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mm. LETTERS FROM AFRICA,
1 tpyaoNon thavideani titi: traveller, to ca-
I NOVA THE SCULrTOR.
I (Concluded from page 5.)
| Palmyra, Dec. 17, 1818.
Hle/Yvssg Tyre wilh tho benedictions and
B fwiere embraces of my host, 1 passetf the
I V*l of Living Waters, the Pseudo Eleu
-1 thS'ius, and Sarepta, when the smiling
ft*pjln of that Sidon opened itself before me
1 ‘*vllcli struggled hard with its approaching
I jfnl. Monsieur Ruffin, French Consul, po-
ISilly offered me reception, and I deplore
| k thl loss he has since sustained in a compan
iiol who was the model of the tender sex.
Ahe Lady Esther Stanhope, who, for so
ui >y years has attracted the attention of
A 1 a and of Europe by the singular manner
-of lie she has adopted, is encamped one
he ir’s distance from Sidon, in a small babi
-4a on called Ceruba; and, in order to ren
t herself still more remarkable, insists
n her will being obeyed, that no Euro
, |>sm shall approach her, even for a mo
s it. To blame her for it, would it not
in act of intolerance ?
Traversing that mountain which includes
*0 many mountains, and tnay properly be
vggjned a kingdom, and which 1 shall call
pHrannia, I hastened forward to Cilicia, and
thence to Damascus, the name of which
.jHiftoses more than is due to it.
1 twain all the circuit of Libanus, tvs well as in
j&gfmel 1 collected a thousand fruits and
testaceous substances, the proof
tremendous delugo.
THE MISSIONARY.
My intention for going from Damascus
to Palmyra not succeeding at that time, 1
came to Balbeck where it appeared to tae
as if Thebes were revived in the midst of
Syria.
An entire volume would be insufficient
for the description of the Temple of the
Sun.
Six columns arise amidst the marshes,
each in height seventy-one feet, and twen
ty-one feet eight inches circumference.
Three stones of granite occupy the space
of one hundred and seventy-five feet and a
half, and another has sixty-nine feet of
length, twelve of breadth, ami thirteen of
thickness. You alone, Sublime Genius !
can solve the problem whether it is the
work of common men, or of a race of be
ings superiour to our own.
Re-a-cending mount Libanus l wished to
smell its boasted cedars, see Eden, the grot
tos of Canobin, and the horrible cave of
the great Egyptian hermit. Oh, how the
pure and sweet life of the patriarchs flour
ishes here! Here is that simplicity and
peace that man in. vain seeks amongst man
kind.
Again returning to Phoenicia I went Cos
Tripoli, to Tortosa, witness of the great
congress in the first crusade; to Eleutheri
,us, Sober ; to the city of Gahale, which
preserves one of its amphitheatres; to La
odicea, where the Signor Agostino Lazzari
entertained me with more than social treat
ment ; and penetrating amongst the moun
tains of the Arsarites, worshippers of dogs
and of the base senses, I arrived at the
Milky Waters of Orontes and at Antioch, an
object worthy of contest.
From Theopolis, hv a road covered with
abusive inhabitants, I came to the more
flourishing Aleppo, thence to the Euphra
tes, and hardly touching Mesopotamia, the
sound of Nineveh and Babylon already
struck my fancy, and drew it away more
rapidly than the steed of Elimaides, the
chariot of Cyrus.
Passing again through Aleppo, I kept
the other road of Damascus by Apamea,
Cima, and Emesa, where the delicately
fair-haired, white-complexioned nymphs,
display themselves, with their Mack eyes,
more beautiful than wore ever produced
by the native of Urbino or by Titian.
Whilst I was enjoying the presence of
Emeea, the catastrophe of the Palmyrenes
came to my memory and the blood of the
acute Longinus almost drew from me a
tear.
Warmly recommended to the governour
of Damascus by the excellent Piciotto,
consul-general of Austria in Aleppo, a son
worthy of his father, I advanced towards
Palmyra, in company with a single guide,
and, after five days of a most troublesome
journey, reposed iD the court of Odeuatus
and Zenobia.
But what can I tell you of this memora
ble spot which so much electrifies the in
tellects, unless that about thirty towers, the
Temple of the Sun, and three hundred col
umns scattered here and there, over a soil,
covered with sand, are still standing to
eternize to the world the great Palmyra ?
