mighty ftand up, and crush it to pieces, ftamp it to powder: it concerns you while you have time; BEAT DOWN this enemy, fecure places neceffary for defence." Was this fpiritual defence ? See the REGICIDES! "Do juftice on those whom God hath given into your hands, left out of HIS SERPENT'S EGG do come a cockatrice, and his fruit be a fiery flying ferpent, and (as a just punishment he expected for fuch perfidy) "the Lord deliver you and your forces into the power of those who seek the deftruction of you, and your interest." (the King.) At P. 26, he mentions the need of conftant and expeditious marching of horse, in all places, where infurrections had been. This Letter was written in Auguft, 1659, printed, 1660, to ftir up the fame fpirit, when the restoration was advancing. Yet, on the King's return, these were the people who told him, "We are your Majefty's dutiful and LOYAL fubjects, and have fuffered much, as yourself hath done, &c. A people that follow peace, love, and unity, and bear teftimony against strife, wars, and contentions," &c. See Leslie, Vol. II. P. 109. III, &ct. Many more inftances may be feen throughout that admirable collection of facts: as alfo in Bugg's Works, Burroughs, &c. and Sewell's Hiftory. Indeed, to collect every inftance would be almost impoffible. "It is, therefore, (as hath been well obferved) a fufficient victory over these people to detect them." We here then finifh our proofs of their love and good, wishes towards the CHURCH ‡ and STATE, and of their admirable unanimity among themselves. We hope J. * * Leflie's Works, Vol. II. P. 109, one Edward Billing, having more than Quaker honefty, opposed this, as a notorious falfhood, and declared that he would avow it to their fhame, if it paffed. Fox and the reft contended for its propriety, nor would they allow of the expreffion being expunged, till threatened with the exposure of their profligacy. + In Bugg's Works, p. 73, they say, "all plots, riotous meetings, &c. we deny, knowing them to be of the devil, and all fighting we deny, &c. and in Leflie's Works, Vol. II. P. 287, we find these were the men who blamed others for being " upwards and downwards, backwards and forwards, now here, and now there : reeling and rolling, pinching here fometimes, and drawing as contrary another," &c. We cannot here omit to mention that Solomon Eccles brought an old doublet into Dr. Gell's church in London, on the Lord's-day, and fat upon the communion-table, mending it, while the Doctor was preaching. G. Whitehead defended this conduct. See Bugg's Works, P. 307. Ee 3 Bevan Bevan is fatisfied, if he is not, we will adduce as many more inftances as he pleafes, and affure him, that the fample given is not only fair, but favourable, as he himself ought well to know. We muft, however, obferve that as the accufations of enmity to the Church and State are the only ones to which he objects, fuch conduct amounts to a tacit acknowledgement of ALL the other charges advanced by Mofheim*. We must not, however, forget to remind them that they -boaft " our principles are now no other than what they were when we were firft a people, for truth changes not, &c. this I hope will appear beyond contradiction+. Truly it does fo! "We are not fenfible, that we have altered any one principle of our faith, but are the fame, in every respect." Excellent commendation, and recommendation of their prefent tenets! "In what WE are now more ORTHODOX than our primitive friends were, we are ignorant. We know not one article of the Chriftian faith, in which we are altered fince we were a people, therefore blush not PUBLICKLY TO DECLARE, that WE ARE NOT CHANGED IN OUR PRINCIPLES.". "There is no occafion for us to retract ANY particular paffage." And, fays Philips §, "I can declare I have not met with one period in any of our antient writings, which I cannot ftand by, and with as little difficulty VINDICATE, as the New Teftament." * Thefe charges are, being " vifionary fanatics, difordered in their brains, committing many enormities, riotous and tumultuous, (even females") as we have feen, and alfo their " running about naked, declaiming against all fixed form of religion, railing at public and ftated worship, mocking the clergy, even in the exercife of their minifterial duty; trampling upon laws, authority of Magiftrates, &c. and thus" made ufe of their PRETENDED INSPIRATION to excite the most vebement commotions in CHURCH and STATE," as we have already fhewn. P. + The Quaker's" Primitive Chriftianity, 1698," &c. p. 6. Ibid. P. 2. See alfo Bugg's Works, P. 3. 18. 