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Vo. 18 You Vl.] MISCELLANY. UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA. As it is important, that the terms upon which candidates for admission into this in- Jtitution, whether as regular or irregular Indents, are received, should be clearly understood by all those who may have it in view hereafter to present themselves as such : And as it will be satisfactory to them to have some correct idea of the course of studies prescribed by the College Laws, the Faculty have deemed it incumbent upon them to cause the same to be publish ed. There are established in college four classes, which in their s<iccession bear the usual titles of Freshman, Sophomore, Junior and Senior. For admission into the Freshman Class, (as a regular ) a candidate shall be able !o ponstrue and parse Cicero,Virgil,ine Greek Testament; have a general knowledge of English Grammar and be well acquainted with Arithmetick. The studies of the Freshman year, are four books of Xenophon’s Cyropcedia, Ho mer, Horace, Roman Antiquities, Murray’s English Grammar, Algebra, Geography, & Geometry. The studies of the Sophomore year, are Homer continued,five books ofLivy,French, Algebra continued, plain Trigonometry and Survey ing. The studies of the Junior year, are Bel leslettres and Criticism, Spherical Trig onometrv, Navigation, Conic Sections, Priestley’s Lectures on History, Natural Philosophy and Logic, with Cicero de Ora tore, (S- recite in the Greek Testament on Monday morning. The studies of the Senior year, are Na tural Philosophy and Logic continued, Pa ley’s Moral Philosophy and Evidences of the Chrisian Religion, Astronomy, Chemis try, Vattel’s Law of Nations, and attention to such classes as may be directed by the President, and Forensic disputation Every candidate for admission into the Freshman class (as a regular) shall be sis teen years old; and every one for an ad vanced standing, of proportionate age. No candidate shall io any instance be received into College as an irregular student, until he shall have attained the age of seventeen years. Every irregular student, shall be required to attend to all tbe studies (the languages excepted) of the class to which be may bo attached : and in order to his entering any class, shall be qualified on all those prelim inary branches necessary for the acquire ment of the studies of that class. For instance —should a candidate wish particularly to study Natural Philosophy, be must first join tbe Junior class, and will he required to attend to all studies of that class as prescribed above, except Cicero de Oratore and the Greek Testament: and in order to his joining that class, he shall be qualified on Arithmetic, Algebra, and Ge orrntry, because the science of Natural Philosophy cannot he thoroughly acquired without a previous knowledge of these branches. And as it is so important that every one should be acquainted with the English Grammar, a knowledge of it, will iA every instance be required. Irregular Students are subject to College discipline. By order of the Faculty. JAMES C. PATTERSON. Secretary of Faculty. Printers friendly to the Institution are requested to give the above an insertion in their papers. October 6, 1824. LOSS OF THE SHIP FAME. The following is an extract of a letter from Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, late Governour of Ben eoolen, communicating the destruction of the ship Fame, by fire, in which he had embarked with his family and suite on his return to Europe. 1( A more providential escape is scarcely to be found upon record. “We embarked on the 2d February, in the Fame, and sailed at day-light for Eng land, with a fair wind, and every prospect of a quick and comfortable passage. The ship Was every thing we could wish, and, having closed my charge here much to my satisfaction, it was one ol the happiest days of my life. We were perhaps too happy; for, in the evening, came a sad re verse. Sophia had just gone to bed, and I had thrown off half my clothes, when a cry of fire ! fire ! roused us from our calm con tent, and, in five minutes, the whole ship was in flames ! I ran to examine whence the flames principally issued, and found that the fire had its origin immediately under our •cabin. Down with the boats; where is Sophia? here; the children? here; a rope to the side; lower Lady Raffles. Give her to me, says one ; I’ll take her, says the Captain. Throw the gun powder over board. It cannot be got at, it is in the mag azine, close to the fire ! Stand clear of tbe powder. Scuttle the water casks ; water! water! Where’s Sir Stamford? Come into* the boat. Push off; push off; stand clear of the after part of the ship. AH this passed much quicker than 1 can write it; we pushed oil, and, as we did so, the flames were issuing from our cabins, nod tbe whole of the alter part of the ship THE MISSIONARY. was in flames. The masts and sails now taking fire, we moved to a distance, suffi cient to avoid the immediate explosion, but the flames were now coming out of the main hatchway, and, seeing tbe rest of tbe crew, with