the compromife (themfelves had offered) by infamous mifreprefentations of the conduct of those Commanders, of whofe generofity they made ufe, to defame, and then to rob them! For no fooner had they fhipped off the property, and got it fafe away from the power of the Commanders, than they began to demur at paying the ftipulated fum, particularly at St. Lucia, which island had agreed to pay one hundred and fifty thousand pounds.

"Situated as I was, and having an opportunity of drawing my conclufions on the fpot, I venture, with a very ftrong confidence of its truth, to relate the following as the fecret hiftory of this bufinefs. An agent for the prizes at St. Lucia, joining one of the agents who had already been employed in the fale of the vendible property at Martinique (poffibly piqued by fome diminution of confidence which the Commanders in Chief from good reafon had betrayed towards them) no fooner met the inhabitants of St. Lucia, whom he had convened on the fubject of raising the ftipulated compromife for the plunder, than he offered, with an unparalleled duplicity, while confeffing himfelf fent on the part of the captors, to fuggeft a mode by which the payment of this debt of honour might be evaded. Send,' faid he, an immediate deputation to the English government, anticipate the ftory of the Commanders, and a prohibition will inftantly iffue.' The deputation was fent without lofs of time they relied on fecuring a large body of English merchants, particularly thofe in the Weft Indies, on their fide; and their reliance was well placed, for they relied on that which they could eafily prove to be their intereft. The truth is, that many of thefe Weft India traders had carried on an illicit traffic to the French iflands before they were captured; and in confequence of it had at the time of the capture immenfe fums ftill due to them. Apprehending, therefore, that the payment of this contribution might retard, or even endanger, the difcharge of their own debts, they joined heartily in every fcheme for defeating this juft and prior claim. They encouraged the French in their oppofition, they mifreprefented the facts to England; they attempted to blaft the laurels of the Commanders; and became clamorous against the cruelty of plunder, and illegality and impolicy of confifcation, that they might enjoy the rewards of their own treafon. While this plot was fecretly carrying on, and a heavy ftorm brooding over their heads, the General and Admiral were proceeding in their expedition against Guadaloupe, little fufpicious, till the difpatches from England difcovered the fuccefs with which the artful ftories of this party had been attended." P. 103.

We cannot refift the defire of adding the following particulars, refpecting two men, whofe names are fo generally known, as General Arnold, and Victor Hughes. Of the former, we find this account.

"The celebrated Brigadier General Arnold, being on business of a mercantile nature at Point à Pitre, was captured at the time the place fell into the hands of the republicans, and, being apprehenfive of ill treatment, changed his name to Anderfon. He was put on board a prifon-fhip in the harbour, and had confiderable property in cash with him, of which, it is fuppofed, Fremont and Victor Hughes were in

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formed, as he received an intimation from one of the French fentries, that he was known, and would foon be guillotined. On this alarming intelligence, he determined to attempt an efcape, which he effected in the following mafterly manner. At night he lowered into the fea a cafk containing clothes and valuables, with a direction on it, that if it floated to the fhore of our camp at Berville, it might be known, and reftored to him; he then lowered down his cloak bag to a final raft which he had prepared, on which alfo he got himfelt, and proceeded to a small canoe, in which he pushed for the British fleet, directed by the Admiral's lights. On his making towards the mouth of the harbour, he was challenged by the French row guard, but by the darkness of the night efcaped from them, and arrived on board the Boyne, by four o'clock on Monday morning, the 30th of June." P. 127.

Of Victor Hughes, Mr. Willyams relates the following circumstances:

"So much having been faid of this man, it may be agreeable to the reader to be informed of his origin, and purfuits in the former part of his life. Victor Hughes was originally a petty inn keeper at Baffe Terre, Guadaloupe; from whence he was driven for fome mifdemeanor, and became mafter of a fmall trading veffel as St. Domingo; then a lieutenant in the French navy; and afterwards a deputy in the national affembly: from whence he came out to the Weft Indies as commiffioner, with controlling powers over the commanders of the army and navy. His abilities were certainly good, his courage and perfeverance undoubted; but, from the ferocity of his character, he was both feared and hated. Colonel Drummond, who with his fmall party was taken at Point Bacchus, relates that the republicans put to death all the fick they found in the hofpital at Petit Bourg, many of the women, and fonte children, cutting off heads, and otherwife mutilating the bodies; that, as the men who furrendered with him at Point Bacchus, fainted in their march, they were inftantly bayonetted; the Colonel himfelf was, by particular directions from Victor Hughes, ordered to clean the prifon-fhip in turn with the others; but from this difgrace he was relieved by the dutiful attachment of his men, who would not permit it: his food and lodging were the fame as the reft, no attention being paid to his rank; but from the refpect and good behaviour of his men, not one of whom would defert from him. A great, number of people of all ages, fexes, and conditions, were condemned to the guillotine by this inexorable tyrant, all of whom were conducted in boats round the prifon-fhip, in order to diftrefs and intimidate the British prifoners.". P. 148.

