The Mcse ! whate'er the Muse inspires,
My soul the tuneful strain admires. ...scott.
iuox the rnoviitEscr. gazette.
PRINTING.
Hail might' Aht! enthusiasts eft with pride,
Uoldly affirm thv origin divine :
Xair Science owns thee her support and guide,
And noints to Puisklin as her son and thine !
Thee, first and best of Arts wc well may call,
Thou friend and great preserver of them all.
Doubtless to man his gTcat Creator taught
To trace the enduring1 transcript of the mind,
To frame sure symbols of his fleeting thought,
And mutely eloquent instruct mankind.
Bound by no limits, and unharm'd by time,
The noiseless accents spread through every
clime.
Eut long their use was circumscribM and slow,
With tedious labour grew the written page ;
A faithful picture where unfeeling glow
The "form and pressure" of the earliest age ;
A magic mirror, which, while time shall last,
Will still reflect the image of the past.
But PRINTING last arose and swift as thought,
To every eye the ample page unfurl' J ;
A fulcrum great as Archimedes sought,
She provM and quickly shook the moral
world.
Barbarian arms hurl'd ancient Rome to dust,
But she o'erthrew the second and the worst !
The pious Missionary marches forth,
To fight the sacred battles of the Loid,
torlike the mighty warriours of the earth,
In martial panoply with spear and sword.
No ! he goes forth his fellow men to bless,
His only arms the Bible and the I'uess.
In heathen climes where superstition swuys
O'er man's degraded head her Circean rod,
Aided by thee, the holy man essays
To combat Satan with the Word of God :
"Whilst thou unfold'st the Christian pilgrim's
chart,
And grav'st Jehovah's statutes on the heart.
The mightiest tyrants tremble at thy power,
And dread thee more than hosts of marshall'd
men,
Whilst vice and folly in thy presence cower,
And shrink in darkness from thy piercing ken.
Thy voice can rouse a nation from repose,
To crush ambition and insidious foes.
But grateful freedom owns thee as her pride,
Columbia greets thee, guardian of her laws ;
For thou alone can'st spread instruction wide,
The nurse of virtue, prop of freedom's cause.
Illustrious Art ! long flourish wide and fre e,
Tor life owes half its sweetest charms to thee.
Variety's the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavor.
HISTORICAL.
THE CRUSADES.
Extracts from the History of the Crusade:;, for
the recovery and possession of the Holy Land.
By CharlesMiUst London, 1820.
from the .Missionary.... Coritinued.
For several years the Latins were
engaged in consolidating their con
quests : a Christian kingdom was rais
ed, and the laws, language, and man
ners of Europe were planted in Pales
tine. The superior political and military
virtues of Godfrey pointed him out as
the person best fitted for the guardian
ship of the young state : the princes
conducted him in a religious procession
to the church of the Sepulchre ; but it
may be recorded to his honour, that
he refused to wear a diadem, in a city
where his Saviour had worn a croivn
of thorns. Of all the champions of
the cross, he was most distinguished
for the real virtues of the heart for
modesty, generosity, and piety tinc
tured, indeed, with the errors of the
age, but based in sincerity, disinterest
edness, and consistency so that the
praise which Tasso accords him seems
scarcely too fervid. He died after a
short reign of five years ; and his tomb
M as not only watered by the tears of
his friends, but honored by the lamen
tations of many of the Moslems, whose
affections his excellent qualities had
conciliated.
