Turkey, and much likewise is sent to Livornu, Trieste, Venice, and Marseilles: the last-mentioned place had for its share formerly to the value of from 150 to 2001.

Balsam of Mecca. Many of the pilgrims returning from Mecca, bring small quantities of this balsam with them, and value it at a high price. That it was sold by the ancients for its weight in gold, is, however, well known: though very little is brought into Europe, it may easily be procured at Cairo. The American balsam is justly preferred, as being less expensive, but not less efficacious.

Aloes. There are different kinds of aloes; some are brought to Suez by sea, and others are carried to Cairo in ca ravans from the interior parts of Africa; much of it is sent to the ports of Turkey and Italy. The quantity for merly received at Marseilles may be valued at from 150 to 200l. every year.

Turmeric is the root of a plant growing in the East Indies, particularly in the island of Ceylon, and the coast of Malabar; from thence it is carried to Mecca, and afterwards to Suez. It is in great repute in India, as well for its medicinal virtues, as the means of heightening the colour of cochineal. Very little of it comes to Marseilles, or the Italian ports. Poison-Nuts (strychuus nux vomica), the fruit of a tree growing in Ceylon and the coast of Malabar, and transported by water to Egypt: used to be purchased at Marseilles to the yearly amount of from 100 to 150/.

Ebony Berries (cocculi indici), the small fruit of a plant (monospermum cocculus) growing in the East Indies, and carried by sea to Egypt, were annually exported from that country to Marseilles, in quantities equal to the value of 1000l.

Ebony is not at present brought into Egypt by the caravans from the inner parts of Africa in the same quantity as formerly, which may either be the consequence of the decrease of its consuinption, since hard and flame-coloured woods from America are in equal estimation, or of the scarcity of the trees which produce it in these countries.

Ivory. The teeth of the elephant are brought of different sizes into Egypt by the caravans from the inner parts of Africa; some of these teeth weigh more than a hundred pounds. Great numbers were sent to the Italian ports; and the MONTHLY MAG. No. 203.

annual importation at Marseilles was estimated at 5 or 6,000/.

Gold Dust. The same caravans carry that valuable dust as it is gathered on the borders of the rivers in the inuer parts of Africa, to Egypt, in very consi derable quantities; and it is therefore supposed that this metallic substance is as plentiful in the inner parts of Africa as in America.

Ostrich Feathers. Besides the large quantities of ostrich feathers which are received at Marseilles from Tripoli and Tunis, Alexandria also supplies the same place every year to the value of from 2000 to 2,2001.

Myrobolans, the fruit of a tree growing in Indostan, and much used for physic in Europe, comes in much greater quantities round the Cape, than by the Red Sea. The merchants established at Cairo were in the habit of sometimes buying and transporting them to Marseilles, Leghorn, Trieste, and Venice, at very low prices.

Pelletory, the root of a plant called anthemis pyretrum, growing in Arabia, is received in very trifling quantities in Marseilles from Egypt.

Worm Seed (artemisia judaica), the seed of wormwood growing in Arabia, is also conveyed to Marseilles by the way of Egypt in small quantities: some call it semen contra or santonicum.

Hermadactyls, the roo's or bulbs of a species of iris tuberosa, growing in Arabia, passing through Egypt, comes in small quantities to Marseilles.

Ginger (zedoary or selual). These roots, which have hitherto come to us directly from India, may also be procured at Cairo, where they are indeed often bought by European merchants; and this is the case with almost all the productions of Indostan, which are generally to be found in Egypt.

Slaves. It is not here necessary to mention the negro slaves carried every year by the merchants of Barbary and Nubia Sina to Cairo, and hence spread over every quarter of the Ottoman dominions; their value being much inferior to thosé purchased by Europeans on the west coast of Africa, for the use of the West India settlements. The number of black slaves seen at the markets of Cairo is very trifling; for the Turks prefer white slaves in every respect, and Europeans are quite excluded from that detestable trade.

