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"Our persons were now all that remained to be disposed of. There was a one-horse chaise; but to the tail of a cart, into which we were put, (my which was too good for any of us. It was fastened husband, an old man, being obliged to walk in the rear) and thus were dragged, preceded by our plundered property, to that gang of cut-throats complaints were in a moment stifled. Pinard said called the revolutionary committee. Here our that his orders were to burn all, and kill all. The committee were astonished and offended at his clemency, and reprimanded him severely for not having murdered us according to his orders. I, my sisters, and our poor old relations were sent to husband died, and we are only left alive to weep one prison, and my husband to another. My and starve."

This is a specimen of the manner in which the prisons were filled. Now for a sample of the revolutionary process of gaol-delivery.

not to be depressed by worldly troubles or with which it has pleased God to visit us is bodily sufferings. It is this principle which so much less formidable, in many respects, than true christianity supplies, that can alone enable that with which these poor wretched heathens us to exhibit a character and conduct superior were visited, we, on the other hand, are privito these heathens. Natural feelings may suffice leged to enjoy those sublime hopes and consolato prompt men to a generous, self-devoting tions of which they were destitute. And Oh, let discharge of duty, at the first onset of such a us hasten to fortify our minds by having recourse devastating calamity as the pestilence; but it to "the father of mercies and the God of all requires a principle superior to nature to enable consolation, beseeching him to bestow upon us them to persevere in the performance of such such a measure of his grace, and to animate perilous, painful, and revolting offices, through us with such bright and blessed hopes of ima long period of trial, with multiplied examples mortal glory, as shall enable us in patience before them of those who have fallen victims to possess our souls, and cheerfully to do and to their benevolence; and when the misery and to suffer whatever he may appoint us, assured desolation that reign around preclude the ex- that "all things work together for good to pectation of their reaping the praise of men, as them that love God." the reward of their labours and their perils. Such a superior principle does indeed exist, "Jane Lallies, a young woman, confined on the but it is only to be supplied by the love of that SAVIOUR who not only risked, but actually laid general charge of being an aristocrat, was made cook in the prison. One night (said she) a numdown his life for those who were "ready to ber of the company of Marat came to the prison. One Girardeau conducted the troop. Come my perish." Yes, love to Him will prompt to the lads, (says he) I must go and see my birds in the most unwearied and self-denying exercise of cage.' Come, come, my little singing birds, (said sympathy and active benevolence toward our the present day. It is with a view to revive Jolly) out of your nests and make up your packets, fellow-creatures, and especially our fellow-those salutary impressions, that some few par- that is the main point; no cheating the nation. and above all, do not forget your pocket-books, christians, where there is no tie upon us, save ticulars of the barbarous scenes enacted during Ducon said aside to Durassier, are not they finely that all-controlling claim supplied by their re- the Reign of Terror" in France, as described bit? Finding they did not prepare themselves lation to him who hath declared, "whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my to the reader. in the publication under review, are presented them, time to shoot them, time to knock their quick enough, he adds, 'come, come, time to dress name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say brains out. I think that is plenty time for them." Duçon as he went away (taking with him a whole unto you he shall not lose his reward." troop of wretched prisoners to be slaughtered) said to the keeper, we shall come again soon to

REVIEW OF THE BLOODY BUOY.
[Concluded.]

The horror which the last generation associated with the word REVOLUTION has been mitigated, softened, and almost obliterated in

The third chapter of this heart-sickening These Athenians knew nothing of the sub-catalogue of revolutionary crimes contains an lime self-denying motives and principles of wretched inhabitants of the town of Nantz, account of the massacres committed on the christianity, and therefore it is no wonder that under the authority of a wretch named Carrier, they grew hardened and callous under the in- who bore the prostituted title of "representafluence of long-continued sufferings. They tive of the people." The deeds of blood were knew nothing of the animating hopes of christianity, and therefore we wonder not that they acted under Carrier, and who were called the perpetrated by a set of cut-throat ruffians, who yielded to the infidel principle, a short life and a merry one." They were ignorant that

company of Marat. The methods by which this life is not a state of retribution, and theretheir bloody deeds were perpetrated were fore, that in respect of its sufferings and trials, the guillotine. The drownings have been already chiefly threefold, viz. drowning, shooting, and "there is one event to all," and "the wise man described; a few instances of the other species dieth as the fool;" still less did they know what of atrocity shall now be selected to illustrate the gospel teaches us, that though the same the tender mercies of revolutionists. But first afflictions are sent upon the righteous as upon it may be proper to convey to the reader au the wicked, yet they are sent for very different idea of the way in which the victims of these ends, and work very different effects upon horrid massacres were collected together, let them; the righteous being softened and puri- the following serve as a specimen. fied by those very fires of trial which detect

