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    No . XXV . Jffational Ingi atitude , in the case of Captain Carver . A more affecting instance of national ingratitude cannot be produced titan the life of Carver ,

    the traveller ^ drawn up by Dr . L-ettsom , and 'prefixed to the third edition of his travels , exhibits . Carver had spent his life in

    the difficult service of government in North America , and had travelled many thousand miles to try whether a communication might not be opened by land between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans ,

    which should serve the purpose in some measure of the long projected North West Passaoi :. He came over to England to lay his maps , charts and plans before the government , and to make hi $

    knowledge beneficial to the public as well as to acquire some little remuneration . He presented a petition to his Majesty in council , which was referred to the lords commissioners of trade and

    plantations , by whom he was examined , apparently to their satisfaction * He requested to know what he should do with his papers ^ —they replied that he might publish them whenever he

    pleased . He in consequence disposed of them to a bookseller , but when they were nearly ready for the press an order was issued from the council board ,

    requiring him to deliver them into the plantation office . He was obliged to re-purchase them of the bookseller at a very great ex pence , and deliver them up . This loss government refused to make good .

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    The papers were locked up and probably have never been us ^ d to this day : and had not Carver taken copies of them , the world would never have seen the most instructive and pleasant book of travels in existence

    He solicited and expected sonic appointment in the public service , but was utterly neglected and his affairs went , soon to ruin . * Captain Carver , ** says his biographer , « after having exhausted his fortune , had now a family to support .

    without knowing how to turn his abilities to any means of succouring them . Distress of mind begets debility of body , which is still aggravated by penury , and a want of tie common necessaries of life . His constitution , naturally firm , gradually grew weaker and weaker ; but his regard

    to his family animated his spirit to exertions beyond the strength of his body , which enabled hini to preserve existence through the winter of 1779 , by acting as a clerk in a lottery office ; but the vital powers succoured as they were by this casual support , diminished by certain , though imperceptible degrees , tiU

    at length a putrid fever supervening a long continued dysentery browght on by want , put an end to the life of a mati , who , after rendering at the expence of fortune and healch , and at the risk of life , many important services to his country , perished through want ia the first city of the world . "

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    No . XXVI . Undesigned Compliment to the Methodists .

    Pa ley , describing the great change which was wrought ia the first converts to Christianity ,, says :

    ' < After men became Christians , much of their time was spent in prayer , and devotion , in religious meetings , in celebrating the JEucharist , in conferences , in exhortations , in preaching , in an affectionate intercourse with one another .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1809, page 205, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1735/page/29/