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tiipv rr •'(• Siivinp tOf’-vtl.cr piui'it -ali.i dflijrht. the IM EMrKRANCF,. Tlio followinj^ Rxtruct is lifiii a Sermon by Kcv. i.ynittii Deccht-r, i). D. ot J’.oston Whoever finds Ihc desire cl' (Irinkine; ardent spirits rcturninc; tinily r.t ‘tiiUMi times, is warned to deny himself iiistunt- iy, if be intends to escape eonfunied intemperance. It is infallible evidence tiiiit you have iurendy done violence to .nature—I hat the uiulcrniininp; process is htjjun—that :ne overworked orj;ans hcii;in to fl.iu:, i'»nd cry out for adventitiou^> aid, Avitli importunity which, if indult;ed, will ’necome more drep toned, nnd importu- r.nte, and ii resistible, unlii tlie power r:.c. c..- . :.x.rx; iiv’- tiio tr;ii k •{■)! e s)-:p i!i tlic I whivh pi'i furn.-v ili(‘ oi a ‘.uil, is|lnr!/!\ lionn-, flillin- aliiwarl Use di'i k—Mtlui,;; ujjon I triraKicd willi a rosy lio;'lci'. and ;,vy;ll.,, ».i> ov i i, lii «.is > I who iiad the ri}i^in.i—and sendini; up from the witl. tite winl, or at ilie r.ninial s pleas- the jMdice ofliceis, ^ j j * ■ v'avei. with- ure. T!;e l;birs contain a viscous mat- bren his feliuw-Mudent at I unity nls, and nail-! '•hieli has the property of stintnnii. lc;e, who r.iepped up to him and ban , Kucli t^toi-es ? like nettios, and jjroduoes pustule*--. It ‘ Mr. 'I one, I am very happ\ t; see yo . ‘ Fioiii ].ctl‘r!;eney the unfortunate man was hurried to Dublin, where he made two ailempia on his own existence after he l);:d been sentenced to die by a Court Mania!. The la^t of these attempts f;f *.elf-denial tined nai\ ;)iie, and you are a the vortex be|;un, ;ich, if not cherlied, will become ir.ore capac-icu':, and deep, and power- acis so stronjily, that vessels in wnich they have been kev)t for a lime must bo repeatedly washecl betore they can he used. These fibres may be eut oH, v. ithotit depriving them, or Ih.-Mcst of • • i tiicincsct. rlthcjHMinplcofliro: ami (’.vas sM. Will On tlic ol tlic s incdiiun or f.jurul. ! the jqiaration takes place spontancoai.-1 I llh ot Novembor, 1 it was discow i US from benealli, the Iv, u henever the-;lut:ncus matter comes ercd that I one had infliettd a deep ^ ,, ■ . /* |«| ,1 i«.»*•»/•! rtf* i\ ciir*rfrknti in contact with a hard surface, lik ' the sidi;y of a p;lass «:;;lobt‘. The Insect, has, howeve!, clanpjcro; (Udphins, ruiil ■•rfnl, and loud, until \he iiitercbts of and eternity are iri«;ulfed. It is here, then, beside thir, eoinmen- eiui; vortex, th;it I wouhl ta};e my stand, 1 j w.irn ofl'the heedless navipitor from ..cstruction. To all who do but heave ii:i si^lil, and with voice that s'.muld rise above the winds and waves, I would cry —‘‘ Stand ifi'!!!’’—spread the sail, ply the car, for death is liere ; and could I " command the elements, the blackness ol t.Ijjkness shouM gather over this pite- v.av to hell, and loud thunders should t'.Uer their voices, and lurul fires should blaze, and the groans nf unearthly voi ces should be heard, inspiring conster nation and flight in all who came near. For this is the parting point between those v. ho forsake danger and hide thf'm- selves, and the foolish who pass on and are punished. He wdio escapes tiiis po- riodic:il thirst of timos and seasons, \viil not be a drunkard, as he who comes T^Mihin this pow’erful attraction will be sure 10 perish. It may not be certain that every one will become a sot ; but it is certain that every one vi'ill enfeeble his body, generate disease, and shorten his days. It may not be certain that every one will sacrifice liis reputation, or squander his property, and die in the alms-house ; but it is certain that a large proportion will come to poverty and in famy, of those who yield daily to the 'periodical appetite for ardent spirits.