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INDIGESTION,
IB THE PRESCRIPTIONS OP THE LATE PROFES
SOR GREGORY? OF EDINBURGH
;en <> Dr. Gregory's Study Enter Mr.
a douce looking Glasgow Merchant.
Pdti&b*. Good morning, Dr. Gregory;
B juß(r< come into Edinburgh about some
business, and I thought when I was
, rP) at any rate l might just as weel tak
j nr advice, Sir, anet mv trouble.
Doctor And pray what may your troub
bp, my good Sir.
Pa. ’Deed Doctor, I’m no very sure;
I I’m thinking it’s a kind of weakness
it makes me dizzy at times, and a kind
pinkling about my stomack—l’m just no
jit.
Dr. You are from the west country, I
II old suppose, Sir.
h, Yes, Sir, from Glasgow.
|)r. Aye; pray Sir, are yon a gour
bA l|glutton?
la mod forbid, Sir, I’m one of the plain-
Imen living in all the west country,
fcr. Then perhaps you’re a drunk ird ?
la. No. Dr. Gregory; thank God, no
lean accuse me of that; I’m of the dis
liog persuasion, Doctor, and an Elder,
ve may suppose I’m na drunkard.
Dr. —(Aside) —I’ll suppose no such thing
I you tell me your mode of life, I’m so
ich puzzled with your symptoms, Sir,
at 1 should wish to hear in detail what do
iu eat and drink. When do you break
st, and what do you take to it?
Pa. I breakfast at nine o’clock. I take
cup of coffee, and one or two cups of tea :
coupD of eggs, and a bit of ham or kip
ir’d salmon, or may be both, if they’re
iod, and two or three rolls and butter.
Dr. Do you eat no honey, or jelly, or
dat breakfast?
Pa O yes, Sir; but! don’t count that
any thing.
Dr. Come, this is a very moderate
‘skfast. What kind of a dinner do you
ike ?
Pa. Oh, Sir, I eat a very plain dinner
leed. Some soup, and sntnp fi*h, and a
lepiain roast or boiled; for I dinna cate
made dishes; I think, some way, they
n>r satisfy the appetite.
Dr. Yon take a little pudding then, and
mvards some cheese?
Pa. O yes! though I don’t care much
“lit them.
Dr. You take a glass of ale or porter
ihyonr cheese?
Pa, Yes, one or the other; but seldom
oth.
Dr. Your west-country people generally
ake a glass of Highland whiskey after din
er.
Pa. Yes, we do; it’s good for digestion.
Dr. Do you take auy wine at Dinner?
Pa, Yes, a glass or two of sherry; but
indifferent as to wine, durtpg dinner 1
ink a good deal of beer.
Dr. What quantity of port do you drink ?
Pa. Oh, very little ; not above half a
z~n glasses, or so.
Dr. In the west country, it is impossi
e, 1 hear, to dine without punch?—
Pa Yes, Sir; indred ’tis punch we
ink chiefly; but for myself, unless l hap
a ‘o hive a friend with me, 1 naver
ike more than a couple of tumblers or so,
t l ’ tbafljs moderate. *
Dr ‘Oh, exceedingly moderate indeed!
“n then, after tiiis slight repast, take some
and hr< ad and butter?
Pa, Yes, before Igo to the counting
(wise to read the evening letters.
Di\ Arid on your return you take sup
er, 1 suppose ?
Pa. No, Sir, 1 canna be said to take
ipper; just something before going to bed;
rizzar’d haddock, or a bit of toasted
beese, or half a hundred of oysters, or the
keo’lhat; and may be, two thirds of a
oltle of ale ; I take regular supper.
Dr. But ou take a little more punch
IW.tbat ?
Pa. No, Sir, punch does not agree with
bed tune. 1 take a tumbler of warm
rhfy-y toddy at night; it is lighter to sleep
10,
Dr. So it must be, no doubt. This, you
is your day life ; but upon areat
tension#, you perhaps exceed a little?
P-i No, Sir. except when a friend or
todine with me, or I diue out, which, as I
#a sober family man, does not often hap
tn.
Dr. Not above, twice a week?
