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URGENT DISTRESS.

/THE CONINIITTEE of the WIDOWS'
FRIEND sad BENEVOLENT SOCIETY, in re.
herniae their cordial thauks to a besievolent Public few the
reedy 11131111110 they have made to their urgent call fur aid in
favour of the desires/sea poor of the metropolis, tbiuk it dee
to the kenehom of their friends to ufler the following state_
meet of the mode in which such aid is at prises' applied.
They are engaged is relieving WO cases, runsistiug of Moat
• leakitleals, by perusal visits, by the gift of racroey,
puestpia. soap, coals, mattresses completed of straw In the
allespeet goveriug, blankets, and rugs; articles either of so
uses a deveriptiou, or so stamped with the mark of the So-
ciety, as to limes the probability of their being pledged or
wised fur retie. la cases of dangerous sickness, both dm'.
cal and medical aid has been obtained, by which it is hoped
bulb the spiritarl sod temporal maladies of the selierses
bays bees eliectnally relieved. Still mach sod poagmet
distress presents itself to the inquiries of the Committee;
arias it is their object to administer relief in the moot
oillselsal mode, by enablers the distressed paw to obtain
their emu livelihood, it is nor wady ea tenet to redeem
.say steamer, .novice four pledge, mod to famish them
with small sums of musty, that by the isollic of Sib,
bra, Ace. tloy may procure their daily suppurt, but also
eiliered deem, in Mary iIiMMILVIN the mere necessaries of
mg, without which they car neither mugs is work,
iiirepatestaia any pumped of a situation.
The Ceigusiltre, therefore, "elicit sot only preariary aid,
but contributivem of clothes and limes, and indeed any arti-
cle that may be deemed serviceable to the pour.
HENRY BUDD, President.
Bridgostreet, Blarkfrims, Fab. 7, 1820.
The Coalmine, most gratefully acknowledge the receipt
of the fulluwiug Jonathon and subscriptions:—

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Confriboilswe of elflike for the poor are generally roorie.
tr by die Rev. H. liwild, New ; sad Mr. T.
leawani, talloborpequare ; awl of mosey at the
fog lbuskers i—filavera. Hoare, 37, Flori.sirsei;
Lltsuoiseird, Chariug-erva• Messrs. Browse, Larigbors. and
Co. tb, Boetlersbory ; likewise by Mama. Hatelierd sod
Soo, lON Proewriolly.

