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dition, and he was obliged to march back again to Scotland, to do the best he could with his wild and discontented troops.

The Duke of Cumberland, the King's son, was then sent in pursuit of him, but he did not overtake him till he got to a place called Culloden, in Scotland: here they came to an engagement. In the battle of Culloden, the Duke of Cumberland gained a most complete victory over the rebels, slaughtering them in a most dreadful manner; and thus ended all the hopes of the young Prince. After this, he wandered about the country, and was almost starved to death, for want of food and clothes; but he had many friends, who would not betray him, though they might have got very large sums for delivering him up to his enemies. At length he escaped, in a vessel, to France. He was dressed in a short coat of black frize, threadbare, over which was a common highland plaid, girt round with a belt, from which hung a pistol and a dagger. He had not changed his linen for many weeks; his eyes were hollow, his face pale, and his constitution greatly injured by hunger and fatigue. The rebel lords and officers, as I told you, were executed; some of them were beheaded on Tower-hill, in London; others were hanged, drawn, and quartered, on Kennington-common; and some at York and Carlisle ; and so ended this dreadful rebellion.

There was war during almost all the remainder of this King's reign. It was carried on against the French possessions in America, as well as in Europe. The French made an attack on the Island of Minorca, in the Mediteranean sea. Admiral Byng was sent with a fleet to the relief of the place, and whilst he was considering how he could assist the English, the French fleet appeared; and the Admiral seemed to be in great difficulties to know how to act. Whenever an enemy's fleet appears, the English, you know, generally are able to give a good account of

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it. It was not so here however: the Admiral let the French fleet get away from him. He was afterwards tried by a court-martial, and was shot on board a man of war, at Portsmouth, for not having done his utmost to destroy the enemy.

I must tell you about the black hole, at Calcutta. One of the Indian Chiefs made an attack upon the town of Calcutta, in the East Indies, which belonged to the English. He took the garrison, consisting of a hundred and forty-six men, prisoners. These poor creatures, instead of receiving the usual treatment of prisoners, were all crowded together in a narrow prison, called the black hole, only about eighteen feet square; and this was in the burning climate of the East, so that the greater part of them died of suffocation; for, out of the hundred and fortysix which were shut up at night, there were only twenty-three found alive in the morning; and the greater part of these soon afterwards died of putrid fevers. The English, however, quickly regained possession of Calcutta, and made many other additions to their possessions in India.

You have heard of the death of General Wolf. This was in America. The young general, who was only thirty-five, was carrying on a most desperate attack against the town of Quebec; and, after having overcome many dreadful difficulties, he received a shot in the wrist. He did not, however, leave his post, but wrapped his hand in his handkerchief, and went on, giving his orders as if nothing had happened; and, leading forward his grenadiers with their bayonets fixed, another shot came and entered his breast. He fell, and, struggling in the agonies of death, and just expiring, he heard a voice cry "they run!" upon which he seemed, for a moment, to revive; and, asking "who ran," was informed, "the French:" he then sunk on the breast of the soldier who supported him, and his last words were " I die

which a general feels as to the success of his endeavours to benefit his country.

But I must come to an end of this letter. On the 25th of October, in the year 1760, the King was found by one of his servants, dying in his chamber, at Kensington Palace. He had risen at his usual hour, and had taken a walk with some of his attendants, in Kensington gardens. In a few minutes after his return, when he was alone in his room, he was heard to fall down upon the floor. The noise of this, brought a servant into the apartment, and the King died a few minutes afterwards. This was in the thirty-third year of his reign, and in the seventy-seventh of his age. I. S.

The Dean of Rochester's Discourse on the second Article of the Creed.

I. Se sends us the following extract from the Dean of Rochester's Discourse on the second Article of the Creed.

"This article is one of highest interest to all Christian believers. In the first article we contemplated God as the one only, Eternal, and Almighty Being, Father and Creator. We have him, in the second, presented to us in the character of a Saviour; and we shall find him afterwards submitted to our faith as Sanctifier and Comforter. We have now before us, God the Son, the second Person in the ever blessed Trinity, to whom we more particularly owe the benefit of Redemption, the means of Grace, and the hope of Glory. He is related to God the Father, as being his only begotten Son. Angels are termed the sons of God, and men are sometimes in Scripture, by way of eminence and distinction, called after the same manner. But neither angels nor men are the sons of God by the

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same generation as Jesus Christ. They were created by God: he was uncreate. They had no existence before the creation, that made them angels and men. He had a real being, before he was conceived by the Holy Ghost; for "in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; the same was in the beginning with God; all things were made by him, and without him was not any thing made that was made." (John, 1st Chap. 1st, 2nd, 3d verses.) He is not the Father, but the Son; and yet He and the Father are one, He is "equal to the Father, as touching his Godhead, and inferior to the Father, as touching his manhood." (Vid. Ath. Creed.) He is "appointed" by the Father "heir of all things," and is "the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, upholding all things by the word of his power;" and, "when he had by himself purged our sins," he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high, being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they." (Hebrews, 1st Chap. 2nd, 3rd, 4th verses.) This generation of the Son of God is confessedly a great mystery: "without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness.' (1st Timothy, 3rd Chap, 16th verse.) I pretend not to explain what is above comprehension. Scripture is the word of God, and must, therefore, be true in all its doctrines. Herein Christ is declared to be higher than the angels, to be the only begotten Son of God, to be equal to the Father, and to be "the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person. Either, therefore, we must receive these doctrines with all their mystery, as perfect truth, or reject the Scriptures altogether as a divine revelation. And to the latter decision we are, of necessity, driven, the moment we take offence at not being able to search and comprehend the deep things of God. As Christ is mysteriously related to the Fa

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ther, so is he peculiarly related to us. He is our Lord, having, by what he has done for us, acquired a right to our persons and our service. We are His by creation; we are His in an especial manner by redemption. We were by disobedience made subject to wrath. We were in bondage to Satan. We were fast bound in prison, whence we had no power to escape. By shedding his precious blood upon the cross, as a propitiation and ransom, he turned away from us the indignation of Heaven; overcame for us our mortal enemy, broke the chains of our captivity, and, having set us free from our former subjection and slavery, made us his own property and servants; the one by purchase, the other by conquest. To him therefore, as our Maker and Preserver, our obedience is due. Not to love the Redeemer, who has saved us from death; not to be grateful to the Deliverer, who has rescued us from misery; and not to pay the tribute of fidelity to the Lord, who has bought us with his blood, is to betray a coldness and obduracy of heart, greater even than that which the Jews evinced in the wilderness, immediately after they had witnessed and felt the merciful miracles of their God. Happy, thrice happy they, who deeply impressed with the benefits of their Saviour's death and conquest, enlist under his banner, and go on their way, rejoicing in the fight of faith against sin, the world, and the devil. Their's will be the crown of glory; their's the resurrection unto life; their's the songs of joy, the sacred Hallelujahs, in the courts of Heaven: "for to this end Christ both died and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living,' Romans, 14th Chap. 9th verse,) and that he might exalt his faithful servants to the throne and happiness of God.

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In conclusion, let me exhort you to put your unfeigned faith in Jesus, the Saviour of your souls, in Christ, the anointed of God; for through

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