sis which convulsed her. When Robespierre presided over the committee of public safety, was not an Englishman to canvass his measures? Supposing we had then been at peace with France, would the attorney-general have filed an information against any one who had expressed due abhorrence of the furies of that sanguinary monster? When Marat demanded two hundred and fifty thousand heads in the convention, must we have contemplated that request without speaking of it in the terms it provoked? When Carrier placed five hundred children in a square at Lyons, to fall by the musquetry of the soldiery, and from their size the balls passed over them, the little innocents flew to the knees of the soldiery for protection, when they were butchered with the bayonet. In relating this event, must man restrain his just indignation, and stifle the expression of indignant horror, which such a dreadful massacre must excite? Would the attorney-general in his information state," when Maximilian Robespierre was first magistrate of France, as president of the committee of safety, that those who spoke of him as his crimes deserved, did it with a wicked and malignant intention to defame and vilify him." The only restraint upon great criminals is, the public opinion; and to weaken the expression of that opinion, is, in a great degree, to let loose the passions of the great, to prey on the weak and defenceless. I will again put the case of that Swiss patriot, descended from the hero of Switzerland; he, whose ancestor supported the liberties of his country; who conquered that pile three hundred years ago, he of late had endeavoured ineffectu ally to defend. If he were to come to this country, the only asylum now left upon earth; if he were here to weep over the ruins of his country, must he be told that he must deplore his fate in silence; that he might groan deep, but it must not be loud? Better by far would it be that we should at once revert to a state of absolute barbarism, than thus have our feelings paralysed to all moral distinctions. I hope and trust that a British jury will never be a party to such purposes. They never have done it, and in former times, when all other parts of the state have been corrupted, juries yet maintained their virtue and their independence. In the time of Crom

well, he twice sent a satirist upon his government to be tried by a jury, who sat where the jury now does. The scaffold on which the blood of the monarch was shed, was still in their view. The clashing of the bayonetswhich turned out the parliament, were within their hear. ing, yet they maintained their integrity, and twice did they send his attorney-general out of court with disgrace and defeat.

SUPPLEMENT.

OF THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF PUBLIC SPEAKING, NOT INCLUded in the ANCIENT RHETORICS.

OF THE PULPIT.

Sacred Reading.

1. Trial of Abraham's fidelity.

AND it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, “ Abraham;" and he said, "Behold, here I am." And he said, “ Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah: and offer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of." And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt-offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him. Then on the third day Abraham lift up his eyes, and saw the place afar off. And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide you here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you." And Abraham took the wood of the burnt-offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son, and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife: and they went both of them together. And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said. "My father :" and he said," Here am I, my son." And he said, "Behold the fire and wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt

offering?" And Abraham said, "My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt-offering:" so they went both of them together.

And they came to the place which God had told him of, and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, "Abraham, Abraham,". And he said, "Here am I." And he said, "Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me." And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went, and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt-offering, in the stead of his son. And Abraham called the name of that place, Jehovah-jireh, as it is said to this day, " In the

mount of the Lord it shall be seen."

And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, and said "By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying Í will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore, and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies. And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice." So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up, and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.

II. Story of Joseph.

PART I.

AND Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan. These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren, and the lad was with

the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours. And when his bre thren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him. And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren; and they hated him yet the more. And he said unto them, "Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed: For behold we were binding sheaves in the field, and lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf." And his brethren said to him, "Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us?" and they hated him yet the more, for his dreams, and for his words.

And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, "Behold, I have dreamed a dream more: and behold, the sun and the moon, and the eleven stars made obeisance to me." And he told it to his father, and to his brethren, and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, "What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother, and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee, to the earth?" And his brethren envied him: but his father observed the saying. And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem. And Israel said unto Joseph, “ Dọ not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send thee unto them :" and he said to him, "Here am I." And he said to him, "Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks, and bring me word again." So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem. certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field, and the man asked him, saying, “What seekest thou?" And he said, "I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed their flocks." And the man said, they are departed hence: for I heard them say, "Let us go to Dothan." And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan.. And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him, to slay him.

And a