Baldwin, his brother, count of Edes
sa ; Baldwin dti Bourg ; Fulk, count
of Anjou ; and Baldwin III., were his
successors. In the reign of the latte:,
A. D. 1145, Edessa, the eastern fron
tier of the kingdom, was lost, which
gave the impetus in Europe for a se
ci4 crusade ; nor was there wanting a
a Peter, in the person of the cel
t'n. .A-p1, Bernard, to preach to its
ia V) th!le Paramount duty of again
heir swords in the blood of
the infidels. "Louis of France, and
Conrad, emperor of Germany, were
convinced by the eloquence of the suc
cessor of the hermit. The towns a
gain became depopulated, from the
thousands who crowded around the
saint for the purpose of receiving the
croslct from his hands, the ceremonial
induction into the office of warrior of
Christ After encountering the usual
distresses on their inarch, from famine,
the sword of the Mussulman, or the
cruel frauds of the Greeks, the armies
of both princes reached Palestine ; but
instead of proceeding immediately to
the recovery of the Edessene territory
the ostensible object of the war, thev
resolved, in a council composed of the
princes, barons, and prelates of Syria
and Palestine, to lay siege to Damas
cus : but when it was apparently in
their power, the Latins debated only
to whom the prize should be given, and
the favorable crisis was irrecoverably
lost. They were compelled disgrace
fullv to raise the seicre. Conrad soon
after returned to Europe with the shat
tered relics of his army ; and his steps
were a year afterwards traced by the
French kincr. We cannot follow our
author through his details of the va
rious struggles which the Latins contin
ued to make with Noureddin the Per
sian king and the Sultan of Iconium,
for the possession of Edessa ; his nar
rative of the fortunes which Antioch
underwent ; or the achievements of the
Christians in Egypt under Almerick,
brother of Baldwin III., the then king
of Jerusalem ; but they do not yield in
interest to the events we have cited,
and are written with the same spirit.
More immediately connected with our
subject are the acts of Saladin. By
birth a Curd, he lose in the service of
Noureddin to be lord of Egypt, after
that prince had terminated the dvnasty
of the Fatimite Caliphs ; and he now
resolved to consolidate the Mussul
man strength, and overwhelm the
Franks with their weight. Guy Lu-
signan was at this period governor of
Jerusalem ; but its military energy was
weakened by the civil dissensions of
the barons, and by disputes between
the knights of the Temple and of St.
John. The battle of Tiberias, which
decided the quarrel between the two
powers, is thus given by our historian :
"Saladin was encamped near the
lake of Tiberias, and the Christians
hastened to encounter him. But they
soon experienced those evils from heat
and thirst, which the count of Tripoli
1187: the Latins left the city, and
passed through the enemy's camp. It
is the generous remark of a foe, that
Saladin was a barbarian in nothing but
the name.
The event of the battle of Tiberias
was felt as a calamity from one end of
Europe to the other : nothing could
exceed the terror of the court of Rome.
The emperor Frederick of Germany
summoned a council at Mayence to
consider of the propriety of a new cru
sade ; Philip of France, Agustas, count
of Flanders, and Henry II. of Eng
land, were fired with the same enthu
siasm. Before they departed on the
expedition, Henry died ; but his place
in the armament was more than sup
plied by the military genius of his suc
cessor, Richard Coeur-de-Lion, whose
subjugation of Cyprus and heroism at
Acre are events universally known.
Leaving Acre under the ensign of the
cross, he advanced towards Azotus,
and defeated Saladin in a terrible bat
tle, which left him free to march upon
Jerusalem ; prudential considerations,
however, prevented him from attack
ing it, and he fell back to Ascalon.
Saladin's spies had communicated to
their master the vacillations of the cru
saders' councils ; and by quick march
es he hastened to lay siege to Jaffa : it
was on the point of surrendering ; one
of the gates was already broken down ;
when Plantagenet suddenly appeared,
and the Turks retired with terror from
before his invincible arm. This wras
the last of his exploits in Palestine ;
domestic occurrences obliged him to
return to England. He concluded an
honorable peace with Saladin, and rich
in laurels left the Holy Land. Saladin
soon after died ; and a fourth crusade
was promoted by pope Celestine III.,
which was embraced by Germany.
