massacre, there appeared among the those who, with a little encouragement,

rebels more than six hundred Friars Minorite, who had been instigating them to that accursed rebellion while living among them in disguise."

In this country Wesley was at first well received, and tells us that he preached his first sermon in Dublin to "as gay and as senseless a congregation as he had ever seen!" They soon however became objects of persecution, and got the nick-name of swaddlers, which is thus strangely accounted for. "Cennick, preaching on Christmasday, took for his text these words from St. Luke's Gospel: and this shall be a sign unto you ye shall find the babe, wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. A Catholic who was present, and to whom the language of Scripture was a novelty, thought this so ludicrous, that he called the preacher a Swaddler, in derision; and this unmeaning word became the nickname of the Methodists, and had all the effect of the most opprobrious appellation." In Cork disgraceful riots ensued, and both the brothers (Wesleys) were roughly treated; while in Dublin, Whitefield was nearly stoned to death. Yet it was from among the Roman Catholics that Wesley obtained one of the most interesting and (during his short life) most efficient co-adjutors, Thomas Walsh, the son of a carpenter at Bally Lynn. He publicly abjured the Romish Church, and became the most distinguished apostle of methodism in Ireland.

"There is a letter of advice from Mr. Wesley to one of his Irish preachers (written in 1769), which gives a curious picture of the people for whom such advice could be needful.- Dear brother,' he says, 'I shall now tell you the things which have been, more or less, upon my mind, ever since I was in the North of Ireland. If you forget them, you will be a sufferer, and so will the people; if you observe them, it will be good for both. Be steadily serious. There is no country upon earth where this is more necessary than in Ireland,as you are generally encompassed with

would laugh or trifle from morning till night. In every town visit all you can, from house to house; but on this, and every other occasion, avoid all familiarity with women: this is deadly poison, both to them and to you. You cannot be too wary in this respect. Be active, be diligent; avoid all laziness, sloth, indolence; fly from every degree, every appearance of it, else you will never be more than half a Christian. Be cleanly in this let the Methodists take pattern by the Quakers. Avoid all nastiness, dirt, slovenliness, both in your person, clothes, house, and all about you. Do not stink above ground;

'Whatever clothes you have,let them be whole; no rents, no tatters, no rags; these are a scandal to either man or woman, being another fruit of vile laziness. Mend your clothes, or I shall never expect to see you mend your y lives. Let none ever see a ragged Methodist, Clean yourselves of lice: take pains in this. Do not cut off your hair; but clean it, and keep it clean. Cure yourself and your family of the itch: a spoonful of brimstone will cure To let this run from year to year, you. proves both sloth and uncleanness : away with it at once; let not the North be any longer a proverb of reproach to all the nation. Use no snuff, unless prescribed by a physician. I suppose vile bondage to this silly, nasty, dirty no other nation in Europe is in such custom, as the Irish are. Touch no dram: it is liquid fire; it is a sure, though slow, poison; it saps the very springs of life. In Ireland, above all countries in the world, I would sacredly abstain from this, because the evil is so general; and to this, and snuff, and smoky cabins, I impute the blindness which is so exceeding common throughout the nation. I particularly desire, wherever you have preaching, that there got without delay. Wherever it is not, be a Little House. Let this be let none expect to see me.'

may

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FURTHER ACCOUNT OF THE PETRIFIED CITY.

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine.

dried up, by the hot scorching winds that sometimes frequent these deserts.'

"The Arabs, who are as little conversant

in geography and natural history as they are artful and ingenious enough in fable and ro-. lucky opportunity, by jumbling and connecmance, had here a very favourable and ting together the petrifactions of Ras Sem, project and invent the plan of the Petrified with these preserved bodies at Saibah, to City, in all the wild and extravagant dress, believe, is the true matter of fact; and all wherein it is commonly described. This, I that may be depended upon in this story.

Sir, IN your Magazine for March it is noticed that "the enterprising traveller Mr. Ritchie, who proceeded some time since with an expedition from Tripoli, for the purpose of exploring the interior of Africa," has communicated an account be received from one of his friends of what he knew respecting "the Petrified City," of which Dr.Shaw (in his Travels or Observations relating "It was, however, a subject much enquirto several Parts of Barbary and the Le-ed into whilst Cassam Aga, the Tripoly ambassador, resided lately in London. He vant), gives the following particulars, reported from a thousand persons, as he which perhaps some of the readers of said, and particularly from a friend of his of your widely circulated Miscellany who that this scene of petrifactions consisted of great veracity, who had been upon the spot, may not have that, now scarce, book a large town, in a circular figure, which had to refer to, will be pleased with have several streets, shops, and a magnificent casing the opportunity of perusing; I tle belonging to it. That this friend of his saw there different sorts of trees, but mostly have therefore transcribed it, if you the olive and the palm; all of them turned think it worth the trouble of inserting, there were men also to be seen in different into a bluish or cinder-coloured stone. That and am, yours, &c. postures and attitudes; some of them exercising their trades and occupations; others

Of RAS SEM, or the PETRIFIED VIL- holding staffs, others bread, &c. in their

LAGE in the CYRENAICA.

"I shall conclude this branch of the natural history of Barbary with some remarks upon the pretended Petrified City at Ras Sem, in the province of Dacka, in the kingdom of Tripoli.