Ph. No ; not oftpner.
Dr. Os course yon sleep well, and have
‘Jiiod appetite ?
A- Yes, Sir, thank God, I have; in
N, any wee harl o’health that I hae is
* n ot meal time.
~Dr. (Assuming a severe look, knitting
brow, and lowering his eye brows.) —
Sir. you are a very pretty fellow in
you come here and tell me you are
‘Moderate man; and I might have bcliev
did I not know the nature of the
eople in your part of the country : but up-
J'oxaniioation, I find by your own showing,
you are a most voracious glutton; you
toakfast in the morning in a style that
lfl| ild serve a moderate man for dinner;
n( l Irom five o’clock in the afternoon, you
‘'dergo <me almost uninterrupted loading
’ ,"’ur stomach, till yon go to bed. This
J°'ir moderation! y.uj told me, too, an
dter falsehood, you said you were a sober
THE MISSIONARY.
man; yet by your own showing, you are.a
beer swiller, a dram drinker, a wine bib
ber, and a guzzler of Glasgow punch—a
liquor, the name of which is associated in
my mind, only with the ideas of low compa
ny and beastly intoxication. Yon tell me
you eat indigestible suppers, and swill tod
dy to force sleep, —l see that you chew to
bacco. Now, Sir, what human stomach
can stand this? Go home, Sir, and leave off
your present course of riotous living—take
some dry toast and tea at your breakfast,
some plain meat and soup for your dinner,
without adding to it any thing to spur on
your flagging appetite ; you may take a cup
of tea in the evening, but never let me bear
oi haddocks, and toasted cheese, and oys
ters, with their accompaniments of ale and
toddy at night; give up chewing that vile,
uarcotick, nauseous, abomination, and there
are some hopes your stomach may recover
its tone, and you be in good health like your
neighbours.
Pa. I’m sure, Docfy, I’m very much
obliged to you—( taking out a bunch of bank
notes ) —l shall endeavour to—
Dr. Sir, you are not obliged to me—put
up your money, Sir. Do you think I’ll lake
a tee (rom you for telling you what you
kn -w as well as myself? Though you’re no
physician, Sir, you are not altogether a fool.
You have read your bible, and you must
know that drunkenness and gluttony are
noth sinful and dangerous; and whatever
you may think, you have this day confessed
to me that you are a notorious glutton and
(trunkard. Go home, Sir, and reform, or
twke my word lor it your life is not worth
half a year’s purchase.
{Exit Patient , dumb, confounded , and look
ing blue.)
Dr.— (Solus) —Sober and temperate !
Dr. Watt tried to live in Glasgow, and made
his patients live moderately, and purged
•o<d oled them when they were sick, but i’
5 - uid not do. Let the Glasgow Doctor*
prescribe beefsteaks, and rum punch, and
I heir fortune is made.— Oracle of Health
INDIAN SPEECH,
Composed and delivered by James Perry, at the
Loinnu ncement of Jefft-rsou College, Pen. Sept.
°O, 1824, [Perry is a native of the Cnirkasaw
Nation, in the 20th year of .his age, has attend
ed the mission school at Elliot about two years,
and one session at this college. The speech
was first delivered in the Chickasaw language,
then in English.]
Respected Audience—
.One year since, little did I expect to he
Called upon in this distant region, to address
those who are total strangers to my Dative
language. But the over-ruling hand of
Providence, for reasons to me unknown,
bath placed me this day among you. No’
to increase my stores of wealth have. I
changed the friend*, relations, and society
of my childhood, for that of strangers ; but
to acquire a knowledge of the art* and sci
ences, and familiarize myself with the man
oers and customs of civilized men. With
these views and feelings I nave severed tor
a season, and perhaps forever, those tie*
which bound me to my kindred and the
land of iny childbo -d. Ye*; with the*e
feelings I have exchanged the fiiendsand
sports of the forest, for strangers, and the
blessings of science; and I rejoice that thus
lar my most ardent wishes have not been
disappointed. An unseen hand, contrary to
my expectations when I left the domestick
circle around the fire side of my father, hath
led me to this fountain of science, and pia
ced me under the fostering care of those
who watch over the inteie*t* of this insti
lution. Although lam an Indian, and *ep
arated more than seven hundred mile* from
uy kindred and ‘be limited tract occupied
by my nation, vet here, often have 1 been
animated by beholding so many youth, hand
in hand, ascending the hill of science, aideil
by their superiors.
