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at that time, after the flight of the Archduke Ste- | Austrian army, the part of Meszaros was to detain phen, was at the head of affairs, as President of Schlick, who was pressing onwards from Gallicia, the Committee of Defence, entrusted the command and that of Bem to liberate Transylvania. The of the general levies to several young men, of last fulfilled his task, but Mezaros was defeated, whose patriotism he was assured, and whom he and Görgey was therefore obliged, in the depth of knew to be men of ability. The principal of these winter, to fight his way with his army through the was Görgey, who probably at that time little im- mountains of Schemnitz and the mining districts, agined that in the course of half a year he should defeating and pursuing Schlick's division, with win for himself on the battle-field a place among his avant-garde, whilst he was himself pressed the first generals in Europe. His family is not from behind by two Austrian brigades. He thus unknown in the history of Hungary: one of his cleared the country near the Carpathians of the ancestors in the year 1309 decided the fate of the enemy, and then hastened down into the plains, battle of Rozgony, which gave the crown of Hun- where he expected to join Dembinski at Kapolgary to the house of Anjou. The family, how-na. Windischgrätz here formed a junction with ever, had for some centuries fallen into poverty, Schlick's corps; for two days the battle lasted on and, being attached to the Protestant faith, they the morasses, and ended with a retreat of the Hunwere virtually excluded from all service under the garians to Debreczin, and of the Austrians to house of Hapsburg. Arthur Görgey, after pass- Pesth. ing through his first studies in the Protestant schools of Miskolcz and Käsmark, and completing his education in an Austrian military institution, entered the regiment of Palatine hussars as a lieutenant. Beloved by his soldiers as well as by his comrades, Prince Windischgrätz appointed him to be his adjutant; but Görgey was soon tired of the martinet prince; the overbearing manners of his commander hurt the pride of the young officer, and he quitted the military service. Without resources, and amidst the greatest privations, he studied chemistry in the University of Prague with distinguished success; and he had at that time for his maintenance not more than twopence a day. He was proposed as professor of chemistry at Lemberg; but he preferred returning to Hungary, where a small patrimony had fallen to him on the death of his father; and he employed his chemical knowledge to advantage in some mining undertakings.

After this battle Görgey was invested with the chief command. From March to June he led the Hungarians from victory to victory, from the Theiss to the Waag and the Raab, annihilated the army of Windischgrätz, stormed Buda, and by his chivalrous conduct won for himself not only the attachment of his army, but also the respect of his bloodthirsty enemies. When the Russian intervention threatened Hungary for the third time with an invasion of 300,000 men, Görgey was reproached with having lost too much precious time on the banks of the Waag and Raab; but as we have no details concerning these operations we cannot pass any judgment in this respect. So much is certain, that in the council of war at Szegedin, Dembinski's new plan was approved of, and he consequently received the chief command. Since this time Görgey has again displayed in a subordinate position his distinguished military talents. When the Russians and Austrians believed him lost at Comorn. he appeared suddenly at Waitzen, defeated the Russians, and hastened over the mountains of Nograd and Gömör in the rear of the Russian army, whose line of retreat he cuts off by this manœuvre, and is now able to

Tscheodaieff, or upon that of General Sacken, who is pressing in from Gallicia. His talents as a general have been and still are one of the firmest supports of Hungarian independence.

TROUBLE AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

Placed by Kossuth at the head of an armed corps, Görgey formed the plan of that bold expedition, which was executed by himself and Perczel, in which Generals Roth and Philipovich, with 10,000 men and twelve cannon, laid down their arms at Ozora on the 5th October, 1848, and sur-throw himself either upon the corps of General rendered at discretion. In consequence of this exploit Görgey was appointed colonel, and led the avant-garde of the Hungarian army at the battle of Schwechat, under the walls of Vienna. When Kossuth on the field of battle himself observed that General Moga, who commanded the Hungarians, was not fully to be trusted, he raised Colonel Arthur Görgey to the rank of general. Through the month of November up to the middle of December, the young general organized the Hungarian army. He accustomed it to military evolutions by daily outpost skirmishes; but he had not more than 30,000 men; and when Windischgrätz, on the 16th of December, invaded Hungary from all sides with 120,000 men, Görgey retreated to Pesth, after an obstinate resistance. It was determined in the council of war at Pesth, that the government should retire to Debreczin, and should not defend the capital.

