From the Bofon Weekly Magazine, Vol. I. infcrutable government of an

No. 12.

THURSDAY LECTURE.....NO. III. HEB. iv. 9. There remaineth--a reft to the people of God.

impartial Deity, and efpecially
from his exprefs revelations con-
cerning it by Jefus Chrift, WHERE-

OF HE HATH GIVEN ASSURANCA
THAT
ALL MEN, IN

UNTO

HATH

HE

RAISED HIM FROM THE

FOR THE ANTHOLOGY.
LETTERS TO LEINWHA,
PRECEPTOR OF MORALITY IN THE RE-

CESSES OF LATINGUIN......FROM
WANDERER IN THE WEST.

TO the Jew, tired of his travels in Arabian deferts and of wars with favage idolaters, a prospect DEAD. of repofe in the land of Canaan was extremely grateful. To the christian, wearied with the toils and fick of the amufements and Hatteries of the week, how welcome the return of a day which is graced with the name of his lord! Yet neither of these rests is permanent or fatisfactory. The man of faith and righteoufnefs afpires to an happier country, than was ever found on the banks of Jordan, and after a more quiet and glorious fabbath, than chriftendom affords. And, bleffed be God, he does not feek in vain. For him there is in reverfion a tate, in which there will be no Jabour but that of love, and no bufinefs but that of praife; a day fucceeded by no night; an eternal round of pleature unmised with pain; an age of peace, virtue, and confolations ;-where ignorance will give place to knowledge, the flumbers of floth to perpetual wakefulness and activity, the pangs of remorfe to the approbation of angels, the malice of enemies to the fapports of friendship, and the diftresful apprehenfions of poverty and death, to the poffeffion of an imperishable inheritance and an interminable life.

The certainty of fach a fate is manifeft from various appearances in the natural world, from ancient opinion, the longing defires of every bofom, the prefent

LETTER II.. ALTHOUGH the inhabi tants of this country are flow to confer coftly benefits, they are by no means deficient in affability There is feme or politenefs. thing fo conciliating in their addrefs, fo engaging in their fmiles, I can now aimoft be pleased with their appearance, and tolerate their peculiarities. I even begin to think that what at first appeared to me ignorance and rudeness, is the most profound knowledge of human nature and the moit polifhed perfection ; what I took to be coldness and indifference have now become that prudence and caution, which ever attend true wifdom. Thanks

to that fpirit, who has at length conducted me to a land of phi Jofophers! to a land, which I foolishly thought only to exilt in the imagination of the poet.

It is fcarcely three days fince my arrival, and I have experienced every

mark of attention and fondnefs, which could have diftinguithed a friend returning from a far diftant country. The mafter of the caravanfary where 1 abide, seems fo generoufy inter

ment has not taught the underitanding to difguite the feelings of the heart, nothing is spoken but the language of nature; they have no cauie to conceal their real fentiments, and therefore speak as ingenuously as they think. They praife the immaculate whitenets of my eyes, the cerulian bue of my feathers, the length of my head, the breadth of my feet, the thortnefs of my flature, and beauty of my native language which they do not understand. When they do this, my heart exults in the honour of my country!

cfled in every thing relating to me, that I have actually feen him more than once minutely examining my effects. He has even afked me innumerable questions concerning my kindred, and country; and when I told him the lots of my poffeffions, he feemed as much diitreffed as if my poverty had been his own; and he has actually taken it fo much to his heart, that fince that moment I have not teen his face in my apartment. Before that unhappy information which has fo excited his fympathy, he feemed indefatigable to make me forget that I was with ftrangers; and to realize his friendship, he was not only himself my conítant gueft, but introduced others, who foon became as joyous and glad as their hofpitable lord. They would with me many good withes before they had drunken their “wine,” and even continue in my bed chamber till the day had gone. Some of them were of to happy and contented a dif pofition, that they would flumber on the floor till the night was fir fpent, or entertain me with little stories about themfelves and their families, fo that among fo much well difpofed company you will naturally fuppofe I cannot retain my melancholy; and I affure you there is nothing I am fo anxious about at prefent, as the manner in which I fhall return their civility, and thew them the high fenfe I have of their extra-fying the fall or elevation of a ordinary conduct.

You know, my fiend, in many countries it would be thought too much like adulation to fpeak compliments to a man in his prefence; kut here, where art has not fetter. ed reafon, where unnatural refinc

I am not however a little furprized at their apparent want of knowledge concerning other nations. When I tell them there are many millions like myself in the kingdom of Latinguin; when I defcribe our manners and our cuftoms, our religion and jurifprudence; when I defcribe the cenotaphs of Anong-Tong, and the learning of its philofophers, they seem loft in admiration and fhout alord for aftonishment. But their knowledge is doubtles of a more valuable kind. Whilt others have been balancing the fcales of empires, fettling the dif putes of Europe, and lumbering their minds with the hiftory and affairs of nations which they have no need to meddle with, they have been attentive to their own interest. Whilft fome have been fcrutinizing foreign cabinets and prophe

miniiter, perplexing themfelves' with victories, invafions, illuminations, and flaughter, they have never deviated from their own path, nor thought of any thing but what related to themfelves. The death of a great man, which

would have hung the arms of any other nation in black, rung every bell in Latinguin for two days, and darkened the very atmosphere with monuments and “manfoleums” would here (difinterested and ferene nation) only excite the repetition of fome moral fentiment, occafion a flight inquifi

tiveness concerning the attitude in which he expired, whether he retained his fenfes in death, and to whom he has difpofed his eftate. Happy are they who have overcome the restleffness of curiofity, and learnt to render their fympathy and feelings fubfervient to philofophy and reafon!---Farewel

BIOGRAPHIA AMERICANA ;

OR MEMOIRS OF PROFESSIONAL, LEARNED, OR DISTINGUISHED CHARACTERS IN

THE UNITED STATES, Continued from page 592.

