for before leaving Perth his actual force amounted to upwards of 3000 men. Mothers, wives and sweethearts simultaneously combined in compelling the men to join his standard; they enthusiastically exerted all the interest which they possessed over the rougher sea; and they very soon furnished the prince with a fine regiment from among the inhabitants of Perth and its vicinity. It was soon armed, for in those days every one possessed a weapon of some kind; but of course the modern uniformity of the horse guards was as unknown as it would have been despised; some had muskets, some broadswords, and others pikes.

All the officers, and a large proportion of the men were members of that persecuted church which was disestablished at the Revolution, because the bishop and clergy could not conscientiously transfer their allegiance from James and his heirs, to the Prince of Orange, under whose government they suffered a persecution from a faction of Presbyterian fanatics equal in ferocity to that suffered by the Hugunots in France. These men were from principle attached to the exiled family; and adhered with a desperate and affectionate fidelity to the last remnant of that illustrious house; and both the bishops and clergy still fondly cherished the forlorn hope of a second restoration; and the words "and exiles," were added to the petition in the liturgy "for all prisoners and captives;" by which they meant not only the royal exile himself, but also all those of every degree, who having been "out in the '15," were obliged to consult their personal safety by a voluntary exile. After that enterprise in 1715, an Act of Parliament made it compulsory on all the Scottish Episcopal Clergy to take the oaths to government, under a penalty of six months' imprisonment, during which time their chapels were to be shut up. Several of them underwent this punishment; but after a few years the Act was not so rigidly enforced; and at the time, when our story commences, there was a flourishing congregation of Episcopalians in Perth under the care of the Rev. Robert Lyon, and Aaron Drummond, a Scion, of

the noble House of Perth. During the hottest period of the persecution, like S. Paul and the early Christians, they were troubled on every side yet not depressed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not detroyed; but always bearing about with them the stigma of disaffection to the House of Hanover.

From Mr. Lyon's well known attachment to the exiled family, the officers of the Perth regiment had no doubt that he would accept the office of chaplain; and they accordingly requested their colonel to communicate their wishes to him. Colonel Drummond, accordingly waited on our hero in his chamber in the the floor of a very inferior house in the Vennal, which is a dirty narrow lane leading from the High Street towards that superb meadow formed by a sweeping reach of the Tay, called the North Inch. It was wrung from the death bed agonies of a rich sinner by his confessor, for the benefit of one of the rich and magnificent abbeys in Perth, for the repose of his soul and its quick exit from purgatory. Rapping with his knuckles at the door of the small apartment which served our hero in the universal capacity of refectory, study and dormitory, he was answered from within with a quick come in, wha's there?" On entering the poverty struck apartment, Mr. Lyon doffed a stript woollen nightcap; and after mutual salutations, Mr. Lyon bustled about amongst the chaotic furniture of the room to find a chair for his guest. With military brevity the colonel explained the object of his visit. Mr. Lyon was taken by surprise, for he had never dreampt of serving the sovereign in the field; and in his first surprise and flurry of spirits, he felt at a loss what answer to give. His spirits were willing; but his domestic incumbrances and quiet habits presented innumerable obstacles to his mind. He was not without secret misgivings that the Presbyterian wolf might make havoc of his flock during his absence; and he imagined that his sacred profession would not protect him from the undiciplined rapacity of the highland Caterans in the prince's own army.

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Colonel Drummond represented to him the duty which he owed to his exiled king and suffering country; besides, he continued, "the whole of your flock, except the old, the infirm, and the women and children, have mounted the glorious white cockade, and have joined the princes standard."> "It is true my worthy co-adjutor can administer the consolations of true religion to those who remain behind, and pray for our success and that our heads may be covered in the day of battle; but I cannot help entertaining some fears for the upshot of this enterprise; and if it should bs unsuccessful, for the dreadful persecution which will assuredly fall upon our distressed and nearly annihilated church. My heart is in the cause; but your army is small; the Elector of Hanover is a powerful prince, and has possession, which is nine-tenths of the law; he has a powerful army, and all the doure-covenanting Whigs are on his side; and 1 should na' wonder if there will be heading and hanging as in the '15 before all is over."