What 1 pass over in silence shall ’blossom
in my future little work.
In fifteen months, and about 7,000 miles,
I have passed through the Mediterranean,
Misraim, Nubia, Kedaf, Idumea, Philistia,
Judea, Samaria, Galilee, Phoenicia, Ccele
Syria, nnd Mesopotamia, having seen the
sea of Pentapolis, have drunk of that of
Tiberias, and the Nile, the Jordan, Orontes,
and Euphrates ; have ascended the Pyra
mids, Sion, Gerizim, Tabor, Libanus, and
Carmel, and have reposed in ihe tombs of
Thebes, amongst the cataracts of Nubia,
nnd upon the dust of Memphis, Heliopolis,
Ashkalon, Tyre, Sidon, Balbeck, Palmyra,
Samaria, and Jerusalem.
LETTER 11.
Mount Sinai , May 0, 1819-
I write to you from the most memorable
heights in the world ; but hear how I came
hither.
Having closed the letter, I directed to
you from the ruins of Palmyra, I followed
the silent contemplation of those remarka
ble remnins, and, under the protection of
the hospitality of the modern Palmyrenes,
who are the best Arabs I know of, I passed
hours joyful and tranquil. Their questions
turned upon Boneborle (Buonaparte) and
my Lady Stanhope ; the former they re
membered from his expedition into Soria,
for the fame of him resounded greatly
amongst them, and the latter for the liber
ality displayed in the journey she under
took in the. desert.
Their curiosity, and my own being satis
fied, 1 continued my journey with my guide,
and arrived at Damascus. Thence, through
Coele-Syria, 1 ascended Libanus once more,
which I was delighted to contemplate
amidst the horfours of the winter, and de
scending to Berytus by Phoenicia, the pleas
ant Philistia, and the wearisome Elam, 1
returned to the Nile.
After one day’s repose, I went to offer
my personal tribute to the pyramids, and
u-propos of these heaps, while I was writing
my name upon the third called Phryne, I
perceived that Frcdiani was the anagram
of Dia Frinc.
I then returned to Cairo, and as the pes-
Jilentja.l scourge was beginning to mow down
GO TE INTO ALL THE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE.-Jx avs Christ.
MOUNT ZION, (HANCOCK CO. GA.) WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1821.
human victims, instead of remaining there
I thought better to continue my journey,
and 3 days of sand made me ejaculate Duke
videre Suez.
Having admired the progress & decrease
of the waters, I put myself on board an In
dia ship, commanded by the excellent Cap
tain Landale ; and embarking afterwards in
a small boat, I sailed as far as Dtr Essafran,
where it is believed that Israel passed over,
and traversing almost in a right line the
famous gea, I approached Del el Hamman.
Departing by the waters of Suez, I had
ordered my Arabs to wait for me at a place
indicated, and judge of my surprise upon
my arrival to find bo one there!
The solitude of the place, the inefficacy
of the bark to continue as far as Tor, the
wind contrary for my return to Soez, the
want of provisions and water particularly,
were the mournful thoughts that eat heavy
on my heart.
But that immutable eternal Providence,
ever present where he least appears so,
but where most necessary, cuased in an in
stant my guides to approach; whence by
the path of the Chosen People, 1 trod upon
Para ll (Hill Gin, and eigliing tniivrd at UICBU
mountains, which are Sinai and Horeb.
The first idea I conceived when for the
first time I heard of Mount Libanus, was
that of an insulated mountain, and, in such
fespect all the ideas of men are alike,
whence I shall call it the Country of Libany
instead of Mount Libanus; that country as
large almost as our Ahruzzo, and larger
than our Tyrol, which comprises luxuriant
valleys, fertile meadows, flowing rivers,
beautiful hills, very higb-mountains, popu
lous towns, ten bishoprics, seventy princi
palities, and which can produce 50,000
champions for the protection ofits precious
liberty-.
letter in.
Cairo, December 1, 1820.
Leaving Horeb and Sinai, from the sum
mits of which I gazed at laods which form
lucid points in the blaze of human intellect,
I descended into the country of Elim, where
still are to he seen the palms and the wells
that quenched the thirst of the Jews.
