amiable and enlightened African, from whofe labours extenfive good might have been expected. But before we proceed to make a few reflections on his ftory; it will be well to notice two memorandums which were found in his pocketbook after his death, and which ferve to confirm what has been already faid of the tendernefs of his confcience, and the purity of his manners. This first was written in confequence of his falling into fome company where profane and obfcene converfation had paffed, and was as follows: "I fhall take care of this company, which I now fall into, for they fware a good deal, and talked all manner of wickednefs and filthy. All these things---can I be able to refift that temptation? No, I cannot, but the Lord will deliver me." The other was written after he had been fome time at fea, and had made fome unavailing remonftrances to the Captain on the profaneness of his crew; and in it, he declared, that "if the crews of other veffels fhould be like the crew of the Naimbanna, he fhould never think of coming to England, though he had friends, there as dear to him as the laft words of his father." May we not conclude, from the above ftory, that God has given to the most rude and favage people, minds capable of knowing, loving, and ferving him? and may we not learn hence, to cherish fentiments of kindnefs and affection towards all men, whatever be their colour, or however low they may ftand in the fcale of human beings? Thofe, efpecially, who know how to estimate the bleflings of religion, and who have a regard for the ev erlafting happiness of their fellowcreatures, will be encouraged by it, to promote, with zeal, every plan which tends to introduce Chriftianity among the savage nations of the earth, or to remove the hindrances to its introduction, Happy, if through their inftrumentality, thofe who now fit in darknefs, fhould be brought, like Naimbanna, to know God and themselves, and to rejoice in hope of his glory. Let us alfo learn from this story, that God's ways are not as our ways. Short-fighted as we are, we were ready to conclude, that this young man had been sent by Heaven to be a blessing to Africa, and to spread the Chriftian religion among his own countrymen. But God, who fees and knows all things, determined otherwise. He faw it right to take Naimbanną from the evil to come; thus difappointing our hopes, but, at the fame time, teaching us to check the difpofition we are too apt to indulge, of prying into the fecrets of Heaven, and to conduct all our plans and inquiries, under a sense of our own ignorance, and in a full dependence on the over-ruling providence and righteous government of God. May we not alfo draw a leffon from the conduct of the old king on this occafion? It was not the wealth, the grandeur, the learning, or the arts of England which struck him as defirable, but the religion of England. He fent his fon thither, not to make a fortune, not to procure an infight into trade, not to form great connexions, but to learn the Christian religion. How many parents are there in this country, where it is 1 fo fo eafy to attain the means of learn-are improved by it in fhort, he ing the Chriftian religion, who take no pains to make their children acquainted with it? But a ftill more inftructive lef fon, and one which applies more generally, may be drawn from the conduct of the black Prince, whofe ftory has just been told. He comes among us rude and ignorant, with no just ideas of religion, and after having been accuftomed for twenty-three years to indulge all his paffions without any restraint. No fooner, however, is Chriftianity placed before him, than he is ftruck with its truth and beauty, and embraces it with a child-like fimplicity. As he views himself in the glafs of fcripture, he perceives its account of human nature to be true from his own experience. Humbled under a fenfe of his fins and imperfections, trembling under the apprehenfions of the confequences of them, and fenfible of his inability to help himself, he gladly lays hold of the hope fet before him, he believes the promises of God to the penitent, and relies for falvation on Chrift alone. Nor were these new views unavailing; on the contrary, they produced ftriking effects. In confequence of them, with the help of God's grace, he imbibes the spirit of the Gofpel. His prejudices are overcome, his temper is regulated, his *paffions curbed, his very manners feemed, to ufe the language of fcripture, "to become a new creature." Tell me, reader, haft thou ever experienced in thy felf this change which Naimbanna underwent? Remember that our Sáviour has told us, that except we