of Rochefler, then Chaplain to the English Factory, at Lifeon, fent to Dr. Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury, dated January 15, 1706, N. S. and has fince been published by his Lordship's allowance and approbation; which abundantly confirms the foregoing Narrative. My Lord, IN obedience to your Lordship's commands, of the 10th ult. I have here fent all that was printed concerning the laft Autò de Fé. I faw the whole procefs, which is agreeable to what is published by Limborch, and others upon that subject. Of the five perfons condemned, there were but four burnt: Antonio Javanes, by an unusual reprieve, being faved after the proceffion. Heytor Dias, and Maria Pineyra, were burnt alive, and the other two firft frangled. The execution was very cruel. The woman was alive in the flames half an hour, and the man above an hour. The prefent King and his brothers were feated at a window fo near, as to be addreifed for a confiderable time in very moving terms by the man as he was burning. But though the favour he begged was only a few more faggots; yet he was not able to obtain it. The wind being a little frefh, the man's hinder parts were perfectly wafted; and as he turned himself, his ribs opened before he left fpeaking, the fire being recruited as it wafted, to keep him juft in the fame degree of heat. But all his intreaties could not procure him a larger allowance of wood to fhorten his mifery, and to difpatch him. An EXTRACT from THREE DIALOGUES. DIALOGUE [Continued from page 415.] II. Calliftus. HAPPY Sophronius! Happy Urania! Happiness like yours is the natural confequence of virtue; and mifery, mifery like mine, the inevitable attendant upon vice. Sephronius. Sophronius. I have not done yet. Calliftus. Go on then, excellent Sophronius. Sophronius. Dearest Calliftus, do not fend me to look into myself with shame! Call me happy, and you remind me to be more grateful; but call me not good. Alas! it makes me recollect how many offences I have to be forgiven. Callifius. O, Sophronius, if you are not good, then what am I? How can you be fo inconfiftent! but lately you flattered me with heaven; and now you fhut me out from all hopes of it. Sophronius. Sir, if we had only our own merits to plead, we might both be deemed equally diftant from it: but I trust in the fame fatisfaction and redemption for us both. Calliftus. I cannot express the sense I have of your goodnefs; and fo relieve me from the vain attempt by the continuation of your ftory. Sophronius. I was scarce got home to reflect upon the bufinefs of that happy morning, when I was interrupted in my delightful meditations, by a vifit from my rival: he accofted me with great civility, but with an air of importance; he told me he was come on a folemn embaffy, and he hoped, and could not doubt, he fhould be a very welcome messenger. He came, he said, from his father, with the approbation of all the family, with propofals which would do honour to both parties that my known worth made an alliance with me thought honourable. And what, he was fure, I fhould think the greatest honour, was, that the lady was already prepared to favour my addreffes. I anfwered, that I was equally furprised, honoured, and afflicted by this propofal: but not to keep him in fufpenfe, I would at once inform hin, it was impoffible for me to accept the great honour which was offered me, because my affections and my vows were previously engaged.-Engaged, Sir! cried he with furprife-Yes, Sir, replied I, engaged to Urania. To whom, Sir! Engaged to whom did VOL. IX. 3 Q you 1 you fay!-To the most amiable Urania, Sir!--To Urania! Sure-Sure, Sir, I do not hear you right!--This very morning have I received her father's and her fanction to my love. It is falfe, cried he, rage fparkling in his eyes.-I pitied the poor youth. I was too happy to be angry, and compofedly bid him go and afk them, and then I did not doubt he would beg my pardon. You are not married, Sir? No, Sir!-Nor ever shall be to her! He then rushed out of the houfe with the fury of a madman. He took my advice in part, for in a quarter of an hour after, I had a meffage from Urania, to defire me to come to her immediately. I found her in tears: fhe told me, with a trembling voice, of the rude vifit he had made her: the furious boy (he was then but twenty years old) demanded abruptly whether he was engaged. She frankly told him fhe was, and to whom.