Having cooled myself in Tor, where I
tried its waters, 1 returned by the road of
Suez to Cairo, and going down to Alexan
dria, I turned towards the Lake Mareotis,
thence to that of Afaadie and Etko, and
making an excursion io merry company to
the beautiful Rosetta, I traversed the
branch Bolbitina, the Delta, and arrived at
the ruins ofßatis, and the mouth of the
Sebene, upon the Famineticus branch, in
modern Damietta.
Embarking (hence upon the Lake of
Metr.ale, and arrived at the islands of Mata
ria, 1 advanced into the caDal of Mopz,
whence I might view the scattered remains
of Tanis, and returning to the lake, recog
nized the Tanities and Pelusiack mouths,
with the Bogas of Raid.
Disembarked upon the shore, I arrived
through the desert at the sides of mount
Casius and the day following ascended that
celebrated eminence whence 1 came to
Pelusium, that famous key of Egypt, and
trusting myself once more’ to the waves, 1
visited the islands of Tennis and Thuna,
and passing over the Mendcsina mouth I
returned to Damietta.
Reposing a little I took diversion upon
the lake, and penetrated by the canal of
Moez into that of Salahie and descending
into the desert, I found endless fields of
soda, both vegetable and mineral.
Whence approaching the Nile, I arrived
by (tie canal of Jlsmun, at the city of Ben
in, the ancient Mendes; thence upon the
branch Fammeticusto the bed fatal to Lou
is IX.; and finally returned to Grand Cairo.
Now that, thanks to the magnanimous
Viceroy of Egypt, the brave Mahomet Ali,
and his faithful minister Burgoss Jusuff, 1
am furnished with ample and generous
means of penetrating into spaces shut up by
the seal of ages, 1 am preparing to ap
proach the torrid zone, where 1 hope to
shew to Italy that I am not entirely unwor
thy of belonging to her.
MARTYRDOM OF DR. TAYLOR.
Selected from a late English work entitled “ Win
ter Nights, or Fireside Lucubrations .” By
Nathan Drake , M. D.
Rowland Taylor, D. D. and rector of
Hadleigh, in Suffolk, from 1544 to 1554,
suffered martyrdom on Aldham Common
adjacent to Hadleigh, on February 9th,
1655, for his opposition to the errours of
popery, and his steady adherence to the
doctrines of the Reformation.
Os thi9 great and pious character it is
scarcely possible to speak in terms too lau
datory. He was, in fact, the perfect mod
el of a parish priest, and literally went about
doing good.
It was not to be expected, therefore, that
when the bigoted Mary ascended the throne
of these realms, a man so gifted, and at the
same time so popular as was Dr. Taylor,
should long escape the arm of persecution.
Scarcely, indeed, had this sanguinary wo
man commenced her reign, when an at
tempt was made Jo celebrate Mass by force
in the parish church of Hadleigh ; and in
endeavouring to resist this profanation,
wfiicb was plagued and conducted by two!
of his parishioners, named Foster and
Clerke, assisted by one Avertb, rector of
Aldham, whom they had hired for the pur
pose, Dr. Taylor became, of course, obnox
ious to the ruling powers, an event no doubt
foreseen and calculated upon by the insti
gators of the mischief.
A citation to appear before Stephen Gar
diner, Bjshop of Winchester, and then Lord
Chancellor of England, was on the informa
tion of these wretches, the immediate result
of the transaction; and, though the friends
and relatives of the Doctor, earnestly advis
ed his noncompliance, and recommended
him instantly to fly, he resisted their solici
tations, observing, that though he fully ex
pected imprisonment, and a cruel death, he
was determined,in a cause so good and right
eous, to shrink not from his duty. “ Oh,
what will ye have me to do?” he exclaim
ed ; “ I am old, and have already lived too
long to see these terrible and most wicked
days. Fly you, and do as your conscience
leadeth you ; I am fully determined, with
God’s grace, to go to the Bishop, and to his
beard, to tell him that he doth naught.”
Accordingly, tearing himself from bis
weeping Airu,i a mid Hock, and accompanied
by one faithful servant, he hastened to Lon
don, where, after enduring with the utmost
patience and magnanimity, the virulence
and abuse of Gardiner, and replying to all
his accusations with a firmness and self-pos
session, and with a truth of reasoning which,
unfortunately served but to increase the
malice of his enemies, he was committed a
prisoner to the King’s Bench, and endured
a confinement there of nearly two years.