1782, he voluntarily undertook an evening service or lecture, which soon began to be very numerously attended, and which he regularly continued every sabbath evening in the winter season, till the declining state of his health, in conjunction with the circumstance of his having the whole regular duty of the congregation devolved upon him, through the indisposition of his colleague, induced his friends, about the middle of last winter, to insist upon his enter declining the lecture, or having assistance procured for him in the other parts of the duty, in which circumstances he chose the former alternative, thinking it the ore expedient measure, upon the whole, though the evening lecture was his favourite service, and that which he thought more useful than any other which he performed. It has, for several years past, been attended by an audience amounting to upwards of 2000 in number, consisting chietly of respectable, serious, and attentive hearers, of different denominations of religious professors. In the beginning of the year 1784, the subject of this memoir had the degree of D. D. conferred upon him by the University of Edinburgh, upon the voluntary, and, on his part, unsought recommendation of friends, who were well able to appreciate his literary attainments, and whose testimonial to them consequently reflected upon him great honour. Of this measure the late Dr. Percival was the principal promoter. Not long after this, the Rev. Dr. Barnes was induced, by the solicitations of his friends, to undertake, in conjunction with his colleague in the pastoral office, the Rev. Ralph Harrison, the important charge of an academical institution in Manchester, upon which he entered in the summer of the year 1786, and over which he presided, as principal, with great credit to himself and utility to the public, till the year 1798, when he determined to resign it, in consequence of the difficulty which he had for some time experienced in maintai ing in so large a town as Manchester, where there are so many temptations to dissipation, that regular and strict discipline which he wished to support. His active mind, however, was always ready to embrace every opportunity of usefulne-s; and after his retirement from the academy, he began to take a lively interest in the concerns of the Manchester Infirmary, which continued to be a very favourite

object of his attention to the time of his death, and in the conduct of which his assistance has been generally considered and acknowledged to be of great use. The Rev. Dr. Barnes undoubtedly pos sessed both natural abilities and acquired attainments, which qualified him to have distinguished himsel in the iterary world, and he had a considerable taste for those studies and pursuits which might have led to this result; in proof of which it may be mentioned that he was one of the first promoters of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society; and that for several years, he took an active part in its proceedings, and wrote several papers, which were published in the early volumes of its memoirs, which his friend, Dr. Percival, who was certainly a competent judge of their merit, considered to be so far creditable to his literary reputation, that he repeatedly urged him to revise and enlarge them, and to publish them in a separate volume; but with this recommendation, though it came from so respectable a quarter, he never complied. Some circumstances after. wards arose, which, together with the mul tiplicity of his other engagements, induced him to discontinue his attendance of the meetings of the society just mentioned, and since that time he has not taken any further part in its proceedings. He was a good classical scholar, read and studied the New Testament in particular, an the original Greek, with great care and minute critical attention; was able to read the Hebrew Scriptures of the Old Testa, ment with considerable ease, and had a very general knowledge of what is called polite literature; but he did not devote much attention, at least in the latter part of his life, to philosophical subjects; as it was a matter of principle with him to make all his studies subservient to the great object of ministerial usefulness; and amidst all his other engagements and avocations, he always discharged the duties of his sacred office with uncom mon zeal, fidelity, and diligence. He was very remarkable for the regular dis tribution of his time, for the strict application of it to the several duties and engagements to winch it was allotted, for punctuality in the observance of all his appointments, and for neglecting no single person or object to which his attention was due. He had an uncommonly fertile mind, great quickness of concep 'tion as well as readiness of expression,

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and composed with wonderful facility, so that writing was rather a pleasure than a work of labour to him; and he has actually written many hundreds of sermons which he never preached, and other serious compositions which have lain dormant in his study. Beside the pieces above-mentioned, which were inserted in the Memoirs of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, he never published any thing but a Discourse upon the commencement of the academy which he undertook to conduct, a Funeral Sermon upon the death of his friend the Rev. Thomas Thretkeld, of Rochdaic, with some Account of his Life, and particularly of his extraordinary memory, annexed to it, and some smaller Pieces which have been given to the public without his name, chiefly in different periodical works: but though Dr. Barnes has published so little, he has written more than most men; probably the truth would not be exceeded by saying as much as Richard Baxter himself wrote, in the course of his uncommonly active and laborious life. Considered as a preacher, he possessed great excellencies. He had a strong and sonorous voice, his sermons were serious and striking, and he delivered them with uncommon animation, nd in a very impressive manner. Ile ually wrote them at full length, but in the delivery of them he seldom, confined himself strictly to his notes; and at his lectures, which were perhaps his most popular addresses, he always spoke extempote. One of the last objects of a public nature which engaged his attention was a Bible Society, which has lately been established in Manchester, aux iliary to the grand association of this kind in London. In the promotion and form. ation of this noble institution he felt a warm interest; and one of the last times that he ever spoke in public was at a meeting of its friends and promoters, upon which occasion, though his impaired strength did not permit him to say much, he delivered his sentiments with peculiar animation and feeling in favour of its important design; and this honourable ef fort of his zeal in the cause of God and religion, may be justly said to have contributed to gild the horizon of his setting sun, which, in various respects, went down amidst an effulgence of glory, to rise again in unclouded and everlasting splendour. In his private character the Rev. Dr. Barnes was truly amiable and

