My soul, adore the Lord of might; With uncreated glory crown'd, And clad in royalty of light,

He draws the curtain'd heavens around; Dark waters his pavilion form, Cds are his car, his wheels the storm. Lightning before Him, and behind Thunder rebounding to and fro; He walks upon the winged wind, And reins the blast, or lets it go :This goodly globe his wisdom plann'd,

He fix'd the bounds of sea and land.

When o'er a guilty world, of old,
He summon'd the avenging main,
At his rebuke the billows roll'd
Back to their parent-gulf again;

The mountains rais'd their joyful heads, Like new creations, from their beds. Thenceforth the self-revolving tide

Its daily fall and flow maintains ;
Thro' winding vales fresh fountains glide,
Leap from the hills, or course the plains;

There thirsty cattle throng the brink,
And the wild asses bend to drink.

Fed by the currents, fruitful groves
Expand their leaves, their fragrance fling,
Where the cool breeze at noon-tide roves,
And birds among the branches sing;

Soft fall the showers when day declines, And sweet the peaceful rainbow shines. Grass through the meadows, rich with flow.

ers,

God's bounty spreads for herds and flocks: On Lebanon his cedar towers,

The wild goats bound upon his rocks; Fowls in his forests build their nests, -The stork amid the pine-tree rests. To strengthen man, condemn'd to toil, He fills with grain the golden ear; Bids the ripe olive melt with oil,

And swells the grape,man's heart to cheer; -The moon her tide of changing knows,

Her orb with lustre ebbs and flows.
The sun goes down, the stars come out;
He maketh darkness, and 'tis night;
Then roam the beasts of prey about,
The desart rings with chase and fight:
The lion, and the lion's brood,

Look up,-and God provides them food Morn dawns far east; ere long the sun

Warms the glad nations with his beams; Day, in their dens, the spoilers shun, And night returns to them in dreams : Man from his couch to labour goes, Till evening brings again repose. How manifold thy works, O Lord,

In wisdom, power, and goodness wrought! The earth is with thy riches stored, And ocean with thy wonders fraught:

Unfathom'd caves beneath the deep For Thee their hidden treasures keep. There go the ships, with sails unfurl'd, By Thee directed on their way; There, in his own mysterious world, Leviathan delights to play;

And tribes that range immensity, Unknown to man, are known to Thee. By Thee alone the living live ;

Hide but thy face, their comforts fly;
They gather what thy seasons give;
Take Thou away their breath, they die;
Send forth thy Spirit from above,
And all is life again and love.

Joy in his works Jehovah takes,
Yet to destruction they return;
He looks upon the earth, it quakes,
Touches the mountains, and they burn;
-Thou, God, for ever art the same;
I AM is thine unchanging name.

Insects are very curious; and the spider is a curious insect. There is first, the Barbary spider, which is as big as a man's thumb. Ít carries its children in a bag, like a gypsey. During their nonage, the young folks side there altogether, coming out oecasionally for recreation, but dutifully returning. In requital for this, the young spiders, when they are full grown, become mortal foes to the parent, attack him (or her) with violence, and if they are conquerors, dispose of his body in a way perfectly understood by our friends on the other side of the Atlantic-Then there is the American spider (covered all over with hair),

which is so large as to be able to de stroy small birds, and afwards vour them and also the common sp der, which looks like a couple of peninsulas, with a little isthmus (its back) between. But the most remarkable spider of history was the daughter of the dyer Idmon,-Arachne. She, as many of our readers know, was changed into a spider for challenging Minerva to surpass her tapestry. This was impertinent enough, to be sure, whether it deserved its punishment or not is a subject which we leave to the Greeks. There is, however, something in the dauntless behaviour of Arachne, which, we may be permitted to say, strikes us

some are laying 5 and 6 to 4 on the Mermaid being a natural production, while others are laying the same odds, and even 2 to 1 against it. A sporting gentleman, who is supposed to have some concern in the Mermaid, has taken many bets and some long odds to a large amount,that it really is what is represented-a Mermaid. It is now exhibiting at Watson's, Turf Coffee House, St. James's-street.

