that I could not get them at any rate. At last I was determined to go to a friend of mine at Kingston, who is of that branch of business to bespeak a pair, and to get him to trust me until my master sent me money to pay him. I was that day going to London, fully determined to bespeak them as I rode through the town. However, when I passed the shop I forgot it, but when I came to London, I called on Mr. Croucher, a shoemaker, in Shepherd's Market, who told me a parcel was left there for me, but what it was he knew not. I opened it, and, behold! there was a pair of leather breeches, with a note in them; the substance of which was, to the best of my remembrance, as follows:

“SIR,- I have sent you a pair of breeches, and hope they will fit. I beg your acceptance of them, and if they want any alteration leave in a "note what the alteration is, and I will call in a few days and alter them.

"J. S."

I tried them on, and they fitted me as well as if I had been measured for them, at which I was amazed, having never been measured by any leather-breeches'-maker in London. I wrote an answer to the note to this effect :

"SIR;-I received your present, and thank you for it. I was going to "order a pair of leather-breeches to be made, because I did not know till "now that my master had ordered them of you. They fit very well, which “fully convinces me that the same God who moved thy heart to give, "guided thy hand to cut; because he perfectly knows my size, having "clothed me in a miraculous manner for near five years. When you are "in trouble, Sir, I hope you will tell my master of this, and what you have "done for me, and he will pay you with honour."

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This is as near as I am able to relate it, and I added, I cannot make out J. S.' unless I put J.' for Israelite indeed; and S.' for sincerity, because you did not sound a trumpet before you, as hypocrites do.'

His prayers seem always to have been successful; by the same

means he soon after obtained a new bed, a rug, a pair of new blankets, doe-skin gloves, and a horseman's coat. 'My wife,' says he, got gowns, hampers of bacon and cheese, hams, and, now and then, a guinea.' About this time he was found out as the father of the child by the tailor's daughter, and obliged to settle with the parish by paying thirty pounds. Thus paying a legal demand he could no longer evade, he found matters not to his liking, and accordingly left Thames Ditton for London, where his drawings on the Bank of Faith became still greater; so much so, that although in debt twenty pounds, he commenced building Providence Chapel. Timber he prayed for, and got from one; chairs for the vestry from another; a pulpit-cushion from a third; a splendid bible from a fourth; china from a fifth, &c. &c. Money was liberally lent and given the chapel sprung up like a mushroom, and when finished he was in arrears One Thousand Pounds! So that I had plenty of work for faith-if I could get plenty of faith to work.'

His congregation was not of the first order-he being too illiterate for them. Neither were they of the lowest-they would have been too poor for him; he, therefore, chose his ground and men well-among the surrounding shopkeeperswho were in easy circumstances.

Huntington found himself getting on in the world, and accordingly attacked the Clergy and Dissenters, which brought a host upon him, and it required all his attention to combat with them but the most formidable opponent was Rowland Hill, by whose interference he was excluded the Tabernacle at Greenwich. He is said to have taken up one of Huntington's books with a pair of tongs, to give to his servant to light the fire with.

A young woman, a convert of his, informs him she is going to marry with a man who is unconverted, he makes use of the following language:

"MY DAUGHTER IN THE FAITH,-I received your's, and read it with 'indignation. There are but two families in this world; the children of "God, and the children of the Devil. If a daughter of God marries a son "of Belial, she makes herself daughter-in-law to the Devil. You verily

"believe that he will be converted to God. Yes, a likely matter that God "will convert a man to satisfy your carnal desires! Where will not a "giddy woman run when her wantonness is kindled, and she is left to kick "against Christ! God compares such as you, who have waxed wanton, tó 66 a wild ass braying after her male. He goes with you to hear the gospel, "' and approves of it! No doubt of that; and he will appear to get a deal "of comfort from it too, while your carcase is perched at his right hand."

(To be continued.)

BLACOW THE BRUTE.

A would-be-Joseph; and a Political Lying Hypocrite; the Liverpool Slanderer of a Martyr'd Queen; Curate of St. Mark's, and also of West Derby, near Liverpool.

"And Nathan said unto David, thou art the man."

