he addressed his discourse particularly to them: "Some of them seemed to attend, while others drove away with their coach es from so uncouth a preacher."-Vol. I. p. 133.

Whitefield was at this time twentyfive years of age. Wesley was thirty-six. Some account of the peculiar manner of preaching, by which such new and wonderful effects were produced, will probably gratify those of our readers who have not access to the volumes before us. Whitefield's person, and manner, and genius, are thus described by Southey.

"The man who produced this extraordinary effect had many natural advantages. He was something above the middle stature, well proportioned, though at that time slender, and remarkable for a native gracefulness of manner. His complexion was very fair, his features regular, his eyes small and lively, of a dark blue colour: in recovering from the measles he had contracted a squint with one of them; but this peculiarity rather rendered the expression of his countenance more rememberable, than in any degree lessened the effect of its uncommon sweetness. His voice excelled both in melody and compass, and its fine modulations were happily accompanied by that grace of action which he possessed in an eminent degree, and which has been said to be the chief requisite of an orator. An ignorant man described his eloquence oddly but strikingly, when he said, that Mr. Whitefield preached like a lion. So strange a comparison conveyed no unapt a notion of the force and vehemence and passion of that oratory which awed the hearers, and made them tremble like Felix before the apostle. For believing himself to be the messenger of God, commissioned to call sinners to repentance, he spoke as one conscious of his high credentials, with authority and power; yet in all his discourses there was a fervent and melting charity, an earnestness of persuasion, an outpouring of redundant love, partaking the virtue of that faith from which it flowed, inasmuch as it seemed to enter the heart which it pierced, and to heal it as with balm.”. Vol. I. pp. 79, 80.

"The theatrical talent which he displayed in boyhood, manifested itself strongly in his oratory. When he was about to preach, whether it was from a pulpit, or a table in the streets, or a rising ground, he appeared with a solemnity of manner, and an anxious expression of countenance, that seemed to show how deeply he was

possessed with a sense of the importance of what he was about to say. His elocution was perfect. They who heard him most frequently could not remember that he ever stumbled at a word, or hesitated for want of one. He never faultered, unless when the feeling to which he had wrought himself overcame him, and then his speech was interrupted by a flow of tears. Sometimes he would appear to lose all self-command, and weep exceedingly, and stamp loudly and passionately; and sometimes the emotion of his mind exhausted him, and the beholders felt a momentary apprehension even for his life. And, indeed, it is said, that the effect of this vehemence upon his bodily frame was tremendous; that he usually vomited after he had preached, and sometimes discharged in this manner, a considerable quantity of blood. But this was when the effort was over, and nature was left at leisure to relieve herself. While he was on duty, he controlled all sense of infirmity or pain, and made his advantage of the passion to which he had given way. You blame me for weeping,' he would say, 'but how can I help it, when you will not weep for yourselves, though your immortal souls are upon the verge of destruction, and, for aught I know, you are hearing your last sermon, and may never more have an opportunity to have Christ offered to you.' Vol. II. pp. 107, 108.

"Whitefield indulged in an histrionic manner of preaching which would have been offensive, if it had not been rendered admirable by his natural gracefulness aud inimitable power."

"Perfect as it was, histrionism like this would have produced no lasting effect upon the mind, had it not been for the unaffected earnestness and the indubitable sincerity of the preacher, which equally characteri zed his manner, whether he rose to the height of passion in his discourse, or won the attention of the motley crowd by the introduction of familiar stories, and illystrations adapted to the meanest capacity." Vol. II. p. 108.

"Hume pronounced him the most ingenious preacher he had ever heard; and said, it was worth while to go twenty miles to hear him."-Vol. II. p. 109.

We were surprised to find so little in Southey's work descriptive of the personal appearance and manner of his hero; especially when he is so full in the description of Whitefield. It appears incidentally that Wesley

was small in his person, and of a most conciliating, winning aspect and address. It appears from a note (p. 27,) of the life of Whitefield that

"The Rev. John Wesley was of the inferior size, his visage marked with intelligence, singularly neat and plain in his dress, a little cast in his eye, observable on particular occasions; upright, graceful, and remarkably active. His understanding, naturally excellent and acute, was highly stored with the attainments of literature and he possessed a fund of anecdote and history, that rendered his company as entertaining as instructive. His mode of address in public was chaste and solemn, though not illuminated with those coruscations of eloquence which marked, if I may use that expression, the discourses of his rival George Whitefield; but there was a divine sim. plicity, a zeal, a venerableness in his manner, which commanded attention, and never forsook him in his latest years; when at four score he retained still all the liveliness of vigorous old age.”—p. 27.