During this long period, however, which
was chiefly occupied by Dr. Taylor iu the
study of the Holy Scriptures, and in preach
ing to, and exhorting his fellow-prisoners,
he had three further conferences with his
persexutors. The second, which was held
in the arches at Bow-cburch a few weeks
after his commitment, terminated in his be
ing deprived of his benefice as a married
man. The third, which did not take place
until January the 22d, 1555, and was car
ried on, not only with the Bishop of Win
chester, but with other episcopal commis
sioners, ended, after a long debate, in which
the piety, erudition, sound sense, and Chris
tian forbearance of the sufferer was pre
eminently conspicuous, in his recommitment
to prison, under a threat of having judgment
passed upon him within a week.
Thi3 judgment wa9 accordingly pronoun
ced at a fourth conference on the 28th of
the same month, the Bishops of Winchester,
Norwich, London, Salisbury, and Durham,
being present, when, on the Doctor again
declining to submit himself to the Roman
pontiff, he was condemned to death, and the
day following removed to the Poultry Coun
ter. Here, on the 4th of February he was
visited by Bonner, Bishop of London, who,
attended by his chaplain, and the necessa
ry officers, came to degrade him. Refu
sing, however, to comply with this cere
mony, which consisted in his putting on the
vestures or mass-garments, he was compell
ed to submit by force, and when the Rish
op, as usual, closed this disgusting mumme
ry with his curse,*Taylor nobly replied;
“ though you do curse me, yet God doth
bless me. I have the witness of my con
science, that ye have done me wrong and
violence ; and yet I pray God, if it be his
will, forgive you.”
It was on the morning of the sth of Feb
ruary.! 555,at the early hour of two o’clock,
that the sheriff of London, arriving at the
Counter, demanded the person of Dr Tay
lor, in order that he might commence his
pilgrimage towards Hadleigh, the destined
place of tits martyrdom. It was very dark,
and they led him without lights, though not
unobserved, to an inn nearAldgate. His
wife, —and I shall here adopt the language
of John Fox. which in this place, as in ma
ny others, is remarkable for its pathos and
simplicity,—“ his wife suspecting that her
husband should that night be carried away,
watchpd all night in St. Botolph’s church
porch besidp Aldgate, having with her two
children, the one named Elizabeth, of thir
teen years of agp (whom, being left with
out father or mother, Dr. Taylor had
brought up of alms from three years old,)
the other named Mary, Dr. Tiylor’s own
daughter.
“ Now, when the sheriff and his compa
ny came against St. Botolph’s church, Eliz
abeth cried, saying, ‘ O my dear father;
mother, mother, here is my father led
away.’ Then cried his wife, Rowland , Row
landl, where art thou ? for it was a very dark
morning, that the one could not see the oth
er. Dr. Taylor answered, * dear wife I
am here,’ and stayed. The sheriff’s men
would have led him forth ; but the sheriff
said, ‘ stay a little, masters, 1 pray you, and
let him speak to hia wife,and so they stay
ed.
“ Then came she to him, and he took his
daughter Mary in his arms; and he, his wife,
aud Elizabeth kneeled down and said the
Lord’s prayer. At which sight the sheriff
wept apace, and so did divers others of the
company. After they had prayed, he rose
up and kissed his wife, and shook her by
the hand,and said, ‘ Farewell,my dear wife,
be of gbod comfort, for I am quiet in my
conscience. God shall stir up a father for
my children.’ And then he kissed his daugh
ter Mary, and slid, ‘God Mess thee, and
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make thee his servant: and kissing Eliza
beth, he said, ‘ God bless thee. I pray you
all stand strong and steadfast unto Christ
and bis word, and keep you from idolatry.’
Then said his wife, ‘ God be with thee, deag
Rowland, I will with God’s grace meet thee
at Hadleigh.’ ”
At eleven o’clock the same morning, Dr.
Taylor left Aldgate, accompanied by the
sheriff of Essex, and four yeomen of the
guard, and after once more taking an af
fectionate leave of his son and servant,who
met him at the gates of the inn, be pro
ceeded to Brentwood, where, in order to
prevent his being recognized, they com
pelled him to wear a mask or close hood,
having apertures for the eyes and mouth.