Communications for this article will be extremely acceptable to the Editor.

haps, they are not altogether foreign from his biography. A difplay of the friendthips and focial fcencs, as well as the exploits of a patriot and foldier, is inter

men, and awakens pleasurable affociations, which within the veil of fecrefy might forever ileep,

Dec. 11, 1804.

CLEMENS.

The following Burlesque of Horace's Otium Divas, was written at the Mohawk Castle, in the year 1761, by the elder Captain Morris, and fent to his friend Lieutenant Richard Montgom ery, afterwards a General Officer in the American fervice, and killed at the fiege of Quebec.

. FROM the preamble to the extract by Hiftoricus, I was led to expect fomething more than Iefting to his furviving country. found under Art. V. of Biogr. Amer. Your correfpondent has not corrected but a fingle errour in the account of Montgomery contained in the 12th No. of the M. Anthology. The account fays, that Gen. Carleton buried the body of Gen. Montgomery with the honours of war; and the fact, it feems, is, that the former paid to the latter no fuch refpect. In what article elfe did the newspaper account vary from truth? You acknowledged that you took the sketch, because you quoted it, from a newfpaper, and I fuppofe, were glad to find it any where. I hope your friend is no enemy to newspapers, becaufe it is from one of thefe valuable ftorehouses, that I have picked up the following lines. It is true, they do not profefs to relate any particulars of the life of the perfon, to whom they were addreffed; and yet, per

EASE is the pray'r of him, who, in a whale boat,

Croffing Lake Champlain, by a Rom's cr
taken;

Not ftruck his blanket, not a friendly ifland
Near to receive him.

Fafe is the with, too, of the fly Canadian :
Fafe, the delight of bloody Caghnawagas;
Eafe, Richard, eafe, not to be bought with
wampum,
Nor paper money.
Not Colonel's pay, nor yet a dapper Sarjeant,
Orderly waiting with recover'd halbert,
Can chafe the crowd of troubles ftill furrcur ding
Lac'd regimentals.

a fail.

The foldier's blanket, used by the army si

That Sub lives beft, who with a fafh in tatters,
Worn by his grandfire at the fight of Blenheim,
To fear a ftranger, and to wild ambition,

Snores on a bear-skin.

Why, like fine fellows, are we ever scheming?
We, fhort liv'd mortals! why fo fond of climates
Warm'd by new funs? O! who that runs from
Run from himself too?
Care climbs rideaux+ with four and twenty

home can

pounders,

Nor quits our light troops, or our Indian warriors,
Swifter than moofe deer, or the fleeter eaft wind,
Pushing the clouds on.

He, whofe good humour can enjoy the prefent,

Scorns to look forward; with a file of patience
'Temp'ring the bitter. Blifs uninterrupted
None can inherit.

Death inftantaneous hurried off Achilles;
Age far extended wore away Tithonus.

Who will live longer-thou or I, Montgom'ry?

Dicky or Tommy?

Thee twenty mellmates, full of noife and

laughter,

Cheer with the fallies: thee the merry damfels
Pleafe with the titt'ring; while thou fitt it
adom'd v.h
Boots, fafh, and

gorget.

Me to fort Henrick, 'midft a favage nation,
Dull Connajoh'ry, cruel Fate has driv'n.-
O! think on Morris, in a lonely chamber,

Dabbling in Sapphick.

The Rev. Dr. Nathan Fiske was born in Wefton, Maffachufetts, on the 9th of September Q. S. 1733. In childhood and youth he difcovered the love of letters. In 1750 he was admit-ted a ftudent of Harvard Univer-fity, where he was distinguished. for application to claffical ftudies, obedience to the laws of the inftitution, and by fobriety of life and converfation. In 1754 he graduated at that feminary. Having laid the bafis of future improvement by attention to general fcience, he chofe divinity for his profeflion; and on the 28th of May 1758 was inducted into the ministerial office in the third precinct in Brookfield.

In the commencement of his minifterial courfe, Dr. Fifke was not remarkably diftinguifhed for that brilliance of imagination, or thofe powers of oratory which fecure popular applaufe, but at this

† Floating batteries used on Lake Cham- period he was diftinguished for

plain.

VI. NATHAN FISKE, D. D. THE life of a clergyman cannot be diverfified. The profeffion, though of a publick nature, is neceffarily limited: But the fituation is favourable for the beft mental improvements; the culti vation of the good affections and the exercise of the amiable virtues. In the example of the wor thy minister we may notice the filent growth of chriftian excellence and the unobtrufive difplay of dignity and usefulness. Few characters were a brighter illuf tration of thefe general truths, than the man, whofe picture we are now to paint..

folidity of judgment, purity of fentiment, and perfpicuity and clegance of style. Modeit and unaffuming, his merits were displayed in a gradual manner, and the publick appreciated his worth with his progrefs in life. His application was at no period interrupted; his genius for pro greffive improvement was fuperiour, and to the day of his death the ftrength of his faculties and the courfe of his mental attainments appeared unabated. Few men with his advantages accumu lated a greater ftore of rich and various knowledge.

As a divine, he had a clear and comprehenfive view of chriftianity in its evidence and doctrines; in its precepts and infti