er that
children should be able to _understand_ that, which is the
_foundation_ of all polemical divinity, vanishes, when we
try it by the touchstone of scripture, which is the
criterion by which we ought to judge.--When they are thus
instructed in the rudiments of virtue, they are seldom known
to apostatize; so that for a native to become dissolute and
abandoned, is very rare.--Indeed they have characters of
this kind who emigrate from old countries; but they soon
find employment for such gentry, by obliging them to labour
for the publick good, and "work out their salvation by the
sweat of their brow."--Thus the community is not only
delivered from such pests, but experience beneficial effects
from their confinement. Knavery, though rarely found in a
native, is not entirely extirpated from the breasts of some
among them.

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Remarkable instances of longevity.

LONGEVITY. Mafeus, who wrote the history of the Indies,
which has always been a model of veracity as well as elegant
composition, mentions a native of Bengal, named Numas de
Cugna, who died 1566, at the age of 370. He was a man of
great simplicity and quite illiterate; but of so extensive a
memory, that he was a kind of living chronicle, relating
distinctly and exactly what had happened within his
knowledge in the compass of his life, together with all the
circumstances attending it. He had four new sets of teeth;
and the color of his hair and beard had been very
frequently changed from black to grey, and from grey to
black. He asserted that in the course of his life, he had
700 wives, some of whom had died, and the others he had put
away. The first century of his life passed in idolatry, from
which he was converted to Mahometanism, which he continued
to profess to his death.--The account is also confirmed by
another Portuguese author, Ferdinand Lopez Casteguedo, who
was historiographer royal.

_Salem Observer,_ Feb. 22, 1834.

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LONDON, May 28.

_Remarkable Instances of Longevity in Europe._

THOMAS PARRE, of Shropshire, died on the 16th of November,
1635, aged 152.

James Bowes, of Killinworth, in Shropshire, died the 15th of
August, 1656, aged 152.

Anon