The National Register. — London, England, 1813-07-18 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. ~.- . . • - heavily, and very much distressed to know how my poor little one was to live. Hut as I went over a bridge, that led to my work, I cast my eye on the right hand side, where lay a very large eel on the Mud, by the river side, apparently dead : I caught hold of it, and soon Wand it was only asleep. My little one was very fond of it, and it richly supplied all her wants that day ; but at night I was informed the eel was gone. so the next day afforded me the' same distress as the preceding day had done. When thus going to my work, cruelly ri fleeting on myself for parting with all my money, just as I entered the ;ode's gates, I saw a partrid,J , lie dead on the walk. I took it up, and found it warm ; so 1 carried it home, and a few days after this, my master told me he had found a path icke on the garden-walk also, but that it stunk : I told him I had found one a little before that time. Ile observed, that two males had hem fighting, and had killed each other, which was very common. Thit I was enabled to look higher. Carnal mason always traces every thing from God to second causes, and there leaves them floating upon uncertaieties ; hut faith tracvs up to their first cause' *old fixes them there, by which weans God's hand is known, and himself glorified. I believe, this battle between the plumed war riors was proclaimed by the Lord : for if a sparrow falls not to the ground without God's leave, as the Scriptures declare, I can hardly think a partridge does." " During my residence at Ewell," subjoins the preacher, ac I often begun the week with eighteen or twuity pence, sometime , 'will two shillings, and sometimes with half a crown ; and we have • lived through the week on that clay, without contracting any debt; awl I found it impossible, at the week's end, upon the best reef.- tiun I could make, to tell how we had been supported through the week. At other times, T Gaye found that my craving appetite had • lost its keenness, insomnch that I have been able to work hard for two days together without any food at all. And, sometimes, God has indulged me with , uch heavenly views of a glorified state, and entertaine4 my mind with such sweet contentplations on futuritv, that my dinner hour has passed away unnoticed ; nor have I once had a thought about it till lour or five o'clock, or near the time of • leaving my labour." [;well deserves our cortsidero!ion on another account. It was at E•A di Marsh, whither he had come in his low estate*, that the could be got about the 111411 e% I tome() promiscuously to iii•Se words — There is a bid here, which Filth ftv• Ip,rley loaves with two fshes ; but wit a;.e they among so umny? I asked my wife, if •lie had ever ale barley-bread. She said ' Yes, in Dorset-hire ?' I told her T never had . eaten it, but the poor Saviour with his Apostles had ; and as (Jo.! 3kr it necessary to keep us in a state of deep poverty, it ill became us to cam- Vaiti, or to refu , e the meanest diet, seeing bl esse d us with an tostred hope of Ileaveo hereafter ! She snid Slit., was wilhog. if was. What with working by day mid living upon hath..y, and cobbling at ni‘ lets, though they kept out of debt and decent in clothes,• our preacher Incurred a violent homota• in his eyes; and, for . some months, wus in thing,cr of losing his sight. • " When the cart set us down on Ewell Marsh. on the Monday morning, and I bad paid the hire of it, I had the total sum of ten pence-halfpentiv left.—to provide for myself, my wife, and child, till the ensuing. Saturday nie,ltt ! lion, though I was thus poor, I know 6,,;1 had made me rich in faith ; and these words came tat my mind with power: Ile nmhipli t tt the Iffoare.t aid fishes to feed fire thmrgand MA, liesidcx women and Children. We went on our knees, and turned tt e accounts of :hat miracle into a privet.; bt , teching the AlmiAtv to moolti;,ly what we had, or to send relief another way, as his infinite • 'wisdom thotiulit Moat proper. " The next evening lily landlord's danehter and son-in-law crone up to see their mother, with whom I now lodged and brought sonic baked meat, which they had just taken out of their oven, for me and toy wif.