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JOHNSON is said to have placed the rapid whirl of a post-chaise among the chief enjoyments of life; and who has not witnessed with feelings of envy the bustling preparations of the gay travelling chariot, waiting for its horses as well as its inmates, at some door of fashion in Grosvenor-place, just when August is far enough advanced to give a frosty freshness to the morning air? The lofty imperial packed almost to bursting, the ponderous well, the hat-boxes, gun-cases, bags and reticules innumerable, some lashed on with difficulty behind, and others impatiently crammed in before, above, below, in every corner-my lord's portfolio, my lady's dressing-case, the pockets stuffed with papers, road-books, eau-de-cologne, and biscuits; the very noise and confusion of the multifarious arrangement-all combine to assist that pleasurable excitement which Englishmen invariably derive from loco-motion; and when the boys have carefully strapped on their coats to the fore-carriage, and John has comfortably adjusted himself by the side of Abigail in the dickey, which of the gaping byestanders can repress the wish that he were also about to be enveloped in clouds of travelling dust, for the next four and twenty hours of existence?

Travelling is undoubtedly the Englishman's delight; but they do injustice to his character who ascribe this peculiarity to idleness, or to a love of change. We believe that it springs from a higher and a commendable motive-a desire of acquiring information from that most fertile of all sources, observation of men and manners. In these days of intellectual progress it appears to be a growing fashion to trust too much to books. The schoolmaster has become a little pedantic by his walks abroad; and such is the superabundance of cheap literature, in the form of Penny Magazines, Penny Novelists, and even Penny Encyclopædias, that, ere long, it will be necessary to read as well as print by steam, if we wish to keep pace with our shoe blacks in intelligence. Union of these resources then may not be ill-timed. We cannot, indeed, travel far for a penny; the posting-market, alas!

has fallen very little within our recollec- this and a similar character we will intion, and with all the advantages of steam, deed speak out. Here we challenge conomnibuses, and railways into the bargain, troversy; we seek information, and we it costs a fortune to breakfast with a have taken the best means of obtaining it. friend at Dublin. A penny a mile will We rejoice to have it in our power to carry us very slowly over our ground; announce, that concurring as we do most but we hope by diligence to accomplish a heartily in their principles and proceedmile a week; and if it is doubted whetherings, the Agency Anti-Slavery Society this is sufficient speed, let any observing have promised us their countenance in man start from his own door, with his eyes every way. We shall be happy to render open, and walking a mile in any direction, in return whatever assistance we can give ask himself, at the end of it, if a week or to promote their cause upon the plan a month will suffice for a thorough inves- which they have adopted. We shall very tigation of the objects on either side of shortly revert to this important subject, his path. and upon this, and indeed on all of general But to drop our metaphor, lest it should interest, we earnestly intreat the commubecome as wearisome as one of those in-nications of correspondents. Where such terminable avenues that now and then communications are authenticated, they baulk the traveller's eye in France, our will be published, unless libellous in their purpose is to publish such a compilation expressions; and where they are not auof matter as shall prove both instructive thenticated, they will be preserved for a and amusing. We desire to give it all time, to ascertain whether they are subthe variety as well as the reality of travel. stantiated by subsequent events, and As far as we have fallen in with the may still be usefully published. Penny Publications to which we have alluded, none of them have adopted the miscellaneous, and yet in some respects the peculiar plan, on which "THE TOURIST" will be conducted. We think it right at once to avow that the object we have in view is entirely philanthropic, and that if our engagement is successful and leaves any profit, it will be applied to a cause of benevolence. Should we succeed in establishing a circle of subscribers that will maintain it in existence without loss, we shall not hesitate hereafter to explain ourselves, without reserve.

We cannot describe our plan more truly than our title implies it. We wish to give a tour of life; to observe that which is passing around us is forbidden. Perhaps the day is not distant when a more desirable tax may be found as a substitute for that part of the budget which mulcts the circulation of intelligence. At present, however, we are restricted to the observation of what has passed, or to the anticipation of what may occur hereafter. It is not our purpose to harass our readers with much original matter of any kind under the head of editorial remarks. There is nothing new under the sun, and, most assuredly the novelty of "leading articles" is of the most antiquated hue. The ponderosity or the prosing propriety of some, the tart acuteness or the snapping petulance of others, all partake of the cloying of satiety. No readers will thank us for aping either the one or the other.