CANADA ferments with the annexation movement, in spite of the lax presumptions to the contrary. A metropolitan contemporary has drawn the hasty inference that bad feeling had subsided because only twenty persons had met at the convention of the league; but if the writer had looked to the intelligence in the papers of the same morning, he would have seen that on subsequent days the numbers increased to more than ninety. Although we have no reports of the proceedings, it is evident that very heated language had passed.

But it is from the Cape of Good Hope that the Görgey had now to operate in the rear of the most sombre intelligence arrives. We have accounts

of the transactions in the legislative council, includ- |civil offence, recommend the dismissal of an officer ing despatches which had been communicated by Such a proceeding is obviously capable of great Sir Harry Smith, from Lord Grey to the governor, abuse. Could Lord Cardigan have recommended and from the governor to Lord Grey. From these the queen to insist on the resignation of Mr. Reydocuments it now appears, that the same arguments nolds or Lieut. Tuckett?

Next, we should like to know why this rigorous morality has so long slumbered in the army; and why officers, ay, and colonels in command, who have married women of blemished character, have not been called upon to resign? We could name half a dozen conspicuous instances in which married officers and their wives have been placed in very awkward positions, from the impossibility of associating with their colonels' or generals' wives, and the ill-will consequent on their not conquering their scruples. But in all these cases the parties were men of rank and influence, and no alarm was taken at possible prejudice" to their regiments.

which were employed in our columns, and subse- But if Lord Londonderry has indeed taken the quently in Parliament by Mr. Adderley in particu-step of recommending the dismissal of Mr. Heald lar, against the transmission of convicts-represen-on account of marriage with Lola Montes, is it tations to which ministers promised to defer-had quite certain that the allegation can be borne out? already been urged upon Lord Grey by the colo- for it is now a question whether Mr. Heald is or nists, and by him overruled. With a supercilious is not married. disregard of persons "below" him, Lord Grey had not scrupled to place his only too faithful servant, Sir Harry Smith, in a position the most humiliating to him as an officer and a gentleman-had first made him party to a breach of faith, and then, in spite of his remonstrances, had taken advantage of his high military sense of discipline to use him as the instrument for enforcing an odious measure against the universal feeling of the colony, the advice of all the official class to a man, and his own upright conscience! Lord Grey first intimated that the colonists might have the "exiles" if they pleased he seems to think that by calling convicts "exiles" he evades part of the solid objections to the introducing of a criminal population; he sends Further, it is desirable that there should be a the convicts without waiting for the invited accept- distinct explanation of the corpus delicti in this inance; and when the colonists remonstrate, he sets stance. Is it the marriage? If, instead of makthem at nought. The order in council directing ing Lola Montes his wife, Mr. Heald had made the governor to receive the convicts was accompanied by the draft of a new "free constitution" for the colony; but it seems to be of a kind that is not at all unworthy of its accompaniment.

The colonists are exasperated to the last pitch of endurance, and we notice a trait of a highly dangerous kind; while many exhibit positive disaffection, the most discreet imply, through their manner, that the feeling is justified by the provocation. There is a conviction that the colony is entirely at the mercy of Lord Grey; that it is not treated thus by the English nation, nor by Parliament, nor by Queen Victoria, but wholly and solely by that one man, Lord Grey-a Strafford without a Charles the First to instigate him. It is in the literal sense of the word tyranny, and tyranny of the most hopeless kind-that which originates in obstinate feebleness. Lord Grey exhibits precisely the same kind of morbid pertinacity that was displayed by the sickly Charles the First, by the sickly George the Third in the American war. And the English nation leaves the colony, its justice and its fealty, in the hands of Lord Grey-Spectator, 18 Aug.

From the Examiner.

MARTIAL MORALS.

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her his mistress, would Lord Londonderry have
felt it his moral duty to recommend her majesty to
require Mr. Heald's resignation? If so, many
more commissions must presently be vacant.
not, the offence clearly consists in the marriage,
compared with which one of the deadly sins is
deemed venial. The 2nd Life Guards would not,
in the view of its noble colonel, have been in any
danger of being prejudiced" if Lola Montes,
having sinned before, had continued to sin as here-
tofore; it is her sinning no more, and having the
religious sanction of wedlock, which renders the
alliance disgraceful to the corps of which the hus-
band is a member. A Messalina as a mistress
would not have alarmed the nice morality of the
colonel; but a Magdalen as a wife would send
him to the throne to pray for relief for the regi-
ment from such intolerable pollution.

