1824.] 
with Devonshire, Wales, or the North 
of England. You cannot procure 
two decent apartments, in an eligible 
part of Paris, under fifty francs per 
month; it is usual io give the porter 
ten francs; and, if you. breakfast in 
your own apartment, it will, cost you 
14 frane more. A tolerable dinner 
amounts to three francs. From_ this 
statement of facts, subaitern officers 
may. ‘learn, that travelling for economy 
is a wild-goose chase. The persons 
who derive pecuniary benefit from the 
change of country, are such as drink 
their’ wine, have beavy rates and taxes 
to pay, large establishments to support, 
apd children to educate. Such persons 
possessing no. share in the representa- 
tion at home, are justified in their 
TenOY# to a soil less burthened with 
tythes and taxes. 
A Novel Method of Interpretation. 
_1_was one day dining at an eminent 
restaurateur’s, where "1 observed a 
Cockney-looking gentleman regarding 
a plate of roast duck at an opposite 
table, w ith an eagerness which evinced 
a strong desire to partake of the same 
fare. . After having contemplated the 
delicious morsel, he scized hold of a 
waiter’s arm, and ineffectually endea- 
voured to make him comprehend the 
cravings of his appetite, by pointing to 
the quickly-vanishing wing; finding his 
efforts unsaccessful, he bawled ‘out, 
equally to the astonishment and omaker 
ment of the guests,—‘* Apportez-moi! 
and then ‘imitated to perfection the 
quacking of a duck; and, as animals 
were not included in the curse of 
Babel, he succeeded in obtaining the 
object of his desires. 
<a 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
STR, 
USING upon this day,— the 
anniversary of the landing of 
William at Torbay in 1688, by which 
the rights and liberties of the British 
subject were secured,—I could not 
help feeling grateful that the family of 
the Stuarts were never suffered to 
return for the destruction of them. 
Neither the rebellion of 1715, nor of 
1745, succeeded. In the suppression 
of these memorable insurrections, our 
dissenting forefathers took an active 
part; and the Brunswick family were 
sensible of their merit on these occa- 
sions. Job Orton, in his ‘ Life of 
Doddridge,” mentions this good man 
going about, in the year 1745, and 
enlisting young men out, of his own 
~ 
The Rev. J. Evans on-the Loyalty of Dissenters. 
503 
congregation. But the following cir- 
cumstance has recently come to my 
notice; it is found in the ‘‘ History of 
the Rebellion, 1715,” by the Rev. 
Peter Raz, a work not now much 
known, but marked by information 
and integrity. 
‘““We have it from several good 
hands, that, upon this. day’s march, 
(Nov. 12, .1715,) Mr. Wood and Mr, 
Walker, two dissenting ministers in 
Lancashire, came: to General Willis, 
while he was yet some miles from 
Preston, and told him they had a 
considerable party of men, well armed, 
for his Majesty’s service ; and that they 
were ready to take any part his 
excellency was pleased to assiga 
them. As soon as he knew who they 
were, and. had seen their men, he. told 
them that, after he was.come to. Pres- 
ton, he would: assign them a post. 
Accordingly, when he arrived. there, 
be made the necessary disposition for 
an attack, and sent back to tell them 
to keep the bridge over the: Ribble, to 
prevent the rebels escaping that way, 
or their friends coming from) that side 
to join them. This they) did with so 
much courage and bravery, that the 
general regretted afterwards that he 
had not assigned them a better post. 
However, we are told that, after the 
general went up to London, he was 
pleased: to notify: their good conduct 
on that oceasion to government, whe 
generously settled upon them, 100¢, 
per annum !” 
It is well known, Mr. Editor, that 
the rebels were surrounded in Preston, 
—and taken,-—so effectually, that it 
put a speedy end to the insurrection. 
Thus the Protestant dissenters, though 
not the blind and. indiscriminate ad- 
mirers of all the measures of goyvern- 
ment, have within them the sceds of 
genuine loyalty.. ‘This. numerous: and 
respectable body of religionists ean, on 
a proper emergency, rush forth, and, 
buckling. on their. armour, } aid the 
cause, as well as swell, the triumphs, 
of civil and religious Itberty... The 
militant zeal of these two. dissenting 
ministers entitle them to a niche in the 
Temple of 'ame,—their deeds should 
occupy a page in the history of their 
country. Their well-directed ardour 
in so good a cause,—when thousands 
of Catholics, and. even Churchmen, 
stood aloof,—ought, with every due 
encomium, to descend to posterity. 
Islington ; J. Eyans. 
Nov. 4, 1823, 
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