bers should make a vow before the Patriarch of elder brothers had been recently slain in a naval Jerusalem, of chastity, obedience, and poverty. engagement with a Rhodian ship, while the younger From this period the society came under the ec- still remained as a prisoner in chains among his clesiastical jurisdiction of him who was at the head enemies. In those days no mercy was shown to of the papal church, and was called the "Hospi- the vanquished; and if a prisoner's life was spared taller Brothers of St. John the Baptist, of Jeru-by the victors, it was only that he might suffer the salem." more before the day should arrive for his execution. At the decease of Gerard, Raimond Dupuis was At the close of August, 1521, the Sultan, Solyappointed to succeed him. It was during his ad- man IV., returned to Constantinople in triumph. ministration that the Hospitallers were permitted having routed the army of the Hungarian King, by the Pope to wear arms; from this circumstance and taken Belgrade, their capital, which he left they became a military order. It oftentimes oc- garrisoned with his Albanian soldiers. Costogin, curred, after a poor and sick Christian had been arriving at the same time, when the Sultan was cured of his illness, and relieved from his poverty, flushed by his conquests, took the opportunity to that he was, while on his way from Jerusalem to make mention of an attack on Rhodes. This sgsome port on the coast, to seek passage for Europe, gestion was ably seconded by Mustapha Pasha, fallen upon by the Infidels, robbed and murdered. who was a distinguished warrior, had married the It was for the protection of these wandering fol- sister of Solyman, and was a great favorite with lowers of Christ, that the patriarch in person armed the Turkish troops. The Sultan, after a little these monks to accompany them on their route, hesitation, referred the subject to the Divan, which and safely see them to some haven, from which it appears was divided as to the propriety of the they might embark for their homes. Charity was enterprise. Not much valuing the opinion of his the corner-stone of the Order of St. John, while counsellors, he was induced to write to L'Ise chastity, religion, and obedience to the Pope, were Adam a note, couched in the following terms: its main pillars. "Solyman, by the Grace of God, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Most High Emperor of Byzant and Trebisond, Most Mighty King of Persia, Arabia, Syria and Egypt, Supreme Lord of Europe and Asia, Prince of Mecca and Aleppo, Master of Jerusalem, and Ruler of the Universal Sea-To Philip Villiers, L'Isle Adam, greeting:

L'Isle Adam, who chanced to be in France at

the time he received information of his election as Grand-Master, made speedy arrangements for his departure for Rhodes. Hardly had the ship on which he took passage from Marseilles, left the gulf of Lyons, ere, by the carelessness of one of the crew, she took fire, and was much injured. It was only owing to the firmness of L'Isle Adam that she was not entirely destroyed; he threatening to kill the first man who should leave his post, to seek safety by taking to the boats. This danger being overcome, the " great carrack" was overtaken by a heavy storm, and struck by lightning; the thunderbolt fell on her stern, killed nine men, and "shivered the Grand-Master's sword to pieces in its scabbard." Putting into Syracuse, where he refitted his ship, he made sail for Rhodes, notwithstanding he was made aware, that the noted Infidel corsair, Costoglu, was laying off St. Angelo, a headland of Sicily, with a superior force, to attack him. Doubling the cape at night, it being thick weather and stormy, he escaped from his enemy, and arrived at the port of his destination, to the great joy of the Knights, who met him on the Marina at his landing; and with music and a military guard accompanied him to the palace, which had been prepared for his reception.

Costoglu, on hearing of the safe arrival of the Grand-Master at Rhodes, immediately repaired with his squadron to cruise in the vicinity of that island. He was fortunate in making many prizes before it was known by the Rhodians what had become of their vessels and of the Grecian crews who navigated them. This corsair bore towards the Order a deadly hatred; and with some cause: his two

"We congratulate thee on thy new dignity, and there long and happily, and obscure the glay f thy arrival in thy dominions. Mayest thon g and entreat thee not to be the last of our alles w thy predecessors! We offer thee our friends give us joy for our triumphs over the Hungar King, whom we have stripped of the strong it tress of Belgrade, after having wasted his tertie ries with fire and sword, and carried away may of his people. From Constantinople; farewel

L'Isle Adam well understood the hidden thres contained in this communication. With the e sent of the Order, he sent an answer by a Greek messenger-fearing to trust a Knight in the pr sence of Solyman, when the news carried by might tend rather to excite than pacify his ima ble feelings, suffering, as the Sultan doubtless by the recollection of defeats, which his grandfather had met with before the bastions of these sam warring monks.

