of the kirk of Scotland, and was ejected from his cure at Traqueer, for refusing to comply with Episcopacy. Mr. Blackader's military life commenced with his cadetship in the Cameronian regiment, now the 26th foot, a corps originally raised against Claverhouse, and the adherents to the exiled James, and composed of strict Cameronian professors. With this body of men, he was present at the gallant action of Dunkeld, wherein the Cameronians, consisting of 800 raw recruits, defeated 5000 Highlanders under Colonel Cannon. When the regiment was ordered to join the army in Flanders, Mr. Blackader went with it, and was present at many of the brilliant actions of the illustrious Marlborough. It is not, however, our intention to detail the several events of his life. We should rather refer our readers to Mr. Chrichton's well-written and judicious memoirs, a work which, we have no doubt, will obtain general celebrity. If it were lawful to hazard an opinion as to the comparative value of Colonel Blackader's diary, with other similar productions, we should say, that it has more interest, but perhaps less chastity and accuracy of expression than Doddridge's Life of Gardiner. Its arrangement in the form of a diary deteriorates, in our view, considerably from its literary character. Such a form of biography gives perhaps a greater impression of authenticity, but we cannot think that this compensates for the baldness and want of continuity necessarily connected with it. A few Scotticisms are apparent in the editor's additions; but upon the whole, he is entitled to our thanks for his judicious remarks on the valuable manuscript thus brought into publicity. We select the editor's account of Colonel Cleland, as containing the best notice we have ever met with, of a man who deserved a more promi

nent station in the annals of Scotland than he has hitherto obtained. Colonel Cleland was killed in the battle of Dunkeld.

"He was a gentleman of a good family in the west country, though we have no notice of his parentage or connections. From certain allusions in his poems, it has been conjectured, but without proper foundation, that he was born about Dumfries. His rank, aided by his great bravery and military capacity, gained him considerable influence among the suffering Presbyterians. He was chosen one of their officers, immediately on his leaving the university, and before he reached his He first distinguished eighteenth year. himself at Drumclog or Loudon-hill-the only rencounter in which the covenanters were successful, where Claverhouse was repulsed, and nearly taken prisoner. Hamilton was commander of the party, but the victory was, by many, ascribed to a stratagem of Cleland's, who, when the enemy enemy presented their pieces, made his men fall flat on the ground, so that they At Bothwellquite escaped their fire. bridge he held the rank of a Captain. After that defeat he fled, and continued some time in Holland. In 1685, he was again in Scotland, being under hiding among the wilds of Lanark and Ayrshire. The failures of Argyle's expedition obliged him to escape a second time to the Continent; and in 1688, he was one of the commissioned agents, sent by the Scottish emigrants to prepare his countrymen for their long-expected deliverance. that time, until the raising of the Cameronian regiment, he resided much with the Marquis of Douglas, at his castle, his son, the Lord Angus, having a great attachment to him. As a poet, Cleland, considering the state of society, and the disadvantages under which he wrote, will rank very high. His effusions are honourable to the Scottish muse, and superior to any

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thing produced in that age, in his own country. His vein seems to have been chiefly humorous and satirical, though he was capable of rising to the more elevated and dignified heights of poesy. His genius, however, considering his untoward and premature fate, must be estimated rather from what it promised than what it performed. And if his talents have numbered him one of the Scottish poets, his bravery will entitle him to rank among the Scottish heroes. His career was short, but it closed with honour. His conduct during the action narrated above, (that of Dunkeld,) was marked by all the coolness, skill, and intrepidity of a veteran; and his

efforts to retire when he had received the fatal wound, lest the sight of his dead body might discourage his soldiers, throws an

air of chivalry over his death, and discovers a species of heroism truly noble and sublime." "His principal pieces are, A mock Poem on the Expedition of the Highland Host in 1678' Effigies Clericorum Halloo my Fancy, with ballads and smaller poems.' Of the rhapsody entitled, Halloo my Fancy, which has been admitted by a competent judge of poetry, though a reviler of Cleland's party and principles, (Minstrelsy of Scottish Border, vol. 1.) to display considerable imagination,

only the latter half is his. It was written when he was a student, and very young. The part he wrote, begins at the stanza, In conceit, like Phaeton, I'll mount Phoebus' chair,' &c."—pp. 95-97.