But, as we have before remarked, Mr. Heald's offence is as yet far from certain, and he may claim a respite of judgment on the ground that it is at present, at least, doubtful whether he is the husband of Mrs. James; and if it should prove that he is not, Lord Londonderry will questionless withdraw his recommendation to her majesty, the case turning out to be one of mere adultery, instead of the serious scandal of marriage with a woman of frail past life.

WE copied into our last publication a statement that Lord Londonderry, colonel of the 2nd Life For making women not honest there is full latGuards, had taken steps to recommend her maj-itude in the army, but for doing the opposite there esty to call for the resignation of Mr. Heald, as would seem, from the present example, to be the his marriage with Lola Montes might possibly disposition to refuse toleration, unless, indeed, prejudice his regiment. aristocratic station may plead for, or, rather, com

We were not aware that the colonel of a regi-mand it.

ment could, without any cognizable military or In the Beggar's Opera, Mrs. Peachum is as

aghast at the marriage of Polly as was Lord Lon- | ample ad imitandum. Rousseau was great, downdonderry at the marriage of Mr. Heald, and de- wards; M. de Lamartine modestly thinks that he nounces the delinquent to Mr. Peachum, who puts perhaps is not so great, but it is heavenwards; the question of guilt or innocence to her in the Rousseau was the sublime abyss, he is the terms, “Are you married, hussy, or only on lik-sublime mountain. But, somehow, the example ing?" Worthy Mr. Peachum eventually pardoned is not so effective in the improved fashion; for it the indiscretion on the condition that Polly should lacks the one principle of life-truth. He has hang her husband; and if Mr. Heald should be beautified until you cannot distinguish the fact relieved of the reproach of mésalliance by a sen- from the fiction which is founded on it. Its untence of bigamy against Mrs. James, leaving him truth is manifest in the single trait of internal chargeable with only the breach of the command- evidence, that he reports conversations uttered ment, the commission of which is not thought by years ago, which could not possibly survive in colonels to be fraught with any "prejudice" to the most retentive memory. Great part of those their regiments, he may yet return to his corps conversations must be fabricated; but they are inrestored to its esteem, his having had to do with distinguishable from the general tissue. the church in the affair being the sole cause of scandal.

From the Spectator. DENOUEMENT OF M. DE LAMARTINE'S CONFI

DENCE.

Again, the book has a peculiar immorality which is very offensive. M. de Lamartine labors so to convey to you his own profound conviction, that he overdoes it, and convinces you of something else. His profound conviction is that he is the greatest, sublimest, and most exquisite of mor tals; his self-portrait is that of an intellectual, æsthetical, and physical Apollo Belvidere-a dandy deity. But, to Scoticize Mr. Landor's version of Shakspeare's text, in his "vaulting ambition

direction. The initial episode of Graziella, which is told in great part with much power and art, describes a charming Neapolitan peasant girl dying with love for the most poetical, primitive, and re fined of youths; the survivor, in his elderly memory, working away with his practised and not unpaid pen, to show how her passion was justified; but his attention is concentrated mainly on himself-and was so then he was self-mindful and forgetful of her; he only, as a French critic says, 'permitted himself to be adored," and was so little occupied by the feeling that he was able to store up every trait which should indicate his own orace, his own more refined taste, his own less earthly aspirations, his own tender, intellectual,

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MILLY is to be sold after all, and M. de Lamartine is to part with his natal estate. The loss is the more to be regretted since the revolutionary leader has laid so much stress on the possession he o'erleaps his sel'," and falls in the opposite of this land, and must be expected therefore to derive less consolation from his philosophy and poetry than one might anticipate from his pretensions in those pursuits. The bargain which was to have redeemed the sale is among the matters confided to the public in the author's Confidences; and it is a characteristic affair. The estate was burdened with debts, insomuch that the owner was obliged to sell it-the land of his ancestors, of his boyish recollections. He had amused himself with writing an autobiographical reminiscence, an account of his first or rather second love, if such it can be called where no love was on his side. This he read to a friend, who was delighted; a bookseller offered a handsome amount for so many volumes of autobiography; M. de Lamartine shil-chaste imagination; she died for love-he collyshallied, in a manner which he seems to think indicative of the right feeling, the true delicacy; but he was brought to a point by the threatened sale of his patrimony; here was a conflict of delicacies, and he made the larger sacrifice, by selling his confidence to the public and redeeming the ground sacred to his ancestors.