Plac and as I now am, in this land of era
ence and religion, it is natural to compare
ihe disadvantages of my own countrymen
vilh the privileges here enjoyed. Here
you have laws to protect the innocent and
bring to punishment the guilty. There
every man must be his own avmger. Here
you have schools where the youth and chit
dren are trained up for usefulness and hon
our in the world. There, with a few ex
ceptions, the youth, spend their preciou*
time io roving the forests, with their instru
ments of amusement Here you iru*t the
faithful records of history for the past, and
the prophecies of sacred writ for the fu
lure. There they trust imperfect tradition
for the past, and blind conjecture for the
future. Here revelation lights up the pas
sage to the tomb, and point* to the glories
that await the righteous. There an inri
penetrable darkness overspreads all beyond
the coufines of the grave. But I forbear
further to draw thg painful contrast, and
rejoice that I this day find myself surround
ed by the learned, the wise, and good, woo
are both able and willing to impart that in
struction which is calculated to augment my
own happioess, and which, if rightly impro
ved, will reuder me more usetul to my be
loved Countrymen, who are just beginning
to emerge from heathen darkuess, and on
whom the sun of science and the sun of
righteousness are beginning to dawn.
Editors favourable to christianizing
and civilizing the Indians, will please give
this address an insertion.
Os all the dispositions and JhiUwhich £ld to noSL? ‘r r° 6pel ‘U Christ.
whtch lead to pohtical prosperity, Religion and Morality ore Vdispen-üble supports.- Washington.
(Hancock county, Georgia,) Monday, December 6, 1824.
MISSIONARY.
, Fmm the Columbian Star.
MISSIONARIES AT RANGOON.
“ The Lord reigneth , let the earth rejoice .”
In our last paper, we stated that Rangoon
had been captured by the British, and that
several missionaries, who had been impris
oned and threatened with death, had been
rescued by the conquerors. The follow
ing extract from a Calcutta paper relieves
us from the suspense which we felt concern
ing our brethren at Rangoon. They are
?a f e —thanks (o that gracious God, who, by
an interposition, scarcely less obviously mi
raculous, than the deliverance of Peter from
imprisonment and death, preserved bis ser
vants at Rangoon, amid the most imminent
peril.
From, a Calcutta paper of June. 30.
We beg to direct the attention of our readers
to an interesting letter, with which we have been
favoured, from Mrs. Hough, (the wife of the
American Missionary at Rangoon, who was deput
ed by the Burmese to negotiate terms,) addressed
to her daughter, a young lady at the seminary of
Mrs. Lawson and Mrs. I’earoe, in Calcutta. The
affecting, yet artless simplicity of the detail can
not fail to interest every reader, and to carry
conviction that the horrours of the scene it des
cribes, are faithfully depicted :
“Rangoon, May 14, 1824.
The English have taken Rangoon, and
we. through much mercy, are spared to
lell you the joyful news. I thought, three
days ago, that by this time you would have
been an orphan. Monday, 10th, news of
the arrival of the English “fleet at the month
of the river was brought In Rangoon, but
*ve could not believe it, not that we though!
it impossible, but we have been ofieD de
reived with idle reports, and placed no de
pendence on any thing we heard. Nearlj
all the English gentlemen were dining in
Lansag’s (a Spanish gentleman’s) garden,
a id before they had finished their dinner,
they were conveyed to the King’s godo.vu,
nil confined in chains We thought that
Mr. Hough and Mr. Wade would escape,
feeing Americans: but while we were at
t a. a King’s linguist, with about 12 men,
escorted them to the godovvns. and put them
with the other foreigners. Our servants
early all took the alarm, and Mr* Wade
Hid myself spent a sleepless and wretch o
night, in this lonely place, with only four
“ervants in the house with us. Moung She
va ba* kept by us and proved with us,
which was no small consolation. The oth
er Christians went (iff Tuesday monuijff.
we sent Mr. Wade and Mr. Hough some
r-reakfast, and hoped for a line or two, but
,! .ey were not permitted to write. I wrote
•< Mr Sarki, begging him to use his infln
price with the Government, to have Mr.