— Here is the stopping place, and though beyond it men may struggle, and re tard, and modify their progress, none, comparatively, who go by it, will re turn again to purity of enjoyment, and the sweets of temperate liberty. The servant has become tlie master, anti, vith a rod of iron and a whip of scor pions, he will torment, even before their time, the candidates for misery in a fu ture state. It is not enough, therefore, to erect thr flag ahead, to mark the spot where the drunkard dies. It must be planted ?,t t;ie entrance of his course, proclaim ing in waving capitals—this is the WAY TO death!! Over the whole ter- lit.MV of ‘‘prudent use,” it must wave un(i warn. For if we cannot stop men in the beginning, w'C cannot scj)arate between that and the end. He who lets ardent spirits alone, befoie it is meddU d • with, is safe, ‘and he only. It should be iir every faniily, a contiahand article, or ii’it is admitted, it should be allowed fur mei;cal pur(i(»scs only. It shouhl t).' hil^cllcd as we label laudanum ; and Tt H NOT, l NOT, IIAM)LK ^UT, hold wiihiiij and fioui tlie v,’avct> v.m ! mit, groans, and loud lame j i)itr;s :—w h') would nttttnd ' who' W(Mi!tl labor in such dis'illcri^'s ? \s h''> would navigate i.uch ships r Oh! were the sky over our heads one great wliisperinggallery, britigiiig ilown about us all the lairientation and ’vo which intemperance c’-eates, ajul the firm earth one sonoious hi inging up ai oimd wnilingsof the liainaf'ij, whom the com merce in ardent ?j>iril.s had :-:ent 1 hither ; these tremendous realities; assaiiifig our sense, would invigoiate oui' consei( iice, and give decision to our purpose ol re formation. liui these evils are as leal, as if the stone tlid cry out of the v\all and the beam answered it—as real, as if day and night, wailings were heard in every part of the dwelling, and blood and skeletons were seen upon every wall — as K ell, a:> if the ghostly foi nis of departid victims, fiitted about the ship as she passed uvei- the billows, anti .snow ed tiieniseh cs nightly about stores^and distillevies, and with uncai‘.idy voices sci-eamed iu our ears their loud lament. They are as real as if the sky over our h»^'ads collected and brought ilown about u;> all the notes of sorrow in tlie laiu! enemies in ;;iiuJl medu e, against whii h, carond aitery. Tone murmured in re- neiiher its nautical skill, no.’its poison, pl\, M’m surry I’ve been so bad an W(u;nd :iero5:3 his neck. A surgeon st'';'ped the hlood ami closed it, report- * ihat th^ pri^'soi.er had missed the in can defend. 'I’o the natural phiIosuph«'r, this little animal is a curious exemplifi cation of the principles ot livdi’ostatics of hygrometry, as iis bladder i>,| iiiiaiomist.’ Stretched on his bloody pallet in a dungeon, the first apostle of Irish union, and most illustrious martyr of Irisli indeuendence, counted each perhaps, among the bot :iub'iiaaacs tiiat j lingering hour during the last stwen can he used for the dcHcnte ini>trumcnts days and nights of his slow and silent of the latter science. To the physiolo gist it has the same importance as the rest of that class of beings, of which ev ery part ik endowed with an uncommon ly strong principle of vitality ; and which have, therefore, not improperly been called biota, by Doctor Hill. To a contemplative nurid, the wonderful orgr nization of the Pliysalis must be a and the firm earth should open a pas.'age new proof that hardly any great effort ‘ ■ of human inj^er.uity, perseverance, cour age, and skill, is w'ithout a duplicate of niortt astonishing workmanship, snnpli- for the wailings of despair to come up from beneath. Nothing can he done! Why can no thing he done ? liecause the intemper ate will not stop drinking, sliall the tem perate keep on and become drunkards ? liecause the intemperate cannot be rea soned with, shall the temjierate become madmen ? Anti because force will not avail with men of independence and property, dees it follow that reason and conscience, and the fear of the Lord will have no influence ? And because the public mind is now