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• % » V iiV t>..u hp ,J > l H>rT£D f.Y JOSEPH .NCP nKVAN. puiU''UV> i:\inr Ulonchy & Thursday. JIT MVK run iMsrm, pavabms i> Al ,v 4 jc -cows tut r*r«Sj on, k a wV.kk. T 11KK r U.AI’S CkR ASJiIIM, «-AlAllt>- JIAO It ADVASCS. * From tit K' rk't */ C/.arl, s Lamb. The Old Fatuiliar Faces, I have bad plavmates,- I have had com* • pantcm, In my clay a of childhood, in my joyful soliool days, >1!, .ill arc gone, the old familiar faces. I havi- been laughing, 1 have been carous ing. 1). nking iate. sittinfc late, With my bo som cronies, All, all tre gone, the old familiar faers. I loved a love bnee, fairest among wo men; Closed ait* her uoorson ire, 1 must not see her— AH all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have a friend, a kinder friend has no man; JL k . ao ingra e, I left my friend abruptly; i,ef. bym, to muse on the old familiar fa ces. -Ghost lilu 1 paced round the haunts of my childhood. Eui \h • mod a desart I was hound to - I b Cl'Si, Bf < king io find the old famil.ar faces. I * Fi.eu.il < f my bosom, thou more than bro the-, Why writ not thou not born in my fa tiler’s dwelling? So might we talk of the old familiar fa* Ci s Fow grime they have died, and some they have h ft mo, A> d sonu-au t..kenfiotn me ; all are de part t d; Ad, ali are got r, the i Id ‘amiliar faces, & Vvw 'WtiW lt» Tobacco. Mu toe H.bioamslt cum ft rail coiiti.u'nd my si animering verse, II I can a pitssnj c see li dvs word perplexity, <!t a fit expression fin 1,1 Or a language to my mind, (•bill the phras- is wide nr scant) To ink h ~vc of thee, Ghkat l’u«l! Or in *ny terms relate I’ ill im lov«, or hah my hate: Fi t- I hate, yet love, thee so, 1 hat, whichever thing I sh w, The plain truth will seem to ho A consu-ain’d hypcih le. And the passion tnprocei d Were from a mistress than a w ed. Rooty retainer to the vine, Herein)* 1 black servant, negro fine ; Son erer, d at Viali’si us ilotc upon Thy begrim- d con pi, xion, And fordiy pernicious sake, Hi it an- grea er <aths o br- ak T-b ret-'a in d Inters take ’Gau'isl men: 'h' u thy siege dost lay Wtn li Mn m dieb,ma:e way, Wuile tUou suck’s the Isb’uing breath Faster than kisses or than death. Thou in such a cloud dost bind us; Tii '’ our worst fees cannot find us, Ai d lb f mine, that w uld thwart us; fcln.oia tit rovers, shunting at us; While each man, thro* thy he ght’ning s rum, U .es like asmoking Etna seem, A o-l ad ..bout us does express (FU'CV id wit iii richest diess) i A irunf iluesa. T 1 no throu .h such a mist dostshewus, Thw mr b'S' fnei «ls do not know us, / • ’ b'-s, low .! f vuires. Due to reasonabi creatures, Liktu’si os to fell numeral, >• •* it.a , who see us. fear us; W uian e 'herns or G» ry on. Or r. ho firs! lov'd a cloud, Ixion, r -echus w k otv. and weu'lnw F > tipsy iio s. Hut whai art thou, ■Tli it jut bv r. can’st ;,h- w V b.it uis deiu tai do, A in. fa E ypllau spell Ayedth' u- Hebrew miracle? S ‘if vi sp in.s th m uuy’sl mice, 'III, weak b’sou mayv*e'Ve’to amaie, li . to tlii* reins :i* d n bier heart C.tu’sl’Hi life nor heat impart. Bi titer of Bacchus, later born. The old wot d was sure forlorn, V, .citing hee, ilia' mdest more Tun god'., victories than before AH I is panthers, and the butwla 0 is pipt Bacchanals. '1 cose, as *taK we disallow, 01 jutlge in tb e meant: only thou if* utC ludi n innqiit st »n; And, fir >iy rduud msd.u-t, 1 lie r. f>t mod god now a eav ,s A ) ti r tli)\sus of thy leaves. scent to Hutch thy rich perfume Ct ■ one art diet ne’er p esiune Tli"'-.i;rli liet qiudn* a.eutbic strain, IS i s - so- ’irign l<. the brain. Faiiue, itut did in th< e excel, T mi d again no second smell. 1 o->. ml v, hut tiy s . T )iit smaller sort’bf boys, , < it- f t greener namsels meant; *i i. ar> ihc only manly scout. » king’st of the stinking kind, Fdui .t tli mouth and f. goi the mind, .At’tea,*haibrig* her to>son, Breeiis no such prodigious poison, fienfane, tvghi'-h'.ictt:, both together, . Jl. into a, aconite——— Nay, rather, F ant divine, of rarest virtue; Bf tors on toe longue would hurt you. * ' ,> as but in » snr I btani’a thee; N .< nVr prosper'd wl K , dvlum’d thee; ir • \ «d, and feign’d jb .st, fe ■ ti as perpk xt lovers ÜBe> A a need, wn-.