44. ART. VI. Turner's Embassy to Tibet. NAPTAIN Turner left the hofpitable country of Bootan, in the beginning of September, and proceeded on his journey to Tibet. He was compelled, however, to leave Lieutenant Davis behind him, to whofe bold pencil he had been been indebted for thofe elegant drawings which decorate the first part of his work. The lofs of this able draughtsman he muft have fenfibly felt; as it incapacitated him from giving any representations of the places which he visited in Tibet (fome two or three buildings excepted), which country prefented many interefting objects of which the pencil could have conveyed a much more accurate idea than the pen. The descriptions of the latter, indeed, foon tire by repetition, and the attempt to vary them frequently betrays the author into an adoption of language, inflated, affected, and highly offenfive to a correct and claffical taste. Of this we could exhibit a hundred instances in the work before us; but they will be fo palpable to every reader that we may, with propriety, fpare ourfelves the unpleasant task of felecting them. We fhall, therefore, content ourselves with making fuch further extracts as may impart to our readers fome information refpecting a people and a country, much talked of but little known, A Tibet Village. "A Tibet village by no means makes a handsome figure. The peafant's houfe is of a mean conftruction, and resembles a brick kiln in fhape and fize, more exactly than any thing to which I can compare it. It is built of rough ftones, heaped upon each other without cement; and, on account of the ftrong winds that perpetually prevail here, it has never more than three or four fmall apertures to admit light. The roof is a flat terrace, furrounded with a parapet wall two or three feet high; on this, are commonly placed piles of loofe ftones, intended to fupport a fmall flag, or the branch of a tree; or elfe as a fastening for a long line, with fcraps of paper, or white rag, ftrung upon it like the tail of a kite; this being stretched from one house to another is a charm against evil genii, as infallible in its efficacy, as horse fhoes nailed upon a threshold, or as ftraws thrown across the path of a reputed witch. "This was a bleak looking place, and there was hardly the appearance of any thing animated about it. Being indolently difpofed, and prompted merely by curiofity, I ftrolled alone among the houses; and, feeing every thing ftill and quiet, I turned into one of the ftone enclosures, which ferve as folds for cattle. The inftant I entered the gate, to my aftonishment, up ftarted a huge dog, big enough, if his courage had been equal to his fize, to fight a lion. He kept me at bay with a moft clamorous bark, and I was a good deal startled at firft; but recollecting their cowardly difpofition, I ftood ftill; for having once had one in my poffeffion, I knew that they were fierce only, when they perceived themselves feared. If I had attempted to run, he probably would have flown upon me, and torn me in pieces, before any one could have come to my refcue. Some perfons came out of the house, and he was foon filenced. PP. 215, 216." Contrast between Bootan and Tibet. "Bootan presents- to the view, nothing but the most mishapen irregularities; mountains covered with eternal verdure, and rich with abundant forefts of large and lofty trees. Almost every favourable afpect of them, coated with the fmalleit quantity of foil, is cleared and adapted to cultivation, by being fhelved into horizontal beds: not a flope or narrow flip of land between the ridges, lies unimproved. There is fcarcely a mountain, whose bafe is not washed by fome rapid torrent, and many of the loftiest, bear populous villages, amidft orchards, and other plantations, on their fummits and on their fides. It combines in its extent, the moft extravagant traits of rude nature and laborious art. "Tibet, on the other hand, ftrikes a traveller, at first sight, as one of the leaft favoured countries under heaven, and appears to be in a great measure incapable of culture. It exhibits only low rocky hills, without any vifible vegetation, or extenfive arid plains, both of the most stern and ftubborn aspect, promifing full as little as they produce. Its climate is cold and bleak in the extreme, from the fevere effects of which, the inhabitants are obliged to feek refuge in theltered valleys, and hollows, or amidst the warmest afpects of the rocks. Yet perhaps Providence, in its impartial diftribution of blessings, has bestowed on each country a tolerably equal fhare. The advantages that