The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-03 00:00:00

THE ASIATIC JOURNAL.

There are several articles in the present num-
ber which cannot fail to be interesting to the
general as well as Indian reader, although it is
certainly not so good as some of its predecessors.
The article on East and West India Sugars
should be read by every Member of Parliament.

JOHNSTONE'S EDINBURGH MA GA.

ZINE.

We are glad to meet with the " Experiences
of Richard Taylor" again. The old gentleman
cuts out a tale to measure, quite in the fashion,
and in a neat workmanlike style that Stultz
might envy. His present gossip about " Ma-
rianne's Hair" will fit the public to aT. The
" Life of the late Dr. Adam Clarke" unfolds an
interesting chapter in the volume of human
nature. The future reader of the Methodists
was, as a youth, a devourer by wholesale of novels
and fairy tales. He was led to reason through
the paths of romance, and even to his dying
day entertained a grateful recollection of " Ro-
binson Crusoe." This is a pleasant trait of
character in so rigid, and uncompromising a Dis-
senter as the Doctor ; but still more so is the
story which he tells of the poor Irish school-
master, who undertook to cultivate his farm upon
the principles laid down by Virgil in his
" Georgics !" Who after this shall call Parson
Adams a fiction ? " The Lion Heart" is a
stirring poem, though rather too closely modelled
on Mr. Macaulay's splendid stanzas, entitled the
Armada." It is followed by an able, and in
passages, eloquent and feeling dissertation on the
Aborigines, or " Red Men" of North America,
who, it seems, were once two millions in number,
but are now dwindled down to two hundred
thousand. We subjoin an anecdote highly
characteristic of these savages :

" The Bear they respect as a warrior and an equal,
though this does not prevent, but rather stimulate to
friendly combat. Great pride is felt in subduing a bear.
Instances are given of the successful combatant insulting
and glorying over the vanquished, as if be were a con-
quered chief of a hostile tribe. Mr. Heckewelder, a
missionary, who has given a great mass of information
concerning the Indians, relates, ' that a Delaware hunter
once shot a huge bear and broke its back-bone. The
animal fell, and set up a most plaintive cry, something
like that of the panther when he is hungry. The bunter,
instead of giving him another shot, stood up close to him,
and addressed him in these words :—' Hark ye ! bear ;
you are a coward, and no warrior, as you pretend to be.
Were you a warrior you would show it by your firmness,
and not cry and whimper like an old woman. You
know, bear, that our tribes are at war with each other,
and that yours was the aggressor. You have found,the
Indians too powerful for you, and you have gone sneaking
about in the woods, stealing their hogs ; perhaps at this
very tune you have hog's flesh in your den. Had you
conquered me, I would have borne it with courage, and
died like a brave warrior ; but you, bear, sit here and
cry, and disgrace your tribe by your cowardly conduct.'
Heckew4der heard the delivery of this curious invec.ive.
When the hunter had despatched the hear, he asked him
how he thought that poor animal could understand what
he said to it ? 'Oh !' said he in answer, ' the bear un-
derstood me well ; did you not ohs- rve how ashamed he
1 while I was upbraiding him?' "

TAIT'S MAGAZINE.
The most curious, if not the most edifying,
article in Tait this month, is " Manifestations,
New and Old," by which it would appear that
Mr. Irving, the great apostle of the Unknown
Tongues, is no original—not even in his absur-
dity. A Mr. John Lacy was in the habit of
splitting the sides of the year 1706 by far finer
displays of fanaticism. He too " dreamed
dreams"—saw visions,--had the faculty of speak-
ing in a dialect known only to the elect—got
glimpses of grace from above once a month or
so—and could boast the honour of an intimate
acquaintance with the Spirit. But as no honour
is to be had for nothing, so poor Mr. Lacy paid
dearly for his. About a week before the Spirit
condescended to manifest itself, he was afflicted
with severe " gripings" in the bowels, Evange-
lical " hiccups," and " preternatural labourings
in the wind-pipe," which had no sooner ceased,
when lo I the Saint's " tongue was loosed," at
forth came such a torrent of inspiration as fairl.
drowned the wits of all his hearers. Mr. Lacy,

it seems, was a great prophet in his day
and the instant he felt himself " griped," the
glad tidings spread like wild-fire among his dis-
ciples, who rushed in crowds to congratulate
him on such evident prern:initory symptoms of
divine influence. Sometimes, however, he was
attacked without the slightest previous notice,
and once the Spirit manifested itself while he
was on his " way to a hearing at the Attorney-
General's !" But this must have been a very
equivocal Spirit—one fro:n below rather than
from above—for what could a celestial messenger
possibly want with an Attorney-General ? Law-
yers have a very slight acquaintance with the
Cherubim. Their connections lie the other way.
The " Manifestations" of this remarkable fanatic,
after continuing for some months, at length at-
tracted the notice of Government, who con-
demned Mr. Lacy and his disciples to " stand
on a scaffold at Charing-cross, pay each of them
a fine of twenty marks, and find sureties for their
good behaviour." In our days we treat " Ma-
nifestations of the Spirit more leniently. We
merely fine the " Manifestors" five shillings for
being drunk. " Mrs. Hannah More" is a
prosy, prolix essay, whence we conclude it is
clerical. The old lady, who is its subject, is
wholly lost sight of, in the zeal of the author to
show off his own intellectual attainments. Time
was when Mrs. More was looked on as the
" tenth Muse." Bishops delighted to do her hon-
our; Royalty itself was proud to be ranked among
her visitors. She is now forgotten—notwith-
standing her novel of " Calebs," which reached