Ouse of bliudnews
beau the beauty of t
was now a tuatk and

infest iso bee ems
and feetlieelike

copied at tbr Boor,
When I had wade

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THE RADICaIL'S AfiIInINDAY
Of all the planter Boras, the Coffees Sitter.
day Night is universally felt to be the moot terastite:
Cul sod interesting. That picture of demestie
peat* end purity was drawn by the poet when hie
ass ahead was peaceful and pure; and accordingly,
there sleeps over it a calm sad uutrembled light,
through which the virtues, the wisdom, and happy-
urea of lowly life shine forth is sublime oiniplecity.
We kunst, that this delightful poem was composed
at the ',lough, and that Berm cheered his kind
and noble heart during the toil by which he sup.
ported his father's household, with the strains that
brought vividly before it biases of all the most
sacred things by which that hoc'ehold was bleated.
It istrot possible to' imagine any spectacle more
glorious to a country than that of such a peasant so
employed. Poor, bat surepining—toiling, bet
not overborne-811mM a hon,,in years. bat a mon
its.etreogibi patieneec eitturesike, and lieroiem--
wite.toseimmiio itiorsimplkity-if hie own eget ness—
bliud to the destiny, at once so dark end so bright,
that wire awaiting lion—sod yet, we may well sup.
pose, not unvisited by high and aspiring thoughts-.
-there yolked tint peasant behind hi• plungh, whom
his country, through all future getteratiosis, will
honour as the poet sod benefactor of her people.
This poem was composed in his heart beneath the
sunshine sad the clouds; cad when the hours of
bodily toil and mental inspiration were gotta by
(said with Burns they were the same), be retained
at night-fell to his father's house, and sat down
reverently in presence of the grey hairs *hie!, he
kept sacred from the ashes of poverty and albedo,.
The poem, therefore, is one of susteineil and almost
perfect beauty—for every morning he brought to it
a heart fresh with joyfulness rod virtue, while the
Intervals of compueition were thus filled with all
the thoughts, feelings, and images that his genies
has rendered immortal. The subject was a happy
oat—happy beyond what could have been the lot
of any poet boon in any other country. For, is
Scotland alone, and I soy so with s doe states
of the virtues of England, does there exist among
the peasantry a union of knowledge, morality.
and religion. so universal. and so iutense, mud
so solemn, as to constitute national character—
to hallow and sublime that main, which feels, es
it were, the influence of the approeching sAaarrs,
and to resider its weekly festival, held both in mirth•
ful gladsomeness, and in pious composure of heart.
It is the spirit of religion that makes the Cotter's
Saturday-night at once delightful said awful to our
imagination, said fit subject for the very highest of
all poetry. We know that on that night the Bible
is opened in ten thousand dwellings—and that tlte
voice of psalms and of prayer is heard deep down
ire the glens, and high up on the hills of Scotland.
On that night I will trot say that the hardships and
IMMO of lowly life the all folientott by those whose
led it is to endure them—for strong and tenacious
must needs be the mentor, of the poor; but 1 will say,
that if their hardships soil wants are not then forgot-
ten, so neither are their enjoyments and their blese-
tags; that in the calm confidence which the humble
feel when on their knees before God and their Re-
deemer, fear and sorrow minister unto piety, that
it is sufficient for their grstitode, that while their
blessings are so great, their usisries are not far
greater—and that henna life, with all its inevitable
woes, seems yet, to the Contented cotter, a scene
never wholly deserted by the sunshine of • gracious
Heaven. Truly may it be said, that in Scotland.
the last night of every week n divides the year,
and lifie the soul to Heaven." Well is the Sab-
bath-mars, preceded by a sight in which happiness
prepares the heart fur devotion.
The picture which Burns has drawn of that
hallowed scene, is felt by every one also hes
a human heart—but they alone can see all its
beauty, who have visited the fire-sides of the
Scottish peasantry. and joined in their family
worship. They who have done so, see in the
poem nothing but the simple truth--truths
so purified, refitted. and elevated by devotion,
as to lwcunie the highest poetry. Matey a Saturday
night hiss the writer of this joined in that simple
service; more than once, when death had just
visited the cottage—but at all times, whether those
of joy or affliction, there was the save solemn ve•
signatiou to the diviue same unquestion.
bug, humble, wise submission—the same perfect
peace, and even lofty happiness—nor dad he ever
see one shudder, our bear one sob that seemed to
signify despair.
" Then !Lutetium down to Heaves's Eternal Kisg
The aaiat, the fattier, sad the lisslusil prays ;
Hope seria,rsexattiag ow Selinsplosst wing,
That thus they. all shall Is Assure day..
There ever bask is svereaaed raps,
No MUM to Willow shed the Miser tear;
Together 'rosin their Creator's praise,
le such society, yet still more dear,
{Mile circling time moves rouuil is &solenoid sphere."
The last time that I witnessed anal partook of
such happiness as this, was one servile and beguy
ful moots-light night, during last fine harvest. I
bad beau roaming all day among the magnificent
woods that overshadow the Clyde immediately
above and below Bothwell Castle, sear which I
passed some of my early years—and at the fall of
rerun% I entered a cottage. which I had often visit-
ed when a boy, and of which the master was even
at that time a grey-heeiled patriatcli. I found
old man still alive, and
1 the fire-aide—the mine
i was nearly twenty years
sable, more perfectly -
sottsewliat more wan.

