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tion he could afford? When we sorrowfully listen to the depraved language and sentiments of youth, and perceive them, on the seventh day, as eagerly engaged in worthlessness and idle disorder as on the sixth, is it possible to avoid a retrospect to those times when parents, however poor, were sedulous to preserve that day hov, and by every precept and example to impress sentiments of piety and moral order on the minds of their children? And when to all these painful reflections we turn to the original cause of this dereliction of every thing good and respectable, can we possibly attribute it to aught but the corrupted state of the parent? The only question, therefore, that remains is, by what means have parents been thus rendered so viciously depraved, and by what possible means can they be henceforth rendered more worthy and beneficial to society?These are important questions, Sir, and well deserving the serious consideration, not only of our present guardians of Police, but of all the moral, pious, and considerate members of the community.

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I believe few will be hardy enough to deny, that within these last 10 or 12 years, the rapid progress of idle and worthless debauchery among the lower orders of society in Scotland has been wonderful. Thousands, and tens of thousands, have, from state of patient industry and comfort, been plunged into poverty, misery, and disorder! Thousands converted from morality and decorum to the most abandoned depravity, and whole families plunged into ruin and confusion, by a vice which every good citizen, and every reflecting magistrate, ought to have checked by every means in his power. Will it be asserted that any one step has been hitherto taken to accomplish this great end? on the contrary, has not every thing been done to increase the evil, and render its influence more

prevalent? Look around this grand and improving metropolis, Sir, and gratify your astonished sight with the causes of destruction and disorder that every where strike the eye, wherever you go, and to whatever quarter you turn. Can you proceed 20 yards in any direction without meeting with some of these respectable receptacles of idle debauchery which now improve the morals and orderly conduct of the mobility? To whatever hand you turn, through whatever street, lane, or alley you pass, are not these licenced haunts of corruption, ornamented with the badges of their order, and hung out as lures and incentives to every thing that is destructive and disorderly? And can our Magistrates wonder at the effects of their own institutions, and our Police conceive they can reclaim the morals or conduct of the inhabitants of Edinburgh, while the only cause which has produced the disorder remains? Do they really conceive that, by sending a few hardened and corrupted individuals to Bridewell, that every thing will be remedied, and that a few hours solitary confinement, within the walls of a prison, are to make impressions on minds callous to every thing but the exhilarating influence of whisky, and that all will be reclaimed to peace, order, and propriety! As well may they tell us that the stones of which Bridewell is composed possess virtues to imbue the most vicious minds with the purest principles, and eradicate the most depraved vices from the most callous "breasts; for they may rest assured, that no sooner are their victims released from the chilling haunts of their Seminary of improvi ment, than a double portion of whisky will he resorted to, and an increased disorder be stirred up as a compro. mise for past privations.

Beneficent and humane, as the institution mentioned in your former number unquestionably is, it must be

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evident, from what has been already specified, that something more should be embraced to render it more extensively and permanently advantageous. Without some effectual provision for neglected and corrupted youth, it is next to impossible that vice can be checked, or society improved. Without instilling something into the minds of children, to counteract the vicious habits and example of the parent, corruption must continue to spread with all its ac-. companying evils. Early impressions, of all others, are the most likely to remain; and while education, blended with precept and example, is daily exercised and enforced, much may be done to secure a portion of unshaken principle, even when surrounded with depravity. Could any thing, consistent with the above institution, be adopted to effect this salutary provision for the hapless offspring of pollution, incalculable blessings might one day result to society. A picture, neither romantic nor imaginary, might be drawn of future joys, and domestic happiness, blended with industry, comfort, and moral order, very different from what the present times exhibit. By the regulations already established by the Beneficent Society, it appears to me, that much may be done to accomplish this desired end. By the weekly visitations of those who inspect the different districts under their charge, not only will vice be detected, but whatever is worthy and deserving be brought to light, To separate the vicious from the virtuous is no small benefit to morals, for to prevent infection is doing much to check the malignity of disease, and establish general health and safe.

It is with infinite satisfaction I hear that the person who superintends our police has proposed to co-operate with the above-mentioned society; and were this co-operation to enforce what the precepts of morality dictate, why should we doubt of re

formation? A system combining punishment to vice, and encouragement and assistance to the deserving, would, of all tribunals of justice and humanity, be the most effectual to remedy existing evils, and produce future blessings to society. But, as I before observed, this cannot be effected without removing the causes which impede virtue and promote worthlessness. Were our haunts of corruption and disorder restricted; were proper seminaries for the instruction of abandoned youth of both sexes established, and were rigid regulations adopted, to oblige parents to send their children to these schools, little doubt can remain of general improvement. As this lastmentioned proposal embraces a variety of rules and regulations which would necessarily extend this paper beyond the usual limits of your miscellany, I shall recommend the reader to a careful perusal of an Essay on "Female Schools for Cleanliness," published some considerable time ago in your magazine, which I cannot help thinking deserves particular notice; altho', like every thing else relating to morals and manners in this gay metropolis, it has been disregarded by those who ought to be the guardians of both.