-He ftamped, and swore vehemently we fhould both repent our treachery to him. He concluded, that if fhe did indeed love Sophronius, fhe fhould be cautious how he acted; for he vowed, if the proceeded one step further in this plot upon his peace, he would revenge himfelf on her. Now I was angry. His brutal treatment of Urania had roused the lion in me; if at that inftant he had been within my reach, I fear I fhould have had no command of myself. Urania faw the agitation I was in. She was ftill more frightened; and upon my making a motion to go, the fell down in a fwoon. What a day was this! What frange tranfitions! What violent emotions! O, Calliftus, what a world is this to fet our hearts upon, when every rafh fool, where we are furrounded with thousands, can put a fudden ftop to our happinefs;-can in a moment change it into perfect mifery! [To be continued.] An ཟ An Extract from a CHARGE delivered to the CLERGY, by the Rev Dr. KAY, Archdeacon of Nottingham, and Almoner to the Queen. THE HE laft time we met together, I expreffed my wishes, that fuch perfons as were discharged from the naval and military fervice at the conclufion of the war, might be domefticated, and employed as foon as poffible in their respective parifhes; and that we might endeavour, by the kind offices of fociety, and by general example, to make them become good citizens in time of peace; and it does not appear, from the catalogue of thofe who have lately fuffered capital punishments, that these men have been marked in the great delinquency of the times but a more melancholy inference must be drawn from this circumftance, that the late increase of capital crimes does not proceed from the clofe of war, an event to which it might, with fome plaufibility, have been attributed, but from the univerfal depravity of the people; the contemplation of which would be a gloomy office indeed, if it did not appear, that in the midft of judgment, God hath remembered merry; and the Divine goodness seems to have pointed out to the prefent age a measure fo comprehenfive of good, fo peculiarly extensive in the advantage which it holds out to society, that it appears formed to counteract every evil propenfity of thefe days, and to prevent them from being injurious to fucceeding generations; which embraces, my brethren, within its benevolent arms, every fect of Christianity, every defcription of mankind. The meafure which appears to me to poffefs this invaluable antidote to the poisonous manners of this depraved age, is, The establishment of SUNDAY SCHOOLS. The power and efficacy of these inftitutions reach to fuch extent of fituation, and of numbers, as no other mode of improvement can poffibly equal. Having anxiously watched 3 Q2 their their infancy, and attended to their progrefs, I have thought their principles the most unequivocal, and their influence the moft extenfive, that can be employed in the cause of general reformation. The due obfervance of the Sabbath is the first point incul cated by thefe inftitutions; and the mind is formed, in its earliest apprehenfion, thus to feel the juft value of this great fecurity of its future conduct; for among the chief caufes which the unhappy victims to the laws of their country alledge for their ruin, the breach of the Sabbath muft ever be ac counted the firft ftep in guilt, as it takes place before they are capable of the crimes of more mature age. The habit of fubordination to their inftructors, is by no means a circumflance of trivial moment, as it qualifies them for the future relations of the community; and cleanliness, which is required in all, contributes to their health, and impresses them with a fenfe of decency. These effential articles muft meet with univerfal approbation, even from those few, who yet object to the inftruction of the lower ranks of life; but this opinion is now reduced to fo narrow a ground, as fcarcely to merit our attention; and, I will add, that inftruction forms a confiderable part of these excellent inftitutions. Nor will the benefit be folely confined to the children, who partake of thefe benevolent aids. It will importantly affect the manners of the families, and of the neighbourhood to which they belong. In the larger towns, the obligation of thefe eftablishments is more frongly marked, and the capital of this county has given a moft laudable example, by the early adoption of them; but I am perfuaded, that there are few parishes, where there will not be found children to be benefited by thefe inftitutions, whofe parents cannot be prevailed on, perhaps can fcarcely be expected, at leaft in a political view, to fpare them for inftruction on the days of labour. * Nottingham. |