freeholders were struck off by his own pen-he tells you, my lord, and gentlemen triers, with equal modesty and ingenuity, that he has made a mistake. He returns eighty-one names to the sheriff. He receives blank summonses, fills what he deems convenient, &c. &c. Gracious God! what are the courts of justice? What is trial by jury? What is the country brought to? Were it told in the courts above-were it told in other countries were it told in Westminster hall that such a man was permitted to return near one half of the grand panel of the county from one particular districta district under severe distress-a district to which he is agent, and, on which, with the authority he possesses, he is able to bring great calamity, would it be believed.

He ascends the pulpit with the gospel of benignity and peace; he endeavours to impress himself and his hearers with its meek and its holy spirit. He descends, throws off the purple, seizes the insurrection act in the one hand, and the whip in the other-flies by night and by day after his game- and, with his heart panting, his breath exhausted, and his belly at the ground in the chace, he turns round and tells you that his mind is unprejudiced--that his heart is full of humanity and, that all his hopes, fears, and wishes, are a pure innocent mixture of milk and water."

Now, whether the preceding be considered as a real representation taken from the life, or merely as a fanciful forensic caricature, is nothing to the purpose. I do not pretend to determine whether it is the one or the other, or a compound of both; or of more than both. Be that as it may, had the orator adhered to simple nature, his words would never have presented to the imagination such a figure. Indeed, the facts exhibited, and as it would seem, by the report, acknowledged, were irreconcileable to the idea of pure, honest, unadulterated human nature. Hence, his sensibilities may have hurried him back into the regions of fable, and recollection presented to his fancy,

Hydras, Gorgons, and Chimeras dire."

And hence, taking the whole scene reported, and of which he is said to have been a witness, as something more than an airy dream or frantic vision, he has represented his chimera with hands to hold up the insurrection act as his warrant, and brandish his whip as a signal for floggingwith wings, no doubt, of an eagle, vulture, or dragon, to pursue and secure the higher objects of his chace, as is implied in the words " flies by night and by day after his game."-And four feet to run down the swinish herd, and all the varieties of the reptile race. This seems necessary

to

to justify the expressions, "heart panting, breath exhausted and belly at the ground, in the chace."

This is the only supposition, on which I can account for the seeming perplexity of mind and confusion of language, with which I presumed to say, that" it was uncertain whether Mr. Curran considered Mr. Cleland as a huntsman, as a bloodhound, or both." Be that as it may, the figure must be more than half-caricature. The rev. John Cleland, surely, never sat for such an ungainly picture!

END OF NARRATIVE.

THREE

SERMONS

ON THE SUBJECT OF

SCRIPTURE POLITICS.

JOHN, chap. 18. verse 26. "My kingdom is not of this world."

THE extraordinary power displayed in the

miracles of Jesus, and the benevolence with which it was exercised, seem to have produced a general disposition to receive him, as the great deliverer, which prophecy had foretold to the people of Israel. And when they saw him raising the dead, and feeding multitudes in the Wilderness with a few loaves and small fishes, they concluded that, as he could thus easily support armies, and rescue the slain from the hand of death, he would realize the hopes of temporal dominion, with which they had been long intoxicated, and urged him to assume the title of King.

As this overture was founded on mistaken apprehensions of his kingdom, instead of compli