-n, in ilcsyair To paint f,rt.»Uiei-fairest la‘n> Or in pat but to express Tim «SkCeeduig co>ueluum « Wliich their fancies doth so strike, They borrow-language of dislike) A.cl, instead oi Dearest Miss, .hovel. Honey, Sweetheart, Ult»»» tr.d those fo'ms of oldadtiiiring, .hill her Cockatrice and Siren, Basilisk, and all that’s evil, iV’itch, Hyena, Menu,.id, Devil, Kthiop, B ench, and B.ackamoor, Monkey, Ape, snr/ twenty more; Friendly Trait’ivs* loving Foe,—• Not she is truly so. But no other way limy know \ contentment to express, Borders so upon execs?, That they do not tigl.ljy wot Whether it be pain or not. Or, as men, constrain’d to psrl With what’s neatest to their lieart, While their sorrow’* at 'he height, I.use discrimination cpil e, And their hasty wrath let fall. To appease their frame gall, <Jnthe da ling thing whatever. Whence they feel it (hath to sever. Though it he, an they, perforce, Guiltless of the sad divorce. For I must (nor let it grieve thee. Friendliest of plant*, that I must) leave v thee. For thy sake, tobacco, f Would dn any thing but die,. And but seek to extend laydays Long enough to sing thy praise. But, vs she, v ho once hath been A king’s consort, is a quecu Ever after, nor will bate Any title of her state, Though a widow, or divorced, So I, tr'im Miy converse forced. The Id name and style retain, A right K.therine of Spain; And a scat, 100, 'mungst tin-joys Os the blest Tobacco Hoys; Where, though I, by sour physician. Am debair’d the full fruition Os thy favours, I may catch Some collateral swee'a, and snatch Sidelong odours, that, give life Like gtunces from a m ighhour’s wife, And still live in the by-place* And the subsnrbsof thy graces; And in thy borders tak« delight, An unc uquer’d Cuuaanjte » Vvk\ W IXI fc t\iu\ t UY UITIA Extract* from “a work concerning the truenfsse of Christian Religion: Writ ten in French, by I’im.ir of Mornay, lord of Ph ssie and Marly. Begumie to be translated into Fmglish, by dial ho ttourable and worthy Gentleman, Sir l*i»if,i*« SrnkfT Knight, and at his re quest finished by Aurjirn Gotoiwo.” Fourth Edition, printed in Loudon 1617. Y'.*a (say they) hufto beleevethe mira e.’t s of Jeans, we would sec miracles still. Th 1 lime hath been that they were seen, the tone hath been that tlu-y were believ. ed, and time hath altered the coursi of them What a number of things do w< be., eve which we see not! what rea son, or what benefit should lead us lollie h- leeving of any other than of them ? Hut vc Should be the more assured of hem As'mucli might the former apt* have said, and as much may the :,ges say that ate to corns; an 1 so should it behove miracle* to be wrought for all men, and at til times. And were it once so, then should miracle* be no miracles, for so much »a they have not in truth that name,tbut of the rare and seldom sight of them. The Bonne i iv< ill light daily to tin world : he' •rmletli the day, the yeere, and the sea a ns of the yeere. Trees having bo:'rj (lowers, and fruit, become bare, and after v rd shoot run their buds, and flourish a aine The Vine tumeth the morivture of the Earth into Wine: the graitie of Come tuvneth it into ears of dome; and the Pip pen or kernell of an tuple, into an Appie ‘ ree. And infinite in- n receive shape and birth every houpe. All these are very great miracles, and God. and none other, is the doner of them, -more «eacheth it i her, and thou caust not denie it. But forustnuch as dtou seest them every d&y, thou regarded them not, and yet the u-ast of them would m-ke thee to wonder, if it vi re rare. To succour thine infirmity the Suuneforgoeth hi* fight, a dric stick flou rjsheUi, w ater i* turned into wine, and the dead arc raised to li'e: k all this is to shew unto thee, that the same power which wrought in creating things at the begin* ninp, worked) now slid wliensoevcr it 1 su-lh ; and that if the effects live, the cause of them is not dead Aml if thou sliouldcst see every dav si me miracle in the Sunne, in Plan's, a.tl in Mai, Mi.tlvin less than « hundred years, miracles would be changed into nature with thee, and the heipes of thine irifinniiie would turne thre to belief Ji.d u> make the world belcev. againe. G should be faine to create a new wot Id foi the world A example whereof may be the people of Israel, who haying ' heir meate, their dimke, their training up, and their government uhoge .her of miracle, did in lesse than sortie yetres tn-ne tin m all into nature, and like folks accustomed continually to physick, wtiicu tume their itiediciues into uourtsh oi< ntof the’u bodies, they abused th< stayo-s of their taith,b) u uni up them into occa s-.ons oi dsatrost and unbelieiir Now, G id created Nature, and bath given it a Law, which law he will have it to follow. Ni verthelesse