Her forces marched in three bodies to
the relief of the Syrian Christians ;
and their measures were upon the point
of being crowned with complete suc
cess. Ail the sea-coast of Palestine
was in possession of the Christians ;
but in their march from Tyre to the
holy city, they made a fatal halt at the
fortress of Thoron. After a month s
labor they succeeded in piercing the
almost impregnable rock upon which
it was placed, when rumors that the
sultans of Egypt and Syria, were con
centrating their levies to attack them,
struck a panic into the German prin
ces : they deserted their post by night ;
and the death of Henry VL, the great
support of this crusade, was a conven-
i
point of death, sent for the father, and
communicated a full relation of the
horrid deed his son had committed on
the high seas. The father, though
struck speechless with astonishment
and grief, at length shook off the feel
ings which incline the parent to na
tural partiality : " Justice shall take its
course," said the indignant magistrate,
and he in a few minutes had his son
seized with the rest of the crew, and
thrown into prison. They all confess
ed the crime ; a criminal process was
made out against them, and in a few
days a small town in the west of Ire
land beheld a sight paralleled by very
few instances in the history of man
kind a father sitting in judgment,
like another Lucius Junius Brutus, on
his own son, and, like him too, con
demning him to die as a sacrifice to
public justice. " Were any other but
your wretched father your judge, (said
the inflexible magistrate,) 1 might drop
a tear over my child's misfortunes,
and solicit for his life, though stained
with murder but you must die.
These are the last drops which shall
THE MONITOR.
" How comfortable a good fire is in
a cold night," said my wife Amy,, as
she brushed up the hearth, and put on
a few sticks of wood that remained in
the corner. Yes, I immediately repli
ed, as is my custom to do to whatever
she affirms, and presently fell into a rev
erie. But all of a sudden the expres
sion returned to my mind, and like one
of John Locke's humdrum ideas, would
not by all the arts I possessed, be for
a moment banished. Being thus com
pelled to attend to and reflect upon it,
I very soon perceived there was some
thing more in the idea than I at first
observed, or than is generally associa
ted with the expression.
Night had thrown her dark curtains
around the mansion, stern winter had
clothed the ground with his fleecy robes
locked up each stream that meander
ed o'er the field, and sharply whistled
through the north hey hole ; sable were
the heavens, for every gleam of the
nuenr.h the suarks of nature, nnd if ! twinkling star was intercepted by an
i - ' i m. i-i . r -i i . i .i
impcucirauic canopy ui ciouus ; uui me
taper burned brightly upon my stand .
the fire blazed and cracked upon the
hearth Amy was happy and conten
ted, and I enjoyed all that a moderate
mind could wish : but still my heart was
heavy I felt that all who were as de
serving as myself, did not enjoy half
those blessings.
When in fancy I looked around, and
saw a wealthy man, sitting by his fire,
and indulging in all the luxuries which
could gratify the senses, I said unto my
selfthat man does not reflect " how
comfortable a good fire is in a cold
night," or he would remember the poor
these bad times and at this inclement
season of the year.
When I saw my neighbor at the
11 grog shop," sitting by a stove that
would not evaporate the nauseous slime
! bespattered over it by the miserable
scape-grace creatures who hovered
round, I could not help exclaiming,
" Oh that poor J -really knew how
had prophesied would be the fateofjient reason for their entire abundon-
their foes, if the Christians remained
at rest. In the plain near Tiberias the
two armies met in conflict. For a
whole day the engagement was in sus
pense, and at night the Latins retired
to some rocks, whose desolation and
want of wTater had compelled them to;
ment of the cause, and for their return
to Europe.
to be continued.
THE IA'FLEXIIILE .MAGISTRATE.
In the year 1526, James Lynch Fitz
Stephen, merchant, beingelected mayor
try tne lortune ot a battle. me neat;0f Galway, m Ireland, sent his only
of a Syrian summer's night was ren- son, commander of one of his ships, to
dered doubly horrid, because the Sa- Bilboa, in Spain, for a camo of wine.
racens set fire to some woods which Former dealings at this place were the
surrounded the Christian camp. In means of recommending his fathei's
the morning the two armies were for credit, which youne Lynch took the
a while stationary, in seeming con-; advantage of to secrete the money for
sciousness that the fate of the Moslem; his own use which his father had in-
and Christian worlds was in their
hands. But when the sun arose, the
Latins utteied their shout of war, the
Turks answered by the clangour of
their trumpets and atabals, and the
sanguinary tumult began. The bish
ops and clergy were, according to cus
tom, nourishers of martial virtue.
