nomy and also because a child of that age is seldom expensive to the parents, sometimes even profitable if he' be not withdrawn from his labour to the school. But the case of infants is different; and the parents ought uniformly to be compelled to pay weekly the real expense of their schooling. If, by the better economy of the new schools, they have less to pay there than they would otherwise expend upon worse superintendence, this is an advantage which belongs to our state of society, and may fairly be given in.

We are aware of one objection which may appear plausible; that, on this plan, those would be neglected whom it is most important to provide for, the children of thoughtless and reprobate parents, who will make no sacrifice for their benefit. To this, it might be enough to say, that such unfortunate children will not be in a worse condition than at present; but they form an exception, and may be paid for by individual charity, which can no way be more usefully bestowed: but the principle should not be allowed to go out of sight; and let subscriptions or donations in general be only used to meet the first expenses of a school, or to increase its size and comforts. The conscientious and humane need be under no alarm lest the avenues to charity should be closed, because so much evil has been found to result from its indiscreet exercise. That charity can do no harm, we would rather say, can only do unmixed good, which does not interfere with the supply of what are strictly the necessaries of life, and which attempts nothing further than to provide the poor with comforts which they could not otherwise enjoy. We may improve their accommodations, we may alleviate the distresses of illness, we may furnish the superfluities of clothing; in these and in a variety of other instances which will occur to those who are in the habit of visiting the poor, there is sufficient room for the exercise of benevolence, and no danger of contingent mischief. There will never be a state of things in which there shall be no place for well-directed charity, or when well-directed charity will cease to be beneficial.

We have before intimated that the infant schools strike us as of minor importance; even, however, if they rank but as a very superior kind of nursery, it is worthy the attention of the benevolent to encourage their formation, and watch over their regulations and management. It occurs to us, that the form in which they may be established most economically and most beneficially in every respect, is, by attaching them to the national school in each parish. In this way they will require a smaller sacrifice of time from the clergyman and visitors for the purpose of inspection, and may be provided with rooms, and masters or mistresses, at a comparatively small expense.

ART.

ART. VII.-The Diary of Henry Teonge, Chaplain on Board his Majesty's Ships Assistance, Bristol, and Royal Oak, Anno 1675 to 1679. Now first published from the Original MS. London. 1825. pp. 327.

IN the year 1675 the Assistance frigate, commanded by Captain Houlding, sailed from the Thames to reinforce Sir John Narborough, who had been dispatched some months before on an expedition against the Barbary States. The Assistance carried out as her chaplain, Henry Teonge, whose notes on this and a subsequent voyage compose the present volume. His manuscript, we are told, had been in the possession of a respectable Warwickshire family for more than a century,' and had descended as part of an old library, from one generation to another, without attracting any particular observation. It was at length accidentally offered to the publisher for sale, as a curious volume that might interest some collector;' and we are thankful for the chance which has thus brought into notice a very amusing work of its kind.

As a book of observations on foreign countries the Diary contains little that may not be better learned from other publications, and is, indeed, rather amusing for its strange blunders, than valuable for its information; its notices of political affairs and of the feelings they excited in those with whom the author was conversant, are slight, though occasionally interesting; but the great charm of the work undoubtedly lies in the character of the good chaplain himself, which is artlessly drawn by his own hand, with such effective and natural touches that the picture is almost worthy of Fielding's pencil.

Henry Teonge, when he entered on naval life, was in his 55th year, and rector of Spernall in Warwickshire; he had lately vacated the living of Alcester. He was married, and the father of several sons. Of his early history we are only so far informed, that he is in one place said to be an old cavalier;' and it is with all the jolly hardihood of that character that he first presents himself leaving house, wife, and family in his advanced age, to encounter unknown difficulties in a new and perilous scene of existence.

Thursday, May 20, 1675. Deus vortat bene!

This day I began my voyage from my house at Spernall, in the county of Warwick; with small accouterments, saveing what I carried under me in an old sack. My steede like that of Hudibras, for mettle, ́courage, and colour, (though not of the same biggnes :) and for flesh,

* Introduction, p. iii.

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one of Pharaoh's leane mares, ready to cease (for hunger) on those that went before her, had shee not been short-winged; or rather leadenheeled. My stock of monys was also proportionable to the rest; being little more than what brought me to London, in an old coate and britches of the same; an old payre of hose and shooes; and a lethern dublett of 9 yeares olde and upward. Indeed (by reason of the suddenness of my jurney,) I had nothing but what I was ashamed of; save only

'An old fox broade-sword, and a good black gowne;

And thus Old Henry cam to London towne.'-p. 1, 2.

The cause which drove him from home was probably the same which rendered that home uneasy to him when he returned, in 1678, almost as poor as he had gone abroad; for it should seem that the chaplain had acquired, among the cavaliers, their characteristic slovenliness in pecuniary matters.

Though I was glad,' says he, (on revisiting Warwickshire) to see my relations and old acquaintance, yet I lived very uneasy, being dayly dunnd by som or other, or else for feare of land pyrates,* which I hated worse than Turkes; though I was sufficiently provided for them if they had made any attempt.'-p. 228.

On the 26th of May Teonge reached London, where his captain and Lieut. Haughton welcomed him with bottells of claret, &c.' And now,' he says, a small sea-bed is my unum necessarium, (though I wanted almost every thing else,) a thing that I could not bee without; nor knew I how to compas it.' it.' Some complicated operations of pawning and borrowing are then detailed, and by leaving his cloak in pledge for forty shillings, and raising twenty-six more upon his mare, saddle, bridle, boots and spurs, the poor divine at length became master of a 'a small bed, on pillow, on blanket, ou rug;' to which, in about eleven months, he was able to add the luxury of sheets.