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Fashionable Amusements, the bane of Youth: a Sermon preached at Ranelagh Chapel. By John Morison. Third edition. 12mo. pp. 58. Price 18. Westley. THE pleading of a Christian minister against fashionable amusements," is too often as if a zephyr contended with a whirlwind. Yet there are encouraging instances in which the still small voice" of faithful admonition produces its intended and salutary impression. It is clearly within the legitimate province of pastoral instruction, to expose the evil principles, the polluting pleasures, and the facsinating dissipations which are spreading their pestilential influence over the families of modern professors of religion. The advocates of the "doctrines of grace" should invariably maintain the high-toned morality of the Gospel, and be as minute and explicit in the inculcation of duty, as in the exhibition of truth. The " evan

gelical pulpit," however, has not infrequently been defective in its warnings, and vague and indefinite in its censures. We would not wish those who occupy that elevated station, to lose sight of the grand and essential verities of revelation, or ever to forget-that THE CROSS once seen, is death to every vice"-still, we would earnestly recommend a faithful and a fearless exposure of all the "devices of Satan," with whatever attraction they are invested by the magic of art, the power of genius, or the force of custom.

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On these grounds we do most cordially recommend to Christians, and especially to all christian families, the attentive perusal of Mr. Morison's seasonable and excellent discourse. The arguments are scriptural, its delineations faithful, and its tone and temper, affectionate and persuasive. While the sophistry, by which the heart deludes the head, is ably unravelled, and the various evils of the stage, the gaming table, the ball and assembly, the midnight route, the dance, the races, and the fair are graphically sketched and forcibly condemned, as forbidden "revellings," the preacher has not forgotten to state with simplicity and clearness the nature of those true and substantial pleasures, which effectually "supersede the imagined necessity of fashionable amusements." The sermon is neatly printed; and we are happy to find, that it has already reached a third edition.

REVIEW.

VARIOUS publications, of different dates, have been received from America during the past month; of several of which we shall now proceed to give some account. The following is very interesting. NEW SERIES, No. 3.

Correspondence relative to the Emigration to Hayti, of the People of Colour in the United States. Together with the Instructions to the Agent sent out by President Boyer.

New York, 1824.

FROM this pamphlet it appears, that the American Colonization X

Society were desirous of obtaining some information from the government of Hayti, relative to the encouragement it might be disposed to give to the people of colour who should be disposed to leave America, and prefer St. Domingo to Africa. The following letter from Boyer, in answer to one from the Secretary of the Colonization Society, is, on the whole, so admirable, that we give it entire.

"Port-au-Prince, 30th April, 1824. "YEAR OF Independence, THE 21st. "Jean Pierre Boyer, President of Hayti, to Mr. Loring D. Dewey, General Agent of the Society for African Colonization, at New York.

"Sir, I had the satisfaction to receive the letter of the 4th of March last, which you addressed to me; the contents of which breathe the most perfect philanthropy. To consecrate our cares to meliorate the lot of a portion of the human race, sadly borne down by the weight of misfortune, is to prove the excellence of one's heart, and to acquire an eternal right to the gratitude of every living creature that can feel. And the step which you have taken in reference to me, in favour of the descendants of the Africans, who are in the United States, and who are compelled to leave the country, because that, far from enjoying the rights of freemen, they have only an existence, precarious and full of humiliation, entitles you to the gratitude of the Haytiens, who cannot see with indifference the calamities which afflict their brethren.

"As soon as I was informed of the resolution taken in the United States to transport into Africa our unhappy brethren, and thus to restore them to their native sky, I comprehended the policy which had suggested this measure, and at the same time conceived a high opinion of those generous men, who were disposed to make sacrifices, in the hope of preparing for the unfortunate persons who were its objects, an asylum where their existence would be supportable. Thenceforward, by a sympathy very natural, my heart and my arnis have been open to greet, in this land of true liberty, those men upon whom a fatal destiny rests in a manner so cruel. I considered the colonization of barbarous regions with men accustomed to live in the midst of civilized people, as a thing impracticable, to say nothing more.

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experiment made at Sherbro' and at Messurado, prove that I was not far from the truth. In fine, Sir, although Africa be the cradle of their fathers, what a frightful prospect is it to see themselves exiled to

insalubrious climes, after having inhaled the healthful beeezes of the land of their birth!

"I have aided in freeing those from debt who could not quite pay for their passage; I have given land to those who wished to cultivate it; and by my circular, of the date of the 24th December, 1823, to the officers of districts, (of which I send you a copy,) you will convince yourself that I have prepared for the children of Africa, coming out of the United States, all that can assure them of an honourable existence in becoming citizens of the Haytien Republic. But now that you make overtures, which seemed to be authorised by the respectable society of which you are the general agent, I am about to answer frankly to the eight questions which you have addressed to me.