They ran through the ranks, cheering
e are
trusted him with for the cargo. The
Spaniard who supplied him on this oc
casion, sent his nephew with him to
Ireland, to receive the debt, and to es
tablish a further correspondence. The
young men, who were much of an age,
sailed together with that seeming sat
isfaction which congenial situations
crenerally create amoncr mankind.
the soldiers of the church militant. ; Open and generous, the Spaniard an
The piece of the true cross was placed ; ticipated the pleasures he should en
on an hillock, and the broken squad-! j0y with such a friend, in a place then
rons continually rallied round it. Piety j remarkable for qualities which w
was equally efficacious on the minds
of the Mussulmens, and the Sarace-
nian hatred of infidels was enkindled
by the religious enthusiasm of the
Christians. The crescent had more
numerous supporters than the cross,
and for that reason triumphed. The
battle ended in the massacre of the
Latins. They who fell in the field
were few in number when compared
with those who were slain in the flight,
or were hurled from the precipices.
The fragment of holy wood w as taken
from the hands of the bishop of Acre.
The king, the master of the Templars,
and the Marquis of Montfcrrat, were
captured. The chief of the Hospfta
lians fled as far as Ascalon, and then
died of his wounds."
The consequences of this battle it is
easy to foresee ; Acre, Jaffa, Cesarea,
and Beritus instantly yielded to the
conqueror : Ascalon followed ; the
metropolis of Palestine could not long
bold out against the formidable arm?,
of the Curdick prince ; and after a
short and ineffectual resistance, Jeru-
you dare hope, implore that heaven
may not shut the gate3 of mercy on
the destroyer of his fellow creature."
He was led back to prison, and a
short time appointed for his execution.
Amazement sat on the face of every
one within this little community, which
at most, did not consist of more than
three thousand people; The relations
of the unhappy culprit surrounded the
father 3 they conjured hirh by all the
solicitude of nature and compassion to
spare his son. His wretched mother,
whose family name was Blake, flew in
distraction to the heads of her own
family, and at length prevailed on them
for the honor of their house, to rescue
her from the ignominy his death must
bring on their name. They armed to de
liver him from prison, when his father,
bring informed of their intention, had
him conveyed to his own house, which
he surrounded with the officers of jus
tice. He mad; the executioner fasten
the rope to his neck. 44 You have but
little time to live, my son, (said he,) let
the care ot your soul employ the few
comfortable a good fire is in a cold
night, in the society of a man's wife
take the last embrace of and children! then he would be at home;
moments
your Unhappy father." He then or
dered the rope to be well secured to a
window, and compelled the constables
to throw the body out ; a few minutes
put an end to the son's existence. Un
der the window in Lombard-street, to
this day, a skull and bones carved in
black marble,- are to be seen, which the
father put as a memento mori.
Succeeding times look upon such an
act with astonishment, which the pro
duction of the arts in this country
should perpetuate with statues.
.vc mjjm. fend thee? i WQuld whisper jn thy car
A person had been relating many in- from my very heart think 44 how corn-
credible stories, when professor Engel, fortable a good fire ts in a cold night,
who was present, in order to repress his and how many other blessings thou
impertinence, said, " But gentlemen, all dost possess ; then be contented be
-mnnn.c t vr iw!. t thankful look around thee see how
witiuuiJ VJ V l J II V. 11 X. Ull CL O
enjoying it, instead of shivering here
in this miserable abode of drunken
ness, filth and profanity f
When I heard a man who had his
thousands at interest, exclaiming 44 hard
times, nothing to be made now-a-days
- wages must come down -every bo
dy wilt be ruined," &c. Sec. merely be
cause he could not accumulate wealth
as fabt as he did a few years since,
wlien the whole country was rapidly
gliding down 44 the full tide of success
ful" speculation ; poor man, I would ex
claim to myself, if a few words from
one younger than thyself would not of-
CUT unit, fhnf tl-io roloKro fori nwrvotri
Abbe Vogler, once imitated a thunder
storm so well, that for miles round the
country, all the milk turned sour.'
many lack what thou canst spare, and
be merciful !
