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No. 23 Voh. Vl.] 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.