The mansion was shown to us, a very elegant edifice, containing some fine statuary and paintings, in this respect differing from the other Cuban residences we have seen, which seemed singularly wanting in objects of art or books; the attention of the owners being apparently devoted entirely to securing large and handsome apartments.

The Moro Castle is one of the most prominent features in the defences of Havana, less extensive than the wide-spread Cabanas, but far bolder and more picturesque in its form, and occupying an almost unequalled position for scenic effect. Its yellow walls and bastions stand on a crag of coral rock, forty or fifty feet above the blue and transparent waters of the Gulf, and projecting beyond the line of the western shore, on which lies the low fortification of the Punts. Above the parapets, rises to an additional height of 70 or 80 feet a graceful tower, crowned with a lantern of the most perfect construction; near by, but lower, is the look-out station, beside which stands a tall staff whence are floating signals of gay bunting, ever varying as the vessels of different nations approach the mouth of the harbor. The whole huge structure, with its bright walls and many angles and projections, seen under the brilliant sunshine which seems ever to gild it, is one of the most imposing and beautiful of all the fortresses on which the eye of the mariner can rest.

We were fortunate in being permitted to see its interior. The view from the parapets is magnificent; their height must be seventy or eighty feet from the sea, yet during the memorable storm of last January the waves broke over them in torrents, and removed heavy guns and and stone walls from their places. The ditch inclosing it on the land side is of formidable depth and width, I thought fifty feet in cach dimension. Nearly the whole interior of the walls is occupied by the soldiers' quarters, a huge square building surrounded by a narrow alley, and covered with a level, bomb-proof roof of stone, brick and cement. It would seem almost impossible to capture this fortress by battery or assault, but it is said that were the adjoining works in the possession of an enemy, and the Moro bombarded, its confined quarters would soon become untenable in hot weather from the disease which would prevail among the garrison. OWAHGENA.

THE BRIDLE.

"Don't go without the bridle, boys," was my grandfather's favorite bit of advice."

Do you suppose we were all teamsters or horse jockeys? No such a thing.

If he heard one cursing and swearing, or given to much vain and foolish talk, "That man has

dle, the tongue, though a little member, " boasteth great things." It is "an unruly evil, full of deadly poison." Put a bridle on, and it is one of the best servants the body and soul have. "I will keep my mouth with a bridle," said king David, and who can do better than follow his example?

When my grandfather saw a man drinking and carousing, or a boy spending all his money for cakes and candy, "Poor fellow," he would say, "he's left off his bridle." The appetite needs reining; let it loose, and it will run you to gluttony, drunkenness, and all sorts of disorders. Be sure and keep a bridle on your appetite; don't let it be master. And don't neglect to have one for your passions. They go mad if they get unmanageable, driving you down a blind and headlong course to ruin. Keep the checkrein tight; don't let it slip; hold it steady. Never go without your bridle, boys. That was the bridle my grandfather meant, the bridle of self-government. Parents try to restrain and check their children, and you can generally tell by their behavior what children have such wise and faithful parents. But parents cannot do everything. And some children have no parents to care for them. Every boy must have his own bridle, and every girl must have hers; they must learn to check and govern themselves. Self-government is the most difficult and the most important government in the world. It becomes easier every day, if you practice it with steady and resolute will. It is the fountain of excellence. It is the cutting and pruning which makes the noble and vigorous tree of character.

HPILADELPHIA MARKETS.

FLOUR AND MEAL.-The market is steady, Good brands are held at $7 37 a 7 50 per bbl., and brands for home consumption at $7 75 a $8 00, and extra and fancy brands at $8 75 a 9 75. There is very little Flour is held at $4 75 per barrel, and Pennsylvania demand for export, and little stock to operate in. Rye Corn Meal at $4 00 per barrel. Brandywine at $4 75.