There are some subjects of paramount interest which, though intimately connected with political considerations, involve the civil and religious rights of mankind. Amongst which are Colonial Slavery and Reform of our Criminal Law. On these we must speak frequently. They will undoubtedly occupy a large portion of our columns. On topics of

A prominent part of our Magazine will be occupied with anecdote and incidents extracted from Modern Travels: we hope thus to realize the promise we have given, in an entertaining manner, and with much instruction as well as entertainment, for books of this description are necessarily expensive, and inaccessible to the mass of readers. Travellers have the privilege of lying, and we are as likely as our neighbours to be taken in by them all, therefore, that we can undertake, is to exercise proper vigilance in our selections; should we be favoured with original matter, under this head, we shall never object to its publication on the responsibility of our Correspondent.

The last experiment we propose to make upon the public taste is, we believe, quite novel in its character, at least we have never seen it systematically attempted. Occasionally some able letters appear in the public journals, pointing at the hardships or inconveniences to which particular trades are exposed: but their insertion is of necessity so uncertain, and regulated so much by the general interest which the public may feel on the subjects of them, that they frequently fail in obtaining for their writers the desired information or relief. We propose to dedicate a page or two to communications of this nature, so that the tradesman or mechanic may calculate with certainty on his complaints meeting the eyes of his brother tradesmen, and obtaining that consideration which is desirable. There are, however, one or two important stipulations which we are obliged to make with correspondents of this class. Their letters must be confined to matters of general interest to the trade or occupation to which they refer, otherwise they become Advertisements: they must also be limited to some ten or twelve lines of letter-press, unless they relate to some

important subject that obviously does not admit of compression: and lastly, as all the value of such complaints depends upon their authority, the name and address of the writer must be published with his letter. On these terms, we hope to make the "TOURIST" perform one of the importa nt functions of the Scottish merchant of former days, by becoming the convenie nt vehicle of all the trading intelligence of the community.

Such, then, is our general design, and ere the supercilious critic condemns it (for we are all critics now a-days), let him recollect the varied scenery and multiplied diversities of soil, and climate, and situation, that mark the Tourist's progress; now mounted with cockney dignity on the box of a Brighton coach, then venturing a neck in the roofless, springless shay of the Emerald Isle! At one moment wrapt in delightful anticipation of the prawns and chocolate of "the Marine Hotel!" and the next, snuffing the balmy air, after ejecting "a pet pig" from its luxurious couch on the drawing-room hearth of an Irish tavern:* imprisoned to-day on the deck of a Margate hoy, shifting from one leg to the other, for want of space for both, and for lack of better occupation counting the endless succession of Gravesend steamers; to-morrow, treading the broad plank of a British frigate, and gazing with rapture on the bold, clear outline of the Andalusian mountains, relieved against the bright azure of a southern sky; or viewing that sky reflected in the calm deep waters of the bay of Naples: now scanning with eagle eye some Alpine glacier, and then swinging in a filthy basket down the bottomless shaft of a Durham coal pit. And thus we might depict his route in never-ending contrast, that would justify far greater variety than we, who emulate his career, venture to propose. In one point, we fear, the resemblance may prove too correct. The most agreeable post-chaise companion will at times be dull; the lovely romance of nature will at length give place to boundless heaths, and barren commons. But the Tourist and his friend take each other for better or worse; and if they are wise, they will on such occasions hurry on the post-boy, and go to sleep till the next stage. But there is an advantage which we fully purpose to secure to our fellow-travellers, and of which the character, whose name we take, too often makes his boast in vain.

In our own persons, whatever we assert, shall be the truth: we may be deceived; we affect not to be wiser than those around us; and deception seems the universal game of all mankind, but knowingly and wilfully, we will not be made the instruments of deception.

* A fact.

ORIGINAL PAPERS.

ADVENTURE WITH A CAPTAIN-GENERAL.