If any thing can alleviate the regret which an Englishman naturally feels, at the fubfequent recapture of Guadaloupe (the caufes of which are properly explained by Mr. Willyams) and the horrid barbarities practifed by the French, on regaining the island, it is the contemplation of the gallant defence of Fort Matilda, by General Prefcott, and his masterly and fuccefsful retreat from it.

Called by the French, Fort St. Charles.

ART. VI. A Sermon, preached before the Affociation for dif countenancing Vice, and promoting the Practice of Religion and Virtue, in St. Ann's Church, Dublin, on Thursday, the 5th of May, 196. By the Rev. William Magee, B. D. Junior Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, Member of the Royal Irish Academy, and Cor. Member of the Literary and Philofophical Society of Manchester, 8vo. 82 pp. IS. Dublin printed; reprinted for Cadell and Davies, London.

AFTER an exordium fomewhat too rhetorical, the preacher ftates the general object of his difcourfe (on Jofhua xxiv, 15) namely, to animate the efforts of his hearers in the great cause they had undertaken; the discountenancing of vice, and the promoting of the practice of religion and virtue. In order to accomplish this object, he, Ift, difplays the excellence of that for which they contend; 2dly, the neceffity which the prefent time furnishes for fuch exertions; and, laftly, the means moft likely to crown thofe exertions with fuccefs.

Thefe topics are infifted upon by the preacher with such a found, vigorous, and impreffive eloquence, as juftly obtained for him the unanimous thanks of the affociation, moved by the Lord Primate, and feconded by the Archbishop of Dublin; the Lord Lieutenant being in the chair, and promoting the request for the printing of the difcourfe. We fhall gratify our readers by a few extracts.

"It is urged, that the advantages of Chriftianity, with regard to individual virtue, have been much overrated-and that in the Chriftian world, vice and immorality are ftill found to prevail.-Now I will only afk, whether where this immorality is found to prevail, there does not prevail irreligion alfo-and whether the man, who indulges in habitual vice, has not, in the first inftance, releafed his confcience from a fenfe of Chriftian obligation?-What denomination he may precepts af Chrifwear, is of little moment-the man who violates the tianity, is not a Chriftian-and to object his vices to the religion which he rejects, is a fpecies of reafoning well fuited to thofe, who refift the caufe of virtue, and of truth-the value of the religion is to be judged of by its natural tendency, and by an actual effect upon thofe, who are governed by its influence-that even in countries where Christianity is profeffed, there are many, to whom that influence has not extended, can furnifh no argument against a fyftem, which works not by phyfical compulfion.

"But let not the infidel triumph in the inefficacy of the Gospel -let him confider, that the multitudes which it filently leads to piety and goodness, are unobtrufive, and unknown-and that many, even of thofe who difgrace the Chriftian name, may poffibly have been kept

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back from greater enormities, by the reftraints which Chriftianity may have wrought into their early habits, or which it may indirectly impofe through the medium of fociety." P. 29.

"Let me then implore even thofe who can eftimate religion only by its temporal effects, to awake at length to the confequences of its dereliction, and to unite with the friends of virtue in ftemming the torrent of public immorality-if they can yet remain fo blind as not to fee that the deftruction of focial order is the natural product of national irreligion, let me entreat them to turn their eyes to the profeffed opponents of government and fubordination, and obferve in what manner they execute their fchemes of fubverfion-whether it be not their plan to fow the feed of infurrection by fcattering the principles of infidelity-and whether they do not make regular preparation for Overturning allegiance to the magiftrate, by ftripping men of allegiance to their God?