M. de Lamartine does not scorn to follow examples, but he improves upon them; he consents to be like Rousseau, only greater. Rousseau gave forth his Confessions, which were to instruct the self-wrapped disingenuous intolerance of man, and to fetch out of candor better counsel and kinder intercourse; their whole power derivable from the transparent truth. M. de Lamartine deems Confessions indelicate, so he selects only such Confidences as are engaging; and those he "touches up," heightening, softening, coloring, and adorning the historical piece which he paints from the looking-glass. Rousseau was the example ad evitandum; M. de Lamartine finds that it is he who is to supply the complement, the ex

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lected materials for a pretty autobiographical episode to adorn his memoirs withal.

The Confidences, and its singular complement Raphael, are all of this tissue. In Raphael, M. de Lamartine paints himself platonically adoring a lady who was devoted to the service of Diana by a disease of the heart, which made her afraid to unite with him in a more fervent worship. That lady, so "pure" under penalty, is the beau idéal of his adoration.

These literary traits of self-exposure help to explain M. de Lamartine's political failures; he is not content with fact and truth; he relies on a beautified counterfeit of truth; his own aim is something different from the thing that is really to be attained. As in the autobiography every living soul is appropriated as an accessory to the portrait of Lamartine, so the republic was to be a background for an historical portrait of Lamartine. He is not content to be a great man, but must be a great something more than man. He is to be a great poet, without the self-forgetfulness

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A LEAP FOR LIFE. THANKFULNESS. THE FRANKLIN EXPEDITION.

of the fine phrensy; a great lover, without under- the young man with him; and such was the force going the dominion of a subduing passion; a great statesman, but released from vulgar considerations of details and practicabilities—a statesman whose trouble is not to go beyond the attitude and the eloquence. As chief of the provisional government, he got up a sublime picture of a revolutionary chief, Jovelike bestriding the storm; but it was only a picture, not a working sublimity; and his government fell to pieces. He attempts to write the "History of the Revolution of 1848;" but, says M. Eugène Forcade, "this is not a history, it is an impotent apology;" it is also a labored attempt to display the hero "Lamartine" in grand situations, himself grander than they. The failure of the bargain that was to redeem Milly is imputed to the revolution, which has paralyzed the bookseller's plans. The bookseller might well reply, that the work is not worth the bargain; and further, that if M. de Lamartine had addressed himself as zealously to redeem France in the hour of her peril as he did to display himself, he would have prevented the revolution from proving so ruinous to booksellers. He seems to have forgotten everything in public affairs which he did not deem materials for an autobiography; and a similar spirit pervades his career of private life as he describes it-he frustrates the revolution, and loses his estate. He had failed in learning the lesson that nothing is greater than truth. He passes from the sublime to the ridiculous; not gratis, for the step has cost him a nation's gratitude, a presidency, an estate, and a bookseller's custom for his wares.

with which he leaped, that the check caused them to perform several somersets over each other as they descended linked together. With the rapidity of a flash of lightning they disappeared below the foaming billows, having cleared the craggy ledge, which projected more than six feet from the perpendicular of the point over which the youth was suspended. To the delight of their companions who were momentarily horror-struck, they rose about twenty yards apart, buffeting the heavy swells of the flowfor a rock that lay about seventy yards in the sea, ing and returning waves; at length they struck out on which they were shortly seated, and from which they gave three hearty cheers. Their companions attempted to procure their rescue by obtaining a boat, but owing to the breach in the ledge found it impossible, and had to proceed onward for more themselves. To their delight the geologists then than three hours before they were able to extricate found that their brave and dauntless companions had once more committed themselves to the deep, and swam to an accessible part of the cliff, and returned to Llanrhystid, where, with the exception of the loss of hats, the officer's boots (which he had taken off on first starting on the ledge) and a few slight cuts and bruises, they appeared not a whit the worse from their perilous adventure.- Welsh

