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fortify him to punish and do justice upon yame for yair trespasses, and to yat effect, lend to him your prisonis, stokis, fetteris, and all oyr things necessyr yrto, as ze, and ilk ane of zou, and all oyrs our legis, will answer to us yrupoun, and under all hieast pain and charge yt eftie may follow; sua yat ye said Johnne have no cause of complaint hereupon in time cuming, nor resort to us agane to yat effect, notwithstanding any oyr writing sinisterly purchest, be ye said Sebastiane in ye contrar. And als charge all our legis yat nane of yame molest, vex, inquite, or truble ye said Johnne Faw and his cumpane, in doing yair lefull besoynes, or oyrways within our realme, and in yair passing, remaining, or away-ganging furth of ye samin under ye pane abuve written, and sicklike yat ye command all skippers, maisters, and marinaris of all schippis within our realme, at all ports and havyns, quhair the said Johnne and his cumpane sal happen to resort and cume, to resaive him and yame yairin, upoun yair expenses, for furin of them forth of our realm to ye partis beyond sey, as yeu, and ilk ane of yame sicklike will answer to us yrupoun, and under ye pane forsaid. Subscrivit with our hand, and under our prive sele, at Falkland, ye fiveteine day of Februar, and of our reign the xxviii zeir.'

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The decendants of this "Lord and Erle of Little Egypt," continued to travel about Scotland, unmolested, 'till about the beginning of last century. Their chief haunts were on the southern border. The existence of such a body of licensed depredators becoming, at length, obnoxious to the better order of government established in the country, it was declared by law a capital crime to be "by habit and repute" a Gypsey; and Johnne Faw's "heritage" was thus for ever extinguished by the same supreme power which had, in the olden time, so stoutly protected it, when in "perell of tynsall" through the rebellion of Sebastian Calon and his accomplices.

EQUIVOCAL VERSES.

The Jesuit's Double-faced Creed:-In Two Languages.

I hold for sound faith
What Rome's faith saith
Where the king's head
The flock's misled
Where th' altar's dress'd
The people's bless'd
He's but an ass
Who shuns the Mass

What England's church allows
My conscience disavows
The flock can take no shame
Who hold the Pope supreme
The worship's scarce divine
Whose table's bread and wine
Who their communion flies
Is catholick and wise.

Pro fide teneo sanâ
Affirmat quæ Romana
Supremus quando Rex est
Erraticus tum Grex est
Altare cùm ornatur
Populus tum beatur
Asini nomen meruit
Missam qui deseruit

Quæ docet Anglicana
Videntur mihi vana
Tunc plebs est fortunata
Cùm caput fiat Papa
Communio fit inanis
Cùm mensa vino panis
Hunc morem qui non capit
Catholicus est, et sapit.

The Weekly Paquet of Advice from Rome,
No 23, May 6th, 1679.

The Houses of Stuart and Hanover.

I love with all my heart.
The Hanoverian part
And for that settlement
My conscience gives consent
Most righteous is the cause
To fight for George's laws
It is my mind and heart
Tho' none will take my part

The Tory party here
Most hateful do appear;
I ever have deny'd

To be on James's side.
To fight for such a king
Will England's ruin bring.
In this opinion I

Resolve to live and die.

Lansdown MSS, 852.

The following lines, in the same style as the two preceding, were written in answer to a question by a republicanWhat the author thought of the new constitution at the commencement of the French revolution?

A la nouvelle loi
Je renonce dans l'ame
Comme épreuve de ma foi
Je crois celle qu'on blame
Dieu vous donne la paix
Noblesse desolée

Qu'il confonde á jamais
Messieurs de l'Assemblée

The newly made law
From my soul I abhor
My faith to prove good
I maintain the old code
May God give you peace
Forsaken Noblesse
May he ever confound
The Assembly all round

Je veux être fidéle
Au régime ancien
Je crois la loi nouvelle,
Opposée à tout bien:
Messieurs les démocrats,
Au diable allez vous en:
Tous les Aristocrats
Ont eux seuls le bon sens.

"Tis my wish to esteem
The ancient regime
I maintain the new code
Is opposed to all good
Messieurs Democrats
To the devil go hence
All the Aristocrats
Are the sole men of sense.

MISS EDGEWORTH AND THE JEWS.

(By an American.)

"THE story of Harrington by Miss Edgeworth, has excited more than common attention, because it is stated to have been written to conciliate a particular description of peopleone of whose members, " an American lady," had complained that her society had been harshly treated in the writings of that celebrated author. Harrington, the hero of this tale, is captivated by a young lady of the Hebrew stock. Both himself and his parents entertain violent prejudices against Jews. These prejudices, in due time, are removed by concurring circumstances; yet, her religion being an insurmountable bar to their marriage, it is suddenly discovered that she had been educated a Christian! and all concludes happily, in the usual way.