"Let that flee stick to the wa' parson; only look at the enthusiasm of our little arıny with such a desperate bold prince to command it; and at this perilous moment the Elector is delving in his ain kail-yard at Henhausen, and his regent is only beginning to recruit and collect an army. We have the son of our lawful sovereign at our head, who cheerfully partakes of the soldiers' fare and of the soldiers' fatigues; and you see how soon the display of his standard has collected an army."

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But, colonel, when the plot thickens, and these highland Reivers have laid their hands on the spoil, they'll break up and return home to enjoy it; ye ken they are no just to ride the water on."

"These are womanish fears. This is a righteous cause; and those principles which you have preached ever since yon have wagged your pow in a poo'pit should oblige you to serve your prince in your ministerial capacity, especially as the whole of my regiment are either your own flock or men of the same religious and political principles. Besides," conti

nued he, with a satirical smile, "when we have sent the Elector back to Hanover again, you may perhaps retum lord archbishop of St. Andrews and primate of all Scotland."

"That's no very likely, colonel; but I'm misdoubting that it will no be very chancy to live among these doure Whigs since my principles are so well kent; and as 1 have a spiritual relation to all the daft callants that have ta'en the gun owre their shou❜der and put themselves under your command, 1 shall, therefore, just pack up my wallise, and join my friends in their glorious expedition.

"Well then, parson, to morrow's dawn must see us on our route to Dumblane. The enemy has occupied the direct road to Edinburgh, and removed all the ferry boats from the north to the south side of the Queen's ferry; and worse stlll, a gun brig has been moored in the middle of the passage which, & we are at present without artillery, we should find an ugly customer; and as Blakeney holds Stirling Castle, which com mands the bridge, there is no help for it but to make the passage of the Forth at the Ford of Frew. We shall manage to carry you across dry shod. I must now attend afternoon parade; and after that a ball given by the bonnie lasses of Perth to the Prince, and to their sweethearts before parting with them; but first let me taste your grey-beard."

Going to a closet, or press, as he called it, Mr. Lyon produced a broad bottomed Dutch bottle containing the real uncustomed Cogniac, neat as imported; and each quaffed a dram to the health of the prince, and success to the expedition.

The friends then parted; and the parson went in search of his mother and sisters to inform them of his intention, and to request them to prepare his kit.

(To be continued.)

THE LATE REV. T. MORTIMER

On Heb. 5th ch. 4th verse.

Perhaps some, who venture to exercise a self-consituted ministry, with a self-delegated authority, if they would acknowledge the truth, would be forced to confess, that at times they have not been without their qualms of conscience, nor without great "searchings of heart," when this fourth verse of the fifth chapter of the epistle to the Hebrews came before them-" No man taketh this honour unto himself but he that is called of God, as was Aaron." Some such I have known, who, without any previous preparation for the sacred work, without one single qualification for the discharge of its duties, without any public form of recognition, have, to their own injury, and to the injury of others, played the part of a minister of the sanctuary, till it suited their purposes to lay aside their pretended "holy orders," and return to the common duties of life. Their plea has often been, that, whatever else they do not know, they know Christ, and, therefore, think themselves fit to be ministers of His word. On this subject let me quote the language of a powerful mind which, though it may appear severe, is neither untrue nor uncharitable. Bishop Horsley thus speaks

"It is the usual plea of these deluded men, when they would assert their sufficiency, while they confess their ignorance, that, however deficient they may be in other knowledge, they know Christ. And God forbid, that, in a country professing Christ's religion, Christ should not be known by every one in the degree necessary to his own salvation-that any one should not so know Christ as to have a right apprehension of the necessary articles of the Christian faith-right notions of his duty to God and to his neighbour-a stedfast faith in God's promises through Christsuch views, in short, of the Christian doctrine, as may give it its full effect upon his heart and practice. This knowledge of Christ the most illiterate hath, or ought to have, in a Christian country; and he who hath it not, is culpable in his ignorance. But the