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it isas these that I aaw in his tottering steps .-
the hand of time had touched him more heavily
thou. at first might, I had supposed. After I had
narrated the simple story of my own life. 1 traria
that of theirs—that nothing had happened to ihem
snt* I came to bid them farewell on that smtbiser
nuiruinK I
left school. etcept that the old aasu''
daughter had been married (as t sow) to the
of her youth, and that six children had beets
of whom two, and the mother mentioned it with

low voice, but without tears, had been taken
their Maker. The husband afterwards came

mid before our simple evening meal was over,
as if 1 had been fur years an inmate of the happy
and ismocesit family.
The old man then said to me, with a kind voice.
that he hoped I had not forgotten. in the life
led io flOreigll countries, the religious observances
of the peasantry of my native land. Aud, as he
was speaking. his grand-donghter,, a beautifot sill
of about sixteen years. brought ibis •' big. he
Bible," and laid it gently .upon Ms kilns. G. NC
eye, are not so good," said the pious pottistch.
as when you and your school-companions used'
come to visit us of old, but there is still liy
enough left in them whereby to read the word
God." Nothing could be more affecting than
treinulons voice of the old matt, whose gray
were so soon to be laid in the earth, as lie .
amidst the profoundest silence, that chapter or
New Testament that records the crucifixion.

afterwa►ds when the li•slm was sung—those
feeble and almost mournful tones were beyond
mesinate touching, as they blended with the s►
pipes of the children, and the sweet melody of ,
female voices. During the prayer that followed,
could not help looking around on the kneeling
rally—•tsd I saw close to the white locks of In,
whose race was nearly run, the bright and golden
head of his little favourite grandee% who, during
almost the whole erening. had been sitting on '-
grandfather's knee. The love of God seemed
descend alike on i•fanc sod old age. The purity
of the one allied itself to the piety of the oti
and the prayer of him who was just lesving
seemed to bring a blessing on the head of bim
was bat just entering upon it. When we all I
together from the prayer • solemn hush prevailed
• few minutes over the room, till our hearts,

degrees, returned to the thoughts that had
.only possessed them—and oar cuoversotion, though
somewhat more grave than before,: recurred ' the
ordinary topics and business of life.
I need nut narrate that-conversation for it
interestiug to me, chiefly from its kindness, .
calmness, and the wisdom of its innocence. I had
many questions, too, to ask about the families
had known in my youth. all of which were answer-
ed with pleasure and a sort of pride by those
were delgetto bear that I had not forgets)*,
humble of ether goys ; and thus the hut
stole away till it 'was midnight before the sso-in-
law shelved me into my bed-chamber. a room as
neatly furnished as if it had been in the great city.
and kept for the accommodation of the few visitors
that, whether of kin, or strangers like myself. came
in the course of a year to this secluded dwelling.
I lay for some hours awake, reflecting, with the
purest delight, on the happiness, the worth, and the
piety, of the little family that by this time were
all lying around me in sleep. No doubt. thought
1, they have their frailties and also their griefs, but
that life is enviable which contains. within itself,
on many evenings like the one I have now witnessed.
So long as there is a Bible in every cottage in Scot-
land, and the dust is not suffered to lie opera it,
the people will be good. and wise, and hippy.
With thoughts such as these, I at lest gently felt
away into sleep.
I have heard of people who never were conscious
of having dreamed—for myself I never sleep but
I dream, yet after all my dreams I have been able
to discover few of the causes by which they are pro-
dared or modified. This night, however. I had a
dream that rase out of the impressions which that
family worship load left on my sleepiug Mind. But
though all these impressions were calm, peaceful.
and blessed, yet was the dreads itself which they
occasioned distorted, hideous, and ghastly, as if
hell itself were suddenly to glare out through •
vision of heaven.

I fancied that I had lost my way on a wide moor
during a night of storms, and at last came upon a
solitary hut, into which I entered for shelter. With
that distressful feeling so common in dream. I knew
not whence I had come, or whither I was journey.
tog ; a rem of unsupportable weariness was all I
knew of life. Soon as I entered the cottage I felt
rr if I hail been there before. though every thing
seemed wofully and ruefully to have been changed.
The wet, 'stained, clammy, mod naked 'walla breath.
ed wee the room the cold sir of discomfort and de.
vertion—the few articles of furniture were fitted for
the mean, vile, end mi.erable dwelling—and the
flickering light from • swill nil-lamp on the clay.
filar, by which the wretclwdsiess around was visi.
Me, at times seemed to expire utterly, as the gusts
of wind blew through the broken panes of • win-
dow half closed up with rage cud with straw.
I felt over my whole body the shivering mohair of
that superstitious fear that strikes the heart in dark,
wild,. and solitary place., cud that congeals ones
',eel life-blood, as it assails us when reason is en-
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chained