exemplary. The most distinguishing feature of it was his fervent piety, and to this were added the strictest integrity and uprightness, both of mind and conduct; great disinterestedness; and an ardent active benevolence, which made him always ready to every service by which he could either bencht or oblige others. He was particularly liberal in the relief of the poor, with whose necessities he was acquainted. In his general disposition, he had great natural vivacity, as well as an habitual cheerfulness founded upon religious principles and hopes constantly influencing his mind; and his manners were remarkably conciliating, such as actually engaged the esteem and afection of all who had the happiness of knowing him. His conversation was pe culiarly interesting and entertaining, yet always of a perfectly innocent, and generally of a profitable, nature and tendency. He exceedingly disapproved of all ludicrous allusions to the holy Scriptures, in particular, and of a light way of speaking of sacred things in general; and he was himself scrupulously careful never to open his lips upon any serious subject, and, especially, never to mention the name of God, without a becoming seriousness and reverence. In his habits of life, he was very abstemious, eating only plain food with great moderation, and never tasting any spirituous or fermented liquors; but he enjoyed, in general, a sound state of health, and an equal flow of spirits, such as few have the happiness to experience. His constitution was naturally strong and good, though he had from his birth an enlarged arm, which might appear to a stranger to indicate some original malady or unhealthy tendency of his bodily frame, His natural vigour, however, began visibly to decline, at least a year before his death, though he continued to perform his usual labours, and went through them with apparent ease to himself till within a few of the last months. An asthmatical affection, which had manifested itself for some time, and been gradually increasing, then began to assume a very serious and alarming appearance, attended at the same time, with some paralytic symptoms, in consequence of which it became necessary for him to de sist from all public duty. Upon this he retired to his country-house at Ferneyside, near Bolton, where he was regularly visited by his medical friends and former pupils at the academy, Dr. Holme

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and Dr. Henry, as well as by his old and much-esteemed friend Mr. Henry, the father of the latter gentleman, and every assistance was afforded him which medical skill and the kind attention of his friends could yield; notwithstanding which he rapidly sank under his disorder, till it terminated fatally about midnight, between the 27th and 28th of June last. In the near view of death, the feelings of the late Rev. Dr. Barnes were not merely those of serenity and peace, but of joy and exultation, grounded upon the amat ng hope and assurance of a blessed immo.tality which awaited him. He unform y discovered the most perfect patience and submission to the will of God, under the distressing sufferings which he experienced, particularly from the difficulty of respiration; was often repeating passages of Scripture expressive of this temper, as well as of his firm hope and confidence in God; and giving, in the most tender and affectionate manner, pious and good advice to his friends around him, particularly recommending to them a serious attention to religion, as the most important of all concerns. At times his mind was almost overpowered by the feelings of rapturous delight which he experienced in the prospect of his approaching removal to a better world, and particularly in that of a speedy union with all the pious and the good of every former age, as well as with those that were gone before him, whose friendship he had cultivated and enjoyed upon earth. During a few of the last

days of his life, his understanding became less clear and collected, through increasing weakness; but, at the same time, his friends had the satisfaction of observing that his bodily sufferings greatly abated; and, at last, he expired in the most easy manner, without a struggle or a groan, in the 64th year of his age, and the 42d of his stated Christian ministry. His remains were interred at Manchester, on the Monday morning following, which was the 2d of July, and were met upon the road by sixty-four gentlemen, chiefly meinbers of his congregation, who walked before the corpse, with hat-bands and mourning provided at their own expence, and by twenty-five carriages, beside those which had before formed the procession, occupied by friends who wished to sbew their regard for the deceased, by attending his last obsequies; and thus he was conducted to the house appointed for all living, with a degree of honour and respect which has not probably been paid to any one in Manchester before, within the memory of the oldest person living there. He has left a widow to whom he was united carly in life, in the year 1770, with whom he has uniformly lived upon terms of the most perfect harmony and mutual affection; and who, amidst the grief which she feels for the unspeakable loss she has sustained, may justly be consoled by the thought of her having been so long the object of the tenderest regard of a man of such distinguished excellence and worth.

"An Account of King Charles II.d's escape from the Battle of Worcester, till his landing in France, dictated to Samuel Pepys, esq. (Secretary of the Admiralty,) by the King himself; at the request of the Duke of York, taken down in short Hand by Mr. Pepys, in Sunday, October 3d, and Tuesday, October 5th, 1680, and afterwards transsribed by him at length."

[The following Narrative is copied from one

taken from the original manuscript, in Mr. Pepy's library, given to Magdalen College, in Cambridge.]

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FTER that the battle was so absolutely lost as to be beyond hope of recovery, I began to think of the best way of saving myself; and the first thought that came into my head, was,

that