 FALLOCK. 
530 
er German branches of his family, it is 
incumbent upon me to prove that there 
are any fuch; and fortunately, the proof 
is concile and conclufive. 
That all-accomplithed hero, who is re- 
eorded in the Baronage as having per- 
formed prodigies of valour when not yet 
fifteen, has jul now raifed a regiment of 
fencible infantry, to be employed by his 
king againit the common enemies of Eu- 
rope. In that regiment are fome Ger- 
mans, fome Italians, acd many lrifn; and 
‘as one of the officers was lately cow- keeper 
to the minifier of Balquhidder, about 60 
or 70 miles weft from this; another, a 
tailor, in the village of Callendar, where 
his father ftull tellows the {ame bufinefs, 
and keeps a dram-fbep; and a third, a 
’ gauger; it is hardly conceivable that thefe 
foreismicis, efpecially the Germans, would 
ebey fuch officers, were they not convineed 
that they have all fprung from the fame 
royal tiem. It may, indeed, appear fur- 
arifing to fome of your readers, that the 
chiefs of fo illuftrious a family fhould have 
telegted fuch men for commands) in their 
reyiment: but let it be remembered, that 
the -blocd of Prince GREGOR, circulating 
. %p his veins, is more than fufficient to en- 
noble the meaneit tailor or herd{man on 
earth. There was policy too in making 
eliicers of cow-keepers, gaugers, and tar- 
éors. The French armies have been in- 
vincible under their low-born generals ; 
and what muft be the prowefs of the Royal 
Clag- Alpines (for that is the name of the 
regiment), when they unite in their officers 
the advantages both of low andhigh birth? 
Theexploits of this wonderiulregiment, | 
¥ have no doubt, will evince the wifdom 
ef that legiilature which lately reftored the 
mame of Mac GreGcor; and I do not 
defpair of living to fee its heroic com- 
mander fitting in the Houfe ot Peers by 
the ftyle and titie of Duke oF GLEN- 
By inferting this fupplement 
to the hifory of the illutrious boule in 
your next number, you will much oblige 
2ll the Mae Gregors, as well as an ally of 
the family, whois | i 
Your confiant Read 
hg ig ; GREGOR Mac Nas, 
19, South-bridge-ftreet, Ed:nburgk, 
><. May the 22d, 1799. ; 
¢ ea 4 ; 
"To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
WRSPRS 
. OCTOR: PALEY, in this. Moral 
Ly and Political Philofopby, book iii. 
part 2. ghap. 3. has this remark: 
‘* Slavery was-a part of the civil con- 
Ritution, of moit countries, when. chrijiia- 
wity appeared; yet no paflage is to be 
er and Admirer, 
By. Wakefield ogainft the Slave Trade. 
f Auguft, 
found in the Chrifian Scriptures by which 
it is condemned or prohibited.” © 
And in a late debate omthe Slave Trade, 
July 5, the Bifhop of Rocheffer is reported 
as declaring ‘this trafhe to be agamft the 
fpivit indeed, but not againtt the /etter of 
the Chrifitan religion.” 
Both thefe gentlemen, highly and jufily 
diftinguifned as they ave for genius and 
learning, I make no hefitation of pros 
nouncing, are egrecioufly miftaken on this 
‘point ;.and I appeal to the follawing paf- 
lage of Paul's fx? epiftle te Timothy, 
chap. i. ver. 7—12. which I thus tranf. 
late fully and exaétly. in behalf of my af= 
fertion : 
<¢ Now we know that the how is goods 
if any one ule it agreeably to its dehign; 
under this perfuaiion, that no bew lies 
againft a righteous man, but againft vie- 
lators of law and jult fubjection, impious 
and finful men, unholy and profane, par= 
ricides and matricides, murderers, whore- 
mongers, fodomites, ENSLAVERS OF MAN- 
KIND, liars, perjurers, and whatever eife 
oppofes THE SOUND DOCTRINE, (viz. of 
Chriftianity); according to the glorious 
gofpel of the biefied God, which 1s com~ 
mitted to me.”” . 
The eriginal word is. avdpamrokerag, 
which primarily fignifies ‘¢ one whe binds 
_orenchains aman by the foot;’” and hence, 
fecondarily and generally, am enflaver of 
mez. Whe definitions of ancient lexico~ 
graphers and. {choliafts, conformable to 
this account, maybe feen in Weftein, 
A feparation from my books prevents, on 
my part, a more diftinét Hluitration of this 
expreffion now: but the cate is clear. 
Tam, Sir, your’s, G: WaKFFIELD, 
Dorchefier Gaol, Fuly 9) 1799s 
- ae ; 
For the Monthly: Magazine. | 
Defcription, Charatier, @c. of the OTA- 
HEITEANS, tranflated from ibe Letters of 
ComMERSON, a@ late French Navigator. 
r~\TAHEITE is the only country of 
O the earth inhabited by people with- 
cut vices, without prejudices, without 
wants, without diflenfions. Bern 
der the fine fkies, nourifhed by the fruits 
ofa land tertile without culture, ruled by 
fathers of families rather than by kimgs, 
they acknowledge no other god than Luve, 
A language very fonorous, very har- 
monicus, compolfed of about 4 or 5cq 
words, indeclinable, inconjugable,—that 
is to fay, without any fyntax,—{udices 
them ts render all their ideas, and te ex- 
prefs all their wants 5.a noble fimplicity, 
which, neither excluding the modification 
ot tones nor the pantomime of the pal- 
fions, 
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Levis 
