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“But it fell out in the latter days, that seeing the an-
cient worship and piety of Pawtna still increase, and
all their efforts to resist it unavailing (for these were
powerless and. inefleetual as he who would say to the
deep rolling ocean; cease flowing, ‘but ‘it heeds not)
the Priests and office holders till murmured among
‘themselves saying t
this wicked and perverse generation | to relinquish the
worship of their fathers and adopt our own, let us at
Icast make them indifferent to and regardless of wor-
ship ofany kind, “With the former we dare not unite,
the latter is not so repugnant.” Accordingly: these
Priests and office holders sent embassadors of sanctity
to their brethren and friends in the Country of the
conqueror. And ‘it came. to pass, that as they who
had large revenues to instruct, persuade and induce
the Pawtnians to adopt the new worship, had not suc-
ceeded in their wishes, “surely” said the brethren of
that country, “the unpaid, unanointed and unordained
may do so easily.” _ Accordingly these brethren made
a mighty noise like unto. the lashing of the rude surf
on the sea shore, and each of the leper. Priests of the
, Worship of that country was not less eager externally in
"the cause of the interesting Pawtna. They formed
ranks, ‘they enlisted as of old, valiant men at arms were
enrolled, and furnishing them with many books con-
ceived in divers strange, and to themselves unintelligi-
ble characters (for each judged differently of them
from each) they dispatched them to teach the same to
the inhabitants of Pawtna. ‘
The said lesser Priests were externally earnest. In
verity, however, there were. more swayed by their own
hopes and their fears, than by their regard for Pawtna
and, the preservation of the revenucs and tithe of the
Priests and office-holders therein, They bestirred
themselves because they. might not offend their. High
Priests and mighty ones, and because they hoped for
greater revenues. They dreaded too, that the wor-
ship and piety of Pawtna might be a sojourner in their
Jand, For they called to remembrance the history of
their country, and the merchandizo of foreign climes,
and they thought that, perhaps.the unannealed propa-
gator of their country’s worship, might return impreg-
nated with. the Purity and true religion of the regions
of Pawtna,
=.
Owing to age and the difficulties ‘of the language
the manuseript is here illegible, and understanding
that Sir Humphrey Davy does not read the sanscrit
Janguage, the manuscript will probably. be sent to the
primate of Ircland, or some other able antiquary for
assistance. . .
DR. PARR.
The following correspondence between Dr. Parr
and his unfortunate pupil Gerrald is now published,
for the first time, in the last number of the London
Magazine: it cannot fail to excite feelings of melan-
choly and interest. No one will envy the sensations
of the individual by whose mal-feazance the consola-
tory testimony of Dr. Parr was prevented from reach-
ing his highly-esteemed* pupil. To a mind like his,
this letter would have been far more valuablethan the
subscription which ought to have accompanied it—ac-
ceptable as that would haye been in his forlorn and
dependent circumstances.
Dr. Parr took a deep interest in, n, the misfortunes
of his favourite pupil, Gorrald. Tho details of the
. circumstances connected with this interesting biogra-
raphy have never been published, and, in, writing of
ir, Parr, it is impossible to omit them, Joseph Ger-
zald was born in the West Indies, where he inberited
a considerable estate. He was early seut. over to Eng-
land for his education, and placed under the tuition of
Dr. Parr. About the close of the ‘contest. betwee:
this country and her American colonies, he went *t9
Pennsylvania, and practised inthe law courts : say
considerable eclat. The political state of Europe, and
the intellectual society his early education had intro-
-duced him to, tempted hiun back to England, Ie was
psentiments.of my heart. for your “unboundéd
eet
ye Bruty feller,
a member of the London Corresponding Society :—
an idolater at the shrine of liberty. In /1793 he was
chosen, in conjunction with Margarot, delegate to the
British Convention, then sitting at Edinburgh. He
was there prosecuted for sedition, convicted, and the
Scottish sentence of banishment was construed by the
court of justice into transportation for fourteen years] ¢
in company with the refuse of society ? While Ger-
rald was at liberty on bail, after his apprehension on
the charge, his associates were convicted. He wasin
London whenthis intelligencereachedhim, Dr, Parr,
at the house of Sir James Mackintosh, in Great, Port-
land-street, urged him to set off for Hamburgh, and
generously promised to indemnify his bail against all
pecuniary forfeiture. The following affecting narra-
tive is copied from a manuscript memorandum of Dr.
