the little buttons that were on the bosum of his delaman, with the forefingar and the thumb of his right hand, (all which are signes of verity of speach;) and alleages that a Maltee cursare had taken a syke, which was laden with his goods, and that the English were accessary to it, and had bought many of his goods; and he proferd to make oath of this, though it was a very lye. After a little examination, his oath would not be taken; and the caddee told us that wee might goe when wee pleased. Notwithstanding all this, at on a clock a messenger was sent to deny Captaine Harman's passage.'—pp. 169, 170.

This and other obstacles being interposed, a messenger was dispatched to the English ambassador at Stambole, (Constantinople,) and the consul, with a greate traine of brave Englishmen, and som Dutch and French, went bouldly to their seraglio, a very gallant place,' to expostulate with the chief officers of the city.

After the ceremonys before specifyd were over, our consull began with greate courage to charge them with breach of articles, and to demand satisfaction for our false imprisonment; and told them that if he could not be heard there, he would goe with lights to Stambole, and make the Greate Turke acquainted with the buisness. This dispute grew higher and higher for at least halfe an hower; the old Turke aggravating what he had alleaged, with a greate deale of earnestnes and confidence; I might say, impudence. In the heate of all this discource cam in a packett from Stambole to our consull, which he commaunded to be opened before them all; for, says hee, there may be in it somthing may concerne our buisnes: and so it proved; for there was an order or expresse to the Mussellem from the Grand Seniour, to confirm and establish all the commaunds and priviledges that were formerly made concerning the English. At the sight of which, the Turks lookt very dijectedly on upon the other, and presently gave us all our liberty without paying so much as an asper: the Mussellem speakeing these words in their language, "The order is good, and must be observed by my head;" makeing all of them a low bow to us all.'-pp. 171, 172.

The very next morning they wisely took their departure, with a number of Europeans, destined for Scanderoon, and attended in their outset by at least 200 of the resident English, French, Dutch, and Venetians. Their journey was painful, and in the course of it Teonge turned aside to see, and describes with some minuteness, remains of ancient buildings, and ranges of mountain sepulchres, which may be found since mentioned by Pocock and Burckhardt. Soon after their arrival at Scanderoon they sailed for England. The voyage commenced with awful omens. May S1st, at 9 o'clock, a crickett sang very merrily in the foote of our mizon, and was also heard a little the night before; there was also a death-watch heard in the gunn roome. Deus vortat bene!'

During his voyage home, Teonge preaches indefatigably on the

first clauses of the Lord's Prayer; and adds to his Journal a geographical survey, or, as he terms it, a small relation' of Africa, wherein he states that the overflow of the Nile is regulated by certain dams and sluices' in Prestar John's country; and that the Greate Turk having, not long since,' withheld the tribute usually paid for maintaining these works, John cut the dams and drowned Egypt, or great part of it, for three years, so that the Turk was forced to begg his peace with him, and give not only the old tribute, but a great summ of monys also more for the repayre of the damms and sluices. p. 193. We are also assured that

In the south parts of Africa is scarce any thing remarkable, save that there are men and beasts of strange shapes; as som men with heads like doggs or hoggs, som with no head; some with only one large legg and foote; as there are the same strange shapes in the north parts of Europe and Asya.'-p. 205.

On the 16th and 17th September the Assistance was nearly lost in a storm off the coast of Portugal. I never saw such a Sunday,' says the chaplain, and I hope shall never forget to give God thanks for this day's deliverance.' He notices the anniversary of the escape, with similar expressions of piety, two years afterwards. While the vessel was disabled by the sea, they were in danger of being attacked by an Algerine, but this peril also was averted, and, on the 25th October they arrived safe in Falmouth Roads.

Sunday, November 12th, they were in the river. No prayers -half our men are on shoare.' 14th. Honest Mall Walker, Anne, and John, cam to see mee, and wee were very merry.' Friday, the 17th of November, wee are payd off at Dedford; where we leave the rottenest frigot that ever cam to England. And here our voyage ends.'-p. 218.