We warrant us when this lady comes to be "what she is represented," that the Lord Chancellor will look upon her as one of the oldest wards under his care.

The Stirling paper gives an account of a gentleman every way fit to become Miss Mermaid's suitor. His dabbling propensities-his passion for wet clothes-his great age-all render the match desirable. Ought not a reference to be immediately made to the master to inquire into the settlements? What an account for the papers! Marriage in wet life! At Shoreditch, on St. Swithin's day, Mr. John Monro, aged 95, to Miss Salmon, the Mermaid. The lady was given away by the Lord Chancellor, and, immediately after the ceremony, the happy pair set off for the Goodwin Sands to pass the honey-moon. Two fish-women attended as bridemaids.

top of Tullich-hill which is very steep, and distant about two miles. Should the rain pour in torrents, so much the better, and with the greater pleasure does he perambulate the summit of the hill for hours in the midst of the storm. Whether it is natural to this man, or whether it is the effect of habit, cannot be said; but it is well known he cannot endure to remain any length of time with his body in a dry state. During summer, and when the weather is dry, he regularly pays a daily visit to the river Arca, and plunges himself headlong in with his clothes on; and should they get perfectly dry early in the day, so irksome and disagreeable does his situation become, that, like a fish out of water, he finds it necessary to repeat the luxury. He delights in rainy weather, and when the "sky lowers, and the clouds threaten," and other men seek the "bield or ingle side," then is the

time that this "man of habits" chooses for enjoying his natural element in the highest perfection. He never bends his way homewards till he is completely drenched; and, on these occasions, that a drop may and his head left bare to the pattering of not be lost, his bonnet is carried in his hand, the wind and rain. He at present enjoys excellent health; and, notwithstanding his habits, he has been wonderfully fortunate in escaping colds, a complaint very common ed whether in dry weather or wet weather, whether in summer or winter, his mode of cure is not more singular than it is specific. Instead of confining himself and indulging in the ardent sweating potions so highly extolled among the gossips of his country,

in this moist climate-but when he is attack

(From the Stirling Journal.)-There is at present living, at a place called Glenarie,

six miles from Inverary, a person of the name of John Monro, at the advanced age of 95, who makes a point of walking daily, for the sake of recreation, the six miles betwixt his residence and Inverary, or to the

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pure streams of the Arca, and takes one of his usual headlong dips, with his clothes on. become dry, when the plan pursued never He then walks about a few miles, till they

In other respects, the writer has never heard fails to check the progress of his disorder. any thing singular regarding his manners

or habits.

Who may stand in thy siglit, fearful Lord of the WAT When the bolts of thy with are abroad on the world!

From the height of the heavens thy sentence was heard,

And earth as it trembled grew still at the voice, When raising to judgment thy glory appear'd

And bade all the meek of thy people rejoice.

The fierceness and scorn of rebellion and pride

Shall but end in thy glory, and perfect thy praise; Thou shalt turn all the darts of the wicked aside, And crush all thy foes, oh Thou Ancient of days!

Then pay ye your vows to the great King of kings,

And be faithful all ye that assemble before him; While each servant of God his peace-offering brings, And serve him, and magnify, fear, and adore him.

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HIS remarkable person was a negro slave, born in the island of Grenada, on Oct. 6th, 1767. He served in the American Revolutionary War, and was wounded at the seige of Savannah, and, on his return to St. Domingo, was employed as an overseer on an estate called the Lemonade, the property of Dureau de la Ealle, the translator of Tacitus. It is reported that even in this occupation he displayed the natural severity of his disposition. When the measures of the revolutionary parties in France 'occasioned the insurrection of the blacks of St. Domingo, Christophe became an active partizan of the cause of emancipation,and soon acquired an ascendancy over his fellow slaves, by the daring intrepidity which he displayed in several sanguinary conflicts. Toussaint Louverture, the first supreme chief of the liberated negroes, appointed Christophe a general of brigade, and despatched him to suppress an insurrection which had been fomented against the authority of Toussaint by his nephew, named Moses. Christophe possessed himself of this leader by perfidy, and he was put to death by his uncle Toussaint, who appointed Christophe to succeed him as governor of the northern province. But the execution of Moses occasioned a rebellion, which broke out at Capetown on the 21st of Oct. 1801, and spread to several other places. Christophe at the head of his black troops attacked the insurgents in every direction, and by his personal courage and vigour, contributed greatly to suppress the insurrection. It must be observed, that Moses supported the principle of annihilating the whites, against the uncle whose better policy it was to encourage a mixed association of the different colours. But the principles of Moses had rendered him so popular, that when Christophe became king, he thought it advisable to treat his memory with respect in many public instruments, as well as by means of his confidential agents.