After-actions made it evident that the Gram Master was not wrong in his conjectures. Wate ever the Turks were desirous of communiest with the Order, they were accustomed to k fires on the Lycian hills. On one occasion, A these were observed, Menneton, a French Ken3 was despatched in a well armed galley, t with him an interpreter who was acquainted w

me people with whom he was to have communica- | same to the utmost. At the close of June, 1522, on. Nearing the shore, a number of Turks were two hundred sail of Turkish ships were seen from een seated on the earth, with their goods, which the tower of St. Stephens, making for the harbor hey were wont to barter with the Christian mer- of Rhodes. They failed, however, in their attempt hants, spread out before them. Xaycus, a pay- to enter the port, owing to the warm reception aster in the service of the Order, was appointed they met with from the forts which guarded its eno land on this occasion. This service he most trance. illingly undertook, recognizing many of his acuantances in the group before him. Menneton, aving some fear of treachery, would not permit e Rhodian to leave, until a hostage was sent on oard his galley, as a pledge for his safe return. The Turks, laughing at his fears, agreed not only o send one of their companions, but also all their oods with him; which being done, Xaycus landed. Hardly was he on shore, before he was seized, ade prisoner, and taken to Constantinople. Arving at that capital, he was made to endure the ost cruel tortures; and in his agony, he gave all he information which the minions of the Sultan At length the sad moment arrived, when the esired, as to the number of the Knights, the first shot from a Turkish battery, told to the weeptrength of their garrisons, the state of their forti-ing mothers, who had fled to the city for protection, cations, and the feelings of the Rhodian people. that their sufferings had commenced. The Knights is thought that, by his confessions, the Sultan of each language, had their leaders appointed by as induced immediately to declare war. He the Grand-Master; all were men of tried courage, ade his intentions known by a letter to the Grand- who had, in other days, signalized themselves, laster, from his own hands, in which he demanded | while defending their flag, both at sea and on land, at he should either entirely surrender his strong against the attacks of their turbaned enemies. olds and retire from Rhodes, or retain his possesons by acknowledging fealty to him. To neither f these propositions would the Order consent; and s the Knights varied in their opinions, as to the est answer which should be given to this demand, ome preferring policy and peace, while others ished, by defiance, to produce a war ;-it was at ist determined by L'Isle Adam to give no answer tall; which affront so enraged the Sultan, as to ause him to say, that the Knights had brought heir destruction on their own heads; that he would nmolate them, one by one, at their own guns, and completely overthrow their fortifications, that The city of Rhodes was situated on a plain; and ot one stone should be found upon another. save at the north, where it was bounded by the L'Isle Adam had hardly been in command one harbor, it was exposed on all sides to an attack. ear, before he was called upon to defend his Or- The natural position of the place could have hardly er, and their possessions, against an army of been more unfortunate; the besieging army being early two hundred thousand men; and at a time so numerous, and the besieged so few, and conseo, when his force consisted only of six hundred quently so scattered. It repeatedly occurred duInights, five hundred Cretan archers, and some ring the siege that when the Turks had effected a our thousand Grecian soldiers. The Rhodians breach in any of the fortifications, the Knights were enerally were not to be trusted; they cared not compelled to leave their own quarters, from which whom they were governed, could they only suc- they might have done much execution, and fly to eed in retaining their property in their nature, the assistance of their friends; indeed, when the ey were cowards; and in their language, brag- English bastion was blown up, and the Janizaries arts. The character of the soldiers in the ser- had made a footing upon its ruins, L'Isle Adam ice of the Order was totally different: though na- was obliged to advance in person with his body ses of the island, yet they had been continually guard, carrying the ensign of the Order. Here it ured to danger. During the siege, they proved was, that, hand to hand, the fight was maintained emselves, by their conduct, brave and efficient for three hours. The Turks did not retreat until oops, willingly repairing to all posts of danger, they had left upwards of two thousand of their comhere their duty called them, and defending the 'rades dead on the platform of this single bastion.

By the command of the Admiral of Callipolis, the fleet bore away for the small anchorage of Bo, which, with a favorable westerly breeze, they soon entered, it being but three miles distant from the city. For the fortnight, during which Mustapha Pasha was employed in landing his artillery and ammunitions of war, the Rhodians were not idle : the bastions were repaired; the ditches deepened; and all the fortifications placed in as good defence, as their time and means would permit: no hand was so aged, no rank so exalted, as to be exempt from the meanest of these labors.

Mustapha Pasha had brought with him from Constantinople some thirty thousand slaves from the forests of Belgrade and Hungary-whenever a redoubt was to be thrown up within the range of the Rhodian batteries, these poor, half clad and unprotected wretches, were pushed forward to execute the work; each sally from the garrison, each discharge from the fortifications, furnished hundreds of these "Dacian boors" a grave in the very trenches they themselves were digging. Turkisk general cared not how many of these people he sacrificed, were his work but executed.

The

It cannot be supposed, that in an engagement | before named, as having been the candidate for the where so many of their enemies fell, the Order Grand-Mastership, was the person suspected. The should have altogether escaped. Many Knights only proof against him, was the confession of his were killed; and among the most distinguished, servant Diaz, given on the rack, and the statement was the standard-bearer, Joachimus Cluys, who of a Greek priest, who had, on one occasion, seen lost both of his eyes by a shot, and shortly after died.

