From the numerous deaths and sickness, almost everything is in confusion, and we have great difficulties in carrying on our duties. The men are either frightened, or insolent, or desperate and careless. Many of the officers talk in a bravadoing style: swearing and drinking, and go on as before. Few take it to heart to consider their ways before God, to amend them, and to avert his judgments and vengeance, by flying to Christ as their refuge.

66 "... The only inconvenience I feel is, that from walking so much in the sun, and from the fatigue of the duty, my head beats at night as though I were in a fever. I am long before I can get to sleep. However, thank God, I always rise with a grateful heart, very fresh, to the labours of the day."

"3rd Sept.

"T. is no more: may his soul have been saved by the blood of Christ!" Speaking of some individuals who had suffered bereavements, he adds," May their afflictions be sanctified! We cannot sufficiently praise the tenderness and goodness of God in our case. To-day a letter arrived from Sir James M'Grigor, directed to Mr. Tully, to send me home by the first opportunity. W. had only time to congratulate me, and to say, that under the heavy sickness, and scarcity of medical officers, I could not go at present. Of course I

shall be sent home with the first transport. This is a

time when a physician must exert himself. I will not flinch from duty. I could not leave in the midst of

...

such sickness, when medical men are so few, and their services so much required. . . I trust you will be more cheerful and full of hope."

66

Kingston, Jamaica, Oct. 4th, 1827.

"DEAR SIR,

"It is with deep concern that I have to communicate the death of Dr. Kennedy, which took place on the 18th of last month, after an illness of three days, with yellow fever: he died at Up-Park Camp. . . He received, some days previously to his illness, a notification that he was to return to Europe by the first opportunity. He was, certainly, not one whom I should have thought likely to suffer from the fever; but I fear the great fatigue and responsibility of the charge he lately had, in a climate like this, must prove more or less injurious to an European constitution.

"I most sincerely lament his death; it is a great loss to the medical department of the army, and to the world. The officers of the 22nd regiment at Stony Hill, to which station he was some time attached, could not express themselves with greater sorrow, had they known him for years in fact, every one who had the pleasure

of his acquaintance, could not but estimate him very highly. It is only a few weeks since he came from Stony Hill on duty, with Mr. Tully, and slept at my house. We spent that evening at Mr. T.'s, and as we three were the only persons present, it is melancholy to me to think that I am the only one now surviving.

Yours, &c.

H. B. B."

[From Dr. K.'s NOTES, referred to in p. 65.]

In reply to his lordship's objection, I stated, if there were any women who loved their Saviour in the manner he had asserted, it was clear that they had no knowledge of religion; that those ladies who were pious, never forgot that their Saviour is divine, and I was afraid their love was too weak rather than too fervent. The ladies, I added, were, fortunately for themselves, more disposed to attend to religion from education, habit, and character. They had more time for meditation than men; they were not exposed, as men of the world are, to the contagion of bad example; nor has it become fashionable, nor is it received as a proof of a liberal and enlightened mind, and of a great and towering genius (as it is amongst the men), that the women should profess a disbelief in Christianity. Among the ladies there are instances of genuine piety combined with the finest understanding; I was ready

to confess, however, that many ladies, from various causes and circumstances, carefully preserved the forms of religion, while they were destitute of its spirit, and that in such a case FEAR might be the actuating motive. One of the gentlemen, more witty than wise, reported that I had agreed with Lord Byron that all ladies were religious from fear; when Lord B. heard of it, he expressed his displeasure, and highly censured the gentleman for misrepresenting the opinion of others on so important a subject.

[From Dr. K.'s NOTES.-p. 71.]

At this meeting I wished to suit the taste of my hearers, by reading all the passages in the profane writers who lived immediately after the promulgation of Christianity which bore on the subject. I read the celebrated paragraphs from Tacitus, and also that part of his history where he gives an account of Judea and its inhabitants, preparatory to his account of the siege; an account, however, which is lost. I read also the letter of Pliny, with Trajan's answer; the allusion of Juvenal and Persius to the Jews; the objections of Porphyry and Celsus, and of Julian the Apostate, and the passage of Josephus on the Talmud. I referred to the testimony of Pilate, as quoted by Eusebius and Tertullian, Suetonius and Lucian. With all this they were very much pleased and

delighted, and most, if not all of them, were so totally ignorant of Christianity, that they were very much surprised to find that it had been mentioned, or even alluded to by what are termed the elegant and classical writers of Greece and Rome. This day's meeting passed off very well; some of them confessed that they had gained much new and interesting information.

In reading these extracts I did not fail to make the comments that must occur to every honest mind, freed from the trammels of prejudice.

[ON MIRACLES, page 89.]

As Dr. K. did not complete his design, I have omitted several unconnected or unfinished paragraphs: the following is of too much importance, however, to be laid aside.

Since Hume published his celebrated Essay on Miracles, it has been the fashion with all real, or wouldbe Deists, to assert that miracles are incapable of being proved by human testimony, and the sentiment was repeatedly expressed by Lord Byron. If there be any one who really believes that Hume has proved this impossibility, after having read his work, I have no hesitation in saying, that he is both very ignorant, and very weak in his judgment. The Essay is a complete piece of sophistry; his premises imply his conclusion, and these