other who .,_
- The Mehl+ sae
battery of thirty pieces or emotion the ,
soldiers, who three times stormed their strong .
in vain, and with the loos of I ly men cud two of-
ficers killed. Nor does it sppear that they haws
been allowed to remain in quiet possession of the
island of Basica, to which they retired crier tin.
defeat. In the Soppkasent to the Madras Gazette,
of Oct, 6, it is stated that the news is cohtirinett of,
a revolt of the natives of Bauer opine* theist. There
is every reason to conclude, therefore, that the db.
minion of the Dutch to these possessions efiq not
be easily established.

MADRAS. OCTOBSIII 9.
Addicts have been received Irmo '
Bributisie, stating that the King of
Gth of last Jane, and was succeeded
by his grandsom
Mocim.—Accounts from this p.
the Hon. Company's cruiser Aarore.
farmer ones, of the whole coast 1.---
control of Ali Pacha. A rumour
this place that the Russians had
iinuple. We con scarce credit this
are told that au universal panic
Turks io the Red Sea. Ali Pilch&
diantantled and laid• up at Judda.
cial accounts from this place are
whole ; though coffee continued
goods yielded large profits.
BOMBAY.—Accounts from Seind
Singh to have conquered Kashmeer.
KUTCII.—We are concerned to •
has been a dreadful hurricane, in
of this country. It lasted one day
every tree has been torn up by the
kind of cultivation laid waste, '
have bees deluged and all perfectly
But few people have lost their lives; cat
of all descriptions. excepting buffaloes. have iu
many places been nearly extirpated ; the water ge-
nerally its the open country, was running four fret
deep, and carts its the fields were carried sway salty
miles, by use force of the wind. The hurricaue bad
not been felt at Bhooj on the .291 h of hat mouth,'
bet they had experienced right days of high wind,'
rain, and such constant cloutiv_._ that the sou w
• strauger to that capital. The ',otitis, though,
net bossy, had vet' been resistant, once the 11th
of July ; not a used of cotton had been sown up to
the former date, whilst the grain crops had rotted.
'arr. 2s.
A frigatt• of 46
the
for his Majesty's service,
tinted of the Bombay dock - the 5111

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V
• Pities 7d: •
that INDIA.
artily •
I had oclolllllll S.
learnt . Colonel Bernerntan. Governor of Priove ot•
thou, Wales's Island, died iso the eth of Arguer. Ho
maser tonere, woo celerated with marks of appisippietv be.
s„„os wiur. arid on the receipt of the news si Madras,
!aye, seism, guns. correspondiog with his age (he was
born, in his (list year) were fired from the ressiport..—
with a The General Orders bored by the Governoseist of
ten to Prince of Wales'. island, the day after hes de-
o, to. cease, speak of him it terms of niegoalilied ulogy
I felt and regret. He was one, it is 06w-revel. " whose
happy teal sod anxiety to promote the public «Ware were
ardent awl unceasing, rod whose wistful sod ho-
woke. uourable lolsonro, marked alike by integrity and
had every =tidy virtue, were mot confined to the epberer
~ante, of this Presidency, bat have been exemplified.
as he a sod often publicly appreciated, during a period of
it ate upwards of foetysethree Trees, tee•ord in the 'merrier
g. has older Hossourable East limbo Company. is various
1. my *rations of diem:ally. honour. end responsibility."
isrcb, the Hon. Wm. Edward Phillips has succeeded to
tied to the Government of the Presidency.
light A Madras Gocenenstat Gazette EJtroordiseavy.
tad of of else 11111 of September, proclaims that his High.
In the ties, Prince Auxins Jab, &c. the eldest legielossie
, hairs son of has late Highness the Nabob Ar•ros at L)uw•
read, hilt Bubadoor, his ruccerded to ins father in the
of the rook and title of Nabob Soutodular of the Climatic/
These repers confirm the accounts winch have
been received lately, as to the disastrous roodmou
of the Dutch. with respect to their overly-restored
Cul er &ne the t. The lest Dutch Mail, Which
otsblifYmA°tl:inilliddeel wilted uo Friday, contained an emcee, from the
stet,l Butoniox Correaar, of the 91st July. sea it that
Muutinglie, the Commissioner at Palernbang,
ehwo hod been forced to retire from that place, with the
;olden troops, to the islarid of Banco.
iotw„ The Penang Gazette. of the 17th July, mentions
on bre that the Dutch were driven from Palembelig. with
red to the lose of many men, not by the Chief who em
purity
set aside by the Netherlands' Gueerouiritt. nu the
thee— restoration of the Dutch possessious, but by the
I/ life reinstated Suan. ou wom implicit dependence
w who bed beets pieclted. It mhay be remembered, thou
I ems while Java was under our dominion, l'alrinbstog was•
led for ceded by the Sultan to Great Britiusiont else exprious
Is by co:Witte.. that he should he tosiutsinesi ori hie thrum.
pewit
• -
sod supported in hi. dignity by the British G.iveri.-
wh mein. By • distinct and separate article it' ilk
to ao' Tielty of 1814. this island was also transferred to
the King of the Netherlands ; but on the condition..
it was sod subject to those co upsets which had emoted
is. its between the King of Great Britain sod the Sultan.
I had The first act, however, of the Dutch Comtuirsitmers
dire who were sent from Jaya after the transfer of Pa-
sower. lembang, was to depose the Sultan, whom we had
e who protecree. and seat soother on the throw. It is
es the this other who bee expelled the Dutch from hi.
beers ufeilhorite.-- The Melers eve said to have opened a
battery of thirty pieces of caution upon the Dutch
mai is I.loldiere, who three tinter stormed their strong hold