sometimes for our udinni i,es sake, he interrupted) it, to the intent o> make us to know, that he is Lord of N uure But if he should doe it at our appointment, then should w e be the Lords loth of Nature and of Hun ; and if he Imuid do it in cases, we w ould make a ule of it, and we would make books and .alculations of it, no lease than if the F,- itpses of the Sanne, or of the M mne, or idler than of.the motions of the eighth ■qibere, and we would impute all those •ntemiptions and changes to the nature of Nature itst’lfe Therefore it is both more convenient for his glory, and more be boovefull to our salvation, that Nature siiouid still follow nature, ami that mira cles sh.’mfd continue miracles ax- I, that is to say. that they should bet rare, ..s ncc> s sa y hclpcstothe uifirniitics of our nature, I meanc, not of one man, or of one age. but of ad mankind, or at leastwise of ai the Church together, which is but as one Go. mon w f eah , and one man Neverth. tessc, lei us yet sutisfie unbe leevers, by prooving the things unto them, w nch ttiey cste me to be most incredible in he history of i'ur Lord Jesus Christ When Jesus was -burue iu HuUdcem, a «t»r (saith the Gospel!) was tlic \ v |Pjv{i;;iecl them to the plar. where lc bus w as. Some perhaps wil' fla ly den. this St*r to have bin. Let any man judge, IvoW little authority to Christ the Evangelist could have purchased by beginning with a lye, which all men could have disproved, specially seeing he taketh the ftciibeaand the Pharisees themselves to wilnesse tliero of. Bat we rea l tha 1 at the very same time, Augustus having then the chief* charge of the Game?, kept in the honor of Genitrix Venus, as they called her) at Koine there i*as seen a bia sing Star or Comet (that is the name which they give to all extraordinary Stars) wherof the Priests of that Colledge gave their judgment, that for the singular marks which it had, it betokened not war, plague, or famine, a* other oidiuavie Co mets doe, but the salvation of mankind to bee at hand. And unto this Comet (because of the rareness thereof) there was an Image set up in the oily, -frid that only Comet (saith Plin.) is worship ped over ail die wufkl Whereunto hath respect this verse ct Virgil in his 4 Ec logue, rtiftdt to flatti r Augustus, by apj ly • ing unto him thkt appearing of that Star; Behold, bow nobio Casars Starre sisp < foith with stately pasr. After which matter he wrente th unto Augustus, at! th» hoppicesHe which Sybil promised by the biitiiofthc Redeemer, Also Cheremon a Bt«ike Philosopher, judged the sane Starre to betoken welfare and happinesse ; and thereupon perceiving his gods to be weatened, he travelled to ,i wry with cer tain Astrologers, to seek the tin* G >d. Andt.halcidius the Pktotmt saitli expres ly. »hat the Chaldees had observed that it betoketed the honourable comming of God unto us, to bring grace to mortal men But in very deed, this Starre appearing in December without rays, and being luaiihtull wr.s not an ordinary Comet, but a very .Vtf.rre indeed. The like whereo we have scene oursebes in the same s-a son of tiie yeere, in the yrere of our Lord 1572, the signific.tion whereof God will I'tveale unto us when he sees time • Now, had the former 7 tar been.oneof the ordi nary Stars that ere fired in the firmament, whai a mi cade was it that it should leave Ins place and charge, not foreign* over i Jesus, but to serve him! And if it were newly then created; by whom could it he created, but bv the Creator; and for whom but forliimarlt’ f and where Julian the He negr.tr, not being ab.o *o deny the truth of History and the commlnfif the *isr men by the guiding thereof, world heart men on hand, that it w«a the St«; named Asaph, which the Egypt icvis huvt mark'd to be scene but one. at every 400 yeere?: besides that we read not of any Hke to bav.- been seen in all the former ages ; it hath not bin seen any more in those fill 14®0, yeeres which are passed since that time Now by this inquiry of the wise men Herod was moved to hilU.il the chil dren about Uethleem, wtu.fi were tw> yeeres old and nude , meaning among them to have killed the child which the Star betoth ned .