Parr. /
_ “He heard this my: proposal attentively, but withoat any
emotion of joy ; he paused at first, he calmly discussed with me
the propriety of acceding to my proposal, he then refused per-
emptorily to accede to it, and after hearing my earnest entrea-
ties and affectionate expostulation, he closed our conversation
in words to the following effect: ‘In an. ordinary case,’ said
her ‘T should without thesmallest hesitation, and with the warm-
st gratitude, avail myself of, ‘your offer: I readily admit that my
associates will not suffer less; I am inclined to believe with you
that the sense of my own suilerings will be alleviated by their
knowledge of my escape. _ But my. honour is pledged, and no
opportunity for flight, however : favourable, no expectation of
danger, however alarming, no excuse for consulting my own
safety, however plausible, shalt induce me to violate that pledge.
I gave it to men whom I esteem, and respect. and pity ; to men
who, by avowing similar principles, have been brought into si-
milar peril; to men who were confirmed in these principles, and
led into that peril, by the influence of my own arguments, my
own persuasions, and my own example. Under these circum-
stances they became partakers of my responsibility to the law;
and therefore under no circumstances will 1 shrink from partici-
pation with them in the rigours ofany punishment which that
law, as likely to be adininistered in Scotland, may ordain for us.’
He uttered the foregoing words emphatically, but not turbu-
lently; and, finding } him \ fixedly determined upon returning that
night to Scotland, Idid not harrass his mind by any further re-
monstrance, He was very calm before we parted, and I left
him under the very strongest impressions of compassion for his
suffcrings, admiration of his courage, and moral approbation of
his delicacy and his fidelity.”
a the 2d of May, 1795, he was removed from the Giltspur-
street Compter, handcuffed and ironed; and, without his being
permitted to take leave of his child, was put on board the Sove-
reign transport for Botany Bay ! He was at this time, destitute
of the common necessaries ofliie. Dr, Parr, with other friends,
raised a small subscription for him; and transmitted it with the
following letter.
“Dear oseph—I hear with indignation and horror that the
severe sentence passed upon you in Scotland is shortly to
carried into execution, and, remembering that I was once Sons
master, that T have long been your friend, and that I am your
feHhow-creature, made so by the hand of God, and that by every
law ofthat retigion in the belief of which I hope to live and die,
T ought to be your comforter; now, dear Joseph, Iam for the
last moment writing to you. ‘Oh! my friend, at this time. my
heart sinks within me, and with the wish to say & thousand
things, Tam hardly able to say one. But you shall not leave this
land out one affectionate, one sincere, one solemn farewell.
oseph before we meet again, that bosom which now throbs for
you, and the tongue which dictates will be laid in the cold grave
—be it so—yet my dear friend,..I must. cherish the’ hope that
death is not the end of such a being as, man—no, Jos
there is a moral government going on, and, in the course ofit,
our afflictions will cease, and a co: mpensation will be made, as i
trust for all our unmerited sufferings. There is another, world
and a better, and in that world, I pray to God, that [may meet
your face. ¢ again. Bear up, I beseech you, against the hard and
cruel oppression which the evil spirit ofthese days and yourown
want of discretion brought upon you Mackintosh has inform-
ed me of that which is about to. happen, and I have done all that
Tican in your favour. Let me conjure you, dear Joseph,.to con-
dact yourself, not only with firmness but’ with calmness’: do
not by turbulence in conversation or action give your. enemies
occasion to make the cup of misery more bitter, Reflect seri-
ously upon your past life,’ and review many of those: opinions
which you have unfortunately taken up, and which as you know
from experience have little tended to make you a happier or
tier not mean to chide you, Joseph; no, such an
intention, vat such 8 crisis, ought to be far from my heart.” But
Ido mean to advise you, and excite you to such g use of your
talents ag may-console you under the sorrows of this life, and
prepare you efiectually for all the tenor, form, or deed ‘of con-
tract, that would preclude what is to follow. | will send you a
few books in addition to other matters—they will cheer you in
the dreary hours you have to pass upon. that’ forlorn. spot. to
which the inhuman governors of this country are about to send
Some time ago I saw your dear boy, and depend upon it
that for his sake and your owa I will show him all the kindness
in my power. [shall often think of you; yes, dear Joseph, and
there are moments too when I shall pray for your Farewell,
dear Joseph Gorrald, and believe me your Ge and affiict-
ed: friend. EL PARR.”
