to do away all serious impressions, and to restore some kind of gaiety amongst them, advanced towards him, and said, "My good prophet, you have been so kind as to tell us all our fortunes, but you have not mentioned any thing respecting your own. After a few moments silence, with his eyes fixed on the ground," Madam," he replied, "have you read the siege of Jerusalem as related by Josephus ?" "To be sure I have, and who has not? But you may suppose, if you please, that I know nothing about it." "Then you must know, Madam, that during the siege of Jerusalem, a man, for seven successive days, went round the ramparts of that city, in the sight of the besiegers and besieged, crying incessantly, in a loud and inauspicious voice, Woe to Jerusalem!' and on the seventh day he cried, Woe to Jerusalem, and to myself!' At that very moment, an enormous stone thrown by the machines of the enemy, dashed him in pieces."

M. Cazotte then made his bow and retired.

Thus far M. de la Harpe: those who recollect the melancholy exit of all the characters above mentioned, during the reign of Terror in France, must be astonished at the exact fulfilment of this remarkable prediction, so unlikely to be accomplished at the time it was uttered. That M. de la Harpe was capable of imposing falsehood on the world, in the last moments of his life, will, I believe, be suspected by few, and I have never heard the authenticity of the Note called in question.

THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD.

An account of the wonderful deliverance of a sailor from the jaws of a tyger and an alligator in the river Congo.

SOME time after my arrival at the British factory, Cape Casta, on board the Davenport Guineaman, I was sent for by the commodore, who was stationed in the Diana frigate to protect the trade of the place before mentioned, and appointed by him to command a sloop, employed on the service of conveying slaves, teeth, gums, and other merchandize, from the company's factories, situated several hundred miles up the river Congo, down to the principal depot at the Cape. The sloop carried six swivels, and was manned with nine negroes, and two north countrymen, named Johnson and Campbell, the former of whom was my mate.

vour him. At this awful moment Campbell was preserved. The eager tyger, by overleaping him, encountered the gripe of the amphibious monster. A conflict ensued between them-the water was covered with the blood of the tyger, whose efforts to tear the scaly covering of the alligator were unavailing ; while the latter had also the advantage of keeping his adversary under water, by which the victory was presently obtained, for the tyger's death was now effected. They both sank to the bottom, and we saw no more of the alligator. Campbell was recovered, and instantly conveyed on board; he spoke not while in the boat, though his danger had perfectly sobered him, and what is more singular, from that moment to the time I am writing, he has never been seen the least intoxicated, nor has he been heard to utter a single oath. If ever there was a perfectly reformed being in the univere, Campbell is the man.”

GOD'S PROVIDENCE ASSERTED.

An extraordinary instance of the goodness of divine Providence to Mr. DAVID ANDERSON, Minister at Walton upon Thames, ejected by the Bartholomew act, 1662.

THIS good man, soon after his ejectment, crossed the seas, ⚫ went into Zealand, and settled at Middleburgh, with his wife and five small children. Having no employment, he soon consumed the little money he had carried over with him; owed a year's rent for his house, and was reduced so as to want bread: yet such was his modesty, that he knew not how to make his case known in a strange country. In this condition, after he had been one morning at prayer with his family, his children desired some bread for their breakfast: but having none, nor money to buy any, they all burst into tears. In this case, the bell at the door rung; and Mrs Anderson went, in a mean habit, to see who was there. The person that rung the bell, asked for the mistress; she answered, that her name was Anderson. Here, says he, a gentleman has sent you this paper, and will send you some provisions presently. When they had opened the paper, they found forty pieces of gold in it. The messenger went away, without telling his name, or whence he came. Soon after came a countryman with a horse load of flesh, fish, herbs, and bread, yea, and of all things necessary. Neither did he tell them from whence they came; nor did they know to their dying day who it was. But Mr. John Quick (from whose memoirs this account is taken) being, in 1691. Pastor of the English church at

WONDERFUL VISIONS,

On the manifestation of the Son of God before his incarnation.

BY THE REV. JOHN FLETCHER.

WHEN I told you, that, in all ages, JEHOVAH JESUS, manifests himself in a peculiar manner to his people, you exclaimed against the assertion as altogether new and unscriptural. It lies upon me therefore to prove, that antiquity and scripture are on my side. I shall in this letter appeal to the manifestations recorded in the Old Testament. You cannot expect all the revelations of any child of God, much less those of every one, to be mentioned in so short a history as that of the Bible. Nevertheless, enough is said on the point to convince us, that in every age of the Church, God hath favored the children of men with peculiar displays of his presence.

Did not the Lord familiarly converse with Adam before the fall, both when he presented him with a partner, and when he brought every beast of the field before him, to see what he would call them? Did he not visit him after the fall, to pronounce his sentence, and to promise, that he would become the woman's seed, and bruise the serpent's head? Was not this manifestation granted to Abel, when the Lord had respect to his sacrifice; the very cause of Cain's envy, wrath and murder? Did not Enoch's walking with God, imply a constant union and communion with Emmanuel? And how could this union have taken place, if the Lord had not first revealed himself to the Patriarch? Must not two persons meet and agree, before they can walk and converse together?

Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord, and, in consequence of it, was made acquainted with his righteous designs, and received directions how to escape from a perishing world. The history of Abraham is full of such manifestations. In one of them, the Lord called him out of his sins, and from his kindred, to go both to the heavenly and earthly Canaan. In others he promised him Isaac, and Isaac's mysterious seed. Several years after for the trial of his faith, he commanded him to sacrifice that favourite son; and when the trial was over, he testified his approbation of Abraham's conduct. Read Gen. xviii. and you will see, how the divine philanthropy, or the love of God towards man appeared, in condescending to clothe himself, before hand, with the nature he was to assume in the virgin's womb, and to converse in this undress with the father of the faithful, as a prince with his favorite, or a friend with his confident.

Sarah and Agar, Isaac and Rebekah, had their divine manifestations but those of Jacob deserve our particular attention. When he fled to Syria from the face of his brother Esau, and