* in doing wherof, because a Sonne oi ms owne was killed with the Test: we K*ide in Macrobius, that the Em perm Augustus honing the re f, gave him this (aom, I hail lever bee IJerode Stvine than his Sonne, Againe, thin Christ should be borne of a Virgin, lit?) think it very strange. I have discussed this point already against the. Jewes. Goci had foretold it; and what could th n let him to bring* it to passe ? For who can doubt hit power, when he ia ; sure of his wid? Bunina was so true,; that Simon Uflagus, to the uiUnVhe to g i not seem inferior to Christ in any thing, preached to hiv own Disciples, th. i be hnnesll was the <ioa of o Virgin, winch thing Jesus Christ never preached of him self And we read that the stmi day that Christ was borne, t ie Temple of I l ' ace fell d tV:e at Rome i at the laying of the foundation whereof, Appollo told the Mo ntanos it should stand till »> V:rgiu did beaie a child, wherupon they though' it should liave co.itin >ed for ever Am! .3 touching Simeon, who having Jesus in h s w ties, acknowledg'd Inna to be the Sa nour of’he world, I liave declared what tin Jews say of him And as f>r John the Baptist, our Lords* foregoer, the History of his godly life and doctrine, and of IPs death also, a set dovrne after the same manner in Joseph, lhai 13 in our Evange’- is » If we cons <J* r Christs works all the w hole course of his life was nothing but miracles, the which 1 have proved true long ague And this only point, namely, tiva< they be described and set forthwith somsny circumstance*, whemnto rover any man hath yet piegum -d to take ex ceptioep, doth sufficiently give credit to the matter; and therefore let us passe un to hiadcaih From tlie sixth home (say our Evangel ists) unto th< ninth houre, ther- wa* dark ness over all the I and : that is to gay, » high noone ami even in tiie chi est- of the day. If they doubt liereot, I’hlegon I'ra - liun whom the Emperor Adrian set tree, and who was the diligentest of all Chroni clers, not. All that in the fourth yeere ~f the two hundred and ten h Olympiude, there was the greatest Eclipse of the Snnne that ever yas scene, and therewith all a very strange Eurtnqu.kc. And that was the very I’B.yeeiv of Tiberius, in th whicli yeere Christ suffered Ins passion- And Eusebius saith, he had read ifir iik in tile Commentaries of the Gcutds. Also Lucian a friwl of Antioch cryed out to such as tormented him . Search your ow. Chronicles, and you shall find ’hat In th time of Pilate tlte light failed in the chief of the day, and the Sun was put to fl:gh' »» long as Christ wa suffering. AndTer tuliiau in his Apology summons them to the ssitu- bookes To be short, some so it was universal over ad the world; am' ■ben was it a speciall work of God, for th« order of nature can do no ouch thing in t the world. Othersome say it was pecu liar to the only la,id of Jewry ; and them.- Gods special wo, king yet more manifest: for ii is (as y e would s y ) a pointing at th c ause of the Eclipse wi h hisfinger, nanr ly, the suffering of the Saviour of th 1 world And us little also could th:. Eclipse he by the order of Ka ure, as tint other. For who but on.y God could dimrnr 1 the sight and light ot the Sun in such sir without a continuation thereof with th iloone, that it should give light to all phi . es saving only Jewry, as who would sat hee sholtd out Jewry from all the rest t the world; And a> touching the earth quake tiiat accompanied it, me foresai Phiegon speake h thereof, joining it t , 'ite Eclipse as our Evangelists d.»c. 1) - hr.se cases are so rare and uoS' cne, not some o-n aye, nut In tut hole comse u 1 the world, Uut loentf tusy bo repoitcu . uni in one sdftsme yeere, and both gether; 'hey cam ot be understood of ■M.y other than those which our Evangel 'ais and Authors speak of. Tube shun, he Veile or Courtaine of the Temple did end asunder For the beleeving or dis crediting of this point, there needed no more but. to goe to that place, and see whether it were so or no. And Josephus sp-akinp of the foretokens of the desiruc ti'«i of th- Jew es l eportelb tht like tiling. llehold. Jesus is now dead: but the third •las he risetli again as he himself had told if-rr hand If he had said as Mahomet saji about 800 yeeres hence, 1 will come ser you ngaine-, he had taken a good teime (or tryall of his lye. But v/hen he sari. I will come againe within these three ejaes; his deceit (if he had meant any) wuuld soone have been discovered. Here Ui*y cry oijt and cannot admit the storie b<c true. And yelnol«iihslancVmg when tiify reade that one Erus an Armenian, tbit one Aris ons or that one Thespesius roSe againe to life; they thinke no evil! of P/atb, fDrddotusor Plutarkefor reporting it"’ How uhiniiifferenl are these people, which will needs both bsletve and be he. leeved of all men without witness?, a.id ; unrequested: and yet no witnesse