John Nelson, and his converts, who in great distress of mind had heard Whitefield but had not received relief, thus describes Wesley's first preaching in Moorfields.

"Oh!" says he, "that was a blesssd morning for my soul! As soon as he got upon the stand, he stroked back his hair and turned his face towards where I stood, and I thought he fixed his eyes on me. His countenance struck such an awful dread upon me before I heard him speak, that it made my heart beat like the pendulum of a clock; and when he did speak, I thought his whole discourse was aimed at me." Nelson might well think thus, for it was a peculiar characteristic of Wesley in his discourses, that in winding up his sermons,-in pointing his exhortations and driving them home, he spoke as if he were addressing himself to an individual,

so that every one to whom the condition which he described was applicable, felt er's words were then like the eyes of a as if he were singled out; and the preachportrait, which seem to look at every beholder. "Who," said the preacher, "Who art thou, that now seest and feelest both thine inward and outward ungodliness? Thou art the man! I want thee for my Lord, I challenge thee for a child of God by faith. The Lord hath need of thee. Thou who feelest thou art just fit for hell,art just fit to advance his glory,-the glory of his free grace, justifying the ungodly and him that worketh not. O come quickly! Believe in the Lord Jesus: and thou, even thou, art reconciled to God." And again,"Thou ungodly one, who hearest or readerable sinner, I charge thee before God, est these words, thou vile, helpless, misthe Judge of all, go straight unto him, with all thy ungodliness! Take heed thou destroy not thine own soul by pleading thy righteousness more or less. Go as altogether ungodly, guilty, lost, destroyed, deserving, and dropping into hell; and thou shalt then find favour in His sight, and know that He justifieth the ungodly. As such thou shalt be brought unto the blood of sprinkling, as an undone, helpless, damned sinner. Thus look unto Jesus! There is the lamb of God, who works, no righteousness of thine own! No taketh away thy sins! Plead thou no humility, no contrition, sincerity! In no wise! That were in very deed to deny the Lord that bought thee. No. Plead thou singly, the blood of the covenant, the ransom paid for thy proud, stubborn, sinful soul."-Vol. I. p. 195.

Col. Trumbull, of New-York, has presented to Yale College, a portrait of his father, the Senior Governor Trumbull, of Connecticut. The picture was taken by his son, when Governor Trumbull was at the age of 72, just at the close of the revolutionary struggle, . Vol. 3.-No. IX.

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and when he was voluntarily retiring from office and public employment.

The annual commencement of Yale College was held in this city, on the 12th instant.--Exercises.-Salutatory Oration in Latin, by David Greene,

Stoneham, Mass.-Oration " on the conduct of our ancestors towards the Aborigines of this country :" by Frederick W. Lord, Lyme, Con. Oration "on the distinction between classical and romantic poetry: by Joseph Stansbury, New-York.-Dissertation "on embracing too wide a compass of knowledge:" by Asa Child, Woodstock Con.--Oration "on employment as the means of happiness:" by Eli Smith, Northford, Con.-Dispute "on the propriety of a union among the nations of Europe, for the subversion of the Turkish Empire:" by Nathaniel Bouton, Norwalk, Con.; and Samuel Hooker Cowles, Farmington, Con.— Colloquy "on the usefulness of Missionary exertions:" by Frederick W. Lord, Lyme, Con.; and George E. Adams, Bangor, Maine.-Dispute " on the influence of philosophical criticism" by Lemuel Whittlesey Belden, Wethersfield, Con; and John Adams, Andover, Mass.--Dissertation " on the influence of great scenes and objects on the character:" by John Smith, Wethersfield, Con.-Oration "on the scepticism of men of acute sensibility:" by Josiah Brewer, Tyrington, Mass.Dialogue, by Edward Rockwell, Winchester, Con.-Oration in Greek, by Oliver A. Shaw, Boston, Mass.-Oration" on the neglect of the principle of association in early life:" by John Mitchell, Saybrook, Con-Dissertation" on the influence of virutous principles on the pleasures of taste:" by Charles Atwood, Haverhill, Mass.Colloquy," on the comparative dignity of eloquence and poetry :" by Oliver A. Shaw, Boston, Mass.; and John Richards, Farmington, Con.-Oration "on the present as a state of moral discipline." with the Valedictory Address, by Henry White, New-Haven, Con.

The degree of A. B. was conferred on the following gentlemen, Alumni of the College.