We are very adverse to mingling any thing of a political nature in these lives of infamous men, but unfortunately for the church many of its members are addicted to the state-we mean the good things that the state can bestow, and to obtain which they make the pulpit, wherein God's holy word and commandments ought only to be enforced, a forum of political animosity-a vestibule from which they declaim upon the worldly interests of man, and throw from their lying lips a consuming flame, which devours all within reach of its pestilential

vapour.

The licentious qualifications of these political parsons are great; they propagate their opinions from a place where they are secure from interruption or insult, and like the Yahoos of Dean Swift, protected by infamy, they rest at ease upon a dirty eminence, and squirt their filth on all around them.

Parson Blacow; ah! who has not heard of Parson Blacow? the vilifier of an injured and persecuted Queen: it will be well recollected that he pronounced an anathema against our late

Queen from the pulpit of St. Mark's, Liverpool; he had his motives in this, no doubt; he was toiling in the field of promotion: I am the true vine, and my father is the husbandman,’ said the Lord of Life and Light, the giver of all good, whose chief merciful failing (if he had a failing) was tenderness to a woman; witness the wretch caught in adultery, whom he forgave, on condition that she sinned no more. Parson Blacow preached such political doctrines, that he might have said I am the vine of hell, and Satan is the husbandman; to rear me in vice, to raise me up superior to all in the vineyard, and blight every lovely flower around, by the falling of my pestilential dews.' At a moment, when the Queen of England was upon her trial for life and death; and reputation, dearer than every thing, but the hopes of eternal life; at that moment, when all the malignant power of the government, and all the duplicity of its infernal agents were let loose against a friendless woman, who had almost to contend alone against this combined hostWhen the axe that severed the neck of Anna Boleyn was whetting in the Tower, to be glutted with the gore of another innocent victim, and planks for the scaffold were preparing for the horrid spectacle of innocence, suffering the death of a malefactor; yes, at that moment, when even Satan himself would have dropt his spear in mercy, did Parson Blacow mount in the pulpit of terror, clad in white vestments that covered a corrupt and blackened heart, and denounce in eloquent language the fate and fortunes of her, who is now beyond the reach of his calumny, and unmoved by all a wicked world can say. Yes, I rejoice to say it, she sleeps that sleep which no malignant political preaching villain can ever break. She rests in peace, where Parson Blacow, either in or out of the body,' will never be seen.

Slander cannot reach the tomb,

Malice dare not there invade ;

Scorn revolts from death's dark gloom,

And calumny ceases to upbraid.

The maledictions of Parson Blacow recoiled upon his own

head; he was not credited-his hearers in the church, and those to corrupt whom he printed his Killing no Murder,' or his Proclamation for the Destruction of Virtue; believed not in his truth; as a liar he became universally abhorred and despised. The defenders of the Queen's innocence in her life did not forget her when dead, they very properly reflected that her fair fame, as a national example, was precious, and they determined to advocate it, even without hope of reward; for she was gone who could reward them. No fee was marked upon the brief held by a Brougham or Denman upon this occasion; the brief was a dear recollection of their beloved mistress. The fee, that conscientious feeling which the good man prizes above rubies; far be it from us to praise where it is not due, but in this case we pass over ten thousand blemishes in the character of these eminent men, as concerns our lamented Queen, and give them just credit for being her voluntary defenders, when the grave held out to them no hopes of preferment, and the smile of its slumbering tenant was lost upon the blanched, cheek of eternal rest.

These men dragged Parson Blacow, as a libeller of the dead, before a public tribunal of justice; the vengeance of their indignant eloquence fell upon him, as that of Demosthenes upon Philip of Macedon, and did that which force of arms could not do. It drove him from his strong holds-from the sinuosities of the church; it wrenched his hands from the horns of the altar-it spurned him from the portal gates of the temple of God, and consigned him to herd with FILTHY DUNGEON VIL

LAINS.

His confinement, we lament to say, was limited to six months, a poor and fragile punishment for so hideous an offence as his; he pronounced an innocent person guilty, and prejudged her case upon which the legislature was deliberating; he called her an adulteress, of which he had no proof, and he invoked the wrath of heaven upon her unprotected head.

Fortunately our faith tells us that the prayers of the wicked are not heard-fortunately our faith tells us that they recoil upon the blasphemer's head. The stream of burning lava that