Grenada, June 11.

eyes,

Truth of sentiment, truth of judgment, up, and darted a glance through the truth of principle, as well as truth of front opening of our canvas roof. There fact, shall be the characteristics of "THE were our seven trusty mules, fairly TOURIST;" and while we can well foresee brought to an anchor, and tumbling over that adherence to this rule will raise us one another, by the assistance of a rope a host of personal enemies, we care little drawn right across the road. In advance for the enmity of those whom truth can of them, I discovered five horsemen, clad alienate, and value highly their patronage in the Andalusian costume, with emwhom it will make our friends. broidered trappings of gold and silver, and fierce enough of mien to have horrified the very imps of the lower regions, galloping down upon us on wild,south-countrybarbs. Each of them had four pistols in his holsters, two muskets lashed to his horse behind him, a cutlass dangling by his side, a long knife bared in his girdle, and a blunderbuss-the muzzle of which presented itself most uninvitingly between his charger's ears-levelled in his right hand. At the first blush of the affair, I fancied my dreaming faculties were amusing me with the freak of one of Wouvermann's banditti scenes; but no sooner did I hear the Captain roar out-“ A tierra, boca abajo ladrones !"-To the ground! downwith yourmouths,rascals!— than all the waking terror of reality shot across my mind. We crept and clambered, one loathingly after another, out of our nest, gained the advance of our mules, and laid ourselves in all humility at full stretch in the dust. Our driver, nothing daunted at an incident which had apparently lost the merit of novelty in his squatted himself down like a frog, in expectation of the next word of command; and as to the poor Padre, he sat on his feet, with his head between his ankles, as you may have seen a duck just before he dives under water, sending Paternoster after Ave Maria! in most voluble succession. "Up, scoundrel! tumble down the trunks from the waggon!" thundered in the driver's ears, accompanied by a gesture, wherewith the Captain designed to assure us, that no bodily harm impended, provided each quietly dropped his purse and watch into the driver's hat, which he held out to us as any street beggar would have done; with this difference only, that the one waylays us, whilst we limped to him. I was the last to approach his stirrup, for my purse was a heavy one, and distanced every other hollow in the clattering dignity of its descent; next followed my watch: I took a last glimpse at its faithful features; they spoke of many a less disastrous hour: we parted from each other at thirty minutes past ten, to a second; and I laid it gently to rest, lest their brittle veil should be "rudely entreated." We had all made our offerings; at the third evolution, the Captain drew forth a large bag of leather, and, horrible to think! turned the entire contents of the driver's hat into it at asingle fillip, without the slightest bowels of compassion towards the ill-stared glasses. "Comrade!" now hallooed the Captain to one of the band, "Go, and turn the trunks

OUR friend *** remaining confined to his bed, and my time being too precious to be thrown awayanylonger at Malaga, Iler him in excellent hands, and took a place, for want of a more decent conveyance, in what is called a "Galera." The vehicle is neither better nor worse than a waggon drawn by seven mules. Bales and chests have the first privilege of the entrèe, and after their accommodation has been duly provided for, the live lumber are welcome to look after theirs, as best they may. There were seven of us in this predicament, including a pader and his niece, a beautiful lass of seventeen. It was seven when we turned our backs on Malaga; the heat of the day was amply atoned for by the refreshing breeze and chastened silvery moonlight of the night; and by eight the next evening we had made tedious way, over hill and dale, through lonely defiles, and a country void of all human imprint, but here and there a solitary cross, betokening the violent exit of some poor pilgrim like myself, to Loxa, an old Moorish town, where our jaded beasts were indulged with three hours' halt. By midnight, we were billetted in a most ill-omened looking inn; here we had to contend for a meal with fourteen ravenous, whole-starved cats, one of which having be-plagued and be-clawed a fellowtraveller until he menaced her feline existence with sudden extinction, her master rushed forward with a brandished carver, and letting fly every oath which the most diabolical frenzy could either vent or invent, would, I verily believe, have cut the whole seven of us bythe throat, had we not leapt up from our seats, presented a bristling front, and threatened, à l' Espagnol, to "turn him inside out if he ventured within reach of the parabola of our only defences. But let this pass; we made good our escape out of this peril, and in another hour were nodding heads together under the malice of an inexorably broiling sun, dreaming (at least I can answer for myself) of a delightful housing after hap and storm, when I was scared out of my trance by a sudden jerk of our vehicle. I jumped

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ORACLE OF ORIGINS.-No. I.

