delightful tenderness were united great boldness and manliness of natural intellect, and patience and heroism of heart.

His Christian character was adjusted in fine proportions. The ascetic, the superstitious, the fanatical, or the harsh, had in him no place. Humble before God, he was courteous but not servile before man. A lover of peace, he made no man an offender for a word. His faith bordered not on presumption, and yet it was firm. His love to God's people was strong and self-sacrificing.

As a public servant of the Lord Jesus, he was entitled to great veneration. He ever held fast the form of sound words. At no period of his ministry was he suspected by good men of any defection from the truth. He was beyond all charges of heterodoxy. But he did not rest in heartless orthodoxy. He ever held that it was good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and he was greatly successful in winning souls to Christ, and in edifying believers. The blessing of God richly descended on him with the laying on of the hands of the Presbytery.

Nor was he less useful in edifying God's people than in the conversion of sinners. He fed the sheep-he fed the lambs. The feeblest and the strongest had each their portion in due season.

But the great success of Dr. Cuyler was not the fruit of other men's labors, but the result of his own toils and progress owned by God. His intimate friend and honored brother, Rev. Dr. De Witt, has said that he had never known a minister whose uniform course in the ministerial and pastoral work had been more distinctly marked by unwearied, assiduous, and punctual devotedness to its duties than that of Dr. Cuyler.

Nor was Dr. Cuyler a mere pastor. His warm heart and liberal views made him the friend of all wise plans of propagating and defending the truth. He was among the most active and influential of all the friends of our national benevolent societies.

In the Presbyterian Church he was very greatly distinguished for the amount of confidence and influence which he acquired while connected with it. He has several times been a member of its highest Judicatory, and when there, how wise and faithful he has been, the records will show, and many will testify.

His long and useful life terminated on the 31st of August, 1850, in a death so peaceful and serene, and so full of Christian hope and

More simplicity, more dignity,

triumph, as men have rarely seen. and richer eloquence have seldom marked the words of the dying man. On the 4th September, his remains were followed to the grave at Laurel Hill Cemetery by a very large number of the most respectable citizens of Philadelphia, without regard to denomination, with tokens of the deepest reverence and esteem for his character. True it was, as was eloquently remarked in a most affecting funeral address delivered by the Rev. Dr. Plumer, “On the death of such a man the circle of mourners is wide. I have lost one of the most kind and paternal friends I ever had. Hundreds of other ministers and thousands of private Christians can say the same, for Dr. Cuyler loved the image of God wherever he saw it. But while nature weeps, grace may sing of the wonders of God's mercy. 'Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace.' The death of such a man as Dr. Cuyler may well make us willing to die. Heaven is becoming more attractive every day by the removal from the Church militant to the Church triumphant of such men as he whose mortal remains are now before us."

COMMODORE RICHARD DALE.

RICHARD DALE was born, on the 6th day of November, 1756, in Norfolk County, Virginia. He was descended from a highly respectable family. His parents were both natives of Virginia. His father left five children, of whom Richard was the eldest. Having manifested a strong predilection for the sea, Richard was allowed, at twelve years of age, to enter on board a vessel commanded by his uncle, with whom he made a voyage to Liverpool and back. Subsequently, he made several voyages to the West Indies; and, in 1775, when nineteen years of age, was chief officer of a valuable brig. He had early and various experience of the hazards of a sailor's life. He remained in the merchant service till the spring of 1776. The revolutionary fervor was now excited. The best of the youthful blood of the land was roused. Our young sailor is accordingly presented to us early in 1776 as a lieutenant of a vessel

of war belonging to Virginia. While on public duty in James River, in a small craft, he was captured by a tender of the Liverpool frigate; he was carried to Norfolk, put on board a prison-ship, and confined there for several weeks.

It was in the summer of 1776, however, that he commenced his career as an officer of the United States Navy, in the character of a midshipman on board of the brig Lexington, Captain John Barry. The Lexington sailed, in the autumn of 1776, for Cape François, and a cruise, under the orders of Captain Hallock, the gallant Barry having been appointed to the command of a frigate. In December, 1776, the Lexington was captured by the Liverpool frigate off the capes of Virginia. In consequence of a sudden gale, the captors could take out only the captain and five of the crew, Dale, then acting as master's mate, being one of the number. The officers and crew who remained on board retook the brig, and carried her to Baltimore. Dale was landed, with some of his fellow-prisoners, at Cape Henlopen, in January, 1777. He immediately repaired to Philadelphia, where he was ordered to join the Lexington again, now commanded by Captain Henry Johnson. Dale was several times taken prisoner, and on one occasion was indebted to his own prompt sagacity and persevering boldness for his relief. In February, 1779, after more than a year's captivity, embittered as it was, he again escaped. He accomplished this by walking out of prison in the full uniform of a British officer, the guard having no suspicion of the truth till Dale was enabled to elude pursuit. How he obtained this uniform remained a secret. He repaired without delay to London, and by fortunate management and address, procured a passport to go to France. In a short time he arrived at L'Orient, where, with elate and buoyant spirit, he joined, in the character of master's mate, the renowned Paul Jones.

