found, and the deep-toned energy of Chalmers, which "pierces to the di looking damsel with a mop head-1 inviding asunder" the closest recesses sist upon hearing if you have read Peter Bell-will you ever be convinced? Shall I ever be able to persuade you? Can you deny the beauty of the white sapling-as white as cream? Can you be blind to the pathetic incident of the poor ass kneel ing under the blows of the cruel, hardhearted, odious Peter? Can you be blind to the charm of the boat?' "Why-oh-the laker has made a good deal of his tub-Twin sister to the Crescent-Moon.' "Ah!-naughty man, you are incorrigible-I'll go speak to Mr. Wilson.' "I looked round, and saw Mr. Wilson. He had a little book of fishing flies in his band, and was loudly and sonorously ex plaining the beauty of a bit of grizzled hackle on the wings of one of them to Mr. McKenzie. My venerable friend seemed to be listening with the deepest interest to what he said, but the young lady broke in upon their conversation with the utmost intrepidity. I could just hear enough of what passed, to be satisfied, that the brother poet made as light of the matter as the adverse critic. I suspect, that from the cruelty of Peter Bell's bludgeon, she made a transition to the cruelty of killing poor innocent trouts; but before that subject had time to be adequately discussed, supper was announced, and I descended close behind Mr. Jeffrey, who had a lady upon each arm, one all the way down discussing the Bank Restriction Bill, and the other displaying equal eloquence in praise of that delightful-that luminous article in the last number upon the Corn Laws.'"pp. 154-158. We must here conclude our notice of this work, with a few hasty remarks on its moral tendency. The author evidently considers himself as ranged on the side of christianity. He condemns the malignity and irreligion of the Edinburgh Review, with an energy of language which does him honour; especially when we consider the prevailing laxity of prin of guilt? With such a man the christian religion is but a name; a mere appendage of a more civilized state of society,useful in adding its weighty sanctions to the moral code, and therefore entitled to respect, but without one particle of authority over titudes of such men we have, espe the understanding or the heart. Mul cially in one part of our country, who reject with scorn the appellation of infidel, who found churches to the one Jehovah, and propagate their want of faith with the most eager zeal, while they refuse their homage to Him whom all the angels are com manded to worship, make his blood of no effect as an expiation for sin, contemn the influences, and deny the existence of his Holy Spirit, and reduce the gospel of his grace to a mere code of moral precepts. In addition to his real ignorance of all distinctious in religion, the authour has rendered himself doubly disgusting, by assuming the pretended character of "a fine dashing fellow," who descants with rapture on "a glorious dish of turbot," French sauces, and Glasgow punch; is carried home drunk from a public dinner, and regales us with a description of the consequent agonies of head-ache, colick, and gout. If such a combination of strong native talents, keenness of remark, and masterly powers of description, with the most debasing sen suality, has any resemblance to the fashionable literati of Edinburgh, or is suited to their taste, much as we admire their abilities, we must say "farthest from them is best." Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. In the press and will soon appear, A Compendium of Physiological and Systematic Botany, with plates, by George Sumner, M. D.-A work on the Statistics of Italy, composed from very ample original materials, collected in the years 1818 and 1819, in that country, will soon appear.—A translation of the entire work of the Mècanique Cèleste, of de la Place, with a copious commentary, has been completed by the Hon. N. Bowditch. It is stated in a Boston paper, that "the following Greek Manuscripts were bought by Professor Everett, in Constantinople, in the month of June last, of a Greek Prince in that city, and have just arrived in the London Packet, from London, whither they were sent from Constantinople. 