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the tribunal, that he had seven thousand five hundred persous shot at the Gigan, and four thousand he had assisted to drown."

Coron, one of the company of Marat, informs

eighty women. They were first shot, then stripped, shootings. The last that I saw (adds he) was of "Bourdin, a witness, gives an account of several and left exposed on the spot during three days."

"When the shooting en masse first began, the place of execution, and even after they arrived on prisoners were suffered to retain their clothes till they were dead. As they were conducted to the the spot the old clothes dealers were seen bargaining with the soldiers for their clothes. The poor unfortunate creatures had the mortification to see mains of their fortune on their backs; and the instant their own townsmen and women buying the poor rethey fell, the monsters rushed in, tearing the newly acquired property from their bodies yet struggling in the pangs of death. But the revolutionary butchers found that this was but an unprothe hypocrite, and render the impenitent more committee, with a company of armed ruffians, went their value, and this circumstance determined them "One of the members of the revolutionary ductive sale; the clothes being shot through sunk callous;-these things, I repeat, they knew not; to the house of one Careil. They first examined all to strip the prisoners naked before execution.” and therefore we need not wonder, if they were the papers, took 5,000 livres in paper money, and stumbled and offended at "the loss of so many 12 louis d'ors. 6 They returned again in the evenThe drownings and shooting en masse were worthy men, mingled in the same tomb with ing, (says the witness, who it seems was mistress of had recourse to, as the most expeditious ruffians." These Athenians, morcover, were thieves, and therefore our alarm was not so great; tudes at once; meanwhile, the guillotine, which the house) we at first took them for common methods of effecting the destruction of multithe forefathers of those men who mocked at but to our sorrow we were soon convinced by the the doctrine of "Jesus and the resurrection," voice of Pinard that they were the patriots of the seems to have been reserved for the more and would in all probability themselves have revolutionary committee. Our family was select victims, was not idle. Here again, a "mocked," had that great doctrine been pro-myself, four sisters-in-law, formerly nuns, two suffice. posed of women and one old man. There was specimen or two of the bloody work must pounded to them; but let us be assured that relations above eighty years of age, and my husband. this blessed doctrine alone can remove that The house and yard were stripped of every thing, young ladies, of the name of Lameterye, were sent "Mrs. Laillet informs the tribunal, that six stumbling-block which the apparent inequali-and the ruffians were talking of setting fire to the ties in the dispensations of Divine Providence, buildings. One of my sisters had made a shift to sets in the way of the infidel and the sceptic. preserve 800 livres; she offered them these to save the house; they accept the conditions, receive Let us be thankful that whilst the pestilence the money, and then burn the house to the ground.'

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to the Bouffay (prison). Carrier sent an order to put them instantly to death. The keeper of the prison commissioned me to communicate to them the fatal tidings. I called them into a room apart, and told them that the representative of the people had ordered their execution."

their knees, and called on the name of Jesus Christ.

The fourth and last chapter of the Bloody

"The youngest of them gave me this ring (here | patience, and distress the feelings. The folshe showed the ring). They threw themselves on lowing passage, in which the author of the Buoy, which is very short, consists of "Facts From this posture the ruffians aroused them, to Bloody Buoy winds up this part of his subject, taken from several works, proving that the cruconduct them to the place of death. They were is equally expressive of the feelings, with elties related in the preceding chapters were executed without ever being tried. While they which the editor draws his review toward a authorized or approved of by the National Aswere dispatching, twenty-seven men awaited the close. semblies." The object of this chapter is thus fatal stroke at the foot of the guillotine." stated by the author :

"We have seen (says the author of La Conjuration de Robespierre) yes, we have seen a representative of the people, a member of the national convention, tie four children, the eldest of whom was but sixteen years of age, to the four posts of the guillotine, while the blood of their father and mother streamed on the scaffold, and even dropped on

"After having led the reader through such rivers of blood, it seems indispensably necessary to insert a few facts, showing by whose authority that blood was spilt; for it could answer no good purpose to excite this detestation, without directing it towards its proper object."