LYCURGUS.

Indictment against JEAN MAXWELL,

the Galloway Sorceress.

JEAN MAXWELL, present prisoner in the Tolbooth of- Kirkcudbright, you are indicted, &c.

You the said Jean Maxwell did, at Little Cocklick, in the parish of Urr and stewartry of Kirkcudbright, pretend to tell fortunes by tea cups, and the grounds of tea; and did tell to Jean Davidson, servant to Francis Scott, farmer in little Cocklick aforesaid, that she would soon bear a bastard to a certain young

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man, Hugh Rafterton; which you said you could prevent by certain means. And you the said Jean Maxwell caused the said Jean Davidson to rub, or anoint, her forehead and other parts of her head, with a quid contained in a bottle produced by you, which so much intoxicated and disordered the said Jean Davidson, that she would have done any thing that you the said Jean Maxwell had asked her to do and you the said Jean Maxwell, availing yourself of the situation that she the said Jean Davidson was in, declared to her that the Devil would speedily appear and tear her in peces, unless she obeyed you, the said Jean Maxwell, in every particular. And you the said Jean Maxwell caused the said Jean Davidson take oaths of secresy for the purpose of concealing your wicked aud felonious purposes. That on the said twenty-seventh day of De cember last, you the said Jean Maxwell caused the said Jean Davidson produce a guinea note, which you pretended to fold up in a small bit of paper, putting round it some lint, and stitching in it nine pins; after which, you gave it to the said Jean Davidson, and ordered her to cast it in the fire; which she did accordingly. And you the said Jean Maxwell then ordered the said Jean Davidson to bring one of her shifts and three shillings with it, which you sewed up in the tail of the shift, and said that the shift was to be consumed in the fire, as an offering to the Devil, who was to appear at the time of the burning of the shift in the shape of either a bull or a swine; and at the same time, you the said Jean Maxwell gave to the said Jean David son a powder, sewed up in a piece of fine linen, and stuck through with nine pins, which you injoined her to wear at her breast till the day of her death, and tell no mortal of it. That on the 28th day of December last, you, the said Jean Maxwell,

told the said Jean Davidson, that the Devil had rejected two sixpences of the money formerly sent him in the tail of the shift; that he insisted in lieu of the sixpences to have two shillings with heads on them; and that he was up and stirring, and must be satisfied; and the said Jean Davidson having furnished the shillings, you, the said Jean Maxwell, after stamping on the ground twice or thrice with your foot, pretended to hand them to Satan, as if he had stood behind you. That on the twenty-ninth day of December last, you the said Jean Maxwell declared to the said Jean Davidson, that the Devil was still up, and that he must have a man's shirt of plain linen, and in it a shoulder of mutton; and the said Jean Davidson, terrified by your threats, gave you a check shirt of the said Francis Scott's, her master, together with a shoulder of mutton, also his property, tied up in the shirt; and you the said Jean Maxwell tied up these articles in your own budget; and then telling the said Jean Davidson that all this was insufficient to lay the Devil, you asked her for half a crown more; and the said Jean Davidson, in confusion and fright, gave you a dollar, which you said would do as well, and that at any rate it must not be taken back being once offered; and then you the said Jean Maxwell, went to the back of the byre at Little Cocklick aforesaid, and returned and told the said Jean Davidson, that you had laid the Devil so that he could not come nearer her than the back of the byre, but cautioned her strongly not to travel that way, nor farther after it was dark. That on the said first day of Jannary last, you the said Jean Maxwell returned to Little Cocklick aforesaid, and told the said Jean Davidson, that Hugh Rafferton was to be with her on the Thursday ensuing, very lovingly, and ready to marry her, or do whatever she

should

should ask of him and moreover,
you the said Jean Maxwell de-
clared, that if the said Jean David-
son used Hugh Rafferton harshly, and
refused to marry him, Hugh Raffer-
ton would lose his reason, and go
stark mad at the end of eight weeks;
that in the mean time, however, you
must have another Guinea note for
the Devil, with a faced shilling in it;
and the money was furnished by the
said Jean Davidson; when you the
said Jean Maxwell clipped, or pre-
tended to cut the note with scissars,
pretending that in this manner it was
to be presented to the Devil along
with the faced shilling. that soon
after this, you the said Jean Maxwell
told the said Jean Davidson that the
first note was not accepted, and that
you must have an old and very tat-
tered note, and three shillings more;
which having been furnished by the
said Jean Davidson, you the said
Jean Maxwell bound up the note
with paper and lint, and having stuck
it with nine pins gave it to the said
Jean Davidson, who threw it into
the fire; and you the said Jean Max-
well, after stamping on the ground,
handed the three shillings behind you,
so that Satan might receive them
as you pretended he had received the
former presents; that these things
being done, you the said Jean Maxwell,
left the said Jean Davidson at her
father's house at Killymingan, sin the
parish of Kirkgunzeon, on the said
first day of January last, declaring
that Hugh Rafferton should wait on
her in deep humility on the Thurs-
day ensuing; and that all the money
offered to Satan should be returned
into the said Jean Davidson's chest
on the subsequent Friday morning
by sun-rising; and that all should be,
and really was, perfectly right.
That on the said eighth day of Jan-
uary last, you the said Jean Maxwell
again waited on the said Jean David.
son, at the house of the said Francis
Scott, in Little Cocklick aforesaid,