Hough and Mr Wade released, as ihey
were Americans. He replied that he fear
ed jor himself, that he had done all he could,
ton in vain. We thought we would go into
own. and if we could not comfort our hus
hands, -offer with tb-m; but the town was
‘■ti.wded. and Moung Sheva ba thought e
*hould either he seized, or not permitted
to enter the Godown. About one o’clock,
P. M. the fleet came up to town, and rece.iv
ed a bot from the Bormans. They return
ed two for one, and in a few moments even
soul of the Bormans took what they could
and fled. The English prisoners had each
an executioner over them, who was ordered
to strike off their beads, when the first Eng
li-h gun was fired; but they were so frigid
ened that they crouched down in one cor
ner of the room, expecting the whole ro-t
’o fall upon them, and the third fire msA
them force the door and run away: thp\
however fa-teoed it upon the outside. Not
long after, the prisoner# were taken Wit, to
be I‘xeriited. Your Papa, proposed going
to the fleet for terms of peace, which thp
Burmans were about assenting to, when the
firing commenced again, and the Y'awoon,
with his officer*, ran away, dragging the
.poor chained prisoners after them.
Your Papa and Mr. Wade were chained
together, stripped of all their clothes, ex
cept shirt and pantaloons, (Mr. Wade’*
shirt was taken from him) not even their
hat* were left, their arms were tight cord
ed behind, and an executioner kept bold of
the rope. In this dreadful situation Mrs.
Wade and myself saw them from the win
dow of a little hut to which we had fl“d, ex
pecting every moment to be bound and
treated in the same way. George ran out
after your Papa, whe sent hitn back. The
prisoners were taken about half way to the
great Pagoda when they released Mr.
Hough, and sent him to the English fl >et,
though not without his first promising to
procure terms of peace. Hp went to the
Commodore, on board H. M. ship Liffey ,
whose terms were, that all the white pris
oners should be immediately released, and
if one drop of their blood were spilt, the
whole country should be desolated by fire
and sword. He went back with this me
sage ; but not being able to find either the
Yaywoon or the English prisoners, bp re
turned, and in the evening I saw him for the
first time, after he left the house Monday
evening. Mr. Wade and the other prison
ers were released by the English the next
day about noon. Mrs. Wade and myself
suffered every thing, but imprisonment and
* Hoang Sheva ba, a native Christian, who,
was baptized in April, 1820, He is Q assistant j
ia the mission.—- -Etfitpr. I
death ; aoif the scene in thp verandah of
the Portuguese Church to which we first
fled, was beyond all description. Mrs.
Turner, Mrs. Snowball, and hundreds of the
Portuguese, crowded together. Mrs Wade
and myself put on Burinan clothes, and min
gled with the rest. When the Fnglish land
ed, we went out and put ourselves under
their protection. They treated us with
pity and affection, took us iDto town with
them, where we met your Papa in the eve
ning, and on Wednesday returned to the
Mission House, where we found every thing
nearly as we had left it. A few things
were stolpn from the cook house, our hor
ses were gone, and our cows we expect to
lose, as they have not yet returned to the
house, which we expected to have found
plundered of every thing, and feel thankful
to our merciful Father that he spared us
those comlorts of which so many are de
prived.
Thus have 1 endeavoured to give you
some idea of what we have suffered, but
this is written in the greatest hurry, and
goes by H M. ship Liffey to Madras.’’
Our reader* are now, we presume, pre
pared to assent to our remark respecting
the signal interposition by which the mis
sionaries were preserved. Some anxiety
is felt, for the safety of Dr and Mrs. Jnd
son, and of Dr. Price, who were at Ava, in
the power of the de-potick Emperor. But
we entertain no fears on their account.
After the displays of divine favour, which
the Borman mission, from its commence
ment to the present time, has experienced,
and especially after the recent events at
Rangoon, it would be a culpable want of
confidence in God, to doubt the continuance
f his protection.