“An evil spirit ied er this sofortnat being: it is
doubt ‘whathet the fetter, sete Few But the follow-
-extrket from a letter of Gaal, Mr) W. Phillips, dated
‘ Porteurouth, May 16,'1795,.on boardth ¢ Hulks, i isa Proud tes-
.fimmonly to the hearts of the master and pupil. +
y dear Mr, Phillips—i know not how to express the rising
the best're*n Y.cah make is to topsince you
y the virtue avd fabrgy condict that lam yot altogether
unworthy “of your ee A parade of proftssidris neither
suits me, nor you, nor the occasion. You know my feelings, and
will therefore do justice to them, and with this simple okserva-
tion I clase the subject... 1 have repeatedly acempted to. write
VOL. 1:
to my ever honoured and beloved friend and father, Dr. Parr,
ut it is impossible." The tender avd filial affection which I~
bese to him, the recollection of the many endearing scenes
which we have passed together, the sacred relation that subsists
between Joseph Gerald and that Sauswel Parr, whe poured into ,
my untutored mind the elements of all, either of learning’ of
morals, which is valuable about ise, whose great instructions
Janted’: in my bosom the seeds of magnanimity which I trust ©
f now display, and at which persecution herself must stand
abashed—all these, ty friend, rush at once upon my mind, and *
form a conflict of feclings, an awful confusion, which J cannot de-
scribe, but of which he who is the cause I- know ean feel, and _
ean feel in their most full and virtuous extent.
“To the greater part of my friends I hare written, but te. Dr.
Parr I have not written—but to his heart my silence speaks.
The painter, who could not express the excessive grief, covered
with a veil the face, of Agamemnon. . Tell him then, my dear
Mr. Phillips, that if ever Lhave spoken peevishly of his’ supposed
neglect of me, he must, nay 1 knew he will, attribute it to its real.”
cause—a love, vehement and jealous, and which, the growth of
a temper like Gcrralds, lights its torch at the fire of the Furies,
and when my tongue uttered any harshness of expression, even,
at that very “period my heart would have bled for him, and the
compunction of the next moment inflicted a punishment‘ far more
adequate to the guilt of the preceding one... Tell him to estimate
my situation, not by the tenderness of his feelings, but by the
firmness ef mine. That if my destiny is apparently rigorous,
the unconquerable firmness of my mind breaks the blow which
it cannot avert; and that, enlisted as I am in the cause of truth
and virtue, I bear about me the patient integrity which no blan- __
dishments ean corrupt, and a heart which no dangers cam daunt. *»
Telt-him, in a word, that as I have hitherto lived, jet the hour of ~
dissolution come whes it may, I shall die the pupil of Samuel
Parr,
With a : constitution broken by mental saffering and disease,
after a loathsome voyage in revolting society, Gerrald lingered
through two years of eaptivity, four “months of which were pas~
sed in New-Holland. A few honis before. his death, calling: *
some friends to his bed side, he said, “1 die in the best of
causes, and, as you witness, without repining.” -. An inscription ~
on his tomb records, that he “expired ow the 16th of March,
1796, aged 35, a martyr to the liberties of his country.” I “
IRELAND.