Christophe commanded at the Cape on the arrival of the French expedition under Le Clerc, in 1802. He was summoned to surrender, and in the correspondence which arose out of this summons, there were characteristic expressions, and a generosity of sentiment, which gave the sable chieftain a high superiority over his white opponent. "If," said Christophe," you use against me the force you threaten, I will resist you with the intrepidity of a soldier, and, if the fate of arms be in your favour, you shall enter the Cape not until it is a smoking ruin, and even on its cinders I will continue to combat you. The troops, which you threaten to disembark, I consider as houses of cards which the slightest breath can destroy; and for your personal esteem, I wish it not at that price to which you attach itthe abandonment of my duty." On anoth

er occasion he writes, "I want but proofs sufficient to assure me of the establishment of liberty and equality in favour of the people of this colony. The laws, by which the mother country has consecrated this great principle, will carry this conviction to my heart, and I protest to you that my submission shall be immediately consequent to my obtaining such a proof by your acknowledg ment of those laws."- You propose to me, citizen General, to afford you the means of securing General Touissaint Louverture. Such conduct on my part would be treasonable and perfidious, and your degrading proposal convinces me of your unconquerable repugnance to believe me susceptible of the least sentiment of delicacy and honour."

men.

The blacks, however, disunited and betrayed, yielded at first to General Le Clerc, almost without resistance. Dessalines and Christophe were almost the only chiefs who offered resistance. They were proclaimed out of the pale of the law, and at length overcome by superiority of numbers. Christophe evacuated Port-au-Prince, firing the town, and effecting a junction with Touissaint Louverture, at the head of about 3000 When the perfidy of the French bad acquired the possession of Toussaint's person, the war seemed suppressed, but it presently burst forth with renewed energy under the command of Dessalines. The climate favoured the efforts of these heroic blacks, and, before the end of 1805, the French army at St. Domingo ceased to exist. A national assembly met on the 1st Jan. 1804, and restored to the island its primitive name of Hayti. Dessalines was elected Governor-general for life. The island was divided into six military departments, each commanded by a General of division. Christophe was the oldest of Dessalines' officers, and he was put into the government of the department of the Cape. The baneful example of Napoleon's ambition soon spread its influence to St. Domingo, and Dessalines proclaimed himself Emperor, with a right to appoint his successor to the throne. On the 29th of July 1805, the 2d year of their independence, Dessalines appointed Christophe, Commander-in-chief of the army of Hayti. The republican party rose against the usurped government, and under a man of colour named Pethion, a virtuous citizen and a skilful officer, commanding the division of Port-au-Prince, they overthrew the usurpation in Oct. 1806, Dessalines perishing during the commotion. It appears that Christophe was no stranger to his being taken off, and on his death the war became fierce between Christophe and Pethion. The province of the north, and the west, continued in submission to Christophe : while the province of the south, and the second division of that of the west, adhered to the General Pethion. An assembly of dep

uties was convoked at Port-au-Prince, the majority supported Pethion, but the minority protested against their decision, and at the beginning of 1806, a civil war may be said to have been kindled A new assembly was convoke at the Cape, under the influence Christophe, which decreed the constitution of the 17th Feb. 1807, nominating Christophe President for life, and Generalissimo of the military and naval forces of the island: At the same time the province of the south-west established the republic of Hayti, with a constitution similar to that of the United States; Pethion being President for four years. In the mean while Christophe, with admirable dexterity, placed his military, naval, fiscal and civil establishments,in the most vigorous and efficient condition, and pushed the war against his rival with much activity, but with little success.