Formerly women were prohibited from marrying till they had spun a regular set of bed-furniture, and till their marcontinues till this day in all legal proceedings. riage were consequently called Spinsters, which

every trace of both had disappeared, and SPINSTERS.you, master driver, our seven mules, save one, were yoked to a burthen which none but they were pleased to find so marvellously lightened. May this said. Jose Maria never lay his hempen trap across your path. His name and feats are so much up in every corner of the Spanish peninsula, that it is but yesterday, Don Francisco de Paula, Ferdinand's brother, and his spouse deemed it expedient to avoid the main road to their estates in Andalusia, out of sheer dread lest he should "bid them welcome."

to our hand in them. Caballeros! out with your keys!-and I say, ease the offside mule of his ropes. Hang me, if it 'tisn't a dainty animal!" The Captain's fellow then came forward, after having unbuckled a sack from m the croup of his saddle, which (and I will not vouch that my eyes may not have cheated me) appeared of such gigantic dimensions, that watches, purses, trunks, mules, driver, galera, passengers, and all, might have been driven into it en masse. In a twinkling, the man opened the huge jaws of the devourer, and ordered the owner of the first trunk to his post. It was our poor Padre's hapless pre-eminence; he applied his quivering fingers to the lock, and then to the office of destituting himself of a lean and nap-worn wardrobe, the which surmounted a whole museum of rosaries, amulets, crosses, relics, and suchlike gear. But not an item in the whole passed muster. At last a mass-book, with silver clasps and corners, crept forth; and Plutus smiled at the rapidity with which it flew into the save-all. Each of my fellow-travellers was sentenced to a similar ordeal; for I had no mind to contest the palm of precedence with them, seeing that the chance of a rescue was at least worth waiting for. Never was malice of joy written in more fiend like character than on the Captain's sun-burnt brow, when his eye lighted upon my wellstored portmanteau. Not a corner was left intact; not one poor remnant, even for a memento of the slaughter, was cast among the cast-aways: the sack was already full to the brim; but by dint of a kick here, and a thrust there, and every where a hearty shaking together, of its heterogeneous contents, a vacuum was created barely adequate for the immersion of my whole retinue of comforts. As for my favourite chronometer, the Captain slipped it covertly into his jerkin- pocket, and, I would wager my existence, has to this hour forgotten to carry it to the general account of the foray. The pillage was now at an end; a retreat was sounded, and our Captain, throwing himself into his saddle with an apology for the inconvenience we had been put to, roared out, "Remember José María, Captain-general of all the flying troops in the four kingdoms!"

And now came a more amusing scene. Each party sprung forward to vindicate his right to a portion of the rags and tatters left behind; but conscience cannot be convicted of having lent any hand in the transaction: all helped themselves to what lay nearest, provided it was better than its neighbour; and thence ensued a cross-fire of words and abusive epithets, which exploded at last in a downright battle-roval of nails and fists. Bereft of every relic which I might have called my own, I stood quietly eyeing the fray, or

ORIGINAL POETRY.

THE NEGRO'S REPLY. I.

***

Ah Massa! he is a fool or knave, And his heart is steeled to me, Who says dat de poor afflicted slave Is happier dan de free.

II.

But if he be not fool or knave,

If he speak de truth of me, Then let him come and be de slave, And I will be de free.

THE WORM.

Turn, turn thy hasty foot aside,

MUNGO.

Nor crush that helpless worm;
The frame thy wayward looks deride,
Required a God to form.

The common Lord of all that move,
From whom thy being flowed,
A portion of his boundless love

On that poor worm bestowed.
The sun, the moon, the stars, he made
To all his creatures free;

And spread o'er earth the grassy blade
For worms as well as thee.
Let them enjoy their little day

Their lowly bliss receive;
Oh! do not lightly take away
The life thou canst not give.

HORRIBLE DUEL.-A number of French prisoners were confined at Stapleton prison, about five miles from Bristol, in 1805. A most fatal affray happened there between four French prisoners, owing to a dispute which arose out of a trifling gambling transaction. The two principals first engaged, having split a pair of scissors into two parts, and tied the points to the ends of two canes, with which they fought; one was soon killed.' The seconds then engaged, when another fell mortally wounded. In fact, both the friends on one side fell.