unenlightened, and unawakened, and unconcentratefl, docs it follow that it cannot be enlightened, and aroused and concentrated in one simultaneous and siicccssful effort ? Reff>rmations as much resi‘jted by popular feeling, and impe ded by ignorance, interest anti depra ved obstinacy, have been accomplished through the medium of a rectified pub lic opinion ; and no nation ever possess ed the opportunities and the means that we possess, of correctly forming the public o{)inion—nor was a nation eVer called upon to attempt it by motives of such imperious necessity. Our all is at stake—we shall perish if we do not effect it. Tlierc is nothing that ought to be done, which a friie people cannot do. Tlir. IMIYSAMS, c'? cvrioiis Nautical Jlnimal. The first memoir, by Doct. Tilesius, in Commodore Krusenstern’s Voyage, treat.s very amply of a natural object, w’cll known by sight to those who nav igate between the tropics ; we mean that beautiful and enigmatical water in sect, commonly named the Portuguese man-of-war. This singular animal had several times been delineated, describ ed, and endowed with names, yet, not only its denominations were various but also the nature anti cliaracteristics ascribed to it. According to some it was a Polyj.us, accord ii.g to others a cit\, and sagacity, lu beings coming from the hand of the Author of crcation. If navigation is justly deemed tl'.o most daring enterprise of man, it may be con sidered as a remedy against pride to know, that there exists a worm w'hich an all-powerful Providence has at oncc made a navigator and a shij), a hydros tatic and pneumatic engine ; a being destitute of mind, atul yet one that wMtches the vvinds, and rides on the ^vavcs.—North AivjiriQan ICeview. meet (he eye on every vesbtl I Zoojdiytc, and othei.i ranged it among 7,! I' ' e(viifi!t;s it. ii not r,od connected with all I.^av- iul avc^'.’.tions the welfare of tlje life I'l.w is, and of that wliich is to C').;e? A*n'i can ^^e lawfully amass pi iiorty by a course of trade wiiieh fills the country uith hesfgars, and w’idows, anii orp'liai'.', ai.d crimt-s ; which peo ples the gn.ve-yai..1 with piemnture niortaliry, ai'.ti the woric) t>f woe with the victims of despair ? Could all the forms of e\il jjroduced in the land by ;ntcm')eraiice, con;^ ujion us in one hor rid array, it wouli! appal the nation, and r. ;t an end to tlie traflic in ardent spirits. in every dwelling built l-y hlood, the r.tone from tlie wall should utter all the tries which the bloody traific extor*s, Qiid. the beam out t>f the timber should oc'io them ^;ack, who wouhl build such fl 'u^u-e ?—and wlio W'ould dwell in it ? h?t if in every part of the dwelling from the cellar upward, through all the halls and chambers—babblings, conten tions, and voices, and groans, shrieks, nf’d v/!)i lings, \^■ero heard,day' and night.' Wha*. if the cold blood oo/.cd out, and jjtood in drop:; upon the walls ; and by preternatural art, all the ghastly skulls and bones of the victims destroyed by intemperance, should .stain! upon tin; walls, in horrid sculpture within and T\’ithout the buildiiiii—who would rear such a building? \N'hat il at evintule, and at midnight, the tiry lorms ot men J( s’fuved hv ■nl'jnTjTT'iariCf.Twere diml\ j setri haui:ting the di:^til!cric£ and 5‘rres, | ^Atmospheric Pressure.—The pres sure or weight of the atmosphere, as shown by the barometer, the sucking and air pump.