can suffice to make them believe their owne salvation ? Women saw Christ, mciVtbuuh ed him, the nnboleevers felt him with their liugc-s ; he did eate anil drinkc, and was conversant among them disci's tin.es, and many dayes: and yet ali this they stoutly deny. But Pilate .witnessed it; and the Apostles being earst astonished at it, did afterward preach it, publish it, and signe it with their blood. He whom the Chambermaid had made amazed and who had denied him three times in one houre when he Was alive; did preach and pub lish him even in Jerusalem before the magistrates, and before the Priests; and no threats could make him hold his peace. If Christ rotted in hia grave: what hope of benefit was to be had of his dead car kasse ? Nay, if he lived not in Peter, win U-ged peter to preach him ? Who (sa. 1) would have beieeved it a> leastwise s< fai-re forth as 10 preach and publish it, and to signe and scale it with his blood, upon Ins r< port, and also after that he w .s gone ? Vei il ,thc veryslaudtters themselves give light unto this truth. For thereupon it is, that the Jews liav. famed that ins body was stolen :yway; for they found it not dure: But Pilate proveth them hers ex pressly- And thereupon also did some of die Gentiles surln.se, ihal tliey tiayl cuici fi d a Gtiosl or Spo.ue m stead of him : which tiling the Jewes maiiitaiue to b. v-ry false, who took off ence al his deadi, a.i which they know to be,- a mattei ot truth, they call him still, The C ucifieil But nee livid toen, and liveth still fc ever and ever. And ther-fo eas lie hart pioui.Svd iiis Disciples afore his death : it iiiit Luke :aith il.at li, e s.-ut ilium the H. Ghost in fierie Tongues within a few dayes after his rising againe: whereby ihey receivod the gift 01 Tongues, 01 Lan gitages; yea, and that in such wise, tlia,: ■,he same gif l , came dowi e upon many ft).era by tiie laying of their hands upon (hem. But forasmuch as we make mem ion of ising againe from-the de_.d : that isy.i Snescrupl- more that remjmieth. hat .ikehlioud is there of that (s-.y they,) see : .ng that ou> bodies rot, W ormes devour ns, yea our bodies doe tunic into wormes, ami a nuttibei of other changes doc passe oyer them ! This is a con iuuall stumbling aiwaies at one stone, namely, to stand gaz ini}’ at G*ds power,who ca dot- all things, win n ye shouf.i rather rts: upoii his will: Hee will dm it; f r he hath knit lue bo die a.d scule tog he-, 10 be partakers of good ami of evil together, and he hath gnch one Law ,0 them both togeihcf, so *,s tliey must suffer together, and joy to gether; y.a, and suffer one for another, -Jidone by unaitier in tins ife ; and wha 1 , justice were h tliea to scpaiate them in another Ilf ? Hee wili do it; for he made the whole man; who, if he were but Soule alone, were no man at all. He will doe it; fer the intent to save man, his‘ol me hath taken the flesh of man unto hi n. Now to save the soule, it had been enough for him to have taken but a Soule; but he that made the whole man, wilt al?o save the whole man. To be snort, he w ill do it, fo r hee hath said it; and hee wdi do It, for he hath done it s,i"eac!y. He nath said it by Ills Sonne, air. he ha’h done it 111 ins Sonne, and 111? Sonne adorneth us with Irs vioiorie, and he will surely adorn us with his glory. Looki upon the grainetltai 13 cast inio the ground, if it rot not, it iipriogcth not up ; if is spring not up, it y t eideih no foyson Againe, ufoue granie c me many eares ot‘C> rue ; oi a kernel, a goodly tree; of a thing of nothing, (as ye would sav) a perfect living creature Which of all these things resemhletli lie thing Ilia; coineth theieoi, cither in sub s ziice, o’ tu shape, or m quantitie, or i>; quahtie ? To be short, wtiat strangenesse I, there in this? Os a hanofuti pf Earth God made thee, and ail the F-urth of no thin,, and of a hand foil lie wili hiuke thee icw again. ! I his body of June which in lime past was not, isofhiv making; llus body winch one day shall ccasse lobe, he «ill one day make new againe. Verily tins doctrine was common toail true Jewes, and among all the teachers of the Law, •vfi’t had gat here' 1 it out of. th., old I’es lament (as we read in Jnsepluis, and u» he Acts of the kp sties) for they agree tally with 81 Paul in that heualte. And iit the Tultu id there are infinite places thereof. A ■?