"1. The Government of the Republic will aid in defraying part of the expenses of the voyage of those who cannot bear them, provided the Colonization Society will do the rest. The government will give fertile lands to those who wish to cultivate them, will advance to them nourishment, tools, and other things of indispensable necessity until they shall be sufficiently established to do without this assistance.

2. No matter what number of emigrants; all those who will come with the intention to submit themselves to the laws of the country, shall be well received. The price of passage and other expenses shall be discussed by agents to obtain the most advantageous conditions. The quantity of ground shall be as much as each family can cultivate. For the rest, the utmost good-will to the new-comers shall be the basis of the arrangements.

3. They shall have perfect liberty to labour in their respective professions. The only privilege will be an exemption from the law of patent for the first year. *

4. All those, I repeat it, who will come shall be received, no matter what may be their number. There is no price to stipulate for, as respects the land; since the government will give it gratis, in fee simple, to those who will cultivate it. The emigrants will be distributed in the most advantageous manner possible, and those who may desire it, shall be placed in the neighbourhood of each other.

5. They shall not be meddled with in their domestic habits, nor in their religious belief, provided they do not seek to make proselytes, or trouble those who profess another faith than their own.

"6. Marriage is encouraged, and good husbands and wives enjoy the same consideration as in other civilized countries.

*To practise any profession or pursue any trade, it is necessary in Hayti to obtain a licence, as grocers, &c. do in New York.

"8. The laws of the Republic are general-and no particular laws can exist. Those who come, being children of Africa, shall be Haytiens as soon as they put their feet upon the soil of Hayti: they will enjoy happiness, security, tranquillity, such as we ourselves possess, however our defamers declare the contrary.

"In fine, Sir, to prove to you what I am disposed to do in favour of our brethren who groan in the United States of America under the yoke of prejudice, I am about to send to New York funds and a confidential agent, to enter into an understanding with you and the Colonization Society, with a view to facilitate the emigration to Hayti of the descendants of Africans, who are disposed to come and partake with us the most precious blessings which we enjoy under Divine Providence, "You will speedily, Sir, see the arrival in New York of the agent I am to send. "I have the honour to salute you with my most distinguished consideration. "BOYER."

An agent accordingly has been sent, who is, we believe, at this moment, negotiating in the United States for the accomplishment of this great object. Our next article is also interesting, though it also is not strictly of a religious nature.

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The Greek Revolution. An Address delivered in Park-street Church, Boston, on Thursday, April 1, 1824. By Sereno Edwardo Dwight, Pastor of Parkstreet Church. Boston, 1824. IN this eloquent address, Mr. Dwight endeavours to interest his countrymen in the Greek revolution, by showing that it has broken out in an interesting country-that that country is inhabited by an interesting people-that many things indicate their ultimate successthat the struggle is an eventful one -and that it is the duty of the Americans to help them. quote the concluding paragraph.

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"Prove the sincerity of your feelings and your prayers by your works. God in his providence now presents you a happy opportunity to give vent to the feelings, with which Turkish barbarity and Grecian valour have inspired you. At this call, let every American, every christian heart beat high, and every purse-string be

broken; and an amount contributed for your suffering brethren, which will prove to the gazing nations your gratitude to God, your sympathy for the oppressed, your desires for the extension of Christianity, and your compassion for a world in chains. What you do, do quickly. The hour of trial has come. On the issue of this campaign, are the destinies of Greece suspended. Before its close, her sun will go down in darkness, and starless midnight brood for centuries over the fairest portion of the globe; or, ascending in unclouded splendour, will shed its warm influence on her hills and vallies, and throw its broad beams from the Baltic to the Niger, from the Tagus to the Caspian.-O that Greece, O that Europe might see in the amount you send them, a spirit becoming the children of those, who invited Freedom, long banished from the world, to return, and take up her residence here!'

"But though not called to plead the cause of Greece, before my assembled countrymen ; yet, at the request of your Committee, I am this evening, allowed, my friends and fellow-citizens, to urge her claims on you. But need I urge them?-What heart does not throb, what bosom does not heave, at the very thought of Grecian Independence? feelings of a man, and do you not wish Have you the