"This place, then, which lies six days' journey to the S. of Benguze, the ancient Berenice, in the greater Syrtis, has been occasionally taken notice of in the former edition, where it was observed that nothing was to be seen there, besides some petrifactions, as might well be accounted for from the Deluge; which likewise had been already discovered in other parts of the world, In treating likewise of the violent heat which attends the Deserts of Libya and Arabia, I took notice that, at Saibah, a few days' journey beyond Ras Sem, towards Egypt, there is a whole caravan, consisting of men, asses, and camels, which, from time immemorial, has been preserved at that place. The greatest part of these bodies still continue perfect and entire, from the heat of the Sun and dryness of the climate; and the tradition is, that they were all of them originally surprised, suffocated, and

hands. The women, likewise, were, some of them, giving suck to their children; others were sitting by their children; others were sitting at their kneading troughs, &c. That, in entering the castle, there was a man lying on a magnificent bed of stone, with the guards standing at the doors, armed with pikes and spears. That he saw different sorts of animals, such as camels, oxen, asses, horses, sheep, and birds, (nay, the very dogs, cats, and mice are enumerated in othstone, and of the above-mentioned colour. er accounts :) all of them converted into In one of these histories, some of these bodies are said to want their heads, others a leg or an arm; and so far agree with the caravan of preserved (not petrified) bodies above recited. It is further related, that brought from thence; some of which were several pieces of petrified money had been of the bigness of an English shilling, charged with a horse's head on one side, and with

some unknown characters on the other.'

This is the substance of that variety of reports, which have been given and related of this place, at different times, and by different persons.

April 10, 1820.

VOYAGE TO THE FEEJEE ISLANDS.*
From the Gentleman's Magazine.

THE people of these islands are cannibals. They inhabit a great many islands which have no appropriate names on the charts, but all of them have their

NORVICENSIS.

peculiar native designations. The largest of these islands are divided into several districts, and there is often

· See No. 77, p. 283.

war

among the people of the neighbouring I then went about my other concerns;

and in an hour or two the native that had accosted me in the morning came up to me, and, as if by accident, led me to the log of sandel wood we had been bargaining for. The body of the captive had been laid beside it. It was that of a man above six feet high; there was a large wound across the forehead, and another at the top of the head, as if from the blows of a club. I started back at the sight, and the native exclaimed with emphasis; Are you afraid? Sanga, sanga, said I (no, no); I hope to feast on him to-morrow.

places. I had bought a bolt of canvass of the master of a vessel that was there, and he demanded a very large piece of sandel wood for it, ten times as much as it was worth. I was however obliged to consent, and took him on shore to a place where I knew a piece large enough was lying; for I was well known on the island, and had some authority: but he was a stranger; and it was very dangerous for perfect strangers, ignorant of their language and customs, to trust themselves far from the shore. We had arrived at the log, and talking about our bargain, when an old woman, well The people of these Islands always known to me, appeared with a large eat human flesh cold: they roast it basket upon her shoulders. She came one day, and eat it the next; and beup to us, and, without addressing me fore the body is cut to pieces, the caloo as was usual, exclaimed in a dismal performs a long ceremony. I went tone, War, war, war.-I immediately with my native friend to the priest's knew that something was wrong, and house; he was then about to perform that all was not safe.-The man that the usual incantation. He had a long was with me would have fled to the staff in his hands; and having placed boat; but I advised him to stay by me one end of it on the ground, he exerwho was known, and could speak the cised himself violently in reeling to and language; whereas, if he were seen by fro with it, till, overcome with the exerhimself running to his boat, there was cise, he fell down, and the attendants a probability of his being killed. He carried him into his house. He then remained therefore with me, and when said something in the manner of an we had waited some time, a native ac- oracle, which, as it was explainquaintance came up. I enquired of ed to me, meant that they would suchim the meaning of the old woman's ceed in what they were about to underexpression; when he informed me that take, referring to a battle that was inthey had been at war; that they had tended. killed the Chief of Hyparcar; that they had had the good fortune to seize upon his body; and that they would feast upon it to-morrow; inviting me to be of the party.

To enable me to have so intimate an intercourse with these people, I had to encounter many dangers, and to conform to many of their disgusting customs. This horrible custom, how ever, of eating human flesh I had hitherto been able to avoid; but it was necessary that I should seem to acquiesce even in this, and, as the natives did, take a delight in it. To the native's invitation, therefore, I gave a ready assent, seemed to rejoice at the circumstance, and explained to him that, as I had just arrived from a cruise, and had not tasted of fresh food for some time, would be particularly welcome to me.

The multitude then went down to their dead enemy, and with pieces of wood or bamboo, made very sharp, cut off his hands at the wrists, his feet at the ankles, his legs at the knees, and his thighs near the middle, dividing the bone with an axe, which they had pur chased from one of the vessels that had been at the Island. The head was cut off very low toward the breast, and they placed it on some hot ashes that had previously been prepared in a hole for the purpose; and when it had remained there a sufficient time, they rubbed off the hair with shells, and replaced it with the other parts of the body in the hole, surrounding it on all sides with stones that had been made very hot. They then covered it up till it was completely roasted. I told the natives that I expected they would al

THE HUMAN HAND.

From the Literary Gazette.

SOUND MIND; OR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE NATURAL HISTORY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE HUMAN INTELLECT. BY JOHN HASLAM, M. D.

Sound Mind is a captivating title, and, in the present instance, ushers into our notice an exceedingly clev er and ingenious book. We do not indeed agree in all the positions laid down by the author, nor do we think that his deductions are always logically accurate. But with regard to the acuteness of his

observations, to the originality of many of his conceptions,and to the practical good sense which marks his arguments and opinions, we must say they are

such as to stamp his work with a high character both as a philosophical inquiry, and a popular view of

generally interesting subject.

a

As it is our purpose rather to recommend than to analyse this work, we shall not follow the learned Dr.

methodically; but endeavour to make such selec

tions as will show the manner in which he has executed his design.

THE HUMAN HAND.

THE
HE chapter "on the intellectual su-
periority which man has acquired by
speech and possession of the hand," is