No sound Was heard, save of the watching soldier's foot. "Pilate said unto them, Ye have P. 82. 1. 5. 6. a watch: go your way; make it as sure as you can. So they went, and . made the sepulchre sure; sealing the stone, and setting a watch."---Matthew, c. xxvii. v. 65. 66. Within the rock-barred sepulchre, &c.--P.82. l. 7. "And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre that was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre."---Mark, c. xv. v. 46. Trembled the earth; The ponderous gate of stone was rolled away. P. 83. 1. 7. 8. "And, behold, there was a great earthquake; for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.”-Matthew, c. xxviii. v. 2. His faithful followers, assembled, sang A hymn, low-breathed, &c.---P. 84. l. 3. 4. "Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, came Jesus, and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you."---John, c. xx. v, 19. Listen that voice! upon the hill of Mars, Rolling in bolder thunders, &c.---P. 85. l. 1. 2. "Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars-hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious."—Acts, c. xvii. v. 22. The Stoic's moveless frown; the vacant stare "Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans and of the Stoics encountered him: And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods; because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection. And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? For thou bringest strange things unto our ears: we would know, therefore, what these things mean.”---Acts, c. xvii. v. 18— 20. The Areopagite tribunal dread, From whence the doom of Socrates was uttered. The highest court of criminal jurisdiction in Athens. It was held on the hill of Mars. By its sentence Socrates was condemned to death, for attempting to substitute a pure and rational system of religion, for the absurd and extravagant superstition which then prevail ed. The Judge ascended to the judgment-seat. P. 87. 1. 1. This representation of Paul I have not founded on the circumstances of any one of his appearances before the Roman governors. I have alluded to facts, which happened at his apprehension, as well as at his arraignments before Felix, Festus, and Agrippa. No more he feels, upon his high-raised arm, "And Paul said, I would to God that not only thou, but all that hear me this day, were both, almost, and altogether, such as I am, except these bonds.--Acts, c. xxvi. v. 29. And, while he reasons high Of justice, temperance, and the life to come, The Judge shrinks trembling at the prisoner's voice. P. 88. 1. 6, 7, 8. "And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled."---Acts, c. xxiv. v. 25. Like joining dew-drops on the blushing rose. P. 101. 1.7. I have seen the same thought in a recent publication of Mr Southey's; but the above line was written by me about ten years ago, and inserted, very soon after it was written, in the Kelso Mail. I love thee, for thou trustest me.--P. 125. I. 4. In winter 1798-99 I had several birds for my guests,--a redbreast, a hedge-sparrow, and a female shilfa. The redbreast remained three or four weeks with me; the other two only a few days, for the severity of the storm relaxed very soon. Who trade in tortures ?--P. 131. I. 9. "Some refuse sustenance and die. In the ships of Surgeons Falconbridge, Wilson, and Trotter, and of Messrs Millar and Town, are instances of their starving themselves to death. In all these they were compelled, some by whipping, and others by the thumb-screw,* and other means, to take their food; but all punishment was ineffectual, they were determined to die. In the very act of chastisement, Mr Wilson says, they have looked up at him, and said, with a smile, Presently we shall be no more."--e."---Abridgement of the Evidence relative to the Slave Trade, 13. 14. "To show the severity of this punishment, Mr Dove says, that, while two slaves were thumb-screwed, the sweat ran down their faces, and they trembled as under a violent ague fit. Mr Ellison has known them to die, a mortification having taken place in their thumbs, in consequence of these screws," Whose human cargoes carefully are packt, The act of Parliament, by which a certain space is allotted to each slave, has, no doubt, alleviated the miseries of what is called the middle passage. I doubt, however, if the penalty of L. 30 for each slave, beyond the complement, be a punishment sufficiently severe. As to the present state of the slaves in the West Indies, and the spirit which pervades the Colonial Assemblies, a pretty accurate notion may be formed from the following extracts of letters from the Governor of Barbadoes: During the session of Parliament, 1804, the following extract of a letter from Lord Seaforth, the governor of Barbadoes, to Lord Hobart, dated at Barbadoes, the 18th of March, 1802, was laid on the table of the House of Commons. "Your Lordship will observe, in the last day's proceedings of the Assembly, that the majority of the House had taken considerable offence at a message of mine, recommending an act to be passed, to make the murder of a slave felony. At present, the fine for the crime is only fifteen pounds currency, or ELEVEN POUNDS FOUR SHILLINGS sterling." On the 13th of November, 1804, his Lordship thus writes to Earl Camden: "I inclose four papers, containing, from different quarters, reports on the horrid murders I mentioned in some former letters. They are selected from a great number, among which there is not one in contradiction of the horrible facts, though several |