Nothing, however, could depress the spir
its or abate the fortitude Y>f this intrepid
sufferer in the cause of troth; for not only
was he patient and resigned, hut at the
same time, happy and cheerful, as if a
banquet or bridal, and not a stake, were to
be the termination of his journey.
When within two miles of Hadleigh, ap
pearing more than commonly cheerful, the
sheriff wa9 induced to inquire the cause.
“ 1 a “ now,” replied the Doctor, “ almost
at home. I lack not past two stiles to go
over, and I am even at my Father’s house.”
He then demanded if they should go thro’
Hadleigh; and being answered in the af
firmative, he returned thanks to God ex
claiming, “thenshall I once more, ere I
die, 9ee my flock, whom, thou Lord know
est I have most dearly loved end trulv
taught.”
At the foot of the bridge lending into the
town, there waited for him a poor man with
five small children, who, when they saw
the Doctor, fell down upon their knees,
the man crying with a loud voice, “O dear
father and good shepherd, Dr. Taylor,
God help and succour thee, as thou hast
many a time succoured me nnd my poor
children.” The whole town,indeed, seem
ed to feel and deplore its loss in a similar
manner, the streets being lined with men,
women and children, who, when they be
held their beloved pastor led to death, burst
into a flood of tears, calling to each other
and saying, w there goetb our good shep
herd from ns, that so faithfully hath taught
us, so fatherly hath cared for us, and so
godly hath governed us! O, merciful God!
strengthen him and comfort him whilst
ever in reply, the blessed sufferer, deeply
touched by the sorrow* of his flock, kept
exclaiming: “ I have preached toyou God’s
word and truth, and am come this day to
seal it with my blood.” Such in fact was
the sympathy, such the lamentation expres
sed by all ranks for his approaching fate,
that the sheriff and his attendant* were, as
Fox declares, “ wonderfully astonished,”
and though active in threatening and rebu
king, found it utterly impossible to suppress
the emotions of the people.
The Doctor was now about to address
the agitated spectators, when one of the
yeomen of the guard thrust his staff into his
mouth ; and, the sheriff, on being appealed
to, bade him remember his promise, shad
ing, as is conjectured, to a pledge extorted
from him by the council, under the penalty
of having his tongue cut out, that he won hi
not address the people at his death.
“ Well,” said the Doctor, with his wonted
patience and resignation, “ the promise
must be keptand then, sitting down, he
called to one Scryce, whom he had seen in
the crowd, npd requested him to pull off
his boots; adding, with an air of pleasantry,
“ thou hast long looked for them, and shalt
now take them for thy labour.”
He then rose up, stripped off his clothes
unto bis shirt, and gave them to the poor;
when, trusting that a few farewell words to
his flock might he tolerated, he said with a
loud voice, “Good people, I have taught
you nothing but God’s holy word, and those
lessons that 1 have taken out of God’* bles
sed book, ihe holy- Eitle; and I am come
hither this day to seal it with my blood.”
When he had finished his devotions, he
went to the stake, kissed it, and placing
himself in the pitch-barrel which had been
prepared for him, he stood upright therein,
with his back against the stake, his hands
folded together, his eyes lifted to heaven,
and his mind absorbed in continual prayer.
They now bound him with chains and the
sheriff calling to one Richard Doninghdtn; a
butcher, ordered him to set up the faggots;
but he declined it, alleging that he was
lame and unable to lift a faggot; and though
threatened with imprisonment if he contin
ited to hesitate, he steadily and fearlessly
refused to comply.
The sheriff was, therefore, obliged to
look elsewhere, and at length pitched upon
four men, perhaps better calculated than
any other for the office they were destined
to perform; namely, one Mullein, of Ker
sey, a man, says Fox, fit to be a hangman;
Soycf, whom we have formerly mentioned,
and who was notorious as a drunkard; War
wick, who had been deprived of one of his
ears for sedition, and Robert King , a man of
loose character, and who had come hither
with a quantity ofgunpowder,which wheth
er it were intended to shorten or increase
the torments of the sufferer, can alone be
known to Him from whom no secrets are
concealed.
While these men were diligently, and it
$ to be apprehended, cheerfully employed