the Captain, &c. still on hoard, we pulled back to her under the bows, so as to he more distant from the powder. As we approached, we perceived rhatthe peo ple from on board were getting into anoth er boat on the opposite side. She pushed off; we hailed her—Have you all on board ? Yes, all save one. Who is he? Johnson, sick in his cot. Can we save bim ? No, impossible. The flames were then issuing Irom the hatchway. At this moment, the poor fellow, scorched, I imagine, by the fl .me*, roared out most lustily, having ran up on the deck. I will go lor him, says the Captain. The two boats then came to ge'hcr, and we took out some of the per sons from the Captain’s boat, whicb was • •verladen. He then pulled under the bow sprit of the ship, and picked the poor fellow up. Are you all safe? Yes, we’ve got the man; all lives safe, ibaok God; pull off Irom the ship; keep your eye on a star, r>ir Siamlord; there’s oDe barely visible. We then hauled close to each other, and found the Captain fortunately had a com pass, but we had no light but from the ship. Our distance from Bencoolen we estimated to be from 20 to 30 miles, in a south west direction; there being no landing place to the southward ol Bencoolen, our only chance was to regain that port. The Captain then undertook to lead, and we to follow, in a N N. E. course, as well as we could, no chance, no possibility, being left that we could again approach the ship; for she was now one splendid flame, fore and aft, aod aloft, her masts and sails in a blaze, and rocking to and fro, threatening to fall io an instant. There goes her mizen-mast; pul! away, my boys; there goes the gun powder, thank God! You may judge of our situation, without further particulars. The alarm was given at about 10 minutes past eight, and, in less than 10 minutes afterwards, she was one grand mass of fire ! My only apprehension was the want of hoats to hold the people, as there was not time to have got out a long boat, or make a raft, all we had to rely upon were two small boats, which fortunately were lower ed without accident, and io these ttvo small open boats, without a drop of water or grain of food, nr a rag of covering, except what we happened at the moment to have on our backs, we embarked on the wide ocean, thankful to God for his mercies. Poor So phia having been taken out of herbpd, had nothing on hut a wrapper, neither shops nor stockings; the children were just as taken out of bed, whence one had been snatched after the flames had attacked it. In short there was not time for any one to think of more than two thing*—Cao the ship be saved? No; let us save ourselves then; all else wa9 swallowed up in one great ruin. To make the best of our misfortune, we availed our*elves of the light from the ship to steer a tolerably good course towards the shore ; she continued to burn till about midnight, when the salt petre, of which she had 250 tons on board, took fire, and sent up one of the most splendid and brilliant flames that was ever seeo, illuminating the horizon in every direction, to an extent of no less than fifty miles, and casting (hut kind of blue light over us, which i9, of all others, most luridly horrible. She burnt and continued to flame in this style for about an hour or two, when we lost sight of the object in a cloud of smoke. Neither Nel*on, nor Mr. Bell, our medi cal friend, who had accompanied us, had saved their coats, the tail of mine with a pocket handkerchief, served to keep So phia’s feet warm: and we made breeches tor the children with our neckcloths. Raio now came on, but fortunately it was not of long continuance, and we got dry again— the night became serene and starlight. We were now certain of our course, and the men behaved manfully—they rowed inces santly and with good hearts and spirit, and never did poor mortals look out more for daylight and for land than we did. Not that our sufferings or grounds of complaiut were any thing to what has often befallen others, but from Sophia’s delicate health, as well a my own, and the stormy nature of our coast, I felt perfectly convinced we were unable to undergo starvation, and ex posure to the sun and weather many days, and aware of the rapidity of the currents, I feared we might fall to the southward of the port. At daylight, we recognized the Coast and Rat Island, which gave u great spirits, and though we found ourselves much to the southward of the port, we -considered our selves almost at home. Sophia had gone through the night belter than could have been expected, and we continued to pull on with all our strength. About 8 or 9 o’- clock, we saw a ship standing to us from the Roads, they had seen the flame on shore, and sent out vessels in all directions to our relief, and here certainly came a Minister of Providence in the character of a Minister ol the Gospel, for the first person I recog nized was one of our Millenaries’. They gave us a bucket of water, and we took tbe oun di.po.iiion. „ t&sa; as MOUNT ZION, (HANCOCK COUNTY, GEORGIA,) MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1824. captain on board as a pilot. The wind, however, was adverse, and we could not reach the shore, and took to the ship, where we got some refreshment, and shel ter from the sun. By this time, Sophia wa9 quite exhausted, fainting continually. About two o’clock, we landed safe and sound, and no words of mine can do justice to the expression of feeling, sympathy and kindness, with which we are hailed by every one. If any proof had been wanting that my administration had been satisfactory, here we had it une quivocally from all; there was not a dry eye; and as we drove back to our former home, loud was tbe cry of ‘ God be praised.’ “But enough; and I will only add, that we are now greatly recovered, in good spirits, and busy at work in getting ready made clothes for present U9e. We went to bed at three in the afternoon, and I did not awake till six this morning. Sophia had nearly as sound a sleep, and with the ex ception of a bruise or two, and a little pain in (he hones from fatigue, we have nothing to complain of. The property which I have lost, on the most moderate estimate, cannot be les* than £20,000. I might almost say £30,000. But the loss which I have (o regret above all, is my papers and drawings; all my pa pers of every description, including my notes and observations, with memoirs and collections sufficient for a full and ample history, not only of Sumatra, but of Borneo, and every other island in these seas, my in tended account of the establishment of Sin capore; the history of my own administra tion, grammars, dictionaries, and last, not least, a granS map of Sumatra, on which I had been employed since my first arrival here, and on which, for the last six months, I had bestowed almost my whole undivided attentioo ; this, how ever, was not all—all my recollections in natural history, and my *plendid collection of drawings, upwards ol one thousand in number, with all the valua hie papers and notes of my friends Arnold and Jack; and to conclude, I will merely notice that there was scarce an unknown animal, bird, beast, or fish, or an interesting plant, which we had not on board. A liv ing tapir, anew species of liger, splendid pheasants, &c. &c. all doinesticated for the voyage. ,We were, in short, in this res pect, a perfect Noah’s Ark. All, all has perished; but, thank God, our lives have been spared, and we do not repine. THE INQUISITION. A work entitled lettb.es normandes, published in Palis, in 1820, contains the following account of a mode of torture practised in the Inquisi tion of Toledo. “ General Lassale being at Toledo, went to visit the palace of the Inquisition ; for in Spain the humility of inquisitors is like that of other monks; it wears a coarse cloak, and dwells in a marble palace. At the sight of the instrument of torture, the Gen eral, as well as the officers who were with him, were seen to shudder; for it was more horrible than any thing presented by the field of battle. Among these instruments there was one which more particularly fix ed the attention of the visitants, by giving the impression of a sort of sacrilege. At the farther end of a subterraneous dungeon, near the chair of the inquisitor whose duty it was to interrogate those who were ac cused of heresy, there was placed in a niche a statue of the Virgin. A golden halo sur rounded her head, and her drapery descend ed in silken folds from her shoulders to her feet. In her right hand she held the an cient standard of the Kings, and a breast plate was just visible under the folds of her robe. Altogether, the 9latne resembled Joan of Arc, at Orleans. On examining it a little nearer, they perceived that tbe breast plate was glistening with a vast num ber of little knives, and of nails sharpened like needles. The arms of the statue were moveable ; and a handle placed behind tbe partition regulated its motions. General Lassale gave orders for putting the machine io operation; and the sack of a Polish gren adier was put iu the place of (be heretick. When the handle was turned, the statue ex tended its arms and pressed the sack closely to its breast. When it relaxed its grasp, the sack was found to be a perfect seive; it was pierced with a thousand boles, and tbe knives had eotered9ome lines in depth. Thus tbe merciful Mary, the mother of the Saviour of men, became in tbe hands of in quisitors, the bloody instrument of fanati cism; and that nothing might be wanting to this horrible profanation, they called this image by an odious puD, Our Lady of Sor rows. POPISH DEVILS DETECTED. Extract of a letter from Barcelona , Spain , dated June 19, 1824. A singular occurrence has taken place here, in a village called Artes, near Hos talricb, about twelve leagues from Barcel ona. A constitutionalist being at the point of death, his brother called on the curate, and requested him to come and administer tbe sacraments. The curate refused, say ing—“your brother is a constitutionalist, that is to say, a villain aod impious wretch; and an enemy to God and man—he is dam ned without mercy, and it is therefore use less for me to confess him I” “ But who told you that my brother was damned!” “ Who