THE PULSE. In the time of Hippocrates, it was probably not more than sixty beats in a minute; from which probably originates our smallest division of time, denominated the 86,400 parts. As the human species refine, moment or second, which divides the day into probably the pulse quickens; and so completely are we machines, that like a clock, the faster we go, the sooner we are down.

BRIDEGROOM.-Groom signifies one who serves in an inferior station and it was customary for the newly-married man to wait at table on his bride and friends on his weddingday.

PIN MONEY.-Pins were acceptable newskewers which they used till the fifteenth cenyears' gifts to ladies, instead of the wooden tury; and instead of the gifts, a composition was sometimes received in money.

CHEQUERS. In early times, a chequered board, the emblem of calculation, was hung out, to indicate an office for changing money. It was afterwards adapted as the sign of an Inn, or hostelry, where victuals were sold, or strangers lodged and entertained.

BONFIRES, or BONEFIRES.-These fires are supposed to have been so called because they were generally made of bones, and some think it relates to the burning of martyrs, first fashionable in England in the reign of Henry IV. The learned Dr. Hickes gives a very different etymon; he defines a bonefire to be a festive or triumphant fire: in the Icelandic language, he says Baal signifies a burning. In the Anglo-Saxon, Bael, by a change of letters in the same organ, is made Baen, whence our Bonefire.

BREVITIES.

A century ago not one of the bridges existed which now cross the Thames. Westminster Bridge is now the oldest, and that was opened in 1747.

The gross amount contributed voluntarily in this country for the support of religious institutions, for general purposes, exceeds £300,000 annually.

Donatello, a celebrated sculptor, when giving the last stroke with his mallet, called out to the statue, "Speak!"

CLEAR EVIDENCE-Counsel: What kind of stockings were they which were stolen? Wit

ness:

Why, sir, thirty-twos, thirty-eights, forties, and other kinds.-Counsel: What do you mean by thirty-twos? Witness: Thirtytwos is thirty-twos, sir? Counsel: So I suppose, but what is a thirty-two? Witness: I told you what it was; a thirty-two's a two and thirty!

The Lord Chancellor's motto, "Pro rege, lege, grege," is not newly assumed, it has been long borne by the family, and is to be seen in an old apartment at Brougham Hall, of the age of Queen Elizabeth.

Napoleon by a word described the characters of three Consuls. Do you wish to dine badly, go to Lebrun; well, go to Cambaceres; ra

Cambaceres, a glutton; and what Buonaparte pidly, come to me. Lebrun, was a miser; was, all the world knows.

The following words were written by Sir William Jones, on the blank leaf of his Bible: "I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion, that the volume, independently of its divine origin, important history, and finer strains of elocontains more sublimity, purer morality, more quence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have

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WILLIAM WILBERFORCE.

"Jamque opus exegi, quod nec Jovis ira, nec ignis, Nec poterit ferrum, nec edax abolere vetustas."

quiries into it." Mr. Wilberforce soon after performed his promise, by joining a Society which was formed to carry the benevolent object of Clarkson's into effect; nor did he rest here, for he gave notice of a motion in the House of Commons, in the session of 1787, on the subject of THIS gentleman was born at Hull, in slavery, and prevailed on Mr. Pitt to the month of August, 1759, and received propose a Resolution, on the 9th of May his education at St John's College, Cam- in that year, pledging the House in the bridge, where he formed an acquaintance next session, to take the state of the with, and became warmly attached to, the Slave Trade into its immediate consideracelebrated William Pitt, with whom and tion. The tardiness of the House of Dr. Milner, he made his first Continental Commons, constituted as it then was, pretour. At the general election in 1780 vented the discussion of the subject until he was unanimously returned to Parlia- 1791, when he moved for leave to bring in ment for his native place, but being a Bill to prevent the further importation shortly afterwards chosen for the county of African Negroes into the British Coloof York, he made a selection of the latter, nies. This motion was lost by a majority and continued the representative of that of 75. On the 2d April, in 1792, he populous county until 1812. From that again called the notice of Parliament to period up to the end of his Parliamentary the subject, and concluded a most beaucareer in 1825, he was chosen for Bram-tiful and pathetic speech by declaring, her. At the very outset of Clarkson's that "in his exertions for the Negroes umane exertions to procure the abolition he had found happiness, though not sucf slavery, he was urged and recom- cess, which enlivened his waking, and mended to secure the co-operation of soothed his evening hours; that he carried Wilberforce. On their first interview the the topic with him to his repose, and often ords of the latter were, 66 that the sub- had the bliss of remembering, that he had et had often employed his thoughts, and demanded justice for millions who could that it was nearest his heart; and that he not ask it for themselves." When a would not rest until he made proper in- motion for "gradual" abolition was carried,

