down his life for those who nailed him upon the cross,-spending his last agonized breath in prayers for their benefit, and urging the only plea by which, as far as we are able to judge, the Divine compassion was likely to be moved in their favour "Father, forgive them, they know not what they do." The thick veil which, during what we justly term the dark ages, covered men's eyes, can, on the subject we are now considering, scarcely be said to be at all removed from those of the vast majority of every denomination of Christians, Quakers only excepted, in the present day; and I once heard one of these, when a Peace Society was about to be formed, express an earnest hope that it was not intended to circulate the tracts amongst soldiers! Sad state of society surely, when Christian truth must be carefully concealed from a very large and very ignorant body of men whom it peculiarly concerns, because it will be found utterly inconsistent with what are called the duties of their profession! Can a clearer proof be imagined, that such a profession never did, never can exist in a truly Christian community? "He who hath not the spirit of Christ, is none of his"! Fearful denunciation pronounced by an apostle against not only the perpetrators but the abettors of robbery, murder, and all the dreadful list of crimes consequent on the war system, by whatever name, or under whatever sanction, it is carried on. The patriots of Spain and Greece, and of South America, and those who have so zealously assisted them in and from our own country, I venerate as men possessed with a noble love of justice, and of the rights and privileges with which an impartial and infinitely benevolent Creator has endowed every individual of the human race. And when we consider how our youth in the middle and upper ranks are educated-how early and how assiduously they are initiated into the minutest knowledge of the inhuman and demoralizing doctrines and practises of Heathenism; can we wonder that they should be disposed to take the world as it is, and not distinguish between saying, "Lord, Lord," to him whom they have been taught to call their Master, and the more diffi cult task of "doing the things" which he commands? It is less easy to excuse or to account for the blindness of a different description of men, and more especially of those who have devoted themselves to the Christian ministry, many of whom speak of a military life with perfect complacency; some even consenting to their sons embracing it! These persons, we must conclude, have their eyes still sealed up, chiefly, perhaps, by a love of the world, and are unable to perceive the glaring inconsistency, or rather the complete contrast between the life of a soldier and that of a real Christian. May we not be allowed to conjecture that this blindness (which may be more or less culpable, according to the circumstances and situation of each individual) is permitted to remain on the mental sight of many, even in countries where the Scriptures are open to view and speak on the subject of war in characters as visible as the sun at noon-day, till tyrants, and civil tyranny, shall be banished from the earth? It is most consolatory and encouraging to perceive that the government of the United States, which, by all lovers of rational freedom must, I think, be allowed to be the most generally beneficial of any now existing, is deci dedly the most favourable to peace, and the subjects of it far more, in proportion to their own numbers, than any other people, warmly partake in this truly Christian feeling; a happy sign this, that the world is indeed becoming wiser, in the true and most enlarged meaning of the word. I fear, Mr. Editor, that yourself and many of your readers will think this a long, and, perhaps, a desultory paper. But it contains truths of the most momentous kind, on a subject deeply interesting to every thinking mind. I have never pretended to any skill in composition; what I write comes from the heart, and if, in a very few instances, what I now send should reach the hearts of those to whom it is addressed, my time will have been, well bestowed, and as a sincere well wisher to the cause, you will be glad to have furnished me with the oppor tunity. MARY HUGHES. SIR, A Leicester, May 10, 1824. VERY handsome monument has been recently erected in the Great Meeting, Leicester, to the memory of the late Dr. Alexander, of this town, of whom an obituary is contained in the Repository of last year (XVIII. 56). I inclose you a copy of the inscription. Those who, like myself, were well acquainted with the deceased, will acknowledge the justness of the character here drawn of him. If you will allow it a place in your valuable Miscellany, you will gratify many of his friends, and oblige your constant reader, Sacred to the Memory of Remarkable for purity and simplicity of character, Blessed with vigorous faculties, and ardent feelings, Of civil and religious liberty. This cold marble may record his admirable qualities, As one of whom the world was not worthy." Was deposited, the 5th of December, within St. Mary's Church, And here is erected this monumental tablet Letter from Ex-President Jefferson to Ex-President Adams. (From the Boston Patriot.) EFFERSON and ADAMS.