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a second edition , greatly improved , ap . peared in 1803 . He was highly learned in the language and ancient laws of Ireland . The last accounts from Barbadoet mention the death of Madame DE LA
PAGERIE , the mother of the Empress J osephine , ( of France ^ who departed this life at Martinique , on the 1 st of July . She was interred with great pomp at JLes Trois Islets , her heart havingv be « n first taken out and deposited in a silver chalice , to be sent to France .
Intelligence.
INTELLIGENCE .
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Silvester O ^ Hallnran , Esq . —Madam * D * JLa Pagirie * '
in I ^ ris and Lon don , and mast have made a rapid progress in the attainmenkoi knowledge , for the first of his woi » ks was . published before he attained the age of fci . He was the author of several medical and political treatises , and of a general History of Ireland , to the . close of the 13 th century , of which
and that " a poor sinner appears to have bees * "brought to heaven by the gates of hell . ** One reflection only are we disposed to make upon the horrible talc , and that is , that if such be the Calvinistic " mania , " ( to use a word of the narrator ' s , ) what thanks are due to the men who endeavour to restore the deiued multitude to their * ' right
mind ! ' * «« A young Man , of the name of S C y grandson to a late eminent Dcssenting Minister , and brought up by him , came to reside ^ j £ g about the year 1 803 . He attended at the Baptist place of worahip , not only on the I . ord ' s day , but frequently at the w
supposed by some to Tbe seriously inclined ; but his opinion of himself was , that he had never experienced that divine change , without which no man can be saved . However that might be , there is reason to believe he riacl been for some years under powerful convictions of his miserable condition as a sinner . In June 1 S 06 , these con * victions were observed to increase , and that in a more thaii common degree . From that time he went into no company ; but , when he was not at wort , kept in his chamber , where he was employed in singing plaintive hymns , and bewailing his lost and perishing
state . Fie had about him several religious people , but could not be induced to open his mind to them , or to impart to any one the cause of his distress . Whether this contributed to increase it or not , it did increase , till his health was greatly affected by it , and he was
scarcely able to work at his business . " While he was at meeting on L , ord * $ day , September 14 , lie was observed to labour under very great emotion of mind , especially when he heard the following words : ** ¦ Sinner , if yon die without an interest in Christ , you
will sink into the regions of eternal death . * ' On the Saturday evening following , he intimated to the mistress of the house where he lodged , that some awful judgment was about to come upon him , and as he should not be able to be at meeting next day , requested that an attendant might l >*