■. the Vlcorau, (which is bor owed of their Uabbins) is full of this Doctrine, And as concerning the Hea then o* old time, Zoroasties said, that ore 13) thtT'* shall be a general rising againe of .ii the dead. Theopompus a disciple ot vristotles, doth the Ike; and no man in dd time (saith JE'ieas of Gaza) did once gainsay them. Ihe Stoiekes held opinion, tiat alter a certain time there should be a 1 univeis-dl burning ot the world, which wee call Duomesday, and that immediate after, a!, things should be set in their perfect state againe as they were at the first: and it was thr opinion of Chrysip ms in Ins hookc of Providence, translat ed by Lutane the Sloick ; which new a r e Varro cal eth, Paiingenesian, that is ,<• sa) r « Regeneration, Bebegetting or Vcwbirth. Plato saith expressly, that itns soules shall returns into their bo .s. The Astrologers following Albu 7. .mar, uphold, that w hen the Stars come .gain every one in - o his first place, ail ungs shall be set againe in their first riginal s’ate, both men beasts, trees ano ii other creatures; which opinion even Arithmeticke atone sheweth to be absurd '• Astrologie, and the best learned men c.ied it. Nevg. thelcsse it bf wtaietb ou >-asUiness, v h;ch do« attribute aucb p>.w cc to* the stais, to defeat the uukec of . • . them thereof. As vo idling the judgment which th'’ w nine of God shall (jive after the said re surrection, although the a mt were n-" 1 foretold by the Prophets of old time, and H, a . many verses of the Sybils, andti a. 1 ly by lire mouth of Jesus and his Mes . surely Guds giving of his Lawe, no. to be outward man but to be inward, noi to our deeds i/Utly, but alsotoour thoughts, slieweth sufficiently without other proof., that there is another Judge than the Ms gisUaUs of this world to judge us, an., another judgment than their judgment’ll be looked for, aa whose Judgment here I proceeded! but to the outward deed, and by proofs of witnesses, and therefore can not in any wise pearce the heart, to dis cern what is within. Neither would our own consciences summon us so often r.s they do, it ve w ere not to appeare before other than men For silh it is the Some that chiefly received! the commandevnent, and chiefly breaketh it; it is the Sortie that must come to examination and tryall which canuot be done uiAlus wot hi, where in there is but a shadow of Justice, and whose Law s and Judges tsiend no further. 1 than the outer side and therefore we I see that the ancient Kahbines speake very often of this Gene.all Judgement, and (winch mme is) doe attribute it to the MetfUas, saying Fe&re not God for yntiv Judge : for your Judge is youV owne fel low Citizen, your awiVe kinsman, and your ’ owne brother. A1 the ancient Gentiles have spoken so of this judgment which they say will he given in another life in the field of Truth, whereupon shall follow cither cndleSße life or endless d. a<ti, ; as 1 have shewed afore. Yea, and it seemed; itiav b- the leading of their ancit.ni Ora cies (which were a kind of Cabalt) they passed yet further* For they called their great and sovereigns God hy the name of Jupiter, and gave the judging of niens Soules to his Son .NJinos, th. i. e g and Lawgiver, and not unto Apodo f lcmiry, -.•r any other ; as who should' day, they meant that the Judge of the Woiid should be the Sonne of God, and yet therewithal a righteousniun, .liatis to say, the Media tor, God and Man Savannah I) -c, 20 Foreign JWws—Hy tin Übcr.ua we have received the New-Yo U Gazette of ill..- 12’h inst. in which vr; find extracts ti< m i.ivevpo.'l and London papers to th. S' h Nov. by the Albion, five days later than yet received. No Cußjmercial news From a summary copied front the English papers we codec, the following facts.— »| rrible outrages continued to disgrace I c'an ; the Turks were murdering all the Greeks and Europeans iuCypius; 'fee pvlaceof Uour..on had neen feting up in Paris for the reception of the king f Engian. , who had reiused to cause of 'he Greeks in the Horea succeeds b. Uei daily; the plague had appeared at Cun vanrinople A letter from Constantino ihe states ihat «lie diiTciences betvyeen Russia ami Tu iky had been amicably set led, Georgian. F om the Gazette Foreign F.x tracts —V, this day contin ur om 'r.xtracts from English papers to in- 5 li nil. recoiled by .he aami s Monroe, Cap;. Rogers London duics to the even ing of tin; 8 h ult Capi Sab nr,, who s rved as astronomer with Capi Parry, in his voyage to the Po lar Seas, is going to the Coast of Africa, in the Iphigeuia frigate, for the purpose of making nautical observations, ami de termining rue figure of that part of the g obe. Hewillcommcice his operations iu the neighborhood of Sierra Leone- Fhe Rank of England has abandoned the plan when has been in contemplation for several years, i f making plates loi preventing the possibility of forgeries I. is said that the expense of endeavouring ' bring tiie plan to maturity has amounted to upwards of 100,00' >1. J\la>iy things in fru> words. The Dish-.p of London ..as mi;<j used 200 children in the Millbank P u remiary.