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in 1677, which has this note written in the margin: "Gulielmus Petty, eques auratus, qui me dicorum castra olim deseruit."

MEDALLION OF LILBORNE.

JOHN Lilborne saved by the power of the Lord, and the integrity of his jury, who are judges of law as well as of fact, Oct. 26, 1649.

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Miles Petty, Ste. Iles. Abr. Smith, John King, Mic. Murin, Tho. Dainty, Edm. Keysar, Eder. Parkins, Rol. Packman, Wil. Comins. Ly. Widon, Hus. Towlin. Oct. 26, 1649.

SPEECH

Of an Indian King in a Conference at Bennington in 1678.

OUR young men may speak such words as we do not like, nor approve of; and we cannot help it. And some of your young men may speak such words as you do not like; and you

cannot

cannot help that. We are your brothers, and intend to live like brothers with you; we have no mind to have war, for when we have war, we are only skin and bones; the meat that we eat does us no good; we always are in fear; and we have not the benefit of the sun to shine on us; we hide in holes and corners. We are minded to live in peace. If we intend, at any time, to make war upon you, we will let you know of it, and the reasons why we make war with you; and if you make us satisfaction for the injury done us, for which the war was intended, then we will not make war on you. And if you intend, at any time to make war on us, we would have you let us know of it, and the reason; and if we do not make satisfaction for the injury done unto you, then you may make war on us; otherwise you ought not to do it. You are our brothers, and we are willing to live like brothers with you; we are willing to have a broad path for you and us to walk in; and if an Indian is asleep in this path, the Englishman shall pass by and do him no harm, and say, "He is an Indian; he is asleep, let him alone; he loves sleep." It shall be a plain path; there must not be in this path a stump to hurt our feet. And as to the small pox, it was once in my grandfather's time, and it could not be the English that could send it to us then, there being no

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English

English in the country: and it was once in my father's time; they could not send it to us then neither; and now it is in my time: I do not believe they have sent it to us now; I do believe it is the man above that hath sent it to us."

PICTURE OF THE FRENCH.

Par. Sept. 8, 18or.

TERRIBLE they certainly are in politics, for they execute rapidly what they project incessantly; insidious in their professions, subtil in their hypocrisy, and sanguinary in their power. In France they feel too inexpressible delicacy, or too inconceivable horror; their individual murders have ever been characterized by peculiar and complex barbarity. Impetuous feelings are fugitive, and take an opposite direction; they commit murders, and then inscribe, "Ici l'on danse." Like women in all things, they are wo men in vengeance. Impatient of restraint, in war a siege discourages and envenoms them; in peace an orderly constitution can neither excite their love, nor their reverence. Terrible in assault, contemptible in flight; vast in their projects, imbecile in their pursuits; capable of ima gining all things, incapable of performing any.

They

They triumph for a moment, and despair during a century. Of all nations they alone have felt that raving of political imagination, which has aspired to an universal monarchy, or an universal republic; but they have never known that British vigour of judgment, which could form for Englishmen the most perfect constitution human nature could devise. When the French were slaves they reverenced the English; when free, they imitated them; now, licentious, they envy and hate them. They may afflict Europe with continued revolutions, yet may their designs be frustrated. One revolution was sufficient for the English.

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THE LATE SIR WILLIAM JONES

At the End of his Bible wrote the following Note.

I HAVE regularly and attentively read these Holy Scriptures; and am of opinion, that this volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been composed.

The

The two parts of which the Scriptures consist, are connected by a chain of compositions, which bear no resemblance, in form or style, to any that can be produced from the stores of Grecian, Persian, or even Arabian learning. The antiquity of those compositions no man doubts; and the unstrained application of them to events long subsequent to their publication, is a solid ground of belief that they are genuine predictions, and consequently inspired.

PRIMATE STONE.

IT is certain that Dr. George Stone was not indebted for his preferment in church or state to his birth or learning. His paternal grandfather was gaoler of Winchester. The ill natured people of those days used to say, that his heart was harder than his name. The Doctor was a man of most accomplished manners and winning address; and of so handsome a person, that he was called the " Beauty of Holiness." It does not appear that the queen of love smiled on his birth; he lived and died a bachelor. There never was a man more zealously devoted to what was called the English interest in Ireland. “Vain man, dress'd in a little brief authority," he little

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