George E. Adams, John Adams, Augustus A. Adee, A. Leopold Alexander, Charles R.Alsop, James Anderson, Charles Atwood, Dwight Baldwin, David W. Barton, Lemuel W. Belden, Alanson Benedict, William W. Billings, Nathaniel Blanchard, Nathaniel Bouton, John Boyd, Joseph H. Bradley, Josiah Brewer, Waldo Brown, Henry D. Bulkley, William Case, Paine W. Chase, Simeon Chase, Asa Child, Peter F. Clark, Thomas W. Coit, George

Cowles, Samuel H. Cowles, George F. Davenport, Lucius C. Duncan, Oran Eastman, Isaac Esty, Roswell Goodwin, Joseph Goodrich, John Goulding, David Green, Flavel Griswold, John A. Hempsted, Theodore Hinsdale, Enoch Huntington, Albert Judson, Asa H. King, Rodolphus Landfear, William Lester, Thomas P.Little, Frederick W. Lord, Erastus Maltby, William B. McCullough, John Mitchell, Isaac Peck, Henry B. Porter, Sanford J. Ranney, John Richards, Loren G. Robins, Charles Robinson, Edward Rockwell, Israel G. Rose, Oliver A. Shaw, Eli Smith, John Smith, Horatio N. Spencer, Joseph Stansbury, Edward A. Strong, Edwin B. Taintor, John A. Taintor, Alfred Terry, Edmund B. Vass, Henry White, Lewis P. Williamson.-67.

And on the following gentlemen:

Timothy J. Fox Alden, Alleghany College, Robert W. Alden, do. Williaca E. Whitman, Middlebury College, Nathaniel L. Hooper, Harvard Col lege, Horatio Sessions, Hamilton College.

The degree of A. M. was conferred on the following gentlemen, alumni of the College :

Henry Clary, George Spalding, Eleazer Brainard,Samuel Griswold, David Kimball, Wm. Mitchell, Thomas L. Shipman, Edward Turner, Henry B. Titus, James S. Huggins, Alexis Painter, Horace Smith, Joseph Hurlbut. Richard L. Nott, Randolph Stone, Roswell Stone, John W. Weed, Samuel Burrows, Thomas C. Perkins, Samuel H. Huntington, Leonard Withington, Wm. L. Clark, William H. Foote, Charles H. Olmsted, Alfred Chester, Lewis Weld, Isaac Orr, Warham Crooks, William Hodges, Martin Snell, Samuel Spring, Doct. Ansel Ives, Rev. Peter G. Clark.-33.

The degree of M. D. was conferred on the following gentlemen of the Medical Institution, viz.

Willoughby L. Lay, (1816) Alanson Abbe, Eldad Alexander, Charles Byington, Joseph Chadwick, Friend Cook, Erastus Curtis, Levi Dickinson, Lewis French, Horatio A. Hamilton, Joseph Peabody, Alfred C. Thompson, Richard Warner, Silas James.

The degree of D. D. was conferred on the Rev. David Dickson, of Edinburgh, Scotland.

At the annual commencement at

Harvard University, the degree of Bachelor of Arts was conferred on fifty nine young gentlemen graduates and the degree of Master of Arts on fortyeight gentlemen in course, and three out of course. The honorary degree of LL. D. was conferred on Ambrose Spencer, chief justice of New-York: Charles Jackson, of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, and Joseph Story, of the U. S. Supreme Court. The degree of D. D. was conferred on Rev. William Allen, President of Bowdoin College, and Rev. Abel Abbott of Beverly.

At the commencement at Middlebury College, Aug. 8th, twenty-three persons were admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and four to that of Master of Arts. The honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on the Hon. Zephaniah Swift, of Connecticut.

The commencement at Hamilton College, was held on the 23d of Aug. The degree of Bachelor of Arts was conferred on eighteen, and that of Master of Arts on three persons. The degree of D. D. was conferred on the Rev. James Carnaham, of Georgetown, Col., and that of LL. D. on the Hon. John C. Calhoun, Sect'y of War.

At Burlington College, Vermont, on the 18th of August, the degree of Bachelor of Arts was conferred on five persons, and that of Master of Arts on two.

The commencement at Bowdoin College was held on the 5th instant. Twenty-one persons were admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Arts. The honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on Hon. William Wirt, Attorney General of the United States, and His Excellency Samuel Bell, Governor of N. Hampshire; and that of Doctor in Divinity on Rev. Ichabod Nichols, and Rev. Edward Payson, of

Portland.

CUBA.

The island of Cuba is 390 common

leagues in length, and from 14 to 64 in breadth.

It contains only 620,980 inhabitants, of these 325,268 are slaves, 115,691 free people of colour, and only 290,021 whites.

Its wealth arising from Agriculture and Manufactures, consist in sugar, coffee, and tobacco plantations, pasture grounds, gardens, bee-hives, 38 distilleries of rum, 9 tan yards, 100 brickkilns and 3 foundries.