— S : t. Jauu V Park to he ligim > v.ilH ga« —Bets that consuls will be at 80 by the Nov. account. —IOO,OOO persons fallen vicli as to the ru ofora morbus at Java—The Duke of York about to visit the Marquis of Angie sea in Staffordshire.—riir Robert W.lwi nit nils to reside in France—An Obelisk to the memory of Ur. Rennie to be erect ed ri Waterloo bridge—The typhus fe ver very prevalent at Carlisle.—There have, already b'-en considerable fail of snow in the North —The French navj consists of 53 sad of the ua and 40 fi ,- g.ltes.—The Yellow Fevi r has appeare a at Malaga —Sir John Ltach, V. C. is ar rived from the continent.—An earthquake felt in die county of Bute on Mwndhj eight, a.'d another at Cowrie on Tuesday w,.ck —About S,UUOAput d«wo on papir U)i* bi!' K Wilson—’Fhe Marquis of Win-j Chester named as a candidate for the situa tion of Lord Chamberlain A vast num ber of blood horses purchased by an A ge.nt of the King ot Wurtemburg. From Gibraltar — T he Adel'iie, arrived at Portsmouth', brings ne as from Gibral tar as laic as October 24- TueVchow Fever continued at Raid. lona and other on the Mediterranean, as stated in former accounts, and .from embargoes, the commercial communications were ve iy much interrupted Charleston Dec. 18 P om hurope. The British ship JMonarch. Burnsides 42 days from Greenock, look a pilot on Sunday evening, and letters to the 3d November have come up from her—the newspapers are only to the 28lh Oct. Slie sailed on tire 4;li ult The following view of the Cotton mar ket, is from a letter to the consignees, Messrs. Lamb A Ruesmsosr. umj r date of Oct 27—another letter of the 2d ult mentions that there had been no change since that date. “ Current Prices —Sea-Island fine, 19d a 2s j good clean, 16£ .i 18$d ; middling to good fair X4J a 16$.i ; stained and ordin ary, 19 a 14Jd ; New-Orleans, 9} a I3ds ; Bowed a 16d. ENGLISH SETTLEMENTS IN ILLI NOIS. Copy of a letter from Richard Flower, to a gentleman in -this city, dated Park House, near Albion, Illinois, Oct 20, 1821 My dear Sir—l have been silent com paratively this two years, because 1 would not induce persons to come here hastili i and without due consider; t on, wh ch would cod in chagrin and uisapjJoiuUnsnt l to themselves and pronch, jusiifiahfi reproach, m K , ■ had h enact atedbv mete self i;,; t , t ‘, •, would doubt, ss have been otlierwi-e ' ’ * It lus also been* ■ t,h V.ilii „ „ . invite persons here, but -ogite a fi,i r Pr i impart,ai slaienn nt ol the a , VUa - a j disadvantages oi m, Mreuiu. ..' a " <1 liters, so that there is net a sint-Vf c* .1 lus.numerons s tthVnent that can tr.Vc J Jie .east idok of itproach. « h-ui I came here, all that ccu'd k« done by nn son and a few gentlem*,?! efleet a smah jlog town, lor the c . n .‘. L „ rating the population . f the place hW been done ; aiso. a market hoi.v<* v la was never seen in the I I nois, h aa b gun; a log tavem in which the half or third of a bed wts acceptable arcoi ,„ 0 . (tation ; and Uveo.ty log houses, ahlch mcuided one store ant! one hlacksn.i h’a shop, waa the state of Albion wl.cu i a -. rived here. I oe roa is, or rather Indian tracts, i.nly known, except one road to the iioi « the Wabash 10 miks uis am ; thi j gatum audits difii mities wnkm.t.i, : Sin ” (dies of groceries and western p t - tl„ C e obstructed and exhausted ; flour, bacon" and other necessaries import J f r!n , * f inmiy, Uen umn-l.t 36 miles dista; t |. iber cast, west, nonh u uth, tiom’cm bin to Cabin, travel! d hy li, con ~.l sS Now how is the tare altered I ... U r town ■contains 4 stores, which areth- nieditin at supply for hixtmer ; our fin-ms sun. iy us with nccessa i«.; our mcr ase of Ijo . foliation has given us urn irk. tfor all u.J produce wt raise ; one mill and a brick tavern, \vith accommodation in two other tog taverns ; our trade .nc e . onr market day numerously attend d, ■' all ciicums'ances which have given a Wur to industry ; otir sril and climate duly an. preciat. d, and the most, import:, t J,*all considerations, the heal'd) <4 die siiuado;, maybe spoken o!’ with confidence. a> hia is the third autumn,a ~i \v\ Uuve ha.if-w. ec deaths, and less sickm ss than in any !e . gion of the globe where registers off ,use • vents have been kept; while those who have settled on the banks of the rivet! and near creeks, ov who iminer d tlu in. selves in heavy timbered lo„ la d.