1a 
fore much preferable to any other ballast 
timt can be used fur sailing boats. 
Thwarts and gang board as usual; three 
masts and luyg sails, and twelve «short 
oars. 
In this state, this boat is much safer 
than any commen boat of the same di- 
mensions, will carry mere sail, and bear 
“more weather; but to make it completely 
unimmergible, empty casks of about 
twenty-two inches diameter were ranged 
along withinside the gunwales, lashed 
firmly to the beat, lying even with the 
tops of the gunwales, and resting upon 
brackets fastened to the tunlers for tiiat 
purpose; also two such casksin the head, 
gnd two in the stern, and all removable 
in a short time, if desired; there were 
aiso some empty casks placed under the 
gang-board; these woald be an addition 
to the boat’s buoyancy if empty, and an 
increase tu her bailast if full. 
Thus equipped, this boat was launched 
on the 19th of November, in a very 
squaliy day. About twenty men were 
launched in her, most of them pilots or 
seamen. They ran her immediately 
frum the beach across the Corton sand, 
inthe midst of the breakers, which would 
have been almost certain destruction to 
any common sailing boat, as that would 
have been filled and sunk immediately. 
They then turned to the southward along 
the top of the sand to itsend; when they 
tacked and stead to the northward, pulled 
up the plugs in her bottom, and let in as 
much water as would come in that way; 
the water rose very little above the 
thwarts. With all this water in it, the 
boat sailed better than without it. The 
plugs were now put in again, and water 
poured in -by buckets, until it ran over 
both gunwales; and in this state it was 
the opinion of those on board that she 
would have carried sixtymen without sink. 
ing, and toupset it is not possible. But 
it is Mr. Lukin’s opinion that. more 
than Atty men should not be taken in 
when the boat is full of water, and all her 
casks empty. 
‘Ic is part.cularly advisable that all life- 
boats should be built of the torm most 
approved by the pilois or seamen on the 
cuast wherg they are to be used; as.no 
gne form will snit all shores, and these 
principies of safety are applicable to every 
[orm 
Po the Editor of the Monihkly Magazing, 
SIR. 
ee me, through the medium of 
your respectable magazine, to correct 
& oiibtabe relative tu the late Dr. Camp. 
College, in Aberdeen. 
Vindication of the late Dr. Campbell ‘of Aberdeen. (Feb. 1; 
bell, principal of Marischal College, A- 
berdeen, which I was surprised to tind in 
Mr. Good’s Lite of Dr..Geddes.. In de- 
tailing the bigotted opposition, which a 
bill introduced by Sir George Saville into 
parliament 11 1778, ‘‘iitended to relieve 
his majesty’s subjects professing the Pu- 
pish religion from certain penalties and 
disabilities imposed upon them by an act 
made in the 1ith and 12th ef king Wil- 
liam” met with in Scotland, Dr. Good 
adds, “‘Paiphlets of the most vehement 
zeal, written in the north, were circulated 
with all possible industry throughout the 
south; and amongst these I am much a- 
stonished to find one by the late very a- 
miable and learned Dr. Campbell, who 
was at that time principal of Marischal 
It is entitled £A 
Vindication of the Opposition tothe late 
intended Bill for.the Relief of Roman Ca- 
tholics ‘in Scotland.”.. Now [have before 
mea pamphlet, published by Dr. Camp- 
bell at Aberdeen, in 1779, which breathes 
a spirit so totally the reverse of ‘what 15 
here attributed to him by Mr. Good, that 
L must think it impossible that one of an 
apposite tendency could have been pub- 
lished by: lim the year before. ‘The 
pamphlet I allude to, is entitled ‘An Ad- 
dress to the People of ‘Scotland upon the 
Alarms that have been raised in regard to 
Popery.” Its design is to recommend a 
spirit. of toleration as the real spirit of 
Christianity; and the same candour and 
liberality are conspicuousin this perform- 
ance, which, Mr. Good allows, appear 
in bis latter works. As it opposed the 
reigning prejudices, it procured him great 
obluquy from the common people, who on 
this account styled him Pepe Campbell, 
The author of the pamphlet, which Dr. 
Good has seen, cannot therefore, I think, 
be Dr. Campbell, but he must have 
been deceived by a similarity of name or 
something of that kind. This will he 
more apparent by afew extracts from the 
pamphlet: in my possession, which will 
evince the candid, eylightened, and 
Chirisiianprinciples which filled the mind 
of its auther, It. is divided ato three _ 
chapters—the first explains. the doctrine. 
of the gospel im regard to persecution 
aud -persecutors. From this chapter I 
extract the foHowing passage: after have 
ing exhibited trom the New ‘Testament 
the unresisting ¢enduct pursued by the 
aposiles in the propagation of Christianity 
in obedience to the commands, and in 
wmitation of the example of their amiable 
imasier, he argues thus: ‘Is it not most 
naturaito think that a cause will be best 
supported by the same means, by eso 
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