"For what has been the fact? Have we not feen for fome time paft a regular fyftematic diffufion of Atheism through the land-focieties deliberately formed for the purpofe--their united talents and treasures charitably employed to reduce the abftrufeness, and the bulk of ancient blafphemies within the apprehenfion and the purchase of the multitude

and thus, a fyftem of diabolical retail (as it were) established, by which even a pennyworth of Atheism is ready prepared for the poorthe very infant furnished with his primmer of infidelity--and the mendicant enabled to pick up the poifoned morfel on the highway. And by whom has been conducted this procefs of modern illumination? Is it not by the very perfons who have been labouring to disturb the public peace, and to overturn the conftitution? They knew too well that religion is the only bafis of focial order-they had seen the jame methods fuccefsful in a late unhappy inftance-and they naturally looked for the fame confequences-that the fame confequences have not followed, demands our fervent gratitude to the gracious Difpofer of events; who, by bringing to light their wicked counfels, and profpering the falutary endeavours of our political protectors, has reserved us yet for further trial-and enabled us, if we will, to return to his righteoufnefs and be faved." P. 39.

We truft, that the following warning is not rendered neceffary by the conduct of many among our country-women. But in these times warnings of every kind are falutary.

"It is a fact, unhappily too notorious in this country to need any additional teftimony, that short and popular Atheistical tracts have for fome time back been circulated through every part of the kingdom, but cfpecially the north, with a degree of fyftem and zeal which have fcarcely ever been exceeded; and that they have not only been fent abroad at prices fo reduced as to make them acceffible to all, but have been diftributed amongft the pea fants, and literally fcattered along the bighways, by perfons fpecially employed to travel through the country for this very purpose."

"If ever the women of any country fhall become fo far vicious, as to have thrown off all reftraints of religion and decorum, and shall be able to turn the fcale of fashion in their favour, fo as to glory in their fhame, and triumph in their difhonour-the fate of that country is decided the defcent to vice is no longer gradual-the fences of virtue are every where borne down by a fweeping and refiftlefs torrent -and the land is deluged with abominations." P. P. 43.

"Alas! my brethren, it is alarming to reflect upon those vicious practices that difgrace every rank and defcription of the community; it is alarming to reflect upon that diffoluteness and diffipation which have nearly extinguifhed every moral and religious feeling; and in which we fearlessly indulge whilft we hang over the verge of a frightful precipice, which foreign and domestic enemies have prepared for our deftruction. Dreadful infatuation!-when the judgments of the Lord are abroad upon the earth; when the vifitations of an infulted God are feen levelling the lofty mockers of his might; when the finger of defolation is beheld tracing in characters of vengeance the doom of nations-shall we difport ourselves in the revels of guilty pleasure, and flumber securely on the couch of fin, whilft the crash of Almighty vengeance thunders all around?-If fuch be our infenfibility, then are you, who have stationed yourselves as the fentinels of religion, called on to exert a tenfold vigilance, to found in our ears the ruin that awaits us, to roufe us from the deadly trance, and to gird us with the armour of falvation.

"Upon the whole, my fellow Chriftians, if ever there was a time when your exertions, and the exertions of all good men were indifpenfible, it is the prefent ;-in an age, which, infected with the vanities of reafon, and intoxicated with the pride of philofophy, affects to deride the great truths of Chrift's holy religion, and mock at the fublime myfteries of our redemption;-at a day, when a fpirit of wild licentiousness, claiming the name of liberality, fweeps away all diftinctions, and mixes all extremes; when religious fentiment is ftigmatized as prejudice, and the fimplicity of God's facred word is branded with the name of folly; when the refinements of what is called civilization have frittered away the boundaries of right and wrong; and the fpeculative corruptions of the understanding, communicating their depravity to the heart, have fpread their pollutions through every channel of the community; when we see the fanctions of the highest names confirming examples of irreligion, and creating a fashion that rapidly circulates their vices through every clafs, and fhoots the poifon of their crimes through every member of the public body, until at laft the fatal leffon has returned upon themselves; and thofe whom they had taught to difrefpect their God, have learned to defpife their governors; when the fupport of the laws has become a mark for popular revenge; when affaffination has been reduced to Lyftem; when the furious fpirit of innovation has gone abroad, and treafon has not feared to rear its head in our very streets; when intereft, and ambition, and voluptuoufnefs, have every where set up their idols; and the only temple, in which the boafted wisdom of the present day refufes to bend the knee, is THE TEMPLE OF THE LIVING