with a sect that he believes is tenacious of important and destructive errors. He is bound to let the world see, that he does not belong to that sect-does not hold their errors. Mr. D. But cannot he continue with that sect, and denounce and reprobate its errors at the same time? R. Not, surely, when the errors which he denounces and reprobates, are, that the fundamental principles of the society are antichristian-that the ties which bind them together ought not to bind them, but to be dissolved, and that, for himself, he considers them as dissolved, and will act accordingly. Can any thing be more absurd than for a man to say that he belongs to a sect which he treats in this manner? He does not really belong to it-He has put himself out of it in fact, and ought to do so in form: And if he will not, the sect ought to disown him, and turn him out. They ought to do this to preserve consistency and a regard to their own character; for the supposition is, that they still believe that they are right, and that one of their late members has gone astray. They ought to do it, too, to preserve peace and purity among themselves; and because it is far more reasonable (if there were no other consideration in the case) that one individual should suffer inconvenience and loss, than that a whole community should be incessantly disturbed and injured by his continuing in membership When the question is, whether an individual, or a whole society, shall suffer inconvenience, it is easy to see how the question ought to be answered-Thus endeth our colloquy with Mr. D.

And now we ask of every reader, what any man can want, in the way of Christian liberty, more than that his subscription to a creed should be perfectly voluntary and unsolicited, at first; and that after he has made his subscription, he should have full freedom to examine and compare every article of his faith

with the infallible word of God; and that, if he becomes satisfied that he has adopted an unscriptural creed, or that he ought to have adopted no creed at all, he be at perfect liberty to correct his errors, without hindrance or censure-provided only, that he will peaceably separate himself from that association which holds the creed he renounces, as their bond of union, and with which he himself has been associated, on the condition of so holding it? We demand, if this is not liberty-Christian liberty-as much as any reasonable man can desire. And all this liberty, be it noted and remembered, belongs to every minister and every member of the Presbyterian church.

Mr. D. is solicitous, that if a rejoinder to his book should appear, his opponent should consider the matter in controversy by itself, and not as connected with his name or doings. He says (p. xxviii.) "Let him be valiant for the truth upon the earth;' but let him discuss the subject, not the man." We cannot say that we wonder that Mr. D. is anxious that the subject, and not the man, should be discussed, in this controversy. We think that we, or any body else, in his circumstances, would have the same anxiety that he experiences. But unhappily the principal part of the existing controversy, is, and ought to be, whether what has been done by Mr. D. could be done with propriety or consistency, by any man in his circumstances. If Mr. D. had, from the first, renounced his connexion with the Presbyterian church, and declared himself an Independent, then his demand that we should discuss the subject and not the man, would have been fairly and strongly made. But the truth is, that in such an event there would, probably, have been little or no controversy. We know the principles of the Independents, and we respect them. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian church

than this-although their work was of a different nature from that of translators.

Mr. D. writes (p. xxiv.) "I hope I have fairly disabused myself of the unjust and cruel insinuation of a want of integrity, as to the matter of subscription. If it has not been done to the satisfaction of the reader, I shall never return to it again, and shall hear of its renewal with composed silence. My feelings, on such a subject, are housed under the protection of a good conscience, and my heart is safe."Here we really give Mr. D. some credit for ingenuity. We think he has made about as good a come-off, as any man in his situation could. But has he disabused himself? We think not; because, so far as we know, he has never been abused; although he has himself abused the whole Presbyterian church, most unmercifully. What has been said of his "want of integrity, as to the matter of subscription," instead of being "unjust and cruel insinua tion," has, according to our reckoning, been, over and over again, made matter of incontrovertible proof. The publick will judge between us. "My feelings (says he) on such a subject, are housed under the protection of a good conscience." For the word good, in this sentence, read deluded, and then Mr. D.'s statement and our own will not differ; as may be seen in our preliminary remarks.-Mr. D. promises never to return again to the defence of himself, against such a charge as

he has endeavoured to repel. This was a good resolution-the best he could have formed-and we are only sorry that he did not keep it. Bat he departed from it, even before he had finished the publication we are reviewing. The latter part of his book is much in the style of defence. Almost at the very close of it, we find such a sentence as this-" Neither may the brethren traduce us as disingenuous men, because we do not withdraw from their voluntary association. There is nothing disingenuous in such conduct." And then he goes on, very modestly, as his manner is, to compare himself and his no-system associates, to the disciples of Jesus, and the Presbyterian church at large, to the Scribes and Pharisees; and to argue, that as the disciples were not required to withdraw from the scribes, in "the services of the temple," so neither is there any obligation on Mr. D. and Co. to withdraw from the Presbyterian church. Right glad are we, that a comparison is not a demonstration, nor even a reason nor an argument -nor yet, in all cases, an illustration; for we remember that some witty writer, we believe it is Swift, speaks of "similes to nothing like." Had he met with the one before us, he might have given it as an example. Possibly we may say a little more on this subject, in winding up our review. But we are heartily glad to close, for the present, our examination of Mr. D.'s defence. (To be continued.)

more, a few days since killed a female snake, which upon being opened, was found to contain 64 young snakes, each measuring from five to six inches in length.