Though the horror excited by such atrocious details must be serviceable to humanity, I am constrained by decency to spare the reader a part of them. Let the imagination, however repugnant, pause for a moment, over these scenes. Five or eight hundred people* of different sexes, ages, and conditions are taken from their prisons and conducted during the silence of the night to the banks Accordingly the author proceeds to adduce of the Loire. The agents of the republic there Those few, who, after having been arrested despoil them of their clothes, and force them shiver- evidence to prove that the revolutionists of and committed to prison, eventually escaped ing and defenceless to enter the machines prepared France, embodied as they were under the three death, were subjected to such protracted mise-for their destruction. They are chained down, to successive titles of the "States General," ries as is soul-harrowing even to describe; bottom is detached from the upper part and sunk. prevent their escape by swimming, and then the National Assembly," and "the National Conand it is marvellous that human nature could On some occasions the miserable victims contrived vention," had authorized or approved of these

their heads."

sustain them.

to loose themselves, and clinging to the boats near "The widow Mallet, who had first been robbed save us, it is not even now too late; in mercy them, shrieked in the agonies of despair and death, of her property, and then imprisoned, gives an account or the manner in which she and her compa-save us! But they appealed to wretches to whom nions in captivity were treated. I complained, mercy was a stranger, and being cut away from says this poor woman, to Perrocheaux, of a violent their hold by strokes of the sabre, they perished with their companions. sore throat. That is good, (said he) the guillotine That nothing might be will cure you of that. One day Jolly asked if I was wanting to these outrages against nature, they were not the widow of Mallet, and giving me a look that described as jests, and called "noyades," makes me tremble even now, aye (says he) she parties, and civic baptisms! Carrier, a deputy of the shall drink out of the great cup.'convention, used to dine and make parties of pleasure, accompanied by music, and every species of gross luxury, on board the barges appropriated to those execrable purposes."

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Barruel, that Louvet, one of the members of the National Assembly, gave, the day after the September massacre, an order upon the public treasury in the following words:-On sight, pay to the four patching of the priests at the prison of St. Firmin.' Louvet was, at the time of writing this note on demand, for murderers' wages, a Legislator."

"It is a well known fact, recorded by the Abbé

bearers each twelve livres, for aiding in the dis

We were in want of every necessary. Seven hundred of us were confined in this house, which, even as a prison, was too small for two hundred. Forty were crammed into one little chamber. During six or seven months we had no infirmary, or rather each apartment was one: the sick and dead were tied in pairs and thrown into the river; thou- I shall confine myself to an extract or two from the

were often extended amongst the living. How many have I seen struggling in the pangs of death by my side."

"At one time six hundred children appear to have been drowned: six young people of different sexes sands were shot on the high roads and in the fields, and vast numbers were guillotined without trial. Six young women, in particular, sisters, and all under four-and-twenty, were ordered to the guillotine

"As it will no longer be pretended, I suppose, that this second [i. e. the National] Assembly disap proved of the murders that were committed under their reign, I will now turn to the third Assembly, which we commonly call a Convention. And not to tire the reader with proofs of what is self-evident trial of Carrier and the revolutionary committee

of Nantz."

charge of being accessory to their atrocitiesbut after perusing the following statements, every candid reader must be convinced that the National Convention participated deeply in the guilt of those atrocities, and that its object in prosecuting the immediate perpetrators of then, was partly to screen itself from popular indignation by sacrificing its instruments, and partly to punish those who were instruments of the deeds of blood and rapine, for purloining the plunder; and that the cruelties practiced were not the real ground of prosecution.