^, is near 15 pounds on ev ery square inch, so that if we could en tirely squeeze out the air between our two hands, they would cling together with a fotce equal to the pressure of double this weight, because the air would press ujvon both hands ; and if we could contrive to suck or squeeze out the air between one hand and the wall, the hand would stick fast to the wall, being pressed on it with the weicht of above two hundretl weight, that is, near 15 pounds on evei y square inch of the hand. By a late most curious discovery of Sir Edward Home, it is found that this is the very process by which flies and oth er insects of a similar description are en abled to walk up perpendicular surfaces, how’ever smooth, as the sides of walls and panes of glas* in windows, and to walk as easily along the coiling of a room with their bodies downwards and their feet over heath Their feet, when examined by a microscope, are found to have flat skins or flaps, like the feet of web-footed animals, as due! s and geese; and the^ have, towards the back part or heels, but inside the skin or P.ap, two v 'ry small toes, .«o connected with the flap as to draw it close down upon the ii;las:s or vv.'ill the Hy walks on, and to squeeze out the air completely, so that there is a vacuum made between the foot anti the glass or wall. 'I'hc conse quence if, that the air presses the foot on the wall with a force greater than agony. No one was allowed to ap proach him. Far from his adored fam ily, and frt)m all those friends whom he loved so tleaily, the only forms which flitted before iiis eyes were those of the grim gaoler and rough attendants of the prison ; the only sound which fell on his dying ear, the heavy tread of the sentry. He retained, however, the calmness of his soul and the possession of his faculties to the last :—And t.iie consciousness of dying for his country, and in the cause of JumIIcc and liberty, illumined, like a brijjht halo, his lateat monients, and kept up his fortitude to the end. On the morning of the 19th of Novemiier, he was seized with the spasms of approaching tlealh. It is said, that the surgeon whispered tliat if he attemj)ted to move or .‘^[jeak, he must expire instantly ; that he overheard him, and, making a slight movement, replied, ‘ I can yet litid words to thank you. Sir ; it is the most welcome news you could give me. What should 1 wish to live for Falling back with these expres sions on his lips, he expired without further effort. ...L, t.. Ji.a U^ouicuar • .■ifi ot each sl!^.•^•s^ivl.• geiiei alien e;.pecia!ly in a (’lii-istiau cuuntrv, jn ordinarily just what the mothers'of thr preceding generation were abiy am' willing to make them. Nor is the maternal infiuonce th, whole that is to be regarded. 'I’licrci a--c other relations in which it must be s" knowledgetl, that although man is ni;i^ ter, “ yet woman steers the sliip.”! How many of th> great projects of |i>,. church and state, of war antf pcar.j, their origin in “curtain lecturcv,^' the parlour chat of conjugal affcc/ion'■ The fair daughters of Eve, and L'eliiuh and Herodias, and Abigail, aiul ll'ithc:'' have not yet lost all that sujierior p&u,' of persuasion! nor can they, so luri'-^; t!ic warmth of affection ha;* m(>re c!jm mand over the activities of man thai the coldness of calculatioti.— striking an example of this in IIk' history of Rome ; when war had hrokoi. out between that and the neighbourui'- state, and they were upon the eve of bloody battle, the wives of the Roinans who were also the daughters t;f theent*. my, sj)rung forward, and threw thcai- selves between the contending aniuor and by their tears and entreaties pre’. vented the battle, and thus savci thfc rising nation. The iriHuence of tlii (tauf;hler is often by no means trivia!. How conspicuous a place, in the earlv history of V’^irginia, is held by the cele brated Pocahontas,—throwing herseii’ between the knife of her father Powhat- tan, and his prostrate captive, Smith'- But for the influence of that heroic aivi. aifectionate daughter, where were no’.v the‘‘Ancient dominion?-* And whn can tell how many a rash brother ha% been w'ithdraw’n from his bad purpose, or confirmed in a good one, by the ten dcr entreaties of a sister,—whtise fee! ings he could not wound?—Evun.Mutr t!ie weight of tlie lly, which is thus re- isl.^ng. 