The produce exported in five years, from 1815 to 1819, amounted to 1,081, 794 boxes of sugar of 16 arrobes each; 1,420,174 arrobes of coffee, 111,468 of wax, 10,909 pipes of rum, 141,265 hogsheads of honey, and raw and undressed hides to the value of these products during those five years being 81,244,808 dollars.

The above mentioned produce was exported within the said term in 11,679 vessels from the port of the Havana, of these 2137 were under the Spanish flag, and 9542 under foreign flags.

The above exports yieided the state within that period 18,284,797 dollars, being annually, from the Havana, abve S,656,929 dollars, and 3 reals of plate-and by an exact calculation made from reports in the possession of the government it may be shewn, that the same duties in the ports of Matanzas and Quatrovillas, the proceeds of the lottery and tythes, would increase that sum in the district of Havana alone to 5 millions annually.

In five years the consumption of Havana is estimated at 24,445,150 dollars. The district of the Havana alone con tains 779 large coffee plantations. The most wholly to the cultivation of sugar attention of the planters is turned aland coffee, although the soil is better adapted to tobacco than any other in America. The island has not the 12th part of the population of which it is capable, nor of which it actually stands in need. Half the population is black, and about one third slaves. Phil. Gaz.

THEOLOGY.

A plea for the Theological Seminary at Princeton, N. J. By Philip Lindsley. Second Edition.-Trenton.

God's Ways, not as our Ways. A Sermon, occasioned by the Death of the Rev. Samuel Worcester, D. D. Senior Pastor of the Tabernacle

Church in Salem, Mass. By Elias Cornelius, A. M. Surviving Pastor. Salem.

A Sermon on the Death of the Rev. Samuel Worcester, D. D. By the Rev. Professor Woods of Andover.

Damnable Heresies defined and described, in a Sermon preached in North Wilbraham, June 15, 1808, at the ordination of the Rev. Thaddeus Osgood, to the office and work of an Evangelist. By Joseph Lathrop, D. D. Pastor of the first Church in WestSpringfield.-Brookfield, 1821.

Sermons by the late Rev. Joseph Lathrop, D. Ď. New Series. With a Memoir of the Author, written by himself.

Poems, Moral and Religious, for children and youth; by the Father of a Family, 18mo. Greenfleld, Mass.

A Reply to the Review of Dr. Wyatt's Sermon, and Mr. Spark's Letters on the Protestant Episcopa! Church, which originally appeared in the Christian Disciple at Boston, and subsequently in a separate form at Baltimore; in which it is attempted to vin

dicate the Church from the charges of that review by a Protestant Episcopaljan.

MISCELLANEOUS.

A New Universal Gazetteer, or Geographical Dictionary, containing a description of the various countries, provinces, cities, towns, seas, lakes, rivers, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world, with an Appendix, containing an account of monies, weights, measures, &c. &c. By Jedidiah Morse, D. D. A. A. S. S. H. S. and Richard C. Morse, A. M. Third Edition, revised and corrected. 8vo. New-Ha

ven.

Miscellanies. By the Author of Letters on the Eastern States.

Elements of Orthography, in Four Parts. By Israel Alger, jun. 18mo. Boston.

An Etymological Dictionary, or Analysis of the English Language. By William Grimshaw 12mo. Philadelphia.

Judith, Esther, and other Poems. 18mo. Boston.

The Missionaries who have been employed by your directors, the past year, are the Rev. Messrs. ROYAL TYLER, CYRUS W. GREY, JOSEPH KNIGHT, NATHANIEL FREEMAN, RoyAL C. ROBBINS, and STEPHEN W. BURRITT.

Four of these have laboured in the service of the Society among the people over whom they are settled in the ministry. By this means, these several churches and congregations have enjoyed the stated use and administration of the institutions and ordinances of the gospel, throughout the whole of the year. Without the continuance of this aid, they must, in all probability,

have been deprived of these privile

ges.

The Directors have laboured to effect the permanent settlement of their viction that this is the most useful apMissionaries, from the increasing conpropriation of their funds; as it contributes directly to accomplish the object. for which the Society was institutedby diminishing the number of waste places, and rendering those once barren in a measure fruitful.

The fact, that no more occasiona! aid has been afforded the past year by itinerant Missionaries, has arisen, not from the low estimate formed of the importance of such labours, but from the want of means to defray the necessary expense. Numerous, urgent, and repeated applications have been made to the Board, by churches and societies in circumstances truly necessitous and affecting; and well qualified Missionaries might have been obtained to labour among them; but our reduced resourees, to our grief and disappointment