It will be recollected that Carrier and the To such a state of despair, were the wretch-together: the youngest died instantly of fear; the revolutionary committee of Nantz, were brought ed victims of revolutionary tyranny reduced, rest were executed successively. A child eleven to trial at Paris by the Convention for their that they chose death rather than life; and years old, who had previously told the executioner even parents preferred that their children hurt him much, received three strokes of the guillo- to exonerate the National Convention from the with affecting simplicity that he hoped he would not conduct; and this circumstance might seem should die with them, rather than that they tine before his head was severed from his body." should be preserved for unknown future horrors. "Two thousand persons died in less than two The following affecting tale will illustrate this. months of a pestilence, occasioned by this carnage : the air became infected and the waters of the river "Fontbonne informs the tribunal, that, at the re- Loire poisoned by dead bodies; and those whom quest of Delille, he went to the Entrepôt, to endea- tyranny yet spared, perished by the elements which vour to save an innocent and amiable family of providence intended for their support." females, the youngest of whom was about thirteen "This black list of enormities might be exyears of age. Delille went with me. When we came to the prison, we were conducted to a horrid tended almost ad infinitum; but it is deemed stinking hole under the staircase. We asked for a expedient to close it, at least for the present, candle, and after some time we got into this sort of with the confession of a staunch advocate for dungeon. Here we found the mother and four the French Revolution, a constitution-monger, daughters, lying close to each other upon some wet and filthy straw; and round about them there were a legislator, and a judge-in short, no less a several dead women. The youngest daughter, personage than THOMAS PAINE, who, in his whom alone we had permission to take, was co-malignant attack upon General Washington, for vered up in her mother's gown to keep her warm. the first time in his life stumbled upon the When we told the poor mother our errand, no truth." (said she) my child shall stay, and die with myself; we have lived and we will die together.' "We To such a pitch of rage and suspicion were thought ourselves justified (adds the witness) Robespierre and his committee (of which, be it obin using force (to convey the youngest daughter away). When the mother perceived our resolution, she uttered such dreadful lamentations as are impossible to be described. My child, O my dear darling child,' were the last words her daughter ever heard from her. The child never recovered the stroke, she pined away about eight months, and then died."

But I must refrain. To transcribe the whole details of revolutionary horrors, as described in this small work, would weary the

served, Carnot, the actual President of the Directory,
was a leading member) arrived, that it seemed as if
they feared to leave a man alive. No man could
count upon his life for twenty hours. One hundred
and sixty-nine prisoners were taken out of the Lux-
embourg in one night, and one hundred and sixty
of them were guillotined. In the next list I have
good reason to believe I was included."

This means five to eight hundred at once. It is computed
that the number of persous belonging to Nantz alone, who were
prison, amounted to forty thousand!
drowned, shot en masse, or guillotined, stifled, or starved in

"It is time, (says Goulin) to tear aside the veil. The representatives Bour botte and Bô knew all about the drownings and shootings; and Bô even said to Huchet, in speaking of the members of the Revolutionary Committee, that it was not for the murders that they were tried.

"After this counsellor for the Committee asks this citizen Bô, what was the real motive for bringing the Committee to trial; and the other confesses that it was for having misapplied the treasures taken from the prisoners.

"This representative Bô is convicted of having himself justified the conduct of the Committee and of Carrier."

"Carrier in his defence says, that he had done no more than his duty, and that the Convention had been regularly informed of every thing. They complain now, says he, of shootings en masse, as if

"A witness informs the tribunal that he, who was

children."