Other portions of his outfit were supplied in a manner somewhat mysterious. We cite his own words, exhorting the reader to receive them with the same simplicity of spirit in which they are given.

And here I might tell you what Providence putt into my hands; which though littell worth of themselves, yet were they of greate use to him that then wanted almost every thing. Early in the morning I mett with a rugged towell on the quarter-deck; which I soone secured. And soone after, Providence brought me a piece of an old sayle, and an carthen chamber pott: all very helpfull to him that had nothing.'-p. 7. Teonge appears to have been a genuine landsman at his first

We are afraid that by this inauspicious term, Teonge designates some rather unpopular ministers of the law. For the learned profession, in general, he seems to have entertained no very charitable feelings; thus, in one place he says, 'wee have a small gale, and goe on as lawyers doe to heaven.'

embarkation;

embarkation; punch,' (with which indeed he familiarized himself with the speed and facility of natural genius,) the Boy in the Nore,' and the greene water, were very strainge' to him. Even, however, before the ship had reached the greene water,' he observes,

Wee begin our warlike accheivements, for seeing a merchant man neare us without takeing the least notice of a man of warr, wee give him a shott, make him loare his top-gallant, (id est, pull off his hatt to us,) and our gunner presently goes on board of him, makes him pay 6s. 6d. for his contempt; abateing him 2d. because it was the first shott.'-p. 6.

On the 13th of June he commenced his preaching on shipboard, where he could not stand without holding by boath the pillars in the steareage;' he boasts, however, that he was not sick, only giddy.'—p. 9.

'June (20th). No prayers to day. Wee are makeing ready to sayle: and are under sayle after dinner; yet we drink a health to all our friends behind us, in a good bowle of punch; knowing now that wee shall goe not only to Trypoly, but to convoy the Syppio fraught with 27,000 dollars, to Scanderroonde.

And now you may see our mornefull ladys singing lacrimae, or loath to depart; whilst our trumpets sound, Mayds where are your harts, &c. Our noble capt. (though much bent on the preparation for his voyage,) yet might you see his hart full of trouble to part from his lady and bis sonne and heire; whoe though so younge, yet with his mayd to leade him by his dading sleeves, would he goe from gun to gun, and put his fingar to the britch of the gun, and cry Booe; whilst the mother, like a woman of greate discretion, seems no whit troubled, that her husband might be the less so. But our lieutenant's wife was like weeping Rachell, or mornefull Niobe; as was also the boatswaine's wife: indeede all of them like the turtle-doves, or young pigions, true emblems of mourning. Only our master's wife, of a more masculine spirit, or rather a virago, lays no such grieve to her hart; only, like one that hath eaten mustard, her eys are a little redd. Σίναπι παρὰ του σίνεσθαι τοὺς ὠπας. -p. 12, 13.

It is waggishly intimated, however, that some of the ladies. were merrier when out of sight; and, says Old Henry, I could tell with whom too, were I so minded.'

On the Sussex coast, Captain Houlding, taking the prospective' (glass), discovered a Dutch man of war, and gave orders to tack upon her, no doubt hoping that an occasion of quarrel might arise from the Hollander's refusing the honour of the flag so amply conceded to England at the peace of 1674. But the Dutchman, says Teonge, (who appears already inoculated with the pride of his new service,)

like a cowardly dogg that lys downe when he sees one com that he fears, loares not only his top sayle, but claps his sayle to the mast, and

lys

lys by. This satisfys us as unworthy of so pittiful an onsett; and we keepe on our course as before. Yet I can not forget the words of our noble captain, viz., I wish I could meete with on that would not vaile his bonnett, that I might make woorke for my brethren at White Hall; meaning officers that were out of imployment.'-p. 16, 17.

And now, being fairly committed to the seas, effectually cut off from the troubles and perplexities of his land-life, relieved from every care beyond those of the day, and happy in the combined enjoyments of fine weather, sanguine spirits, and a firm stomach, our chaplain thus expresses his contentment.

'Wee goe to prayers at ten, and to dinner at twelve. No life at the shoare being comparable to this at sea, where wee have good meate and good drinke provided for us, and good company and good divertisments; without the least care, sorrow, or trouble; which will be continued if wee forget not our duety, viz. loyalty and thankfullnes.'— p. 17, 18.

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In passing Plymouth, our voyager bestows a bitter_remembrance on that rebell Essex' who escaped thither from Fowey in 1644. Entering the bay of Biscay, the Assistance and her companions lite of a Virginia man, and press three seamen. The ships now do wonders; for, says Teonge, whereas we ran but four knots in a minute before, we run seven now, and with less sayle abroade!'-p. 27. To carry any sail while running at the rate of 420 knots an hour, was a feat worthy of the Flying Dutchman, and we can scarcely wonder at what follows: that 'very often the seas breake over our wask, and com in at our scuttles, and do us some small injurys. Now our table and chayres are lashed fast to the boards; our dishes held on the table, and our bottles of wine held in our hands. Many in the ship are casting up their reckonings, and not able to eate or drinke.'-p. 27.

On the 14th of July the ships entered the straits, and on the 15th anchored before the then celebrated fortress of Tangier. Teonge, with the captain and doctor,' went on shore to view the town. He bestows but cool commendation on this key of the Mediterranean, as it was then expected to prove, in comparison with the praises drawn from him by the regale of the commander, Captain Charles Daniell, with whom they drank several bottells of wine,' and who sent them away loaded with cucumbers, musk-melons, onions, and good wine, under the escort of a corporal, charged to see them safe to their pinnace. Whether it was the Captain's claret, or any fear of the Moors, which made the corporal's escort necessary, is not stated; but such a harty entertayument,' says the chaplain, quite pathetically, I never saw before from a meare stranger; nor never shall againe till I returne to the prince-like Captain Daniell.'-p. 32

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