1. A quarto manuscript, containing sixteen discourses of St. Gregory Nazianzen. Of the thirteenth or fourteenth century. A large quarto manuscript Evangelistary: that is, the four Gospels arranged in Lessons, as they are read in the Greek church. A great part of this MS. is of the thirteenth century; but some portions, written to supply the place of lost leaves, are much more re cent. 3. An Evangelistary and Apostolos, that is, the whole New-Testament divided into lessons as read in the Greek church. This manuscript is in two quarto volumes, beautifully written the rubrics and titles in gold letters. This manuscript has never been examedition of the New-Testament. The celebrated text, Acts xx. 28, stands in it, "The Church of the Lord and God," &c. The text 1 John v. 7, is wanting in this, as in all the other ancient Greek manuscripts. This manuscript is probably of the twelfth century. ined for any tiquity. It is written in Uncial or capital letters, and is perhaps of the eighth or ninth century. It contains portions of the Gospels of St. Matthew and John. -6. A very neat and well written quarto manuscript, containing the Chronicle of Michael Glycas, a Sicillian of the twelfth century. This Chronicle comprises the history of the world from the creation to the death of Alexius Comnenus, in 1118. It was from a very incorrect manuscript. It first published by Leunclavius, in 1572, forms the ninth volume of the Byzantines, in the Venetian edition. This manuscript is of the twelfth century, and furnishes the correction of numberless errours in that made us by Leunclavius. ment, and with the exception of No. 2, All these manuscripts are on parchly Greek manuscripts of any antiquity, in fine preservation. They are the onof which we have heard, in our country." The celebrated traveller Belzoni has arrived in London, after an absence of ten years, five of which he has employed in researches among the antiquities of Egypt and Nubia. The sarcopha gus of alabaster discovered by him, and of which notice has been taken in hands of the British Consul in Alexana former number, is deposited in the dria, and will be sent to England along with the obelisk, twenty-two feet long, taken from Philæ, above the first cataract of the Nile. Cicero de Republica.-For the purpose of saving the expense of parchment, the monks erased the writing of existing manuscripts, and gave the world their own trivial compositions. The original is not unfrequently however faintly visible. Angelo Mai has, under the patronage of the Pope, discovered in the Library of the Vatican the work of Cicero de Republica. This work is in a manuscript of three hundred pages of two columns, written in magnificent uncial letters, and is near 4. A quarto manuscript, containing the Psalter, beautifully written and preserved. It also contains the explication of the titles of the Psalms by Psellus, and a Menologia or Greek Missal, with astronomical tables and diagrams for finding Easter. It is of ly entire. the thirteenth century. 5. A fragment, containing a few leaves of large quarto size, of great anVol. 2-No. V. 34 'One MS. had been known to exist in England, but was destroyed by fire at Canterbury. No portion of this great work had been in the pos session of the world, except a few fragments preserved as quotations in Saint Augustine, Lactantius, and a few others, and the aggregate of all these scattered portions did not amount to more than eight pages in Ernesti's edition.' Cenotaph to Princess Charlotte.-A cenotaph is to be erected to the memory of this Princess, and will 'consist of a group of nine figures, larger than the life, sculptured in Parian marble, from the designs and under the direction of Mr. Wyatt. The amount of the subscription was £12,000. Russia.-Nearly five hundred valu able Persian, Arabic, and Turkish manuscripts have been purchased in France for the Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburgh. They were collected by M. Rousseau, formerly French Consul-General at Bagdat. Egypt-It is said that a mercantile communication has been formed from Bengal to Suez, and thence to Cairo and Alexandria; and hopes are cherished that the ancient canal of the Ptolemies will be so restored that a navi gable communication may be enjoyed between the Arabian Gulph and the Mediterranean. List of New Publications. THEOLOGY. A Sermon delivered before the Leg islature of the State of Connecticut, at their annual election at New-Haven, May Sd, 1820; by Elisha Cushman, Pastor of the Baptist Church in Hart ford. Letters to Unitarians, occasioned by the Sermon of the Rev. Wm. E. Channing, at the ordination of the Rev. Ja red Sparks; by Leonard Woods, D. D. Abbot Professor of Christian Theolo gy in the Theological Seminary, Andover. A Sermon on the Love of Populari ty, delivered Feb. 23d, 1820, at the lostallation of the Rev. Warren Fay, as Pastor of the First Congregational Church and Society in Charlestown, by Leonard Woods, D. D. Memoirs of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America; by William White, D. D. Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 8vo. Philadelphia. MISCELLANEOUS. Sketches of Travels in Sicily, Italy, and France, in a series of Letters, addressed to a friend in the United States; by John James. Travels through the Western Country, in the Summer of 1816, including notices on the Natural History, To pography, Antiquities, Agriculture, Commerce, and Manufactures; with a Map of the Wabash Country, now settling; by David Thomas. 