GRAIN. Wheat is in demand, the market bare. Sales of prime Pennsylvania red were made at $1 88 a 190, and $1 92 a 1 95 for good white. Rye is Penna. yellow is held at 90c, and buyers offer but 85c. scarce. Penna. is selling at $1 10. Corn is unsettled. Oats are steady; sales of Pennsylvania and Delaware at 78 a 59c per bu.

SEEDS.-Cloverseed is inactive. Last sales of prime rt $7 per 64 lbs. Last sales of Timothy at $3 37 a 3 50, and Flaxseed at $1 85 a 1 90. Sales of Red Top at $3 50.

VOL. XIV.

No. 17.

Some weeks after this, John Rogers, a Seventhday Baptist, from New-London in New-England, came near two hundred miles on purpose to visit me; he was the chief elder of that society called by other people Quaker-Baptists, as imagining (though falsely) that both in their principles and doctrines they seemed one with us; whereas they differed from us in these material particulars, viz about the Seventh-day Sabbath, and in making use of baptism in water to grown persons, after the manner of other Baptists, and using the ceremony of bread and wine as a communion, and also of anointing the sick with oil. Nor did they admit of the light of truth, or manifestation of the spirit, but only to believers; alleging Scripture for the whole. They bore a noble testimony against fighting, swearing, vain compliments, and the superstitious observation of days, for which he had endured sundry long imprisonments, and other very great sufferings besides, both of body and goods. He was a prisoner when William Edmunson was in that country, (see his Journal page 90,) and had by sufferings obtained so complete a victory over his opposers, that now they took no notice of him; he might do and say what he pleased. But he thought to himself, that he had carried his opposition to the observation of the First-day as a Sabbath a little too far at times, so that he would do all sorts of work, yea, drive goods or merchandize of sundry sorts in a wheel-barrow, and expose them to sale before the pulpit, when the priest was about the middle of his discourse, if he was not hindered, which sometimes, though but seldom, happened; and would do any kind of labor, letting the people know his reasons for so doing was to expose their ignorance and superstition in observing that day, which had

more of law than gospel in it, for Christ was the true Sabbath of believers; withal adding, that he was raised up for that very end. They admitted women to speak in their meetings, (believing some qualified by the gift of the spirit for that work,) and sometimes they had but very little said in their meetings, and sometimes they were wholly silent, though not often; for they admitted any one, who wanted information concerning the meaning of any text, to put the question, and it was then expounded and spoken to, as they understood it: any one being admitted to shew his dissent, with his reasons for it: thus, said he, we improve our youth in Scripture knowledge. I asked him, if they did not sometimes carry their difference in sentiments too far to their hurt? He acknowledged there was danger in doing so, but they guarded against it as much as they could.

He gave me a large account of the conference he had with William Edmundson, and told me that nothing ever gave him so much trouble and close uneasiness, as his opposing William Edmundson at that time he did, desiring me, if I lived to see William Edmundson, to acquaint him with the sincere sorrow that he had upon his mind for that night's work.

At my return, I acquainted William Edmundson therewith, who desired me, if I lived to see him again to let him know that it was the Truth William Edmundson bore testimony to that he opposed, and therefore it was no wonder that he was so much troubled for his foolish attempt therein.

He gave me an account of his convincement and conversion which was very large, and although at first it was agreeable and very entertaining, yet by his spinning of it out so long, he made it disagreeable, for he staid with me five or six days, and it was the greatest part of his discourse all that time, although I did sundry times start other subjects, which he would soon get off, and go on about his own experiences.

I queried, why he was so very stiff about the Seventh-day, and whether, upon a mild consideration of the opposition he gave about their Sabbath, it was not by him carried too far? He acknowledged, that he did not at first see clearly into the true meaning of the Sabbath, but that the provocations he met with from the priests, (who stirred up the people and mob against him,) might sometimes urge him farther than he was

afterwards easy with, in opposing them; but when he kept his place, he had inexpressible comfort and peace in what he did: adding, that the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God.