and told, that all was gone wrong; that the Devil had proved too strong for you the said Jean Maxwell, and had rent a check apron given you by the said Jean Davidson formerly for a burnt offering; and you the said Jean'Maxwell pretended to shew the distinct marks of Satan's claws, and the mark of his thumb on your arm, adding, that he could not be laid without the aid of John MacGeorge, commonly called the Devilraiser of Urr; and for that end, you the said Jean Maxwell demanded two notes more, and three pieces of flesh meat, one of them to be pork, which you proposed to roll up at great peril in the check apron; and you the said Jean Maxwell also insisted to have the said Jean Davidson's duffle cloak, but the said Jean Davidson having by this time got the use of her reason, and got the better of the terror of the oaths of sc

cresy imposed upon her by you the said Jean Maxwell, managed so as to detain you until a Constable was sent for, who took you into custody, and carried you before the Reverend Doctor James Muirhead of Logan, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright.

Verdict of the Jury.

At Kirkcudbright, the 21st day of June, 1805, the assize being inclosed, did make choice of Alexander Melville of Barwhar to be their Chancellor, and William Mure, Factor for the Earl of Selkirk, to be their Clerk; and having considered the indictment raised at the instance of Robert Gordon, Writer in Kirkcudbright, Procurator Fiscal of court for his Majesty's interest, against Jean Maxwell, present prisoner in the iolbooth of Kirkcudbright, the Pannel, with the interlocutor of the Steward depute of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright thereon, and the whole proof adduced, they unanimously

And the said Jean Maxwell guilty of the crimes charged against her in the said indictment. In testimony where of, &c.

(Signed)

Sandwich Islands are now reduced under his power, with the exception of two small ones to the northward, which are still held by the rightful king, a prince rendered moderate and just by adversity.

Among other remarkable particulars of this unfortunate monarch, our author mentions that he spoke the English language with considerable

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for the British nation, and as proof He professed a high regard of it had taken to himself the name of King George; and to his children, who were numerous, he had given those of the present Royal Family in Britain, beginning with the Prince of Wales, and descending to the youngest branch of that family.

Alexr. Melville, Chancellor. Will. Mure, Clerk. Court adjourned for a Week. Kirkcudbright, 28th June, 1805. The Steward-depute having con sidered the verdict of the assize bear, ing date the 21st day of June current, and returned into court that day against Jean Maxwell, the pannel, whereby she is found guilty of pretending to exercise Witchcraft, Sorcery, Inchantment, and Conjuration, and of undertaking to tell fortunes, contrary to the enactments and provisions of the act of Parliament passed the assistance of some Englishmen This prince and his followers, by in the 9th year of the reign of King residing among them, constructed George the II. chapter fifth, in the a ship, in which they intend to emimanner charged against her in the Ingrate to China, or to some other dictment, at instance of the Procura-island, in case Tamahama should intor Fiscal of court; the Steward-de- vade and overpower them. pute, in respect of the said verdict, decerns and adjudges the said Jean Maxwell to be carried back from the bar to the tolbooth of Kirkcud

bright, and to be imprisoned therein for the space of one whole year, without Bail or Mainprize; and once in every quarter of the said year, to stand openly upon a market-day in the Jugs or Pillory, at the market-cross of the Burgh of Kirkcudbright, for the space of one hour, &c.

(Signed) Alexr. Gordon.

Tamahama is one of those remarkable characters which, owing to a combination of fortunate circumstances, become, as it were, land. marks in the history of their spe

cies.

We shall extract the account given of him for the entertainment of our readers :

European style, of brick, and glazed "His palace is built after the windows, having European and American artificers about him of almost

every description. Indeed his own

Account of TAMAHAMA, CHIEF of the subjects, from their intercourse; with

SANDWICH ISLANDS.

From Turnbull's Voyage round the World.

THE Sandwich islands are at this

period under the dominion of Tamahama, another Bonaparte and Peter the Great conjoined in one, who is at once extending his power over all his neighbours, and urging forward the civilization of his people with amazing activity. All the

Europeans, have acquired a great knowledge of several of the mechanical arts, and have thus enabled him to increase his navy, a very favourite object with him. I have no doubt that in a very few years he will erect among these islands a power very far from despicable.

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"The circumstances of this en. terprizing Chief were greatly chan ged since the visit of Capt. Vancou

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