'J’liose of liKewise the Mollusca, Naturalists who fidlovv- ed in the steps of Linn'’, have called it the Phijsalis. Womlerful as are all the works of Proviiience, admirably fitted as are the several parts of er.ch created being for their several functions, comjjh'X in their composition as* they sometimes at firi>t sjeeTii, while yet they are always found to be rt r.lly so s:ij;jj1c and suiuble in their ac tion, on a ne;ii. r | Miiooth surlacefi of the ice-hills among investigation, we rnav, neverthe! ■ ;s, fli'-.V live. Some kinds of lizards venture to rank Ih;*. little animated erea- j i’-'ve the same power of climbing, and ture amon'j: the most curious pheuome-1 uf creejdng with their bodies down- tia of nature. A worm, betwec i six "’ards, along the ceiling of a room. In and eight iiiclies in h-ngth, wliich is 1 the large feel of these animals, the con found but ia Certain latitudes, hass(;em* trivance is easily' observed, of the tv/o •ugly tl;p ..kill and knowled'^e of au ex- or tightncr:^, hv which the skin of INFLUKNCK OF MOTIIKUS. That the celebrated John Newton was much indebted to his excellent mo ther for the early foundation of his re ligious principles and usefulness, there can be little doubt. Indeed, this is sub stantiated by the record of his own ex- [)erience. The same may be said of the excellent Cecil; the late lamented S, J. Mills; and the learned Sir W. Jones,—to mention no others. —Ti.e lat ter ascribes all his attainments in litera ture, in which he was perhaps second to no man of his age, to a short and sim ple direction of his mother, frequently rejieated to his youthi‘ulque.stions, ^^read and yon ii'iil mjj cun.—No less ef ficacious were the pious prayers and ex amples of the mother of iNiilla, or the weeping entreaties of Cecil’ii. And what have alrcudy been the (con sequences of maternal iriliuenee in these few eases?—1 say alrvndij—for it is impossible to look forward thrcmgh the lapse of future generations, and compute that vast amount of good, which the lignt of eternity alone can disclose. —Mr. Newton’s exertions W’ere evi dently the means of forming the reli gious and moral character ofa multitude of his cotcmporaries; and among others that of Dr. Buchanan, and 'I’hos. Scott. And if we merely look at tlie icritiu!:^ of these two men, to say nothing of their more active exertions,—the ex tent of their usefulness is truly astcn- Curiovs Fad in Natural Sorr.r- workmen felled a large oak in Soufhwici. recently, and on cutting it into lof's, canv upon a cavity in the trunk near ihehivt;- limbs, from which ran out as was jtdfftd about one hundred gallons of water. th( part containing the water was perfectly sound, above, below, and around, ati'i the topmost branches were green and thrifty. As we have never heard of 2 similar circumstance, we rcftr it to ihi.: speculation of the Naturalist. U'cstf.dd R-. tained in its position. It has !ik hpen ftjund that some of the larger sea animals are, by the same construction, enabled to climb the perpendicular aiul LxKUNiTY.—That the conccpiion ef eternity may be more distinct anJ aiTcc; ing, it is useful to represent it under son.c* temporal resemblances that scuiib’y. t!:v’ not fully represent it.—Suppose that tli-'. vast ocean were distilled by drops, but iu slowly that a thousand years should p i between every drop, how many r'illior.s of years were required to empty it? Su;v pose that this great world, in its full cor.i- pass from one pole to another, and frora the top of the fimrament to the bottou, were to be filled with smallest sand, bv so slowly that every thousand years or!;- a single grain should be added, how many millions would pass away befoie it were filled.^ If the immense superficesc. Heaven, wherein are innumerable ^tars, the least of which equals the magnitude of the earth, were filled with fi^’ures ot numbers without the least vacant .spiCC. and every figure signified a million, whj: created mind could tell thfir numbcv. much less their * value.