the same had not been done at Angers, Saumur, Lavall, public prints, has suggested to me the pro- thankful too that all that could be done in this and every where else.” piety of a division of the poor in this populous emergency, has been done, and that those whose himself a member of the Convention, had informed city. official duties require them to be parties, proIn other places large parishes are furnished claim themselves reluctant agents in the desothat body of horrors that were committed at Nantz, and particularly of the massacres of women and with work-houses of their own, whereas St. lating work; let us be thankful that so many Peter's is appropriated to the whole city for thousands have raised their voice against the "The author of La Conjuration (so often quoted) various purposes; but not only so, it is the introduction of such an abomination amongst says, p. 162, when the bloody Carrier wrote to the Convention that he was despatching hundreds at a house of reception for all who pass through to us; and if no other resource be left us, let at time by means of lighters with plugs in the bottom, their respective parishes; thus the pauper least all who have any regard for their own Carrier was not blamed; on the contrary, he wes population is concentrated to a dangerous safety, or for that of the community; and above repeatedly applauded as being the author of an extent. Now Mr. Nott, cannot something be all, let those who have any concern for the hoinvention that did honour to his country." "But what need have we of these proofs ? what done to furnish such districts as Temple, Red-nour of God other testimony do we want than that contained in cliff, St. James's, St. Philip's, &c., with suitable KEEP AWAY their own murderous decrees? Blood accommodation for their own poor? in which from such a scene of dissolute revelry. Talk is their element as water is that of the finny race." case St. Peter's might be very suitably em- of Cholera Hospitals, and of the dangers of Thus have we examined that part of Peter ployed, for the smaller parishes, and the other infection from them? Why, the fair will be Porcupine's book, which is designated by the purposes to which it is at present applied. one great Cholera Hospital, where Satan will title of "The Bloody Buoy." It consists of a I suggest this topic for your consideration, be head doctor, and will take care to administer black catalogue of bloody deeds, which are hoping that your able pen will be employed to the wretched patients whatever can tend shewn to be the fruits of revolutionary rage on the subject, if your better judgment deem most effectually to destroy both body and soul! and cupidity. The charge of being accessory it feasible. to these atrocities, is distinctly brought home to the National Assembly of France; and the whole is held up as a blood stained BUOY or beacon, to warn all the nations of the earth to shun the rock upon which France made shipwreck.

A TRUE FRIEND TO THE WORKING CLASSES.

BRISTOL FAIR.

The observations of X. Y. upon the subject of the evils which attend this chartered nuisance

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Oh ye who would desire either to have your days prolonged, or if summoned suddenly to the bar of your judge, that you may not be hurried into eternity from the very midst of such soul-destroying scenes-keep away! "Enter not into the path of the wicked, and Avoid it, pass Appended to this work is "an Essay, tracing are most just. Indeed there seems to be only go not in the way of evil men. all the horrors of the French Revolution to one feeling upon the subject amongst all who not by it, turn from it, and pass away.' If this moral pestilence cannot in any other their real causes, the licentious politics, and have any regard for the temporal or spiritual welfare of their fellow creatures. All, from way be driven from our city, let us starve it infidel philosophy of the age." I now close my extracts from "The Bloody the highest authorities of the city, down to the out. If there is a chartered authority for the Buoy." May the pilots of nations duly mark obscurest amongst the citizens that can just erection of these tents of wickedness within this monitory beacon. And let it be born in manage to affix his sign manual to a memorial- our city, there is no chartered necessity for mind that these revolutionary horrors did not all concur in denouncing this Fair as one of the the citizens to resort to them. Abstain then, fellow-citizens! and not only burst at once upon the people of France in all foulest things that could be perpetrated at such their ghastly array; but that they sprung from a season as this, as calculated by its natural and abstain yourselves, but employ your influence comparatively small beginnings, and gradually necessary effects to spread disease and death and authority to the utmost, in keeping your increased in magnitude, power, and atrocity, amongst our population, and to disseminate the children, apprentices, servants, and depenAs you value your own life, and till at length the furies of democracy were pestilence throughout the adjacent country; and dants away. yoked to the car of rampant faction, and as tending, by the gross immoralities which the lives of those that are nearest and dearest society fell mangled and bleeding beneath its invariably attend it, to bring down the wrath to you; as you desire the present health, and horrid wheels. The first revolutionists in of Almighty God upon a city, which, on account the eternal salvation of hundreds, perhaps of its iniquities, He seems already to have set thousands, who may be hurried into eternity, France were almost as plausible in their reasonings, and as modest in their actings, as as a special mark for the arrows of his in- in consequence of the impulse given to infecour own political unions, combining together dignation. No man will rejoice more sincerely tion, by the herding together of crowds of for the simple purposes of assisting the legiti-than Job Nott, if by any efforts of christian people, at such a season and for such purmate government with their friendly counsel, benevolence this moral and physical pestilence poses; in fine, as you tender the honour of with a view to remedying of abuses, and the can be arrested; but it is greatly to be feared Almighty God, whose laws are there trampled general good of the state; but from these small that on this occasion the cause of mercy, truth, in the dust ;-by all that can influence you as beginnings rose a gigantic power, which laid and righteousness will fail, and Sin and Folly a man, a citizen, or a christian, I beseech, I in the dust the ancient institutions of their will make their triumphant entry into our de- entreat, I conjure you, to abstain from that country, overthrew the throne and the altar, voted city, attended by their usual cortege of scene of revelry, INTEMPERANCE, LEWDNESS, saturated the fertile plains of France with thieves, pickpockets, buffoons, and bawds; INFECTION, and DEATH! olood, filled her rivers with the bodies of the whilst gaunt PESTILENCE marches before-his slain, and convulsed all Europe with a series palid visage tricked out with the garlands of superfluous by the issue of an Order in Council to suspend of cruel wars in which millions perished! the bacchanal, and his quivering hand grasping the Fair; the view which has been taken of the magnitude the bowl of inebriety; and behind will stalk of the threatened evil, may at least serve to swell the tide of public gratitude to God for our deliverance from it. TO MR. NOTT. grim DEATH, grinning horribly a ghastly smile, as with a wider than wonted sway of his fell Having felt the force and propriety of your scythe he sweeps his wretched victims into late papers on the subject of employment, 1 eternity! Meanwhile the sons and daughters have been led to consider what can be done to of mirth will laugh and revel joyously on the furnish useful occupation, and such as would brink of the yawning pit, into which they thembe beneficial, not only to the working classes, selves are presently to descend! But I forbear. but to the city in general. The representation If such be the power of chartered rights, let respecting the crowded state of St. Peter's us hope that they will be equally sacred when Hospital, which has recently appeared in the directed to other and better ends!-let us be

