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"how knowest thou to take the wings of the morning, to meet the sun in the south: to be "at rest with the children of the day when the light of the moon is as the light of the sun : " and the light of the sun, is as the light of seven days, the everlasting sabbath of God." These queries sufficiently made out John's case; he was transferred to a madhouse, after eighteen weeks confinement in the Inquisition. At length being judged incurable, they had the humanity to let him return to his own country. Here John somehow arrived at great glory; his manuscripts had been returned to him, and as his queries and epistles had not converted the Pope, the Cardinals, and the Romish colleges, he published them for the benefit of mankind with the title of "Battering Rams against Rome, or the Battle "of John the follower of the Lamb, fought with "the Pope and his Priests, whilst he was a pri

soner in the Inquisition prison of Rome: also "certain remonstrances of Righteous Reason, "written in Romes prison of madmen, unto all "Rome's Rulers."

ARCHBISHOP SHELDON.

All the world knows what pains have been taken by physicians and patients to get rid of this genteel complaint, the gout: but all the

world may not know that Archbishop Sheldon did not only wish for it, but proffered one thousand pounds to any person who would help him to it; looking upon it as the only remedy for the distemper in his head.

FRENCH BIBLE.

There was a French Bible, printed at Paris, in 1538, by Anthony Bonnemere, wherein is related, that the ashes of the golden calf, which Moses caused to be burnt, and mixed with the water that was drank by the Israelites, stuck to the beards of such as had fallen down before it; by which they appeared with gilt beards, as a peculiar mark to distinguish those who had worshipped the calf. This idle story is actually interwoven with the 32nd. chapter of Exodus. And Bonnemere says, in his preface, this French Bible was print ́ed in 1495, at the request of his most Christian Majesty Charles the VIII: and declares further, that the French translator has added nothing but the genuine truths, according to the express terms of the Latin Bible; nor omitted any thing but what was improper to be translated! So that we are to look upon this fiction of the gilded beards as matter of fact: and another of the same stamp, inserted in the chapter above mentioned, viz.that, Upon Aaron's refusing to make Gods for

the Israelites, they spat upon him with so much fury and violence, that they quite suffocated him.

LAMBETH PALACE.

This remarkable pile of building has been the residence of the English primates, from the time of Robert Walter, A. D. 1158, to the present day. Indeed many public acts of the metropolitan were performed there at an earlier period. The palace was rebuilt in 1252, by archbishop Boniface, but of that structure it is doubtful if any part remain, except the chapel, and some antiquarians have doubted if even that belonged to it. After the civil wars, Archbishop Juxton rebuilt the great hall at the expence of £10,500, a sum, however great, by no means to be wondered at when the size of the hall, and its decorations are considered; it is 98 feet in length, by 38 wide, and has a fine carved wooden roof. The guard room, which was erected prior to 1428, has a roof similar to that last mentioned; the long gallery which measures 30 feet by 16, is stated to have been built by Cardinal Pole. In the great dining room, 38 feet hy 19, is an unbroken series of portraits of the archbishops, from Laud, down to the present worthy metropolitan. The library, comprising about 26000 volumes, occupies our galleries over a small quadrangu

gular cloister. The first collection of books was bequeathed by archbishop Bencroft: these suffered by the civil wars, but the mischief was for the most part repaired by Archbishop Juxton, and Shelden, Tenison, and Secker, contributed much to its present magnificence. The manu

script department is particularly curious, as it comprehends some records and manuscripts of equal variety and value. Archbishop Morton erected the brick gateway and tower, represented in the annexed engraving, about the year 1490. The Lollards tower, which is at the West end of the chapel, and appears in the back of the print, was built by archbishop Chishele in 1434, or 1435. The prison of the Lollards, from whence the tower takes it name, is a small room on the top. The gardens and park cover an extent of about 13 acres.

PURITANICAL PRAYER.

After the death of Charles the First, the Court of King's Bench was called the Court of Public Bench: and some republicans were so cautious of acknowledging monarchy any where, that they even, in repeating the Lord's Prayer, instead of saying, "Thy kingdom come," they chose to have it said, "Thy commonwealth come!"

THE ARMY OF JESUS CHRIST.

Jean de Marest, a fine genius, the author of works of gallantry, and theatrical performances, became, at last, a visionary and a fanatic; he seriously boasted that God, in his infinite goodness, had sent him the key of the treasures contained in the Apocrapha, which was known but to few before him, and that by the command of God, he levies an army of 144,000 soldiers, to make war upon the impious and the Jansenists. They who were to compose this army were to have the mark of God upon their foreheads; that is to say, who are to show it manfully by their lives, that God lives in their hearts; and as every army must needs have a general, Lewis the 14th, the eldest son of the church, was to be offered the lead. "Your company," says Jean de Marest," of knights of the Holy Ghost ought "to march at their head, if they are as brave "and valiant as they pretend to be." Monsieur de M., after all this, was not only allowed to manage his own estate; but the charge of Inquisitor was also bestowed upon him! They gave him permission to establish himself a father confessor of a great number of women and young ladies; to make them accountable to him for their most secret thoughts; to write to them letters of cases of conscience, stuffed with a deal