ed to perish till La Harpe becomes a Christian, we shall be immortal."

"As for us women." said the duchess de Grammont, "it is very fortunate that we are considered as nothing in these revolutions. Not that we are totally discharged from all concern in them; but it is understood that in such cases we are to be left to ourselves-Our sex."-" Your sex, ladies, will be no guarantee to you in these times. It will make no difference whatever, whether you interfere or not. You will be treated precisely as the men; no distinction will be made between you." "But what does all this mean, M. Cazotte? You are surely preaching to us about the end of the world." "I know no more “I of that, my lady duchess, than yourself: but this I know, that you will be conducted to the scaffold, with several other ladies along with you in the cart of the executioner, and with your hands tied behind you." "I hope, Sir, that in such a case, I shall be allowed, at least, a coach hung with black." No, madam, you will not have that indulgence: ladies of higher rank than you, will be drawn in a cart as you will be ; with their hands tied as yours will be, and to the same fate as that to which you are destined." "Ladies of higher rank than myself?What, princesses of the blood?" "Greater still."

Here there was a very sensible emotion throughout the com pany, and the countenance of the master of the mansion wore a very grave and solemn aspect: it was, indeed, very generally observed, that this pleasantry was carried rather too far. Madame de Grammont, in order to disperse the cloud that seemed to be approaching, made no reply to his last answer, but contented herself with saying, with an air of gaiety, "You see, he will not even leave me a confessor." "No, madam, that consolation will be denied to all of you. The last person led to the scaffold who will be allowed a confessor, as the greatest of favours, will be Here he paused for a moment. "And who then is the happy mortal who will be allowed to enjoy this prerogative?" "It is the only one which will be left him; it will be the king of France."

The master of the house now rose in haste, and his company were all actuated by the same impulse. He then advanced towards M. Cazotte, and said to him, in an affecting and impres sive tone, "My dear M. Cazotte, we have had enough of these melancholy conceits. You carry it too far; even to the compromising the company with whom you are, and yourself along with them." Cazotte made no answer, and was preparing to retire; when Madame de Grammont, who wished, if possible, to, do away all serious impressions, and to restore some kind of gaiety amongst them, advanced towards him, and said, "My

good prophet, you have been so kind as to tell us all our fortunes, but you have not mentioned any thing respecting your own." After a few moments silence, with his eyes fixed on the ground, "Madam," he replied, "have you read the siege of Jerusalem as related by Josephus ?" "To be sure I have, and who has not? But you may suppose, if you please, that I know nothing about it." "Then you must know, Madam, that during the siege of Jerusalem, a man, for seven successive days, went round the ramparts of that city, in the sight of the besiegers and besieged, crying incessantly, in a loud and inauspicious voice,Woe to Jerusalem!' and on the seventh day he cried, Woe to Jerusalem, and to myself!' At that very moment, an enormous stone thrown by the machines of the enemy, dashed him in pieces."

M. Cazotte then made his bow and retired.

Thus far M. de la Harpe those who recollect the melancholy exit of all the characters above mentioned, during the reign of Terror in France, must be astonished at the exact fulfilment of this remarkable prediction, so unlikely to be accomplished at the time it was uttered. That M. de la Harpe was capable of imposing falsehood on the world, in the last moments of his life, will, I believe, be suspected by few, and I have never heard the authenticity of the Note called in question.

THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD.

An account of the wonderful deliverance of a sailor from the jaws of a tyger and an alligator in the river Congo.

[Eng. Meth, Mag.]

SOME time after my arrival at the British factory, Cape Casta, on board the Davenport Guineaman, I was sent for by the commodore, who was stationed in the Diana frigate to protect the trade of the place before mentioned, and appointed by him to command a sloop, employed on the service of conveying slaves, teeth, gums, and other merchandize, from the company's factories, situated several hundred miles up the river Congo, down to the principal depot at the Cape. The sloop carried six swivels, and was manned with nine negroes, and two north countrymen, named Johnson and Campbell, the former of whom was my mate.

After receiving orders relative to the duty in which I was employed, we proceeded on our voyage, and had navigated

near fifty leagues up the country, when one morning the breez died away suddenly, and we were compelled by a strong current running against us, to drop anchor within a quarter of a mile of the shore. In this situation the sloop remained for three days, during which time, the circumstances fell out I am about to communicate; circumstances so improbable in themselves, sp marvellous, as almost to border on impossibility, but nevertheless, declared by me, as a spectator, to be the most perfect reality.