He spoke very much of his satisfaction and unity with George Fox, John Stubbs, John Burnyeat, and William Edmundson, as the Lord's servants, with sundry others of the first visitors of that country; that he knew them to be sent of God, and that they had carried the reformation farther than any of the protestants ever did before them, since the general apostacy from the purity both of faith and doctrine.

About the beginning of the Eighth-month 1703, the Sheriff had an order to call or warn eighteen men for a jury, to try their success a second time. But whether they went upon the old indictment or a new one, I could not understand, but it was thought by some of the last jury to be the same indictment that the first jury went upon; but I was never admitted to see it. The Sheriff had private instructions to get such men put into the jury, as they thought would answer their end, which he shewed me with abhorrence, assuring me, he would never do it; so the jury was fairly named, and they made no great matter about it, but in a short time (as their predecessors had done before them) they came in with their bill, signed Ignoramus; which gave some of the lawyers cause to say, in a jocular way, they were got into an Ignoramus country.

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This was on the second day of the Ninth month, and the Court adjoined to the next day, at which time I was had into Court; which I was told was not regular nor lawful to bring a man to the bar that had nothing laid to his charge by his peers, the grand inquest; however, I was asked, if I had any thing to offer to the Court? I desired my liberty, and reparation for the wrong done me in taking it from me, &c. The judge told me, I might have my liberty, paying my fees. I replied, that I was informed there were no fees due, as the case then was, according to law; but if there had, I should not pay any, it being to me a matter of conscience. The judge said he believed so, and smiled, speaking something to those near him, that was not heard by me. However I was set at liberty by proclamation; and a large body of my dear friends, from all parts of the island, came to see me cleared, and had me away with them in a kind of triumph, not being a little glad that I came off so honorably; and even the country people who were not Friends were there in abundance, and rejoiced exceedingly at my enlargement.

I was now at liberty, after having been a prisoner one year wanting three weeks and about two days; but having not freedom to go away, I staid some time, visiting every corner of the

island, and had very large and open meetings. The people were thoroughly alarmed, so that I found by experience that my long imprisonment had made me more popular and regarded, so that they flocked in great numbers to where I was, and Friends were careful that they should have notice. They appointed a meeting for me at a place called Cow-neck, at one Jacob Doughty's, there not having been any at that place before; and as I lay in bed at my dear friend John Rodman's at the Bay-side, the night before, I dreamt that an honest Friend was fishing in a large stone cistern, with a crooked pin for his hook, a small switch stick for his rod, and a piece of thread for his line; and George Fox came and told me that there were three fishes in that place, and desired me to take the tackling of the Friend, for that he wanted skill to handle the matter: accordingly, methought he (the Friend) gave me the rod, and the first time that I threw in I caught a fine fish. George Fox bid me try again, for there were two more in that place; I did and took up another. bid me cast in my hook once more; I did, and took a third: now, said George, there is no more there. This dream was taken from me as if I had not dreamt at all. The next day we went to the meeting, and were a little late, by reason the tide and high fresh-water obliged us to ride the farthest way, and when we came into meeting a Friend was preaching on universal grace; but in a little time he left off, and my heart being full of the matter, I took it up, and we had a blessed powerful meeting, and all ended well.

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I returned with my friend Rodman to his house, and in our way my dream came fresh into my memory, and that evening I told it to my friend Rodman, and gave him a description of George Fox's features and bulk, as he appeared to me; and he said, I had a very just and right apprehension of him. He had been much with George Fox when he was in Barbadoes and was well acquainted with him; adding, this remarkable dream shews some good done there* this day.

Now after I was clear of Long Island, (it being just with me as if I had been set out from home,) I found it of necessity to convene the elders, and lay before them my concern, as I did when I came from home; and in a tender and fatherly way they took care to examine what I might be in need of, both with respect to linen, woolen, pocket-money and a horse; (for as yet I had not bought one, never finding freedom so to do). But Friends, to their praise be it spoken, assisted me from stage to stage, and when I was in prison I saw I had no want of a horse, and admired the kindness of Providence in restraining me from having one till wanted. And I had

"There's a large meeting since settled there.