Had they been sure of receiving the two dollars a week, it might have reconciled them to the measure; but payment appeared to them to depend on the success of our cause, (Congress or ourselves being looked upon as the paymasters,) and its failure, in their eyes, would in both cases induce a stoppage of payment. They were, however, a people who seemed thoroughly disposed to submit to any power which might be set over them; and whatever might have been their propensities or demonstrations at an earlier stage of the contest, they were now the dutiful and loyal subjects of his majesty George the Third; and entirely obedient to the behests of their military nasters in New York. As it was at the instance of these that we were saddled upon them, they received us with the best grace they could put on. houses and beds we found clean, but their living extremely poor, and well calculated to teach the luxurious how infinitely less than their pampered appetites require, is essential to the sustentation of life."

Their

"A sorry wash, made up of a sprinkling of bohea, and the darkest sugar on the verge of fluidity, with half baked bread, fuel being among the scarcest articles at Flatbush, and a little stale butter, constituted our breakfast. At our first coming, a small piece of pickled beef was occasionally boiled for dinner, but, to the beef, which was soon consumed, succeeded clippers or clams, and our unvaried supper was supon or mush, sometimes with skimmed milk, but more generally with buttermilk blended with molasses, which was kept for weeks in a churn, as swill is saved for hogs. I found it, however, after a little use, very eatable; and supper soon became my best meal. The table company consisted of the master of the house, Mr. Jacob Suydam, an old bachelor, a young man, a shoemaker of the name of Rem Hagerman, married to Jacob's niece, who, with a mewling infant in her arms, never failed to appear. A black boy, too, was generally in the room; not as a waiter, but as a kind of enfant de maison, who walked about, or took post in the chimney corner with his hat on, and occasionally joined in the conversation. It is probable that, but for us, he would have been placed at the table, and that had been the custom before we came. Certain it is, that the idea of equality was more fully and fairly acted upon in this house of a British subject, than ever I have seen it practised by the most vehement declaimers for the rights of man among ourselves. It is but fair, however, to mention, that I have never been among our transcendent republicans of Virginia and her dependencies. But notwithstanding some unpleasant circumstances in our establishment, every member of the family, the black fellow, to whom we had been the cause of some privations, excepted, was exceedingly courteous and accommodating. Rem Hagermann, and Yonichy his wife, gave themselves no airs; nor was our harmony with uncle Jacob ever interrupted, but on a single occasion, when, soured a little by I know not what provocation, he made a show of knocking down Forrest with a pair of yarn stockings he had just drawn from his legs, as he sat in the chimney corner one evening preparing for bed. It was indeed but an offer, though it might, for ought I know, have amounted to an assault in law, as Jacob was not so far from the person menaced, but that the feet of the stockings, if held by the other extremity, and projected from an extended arm, might possibly have reached him; and a pair of long worn yarn stockings might, from daily alluvion, have acquired somewhat of the properties of a cudgel. But moments of peevishness were allowable to our host; since, though we had for some time been consuming his provisions, he had never seen a penny of our money, and it was somewhat doubtful, to say the truth, whether he ever would; for, considering the contractors for our boarding liable for it, we never thought of paying it ourselves."- -"Their religious, like their other habits, were unostentatious and plain; and a si

lent grace before meat prevailed at the table of Jacob Suydam. When we were all seated, he suddenly clapped his hands together, threw his head on on one side, closed his eyes, and remained mute and motionless for about a minute. His niece and nephew following his example; but with such an eager solicitude that the copied attitude should be prompt and simultaneous, as to give an air of absurdity to what might otherwise have been very de cent. Although little of the vernacular accent remained on the tongues of these people, they had some peculiarities in their phraseology. Among these, instead of asking you to sit, or sit down to table, they invited you to sit by, and this I even observed in General Schuyler, when I was at Lake George. It might be asked by a stickling New Yorker, if sit by is not as proper, and even more so, than sit down, which, in strictness, is a redundancy. A Philadelphian might admit it; but it would be no evidence of his want of candour, should he add, that it was, nevertheless, extremely awkward English."

