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the barbarous treatment of his master : and looking forward o that rest and joy which is the inheritance of the faithful, could with his latest breath like good Stephen, pray for, and forgive his cruel murderer. Though his way thither was through severe bodily suffering, his soul is doubtless for ever happy.
7. But language would fail, to paint in its true colors, the situation of the poor master ; and if we have a tear of pity to bestow, let us grant it him. Avarice and tyranny must have blinded his eyes, and the cruelty of a demon taken possession of his heart. As to his sense of a state of retribution, we must leave to Him who sees us as we really are, and from whose All-seeing Eye nothing can be hid. 

THE AFRICAN CHIEF.
(From the Statesman.)
1. Some years ago, the brother of Yaradee, the king of the Solimas, was captured in war, and brought in chains for sale to the Rio-Pongas. His noble figure, awful front, and daring eye, bespoke a mind which could know but one alternative--freedom or ruin. He was exhibited like a beast in the market-place, still adorned with massy rings of gold around his ancles, as in the days of his glory. 
2.The tyrant who bound him, demanded for him an enormous price, and thought the warrior offered immense sums for his redemption, refused to listen a moment to his proposals. Distracted by the thought of his degradation, the tear stole from his eye, when he entreated them to cut his hair, that had long been permitted to grow, and was platted with peculiar care. Large wedges of gold were now laid at the feet of his master, to obtain his ransom.
3. All was in vain. The wretch who held him was inexorable. Supplication might as well be made to the 

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winds, or the cliffs and deserts of his country. Hope was now dead,--darkness, deep and interminable settled upon his should. His faculties were shattered as by a stroke from on high; he became a maniac, and that robust frame which never trembled at danger, could not sustain the workings of his wounded spirit, but withered and perished under the weight of his chains.
4.Ye, who under the best governments in the world, range at pleasure, and enjoy all that you can desire, having none to make you afraid, could the miseries produced by the slave-trade be represented to you in their truth-- in their immensity, you would not refuse your offerings to remove a curse which has consigned, and is now consigning, ten thousand manly forms to letters, and ten thousand noble souls to despair.
African Repository.

THE AFRICAN BOY.

1. A gentleman from the East-Indies, who lately arrived at Exeter, presented a lady with a little African boy, about nine or ten years of age, which some time since, he humanely preserved from being destroyed by a 
slave-merchant.
2. It appears that among many slaves which were offered for sale by the captain of the slave ship, this black infant was one ; but not being able to procure a purchaser, he took the child up by the leg and arm to throw him into the ocean, and when in the very act, the above gentleman interposed, and agreed to give him some consideration for him.
THE SLAVE-TAKER
1. THE following circumstances are taken from the Commercial Advertiser, of 1825, as related by a per-