As he well knew how much the happiness of the poorer classes of mankind depends on frugality and habitual in dustry, be studied to promote amongst them virtues so ne cessary to their condition.

This benevolent and pious man, through the whole course of his life, remembered that he was an accountable being. He examined his own conduct with the same de gree of severity, which men too often adopt in their scrutiny into the conduct of others; and considered that the time would come, and might not be far off, when he should reflect with sorrow on every bad action.

During the progress of a tedious, and sometimes very painful illness, he never expressed the least impatience; and, as if he wished to extend his utility even beyond the present life, he said to his surgeon, who attended him with unceasing anxiety, "If you think it will be of service in your practice, or to any one who may come after me, I beg you will have my body opened: I am willing to do as much good as possible."

In the morning previous to his death, he said to an inti mate friend, "I have no uncomfortable reflections concern ing my approaching end; but I find life so strong, that I think I shall not leave the world without a sharp conflict." Soon after this, the disorder increased, and put a period to a long and valuable life, spent in promoting the glory of God, and the good of mankind.

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RULES AND REGULATIONS

To be observed by MOTHERS and NURSES.—By Th. N, R. (Continued from p. 426.)

ON THE TRAINING OF CHILDREN.

As the eldest of seventeen children, the writer of this article

while yet in a single state, and afterwards as a neighbour, a mother, and grandmother, had occasion to remark the pro pensity to deceit in children who are severely controled, and the perfect ingenuousness of disposition in such as are o easy terms with their parents, and have been preserved from the rude coercion of nurses. Far be it from us to recommend any indulgence that would tolerate corrupt inclination, or

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rmit the growth of bad habits, but we would earnestly deecate every kind and degree of severity that tempts to rvile fawning or perfidious artifice. It is only by a urse of assiduous instruction that the power of self-denial, decided repugnance to evil, and a cautious regard to conseences, can restrain animal appetites in children; and if fordden gratifications shall be left within their grasp before eir principles are formed, they are unable to resist the lurement."

It is but justice to admit, that parents who are not over rupulous in giving corresponding example, are very urgent enjoin good precepts. He who too often spends his evengs at the ale-house, seeks to keep his children within doors terror for ghosts, robbers, murderers, or the more substantial nunciation of severe correction; but these bugbears cease be feared as the young people advance to maturity, and the age when going out in the night will be most hazar us for their morals, they get over the temporary restraints at deterred them in childhood, and having no sense of right wrong, or prudence, they fall an easy prey to artful comnions. Not so the youth who were pleasantly and rationally nvinced that their parents forbade them to go out because was dangerous for themselves. To them home has ever been e scene of heartfelt, though simple comforts; and they ver have imagined that licentiousness, inaction, or idleness, uld be essential to enjoyment. Their parents have been them as honored friends and companions, with whom they earfully laboured, receiving from the common incidents of ch day some lessons of practical wisdom; and they have arnt to improve every little interval of leisure, in reading oks where edification, mingled with amusement, animates eir industry, and confirms their resolutions to discharge ery relative duty with fidelity, and they have no temptaon to go abroad in quest of happiness; but austere, gloomy, perious people, drive their children to search for pleasure Bong strangers. Think of these truths ye whose anxiety, regulated by judgment, and unsoftened by gentleness, feats its own aim, by depriving you of the confidence of our children, which alone can ensure their safety. In main. ining authority, parents should never loose sight of cherishg in their pupils so much independance of spirit as will nder them superior to duplicity, and so much cordial affice as will induce them, in every distress or perplexity, to me without reserve to ask counsel or assistance from their atural protectors. How much misery to all concerned might e avoided by this reciprocity of parental and filial confidence. To be continued.

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The Progress of Genius

FROM OBSCURE AND LOW SITUATIONS, TO EMINENCE AND CELEBRITY.

“Genius is that gift of God which learning cannot confer, which t disadvantages of birth or education can wholly obscure."

TERENTIUS PUBLIUS, or TERENCE,

THE celebrated ancient Dramatic writer, was brought ear to Rome in the humble and degraded capacity of a slave, an received his name from his master, TERENTIUS LUCANUS, Roman Senator.

This generous man (to his honour be it recorded) was s taken with the uncommon parts of his slave, that he not only gave him a good education, but, what might have been reck oned by a person of such exquisite sense and feeling of mon value than even life itself without it, his liberty also; unde the benign influence of which he has immortalized the nam of his kind master, without conveying his own to posterity Here is an instance of what Africa can produce. The writ ings of TERENCE are denominated classical, and are read by your first scholars!

TROMP, (HAPPERTZ)

THE Dutch Admiral, rose from the lowest station to the su preme command, wholly by his merit.

USEFUL INFORMATION.

IN CASES OF SHIPWRECK.