Sir,

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PRAYING HEATHENS AND SCOFFING
CHRISTIANS.

Those men who refuse to acknowledge the hand of God in the infliction of the scourge of pestilence upon us are peculiarly profane. The very heathens were taught by natural conscience to acknowledge that pestilence was inflicted by the Deity; and when visited by it, they had recourse to prayer and expiatory offerings. An old heathen writer named Sophocles, whose writings though fictitious, must be acknowledged as truly describing the notions of men in that day, represents the whole population of Thebes, when visited with pestilence, as going in solemn procession to the temple of their gods to invoke the interposition of the Deity for their deliverance.

There is another instance still more striking, as it illustrates a passage of Scripture. In the time of the plague at Athens, as described in our last number, it was given out by the oracle that the pestilence would be removed if the inhabitants offered sacrifice to a certain God,

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1832.

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Will not these heathens rise up in judgment and hurtful to one of his habits and feelings; against us and condemn us, if, when God visits and I can enter the more readily into his views, us with pestilence, which is so peculiarly the because I was formerly of the same turn of rod of his anger (2 Sam. xxiv. 14.) we refuse to mind, and maintained similar habits, and purhumble ourselves before him? Oh, how sunk sued the same course as he now does; but I below the heathens are those men who presume grew lax and negligent of my religious duties, and to deride the recognition of the Deity in this by degrees fell into such a worldly course that visitation, and call it "cant" and " humbug." I was deprived of my privileges, and have ever One wonders at the forbearance of God in since become, instead of the instructor and suffering such infidel scoffers to walk the earth. adviser, the very drudge and slave of the whole

Mr. NOTT,

RETORT COURTEOUS.

Sir,-As your columns have been the medium of conveying certain very serious charges against e, I trust to your justice to give equal publicity to what I have to say for myself.*

family. And this, Mr. Nott, leads me to say a few words in explanation of the charges brought against me by my brother Sunday; not that I would in the least deny the truth of those charges, but there are some circumstances in my case which entitle me to the commisseration of the public; and a plain unvarnished statement of my case may possibly induce some of your numerous readers to take up my cause.