-A JEFF months since, a most wicked effort was made, by the treacherous publication of the Cunningham correspondence, to destroy the merited popularity of John Q. Adams, from an expectation, that the friendship, which Mr. Jefferson had so long entertained for his venerable father, would be converted into resentment, in which the Republicans would not only participate, but visit the supposed wrongs of the father upon the son. So far from this desired result being produced, the people recoiled with C. B. horror from the deed, and their indignation has been loud, deep and universal. But to shew, still farther, how impotent has been the malignant blow, aimed at an aged patriot, who is trembling on the verge of the grave, permission has been granted to publish the following voluntary communication, from the illustrious sage Monticello to his distinguished compatriot, in the glorious career of the Revolution, which must overwhelm with shame and mortification, the participants in that wanton outrage upon confidential intercourse, and blast for ever, their desperate hopes, to send to their tombs as implacable enemies, two of the only three surviving signers of the Declaration of Independence. While the holiness of friendship is thus preserved from vile profanation, the citizens of the United States will rejoice at the triumph of virtue, and learn how to appreciate those lofty sentiments and that exalted friendship which neither time, political dissensions, nor private enemies can oblite rate. "Monticello, Oct. 12, 1823. "DEAR SIR,-I do not write with the ease which your letter of Sept. 18, supposes. Crippled wrists and fingers make writing slow and laborious; but, while writing to you, I lose the sense of these things, in the recollection of ancient times, when youth and health made happiness out of every thing. I forget for a while the hoary winter of age, when we can think of nothing but how to keep ourselves warm, how to get rid of our heavy hours until the friendly hand of death shall rid us of all at once. Against this tedium vitæ, however, I am fortunately mounted on a hobby, which, indeed, I should have better managed some 30 or 40 years ago, but whose easy amble is still sufficient to give exercise and amusement to an Octogenary rider. This is the establishment of an University, on a scale more comprehensive, and in a country more healthy and central, than our old William and Mary, which these obstacles have long kept in a state of languor and inefficiency. But the tardiness with which such works proceed, may render it doubtful, whether I shall live to see it go into action. "Putting aside these things, however, for the present, I write this letter, as due to a friendship, co-eval with our government, and now at tempted to be poisoned, when too late in life to be replaced by new affections. I had for some time observed, in the public papers, dark hints and mysterious inuendos of a correspondence of yours with a friend, to whom you had opened your bosom without reserve, and which was to be made public by that friend or his representative; and now it is said to be actually published. It has not yet reached us, but extracts have been given, and such as seemed most likely to draw a curtain of separation between you and myself. Were there no other motive than that of indignation against the author of this outrage on private VOL. XIX. confidence, whose shaft seems to have been aimed at yourself more particularly; this would make it the duty of every honourable mind to disappoint that aim, by opposing to its impression a seven-fold shield of apathy and insensibility. With me, however, no such armour is needed. The circumstances of the times in which we have happened to live, and the partiality of our friends, at a particular period, placed us in a state of apparent opposition, which some might suppose to be personal also: and there might not be wanting those who wished to make it so, by filling our ears with malignant falsehoods; by dressing up hideous phantoms of their own crcation, presenting them to you under my name, to me under yours, and endeavouring to instil into our minds things concerning each other, the most destitute of truth. And if there had been at any time a moment when we were off our guard, and in a temper to let the whispers of these people make us forget what we had known of each other for so many years-and years of so much trial; yet all men who have attended to the workings of the human mind, who have seen the false colours under which passion sometimes dresses the actions and motives of others, have seen also these passions subsiding with time and reflection, dissipating like mists before the rising sun, and restoring to us the sight of all things in their true shape and colours. It would be strange, indeed, if at our years, we were to go an age back, to hunt up imaginary or forgotten facts, to disturb the repose of affections, so sweetening to the evening of our lives. "Be assured, my dear Sir, that I am incapable of receiving the slightest impression from the effort now made to plant thorns on the pillow of age, worth and wisdom, and to sow tares between friends who have been such for near half a century. Beseeching you, then, not to suffer your mind to be disquieted by this wicked attempt to poison its peace, and praying you to throw it by among the things which have never happened, I add sincere assurances of my unabated and constant attachment, friendship and respect. TH. JEFFERSON. "John Adams, former President of the United States.” 2 U IN Irish Episcopal Incomes. NQUIRIES into the state of the Irish Church are becoming more frequent, more earnest, and, we would hope, more effectual. The managers of this huge establishment will not allow the curtain to be drawn, and the interior to be thrown open to the public view. As yet, therefore, statements relating to the wealth of this anomalous corporation, must be in great measure conjectural. If the conjectures be erroneous, it is easy for the Irish prelates to remove error and doubt by some exposition, on authority, of the real property of the Es tablishment. A correspondent signing himself Laicus, in the Morning Chronicle of the 2nd of June, exhibits the following as a nearly correct list of the revenues of the Irish Episcopal Sees : "ARCHBISHOPrics. "1. Armagh "2. Dublin "3. Cashel 6,500 8,000 "BISHOPRICS. have smiled, we doubt not, at the sight of this charitable and evangelical castle-building. Their revenues fund for ministerial patronage and are safe, so long as they constitute