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CAUSE FOR THANKFULNESS.-Besides one gentleman and two ladies, travelling in a stage coach in Vermont, there was a small, sharp-featured, blackeyed woman, who had questioned her companions to her satisfaction, and had nothing further to do, in mourning, who was no sooner in, and seated, until the arrival of a lady deeply veiled, and dressed than the little woman commenced her examination as follows: "Have you lost friends?" " Yes, I have." "Was they near friends?" "Yes, they was." "Was they relations?" "Yes, they was." "Was they near relations?" As the supervisor of inland revenue at Aberyst99 "How near?" they was. with, Mr. J. Miller, his nephew, and two profes-brother." "A husband and a "Where did they die?" "Down to sional gentlemen, geologists, were last week examMobile." "What did they die with?" "Yaller ining some strata of rocks in the cliffs between Fever. "" Aberystwith and Llanrhystid, they proceeded along Was they seafaring men?" "Was they long sick?" "Not very." "Yes, they was." a narrow ledge of projecting stone on the face of "Did you get their chists ?" "Yes, I did." the cliff, about one hundred and twenty feet above the level of the sea, which providentially happened "Was they hopefully pious?" "I hope and trust to be at full flow. On passing round a projecting they was hopefully pious, you have great reason to they was. Well, if you got their chists, and angle, "which for ages has frowned on all below,' the professors and the revenue officer had rounded the point, and the young man was in the act of doing so, when the rock suddenly breaking from under his feet, he was whirled round with his face towards the sea, and as he descended he seized with one hand the ledge beneath his uncle's feet, whilst he extended the other hand to him, and it was firmly clasped by the revenue officer, who held him suspended for fully five minutes, during which time he with great difficulty maintained his position, there not being six inches to stand upon. At length a breathless pause ensued, whilst Mr. Miller gazed only resolved to fit out an expedition to make a strict a rugged projection of rock about ninety feet below them, and on which he concluded the unfortunate youth was inevitably doomed to be dashed. But the uncle (who calls himself "an awful coward") at length said, with all the calmness imaginable, "Tom, there is but one way for it; I'll save you, or we will both perish together," and with a firm voice he commanded the young man to loose his hold of the rock, which was mechanically obeyed, with a faint reply," Yes, uncle." At this awful moment Mr. Miller horizontally sprang into the air, carrying

THE FRANKLIN EXPEDITION.-Lady Franklin having addressed a memorial to the Emperor of Russia, in which she stated that there is some possibility that the expedition which sailed four years ago from England, for the discovery of the north-west passage, under the command of her husband, Sir John Franklin, and of which no intelligence had been received, had been thrown on the coast of Siberia or Nova Zembla, his Imperial Majesty instant

search on these distant shores, and for this purpose the Imperial Academy of Science at St. Petersburg has been consulted as to the best course it would be expedient to adopt. Accounts from the Sandwich Islands, dated the 20th May, announce that her Majesty's ships Pandora and Herald were at those islands. It will be remembered that they were, some time ago, instructed to search in the Northern Pacific for the adventurous Polar navigator, in order to render succor, if such were required.-Examiner of 18th Aug.

"When I first read Young my heart was broken to think of the poor man's afflictions. Afterwards took it in my head, that where there was so much lamentation, there could not be excessive suffering, and I could not help applying to him sometimes those lines of a song,

