sudden music of William's name, turned around with her face all flushed with joy, and flying to embrace him, exclaimed, "High, my dear William! what brought you home so soon?" Alarmed at the sudden paleness on his cheeks, they both at once eagerly inquired what was the matter! With his characteristic firmness he replied "I'm expelled from the University!" l'ale as a blighted lily, poor Mrs. Penn stood a statue of speechless consternation; while the Admiral, clasping his hands and rolling his eyes, as if he had suddenly beheld half his fleet blown up by the Dutch, exclaimed

"Expelled from the University!"

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Yes, sir, they have expelled me,” replied William. "Expelled you, do you still say, child," continued the Admiral, wild, and blowing like a frightened porpoise, "a child of mine expelled from an English University! why!-why!-what! in the name of God, could have been the cause?"—" Why, sir," answered William, "it was because I tore their dresses from off the shoulders of some of the students."-Here, the Admiral, with his cheeks puckered up, and a whistle, shrill as the boatswain's call of a man of war missing stays on a lee shore, exclaimed-" You tore the dresses from off the shoulders of some of the students! why, God's mercy on my soul! what had you to do with their dresses?"

"Why, father," answered William, "their dresses were so fantastical and unbecoming the dignity of Englishmen and the sobriety of Christians, that I felt it a duty to my country and conscience to bear my testimony against them. And moreover, I was assisted in it by Robert Spencer, and John Locke, and other discreet youths of the college."

Here, the death pale on Mrs. Penn's cheeks, brightening into the vermilion of joy, she exclaimed-" Well thank God! thank God, 'tis no worse."

"You are thankful for small favours, madam," said the admiral, peevishly; I don't see what could be

worse.

Why, my dear, replied she, had William been expelled for drunkenness, gambling, duelling, or any other such detestable vices, would not that have been ten thousand times worse?

Why-why-yes; answered the admiral rather reluctantly, that-that would have been worse I confess. But this is bad enough, and too bad too. A son of mine to be expelled from college!-Such a thing was never heard of in my family before.

But still, my dear, we have great reason to be glad the cause of it was a pardonable error and not infamous vice, and that instead of attaching to our son the abhorrence due to crime, we should rather augment our respect for him as having done what he thought right.

Right, madam! what right had he to pass judgment on the dresses of others, and particularly of such grand institutions as Universities?

Why, father, replied William, my mind has been exceedingly exercised since I saw you.

Exercised! What do you mean by that?

Why, father, it has been given me here of late to see many things in a new light.

Zounds, sir, I hope it has not been given you to see things in the light of a blockhead. A child, like you, to talk of your new lights! 'Tis all nonsense.

I mean, father, replied William, that it has been given me to see many things very wrong which I once thought innocent.

The admiral wanted to know what he was to understand by that.

Why, certainly, father, answered William, every wise man should be consistent; and especially that wisest of all men the real Christian. If therefore we are simple within we should be all simplicity without

And he who inwardly in his heart is seeking the smiles of God, should not outwardly, by his dress, be courting the world.

Here good Mrs. Penn, her eyes sparkling on William, looked very much like an angel. But the Admiral turning to her said, rather ironically, why the boy is certainly out of his head! or has been among the quakers. Now come be candid, William, and tell me, have you not been hearing Tom Loe?

Yes, father, I have, said William, very firmly; and I hope I have not learned from him to think less reverently of truth.

Nor of duty to your father neither, I hope, sir, rejoined the admiral tartly. And as proof that you have not, I expect you will go back to-morrow, and by proper concessions, recover your high standing in the University, and by instantly quitting your silly quakerism, worship God according to the good old forms of the established church of the nation.

William in the most respectful manner replied, tha he should be exceedingly happy to obey his honoured father in all things lawful, and especially in this late matter, the attack on the students about their dress, which he was already ashamed of as a mere spirit of "zeal without knowledge," and entirely contrary to the spirit of Christ who forbids his disciples to strive or to propagate the truth by violence. But that as to abandoning the Christians called Quakers, and confining himself to the established church, he hoped, he said, his father would not insist on that.

Why not, sir? replied the admiral angrily.

Why, because, father, I hope you will never think of abridging my liberty of conscience by compelling me to be a churchman when I wish to be a quaker.

But why do you give that silly preference of quakerism to the established church?

Why, father, peoples' tastes are different. And if 1 preferred a particular dish, I should hope you would

gratify me in it, especially if it was quite as wholesome as another dish, even though I could not assign the reason of my preference of the first; then much more in this case where the reason is so plain.

Well, sir, I should like to hear your reasons, so plain, for preferring quakerism to the established church you were brought up in.

Father, I may not have arguments to satisfy you but they are such as fully satisfy myself.

Then pray let me hear them.

Well, father, when I look into the gospel, I see nothing there but lessons and examples of the most perfect HUMILITY and LOVE. All 166 are sinners," and therefore all should be HUMBLE. And, on repentance, all are received into favour, and therefore all should love. But father, look into the established church, and do you see any thing like humility and love there? Nay, don't you see the most glaring marks of PRIDE and SELFISHNESS? Don't you see both among the priests and their people a constant vieing with each other, who shall have the grandest houses, and the richest furniture; who shall appear in the finest clothes and the most dazzling equipage; and who shall be the greatest TALK of THE TOWN for these things? Now father, is there any humility in this? And as to Love, look at their endless challenges and duels, their cuffings and fightings, their law-suings and bickerings. Can this be a church of Christ? Then where's the propriety of driving me into fellowship with such a church as this?

Yes, replied the admiral, I know this is the common slang of the dissenters against the established church, and I doubt not you heard enough of it from Tom Loe, Dut it amounts to nothing: for there are good and bad n all churches.

Yes, father, but do you know any such character as a drunken quaker, a gambling quaker, a duelling quaker 1 law-suing quaker.

Well, well, admit there are more disorderly characters among them, it reflects nothing on the Church.

I don't know, sir, how you can prove this. There can be no effect without a cause. And we cannot be long at a loss for the cause in this case when we look at the glaring corruptions of the clergy. Christ and his apostles had not where to lay their heads, but our bishops and archbishops live in kings' palaces. Christ and his apostles had neither scrip nor purse; but these ride in gilt coaches, and enjoy, each of them, a revenue sufficient to maintain five hundred poor families. Christ and his apostles wanted only the plainest language to tell sinners their misery and danger: but our clergy must have their Latin and Greek, and a thousand other things equally useless. And they set so high a price on these, and lay themselves out so entirely to get these, that they never get the spirit of Christ's preachers; hence, instead of that burning zeal with tears and vehemence we read of in the prophets and apostles, these gentlemen run over their prayers and sermons, like lazy school-boys impatient of their lessons and anxious to get through them. I hope therefore, my dear father, you will never compel me to a church with whose spirit and manners I can have no fellowship." The admiral listened to this discourse of his son without interrupting him, and with looks still gathering, as William went on, a deeper and a deeper shade of saddest disappointment, till at the close, strongly clasping together his uplifted hands, with a kind of sardonic grin he thus exclaimed,-"Well! my pigs are all brought to a fine market! And here's a pretty ending of all the bright castles that I have for years been building in the air for this boy! A lad of geniusgetting a complete college education-the only child of a British admiral-great friends at court—the high road to preferment all ahoy before him—and yet determined to turn his back on all, and live and die a poor despised quaker! Why, God's mercy on my sou