What will he the result of this war can
not be foreseen. The British will not.
>ve pre-ume, attempt to conquer the em
pire. Should they do so, the result will be
a favourable one to the mission, by placing
it under the protection of the British cok>
nial government. It is, we think, highly
probable, that the British will keep posses
sion ot Rangoon. It is a port, which, in
their hand*, may be rendered valuable, and
which their disposition to seize on everv
opportunity to extend their commerce, will
induce them to retain. The mission eslab
lishment there will, in that case, he safe.
In any e.vent, we conceive it to be probable,
that peace will not be made, without a
pledge on the. part of “he Burman Empe
ror, io protect ail the Europeans and Anrier
•cans in his dominions.
[From the Journal of the American Missionaries.]
PALESTINE
Another Missionary to Palestine
Jinrc/t 21. Some Arab women called in
the morning to whom I read ihe Scriptures.
Jo*: before we commenced our pnMick ser
vices at the bouse of the consul, our hearts
w"r? cheered by the arrival of the Rev
Mr Cook, a missionary from England
H was sent out by the Methodist Mission
er; Socieiy, and spent several weks at
Mslta in the family of our dear brother
T?tnple. It i one pleasant part of our
business to cultivate an acquaintance with
missionaries from different societies, aod
to unite our counsels, our efforts, and
prayers with theirs for “ the peace of Je
russlem ;” aod we are happy, as they pass
• o and trn, to be able to accommodate them
wnh a little chamber in our own house. It
>s indeed a lift If one, just Jatge enough to
contain *■ a bed, and a table, and a stool, and
a candlestick,” together with a few hook*,
and is emphatically the prophet's chamber
22 By Mr. Cook we received our Fir
mans from the grand Sigoior, giving us per
mission to travel with our families in any
part of the Turkish empire They had
been forwarded from Constantinople to the
care of Mr Lee-at Alexandria. We re
ceived also several packages of books,
pamphlets, and letters from our dearCnri*
tian friends in various parts of America.
Ex'ract* from some of these letters, which
contained interesting accounts of the work
of the Holy Spirit, were translated into
French, by Mr. Cook, to be sent by him so
the south of France, where he has labour
ed as a missionary, to encourage the poor
Protestants there to pray more fervently
for “ limes of refreshing from the presence
ofthe L>>rd.” Who can tell how many of
God’s suffering despised people may be
comforted and quickened, and how many
sinners may be converted, by means of
these tracts! Who can tell how many
souls our correspondents may meet in heav
pn, in consequence of them. In the com
miinications, which our Christian friends
make us from time to time, let them re
member, that (he influence may oot only
be felt in the soul of the missionary, but
may be conveyed to others also, of differ
ent nations, and kindled*, and tongues.”
Mode of Travelling.
April 2 For the sake of enjoying, for a
few days, (be mountain air, and with the
hope of finding a girt to take care of the
babe, we alt, with the daughter of the
English consul, rode Ibis day with Mr. Lew
is to Antoora. The mode of travelling in
this country is on horses, mules, and asse,
generally the last. The country is too
rough to make much n*e of camels; and
the native Christians are in p, rpetnal dan
ger of having their horses, or mules violent*!
[Price $3 50 per arm.
ly taken from them on thp road, and prea
; sed into the service of the Pasha to carry
9ome express. As the itsveller always
take* hished with him, this. wi*h the blan
kets, Sir., is placed upon (he ass, and the
traveller upon the top of the whole, with
out bridle or stirrups, and nothing hot a
single cord tied round the head ol the poor
animal to guide him. He pace* along at
Ihe rate of two or three and a half miles an
hour, acoording to the road. Bv m-anp of
ropps, I furnished the ladies with stirrups,
and in this style, which forcibly reminded
us of patriarchal times, we left Beyrout at
2 o’clock in the afternoon. As we were
all in the English costume, and as the la
dies were without veils, and rode in the
English fashion, (unlike all the women of
this country, who always ride like men,)
we ot course excited some observation.