On the 28th March 1811,Christophe declared himself hereditary monarch of Hayti, under the title of Henry I. and he abolished all councils, except an executive council composed of his officers and courtiers. His wife, Maria Louis, a black woman, married on the 15th July 1793, was styled Queen, and the eldest son was to be called Prince royal of Hayti. From this epoch, the government publications declaimed against demagogues and anarchists; the insignia of royalty, the forms, ceremonies, and most trifling subjects of court etiquette, were regulated by royal ordinances, and, on the 5th of April following, appeared an edict creating an hereditary nobility of princes,dukes, counts, barons, and knights, with an allotment of heraldic devices, and armorial bearings. The instability of human affairs and the vanity of human nature were never more powerfully or more ridiculously displayed, than in this assumption of titles, heraldry, and feudal rights, by negroes, ignorant and rude, who, but a few years before had toiled under the caprice, the insolence, the lash of their mercenary and brutal owners. On the 7th of the month (April) Christophe issued an edict constituting an Archiepiscopal See in the capital of Hayti, and suffi agan dioceses in the different cities of the kingdom.

But that which is more honourable to Christophe, was the Code Henri, published by him on the 20th Feb. 1812. The laws of his empire are divided into nine heads, and the complexion of the civil code approximates to the similar division of the Code Napoleon. Divorce is prohibited; death and the confiscation of property is enacted; morals and the catholic religion are especially protected; and the institution of a jury is not admitted. The coronation of Christophe took place on the 2d June 1812; the public functionaries from the Spanish part of the island, and the British naval officers on the station, were present at the ceremony, which rivalled in pomp and mag

nificence the coronation ceremonies of the most luxurious courts of Europe. M. Brelle, Archbishop of Hayti and Duke of Anse,

consecrated his Majesty with the formula and religious pomp of the Roman Pontificate. The coronation oath was merely to maintain the then existing order of things, and to resist the re-establishment of white domination. On the senior British officer, drinking Christophe's health at the banquet, the sable monarch rose and drank, "to my dear brother George III-may he prove an invincible obstacle to the ambition of Napoleonand may he always be the constant friend of Hayti."

In 1813,the numerous defections of his subjects presaged his future fall,and the ultimate triumph of the freer,and consequently better principles of his republican rival. But his military genius gave him a temporary advantage over his more moderate and enlightened adversary. The defections of his subjects exasperated the natural ferocity of Christophe's disposition, and stimulated him to acts of great barbarity. On the restoraof the Bourbous in 1814,Christophe flattered himself that his conduct and pretensions would be more favourably viewed by Louis, than they had been by Napoleon. But Louis despatched a commission to St. Domingo with proposals tantamount to requiring a a gradual recurrence to the old regime. The negro Monarch received the terms with just indignation. He summoned a council of the nation at his palace of Sans Souci, on the 21st Oct. 1814, and the expose of the instructions and designs of the French government awakened the utmost enthusiasm in the population. Christophe prepared for the most determined resistance, and, in his instructions to his officers, he ordered them to provide torches and combustible materials sufficient to burn all the towns-on the landing of an enemy to destroy every species of publick or private building, to blow up the bridges,break down all dikes and causeways, to devastate the country, and to retire with the whole population into the mountains, and, finally, to spare neither age nor sex of those enemies who fell into their hands, but to inflict upon them the "most horrible species of punishment." These orders were in unison with the general spirit of the people. One of the French agents was taken with his papers, which were published, and himself examined and exposed to the interrogatories of all the people, but no further injury was permitted to his person. The French King with great meanness subsequently disavowed this embassy, in the Moniteur of the 28th Jan.1815. Christophe, to secure the people to his interests, now gave greater liberty to the press; he decreed a gratuitous instruction for the people, made efforts to abolish even the French language, hiring numerous English artists and instructers, and ordering all instructions to be conveyed in that language. On the 20th Nov. 1816, he refused to receive the new commissioners sent to Hayti by the King of France, declaring that he would not treat with France but upon the basis of independence and equality of nationa! rights, and the commissioners, having re