"One of our critics in the New York Magazine, after commenting with sufficient amplitude on novel writing in general, and Miss Edgeworth's manner in particular-gives a summary of this fashionable tale, and concludes with the following remarks Miss Montenero is a lovely, sensitive, interesting girl; but she is no Jewess! and the whole fabric, which the author had raised, falls before this single fact. By doing away this prominent impediment to the union of the lovers, she completely destroys the interest of the reader, and the moral of her tale. The mode adopted to dispose of the difficulty, is a tacit admission that it could be got over in no other way. Miss Edgeworth is quite willing to allow the Jews to be very clever, good people; but it is pretty plain that she does not think a Hebrew damsel a proper helpmate for a John Bull.'

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We readily agree with this writer, that by removing the impediment to the match, she has destroyed the interest of the reader; but not, we hope, the fabric she meant to raise, or the 'moral of her tale.' Her design was simply to concede that Jews are like other men-good and bad; and this she has effected. But had she intended to inculcate that heartless liberality, which supposes that conflicting opinions in the most essential articles of a religious creed, should be no impediment to a matrimonial union-she would, indeed, have betrayed an evidence of that indifference to all religions, with which she has sometimes been charged. She was perfectly right in admitting that the difficulty must be removed; but there was another-and but one other way-the sacrifice of their love to their religion. Had she finally separated the lovers on this account, our sympathy would have been sus

tained; and to the virtues intended to be conceded to the still venerated name of Israelite, would have been added that tenacious adherence to their faith which we know they practise; and as long as they sincerely think it right, they are highly commendable in doing so.

"With_such laws as could only be performed at Jerusalem, the Jews are now obliged to dispense; but all that are practicable in their dispersed state, they piously obey. Had not this been the case, they would have been long ago amalgamated (like every other ancient people) with the Gentiles; and their very name would have been discovered only in their history. Their absolutely abstaining from intermarriages with any others than those of their own communion, is the principal means by which they are preserved in their separate state; nor can we see how two persons, each conscientiously attached to a creed essentially so different as those of the Jew and the Christian, could live together in that perfect harmony which ought, at least, to be anticipated by every individual who enters into the most important of all engage

ments.

"In the course of her work, Miss Edgeworth has taken occasion to notice the liberality of public sentiment, and the undistinguishing toleration of our laws in America. A recent opportunity would seem, indeed, to shew that not much of the former exists in England. In all the conversations to which Mr. West's celebrated picture has given rise, in the last two or three years, we have never heard it intimated that the English critics had objected to the complexion by which the artist has thought proper to distinguish the High Priest and his adherents from their brethren, the disciples of Christ. With us it is seen with one universal feeling of surprise and disgust. There is not the shadow of authority for such a liberty in the Scriptures; and if it be adopted in the license of the poet-though it be temerity to differ with Mr. Westwe cannot but say there is a gross absurdity in exhibiting, in the same picture, two groups of persons, all of the same family, and the same period of time, of opposite colours-the one white, the other black! Friends and enemies are very properly discriminated by the expression of their features; but no strength of passion, especially at the moment of its birth, can change the colour of the skin.

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Miss Edgeworth has gone beyond the courtesy of either party, and proved too much when she compliments us so far as to say, that, in America, Jews have frequently married Christian women; and the wives have continued undisturbed in their faith.' She has been misinformed in this particular. A few such instances, it is true, have occurred; but, in some

cases, one of the parties has wholly embraced the opposite creed-and, in others, they have evinced their total indifference to all religion, by suspending the exercise of their own opinions during the lives of their companions, and returning to it afterwards. In all the various intercourse of social life, we know of no uncharitable barriers between Jews and Christians in our happy community. Talents and virtues are alike honoured in both; but, in the view of a more intimate connection, many a youth, enchained by the charms of a lovely Jewess, has breathed the vain aspiration of Paul and Agrippa- I would thou wert not almost-but altogether such as I am; not excepting these bonds.”

COMMONWEALTH PURITY.

THE following speeches, delivered from the hustings at the election for a knight of the shire for the county of Berks, on the 2a of April, 1649, exhibit not only some curious features in the political history of that period; but may serve to shew that bribery and treating are by no means evils of a modern date, nor peculiarly the offspring of a monarchical system of things. The successful candidate was the eccentric and profligate Philip Herbert, Lord Pembroke, who was thus stoutly opposed by a freeholder, of whom nothing else is recorded than that he was "a well-affected tanner, of the county of Berks."

"HONEST FRIENDS,

"You that are of the free-born people of this land, (I speak to none else,) and lovers of the army, and the true English interest; all men else have forfeited their freedoms. I am full of anguish and trouble for your sakes, when I behold this day. I fear you are in a way to ruin yourselves, unless the Lord be merciful to you. The thing you meet for troubles me not a little. 'Tis to chuse a knight. Truly I hoped, and I hope we all hoped, to have done making knights by this time. The thing you meet to chuse troubles me more. This fellow that was a Lord-this Pembroke-this Montgomery-this Herbert-this, what shall I call him? Call him what you will, we were promised a representative to begin on June next, and this Parliament to end the last month; if so, why should we send this fellow thither to make mouths for three weeks, and talk of dogs and hawks? I say, let us have the representative, or we are cheated; but if we must make

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