longer merchandise, we are the MEN of Africa; we will no more sell ourselves, our wives and children; bring therefore your merchandise, and you shall have ours in exchange for it." Now, we know that the MOST HIGH made of one blood all nations, to dwell on all the face of the earth; He made the black man and the white man, aud fitted each of them for his own climate, that they might live in peace and be helpful to each other. When they feel after his Good Spirit in their hearts, and do this; when they are just and merciful, he makes their hearts easy in this life, and such will be blessed hereafter. But when they hate and are cruel to each other, He makes their hearts uneasy, they are miserable in this life, and He will punish them too in the world to come. May it please HIM to give light to your eyes, to see these things, and strengthen your hearts to do them. Account of a Communication from the interior of Africa in relation to the preceding tract. In the Second month, 1832, our friend Hannah Kilham writing to a near relative of mine, enclosed an Arabic letter, which had been brought to Sierra Leone from a town in the interior, and was found to relate to the Tract entitled A word to the Sons of Africa; a copy of which the writer of it had received. Out of two versions of this document made by different persons, I have put together what appears to me the most probable sense, in English, as follows: In the name of the most Merciful and Compassionate God! Praise be to God, who has made paper to serve as a messenger and the pen as a tongue between persons at a distance from each other. This letter comes from the people of Foutah Jalon [or Fot Jalee] they send this to the people who pray to God and are his servants, living in a land far off to the North. We came to the city of your brethren which is called Sierra Leone for merchandise, and there we found your letter, which we read, and understood the admonitions it gives to the people of Soudan. When we saw thy letter and had read it we loved thee and were pleased with thee. For the word which is contained in the book, it is good-it is true. But we are prevented from visiting thy city [London] by the distance and the want of ships, wherefore we send this letter to inform thee that we are glad of it and would be happy to see the person who wrote it. We are glad to hear that the king of your country does not govern with force and oppression, and permits not illegal trade, and the buying of slaves; but that he has actually given order to seize the ships in which slaves are found, and to send back the slaves to their homes in Soudan, assisting them with sincere good will. The writer of this is determined never again to sell slaves to the white men he requests that you will send more good books, which the people here will be glad to receive: but the authors must put their names to them, that they may know them; and send the books to their king. They must also desire the people of Sierra Leone to be careful of those who come to trade among them-to respect them and treat them fairly. These strangers are Mussulmen, they and their children: but some of them are bad men, and do not wish to return; and, in order to remain, they state that they are slaves, by which they get the white men to keep them in the Colony. The Mussulmen like their own country-the many good people who speak truth, and do not steal: others are bad. They [the white men] must send many good books: they must tell the people to do good: it is those that do so who go to heaven. As for us, our town is Fot Jalee [or Foutah Jalon] and our tribe Felni [Foulahs?] They come [to Sierra Leone] to look for clothes, guns, swords, beads, silver, paper: their country produces horses, black cattle, sheep, goats, asses, mules, gold, cotton cloth, ivory, hides, wax, ostriches. These they bring for trade to the colony-they do not bring slaves. We request thee to send us hither a letter, and affix thy name to it, and the name of thy city, and the names of thy companions. Also to send to the king of our country the peaceful admonitions which thou hast given to thy brethren here. The name of the writer of this letter is Ahmad [or Ahamadoo] and the name of his town is Tunbar [or Timbo.] This is all. Farewell.” The date is added, but the versions of it differ: it seems by the day of the week to have been the 15th of First Month 1832. There is also a Note at the foot of the letter in a smaller hand (in Arabic) in which the bearer requests Mr. M'Cormack to forward it to the gentleman who sent the work. Ed. ART. VI.-FABLES, &C., IN VERSE AND PROSE.