—- :
The failosing Speech delivered by Mr. ilarkin, at
a meeting held ‘at Coleraine to establish the Catholic
Rent, is highly deserving of the attention of our read-
ers. .The' pure sentiments of Civil Liberty which it, -
breathes, and the respect which it professes to the
constituted authorities of the reali, form an excellent
appendage to the admirable and patriotic Letter of
the Rev, Mr. Clowry, and must convince. even. the
most sceptical, that the professors of the Catholic
faith, both Clergy and .Laity, are warmly attached to
the Cause, of Civil and Religious Liberty, and that
heir attachment is as strong as that of ofany Protestant. .
of what rank he may be. .
“Tt has been urged that Emancipation could benefit only the
higher orders of our community... This is ridiculous my friends.
Shall I overturn the absurdity by an example?- Gentlemen,
were the offices of State open to us, might not tneson ofa brick.
layer have as good a chance fot the Secretaryship of the Home
Department, as the son of the labourer who carried to him the >
bricks and mortar? | Or might not the blacksmith entertain as’
fair a hope to see his son Lord Chancellor, as his: dusky-friend
the coat-heayer, who feeds his fire 7—(Loud Cheering. )—Eldon.
is aware of this, iny friends, and lest any Popish aspirant should.
claim the honoar of rubbing the coal-dust Of fe Woolsack, he *
has framed a Bill to bind to our backs a lord. that, was daily:
no— | getting Jighter by means of the elastic pane which hope bad
infused into the Geadewelght that formerly Pressed ‘upon us.—
(Cheers. )—Ye' er it will get, my friends, in spite:of the. ~
Lord Sioccdion eae spite of the doubly defeated finpkett ta
spite of the narrow policy of Goulburn and others. And why,
my friends? . Because all the worth of Protestant ‘England—att:
the spirit of Presbyterian Scotland—are united’ with suffering |
Catholic Ireland, combatting the common enemy, the Ministe- +
rial hacks and their grovelling dependants.—( Cheers. )—Would
another examplé be necessary, my friend: It is now better
than thirty years since Catholics were first permitted to fill even.
the paltry office of Tax-collectors... | know one of the first that
was appointed to the situation. About the same period, his
brother (and they belonged to the middle orders of society) en-:
tered the ‘Austrian. service a Cadet. ‘And what is the difference.
to-day 7 e one i3 an obscure individual, living on his super-
annuated pittance; the other is, Field Marshal General Baro. -
O'Brady, I believe the greatest General in-the Austrian service,”
a Counsellor of State, for many years Governor, (or, as wehave
it, Lord Lieutenant) of Bohemia, and, besides, ‘decorated. with,
all the badges of honour, all the orders of knighthood, that the
Emperor of Germany can bestow! - And, let me ask, what had
he been to day had he entered the British service ? Gentlemen,
does not this single instance speak ¢olumes 7?” Had Arthur Wel-'
lesley been a Catholic, would he be the Duke of Wellington to-.
day? . Would not his great military talents, and the services he. »
has rendered to bis country, been lost, as wellas those of Gen-
erals Plunkett, Clarke, O'Reilly, O'Connell, O’Brady, Lawless,
and a host of others whose names are blazoned round theTems,
ple of Fame 2—( Cheers.)—Is. it pots madness j in Britain, then, to |
deny herself the services of such “And is it not a wish to
deceive, or a weakness of intellect; Etat could induce any man
to say, that the humbler class of Catholics could net benetit’ -
by a full participation in the blessings of a Constitution which
was formed by Catholic wisdom—isintained by Catholic hero~
ism—and still so highly prized ‘and ‘so earnestly deserved by
suflering Catholic [reland.—( Great Cheering. )}—Of what mate~
rials are we composed, my friends, that we should be denied our
freedom? . Have Ireland’s proscribed sons ever turned their
backs on Britain’s foes?’ Where have they shrunk from’ the
post of danger, when the interest of her .haughty, domineering
mistress was at stake? Were we niggards of the stream in the
Peninsula, or on. the Continent?’ Did Catholic blood never
stata fhe “ deck.of fame?” Or, have we been less willing thaw