be converted, and become as little children, we fhall in no wife enter the kingdom of heaven. Has thy heart been turned to fear and to love, and to ferve the Lord thy God? or does thy confcience witness against thee, that thou art' yet a ftranger to the peace and joy, as well as the obedience of the Gofpel? If living in a Christian land, and called by a Chriftian name, thou art, nevertheless, no Christian, repent, without delay, I befeech thee. Receive from this time, the Gofpel as a little child. Put off that pride which ftands in the way of thy repentance, and of thy falvation. Be humble and willing to learn, like this Prince Naimbanna. Read like him, the facred fcriptures, with reverence and with prayer to God for his bleffing. Soon thy days, like his, fhall be numbered, and if thou, who art born in a Chriftian land, fhouldst leave the world without having ever truly known the powerful influence of Chriftianity, the very ftory which thou haft just read fhall hereafter rife up in judgment against thee. COMMON SENSE IN DISHABILLE. No. XLI. NOTHING is more repugnant ners, which formerly enslaved the minds, or rather the paffions of the inhabitants of Europe. We, Americans, boaft ourfelves far, very far, in the van of lazy Old England, in the corps of knights errant, who, like Don Quixote, are led on, (God knows where,) by the Dulcinea of imaginary perfection. It is no fmall grievance, that at this day, in Anglo-America, we have not entirely laid afide thofe ftarched, cramping forms of British oppreffion, which once confined, like Chinese fhoe, and whalebone stays, the now unfettered foot, and rotund waift of the "airy, ambling" dame Freedom. Our ftate milliners have devoted no fmall fhare of their annual labors in modifying her dress according to the ton of the times, but their tardy zeal has feldom kept pace with her growth and caprice. There is nothing perhaps, which the current of manners has carried further before the dead reckoning of the law, on our "tempeftuous fea of liberty," than the rights and immunities of apprentices. It is therefore proper that the leading ftrings, called indentures, by which thefe young gentlemen are bound to their mafters-(pardon the tyranny of language,) fhould be relaxed and lengthened, fo that the form of the indentures should give the fame indulgence to thofe favorite fons of freedom, that is allowed by the liberal spirit of the times. The following is propofed as a model. to learn the faid art, trade, or calling. During all which time the faid Apprentice, his faid Master fhall well and faithfully ferve, according to the custom of Apprentices or Clerks at said ; that is, the lawful commands of his faid Mafter, he thall at all times obey, when he fhall judge it proper fo to do. The goods of his Mafter he shall not waste, except occafionally for his own and his companions' amufement; nor purloin the goods or cafh of his Mafter to a greater amount than five hundred dollars a year. At cards, dice, or any other fashionable game he fhall not play, oftener than from candle-lighting to daybreak, each and every night in the week, Sundays excepted, on which day he fhall be allowed to indulge in any amusement, unless employed in posting accounts or other neceffary bufinefs. If he frequent ale-houses, taverns or gaming houses, and break glaffes or heads, he fhall indemnify the owners from the above perquifites. He fhall not contract matrimony with-in faid term, unless he shall prefer a wife to a mistress; nor fhall he be allowed to keep more than one of the latter, unless by retrenchments in other expenfes, he can fupport them from the perquifites aforefaid. But in cafe of a phyfician's bill, or any unforeseen additional expenfes, he may enlarge his confcience in proportion to his neceffities. He thall not commit any acts of vice or immorality which are discountenanced by the liberal principles and practice of young gentlemen of fashion; nor fhall he be guilty of the crimes and trefpaffes of breaking doors, windows, and daubing fign-boards, &c, except in the night; and if he THE BOARDING SCHOOL. By a Lady of Maffachusetts. THE Author of this work is partially known to be Mrs. Fofter, wife of the Rev. Mr. Fof ter, Little Cambridge, in the vicinity of this metropolis. While we rank her among those who "deserve well of our country" particularly of her own fex, to whofe dignity and happiness she has more immediately devoted the labours of her pen, we prefume we no more than fubfcribe to the opinion of the reader of tafte and judgment, who has perufed the book under confideration. The Boarding School comprifes a plan of female education, well