the following article appeared in the public prints a few days after it was delivered:

"Oanhekoe and his ancestors were formerly chief princes, and owners of all, or great part of, the country now called Connecticut Colony, in New England; and when the English first came, these Indians treated them very kindly, and for a small and inconsiderable value parted with all or most of their lands to the English, securing to themselves only a small quantity of land to plant upon and hunt in.

"These Mohegan Indians have always lived peaceably and friendly with the English, and assisted them in their wars against the other Indians, and have, until of late, quietly enjoyed their reserved lands: but about a year or two ago, the general assembly of Connecticut Colony made an act for adding those lands to the townships of Colchester and New London, two towns in that colony; since which, they have been laid out into divers farms for the English, and these poor Indians have been turned out of possession, and thereby destitute of all means of subsistence: whereupon Oanhekoe addressed himself to Mr. Nicholas Hallum, who is a master of a ship, and has a house and family near Connecticut river, desiring him to deliver this letter when he should arrive in England. Accordingly Mr, Hallum, Lately coming over hither, did deliver to the Com

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missioners of Trade and Plantations, whose province it properly is to represent such affairs to her Majesty, and, it is presumed, have done it. This Prince, Oanhekoe, after he had given the letter to Mr. Hallum, and before the latter set out for England, was reduced to so great want, that in a melancholy fit he brought his pipe to him, and told him, that since his land was all taken from him, he would keep his pipe (the vain ensign of royalty) no longer, and he might take it over with him to England, for a token of the distress he was in so, Mr. Hallum brought it over with him."

THE CURATE'S STUDY.

By the late THOMAS STACKHOUSE, M. A.

THUS we have observed with what difficulties and temptations our poor divine is beset, both in the administration of his office, and the conduct of his private life. Let us now follow him into his study, and consider him in the capacity of a scholar, and a man acquainted with. divinity.

Into his study did I say? For once we must be allowed to call so that little hole in the garret, with a stool and a table, and a shelf furnished with such valuable pieces, as Wit's Commonwealth,

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wealth, the Pearl of Eloquence, Spencer's Similitudes, or, Things New and Old, rare helps all, for matter and sense; old Burgersdicius, for method and ranging; some German System for a general view; here and there a classic, for the use of interlarding; a few stitched sermons, by way of imitation, and an old Genevese Bible, with a useful concordance at the end on 't, to crown and complete all. And now, what may not a man do that is thus furnished and equipped? What an eloquent and instructive preacher, what an able defender of truth, what a vast destroyer of heresies, what a skilful interpreter of hard places, what a nice resolver of cases of conscience, as well as prudent conductor of other men's souls, must he make with such never-failing auxiliaries standing by him, if he has but the skill to play them off to the best advantage! "A well-furnished house," says the Italian proverb, "makes a notable dame;" and so we may say of a well-appointed study, that it makes an eminent divine; and doubtless we must ascribe the ignorance of some, and the looseness of others in holy orders, principally to this fatal want; because it cannot be supposed, that men of an ingenuous education should either be so dull as not to improve with these mighty helps, or so wretched, as to seek mean and unbecoming com

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pany, when they have at home the benefit of conversing with the most learned and best men in all ages.

Suppose, then, for once (for we can scarce suppose that he can attempt it often) that this divine of ours gets into his study, as we have called it, and, with all his tackle about him, resolves to fall to work in good earnest; yet, unless he has stupified all sense of his condition, no sooner has he set himself into a posture of thinking (I judge of others by myself), but immediately start up the horrid images of baker, and brewer, and bloody butcher, that will bring in no more provisions of any kind, till their long-neglected bills be paid. It is natural upon such occasions for an honest man, that would pay if he could, to put his hand in his pocket, and ask himself the question, what he has? but one solitary shilling; God wotthat to be gone before to-morrow morning; where to find another, Heaven only knows that, for friends have been tried over and over again, all to no purpose. This quashes all his ambition to be great, hurries his mind from the thing he was upon, and drives him from his books, in deep confusion and despair; for the man must be sotted that can sit him down to study, when the great design of all (become of learning what it will) remains unanswered, how he is to live.

DOCTOR FOSTER.

THE late Doctor Foster, a senior fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, having been appointed to one of the best livings in the gift of that.university, was very much beloved by his flock, over whom he presided with all the watchfulness and affection of a truly Christian pastor. The Doctor was a man of profound learning, but extremely absent, and, in some respects, eccentric, which, however, had no immoral tendency. He was a little too fond of what Pope calls yellow dirt, a failing to which many good men are subject, especially those who have no children, which was the Doctor's case, though many years married to an amiable woman. In his absent' moments, it was not unusual with him to walk out with his hat in his hand, in all kind of weather, even in the midst of a heavy shower, and it was not till the rain had drenched his wig and clothes that he put on his beaver, which was often filled with water, as he carried it with the hollow side uppermost, so that the contents ran in streamlets down his shoulders. Another instance of his absence is the more extraordinary, as it related to money; and not only evinced his humanity, but a strict regard to his word. After

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