^ Havinfj diti' thoughts I reply, the sea will be eniptit'i drop by drop, the universe filled {/ain I' grai.i, the numbers wri'.ten in ibe HeJ the former, have \en5 will come to an end, and how muci' periencrd rMivij':ator, and is in itself a little ship. Its evolutions are accord ing to the winds ; it raises and lov/ers its sail, which is a membrane provided with t levating and depressing organs. When filled with air, it is so light, that it swirns on the :.urfacoof alcoht)!, and ij, at tht; same time, provided with a structure which furnit>hes it with the ne- cessr.ry ballast. When high winds would emlanger its existence, it deseentis intT the deep, anti is never seen on tht^ surfaee of the water. From the under side of tlit', body j>ro- ceetl fibres, which extend twenty feet in length, and ate so elastic delicate, tl’.at they wind in a spiioil like a crrew, serving at once as ancho.'’s, tle- teu'ive aurMjAfeiisive -wcaj/ons, puei+- milTC tubes, and fucl'jir. 'rhTTiti.vcct the foot is pinnctl down, and the a.r ex cluded in the act of walking or climb ing ; but it is the very same, only uj)on a larger scale, with the mechanism t)f a lly’s or butterfly’s foot ; a.nd both oper- atitms, the cliihbiug of the soa-liorse on tlic ice, and the c.^r.eping of the fly on the wii.dow or tlie ceiling, are perform- etl exactly by the same power, tiie v/cight of the atmosphere. J)cath of Theobafd Woife Tone.— This unfortunate gciitleman—one ol the United Irishmen who unw’isely attempL- ed by”force of arms to obtain tqual rights for his country—was on boaid a French !>hip, tlesliucil to land troops in Ireland, when it was captureil by an Kngli-^rh-squadi(-h+t We4earn f^m his iiiU:icsting nui- roused the attention of the Christian wt)vld to the wretched situation of the Hindoos, and the Pagan worid in gen eral, and already snatched thousands of llie race of man from present and ever lasting wo; anti those of th-j latter, es pecially his commentary, have been the means of preparing other thousands, or hundreds of thousands, better to join in the enjoy mentofeverlasting life. The works oi Ml'. Cecil are no'.v extensively read, with great jileasure and profit. i\nd the j)hilanlhrnpic t'xertions of S. J. Mill,; have confessetl'y led to the establishment of the American Board of Foreign Missions, and a nun.her of other benevolent societies, the existence and extensive usefulness t»f which arc now too notorious to require even to be men tioned.—Behold the islands of the Pa cific, and .Mie flourishing and promisino; colony at Liberia; and imagine a part of the extent of the influence which rnay be claimed and exerted by one fond mother, indeed, so great and lasting are the impressions received through the medium ofa “ moth‘i'’s love,” tlKit it might he affirmed with some degrt'e of correctness-, that every child, and especi.'iily every daughter, owes to her its mental ami moi’rri-conl'ormationliartl- !y ‘hen ^'3 of eternity is thKu spent DJthinJ^i. ’• stiil infinitely more mnains. Fn!kr's Sapiaitiui. CovrTousKKs;;.—Sadness may lc.'’.'J^' felicity by reflectio!! on human iniserit’'. and con.=,equent!y make a icocd man.-- Intemperance may bring one to a of moderation by considering,' t'le adva.i- targes of its opposite, lint as t;>r co'*!;; ousness, he that has once hiiriSf ' up to that vice must never eiptct it"' ever tpiit him till he is wr:ippcd :n ' winding sheet—nay, scarce tiitn nutln’.. for he that is truly covetous will ii*'- jjrudge himself the charge* of a dcct’•* funeral, but almost of a grave. I would have every one to cuiuiider tb« he is, in this life, nothing more passenger, and that he ib not to iiis rest here, but to keep an eye upon that state of being to approaches every moment, and \vtu^ will be forever fixed and permaiunf^. This single consideration wouN be cient to extinguisli the bitterness ol •' tred, the thirst of avaricc, and the cruc* > of ambition. 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