We have little space left for the journal of the second voyage. Having in his former trip gott a good sum of monys, and spent greate part of it,' he now resolved to make another expedition and to keep all he could get. It seems, however, that his star refused to shine on thrifty projects, for the voyage begins in disappointment and proceeds in constant disaster. On Sunday, March 31, 1678, having administered the sacrament to his parishioners, Teonge rode, with his wife behind him, to Warwick, departed thence in the coach-waggon,' with his son and two other passengers, and was conveyed in less than three days to London. He had engaged himself as chaplain to Captain Anthony Langston, of the Bristol man-of-war; but on arriving in London, found that another chaplain had gotten the King's

warrant'

warrant' for his ship, and it was not without difficulty that he procured a warrant for himself.

Before his departure, Teonge visited Whitehall, where,' he relates,

After a little stay in the Long Gallery our capt. came to mee and told mee I should kisse his majesty's hand. He had no sooner sayd so but the king cam out: my capt. presented mee to the king, saying, An't please your majesty, this gentleman is an old Cavalier, and my chaplain. I kneeled downe; he gave mee his hand. I kist it, and said, pray God blesse your majesty! He answered, God blesse you boath together! twice; and walked along the gallery his woonted large pace. -p. 232.

Having gone through various hardships and difficulties, trifling in themselves, but lamentable as befalling an aged man, a scholar and a clergyman, the chaplain finds himself established on board his ship, with sixpence in his pocket. One of the first employments of the Bristol was to transport soldiers from Harwich to Ostend; these passengers Henry terms lobsters,' a name which, from being applied to Sir Arthur Haslerig's cuirassiers in the Civil War, had been afterwards transferred to the red-coats.' Teonge had embarked in hopes of a voyage to Virginia, but the Bristol was now unexpectedly ordered to the Straits, which occasioned not only great disappointment to our author, but strong discontent in the crew, many of whom deserted. Cross winds, ill health, perverse accidents, and evil auguries, become his continual theme, and, with all his cheerfulness and patience, we find him now and then growing splenetic and quarrelsome: the following instance is amusing, and illustrates not only his character but that of a more distinguished personage. Lord Mordaunt, afterwards the celebrated Earl of Peterborough, at this time about twenty years old, came on board the Bristol, at Portsmouth, about the end of September. Nov. 3d our author writes thus:

The Lord Mordaunt, taking occasion by my not being very well, would have preacht, and askt the captain's leave last night, and to that intent sate up till four in the morning to compose his speech, and intended to have Mr. Norwood to sing the psalme. All this I myselfe heard in agitation; and resolving to prevent him, I got up in the morning before I should have done, had I had respect to my owne health, and cam into the greate cabin, where I found the zealous lord with our captaine, whom I did so handle in a smart and short discourse, that he went out of the cabin in greate wrath. In the afternoone he set on of the carpentar's crew to woorke about his cabin; and I being acquainted with it, did by my captaine's order discharge the woorke man, and he left woorking; at which the reverent lord was so vext, that he borrowed a hammar, and busyed himselfe all that day in nayling up his hangings; but being done on the sabbaoth day, and also when there was no neces

sity, I hope the woorke will not be longe lived. From that day he neyther loved mee nor the captaine. No prayers, for discontent.'-pp. 261,

262.

November 26. The Lord Mordaunt hath left us, and is gon into the Rupert, and his Sunday's worke is com to nothinge.'--p. 266.