Men, women, and children ran from their
cottages and fields to gaze. They had
never witnessed such a sight before. They
were, however, not wanting in civility,
though in some instances rud"ly expressed,
and they invariably returned our salutations
with much appearance of friendliness.
Owing to unavoidable interruption*, w©
did not reach Antoora, till near two hours
after sunset. The night was dark, the
way exceedingly rugged, ome of our beast
fell; and the Arabs, as is alway* the case
in any difficulty, were very contrary. But,
through the tender care of our heavenly
Father, we arrived in safety.
From thp Boston Telegraph.
FACTS COLLECTED FROM THE MIS
SIONARY HERALD FOR NOVEMBER.
tiombuy. —A letter from the Missionaries
at this station, dated January 6, 1824, **ates
that, since they las’ wrote, they had printed
an edition ot John’s Gospel comprising 2,500
copies, and 3.500 copies of a tract coMain
ing form* of prayer, hymns, and the like.
They were wishing to publish, as soon as
practicable, new editious of Genesis. Luke,
Acts, Romans, and onward, to the close of
the New Testament. A printing office bad
been completed on the vacant ground ad
joining the chapel. The number ofschools
had increased to 20, containing 1,454 schol
ars; aod were receiving the eucourrge.-
ment and patronage of several Engii*h gen
tlemen resident at Bombay, among whom
may he mentioned the Governour.
Palestine Mission. —Extract* from Mr.
Goode It’s J omul, exteud from Feb. 10, to
April 2, 1824. —Walking on the terrace of
the College at Antoora, Mr. Goodel) count
ed 12 convents situated on the adjacent
elevated peaks ofthe mountains. His feel
ing* were strongly excited by the ringing
of a bell (the only one he had heard in that
country) which belonged to one of them ;
the souud ot which, echoing sweetly among
the mountains, recalled to his niiod the
churches, academies and colleges id Net”
England.—The climate of Palestine in the
mouth ol February is extremely unpleas
unt ; being little else than a constant suc
cession ot rams, at the temperature of from
50 to 00 degrees of Fahrpnheit. JM*rc.b,
ou the contrary, is a delightful month—the
*ky being for the most part cloudless, aßd
me face ol nature clothed with bloom and
beauty. Oh what a contrast, at such a sea
son, does the natural scenery form with
the moral! The latter is gloomy indeed.
True, there are those who bear the name
ot priests; but the Catholick* perform
their service* in Latin, the Greeks id an
cient Greek, the Jews in Hpbrew, and the
Turk* in Arabn k : so that scarcely any of
the hearer* can understand a sentence of
what is uttered. Moreover, these unfaith
ful stewards never in any instanc- visit the
people of their charge, for the purpose of
communicating instruction and corwel. On
the 20th of February, Mr Goodell met with
the Rev. Samuel Cooper,a Catholick priest,
from Philadelphia in the United States,
who was going on a pilgrimage to Jerusa
lem-
Cherokees of the Arkansas. —A letter
from Mr. Fmuey, dated Dwight, June 30,
represents the schools and the concerns of
tne mission generally, as encouraging and
prosperous. The parents of the scholar*
are becoming more nod more pleased with
their remaining at the schools; and conse
quently a greater degree of improvement
is observed. In some few instances, such
an earnestness to become acquainted with
the Gospel has been manifested by individ
uals among the Cherokees at this station,
that they have willingly and patiently sat
hour after hour, to hear its solemn truth#
inculcated and explained. At one time,
Mr. Finney was almost constantly employ
ed iu this way with five or six of them,
from Sabbath morning to 12 o’clock on
Monday.
Cherokee Mission. —Speaking of a neigh
bourhood (at some distance from any mis
sionary station) where he had been pleach
ing as an Evangelist,Mr. Chamberlain says,
‘The seriousness among ih. people appears
to be oo the increase ; and I have a hope
that some of them have pa.ted In m death
umo life.’ He remarks Hat -mce last fall,
there had not ’ een, to hi- knowledge, any
case of intoxication among the Indians in
that n- ghi> <urb< ed ; whereas ! hey used
tome- aimotev-ryie k for fu.ticks and
all night dances :— drinking whiskey and
fighting.