River, a sign post of hewn stone has lateStone Sign Post.-At the village of Fall ly been erected, 324 feet in length; 27 feet of it above the surface of the earth. Its form is octagonal, and its diameter

averages about fourteen inches, being somewhat largest at the bottom.

At the late distribution of prizes by the British Society of Arts, the large silver medal, and a purse of fifty guineas, was awarded to Mr. J. Roberts, an indigent miner, for his apparatus to enable persons I to breathe in air loaded with smoke and other suffocating vapours.

It is remarkable that the Dutch flag, displayed from the vessel which brought out the Dutch minister, is the first national Dutch flag which has been exhibited in New York, since it was struck, upwards of 150 years ago, when the colony of New Amsterdam was ceded to Great Britain.

Messrs. Pizzigalli and Degaspari, of Milan, have undertaken a work which they call "Pomona, in relief;" that is to say, a collection of models of all the fruits cultivated in Europe, so perfect that it is impossible, without touching them, not to mistake them for the natural fruits. The smaller fruits are modelled in wax; the larger in plaster, with a coat of wax. Some, such as grapes, gooseberries, &c, are blown in glass.

New Invention.-The Newburg Gazette mentions that Captain Henry B. Myer, of that village, has invented an improved method of propelling vessels. "The superiority of his plan over the common paddle wheels," says the Gazette, "has been tested by careful and fair experiment, and at the most unfavourable trial, the result was 41 to 26 in favour of his machine, the same power being applied to each. What difficulties may attend the application of this plan to steam-boats and other large vessels, we cannot foresee; but the inventor thinks they will be comparatively trifling, and that at least one-third of the fuel may be saved by substituting his machine for the common paddle wheel now in use in steam boats."

Vergennes, (Vermont.) The pig iron, manufactured from the ore which abounds on the shores of Lake Champlain, has been tested by a variety of experiments in the city of New York, and pronounced the best specimen, particularly of American manufacture, that has ever been sold in that market.

his leisure moments in rebuilding that city, and restoring it to its former splen. dour.

At a late meeting of the Asiatic Society of London, several Burmese articles were presented. Among others, a Burmese sabre, of a very rude and awkward shape; and a copy of a curious Burmese book, the letters of which are in mother-o'-pearl. It is of an oblong shape, and composed either of wood or pasteboard, lackered.

South Africa.-The "South-African Advertiser" contains the following extract from a letter from Graaf Reinet.-"This morning several of the inhabitants were attracted by a cloud, which had made its appearance about a mile eastward of the town; and it was soon ascertained that this phenomenon was occasioned by a vast swarm of migratory locusts, the first which have made their appearance in this neighbourhood since 1808. They are still young; and, though their numbers, in comparison with the immense swarms with which some of us have had formerly to contend, may be termed few, they are sufficiently numerous to astonish those who have lately come among us; and they cause no small degree of anxiety to the farmer, who knows, by experience, what they may become in a season or two, if Providence be not pleased to arrest so dreadful a visitation."-Ch. Obs.

A subscription is in progress amongst the Unitarians, in India and in England, towards enabling Ram-Mohun Roy and Mr. Adam, a Unitarian missionary, to build a chapel at Calcutta. This coalition seems to speak as little in favour of the Christian complexion of modern Unitarianism as did the celebrated letter and epistle dedicatory to the Mohammedan ambassa dor from Morocco to the Unitarianism of the age of Charles the Second.

A Roman Catholick priest of the name of Stabellini, has been consecrated Portuguese Bishop of Dorilea, and Apostolical Vicar-General, in the dominions of the Great Mogul, Idulshaw, Golconda, and in the Island of Bombay, at the mother church of De Esperanca, at Bombay. The cere mony was performed by the Bishop of Antiphila, and two Vice-Bishops.

North America.-The temperature of newly-killed animals was, on sixteen different occasions, noticed by Captain Lyon, during the severity of the Arctic winter of 1821-2. The greatest heat observed, that of a fox, was 106 deg. of Fahrenheit, when the surrounding air was 14° below zero. The mean of fourteen Arctic foxes, a white hare, and a wolf, gave 102° of animal heat, at extreme depressions of the thermometer, in the surrounding air. How wonderful this provision of an all-wise and merciful Creator!