12mo. Auburn, N. Y. An Appeal to the Government and Congress of the United States against the depredations committed by American privateers on the Commerce of Nations at peace with us; by an American Citizen. Vindication of the measures of the President and his Commanding Gene rals in the commencement and termi nation of the Seminole War: [by Judge Overton of Tennessee.] Washington. Historical Sketches of the principles and maxims of American Jurisprudence, in contrast with the doctrines of the English Common Law on the subject of Crimes and Punishments: 8vo. Steubenville, Ohio. Religious Intelligence. ARKANSAW MISSION. Leiter from Messrs. Finney and Wash burn to the Rev. Dr. Worcester. ELLIOT, Choctaw Nation, Jan. 12, 1820. 1 REV. AND DEAR SIR, It is with the greatest pleasure, that we are enabled to address you from the consecrated ground of your second establishment among the aborigines of our country. To be able to rest in the society of the dear missionaries at Ellot, and thus repose in the bosom of christian friendship in this wilderness, is like cold water to the thirsty soul, after our long and toilsome journey from the East and North. On the 50th of August, after some unexpected delays, brother and sister Finney, and sister Minerva Washburn, left Randolph, Ver. and on the 13th of September arrived at Rockaway, N.J. the residence of Mr. Abijah Conger, and others destined to the mission at Brainerd. No incidents worthy of communication occurred in the journey thus far, except the continual goodness of our Heavenly Father making our way pleasant and prosperous, and giving us a safe arrival at the end of our first stage. On arriving at Rockaway, brother Finney found three of the children of brother Vail dangerously sick, which retarded the preparation of the company, and caused a delay of nearly three weeks. Two of the sick children were removed by death; and on the 18th buried in the same grave. The event was met with calm resignation by the afflicted parents, and the graces of the humble christian shone in this severe trial of their faith. After waiting more than a week longer, for the recovery of brother Vail's remaining sick child, it was judged advisable to leave him in the care of friends, and journey without him. This must have been a great addition to the trial of brother and sister Vail; but it was borne with apparent cheerfulness for the cause of Christ. We feel it a duty, as well as a pleasure, to record the lively interest taken in the missions of the Board, and the kind and benevolent attention paid to brother Finney and family, by Col. Joseph Jackson, of Rockaway, while they were detained in that place. On the 30th of September, brother Finney and family left Rockaway, in company with Mr. Abijah Conger, Mr. John Vail, Mr. John Talmadge, and their families. The first Sabbath after leaving New-Jersey was spent in Philadelphia. The christian people of that city, and particularly those of the Northern Liberties in the Rev. Mr. Patterson's society, took a deep interest in the missions, and showed many kindnesses, which greatly endeared them to our hearts. We would also mention the same things of the people in Wilmington, Del. [At the seat of government, where they arrived Oct. 9th, Messrs. F. and W. with their brethren, experienced the friendship of T. L. M'Kenney, Esq. the superintendent of Indian trade, who is deeply interested in all the benevolent plans for the improvement of the Indians. He gave them letters to the governour of the Arkansaw Territory, and to various agents of the United States.-Pan.] At Alexandria sister Vail was attacked with a bilious complaint, which for a time prevented her journeying. It was thought advisable, that the whole company should not be detained on expense. Brother and sister Vail were left in that place with the small waggon for their convenience, while the rest of the company proceeded on the way. In a short time, however, she was mercifully restored, and they resumed their journey. They rejoined the company soon after passing Charlottesville, about a hundred and forty miles from Alexandria. While passing through Virginia, the company had the misfortune to lose two of their best horses; one belonging to brother Finney, the death of which could be referred to no assignable cause: The other, belonging to brother Conger, died, as was supposed, by eating too much wheat, given him without the knowledge of the brethren at the time. After this, nothing occurred requiring particular remark, till we were about entering the territory formerly belonging to the Cherokees.