After three months' employment, at the age of twenty-two, Dale was selected by the discriminating eye of Captain Jones, to be his first lieutenant, and was in service with him on board the American frigate Bonne Homme Richard, of forty guns and three hundred and seventy-five men, in the engagement with the British frigate Serapis, Captain Pearson, of forty-four guns, which was captured by the American frigate. How well he deserved the confidence thus bestowed, was abundantly demonstrated by the noble part

which he took, with this distinguished commander, in a series of exploits, which for prowess and intrepidity surpass the fictions of poetry, and distance the marvels of romance.

In 1781, Dale was most usefully employed with two public schooners in Delaware Bay, in successfully convoying the public stores to Philadelphia, and dispersing the marauding refugees who aimed at intercepting those supplies.

In July of this year, Dale sailed from the capes of Delaware as lieutenant of the Trumbull frigate, Captain James Nicholson. When at sea but a few hours, they fell in with a British frigate and sloopof-war. After a severe engagement in a dark and stormy night, the Trumbull, having been crippled by the gale, was compelled to strike her flag to a force vastly superior. Lieutenant Dale was severely wounded in this encounter. In a short time he was put on Long Island a prisoner on parole; he was soon afterwards exchanged, and, in November, 1781, returned to Philadelphia.

Commodore Dale married, in 1791, a Philadelphia lady by the name of Crathorne, became a rigid member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and was a manager of several religious societies.

The government had now no occasion for his services. He accordingly obtained the command of a large merchant ship, "The Queen of France," mounting twelve six-pounders, and sailed for L'Orient in the spring of 1782. On the passage he had a spirited conflict with a British privateer of fourteen guns, and succeeded in beating her off, both vessels sustaining very heavy damage. Captain Dale returned to Philadelphia in February, 1783.

In 1794, he was selected by President Washington to be one of the six captains of the naval establishment, for which provision had just been made. He was the fourth in rank. He was appointed to superintend the construction of a large frigate at Norfolk. The government, however, having deferred building her, he obtained a furlough, and continued industriously engaged in the Canton trade till 1798. At this period, war with France was generally expected, and the government purchased several large vessels to be converted into ships of war. One of them, the Ganges, was assigned to Captain Dale, who had recently commanded her as a merchant ship. After she was equipped for service, some misunderstanding arose with respect to rank. Dale obtained a furlough until the matter

could be adjusted. On his return to Philadelphia in April, 1800, from a Canton voyage, he was happy to find the point of rank settled to his entire satisfaction. He now received orders to hold himself ready for important service, and in May, 1801, was appointed to command the squadron of observation about to sail from Hampton Roads to the Mediterranean.

Having hoisted his broad pendant on board the President, he sailed on the 1st of June, with the squadron, consisting of the President frigate, Captain James Barron; the Philadelphia frigate, Captain Samuel Barron; the Essex frigate, Captain William Bainbridge; and the schooner Enterprise, Lieutenant Andrew Sterrett. He found lying at Gibraltar the High Admiral of Tripoli, with a ship of twenty-six guns and two hundred and sixty men, and a brig of sixteen guns and one hundred and sixty men. These vessels had arrived only the day before. Although the Admiral disclaimed any knowledge of hostile views on the part of the Bey, his master, yet Commodore Dale formed and acted upon the opinion that he designed to cruise against American vessels in the Western Ocean. The Philadelphia was accordingly ordered to lie on and off Gibraltar, to watch the Tripolitan, and if he ventured out to capture him. In despair of eluding this vigilance, the Admiral soon dismantled his ships and discharged his crews. Authentic information obtained in the Mediterranean, placed beyond doubt the hostile intentions of the Bey, and confirmed the propriety and value of the determination of the American commander.

In the summer of 1802, Commodore Dale arrived in Hampton Roads. In this squadron, and under the sailor-like accomplishments of Commodore Dale, several of our gallant naval officers received their earliest instruction, and the noble stamp of seamanship which proved so true in the war of 1812.

During the war of 1812, he was one day accosted by the celebrated punster, Judge Richard Peters, who said that "he had just heard that the British General Hill was about landing some where below on the Delaware. If such be the case," said the Judge," I suppose it will be up hill and down dale;" a pun rather at the expense of the Americans.

There is one trait of Commodore Dale's character which must not be omitted. He himself deemed it of far more importance