a parliamentary jobbing. Fraud on the Memory of Anthony [From D'Israeli's Second Series of Cu- MONG the confidential literary A friends of Des Maizeaux, he had the honour of ranking Anthony Collins, a great lover of literature, and a man of fine genius; and who, in a Des Maizeaux, treated him as his continued correspondence with our friend, and employed him as his agent in his literary concerns. These, in the formation of an extensive library, were in a state of perpetual activity, and Collins was such a true lover of £18,000 per Ann. his books, that he drew up the cata6,500 logue with his own pen. Anthony Collins wrote several well-known works without prefixing his name; but having pushed too far his curious inquiries on some obscure and polemical points, he incurred the odium of a Free-thinker, a term which then began to be in vogue, and which the French adopted by translating it in their way, a strong thinker or esprit fort. Whatever tendency to "liberalize" the mind from dogmas and creeds prevails in these works, the talents and learning of Collins were of the first class. His morals were immaculate, and his personal character independent; but the odium theologicum of those days contrived every means to stab in the dark, till the taste became hereditary with some. I shall mention a fact of this cruel bigotry, which occurred within my own observation on one of the most £20,000 per Ann. 8,500 8,000 "5. Meath 7,000 "6. Kildare 6,500 " 7. Ferns 6,000 8. Raphoe 6,000 9. Limerick 6,000 polished men of the age. The late Mr. Cumberland, in the romance entitled his "Life," gave this extraordinary fact, that Dr. Bentley, who so ably replied by his " Remarks," under the name of Phileleutherus Lipsiensis, to Collins's "Discourse on Free-thinking," when, many years after, he discovered him fallen into great distress, conceiving that, by having ruined Collins's character as a writer for ever, he had been the occasion of his personal misery, he libe rally contributed to his maintenance. In vain I mentioned to that elegant writer, who was not curious about facts, that this person could never have been Anthony Collins, who had always a plentiful fortune; and when it was suggested to him, that this "A. Collins," as he printed it, must have been Arthur Collins, the historical compiler, who was often in pecuniary difficulties, still he persisted in sending the he down to posterity, totidem verbis, without alteration in his second edition, observing to a friend of mine, that the story, while it told well, might serve as a striking instance of his great relative's generosity; and that it should stand, because it could do no harm to any but to Anthony Collins, whom he considered as little short of an Atheist." vine Providence: which seems to give some force to our Lord's saying to Peter," Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he will send me more than twelve legions of angels?" "How then can the Scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?" These angels were certainly not intended to fight against the Jews, but to rescue him, and convey Jesus to the mansions of immortality. His death, then, was voluntary. He himself says, “No man taketh it (life) from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father." How greatly does this enhance the merit of his sufferings and death! Taking it in this peculiar point of view, I think it throws considerable light on many passages of Scripture which relate to his humbling himself, and becoming obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. PHILALETHES. So much for this pious fraud! But be it recollected, that this Anthony Collins was the confidential friend of Locke, of whom Locke said, on his dying bed, that "Collins was a man Dr. John Jones on the Parable of whom he valued in the first rank of those that he left behind him." And the last words of Collins, on his own death-bed, were, that "he was persuaded he was going to that place which God had designed for them that love him." The cause of true religion will never be assisted by using such leaky vessels as Cumberland's wilful calumnies, which in the end must run out, and be found, like the present, mere empty fictions! TOT knowing whether the death spotless and sinless life, has been handled by any one in this peculiar point of view, I merely suggest a hint for others to enlarge upon, should it be thought of any importance. The Apostle Paul denominates our Lord, "the second Adam." The first Adam, by his disobedience, brought death into the world; the last Adam, by his obedience to the will of God, brought life and immortality to the sons of men. Being, then, without sin, it would seem that he might have escaped death in any way, and have been translated or changed, as Moses and Elias, had it not been otherwise appointed by Di Dives and Lazarus. N compliance with the wish of one of your correspondents, (p. 140,) I send a few remarks on the parable of Lazarus and the rich man, contained in Luke xvi, 19-35. Verse 18 has apparently no connexion whatever with the preceding verses. And this is one of those passages which betray an incoherence in the language of Jesus, while his ideas, in consequence of an intermediate step left unnoticed, are intimately connected. In verse 16, he had the death of John in his mind. The law and the prophets were until this event in his mind, he passed over to the cause which led to his imprisonment and murder: and this, as we learn from other parts of the Evangelical History, was the adultery of Herod. Thus thinking of the violation of justice and chastity, in the person of Herod, he delivers a general proposition on the subject, without specifying the individual against whom it was levelled. "Whosoever putteth away his wife committeth adultery." "The man that is guilty of such a crime, however great he may be, shall be punished." In verse 18, we have seen, that our |