w Rangoon. by the
of Ave died on the
led on the awe day
i place brought by
retire. cutilirio the
being under the
sr was prevalent at
id taken Consists.
till report, but we
tie had seized the
:ha's ships were all
a. l'he commer-
satisfactory ou the
high. yet Indian
:it'd state !tappet
ref.
to state. that there
iu the western port
sy rod two nights':
w roots, and eery
towns and villages
racily destroyed.—
; cattle. however,

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e a grey.heailed patriotic+. I found the ;Tined by sleep. In this ghastly loneliness I heard was Anted out oft Bombey dock too the sth is-
ill
II alive,
in. and sitting in hie srm.chsir by a lung. deep, broke. groan ; and as 1 looked • etellt: shoe is
named the serblicriPabrub arid is ffii
e—the same venerable image that be tensely into the gloom. an old man seemed sitting th u,e
eeneteeeted " a theory calculated to "le"
twenty years ago, only his luck., if pus. before nie, by the dead ashes of a scanty fire. with bine the greatest stability with the Wet possible
t PerPtelli and purely rehires his cheeks long Inch., whiter than the snow. mud cheeks as molest.. to her sailiug ; ,mud is coosidered allege.
11110 re wan. and his eyes almost as dim as soultes sad as woo se if he had rii,„ from his Brave. thee to be one of the most formidable ships or wits.
induesa itself. His daughter, who hail Can this ghost. *ought I in dim perplexity. he el. her chub. known.
tinny of the parish when I was at school. he whom I have oriel* seen klia its prayer The following ore given io the 13osibay Paper's+
week and gentle matrons slid carried au among his family, and whose reverend countwmace the dilltehem" of the NeTilOP•Mill :'""
Pet er arms; while Whet children. with eyes felt, opt wane Hights elm the cheerful light of
Length of lower
leek. 111 ll re like their mother's, were cheerfully oe. that happiest fireside ? Whist dreadful thing has ------•-- keel fur homage
the fluor, half in business •utl half in play. happened to hits or to we ? 1 strove to speak to liosillti eases@ .... e. II
kil outdo myself known to the father sad the eta non in hi. lereeltisesa, but the words were Divehi. hold la 5
er, it is needles* to say with whet warmth WI loon is ay brelot, and I stood couvolsed is . Surdas is lamas 1.1114 lit
ity I wee welcomed. The old maw rose the dalsobesas .1 anising was•eli. Illsomiller 4O gum.
seat as .s
seat I odd my name; and • • (fl is andiamd.) BOWIIAT.—On Thwrorloy moroing his Majtoty's
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