-Between Washington, (Ten.) and the old Cherokee line, brother Finney and company heard that brother Washburn and Milo Hoyt were on the way to meet them, but that they had taken a different route, and of course had gone by. On the day following, however, at Mr. Brown's, a half-breed Cherokee, we had the satisfaction of meeting and embracing each other, after a year's separation at the two extremes of the United States. Having taken some rest and refreshment, and recounted some of our wanderings and toils, we proceeded on our way, hoping to arrive the same day at Brainerd--that interesting spot, consecrated by the prayers and charities of thousands to Zion's King: but on account of the roughness of the way after crossing the old line, and the time spent in getting all the waggons over the Tennessee, night came upon us while on the banks of the river, where we rested comfortably on the floor of an open log cabin till the next morning. Through the loving kindness of our covenant God, after journeying-a part of the company two weeks from Vermont to NewJersey, and the most of us six weeks from New-Jersey, we all arrived at Brainerd, in health and safety, on Thursday, Nov. 11th, much less fatigued than was reasonably expected. Through the whole journey the Lord smiled upon us, and made the way prosperous. There was no excessive heat or cold. No distressing accident befel any of the company. No sickness, except the short illness of sister Vail, and very slight complaints in others, was experienced. The roads a great part of the way were good; not an hour's hindrance was occasioned by rain or bad weather. In all the country we passed, south of New-York, a drought, which in some places was severe, had been experienced during the summer. This, while it raised the price of provisions, and especially food for horses, made the roads dry and hard, and rendered the travelling more expeditious. Brother and sister Washburn left Georgia on the 18th of October, and reached Brainerd on the 22d. An account of their journey thus far has been previously communicated. We all met a very cordial welcome and an affectionate reception from the dear mis sionaries at Brainerd; but the time was short in which we enjoyed their society. On account of their want of help, brother Washburn had acted as a member of their mission family, endeavouring to assist them in the various departments of their work, till the arrival of brother Finney and the company. Consequently no arrangements could be made for our particular enterprise. After brother Finney arrived, and brother Washburn was relieved by other help, we began without delay to make preparations for pursuing our journey. We visited Mr. Charles R. Hicks at Fortville, father and mother Gambold at Springplace, and Col. R. J. Meigs, Agent for the Cherokee Nation. These interviews were for acquaintance, and obtaining letters for the benefit of our mission. We were highly pleased with this christian chief, and those devoted missionaries of our Lord. The latter, after labouring a long time, as they had inclined to imagine, almost in vain and alone, have been made to rejoice, during the last summer, by some mercy drops from above, and by the encouragement of more missionaries from the United Brethren. Col. Meigs received us kindly-expressed his joy in the prospect of good to the emigrant Cherokees, and gave us, as did Mr. Hicks also, letters to the Agent, to the chiefs, and others in the Arkansaw territory. We received letters also to chiefs, principal men, and others, on the Arkansaw, from David Brown, an interesting young man in the school at Brainerd. He is brother to Catharine Brown, and to one of the chiefs of the emigrant Cherokees, and has spent about two years in the Arkansaw country. appears thoroughly convinced of his lost estate, his need of a Saviour, and of the excellence of the christian religion. He is anxious for the improvement of bis nation; and, in his letters to his brother and others west of the Mississippi, expresses himself feelingly and decidedly in favour of the school and mission at Brainerd-of our extended mission, and of the Gospel of Christ. May the Lord renew his heart, and make him a herald of mercy to his people. He We should be pleased to mention some interesting facts which transpired while we were at Brainerd; but they will probably be communicated in the journal of that mission. We would only remark, that the pleasure we experienced during one hour spent in hearing the dear children, but recently called from the surrounding forest, sing the songs of Zion, answer questions on religious subjects, and in conversation with one of the natives, (father of the boy named Jeremiah Evarts,) amply compensated us for our whole journey from New-England. During the two and a half weeks spent in the Chero kee Nation, after brother Finney's arrival, we rode about two hundred and fifty miles, preached six times at Brainerd and elsewhere, wrote letters, visited some of the natives, and made preparations for journeying to Elliot. On the 30th of November, all things being in readiness for our departure, the children and members of the mission family assembled in the front piazza of the mission house, and after joining in prayer and praise, probably for the last time in this world, we exchanged the painful parting salutation, and commenced our journey from that place for the dark wilderness. On account of the exceeding rough |