told me ?” replied the curate, “ why God himself!” “ What,” cried tbe aston ished Spaniard, “ has God spoken to you !” “ Yes,” answered the curate with assur ance ; “God spoke to me during the sacri fice of the mass, and told me that your brother was damned to all the devils.” It was in vain that tbe brother reiterated his entreaties, the curate was inexorable. A few day 9 after the constitutionalist died, and the brother returned to the curate to beg of him to perform the funeral ceremo ny on the body. The curate refused, say ing, “the soul of your brother is now burn ing in hell, as I told you before. It would be in vain for me to take any trouble about intering his body, for during the night the devils will coqie and carry it away, and in forty days you yourself will meet with the same late.” The Spaniard not giving im plicit credit to Ibis diabolical visit, watched during the night by the body of his broth er with his pi*(o!s loaded. Between twelve and me o’clock a knock was heard at the d* or, and a voice exclaimed—“ I command you to open, iD the name of the living God; —open, if not, your instant ruin is at hand.” The Spaniard refused to open, and shortly after, he saw enter by a window, three aide bodied devils, covered with -skins of wild beasts, having the usual quantity of horns, claws, and spiked tail*, who set about car rying the coffin containing the In.dy. Upon this the Spaniard fired, aud shot one devil dead. The others took to flight—he tired after them, and wounded both, one of whom died in a few minutes and (he other escap ed. In the morning, when the people went to church there was no curate to officiate, and it was shortly after discovered, on ex amining the two defunct devils, that one was the curate and the other the vicar— the wounded devil was the sacristan, who confessed the whole diabolical proceeding. This singular case is now before the crim inal tribunal of Barcelona. [Phil. Freeman’s Journal. religiousT ACCOUNT OF A REMARKABLE SER MON, Preached in Edinburgh.” Related by a Clergyman. Some time ago, l was sent for to visit a person named Adam Watson, who was thought to be dy iDg. On entering his apart ment, i saw a venerable looking old man in a chair, and apparently much distressed from a difficulty in breathing. His dough ter told me that he was then a good deal fatigued with the exertion of rising out of bed, but that he would be able to speak to me in a little time. Being told who I was, he said to me after a short pausp, “ I am glad to see yon, Sir, and thank you for com mg so readily to visit me in this poor habi tation.” I then asked him a few questions about his bodily health; these he shortly answered, and then said, “ You see roe. Sir, on the verge of eternity; but I bless God I have do fears of dpath. I hope that 1 can truly say, ‘I know whom I havp believed;’ and my chief reason for sending for you at present is to help me to praise thp Lord for his great and wonderful mpreies to me.” “ What mercies do you mean ?” said I. “ I mean his great and wonderful mercies in Christ Jesus. lam now an old mao, in my eighty fourth year, and blessed be his name, I can say, I have known the Lord since I was eighteen.” Since you was eighteen ! pray did any thing remarkable happen at that time, that you remember it so particu larly ?” “Yes, yes,” said he, “something that I shall never forget while I am able to remember any thing, and for which I shall bless God through all eternity.” “ May I ask what it was?” “Certaiuly,” he replied, “and when I gpt a little breath, I shall tell you with pleasure.” After pausing for two or three miuutes, he spoke as nearly a* I can remember, to the following purpose: “ When I was about eighteen years of age, I happened to be in Edinburgh, follow ing my business. Though I was not addict ed to any gross immorality, I was a stranger to true religion. I hr.d something like the form of godliness, but it was nothing but a form. One Sunday I went to the West Church. It was about the time of dispeD sing the Sacrament, and a minister of the name of Pitcairn was preaching. I shall never forget his text; it was in 1 Pet. ii. 7: ‘ Unto you, therefore, which believe, he is precious.’ The Church was exceedingly crowded, and the congregation very atten live. Nothing very particular happened till about the close of the dicotirse, when Mr. Pitcairn made a long pause. A dead stillness immediately ensued. F.very eye was fixed on him, and several of his hear era seemed to be a good deal agitated. When he resumed his discourse, he spoke, to the best of my recollection, nearly as follows: ‘Last night, when I was on my knees before God, pleading with him in the prospect of this day’s service, it wa impres ed on my mind in a very uniwnal manner, and as if I had heard a voice from heaven, charging me that thi* day I should make a full and particular offer of Christ to all who hear me ; aod also, that I should rpquirenf them an immediate anvwer whether they accept the offer or not. Ido therefore in the name es the Most High God, offer to all [Price $3 50 per ann. and every one of yon thp Lord Jesus Christ, with all his benefits; I offer Him to the young and the old, the rich and the poor, to sinners of every kind and degree ; assuring you, that if you hccept of him as he is offer ed in the Gospel, you shall he blessed in time and blessed through eternity. Well, what do you say ? Do you accept of him or not? What answer am I to carry back to him whose servant I am? Consider tbe mat ter, and make up your minds.’ On saying this, he sat down in tbe pulpit, and the most solemn silence followed that ever I witnessed. I was very much affected, and the tears ran down my cheeks in abundance. My sins crowded into my mind. I saw my self to be a lost and ruined creature, and was enabled tn cast my soul on Jesus Christ, believing that he, and none but he, could save me. On looking up I saw many per sons iu tears around me. “ Mr. Pitcairn continued sitting, I think, about five or six minutes;’ then rising up, and looking round on the congregation, he said to them with great solemnity, ‘Well, my triends, what is yonr determination? Are yon not willing to obey thp command of God, to believe iD his Son Jesus Christ? Do you accept of the Saviour, as he is of fered in the Gospel, and give yourselves up to Him, as God has commanded, that he may wash you in his blood, clothe you with his righteousness, and sanctify you by his Spir it ? Or, od the contrary, do you proudly and wickedly reject him? Or, which amounts very much to the same thing, are you re -olved to delay this important business to a more convenient season?—Then, in a very earnest and forcible manner, he urged his hearers immediately to accept of Christ, and to comply with the invitations of the gospel. In the name of God he conjured them neither to decline nor to delay so im portant a duty. ‘ Many,” said he, ‘to whom the same off r was made are now in hell, bitterly lamenting (hpir guilt and felly in rejecting it! AridO! were'hpy pumitted now to address, with what earnestness would they beseech you to hpwar<- ol what must assuredly bring you to that place where they are tormented! Luke xvi, 28. Many of your piou* friends and relations wb” late ly worshipped with us in this place, were eoabled through grace to accept of Christ, and to give themselves up to him, and are now before the throne; were they per mitted to address you,o ! with what earnest ness would they join in the exhortation I am now giving you ; and beseech you < 0 accept of Christ, that you may by and by be united to their blessed society, and made partak ers of their joy. In this manner did Mr. Pitcairn exhort and beseech his hearer*, to comply with the calls of the gospel, and to embrace the Lord Jesus Christ It wa the most solemn season I ever witness,*) It was much spoken of Edinburgh and its neighbourhood, and many dated their con version from that day.” The old man added, that he himself knew several persons who were then awak ened to a serious and lasting concern about their salvation ; and no doubt, as he justly observed, there would be many of whom he had no opportunity of hearing. I was surprised at the distinctness and an imation with which the poor old man nar rated the above particulars. His weakness and difficulty of breathing obliged him to stop from time to lime, but the whole cir cumstances seemed to be as fresh in his recollection as if they had lately occurred. As soon as I returned home, I wrote down all I could remember of what he told me ; and, from the deep impression it made on ray mind, 1 believe that I remembered the greatest part of it. I soon called again, hat found him greatly worse. He was unable to rise, and though perfectly sensible, he had become so deaf, that it was almost im possible to make him hear. He continued tranquil and resigned to tbe will of God; and enjoyed to the last a steady hope in the diviue mercy through Jesus Christ. [ Wesleyan Methodist Magazine. PALESTINE MISSION. The Journals of the American Missiona ries in the Holy Land hold a prominent place in the last number of the Missionary Herald. The latest accounts that have reached us from our countrymen there, we receive through the Jewish Expositor. It appears that from jealousy, or other mo tives of no higher character,they were com plained of to the Mahometan rulers, for their distribution of books; probably with the expectation of suppressing the practice. Happily they suffered no penalty ; but, on the contrary, the effect of this measure of hostility is like to prove beneficial. As the whole account of the proceedings is inter esting, and as the letter contains other grat ifying intelligence, we copy most of it. It bears date, Malta, March 19<h [Rel Chronicle. We have the pleasure to inform you that the accounts from Syria are of a most grat ifying & encouraging nature. Mr. Jowett informs us that while he was in Svria the American Mis s ionaries received frequent visits, at times almost daily, from persona desirous to converse with thpm about the Scriptures and the main points of the Christian Religion; that their time was greatly taken up in giving instruction in this manner. The lumber of copies of tbe