ON THE USE AND PROPERTIES OF THE PEAT ius. Both are sometimes more sublime than almost BOGS OF IRELAND.-The usual monthly meeting any other writers, and both comprise an infinite deal of the Botanical Society of London was held on the of sense in two or three words. At others they are 3d instant, at which Mr. J. W. Rogers brought trifling and diffuse to the most tiresome and conunder the consideration of the meeting the purport temptible degree. Poor Seneca, indeed, is entitled of his paper read at a previous meeting-the uses to excuse and compassion from the general depravand properties of the peat moss, and the value of ity of the public taste. But our friend Dr. Young peat charcoal as a disinfecter and fertilizer. It may had no claim to any such indulgence. He lived in be necessary to mention that, by the aid of peat an age of liberty and unadulterated genius. Perhaps charcoal, Mr. Rogers purposes to consolidate and his faults were contracted by an early uncorrected deodorize the solid matter of the London sewers; study of the Roman authors."-Letters to Mrs. and, whilst by that means benefiting the inhabitants Montagu, vol. 3, p. 70. of the metropolis, there would be placed within the "When one begins," says Beattie, "to find reach of the agriculturist a manure of the most powerful kind, pulverized, free from odor, and fit in a corner, it is time to shut the book, and return pleasure in sighing over Young's Night Thoughts for transit by any conveyance. In 1845, he brought to the company. I grant that while the mind is in the subject before the public, and it was then alleged that charcoal could not give that quantity of delight; but their effect resembles that of intoxicaa certain state, those gloomy ideas give exquisite carbon to the leaf of the plant which it was neces- tion upon the body; they may produce a temporary sary it should receive, and that the leaf, and not the fit of feverish exultation, but qualms and weakened root, being the portion of it which required such nerves and depression of spirits are the consequence. sustenance, his discovery was of no use. Often, I have great respect for Dr. Young, both as a man however, since then, he had tried the experiment, and as a poet. I used to devour his Night Thoughts and the result had invariably been that it was the with a satisfaction not unlike that which, in my root and not the leaf of the plant which attracted the carbon, and therefore he was more convinced of younger years, I have found in walking alone in a churchyard, or in a wild mountain, by the light of the propriety of the system he was endeavoring to the moon at midnight. promulgate. From the experiments he had made, he found that peat charcoal possessed far superior advantages over wood charcoal. It had a deodor-I izing effect which wood charcoal had not; and if they considered how much such an agent could be made to operate upon the sewage matter of London, no one could be left in doubt as to the public benefit such an agent could be converted into by proper management. Wherever it had been used, it produced the most extraordinary effect. If secretia in its natural state was intermixed with charcoal, it at once absorbed and took up all those gases, which it was allowed, if exposed to the atmosphere, were lost. It kept that nutriment until the dryness of the earth surrounding its neighboring plant intimated its lack of sustenance, and thereby acting as an absorbent, gave forth its revivifying influence when it was wanted. In short, by the admixture of charcoal with excretiæ, all its gases were at once taken up and retained, ridding the public of nuisance and disease, and giving to the land the entire benefit. Peat charcoal was perhaps the greatest absorbent known. It would take up and retain about eighty to ninety per cent. of water, and at least from ninety to a hundred volumes of those noxious gases arising from animal excrement and other putrescent matter. Hence its great value for effecting deodorization, and for retaining all the value of the liquid, as well as its volatile products. Equal parts of prepared peat, charcoal, and excretie, would, under almost every circumstance, accomplish that, if properly intermixed, producing a manure of almost incalculable value. The proportion, however, of charcoal might be less in some instances, even down to one third. One third charcoal and two thirds excretiæ was the general thing, and that at one time produced a manure of the best possible kind.

[YOUNG AS A POET.]

"Do not you think," says Mrs. Carter," that if Dr. Young had lived in the decline of the Roman Empire, he would have been Seneca, and that if Seneca had lived in the eighteenth century, he would have been Dr. Young? There seems to me a wonderful resemblance in the turns of their gen

Believe me, the shepherd but fayns ;

He's wretched, to show he has wit. On talking with some of Dr. Young's friends in England, I have since found that my conjectures were right, for that while he was composing the Night Thoughts, he was really as cheerful as any other man.'

[LAW'S STUDY OF JACOB BEHMEN.]

“In a particular interview," says Francis Okely, "that I had with Mr. Law a few months before his decease, in answer to the question, when and how he first met with Jacob Behmen's works, he said, that he had often reflected upon it with surprise; that although when a curate in London, he had perhaps rummaged every bookseller's shop and book-stall in the metropolis, yet he never met with a single book, or so much as the title of any books of J. B.'s. The very first notice he had of him was from a treatise called Ratio et Fides; soon after which he lighted upon the best and most complete edition of his works. When I first began to read him (says he) he put me into a perfect sweat. But as I discovered sound truths, and the glimmerings of a deep ground and sense, even in the passages not then clearly intelligible, and found myself, as it were, strongly prompted in my heart to dig in these writings, I followed this impulse with continual aspirations and prayer to God for his help and divine illumination, if I was called to understand them. By reading in this manner again and again, and from time to time, I perceived (said he) that my heart felt well, and my understanding opened gradually, till at length I found what a treasure was hid in this field.' What (says the translator) I here relate, is, as much as I can remember, certainly the sense, and nearly the very words, of this great and chosen man."-Monthly Review, vol. 63, 1780,-Okely's Memoirs of Jacob Behmen, p. 521,

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