from a brother-an elder brother, to whom I, in The charges are the more painful as coming The first imputation cast upon me in my brocommon with the rest of our family, have been ther's letter is, that I am a peculiarly trade-driaccustomed to look up for advice and instruction ving, chaffering fellow, which seems to insinuate in respect of our various duties, and for com- that I am particularly covetous and grasping after fort in all our difficulties and distresses. gain; whereas, Sir, I am not aware that I am Whilst, however, I smart under the infliction any more greedy of gain than my other brothers. but the name of the God who was to be thus of such a public exposure, I cannot but admit The fact is, that the love of money is a family invoked was not expressed; whereupon Epe- that my brother has too much reason to com- failing amongst us, the whole six of us being menides, a wise man of that day, being consulted, directed the Athenians to let the animals in his studies and religious pursuits from the other working brothers, in their eagerness to plain of the interruptions which he experiences almost entirely devoted to it; but then my which were already bound for sacrifice loose, noise and disturbance that attends my business, get rich, undertake more than they can get to wander at random (comp. 1 Sam. vi. 9-14) and especially from the chinking of the money through with, and then they put their business on my pay-table to a late hour in the evening, off one upon another, all down the row (for you down, there to kill them and offer them to the and the revelry and riot that are kept up in must be informed that we all live in the unknown Deity who presided over that spot; my beer-house and gin-shop; the back door row) and the consequence is that all the odds

and that wherever these animals should lie

and accordingly they were delivered by the of the said liquor-shop, where most of my cus-
true and living, but to them the "unknown tomers are let out being on my brother's pre-
God," and this is reputed to be the origin of mises, which, I must allow to be very grievous
that altar which St. Paul found at Athens,
Acts xvii. 23.

See Job Nott No. XXXV.

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and ends of work, that they can't get through with, are thrown upon me, which is very unreasonable, for every body knows that I have got enough to do of my own proper work, without