We cannot now, however, give this entertaining little volume another line, and in truth its conclusion is by no means so good as the commencement. The author gets surly as he approaches the politics of his latter years, and applies himself to the ungracious task of shewing that there was very little real disinterestedness in the patriotism of the revolutionary war, to which in 1810, when he wrote, it was become fashionable among American democrats to refer with peculiar approbation. Indeed we are almost afraid that this is a hidden object with him, even from the beginning, although the remembrance of his early life softens down its display; and we have little doubt of the general truth of his representations to this effect, for when we come to analyse even the best of our social virtues, it is melancholy to observe how much selfishness goes to their composition. The spirit, however, is bad in which these things are here traced, and the views narrow in which they are regarded. They are those of a partizan merely, who, in the heat of his argument, doubts of the fortunes of his country, even at the moment of assault, and is indifferent to the conclusions for or against his countrymen, to which his premises tend. The writer is severe on the conduct of General Lee at Monmouth-he is himself the man in another sphere of action.

And although we have professed ourselves amused and gratified by the entire work, and deem the public indeed under considerable obligation for its reprint, we cannot very well help adding, that we never desire to see the itch for writing authentic memoirs spread in our own country, beyond the class of men for which it is designed, and of whom the present author is not The egotism whence they spring is not perhaps so bad as it is called; and in the case of an eminent writer, as Gibbon for example, the progress of mind developed in them is not only exceedingly interesting, but its communication in this way we should be very glad to fix down on such men as a debt due by

one.

them to posterity. But when an ordinary man tells long stories about himself and family, whatever the instruction we derive from the narrative may be, the writer always sinks in our estimation. We perceive that he has little of that reverence for home which as yet especially characterizes us as a nation, and exhibits itself in a jealousy of its details being in any degree overlooked. In the present times, particularly, we should be very sorry to lose any of the outworks of established order; but, above all, this: the rather, that such fiction as we have been lately familiarized with, does all that is required, viz. record passing manners so much better, there is no necessity to provide original portraits for the purpose.

ART. XIV.-Wahre und kurze Beschreibung der Merkwürdigen Ereignisse und Wohlthätigen heiligen Handlungen Sr, Durchlaucht, des Hn Fürsten Alexander von Hohenlohe, Domicellars von Olmütz Vicariats Rathes des Bisthums Bamberg, und Ritter des Maltheser Ordens, etc. etc.

Short and Faithful Description of the Remarkable Proceedings and Benevolent Holy Conduct of his Highness Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe, &c. &c. By FRANZ NICHOLAUS BAUN, Wurzburg, 1821.

WE have counted considerably more than a dozen pamphlets, besides sermons and articles in journals and newspapers, relative to Prince Hohenlohe, who announced himself to the world in the month of June last as a Saint, all of them published in the course of a few weeks after his appearance. In the short space of twenty days, he performed, according to report, a prodigious number of miracles, which have put the southern parts of Germany in a sort of religious fermentation. He is supported by persons of very high rank. He is himself a man of conse quence; and we are induced to bring him under the notice of our readers, from the party feelings which his appearance has called forth, and from the whole matter being connected with some other circumstances of considerable importance. An expla nation of these will, we believe, enable our readers to comprehend better the subsequent short narrative, and to appreciate the feelings of the two great religious parties in Germany, on the appearance of so large a reinforcement to the one, as must be derived from a new saint.

