to rank, and calling on his men to give quarters. Clavers, to wipe off the disgrace of Drumclog, was committing fearful havock. "Can we not find Clavers," said Halhead. "No," said Capt. Paton, "the gallant colonel takes care to have a solid guard of his ogues about him. I have sought him over the field. But I found him, as I now perceive him, with a mass of his guards about him." At this instant we saw our general, at some distance, disentangling himself from the men who had tumbled over him in the mele. His face and hands and clothes were covered with gore: He had been dismounted; and was fighting on foot: We rushed to the spot, and cheered him: our party drove back the scattered bands of Dalzell: "My friends," said Sir Robert, as we mounted him on a stray horse, "the day is lost! But-you, Paton: you Brownlee of Torfoot, and you, Halhead, let not that flag fall into the hands of these incarnate devils: We have lost the battle, but, by the grace of God, neither Dalzell nor Clavers shall say that he took our colours: My ensign has done his duty: He is down : This sword has saved it twice: I leave it to your care: You see its perilous situation." He pointed with his sword to the spot: We collected some of our scattered troops, and flew to the place: The standard bearer was down, but he was still fearlessly grasping the flag-staff; while it was borne upright by the mass of men who had thrown themselves in fierce contest around it: Its well known blue and scarlet colours, and its motto, "Christ's Crown and Covenant," in brilliant gold letters, inspired us with a sacred enthusiasm: We gave a loud cheer to the wounded ensign, and rushed into the combat. The redemption of that flag cost the foe many a gallant man: They fell beneath our broad swords; and with horrible execrations dying on their lips, they gave up their souls to their Judge.

Here I met in front that ferocious dragoon of Clavers, wamed Tam Halliday, who had, more than once

in his raids, plundered my halls; and had snatched the bread from my weeping babes: He had just seized the white staff of the flag: But his tremendous oath of exultation, (we of the covenant never swear,) his oath had scarcely passed its polluted threshold, when this Andro Ferara fell on the guard of his steel, and shivered it to pieces: "Recreant loon!" said I, "thou shalt, this day, remember thy evil deeds:" Another blow on his helmet laid him at his huge length, and made him bite the dust: In the mele that followed, I lost sight of him: We fought like lions-but with the hearts of Christians: While my gallant companions stemmed the tide of battle, the standard, rent to tatters, fell across my breast: I tore it from the staff and wrapt it round my body: We cut our way through the enemy, and carried our general off the field.

Having gained a small knoll we beheld once more the dreadful spectacle below. Thick columns of smoke and dust rolled in a lazy cloud over the dark bands mingled in deadly fray: It was no longer a battle-but a massacre: In the struggle of my feelings I turned my eyes on the general and Paton: I saw in the face of the latter an indescribable conflict of passions. His long and shaggy eye brows were drawn over his eyes: His hand grasped his sword: "I cannot yet leave the field," said the undaunted Paton: "With the general's permission, I shall try to save some of our wretched men beset by these hell hounds: Who will go ?-At Kilsyth I saw service: When deserted by my troop, I cut my way through Montrose's men, and reached the spot where colonels Hacket and Strachan were: We left the field together: Fifteen dragoons attacked us: We eut down thirteen-and two fled: Thirteen next assailed us: We left ten on the field-and three fled. Eleven Highlanders next met us: We paused and sheered each other: "Now Johnny," cried Hacket to me, put forth your mettle-else we are gone:"