having their's thrown upon me. I mention this to explain how it is that I keep such late hours, which my brother Sunday complains of. Then, again, the pay table that he says so much about is rather my curse than my crime. Why will my elder lay brothers be so unreasonable as to throw all this trouble of paying all their [Job Nott feels that it is a very delicate which he had discovered, written by one men upon me? Let brother Friday be made thing to meddle with family quarrels. He Thomas Rowley, a Roman catholic priest or paymaster, and that will greatly 'bate the evil; would have been happy to have done any monk, who lived about 400 years ago. Thofor though he keeps a liquor-shop as well as I, thing in his power to settle the points at issue mas Chatterton was born in Bristol, in Novemyet there would be this advantage, that as the between the brothers; but he is at a loss how ber, 1752. He was the son of a writing back door of his liquor-shop comes out on my to bring them together. It was an obvious master, who afterwards became a singer in the premises, I should catch all the tipplers, and idea to call a meeting of the whole family, cathedral, and master of the free school in should know better how to manage 'em than -Job Nott in the chair,-but it was found Pile Street. Young Chatterton was born three my quiet brother Sunday does; for I'd make impossible to fix a time or place convenient to months after his father's death. His fondness 'em either tackle too and work off the effects of all parties. Under these circumstances, all for old manuscripts has been traced back to their carouse, or else I'd send 'em about their Job can do is to urge upon his readers to render infancy, as it appears that he was first induced business, and take care that if they wouldn't their good offices in promoting the just claims to learn his letters by being shown a beautiful work for me they should work for none of the of each of the parties. And let it be their old parchment, finely illuminated or ornafamily. One observation which my brother first endeavour to see the eldest brother main-mented, as such ancient writings used to be, by Sunday makes upon me is, I think, very unkind. tained in full possession of his exclusive pri- the monks who transcribed them, and that he I mean the insinuation that I am "a dirty fellow, vileges, which are of the utmost importance to was taught to read from an old black letter and hardly ever put a clean shirt on ;" whereas the well being of the whole family; and with bible. At eight years old he was placed in it is notorious that I often go without any shirt this view let exertions be made to have the Colston's charity school to learn reading, at all in order that he may have a clean one. odious pay-table, which is such a bone of writing, and arithmetic. He soon showed a It is unpleasant to touch upon these little contention, removed to other quarters. This, love of books, and a persevering application to family secrets, but really that part of the sub- it is plain, may easily be effected, for whilst his favourite studies, quite wonderful in a ject rather hurt my feelings. There is one Sunday protests vehemently against the pre-child, for before he had completed his twelfth thing that has puzzled me a good deal (perhaps sent arrangement, his brother Saturday ex-year he appears to have read about seventy you, Mr. Nott, can explain it, as it is rather plicitly declares that he has no wish whatever volumes on history, divinity, and other subjects, in your line) and that is how in the world the to retain it, and that it is, in fact, a burden of and before leaving school at fifteen years of writers and publishers of newspapers and other which he would gladly get rid. Let then age, he had acquired some knowledge of periodicals should have taken it into their heads some other member of the family take it; and music and drawing, and had tried his skill in to dedicate so many of their publications to this single and simple arrangement will do poetry. At fifteen he was bound apprentice me, as though I were the great reader of much toward lessening the evils complained to Mr. Lambert, an attorney, and although the family, whereas there isn't one of the whole of. Let the lay brothers be less eager after much confined, he had many hours of leisure, seven of us that has so little time to devote to gain, and not undertake more than they can which he employed very diligently in the studies of any kind. At first, when the papers go through with; and let every one of the curious study of family histories, heraldry, or began to come tumbling in, I thought 'twas a family do his own proper business, and not be coats of arms, and in copying glossaries, or mistake, and that they must be meant for my putting one upon another; and above all, let dictionaries of ancient words, a store of matebrother Sunday, and so I sent them on to him; the whole family either give up their liquor rials of which he afterwards made ample use. but as he remonstrates against this, and says shops altogether, or at least close them at His uncle was sexton of Redcliff church, so he will have nothing to do with them, I sup- sober hours, and take care that there be no that Chatterton's father, and the boy himself, pose I must take 'em in, but as to reading 'em all 'tis out of the question, and so I shall e'en use them to wrap up halfp'orths of cheese in ; except one publication with which I am mightily pleased, as 'tis named after me and is prepared The keys of this coffer having been lost, it for my special use by some of the great and was broken open by authority in the year good men of the land. I mention this with Perhaps the most striking and beautiful 1727, and some title deeds contained in it great exultation, Mr. Nott, as affording a full object in our city of Bristol, is the parish were removed. A number of parchment manuproof that I do not bear that very bad character church of St. Mary Redcliff, said to have been scripts were left behind in the open chest, that my brother's address would lead you to founded by Sir Simon de Bourton in the year many of which were taken away by Chatterimagine, for if I had been such a very bad 1292, and finished in 1376. It was built in ton's father, who set no value on them, but fellow, surely those high and honourable gentle- the form of a cross, with a tower and spire used them to cover books with. There is no men wouldn't have taken the trouble to write 250 feet high, richly ornamented with carved doubt that young Chatterton obtained many a paper on purpose for my use. Now I do work, and was famous over all England for of these old manuscripts, which probably think that after they have taken so much pains the beauty and elegance of its architecture. chiefly related to Redcliff church. Chatterton to write on purpose for me, 'tis my bounden In the year 1445, the church was much injured evinced a force of character, and maturity of duty to endeavour to read at least a bit of it; by lightning, the spire was totally destroyed, understanding, far beyond his years, and soon and so I mean to endeavour to get my shop and has never been restored. But the church was gave proofs of poetical genius of very high swept out and the children put to bed by half- repaired by William Canynge, a wealthy mer- order. In the year 1768, when the bridge past eleven, and spend part of the remaining chant and mayor of Bristol, who, towards the over the Avon at Bristol was opened, Chattertime in reading, though I'm very much afraid close of his life, became a priest. The church ton sent to Felix Farley's Journal a description that by the time I've read my Bible, and said my contains two monumental statues of this gene- of the friars first passing over the old bridge prayers, and got a crust of bread and cheese rous restorer of the sacred edifice, the one in the year 1247, which being traced to him, after my hard day's work, I shall be apt attired as a magistrate, the other as a priest. the boy declared that he had taken it from an

to nod over my studies. However, I'm so But the most interesting circumstance conproud of my Magazine that I'm determined to nected with the antiquities of Redcliff church, try what can be done, so if you'll please, Mr. is the story of the unhappy Chatterton, the Nott, to speak a good word for me, I shall be ancient manuscripts which he found there, much obliged to you, and hope to prove myself and the poems which he published, alleging your friend and servant, SATURDAY. that they were copies from original manuscripts

tippling on their premises, and then not only
will they live much more happily as a family,
but society at large will be greatly benefited.]

CHATTERTON.

had free access to the building, and made frequent visits to a room where several chests were deposited, one of which was called Canynge's coffer.

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