Mr. Wilberforce became rather more inspired with the hope of final success, and determined henceforward to redouble his exertions, and in 1807, during the brief Administration of Fox, his earnest entreaties, his ardent appeals to the hearts and feelings of his auditors, his splendid and Christian enthusiasm, met their reward-a Bill passed for the entire Abolition of the Slave Trade, being sanctioned by both Houses of Parliament.

His conduct as a public character was laudably independent; he lent himself to no faction, but, on all occasions, spoke and voted to the honest dictates of his conscience. Some idea-an inadequate one, we confess-may be formed of this respected gentleman, by the outline of his form, which we have the pleasure to present this day to our readers. In person he is short, and in appearance by no means dignified; but as an orator, even in the last session of his career in Parliament, he was spirited, copious, and clear.

In private life he is beloved and honoured. He was united, in 1797, to a daughter of an opulent Birmingham merchant, named Spooner, by whom he has a large family. He has devoted a long life to the cause of humanity: neither sickness nor defeat could ever arrest his benevolent exertions-the object nearest his heart has been the moral improvement of mankind; every project that would conduce to so beneficial a purpose he has promoted; every abuse that would thwart it, he has endeavoured to detect and expose. In the course of his political life he supported Catholic Emancipation and Parliamentary Reform, reprobated the Lottery as injurious to public morals insisted that the employment of boys of a tender age in the sweeping of chimnies was a most intolerable cruelty; and also, after the hostile meeting which took place between Tierney and Pitt, attempted, but in vain, to procure a Legislative enactment against duelling. By the present Lord Chancellor Brougham he has been described as the "venerable patriarch of the cause of the slaves, whose days were to be numbered by acts of benevolence and piety; whose whole life-and he prayed it might long be extended for the benefit of his fellow-creatures--had been devoted to the highest interests of religion and charity."

We cannot close this notice of our Philanthropist without observing, in the language of Mr. Knibb, "Now that he is gathering his mantle around him, and preparing for his entrance into eternity, let the attending angel, as he descends to convey his ransomed spirit to the realms of felicity, whisper in the ears of the departing saint, that ' AFRICA IS FREE!""

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He had been brought to London a few weeks previously by a Dutch gentleman, By this master he was treated as a SLAVE who purchased him as a slave at Batavia. fondled or flogged, according to the varying humour of his owNER; that he had been many years a slave but, finding he was free in England, he wished to be a slave no longer; that his master was going away in a day or two, and he feared would carry him back into slavery; and that therefore he wished to stay in England, and work for his subsistence here as a free person.

After a careful examination of the 9. Take things always by their smooth handle. received under the protection of the circumstances of the case, the boy was 10. When angry, count ten before you speak,-if very angry, a hundred. Anti-Slavery Society; the livery which he wore, and which he said belonged to his master, was sent back to the OWNER, and he was clothed anew at the Society's expense, and his immediate subsistence provided for.

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ORIGIN OF THE SLAVE-TRADE.

It will to some appear singular, that the slave-trade should have originated in an act of humanity; yet such was the fact, and exhibits an instance of one of the best and most humane men being guilty of cruelty, when his mind was unde the influence of prejudice, Barthelemi de las Casas, the Bishop of Chiapa, in Peru, witnessing the dreadful cruelty of the Spaniards to the Indians, exerted all his eloquence to prevent it. He returned to Spain, and pleading the cause of the Indians before the Emperor, Charles the Vth, in person, suggested that their place as labourers might be supplied by Negroes from Africa, who were then considered as beings under the proscription of their Maker, and fit only for beasts of burthen. The Emperor, overcome by his forcible representations, made several regulations in favour of the Indians; but it was not until the slavery of the African Negroes was substituted, that the American Indians were freed from the cruelty of the Spaniards.