To resume my narrative :-the bosom of the deep appeared, as it does in those parts while the calm prevails, extremely tranquil, and the heat, which was intolerable, had made us so languid, that almost a general wish overcame us, on the approach of the evening, to bathe in the waters of Congo: however, myself and Johnson were deterred from it, from the apprehension of sharks, many of which we had observed in the progress of our voyage, and those enormously large. At length Campbell alone, who had been making too free with his liquor case, was obstinately bent on going overboard; and although we used every mean in our power to persuade him to the contrary, he dashed into the watery element, and had swam some distance from the vessel, when we, on the deck, discovered an alligator making towards him from behind a rock that stood a short distance from the shore. His escape I now considered impossible, his destruction inevitable, and I applied to Johnson how we should act, who, like myself, affirmed the impossibility to save him, and instantly seized a loaded carbine to shoot the poor fellow, before he fell into the jaws of the monster. I did not, however, consent to this, but waited with horror the tragedy we anticipated; yet willing to do all in my power, I ordered the boat to be hoisted, and we fired two shot at the approaching alligator, but without effect, for they glided over his scaly covering like hail-stones on a tiled penthouse, and the progress of the creature was by no means impeded. The report of the piece, and the noise of the blacks in the sloop, made Campbell acquainted with his danger, he saw the creature making for him, and with all the strength and skill he was master of, made to the shore. And now the moment arrived, in which a scene was exhibited beyond the power of my humble pen perfectly to describe. On approaching within a very short distance of some canes and shrubs that covered the bank, while closely pursued by the alligator, a fierce and furious tyger sprang towards him, at the instant the jaws of his first enemy were extended to devour him. At this awful moment Campbell was preserved.The eager tyger, by overleaping him, encountered the gripe of the amphibious monster. A conflict ensued between them

the water was covered with the blood of the tyger, whose ef forts to tear the scaly covering of the alligator were unavailing ; while the latter had also the advantage of keeping his adversary under water, by which the victory was presently obtained, for the tyger's death was now effected. They both sank to the bottom, and we saw no more of the alligator. Campbell was recovered, and instantly conveyed on board; he spoke not while in the boat, though his danger had perfectly sobered him, and what is more singular, from that moment to the time I am writing, he has never been seen the least intoxicated, nor has he been heard to utter a single oath. If ever there was a perfectly reformed being in the universe, Campbell is the man."

WONDERFUL VISIONS.

On the manifestation of the Son of God before his incarnation. [By the Rev. John Fletcher.]

WHEN I told you, that, in all ages, JEHOVAH JESUS, manifests himself in a peculiar manner to his people, you exclaimed against the assertion as altogether new and unscriptural. It lies upon me therefore to prove, that antiquity and scripture are on my side, I shall in this letter appeal to the manifestations recorded in the Old Testament. You cannot expect all the revelations of any child of God, much less those of every one, to be mentioned in so short a history as that of the Bible. Nevertheless enough is said on the point to convince us, that in every age of the church, God hath favoured the children of men with peculiar displays of his presence.

Did not the Lord familiarly converse with Adam before the fall, both when he presented him with a partner, and when he brought every beast of the field before him, to see what he would call them? Did he not visit him after the fall, to pronounce his sentence, and to promise that he would become the woman's seed, and bruise the serpent's head? Was not this manifestation granted to Abel, when the Lord had respect to his sacrifice; the very cause of Cain's envy, wrath and murder? Did not Enoch's walking with God, imply a constant union and communion with Emmanuel? And how could this union have taken place, if the Lord had not first revealed himself to the Patriarch? Must not two persons meet and agree, before they can walk and converse together?

Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord, and, in consequence of it, was made acquainted with his righteous designs, and received directions how to escape from a perishing world. The history of Abraham is full of such manifestations. In one of them, the Lord called him out of his sins, and from his kindred, to go both to the heavenly and earthly Canaan. In others he promised him Isaac, and Isaac's mysterious seed. Several years after for the trial of his faith, he commanded him to sacrifice that favourite son; and when the trial was over, he testified his approbation of Abraham's conduct. Read Gen. xviii. and you will see, how the divine philanthropy, or the love of God towards man appeared, in condescending to clothe himself, before hand, with the nature he was to assume in the virgin's womb, and to con- . verse in this undress with the father of the faithful, as a prince with his favourite, or a friend with his confident.

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Sarah and Agar, Isaac and Rebekah, had their divine manifestations but those of Jacob deserve our particular attention. When he fled to Syria from the face of his brother Esau, and lay desolate in a field, having only a heap of stones for his pillow, the God of all consolation, appeared to him: " and behold the Lord stood above the mysterious ladder, on which the angels of God ascended and descended, and said, I am the Lord! Behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places, whither thou goest. And Jacob called that place Bethel, the house of God, and the Gate of Heaven." As if he wanted to intimate, that no one ever found the gate of Heaven, but by a manifestation of Christ, who is alone the way to the Father, and the door into glory. When the same patriarch returned to Canaan, and was left alone one night, there wrestled a man with him till the breaking of the day. And when this extraordinary person said, "let me go, for the day breaketh, he replied, I will not let thee go, unless thou bless me ;" and he blessed him there, acknowledging that he had power with man and God, even with him whose name is Emmanuel, God with us." “And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, (the face of God,) for he said I have seen God, face to face, and my life is preserved." The design of this manifestation was merely to strengthen his faith, and we learn from it, that the children of faithful Abraham wrestle in prayer with the God-man, as Jacob did, till they prevail and are blessed as he was.

Moses was favoured with numberless manifestations, sometimes as prime minister of the King of the Jews, and at other times only as a common believer. "There appeared to him, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, the angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush; and when Moses saw it, he drew near, and the voice of the Lord came unto him saying, I am the God