In the recent Dissertation by Mr. Stewart, prefixed to the Supplement, he has noticed the fact of several Germans having been converted from the Protestant to the Catholic faith. He speaks, however, as if this conversion took place only in some individuals professing the doctrines of a particular school. In this respect we are disposed to regard his information as defective. We have never heard that Zacharias Werner, Count Stolberg, the celebrated lyric poet, or Mr. Haller, whose conversion is at this moment making considerable noise in Germany, were disciples of Schelling. In Protestant, which, till within a very short time, was almost exclusively the literary part of Germany, nothing can be more injurious to the reputation of an author than the imputation of Catholicism. Here, as in other countries where the two religions exist together, Catholicism is looked on as allied to bigotry, tyranny, and despotism. German authors. have never been slow in endeavouring to excite moral disapprobation against the doctrines of their opponents, by ascribing to them every kind of evil tendency. To promote Catholicism, and with that all its consequences, is an accusation which has been repeated against some doctrine or other in every literary controversy which has taken place from the time of Nicolai, whose disputes with the writers of the south were coeval with the dawn of German literature, to the year 1819, when Voss renewed the same cry against his former friend, Count Stolberg. The fact of some Germans having been converted to the Catholic faith, as stated by Mr. Stewart, is however correct: the imputation that it took place only among the disciples of Schelling, has been adopted from assertions made in the heat of literary controversy. We refer to it to shew to our readers the sort of embittered feeling which exists in Germany between Protestants and Catholics; and which, kept from open violence by the strong and tolerant arm of the law, displays itself chiefly in literary strife. In Protestant Germany at present, there is a great fear of the Jesuits. It has been loudly and repeatedly asserted, more particularly since 1819, that the great body of the nobles were, in secret, friends to the Catholics, and that they were working together to convert the Protestants, and restore the old feudal system. Pfaffenthum and Junkerthum, as the ascendancies of the priests and of the nobles are denominated, are at present in Germany, what the cry of the church in danger," was in England a century back. The conversion of some distinguished men to the Catholic faith, and the known partiality of some sovereigns for it, because it supports arbitrary power, have added to the fears of the Protestants, and have supplied them with some reasons to jus

tify the jealousy and hatred with which they at present regard

the Catholic church.

On the other hand, the Catholics, of the south-western parts of Germany, have lost, within a few years, the greater portion of their revenues and power. Their electorates, bishoprics, and rich abbeys, were secularized, and the proceeds taken possession of by some temporal sovereign, who, in many cases, was a Protestant. At the same time, their faith has been left unchanged, and their numbers have rather increased. There are, according to Mr. Crome, 30,400,000 souls in all the lands which acknowledge the supremacy of the German diet; and of these, 18,000,000 are Catholics. This large body looks with much displeasure on the spoliation of its clergy, who, it cannot be expected, will make no efforts to regain the wealth they so recently lost. All the subordinate classes of Catholic priests, all the titular bishops, abbots, guardians, vicariats-counsellors, or whatever may be their titles, necessarily desire to be restored to that dignity and influence which their predecessors, and some even of themselves, formerly enjoyed. To obtain this is the great object of their pursuit; and the means they employ are principally to flatter the prejudices of the nobles and the sovereigns, by promising them more obedient subjects; and to operate on the superstition of the great multitude, by claiming for themselves superior sanctity, and a power of working miracles. The Protestants, therefore, have a great dread of the Catholics; and the latter are making strenuous exertions to regain their lost power.

There are some circumstances, besides, which predispose the Germans, we think, to look favourably on miracles. If we are not misinformed, there is a great tendency among them to nervous disorders. Even in the accounts from which we take these particulars, there are three authorities, each of which describes people as frequently confined to bed for years from atony of the nerves. In this disease, though the body continues to perform most of its functions, the patient is in general unable to rise from bed. Medical men effect at times a temporary cure, by causing a sudden and violent emotion in the patient; and not unfrequently, if a female, they endeavour to excite her jealousy. The prevalence of these disorders is the principal cause why animal magnetism has been so successful in Germany, as it is only over such patients that it has any influence. A belief in the wonder-working power of some motions made by the magnetizer, or in the efficacy of sitting together in large numbers while he conveys a fluid from his own body into those of the patients, predisposes men to believe in the efficacy of any other motions, whether cabalistic or