all pretences of moderation; he was the greatest adviser and advocate of all the violent measures of that tyrannical and most unhappy King. The cruel proceedings, malicious, and inhuman, of Jeffreys are fully recorded in history, by which his name will ever be infamous. He was void of all principle, or even pretence of Religion, unless to serve the Duke of York, who had been his patron, and was led himself by the Church of Rome, which is always convenient for mercenary, avaricious persons. The following account of his disgrace and death is from original papers.

When King James had fled from England to France, and the Prince of Orange had taken the throne, at the earnest and ardent invitation of the Parliament, the revolution was so rapid and decided, that the Lord Chancellor Jeffreys found flight and concealment were absolutely necessary, till he could escape and follow the King to France with the money he had obtained: he disguised himself in the dress of a common sailor and went into a cellar, and asked for a pot of beer; when a man came in, a scrivener, (who had been ill used by the Lord Chancellor) his eye caught the face of his disguised enemy; the Chancellor saw, and felt his danger, and quickly turned round towards the wall of the cellar, with the pot of beer in his hand; but his enemy was quickly at the door, and got three men whom he sent to give notice that Judge Jeffreys was in the cellar. The latter

coughed and pretended to be unwell, keeping his

face to the wall; but the discoverer watched for a few minutes, when the mob appeared, collected by the three men sent for them; they rushed upon the odious Judge and carried him to the Lord Mayor, who instantly sent him under a strong guard to the Council then sitting at Whitehall. He was immediately by them sent to the Tower, and suffered so much from the angry mob, and by fear and fatigue, that he died there in a few days. He was privately buried the Sunday night after he had been placed in the Tower, to prevent the tumult of the mob, who were disappointed of their desire of attending his body to the grave with proofs of their hatred.

CAPTAIN HENRY HUDSON.

THIS brave and persevering navigator flourished in high fame in the year 1610; he had made many voyages, and used to declare that the sea was his delightful element. He sailed far North and to Greenland. He discovered the Bay which was named from him "Hudson's Bay.” His first voyage was in 1607, when a young man; he went at the expense of some London merchants, to discover a North-East passage to the East Indies. He sailed the 1st of May, and after various adventures (published by his friends after his death for the benefit of his widow and children) he returned to England; but he sailed again in six months, with only sixteen men in a small ship, with the same view; but again arrived at Gravesend without having met with any success: yet his ardent spirit was not disheartened, he did not say I am weary of my life, as Job said, neither did he faint like Jonah, and say, It is better for me to die than to live.

Jonah was not an example of perfection. The very few chapters of Jonah were to teach mankind to avoid all sinful despondency, and sloth or indolence, of which gloomy depression of mind is the

consequence. The cheerful mind and the kind heart are acceptable to God. He said to Jonah, Dost thou well to be angry? The sulky, discontented Jonah said, I do well to be angry, even unto death. We are informed by the Hebrew writers, that Jonah lived 862 years before Christ. He had been commanded by God to go to the first great city that was built by the children of Nimrod, the mighty hunter before the Lord'. This was become a large city, and much wickedness was in it, when Jonah was commanded to inform the people that God would destroy the city, if it did not renounce its vice and iniquities. The repentance of the inhabitants of Nineveh is recorded in the Book of Jonah, in which the mercy of God, and the sulky, slothful character of Jonah, with his punishment, are all very interesting; and so obstinate was the Prophet, that even the most severe punishment inflicted upon him did not cure his discontented temper. He did pray indeed in the belly of the whale but when he was again free from great affliction, his sulky and evil temper returned, and he was not merciful, as God Almighty was merciful, to the people of Nineveh, when they shewed great repentance for sin.

We have lately been informed by the American Minister from the United States, (who was Governor of Virginia), that in that " very extensive province, which is larger than all Scotland, and nearly

See Genesis x. 9. 11.

as large as England, there are existing many proofs of the deluge having covered all the United States, as well as all America. The marine remains of shells of fish, and various plants such as appear in the sea, give us full proofs," said his Excellency, "that the flood had covered the Continent of America."

But we must leave our very able and intelligent friend, the American Minister, James Barbour, Esq. and return to Captain Henry Hudson. Alas! his courage and energy did not enable him to be prosperous. He made a third voyage, in which he was employed by the Dutch East India Company. He sailed from Amsterdam with a mixed crew of Dutch and English sailors, consisting of only twenty men; but there was discord and ill-humour on board, very different from the cordial harmony, and good feelings of the crews of Captain Cook, and other great navigators. Poor Captain Hudson had not made any profit by his two first voyages. He would have been more wise if he had settled as a farmer in England, after he had twice been unlucky, or at least had gained no advantage by the sea. He had married in England, and had a family. He had been so partial to the sea, that he took his eldest son, then a youth, to Amsterdam, and sailed from Holland with him, and the mixed crew of Dutch and English sailors.

Captain Hudson doubled the north Cape of Finmark, in Norway, and kept along the coast of Lapland, steering towards Nova Zembla; but he