21 Red Satchel, the 34 Romantic, 48 Rotterdam, - 73 Romantic Tale, 32 Rocks of Lake Superior, 478, 526, 570. What of the Times? 57 Forbidden Love. 123 ASKET In public life severe, To virtue still inexorably firm; fut when, beneath his low illustrious roof, weet peace and happy wisdom smooth'd his brow, for friendship softer was, nor love more kind. LADELPHIA.----- JANUARY. KETCH OF PENN. an find no stronger tical wisdom in the e of the excellent he head of this ar gious meetings with those of his own belief. This gave offence to the heads of the college, and he was persecuted for non-conformity. As he refused to submit, he was expelled from Oxford, and returned home, where he constantly showed a preference for the company of sober and religious persons. His father, who was more a man characters more of the world, tried every effort to induce him to ar, and Napoleon, abandon his fellowship with the Quakers, thinkplendid mischiefs ing it would be a great obstacle to his preferof William Penn ment. But persuasion, and even stripes, had no nan theirs. He is effect to make the young man forsake his prinfor his blameless ciples, and he remained a shining example of good he wrought moral and religious purity in a corrupt and licenmiral Sir William tious age. At last, his father became so incensmore celebrated ed at his firmness, that he turned him out of his the British Navy, house. This is, perhaps, the only eminent inarles the Second. stance of a son punished by a father for perseritime affairs, in verance in well doing. elf that he was a The young William bore his misfortunes with age, rear-admiral -admiral at twen agland at thirty ld, and was em s, the Parliament toration; yet he troubles, having ation, rather than rried the daugh m, and William ge. He died in y incessant ap of Sir William, meekness and patience, so that in a short time his father's affections were restored, and he was shortly after sent to make the tour of France. He returned so good a scholar, and with manners so polished, that his father considered the object of his travel answered, and received him with great satisfaction. Indeed he had become a complete and accomplished gentleman. At the age of twenty he was strongly tempted to give himself up to the pleasures of fashionable life; but the care of Almighty Providence strengthened his early impressions, and prevented his virtues and talents from being lost to the world. Two years after, his father sent him to is early promise Ireland to take care of an estate he had in that d to give him a country, and there he entered into full commume a member of nion with the Friends. This was partly caused ord, at fourteen. by his being imprisoned, together with several mbued with the others, for attending a religious meeting. He The received in- was soon discharged at the intercession of the her, and conse- Earl of Orrery, and immediately assumed the rt and soul. He dress and manners of a Quaker, which subjected Lim to infinita ridicule and contempt. monument of honor to William Penn, and of infamy to his violent and unjust judges. Not long after this his father died, perfectly reconciled to him, and left him his blessing and a large estate. He then engaged in controversy with certain Baptists, and wrote a book against popery. This he did because he had been accused of favoring the Roman Catholic religion. Towards the end of the year 1670, William Penn was again taken into custody by a band of soldiers, for preaching, and carried to the Tower. His behaviour at the examination before the Lieutenant of the Tower was remarkably bold and spirited. That officer having told him that he had been as bad as other people, he made this reply: "I challenge all persons on earth, to say that they have seen me drunk, heard me swear, lie, or utter an obscene word. There is nothing more common than for men of loose lives to comfort themselves with the conceit that religious persons were once as bad as themselves." However, he was committed to Newgate for six months, after which he went to Holland and Germany. In 1672, he married a Miss Springett, and fixed his residence in Hertfordshire. Here he remained several years, writing and preaching to the Quakers, and upholding them on all occasions. He also made several visits to different parts of Europe. We now cone to William Penn's instrumentality in settling America. In 1675, Lord Berkely, the original proprietor of New Jersey, sold his interest in that province to a Quaker, named Billinge, who soon after surrendered his right to his creditors. William Penn was one of them, and thus became one of the chief instruments in settling the west part of New Jersey. And it must be said here, that the Quakers engaged in this settlement never defrauded the Indians or did them wrong. It seems, that when admiral Sir William Penn died, the British government owed him a large sum of money. William Penn petitioned king Charles to grant him, instead, that part of America, now called Pennsylvania. The land was given to him in 1680, and it became his property as far as the British government could make it so. Having thus obtained this grant, he offered lands to those who might be willing to settle on them, at forty shillings an acre. A good numnext year three shiploads of them crossed the Atlantic. and tumonny of his indges beshowed much mon The Proprietary also laid out the plan of the in Pennsylvania four, on divine goodness to the last. - he continued to re uniformly made the n. Having obtain e unfortunate James inclination towards and often vilified by he wrote often and fter the abdication and the accession of one, he was accused nce with the former, 1 popery into Engning could be more eight by repetition. ng to the reigning ry, and in 1692 he ent of Pennsylvnia. the Proprietor was ce, and his govern1694, just after the = considered a very account of his writnored with the aphe government, for uakers, whose buconduct. He this s deputy governor vania. ous young lady of ah Callowhill. He his life, and they Four years after for Pennsylvania, ss to his beloved ■he assured them ed the love of wo hia, he took meagroes and Indians, to protect and inel. Hence a meetose was appointed ne agreed to dwell ages, pro.nising to n, and they agreeAs far as he was to be set for their aly good he did in e to all men, setgoverned the pros blessed by all. nia five years, he r, or grant, of all onably confer on nd, where, on the ame a favorite of Anne. Iliam Penn lived |