"THE

"HERE is no character," says CHARRON, "more glori ous; none more attractive of universal admiration an respect, than that of helping those who are in no conditie of helping themselves;" and, of all the helpless situations in the world, it is scarcely possible to conceive one more so than that of the poor shipwrecked mariner, whom the pitiles tempest has driven on our coast. It is no wonder, then, that men of genius and of talent, have busied their thoughts s much of late, in order to devise the best possible method giving a timely and speedy relief in cases of such emergency

It being the great object, in cases of shipwreck, to esta blish a communication betwixt the vessel and the shore with the least possible delay, various methods have been invented and pointed out for this purpose.

A common Paper Kite launched from the vessel, and driven by the wind to the

shore

hore, has been supposed capable of conveying a piece of packhread to which a larger rope might be attached and drawn n board.

A small Balloon

aised by rarified air, might be made to answer the same urpose, and, it has been remarked, that had the discovery of IONTGOLFIER produced no other benefit, it would on this ccount be of great importance.

A Sky-rocket,

f a large diameter, has also been considered as capable of an qual service, and, indeed, this method seems the best; for, esides the velocity of the discharge, could it be brought to ct during the night, it must both point out the situation of he ship, and the direction that the line took in flying ashore. An empty Cask

as been also recommended to be thrown from the vessel with line attached to it, but it having been found by experience hat nothing can reach the beach having a line to it, (the surf aking the bite off the line, and preventing its landing,) no dependence can be placed on this method.

MR. BELL'S METHOD.

Besides the above, a method was invented so early as 1791 by a Mr. BELL in the Royal Artillery, by which a communication might be established from a vessel to the shore, and a landing effected, without any other assistance than what it afforded. This was simply by firing a rope on shore, attached to a ball, by means of which it was kept fast or lodged in the earth, in such a manner as a person on a raft might easily haul himself on shore by it. An experiment, in corroboration of this fact, was made, on the 29th August 1791, at Woolwich, from a boat moored in the Thames; and which, as far as it could demonstrate the utility of such a scheme, certainly did so; for, by means of the line, thrown to the distance of 150 yards on shore, attached to the ball, Mr. BELL and another man worked themselves on shore upon a raft of empty casks; and so confident was this gentleman of the success of his plan in more hazardous situations, that he is said to have declared himself ready to undertake to land with such a float (as he describes) upon a lee-shore any where upon the coast, when it might be deemed unsafe for a boat to make good its landing.' This scheme, could it have been found to answer the purpose for which it was intended, would indeed have been a fortunate discovery for mankind, for all the other methods, it must be observed, depend on assistance from the shore, and many cases of shipwreck may be supposed to occur in places remote from the habitation of man, and where no friendly hand is in readiness on the beach to lend its requisite R.R. 3

aid even allowing that those on board had found it practi cable to establish the communication by one of the means formerly mentioned*.

But, alas! Mr. BELL seems to have formed a very er roneous or inadequate idea of the nature of a sea-storm; and it unfortunately so happens, that the mournful scenes of such calamities as we wish to guard against, present a very different appearance from the calm and tranqui banks of the Thames on an autumnal day! Had Mr. BELL witnessed what we have seen, instead of having declared his willingness to land with his float any where upon the coast, he must at once have seen the fallacy of the whole scheme, and the utter impossibility of the helpless mariner even as sisting himself so far as to be able to load and fire a mortar. If ever a true description was given of the situation of a sailor in that calamitous season of complicated distress, when all his hopes are blasted, and he is driven to desperation by shipwreck, it is that where he is described in the Psalms, as reeling to and fro like a drunken man, and being at his wits end: And can a drunken man, unable for a moment to balance himself, or obtain a firm footing, be supposed to be able to load and fire a mortar? Can a man in a state of distraction, at his wits end, be imagined capable of going about a business that requires deliberation and thought, if it was no more than in the manner of laying the line and pointing the gun? When the deck heaves perpendicular to the horizon, then, alas! it is not the time for the feeble mariner to quit his hold. When the pelting of the storm is unremitting in its operations, and conflicting surges sweep in ungovernable fury over the barge, the only security that remains to the poor affrighted sailor is his lashings. If any communication can then be effected with the shore by a mortar, it must be by a method directly the reverse of Mr. BELL'S.

THE FIRING A ROPE OVER THE VESSEL from the shore in such a manner that it falls on board, seems in such cases the most rational method that should be had recourse to.

Such

*In the Monthly Magazine for last June, an experiment is mentioned as having been made with a ball sewed in canvas, which the writer says he fired from a ship, with a line attached to it: He adds, that it is a principle perhaps not generally known, that a small line will draw the largest tope when afloat in the water-and suggests, "that 20 yards of rope, with a weight at one end, placed where it might easily be got at, as it might be thrown into any window, might prevent the dreadful necessity people are often under, in cas of fire in London, to throw themselves out."