OUR ANCESTORS IDOLATERS.
Our ancestors, on the Island of
Great Britain, worshipped idols, and
even sacrificed their sons and daugh-
no longer to look for but in the narra
tive of other times. The ship proceed
ed on her voyage, and as every day
must bring them nearer the place of
destination, and discover the fraud in
tended by Lynch, he conceived the
diabolical resolution of throwing his
friend overboard. After soundingthe
sentiments of the hands on board, he
brought the major part of them to his
purpose by promises of reward, and
the rest by fear. On the night of the
5th day, the unfortunate Spaniard was
seized in his bed, and thrown over
board. A lew days more brought
them to port. Lynch's father and
friends received him with joy, and in a
short time bestowed on him a sufficient
capital to set up in business.
Security had lulled every sense of
danger, and Lynch proposed himself to
a beautiful girl, the daughter of a neigh
bor, in marriage ; his terms were sc
ripted, and the day appointed which
was to crown his yet successful villany,
when one of the sailors, who had been
with him on his voyaec to Snain. w;is
salcm finally surrendered to him, Oct. j taken ill, and finding himself at the
An Archbishop of Strasburerh march
inr- at the. head rf a milimrv firr. o rmm
trvman who met them on th-. m.H hur.t ters. They had not heard the name
into a violent fit of laughter. 4 What do of Jesus ncl lived and died as pagans
you laugh at, friend ? said the prelate. now d without hope. No christian
4 v hy, please your eminence, replied church was found in any of their cities
the tellow, 4 1 cannot but laugh to see an and villages. They had no christian
ircnoisnop, a successor ot the peaceable ministry.
apostles, marching at the head of a train The cruel Druids were their priests,
of soldiers.' 4 Aye,' returned the other, and they reverenced no God, but the
4 but I do not head these soldiers as an ,r, i-i
, ,. . f d s c. r sun tnoon, or some hideous imacre. -
Jlrcnblslion hilt ai Hrinrt r.f A ' m rh?frr 9 . 7 o
At this the man laughed louder than h. Ao the savaSe rites ot the Druidical
fore, and on bcinr asked the Pftnn.- r. worship, succeeded the abominable
plied, 4 why, I was thinkine, if the Prince idolatry of pagan Rome. Temples
of Strasburg should qo to the devil, what were now erected to their numerous
will become of the Archbhhoh 1 deities. " In Scotland stood the tern-.
pie of Mars ; in Cornwall the temple
4 There is scarcely a man living Csavs f Mercury; in Bangor the temple of
me spectator) who is not actuated bv am- iUmerva: at Maiden the temple ot Vic-
bition. It has taught some to write with toria ; at Bath the temple of Apollo ;
their feet, and others to walk upon their at Leicester the temple of Janus ; at
luuub. oome mmoie into lame, and oth- York, where St. Peter's church now
::r.B " I,"1u' VT aS them' stands, the temple of Bellona ; in Lon
sches throuRh a hoop.' And Coleman I . on the sUofSt. Peter's cathedral,
the younger, , hi. V partes, tells us, that ' ,e of Diana . at Westminster
I I "
He never met with any yet,
However thick his pericranium's density
Let it be thicker than a post
Who has not some astonishing- propensity,
Of which he makes a pother avA a boast.
He'll either tell yon he can drink or smoke,
Or play at whist or on the pipe or tabor
Or cut a throat or cut a joke,
Much better than his neighbor.
One tells you how a town is to be taken ;
A second o'er the fair sex boasts his power j
Another bra-s he'll eat six pounds of bacon,
For half a crown, in h&lf&n hcur.
where the Abbey rears its venerable,
pile, the temple of Apollo."
What put in train that course of
events, which has shed such a flood of
light on their posterity, and so changed
the state of tljngs? The answer is
short, but true. Bigyas the patient and
persevering- laborscj- . Missionaries
Freely ye have received, freely give.
God is on the side of .virtue ; for, who
ever dreads punishment, suffers itx an
whoever deserves it, dreads t .