HYLIAS, THE ABYSSINIAN
SLAVE BOY.

ABOUT two months ago, a black boy was brought to the office of the AntiSlavery Society by a respectable tradesman in Liverpool Street, Bishopsgate, under the following circumstances:

Next day it appeared from a report the Newspapers, that the master (Mynheer Van Cunninghen) had applied to the Lord Mayor for means to recover his lost or runaway slave; stating that the lad possessed extraordinary talents, spoke seven different languages, and was quite a treasure to him.

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Arts that respect the mind were ever reputed nobler than those that serve the body.

There are four habits essentially necessary to the proper management of temporal concerns: PUNCTUALITY, ACCURACY, STEADINESS, and DESPATCH.

merely for the furtherance of justice and the The profession of the Law was instituted preservation of right.

Socrates said that temperance promoted the knowledge of the soul, whetted the appetite, and rendered men at once both excellent and drinking without thirst, sinks both the appetite happy. Eating, said he, without hunger, and and the understanding.

The revolutions caused by the progress of truth are always beneficial to society, and are oppress it. only burthensome to those who deceive and

"I will admit," said Hogarth, "all the except those who are of the profession." world to be competent judges of my pictures,

Ray observes than an obscure and prolix author may not improperly be compared to a cuttle-fish, since he may be said to hide him

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Whoever wishes, says Augustin, to be with for when we pray we speak to God, and when God, ought always to pray and often to read: we read he speaks to us.

A Russian has published "A View of all the Known Languages, and their dialects." In this book we find in all 937 Asiatic, 587 European, 226 African, and 1284 American languages and dialects, enumerated and classed. The Bible is translated into 139 languages.

When we think of death, a thousand sins we have trode as worms beneath our feet, rise

up against us like flaming serpents.—(Scott.)

hills, once in motion, move themselves, and
The passions, like heavy bodies down steep.
know no ground but the bottom.-(Fuller.)

him too long, lest he think thee malicious;
If thou wouldst have a good servant, let thy
servant find a good master; be not angry with
nor too soon, lest he conceive thee rash; nor
too often, lest he count thee humourous...
(Quarle.)

Upon seeing this statement, Mr. Pringle
waited upon the Lord Mayor and ex-
plained to him the actual state of the
his treatment altogether different from M.
case; that the boy told a story respecting
Van Cunninghen's; but that the
rative accuracy of the conflicting state-
ments of the master and the slave was
but a secondary point:-the boy having
sought protection from slavery, or from
that protection should be afforded him, if
being carried back into that condition,
the laws of England could afford it; and
that, finally, he, as Secretary of the Anti-
Slavery Society, would be responsible I
for receiving him.
merely replied that he understood M.
The Lord Mayor
Van Cunninghen had gone to the Con-
tinent, and that he did not see that he honor.
(the Lord Mayor) could interfere farther
in the matter as it then stood.

WEST INDIA LOGIC.-A Slave Owner in the Liverpool Mercury of the 7th inst., attempts a logical and scriptural proof that Slavery is consistent with Christianity, which is so conspicuously absurd as to merit a corner in our first number. He says, infidels have in all ages been opposed to Slavery-infidels disbelieve the Bible-Ergo, Slavery is sanctioned by Scripture.

LACONICS.

"The best words of the best Authors."

bright side only to him that bears it, but looks
Vice is like a dark lanthorn, which turns its

black and dismal in another's hand.

It is the greatest of all sins, always to con

waxeth

tinue in sin, for where the custom of sinning less: it is easier to quench a spark than a fire: had rather break the cockatrice's egg than greater, the conscience for sin grows the kill a serpent.

that hath a calling hath a place of profit and A ploughman on his legs is higher

He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he

than a gentleman on his knees.

EDITOR'S BOX.

"Fiat justitia ruat cœlum."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TOURIST.

SIR: I beg to inform you that Two LECin the British Colonies, and of the advantage, TURES illustrative of the Character of Slavery safety, and practicability of its immediate Abolition, will be delivered at Ebenezer Chapel, High-street, Shoreditch, by Edward Baldwin, Esq., on Monday and Wednesday Evening next, the 17th and 19th, at half past six o'clock. Perhaps you will make it a point to drop in. Yours faithfully, M. D.

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