that the blood of Greece should cease to flow, and that the groans and sighs of centuries should be heard no more? Are you a scholar; and shall the land of the Muses ask your help in vain? With the eye of the enthusiast do you often gaze at the triumphs of the Arts; and will you do nothing to rescue their choicest relics from worse than Vandal barbarism? Are you a mother, rejoicing in all the charities of domestic life;-are you a daughter, rich and safe in conscious innocence and parental love; and shall thousands more, among the purest and loveliest of your sex, glut the shambles of Smyrna, and be doomed to a captivity inconceivably worse than death? Are you a Christian, and do you cheerfully contribute your property to christianize the heathen world?— what you give to Greece is to rescue a nation of Christians from extermination, to deliver the ancient churches, to overthrow the Mohammedan imposture, to raise up a standard for the wandering tribes of Israel, and to gather in the harvest of the world. Are you an American citizen, proud of the liberty and independence of your country? Greece too is struggling for these very blessings, which she taught your fathers to purchase with their blood. And when she asks your help, need I urge you to bestow it.Where am I?-In the sanctuary of God, in the city of the pilgrims, in the very birth-place of American Inde pendence-hard by yonder HALL, and yonder WHARVES—and midway between

the Heights of Dorchester and Bunker Hill. Here, then, I leave their cause."

Doing Good in Imitation of Christ. A Discourse delivered in the College of New Jersey, the Sabbath preceding the Annual Commencement. By Ashbel Green, D. D. L. L. D. President of the College. Philadelphia, 1822. THE following passage from this discourse is worthy of attention ;—

"Perhaps it is commonly best for a man to bestow the most of what he intends for charitable purposes while he lives, that he may himself see it faithfully applied; for testamentary bequests are too often perverted, and wholly lose their object. Nay, that which is bequeathed, is sometimes lost before the testator dies. The distinguished and holy Richard Baxter grieved much that he had not given immediately, a thousand pounds which he left in his will to a pious use; but which he lived to see completely lost, without any fault or agency of his own. Those who have a large property, and no natural heirs, may adopt both plans; may give much while they live, and found durable charities at their death. Others may need to retain their whole capital, for their comfortable support, and for current charities, till the time of their decease; and then may appropriate it to a purpose of large and lasting benevolence. Examples teach more powerfully than precepts, and there is an example exactly in point, which I think I may here mention with peculiar propriety. James Leslie was graduated in this college, in the year 1759. He was assisted in his education, in the expectation that he would be a preacher of the gospel. But after he had taken his first degree, he became satisfied that he had not those talents for public speaking, which could ever render him acceptable and useful in the pulpit. He devoted himself, therefore, to the humble and painful, but useful and important, occupation of teaching an English school; and for five and thirty years was, probably, the best and most approved schoolmaster in the United States. say that a youth had been taught by Leslie, was the same as to say that he had been well taught. But Leslie never forgot that his original destination was the care of souls. He inculcated piety on all his pupils. He adorned religion by his own example, and constantly promoted it by all the means and efforts in his power, He was not content even with this. He husanded and improved his earnings through the whole of life; and at his death, having no family, he bequeathed the whole of his property, except a few small legacies

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-a property now amounting to more than fifteen thousand dollars-to create a fund in this college, to educate men for the

gospel ministry, while the institution shall exist. On this fund, some of the best and ablest ministers of the gospel, now in our country, have already been educated ;* and it remains to educate, perhaps, hundreds more. Thus Leslie did, in effect, preach the gospel most extensively. What he did has caused, and will cause it to be preached, more than it ever could have been by himself, even in the longest life, and had he possessed all the stores of theological knowledge, and all the powers of eloquence combined."

Domestic Missionary Society," for From the Report of the "United 1824, we learn that it has excited great attention in the State, and has discovered that its services are greatly wanted. It employs or aids seventy-eight labourers..

"Of these missionaries, 10 are located in the city of New York, and the country in its vicinity--13 are in the neighbourhood of the line of the river Hudson--36 are west of that line--7 are under the care of the Utica Agency--4 under the care of the Union Society--5 under the care of the Cooperstown Agency--00 under the care of the Geneva Agency--1 in Lower Canada-1 is settled in Providence, Rhode Island--2 in New Jersey--4 in Pennsylvania--1 in Ohio--1 in Missouri."

The Report remarks,

"As our plan has now been in operation more than six years, in at least two of these Societies, out of which this was formed, experience gives to it in this country, the stamp of deserved approbation. At the same time we have been much encouraged by the report from Great Britain, of the Home Missionary Society, instituted in 1819; and the correspondence of its Treasurer, whose liberal benefaction to our funds makes him one of our directors. The situation of these United States leads us to aim at something more permanent than seems attempted there; but in whatever degree our efforts may be dissimilar in form, we have entire sympathy and continue a correspondence which shows that love to the cause of Christ, more certainly than the electric fluid, suffers no loss by its passage through the waters;

This fund has existed for rather more than thirty years; and as it is adequate to the education of about five incumbents, annually, which it has never wanted, not far from one hundred and fifty pious youth, destined to preach the gospel, have been educated upon it.