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Nine others we sent after their comrades: And two ded: Now, who will join this raid :"* "I will be your leader," said Sir Robert, as we fell into the Banks: We marched on the enemy's flank: "Yonder is Clavers," said Paton, while he directed his courser on him: The bloody man was, at that moment, nearly alone, hacking to pieces some poor fellows already on their knees, and disarmed, and imploring him by the common feelings of humanity to spare their lives: He had just finished his usual oath against their "feelings of humanity," when Paton presented himself: He instantly let go his prey, and slunk back into the midst of his troopers: Having formed them, he advanced: We formed and made a furious onset: At our first charge his troop reeled: Clavers was dismounted: But at that moment Dalzell assailed us on the flank and rear: Our men fell around us like grass before the mower: The bugleman sounded a retreat: Once more in the mele I fell in with the general and Paton: We were covered with wounds: We directed our flight in the rear of our broken troops: By the direction of the general I had unfurled the standard: It was borne off the field flying at the swords point: But that honour cost me much I was assailed by three fierce dragoons: five followed close in their rear: I called to Paton: In a moment he was by my side: I threw the standard to the general, and we rushed on the foe: They fell beneath our swords: but my faithful steed, which had carried me through all my dangers, was mortally wounded: He fell: I was thrown in among the fallen enemy: I fainted: I opened my eyes on misery: I found myself in the presence of Monmouth; a pris

*This chivalrous defence is recorded, I find, in the life of Captain Paton in the "Scots Worthies," Edinb. edit, of A. D. 1812. This celebrated officer was trained up to warfare in the army of Charles Gustavus, King of Sweden. This is a specimen of those heroic whigs, who brought about the Revolution of A. D. 1688.

oner: with other wretched creatures, waiting in awful suspense their ultimate destiny.” ****** W. C. B.

REVIEW.

Lectures upon the Principal Prophecies of the Revelation.

By Alexander M'Leod, D. D. Pastor of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, New-York, 1814. p. p. 480.

Continued from page 460.

Lecture IX, is from Rev. xvi, 1,-the command to the seven angels to go and pour out their vials upon the earth.

The object is the earth, which the author interprets to be the Antichristian system, of which he gives his views in the following words: "It includes the beasts of the pit, of the sea, and of the earth; the head, the horns, the image of the beast; the mother of harlots, and all who are drunken with the cup of intoxication. It is not precisely the emperor, the kings or any of the kings; nor the people, nor the pope, nor the Roman church, nor the territorial dominions of the pope, or of the emperor; but it is all these, combined by a corrupt religion, embodied with despotic power, in opposition to the public social order which Christianity demands of the nations of the world, and which shall actually be established in the millennium." (p. 260.) The author then proceeds to justify the application of the term Antichrist, (found 1st Joh. 11,) to this great complex system of iniquity, against all other applications. Whitby applies it to the Jewish nation; Hammond to the Gnostics; Bossuet and other Pa

pists to Rome Pagan; other writers to individual persons, as Nero, Cromwell, George III, Napoleon, &c.; Faber to France under Napoleon; and Protestant writers generally, to the Papacy. The gen

eral argument is, that the greatest, most protracted and dangerous opposition to true religion under the New Testament dispensation, is evidently "the Antichrist," from the account given of him 1st Joh. 11; and no one can doubt that this has been from the complex system above described.

He then proceeds in the second division of the subject, to explain the nature of this corrupt system.He applies to it the description of " the son of perdition," 2d Thess. 11, 9; the great apostacy mentioned, 2d Tim. 111, 1-5; and the blasphemous king, Dan. XI, 36, 38; which last the reader is requested to compare with the passages from Thessalonians and Timothy. Here there much profound and perspic uous Biblical criticism, and the argument supported by the most irresistible evidence.

He proceeds in the third place to answer objections to the application which he makes of the term, and in doing so produces much collateral testimony, by which the main argument is strongly fortified.

Lecture X, contains an account of the "little book," Rev. x, 6, &c. and consists of two parts-the manner of bringing the "little book" into view, and its contents.

As to its introduction, it is the subject of a distinct vision, in which there is:-1st Our Saviour holding the book in his hand, v. 1, 2. He is an omnipotent angel the same who guided Israel from Egypt to the promised land, who ruled in the days of old, and who still rules over the church and the nations. He has one foot on the sea and one on the land. He controls all the elements of the natural and moral world. His voice as when a lion roareth-great in power. The book is open, for in the scheme of the prophecy, the events which it contains, were matters of his