The winter was passed in cruising between the Straits and Minorca. We find the chaplain passing his time in the usual variety of employments; he registers the incidents of the day, plays a lesson occasionally on the vyall, reads prayers, preaches a sermon on the word Our,* (p. 254.) writes stanzas on Phyllis and Amaryllis, pens Latin couplets, makes cartridges, mends a scabbard, shoots game on shore, and fires upon the French at sea, drinks healths on Saturday night, and does the honours of the ship to strangers. Unhappily, a very frequent occupation is that of paying funeral offices to the crew, and at last he is called upon to execute this sad duty for his good friend and patron the captain, who, after removing from the Bristol to the Royal Oak, expired in Alicant roads, on the 19th of March, 1679. Brave Captaine Antony Langston dyed a very little after 10 a'clock this night. I stood by his bed syde when he breathed his last.' p. 291. March 22. By 9 wee are under sayle, and for England, God willing. God send us well thither, for now our myrth is past the best!' p.293. On the 18th of May they arrived in the king of England's dominions,' within Cape Phinister;' and they had not yet made the Land's End when they were informed of the commotion raging in England on account of the papists' damuable plott.' They entered the river in June, and Teonge went to Rochester, where he found his son and cousin, whoe cam so far to welcom mee home.' After being demurd' some time for his groats and twopences,' he was at last paid off, and returned safe to Spernall. Hic modus lasso maris et viarum Militiæque.'

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If some parts of the narrative should have appeared inconsistent with poor Teonge's professional character, we may perhaps set him right in the estimation of many readers, by extracting his lines on the death of Captain Langston, which, although harsh, have in them an earnestness of feeling, and a masculine spirit of devotion, which raise them above mediocrity.

Sharpe was the day, and bitter was the night,

And boath were tedious, cause thy paines were stronge;
Now Christ is come, and brings to thee his light,

Dispelling sinn's dark night, though that were longe :
Now neyther griefe torments, nor pains offend;
Now rest is come; such rest as hath no end.

It is worth observing, that a sermon seems never to have formed part of the service, if the captain from any cause was unable to attend.

Now

Now hast thou heaven for earth: O happy change!
For griefe thou now ay-lasting joys hast gott,
Thy soule amidst the blessed troops doth rainge,
Although thy bones in boystrous billows rott.

Happy thy life, whoe liveing livdst to Christ;
Happyer thy death, who dead, livst with the Highst.
Then why should mournfull teares bedew thy tombe?
Full sweetly now thou sleepest in the Lord,

Untill shrill-sounding trump at day of Doome,

Doe raise all flesh according to his word:

Sweete 'tis to beare God's yoake, though't bee som paines :
Thou didst; the fight is past, the crowne remaines.

HENRICUS TEONGE, Moestissimus'-p. 292.

ART. VIII.-1. J. Miltoni Angli de Doctrinâ Christianâ libri duo posthumi, quos ex Schedis MSS. deprompsit et Typis mandari primus curavit C. R. Sumner, A.M., Biblioth. Reg. Præf. Cantabrigiæ. 1825. 4to. pp. 544.

2. A Treatise on Christian Doctrine, compiled from the Holy Scriptures alone, by John Milton. Translated from the Origi nal, by C. R. Sumner, A.M., Librarian and Historiographer to his Majesty, &c. &c. Cambridge. 1825. 4to. pp. 711. THE authenticity of this work appears indisputable; were the

history of the manuscript less satisfactory, the internal evidence would be conclusive. The mind of Milton is stamped on every page. Not only are the known opinions of this remarkable man maintained with the usual seriousness of his character, but the manner in which he arrives at certain newer tenets, adopted by him at a later period of life, bears the same unquestionable impress of his peculiar way of thinking. In the tone all is grave, earnest, and solemn; in the matter there appears not merely a disdain of human authority, but a jealousy of all received doctrines; and finally, to whatever conclusions his arguments may lead, Milton fearlessly pursues and implicitly adopts them. In deed the more extravagant tenets developed in this work are but the necessary consequences which result from his principles, and at once illustrate most clearly and refute most conclusively the reasonings from which they are deduced. It is not an uncommon case, especially in theology, for those who advance erroneous opinions, when pushed with dangerous consequences as their necessary result, to disclaim the inferences which themselves have not drawn. But Milton was too severe a reasoner, and too honest a man, to disavow or shrink from the avowal of all legitimate inferences from his own opinions. He was therefore neither

appalled