• to sup ;don • ith tnem. These poor people knew nothing of us, rot of our GA. The next day. in the evening, they did the sane ; mid kept sending victuals or garden-stufr to us all the week long .Some tin e after this God began to work-oorm the husband, mid then I related the encino•tance : at the lientin of which, he told me how it was im• pressed on his mi , nl that I was in want of victuals; when his wife found fault w.th hint for thinking so, and Vinging it to me, saying, "I he people are better to pass than we ere.' But he contradicted her, and insisted on her doing as he desired. It pkastd God (adds Mr. ,459 Rev. William Huntington first (ailed on his public life.' Ere was, nevertheless, stiil poor. Pa: tly to remedy this evil, and partly to obtain something more nourishing than barley, his wife now pro posed that .lie should go to gleaning ; but the farmers drove her out of the fields, and the gleaners came about her, like a shoal of Anall birds at:ending the funeral of a dead hawk, swearing that parsons' wives should not glean there.—' What,' said they, wives of the clergy go a gleaning !' But his dame persevered in her work. " Not withstanding their chasing the clergyman's wife front field to field, she gleaned as nuteli or more than Ruth of old did ; and when har vest came on again, went to gleaning as before." Her husband's " continuing to preach," however, " had alarmed and much of fended the whole pariah : therefore they were more fierce in pur suing her. On the other hand, some were afraid of going near her lest they should catch a religious infection ; it being reported abroad, that there was something of a power that seized upon them, and held them so fait that they must immediately change their own religion." So nuieh did thi4 superstitious imagination overpower vulgar mind:4, at the time, that men were accustomed to go quite out of their path, whenever they encountered our preacher, rind take a circle in the field, rather than pass him on the road; as if that secret something could not seize them (ol , serves Mr. Huntington) whilst walking on the grass, as well as on the footpath! (To be continued.) 11,ring now brought Mr. Huntington's Narrative down to his appelirunee Pulpit, it remains to trace his Clerical Career, and to ofTer such reflections as hare suggested themselves on this subject, to the I n•iter. I hare prole red muk;ng him his own biographer, reserv lug myself Ay the task of comme'n: jag apoa facts in conclusion. July 1; th, 1 81 :3. ON ESIMUS. II.) sorely to aff1;11 !his vor ma',. some kw years after ; during which lIA s enahlrd to res!ure him hmrkild. He left a testimony fin- Cio , l with Ilk dying brcuth, and I believe he is in eternal glory." Hat uatue witz• Webb., JOHN BULL. AND PEWTER POTS. MR. nrron,- -As Mr. Whitbread and Mr. Row are so anxious to take care of our public morals, by denying as the pleasure of drinking it out of pewter pots, I cannot but lament that their efforts should so repeatedly fait, while so landibly directed to punish our bodies for the good of our souls. I nisi t, however, soy, I am much afraid John Bull is not to be carved along. by main force, to take that course which some of his rulers may think the right, as he is not yet like a pig in a string, or one of Mr. Whitbread's dray homes, or floggid forward in any di rection. I would suggest to those guardians of his morals (the So ciety for the Suppression of Pewter) whether it w.iuld not be as %vet! to commit his taste a little, in the future prosecution of their desi We are told, Sir, that the publicans lose 301. or 401. ammally by pewter pots. Now if this be true. and who can suppose that re spectable Houghy ?sins Mr. AVliithread, would " say the thing that k not," would it not be an extremely good thing for them to gait% their end, even if they were to make some abatement in the price of their porter. I suppose it will not be Contended that the pub lican at present dots not get a living. profit. If this be not denied, it stands to reason, that released from the necessity of purchasing pewter pots, he could afford at any rate to take one hilfpenny off the price of a quart of porter. The licensed viettiallers are doubt less a very honest set of men with good looking aftei, hut I do not Is now vviiat splendid etf , rt Of patriotism they have lately made, to entitle than to that mktional reward which it tots lic , nr proposed to bestow, without giyiog something on their part. Itecipwity in all treaties is the favourite doctrine of the genius of Drury-I; Let him then propose to make the reduction in I liepriee of his ter, which I have mentioned, if he expect, Jolt 1; Hull to i•tu Stilwell . to be deprived of his darling pen ter, and adopt in its pl, Mr. Whitbread's bye.t/out block tin. ONE OF THE PEOPLE. lane. 1)01'- I1lt•t lace, E. s a • JULY 18.