established the honor, the liberties, the religion, the protestant religion of his country, against the arbitrary cruelties of popery and the inquisition, if these more than popish cruelties and inquisitorial practices are let loose among us. To turn forth into our settlements, among our ancient connections, friends, and relations, the merciless cannibal, thirsting for the blood of man, woman, and child! to send forth the infidel savage- against whom? against your protestant brethren; to lay waste their country, to desolate their dwellings, and extirpate their race and name, with these horrible hell-hounds of savage war! - hell hounds, I say, of savage war.

LESSON LXXXI.

CASABIANCA.

MRS. HEMANS.

YOUNG Casabianca, a boy about thirteen years old, son to the Admiral > the Ortent, remained at his post in the battle of the Nile, after the ship had taken fire and all the guns had been abandoned, and perished in the explosion of the vessel, whon the flames had reached the powder.

1. THE boy stood on the burning deck,
Whence all but him had fled;
The flame that lit the battle's wreck,
Shone round him o'er the dead.

2. Yet beautiful and bright he stood,
As born to rule the storm;
A creature of heroic blood,

A proud, though child-like form.

3. The flames rolled on, he would not go
Without his father's word;

That father faint in death below,

His voice no longer heard.

4. He called aloud-"Say, father, say,
If yet my task is done?”

He knew not that the chieftain lay
Unconscious of his son.

5. "Speak, father!" once again he cried,
"If I may yet be gone!
And"--but the booming shots replied,

And fast the flames rolled on.

6 Upon his brow he felt their breath,
And in his waving hair,

And looked from that lone post of death,
In still, yet brave despair:

7. And shouted but once more aloud,
"My father! must I stay?"

While o'er him fast, through sail and shroud,
The wreathing fires made way.

8. They wrapt the ship in splendor wild,
They caught the flag on high,

And streamed above the gallant child,
Like banners in the sky.

9. There came a burst of thunder sound-
The boy-oh! where was he?
Ask of the winds that far around
With fragments strewed the sea.

10. With mast, and helm, and pennon fair,
That well had borne their part—

But the noblest thing which perished there,
Was that young faithful heart!

LESSON LXXXII. ·

APPEAL TO THE JURY AGAINST BLAKE.

PHILLIPS.

1. Он, gentlemen, am I this day only the counsel of my cli ent? No, no; I am the advocate of humanity—of yourselves -your homes-your wives-your families-your little children. I am glad that this case exhibits such atrocity; un marked as it is by any mitigatory feature, it may stop the frightful advance of this calamity; it will be met now, and marked with vengeance. If it be not, farewell to the virtues of your country; farewell to all confidence between man and man; farewell to that unsuspicious and reciprocal tenderness, .without which marriage is but a consecrated curse. If oaths are to be violated, laws disregarded, friendship betrayed, humanity trampled, national and individual honor stained, and if a jury of fathers and of husbands will give such miscreancy a passport to their homes, and wives, and daughters-farewell to all that yet remains of Ireland!

2. But I will not cast such a doubt upon the character of my country. Against the sneer of the foe, and the skepticism of the foreigner, I will still point to the domestic virtues, that no perfidy could barter, and no bribery can purchase, that with a Roman usage, at once embellish and consecrate households, giving to the society of the hearth all the purity of the altar; that lingering alike in the palace and the cottage, are still to be found scattered over this land-the relic of what she wasthe source perhaps of what she may be the lone, the stately, and magnificent memorials, that rearing their majesty amid surrounding ruins, serve at once as the landmarks of the departed glory, and the models by which the future may be erected.

3. Preserve those virtues with a vestal fidelity; mark this

day, by your verdict, your horror of their profanation; and believe me, when the hand which records that verdict shall be dust, and the tongue that asks it, traceless in the grave, many a happy home will bless its consequences, and many a mother teach her little child to hate the impious treason of adultery.

LESSON LXXXIII.

THE DYING CHRISTIAN.

POPE

1. VITAL spark of heavenly flame!
Quit, oh, quit this mortal frame!
Trembling, hoping, lingering, flving;
On the pain, the bliss of dying!
Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife,
And let me languish into life.

2. Hark! they whisper: angels say,
Sister spirit, come away.

What is this absorbs me quite,
Steals my senses, shuts my sight;
Drowns my spirits. draws my breath?
Tell me, my soul, can this be death?
3. The world recedes, it disappears;
Heaven opens on my eyes: my ears
With sounds seraphic ring:

Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!
O grave! where is thy victory?
O death! where is thy sting?

LESSON LXXXIV.

THE ADVANTAGES OF EDUCATION,

PHILLIPS.

1. No doubt you have all personally considered-no doubt you have all personally experienced, that of all the blessings which it has pleased Providence to allow us to cultivate, there is not one which breathes a purer fragrance, or bears a heaven lier aspect, than education. It is a companion which no misfortunes can depress, no clime destroy, no enemy alienate, nɔ despotism enslave: at home a friend, abroad an introduction, in solitude a solace, in society an ornament: it chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once a grace and government to genius.

2. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave! a reason ing savage, vacillating between the dignity of an intelligence derived from God, and the degradation of passions participated - with brutes; and in the accident of their alternate ascendency shuddering at the terrors of an hereafter, or embracing the horrid hope of annihilation. What is this wondrous world of

his residence?

"A mighty maze, and all without a plan;"

a dark and desolate and dreary cavern, without wealth, or or nament or order. But light up within it the torch of knowledge, and how wondrous the transition! The seasons change, the atmosphere breathes, the landscape lives, earth unfolds its fruits, ocean rolls in its magnificence, the heavens display their constellated canopy, and the grand animated spectacle of nature rises revealed before him, its varieties regulated, and its mysteries resolved!

3. The phenomena which bewilder, the prejudices which de base, the superstitions which enslave, vanish before education. Like the holy symbol whier blazed upon the cloud before the