Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel! Happy are they who are in such a state; yea, blessed are the people who have the Lord for their God."

O when will mankind learn that "GOD is Love”—that his plan embraces the happiness of ALL; and that none but those who seek their own consistently with the good of others, shall ever find it?

CHARACTER OF WILLIAM PENN,

FROM EDMUND BURKE.

"WILLIAM PENN, as a legislator, deserves great ho nour among all mankind. He created a commonwealth, which, from a few hundreds of indigent refugees, have in seventy years grown to a numerous and flourishing people. A people who, from a wilderness, have brought their territory to a state of high cultivation; filled it with wealthy and populous towns; and who, in the midst of a fierce and lawless race of men have preserved themselves, with unarmed hands, by the rules of JUSTICE and MODERATION, better than any other have done by policy and arms. The way in which he did this, deserves eternal notice. Though brought up, as it were, in the corrupt courts of Charles the Second, who had endeavoured to carry the kingly prerogative to as high a pitch of aristocracy as possible, yet—O glorious! O all subduing power of RELIGION! when he got that, he thought of nothing but to make every body happy. To take the lands from the Indians, he abhorred; he bought their lands.-To exact and starve the poor who followed him across the ocean for conscience and quiet sake, he could not brook. He put the lands at the low rate of forty shillings a hundred acres, and one shilling per hundred acres yearly quit

rent.

"But what crowned all, was the noble charter of privileges by which he made them more free, perhaps, than any people on earth; and which, by securing both civil and religious liberty, caused the eyes of the oppressed from all parts of the world to look to his country for relief. This one act of godlike wisdom and

goodness has settled Penn's country in a more strong and permanent manner than the wisest regulations could have done on any other plan. A man has but to believe that there is a God; that he is the inspector of our actions, and the future rewarder and punisher of our good and ill, and he is not only tolerated, but, if possessed of talents and integrity, is on the road to place.

"This great and good man lived to see an extensive country rescued from the wilderness and filled with a free and flourishing people — he lived to lay the foundation of a splendid and wealthy city-he lived to see it promise every thing from the situation which he himself had chosen, and from the encouragement which he himself had given it he lived to see all this — but

he died in the Fleet prison!

"Tis pleasing to do honour to those great men whose virtues and generosity have contributed to the peopling of the earth, and to the freedom and happiness of mankind who have preferred the interest of a remote posterity, and times unknown, to their own fortune, and to the quiet and security of their own lives. Now, both Britain and America reap great benefit from his labours and his losses. And his posterity have a vast estate out of the quit rents of that very province, whose establishment was the ruin of their predecessor's fortune."

MONTESQUIEU, ON PENN.

A character so extraordinary in the institutions of Greece, has shown itself lately in the dregs and corruption of modern times. A very honest legislator

has formed a people, to whom probity seems as natural as bravery to the Spartans. William Penn is a real Lycurgus and though the former made peace his principal aim, as the latter did war, yet they resemble one another in the singular way of living to which they reduced their people-in the ascendant they gained over freemen, in the prejudices they overcame, and in the passions which they snbdued.

THE END.

REFLECTIONS AND MAXIMS

OF

WILLIAM PENN.

IGNORANCE,

1. Ir is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves, and of the world they have lived in.

2. If one went to see Windsor-castle, or Hampton-court, it would be strange not to observe and remember the situ ation, the building, the gardens, fountains, &c., that make up the beauty and pleasure of such a seat. And yet few people know themselves: no, not their own bodies, the houses of their minds, the most curious structure in the world; a living, walking tabernacle; nor the world of which it was made, and out of which it is fed; which would be so much our benefit, as well as our pleasure, to know. We cannot doubt of this when we are told that the "invisible things of God are brought to light by the things. that are seen;" and consequently we read our duty in them, as often as we look upon them, to Him that is the great and wise author of them, if we look as we should do.

3. The world is certainly a great and stately volume of natural things, and may be not improperly styled the hieroglyphics of a better; but, alas, how very few leaves of it do we seriously turn over! This ought to be the subject of the education of our youth; who, at twenty, when they should be fit for business, know little or nothing of it.

EDUCATION.

4. We are in pain to make them scholars, but not men ; to talk, rather than to know; which is true canting.

5. The first thing obvious to children is what is sensible; and that we make no part of their rudiments.

6. We press their memory too soon, and puzzle, strain,

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