-, have suffered much sickness. VVe have now faucli.-s corri!n rp in from \ari- us settlements, as il,; s lac? is ( -si ah fished by a three years residence : 3 o i families have came in from Carlide i.u n t before death had nn.de sad iiavcc a mongst them. Mind, my dear sir, we an n d utterly exempt from c»s. s..f sicknv>i which may arise from climate, sc-eb ui ague and fever, but the lunnbe so aflgc.t ed, is merciluily sn ail, tun town n.,v containing nearly 20') inhaVua ts, nue hate h id nut more nun six cases, and no one ;s», do not know of more 'ha 5 or 6 cases in tiie whole settlement, {>»• M 'h : G oat to I,itile Wabash that lus (eJ nnnaic in dissolniion It is, there fur J as notch my duty to make this pub i< al it was to keep sih nre duringrur s. c I (iroba’ion an.l iriai ; and when I coi.sida the disadvantage s of those who alter, p. I first settlement fa: from those soitrcfl from whence they must draw tfcir'snl plies,the cabins of green loga they ml obliged to enter, the privati uo fir vvatfl of easy access to wholesome loud, ti;l (Veqnent recurrences of lodging t ut. .1 Ciiiiiping out, wiu n journeying tu sc.-l provision or other necessaries i f liie.B arn in utter astonishment a 1 the share fl hralth we hav- sustained, n : at die isl ilc iosa we have suffered. Our c-B inav now be considered accot p) sm I and as certain as ai.y K ng in tins i.n>l iory world can be considered H A recc'd occurrence lias greatly ruH trihuted to our success ') h s i kly st;H of the county seal, Palmyra, and its sitifl tion being on tlu • astern tid f'.he rouH '■y, made a change absolutely vccessar* VV. were wiliiin five miles f ihc centfl of the county, and the coi.iunssi.ine s ufl poinreii by the legislature to remove tffl seat ol justice have removed it. lo Ihi plat e : so that \v» are proceeding lepiiß iy, and premise to be om or he ban® somest towns in the Union, ns we h.-oH cxcelh nt stones lor building, and g"oB worknu n K Ai present we have s.x iiouafs« f stonl and brick, md next spring ivt build <<’■ con l l lions , It is also ascertained, tiifl onr county is the riches' and b st pop* fitted in the state. 1 think , J may writ rfiß ly n \v pass my opinion, and speak wltH assurance, that this place fields '.-ut vantages to the capitalist ami th labor* . qnal and even superior to any 1 know in the Union. I believe I me: rmt.l ■ you chat v e had post office, library, aifl news-rooms, and were doing all lb". could the moral and iaieDectufl improvement of ours How creatures.” H Atrocious Out nge. | The foßowiru particulars t.f an at;'. ciriß otucage commit'ed at Hava,.a, n 'i'H 25iliull on an American vessel, has be-'* handed us by a gentleman place. li *‘The schooner Ajax, Capt. Shank * Philadelphia, had cleared at ihe Lu-;i' House, and watted a favourable wind depart for the United S'.at.s. L>' n ;d fl the wharf on Sunday at iriun, s‘ ‘ W boarded by two Spanish Soldiers un '■ the pretence of asking fire tu fil l'- u> ■ segnrs, but really for the purpose of (d S deling the vessel, a practice b- no n» f.® uncommon with the soldiery. 1 10 offereu the fire they demaid d, having used, they declar'd they Carry on shore on. oftlie men belong' i the vesse , saying he was a Spams i ".i * The mate objected, and the so con.ing insolent, lie drove tin m o, V s ' |O * as er that, they returned with a re I,ll ' merit headed by an officer, who the captain to come on shore. Siiane observed that lie vr add n<rt l.is VV asei, but that lie w md rc-f 1- ~w sisiauce, if the officer hair bust i<>* him, and would come on board. * ' e Jlcrs drew their sabres and board®' schooner, declaring they won d hi • captain. The latter run below Im * tois and cutlass,and sa.d he ? a®, the first, who came on Ins , ‘ - n^K soldiers persisted, and he siren 0l t ; lols, wfien two fell, but the othir 1 "- ed the officers of the sch<mntr-- cl ' ‘^® captain down, slabbed hm, a r ‘v e . for cle„d 'I he mate was tresn"' 1 same manner, and ihe vessel ro the mean time the mob collec t l , one interfered as the soldiers had ; session of the vessel, and we e r ' ed a guard because they hail ■' . ■*, with them. The captain ‘ revived, and was asked i| h e ■h'' vessel/ on liis .n-w n".g 111 . . m»uve, be if a? stabbid aga JC > k- - V