one poffeffes in fertility, and in the richness of its forefts and its fruits, are amply counterbalanced in the other by its multitudinous flocks, and invaluable mines. As one feems to poffefs the pabulum of vegetable, in the other we find a fuperabundance of animal life. The variety and quantity of wild fowl, game, and beafts of prey, flocks, droves and herds, in Tibet, are aftonishing. In Bootan, except domeftic creatures, nothing of the fort is to be feen. I recollect meeting with no wild animal except the monkey, in all my travels, and of game I faw only a few pheasants, once near Chuka." Pr. 216, 217. Religious Penance. "The Gofein alluded to by the Regent, whofe name is Prânpooree, exhibited fo extraordinary an inftance of religious penance, that I cannot refift the temptation of relating fome particulars of his life. Having been adopted by an Hindoo devotee, and educated by him in the rigid tenets of his religion, he was yet young, when he commenced the courfe of his extraordinary mortifications. The firft vow which the plan of life, he had chofen to himself, induced him to make, was to continue perpetually upon his legs, and neither to fit' down upon the ground, nor lie down to reft, for the space of twelve years. All this time, he told me, he had employed in wandering through different countries. When I inquired how he took the indifpenfable refreshment of fleep, when wearied with fatigue, he faid, that at firft, to prevent his falling, he used to be tied with ropes, to fome tree or poft; but that that this precaution, after fometime, became unnéceffary, and he was able to fleep ftanding without fuch support. "The complete term of this firft penance being expired, the next he undertook was to hold his hands, locked in each other, over his head, the fingers of one hand, dividing thofe of the other for the fame space of twelve years. Whether this particular period is chofen in compliment to the twelve figns of the Zodiac, or to the Indian cycle of twelve years, I cannot decide. He was ftill determined not to dwell in any fixed abode; 'fo that before the term of this laft vow could be accomplished, he had travelled over the greater part of the continent of Afia. He firft set out, by crofing the Peninfula of India, through Guzerat; he then paffed by Surat to Buffora, and thence to C nftantinople; from Turkey he went to Ifpahan; and fojourned fo long among the different Perfian tribes, as to obtain a confiderable knowledge of their language, in which he converfed with tolerable eafe. In his paffage from thence towards Ruffia, he fell in with the Kuffaucs (hordes of Coffacs) upon the borders of the Cafpian fea, where he narrowly escaped being condemned to perpetual flavery: at length he was fuffered to pafs on, and reached Moscow; he then travelled along the northern boundary of the Ruffian empire, and through Siberia arrived at Pekin in China, from whence he came through Tibet, by the way of Tethoo Loomboo, and Nipal, down to Calcutta. "When I first saw him at this place, in the year 1783, he rode upon a piebald Tangun horfe from Bootan, and wore a fatin embroidered drefs, given to him by Tefhoo Lama, of which he was not a little vain. He was robuit, and hale; and his complexion, contrafted with a long bufhy black beard, appeared really florid. I do not fuppofe that he was then forty years of age. Two Gofeins attended him, and aflifted him in mounting and alighting from his horfe. Indeed he was indebted to them for the affiftance of their hands on every occafion; his own being fixed and immoveable, in the pofition in which he had placed them, were of course perfectly useless. "The circulation of blood seemed to have forfaken his arms; they were withered, void of sensation, and inflexible. Yet he spoke to me with confidence, of recovering the ufe of them, and mentioned is intention to take them down the following year, when the term of his penance would expire. "Other Gofeins affured me, though I could not help doubting the fact, that it is practicable to restore withered limbs, thus circumstanced, to perfect ufe. This is effected, they fay, though not without great labour, and fome pain, by means of long continued friction, before a large fire, with a certain ointment which they compound. To complete the full meafure of his religious penance, I understood that there ftill remained two other experiments for Prânpooree to perform. In the firft of these, the devotee is fufpended by the feet to the branch of a tree, over a fire, which is kept in a continual blaze, and fwung backwards and forwards, |