-CONTINUED. The Partners in an Adventure. Two men travelling together, one of them took up an Axe that lay by the way side, saying to his companion, I have found a prize. Not I, but we, replied the other: for I claim halves. Presently came up the Woodman who had lost the Axe, and accused them of the theft. We are undone said the finder. Nay replied his fellow, say not we, but I, for I have nothing to do with it! The Fox and the Leopard. The Leopard, who was excessively vain of his person, insisted that the Lion himself had nothing but a tawny coat, to put in competition with the most beautifully spotted and diversified skin in the whole kingdom of nature. The Fox, who was present, remarked to him that he was mistaken in his estimate of himself; for that persons of discernment would value him not by the colour of his skin, but according to his strength and courage. The Application. It is a great mistake to entertain a high opinion of ourselves, for personal beauty and external accomplishments. They who give themselves such airs, may justly suffer the mortification of being eclipsed by a Lion, a more noble and generous spirit under a plain appearance. Nor is there always wanting, on such occasions, a shrewd observing Fox, to take down their arrogance by exposing the shallowness of their understandings. Again, personal beauty is lovely, so long as modesty and humility adorn it; but this fair gift is spoiled, as soon as it becomes the seat of a proud and haughty spirit. It is the mind, after all, that shines through the features and renders the person amiable: a plain face can scarcely fail to please, when it is the index of sense and good temper. The Ox and the Calf. The Ox was ploughing, and the Calf sporting by his side. "Poor drudge," said the Calf to the Ox, "I pity thy condition, but it is the only thing such brutes are fit for." The Ox heard this impertinent speech, and went on with his work. In the evening, when the Ox had done his labour, and was turned loose, the ploughman, being ordered to take the Calf to the butcher, tied him by the neck, and dragged him away without ceremony. As he passed by, the Ox, who knew whither he was going, was now jocular in his turn: "Poor playful thing! I pity thy lot; but it is the only thing such brutes are fit for! " The Application. The good things of this life are of so precarious a tenure, that the rich heir and the poor labourer sometimes exchange conditions; the one rising by honest industry to a state of independence, while the other is reduced by folly and extravagance, or, it may be, by some unforeseen accident, to a condition more destitute than that in which he beheld his humble neighbour. Shall we commend the retort of the Ox in this fable? I think not: for the ingenuous mind will perceive at once that to insult the fallen, is to give the most decided indication of a base and sordid spirit. INDEX TO VOLUME FIRST. ACKWORTH Tithe and Enclosure, 325. ADAIR, Sergeant, 22. ADRIAN, Pope, 199, 371. AFFIRMATION, 49, 68, 101, 113, 129, 286. Protest of Lords against, 115 Lord Mansfield, on, 117. AGE and honesty no protection against persecution, 39, 355, 358. Lessons, (Jaloof) 236. AID and Contribution Act, 26. ALBUM, piece written in an, 335. ALDAM Thomas, 300. ALEXANDER and Xerxes, 222. AMULETS, 317. AMUSEMENT,-habit,-ignorance,-fashion, 365. APOCHRYPHAL Lessons, why objected to, 296. ARCHDALE John, his case, 286. AREOIS (arēs, heroes) of Taheite, account of, 172. ARGUMENT upon the Scripture, 303. ARMOURER Justice, 26. ASSEVERATION of a Quaker accepted in Court, 72. ATHELWOLF, 200. ATHEISTS, how to be tolerated, 361. ATONEMENT, how stated by Geo. Fox, 76. AUTHORITY, its equivocal influence, 239. BABEL, what, 156. BAPTISM, as a term of communion, 262. BARBADOES, sufferings in, 12, 30, 36, 39, 42. BARCLAY, Robert, his Latin Epistle to Charles II, 168. BASHFUL man, a fragment, 240. BAXTER, Richard, 169, 350. BEVAN, Jos. Gurney, 247, 337. BIBLE, distribution of, its effects, 221. how the rule of Cha. 2nd's conduct, 88. BREWSTER Margaret, case of, 36. BRIEF statement of Yearly Meeting on Tithes, 193. BRISTOL, persecution at, 355, 356. BROWN Richard, a persecutor, 84, 180. BUILDING-STONE, Christ's first, 229. BURNET Bishop, of Sarum, his sentiments and conduct, 135. CALAMY, Edmund, 75, 158. CALL to the ministry, treated, 257. CATHOLICS, Roman, 155. CHAFF, what is it to the wheat, 215. CHARLEMAGNE established tithe, 8, 371. CHARLES I. his golden rule qualified, 12. II., 26, 61, 88, 102, 136, 169, 177, 307, 313, 319. CHARITY, what, 56. money, how to secure, 169. how to" follow after," 284. CHARTER-HOUSE, at Hull, 151. CHILPERIC, discourse of, 7. CHURCH, the term defined and explained, 242. faith, 297. bells and ceremonies, 171. how built up in Christ, 228. discipline and reform treated, 126, 142, 209, 280, 312. CIVIL liberty, connexion of with religious, 189. CLARKE, Adam D.D. 12, 51, 68. CLARKSON Thomas, lines addressed to in 1809, 269. CLERGY, fluctuation of state of the, 7. their trade, 212. not the Church, 232. COKE, Lord Chief Justice, on oaths, 101. COMMONWEALTH, what according to Locke, 359. stands while the laws are respected, 95. COMMITMENTS, 37, 84, 148, 187. COMMUTATION of Tithes, treated, 329. CONCEIT of knowledge, specimen of, 285. CONFESSION, a quaker's, 261. CONFORMITY Occasional, bill against, 134, 158. |