calculated for a country like ours, where women as well as men, enjoy their natural rights; where idleness is confidered as a vice, and the graces as the companions, not the fubftitute for virtue. The Author feems fenfible of the propriety of placing young ladies under the care of an inftructor of their own fex: And has judiciously adopted the mode of inculcating her precepts, through the medium of an experienced matron, to her fair pupils. In the beginning of the book, we are transferred in idea to the rural retreat of Mrs. Williams, "the virtuous relict of a refpectable clergyman," who faw in two amiable daughters all the promising virtues that adorn their fex, and from her education and parental affection, was herfelf beft qualified to "form their infant minds." To thefe are added a small number of young ladies, for the purpofe of inftruction, to whom he extends the tenderness and authority of a parent, joined with the affability of a fifter. After her pupils have completed their courfe of education, and are about to take their leave of her school, she fums up her admonitions and advice, in a series of difcourfes, on the principal branches of female education, and the moft important duties of life. These lectures may be faid to contain the "whole duty of woman." They are full of precepts, worthy the head of a man and the heart of a woman, communicated in a style chafte and familiar, occafionally illustrated by examples well drawn from real life, life, and happily calculated to fix her precepts in the memory, and enforce them on the mind. As a fpecimen, we infert the following on DRESS. "DRESS," continued Mrs. Williams to her re-affembled and attentive pupils," is an important article of female economy. By Tome it is doubtlefs confidered as too effential. This is always the cafe, when it becomes the ruling paffion, and every other excellence is made fubordinate to it. A fuitable attention to the etiquette of appearance is neceffary to render us refpectable in the eyes of the world; and difcovers an accommodating difpofition, which is, at once, engaging and useful in the commerce of fociety. Females are taxed with being peculiarly attached to, and captivated by the glare of fplendor and fhow. But I believe fuperficial minds are not confined to fex. Whatever form they actuate, to beautify and adorn it will be the principal object. "A certain fpecies of gaiety and airiness is becoming in youth. Young ladies, therefore, act per-fectly in character, when under proper restraint, they indulge their tafte in the decoration of their perfons. But they should be efpecially careful that their tafte be correct; confiftent with the modeft delicacy which is the glory and ornament of woman.. "It is laudable to follow fafhions, fo far as they are governed by thefe rules; but whenever they deviate, quit them with exprefs difapprobation and difguft. Any affumptions of the mafculine habit are unbecoming. Drefs and manners should be correfpondent; and the engaging foftnefs and artlefs fimplicity, which grace my pupils, muit be quite inconfiftent with the air and attire of the other fex. "A gaudy and fantastical mode of decoration is by no means à recommendation. It befpeaks a lightnefs of mind and a vanity of difpofition, against which a difcreet and modeft girl fhould guard with the utmost vigilance. Extravagance is a great error, even where fortune will allow the means of fupporting it. Many are the claims which the children of affiction and want have upon the fuperfluous plenty of the rich. How much better expended would fome part of their redundance be, in relieving the neceffities of fuch, than in decorating their own perfons, with every ornament which art can contrive to create expense ! "Neatness and propriety fhould be the main objects; for lovelinefs needs no foreign aid to give it a paffport. Neatnefs is too often connected with the idea of a pri dish fingularity; but no gaudinefs of apparel, no richness of attire, no modifhness of appearance can be an equivalent for it. Propriety is that garb which becomes our fituation and circumftances in life. There certainly ought to be a difference between different ages and conditions, in this refpect. Many articles, ornamental to Mifs in her teens, would appear abfurd, fantastical, and ridiculous in maturer years. Neither fhould the matronal robes, and the clofe cap hide the natural ringlets, and eafy fhapes of the blooming girl. "It is a very falfe taste which induces people in dependent and narrow circumftances, to imitate the expensive mode of drefs which might be very decent for thofe who move in a higher sphere. " To |