Mustapha Pasha, mortified at his defeat, resolved to make another attempt to carry the English bastion, supposing it to be the only quarter by which his soldiers would have a chance of entering the city. Achimetes was, at the same moment, to cannonade the Spanish wall-which had already been well battered; and which, he hoped, would easily fall, and afford.a second entrance for the Turkish army. The Turks came bravely to the assault. They fought for hours with the most determined courage and resolution. For a long time, the result of the conflict was doubtful; and the battle, at last, was only won by the desperate resistance of the Greeks, sustained by the bravery of their commanders. The Sultan, when he had seen his soldiers thrice defeated, and with great slaughter, advanced in front of the army, and addressed them as follows:

"I myself am fully resolved here to conquer, or "end my days. If I depart from my resolution, let "my head, my fleet, my army, and my empire, be "ever accursed, and unfortunate."

the Knight and his attendant on a bastion, with a crossbow and an arrow, to which a paper was affixed; and which, it appeared to him, they were desirous of throwing into the Mahommedan camp. This Knight when tortured, repelled the accusation with scorn-and stated, that after his long period of forty years of faithful services to the Order, no bodily pangs would ever force him to say that he was guilty of so base a crime. D'Amaral and his servant were condemned to death-and both, as it is generally thought, unjustly. The monk was stripped of his habit and then decapitated, while Diaz suffered by the hands of the hangman.

After a lapse of a short period, Solyman, having witnessed the fight from a distance, and seeing there was no chance of being victorious, ordered retreat. During this conflict, the bastions of England, Italy and Spain, had been several times taken and retaken; alternately was seen the flag ef the Infidel and of the cross waving over the walls, as either party got possession. The Sultan, enraged at these continual defeats, ordered the Turkish General, Mustapha Pasha, to be executed; he having advised the attack on Rhodes, and failed in Solyman then called his captains around him, his promise to take the city. Pyrrhus Pasha, who and ordered them to encourage the soldiers of their was a great friend of the General, hearing he was several companies, giving them to understand, that condemned to die, sought the Sultan, and begged Rhodes was the "castle, store-house, treasury, of his life. For this interference, he was sentenced all such as trouble the Turks by sea ;" and that, by to suffer the same punishment; which would cerdestroying this one place, they had the way open before them to enter all the dominions of the Christians, and to have their revenge for their murdered brothers.

tainly have been carried into effect, bad not all the councillors of Solyman, seeing the danger of these two noble personages, unanimously on their knees, craved their pardon. The Sultan granted their reOn the 24th September, the Sultan ordered a quest, ostensibly, unto Mustapha, because one of general attack to be made on those five fortifica- his wives had Ottoman blood running in her veinstions, which were defended by the English, Span-being his natural sister; and to Pyrrhus, for his ish, Narbonenses, Avignoys, and Italian Knights. great age and wisdom in legislation. The Janizaries advanced with a horrible cry, to

Solyman determined not to leave the island unenter the breaches, which had been made in the til he had subdued the city; and to make his deterprevious conflicts, whilst the Rhodians poured down mination known to the Grand-Master, he ordered upon them, as they approached, scalding oil and a castle to be built for his residence on Mount Pilboiling pitch; which, "as it fell, stuck fast," and lermus. The Sultan, after a six months' siege, so sorely wounded the besiegers, that they were during which he lost one hundred and sixty thouglad to throw down their arms and retreat to the sand men, appeared not so desirous of exposing his rear, where they might find assistance to remove men to danger; and in this, the last hour as it were their clothes, and be in a measure relieved of their of the conflict, sought, by bribery, to obtain posseshorrible pains. sion of the city. Failing in this first attempt to About this juncture, a Jewish physician was dis-bribe the sentinels, he appointed Monilio, a Genoese, covered in an attempt to give information to the who was in the Turkish army, to carry letters to Turks. Having acknowledged his crime, he suf- L'Isle Adam, asking a surrender of the place; and fered an ignominious death. Foul suspicion of the adding, should this be done, that he would be persame nature, soon fastened itself upon a nobler vic-mitted to name the terms of capitulation. tim, one who, the reader might think, would have The Grand-Master would not listen to the pro been the last to be branded with the title of a trai- position, preferring death to a surrender of his Ortor. The Chancellor D'Amaral, whom we have der. The Rhodians, however, when they heard

that Solyman was willing to treat for the place, and | Earth's summer glories fleetly pass away,

fearing that should his offer be refused, and their city be taken in fight, their wives and daughters would be exposed to slavery, and they themselves to death, sent a deputation to L'Isle Adam, requesting him to make the best terms he could with the Sultan, as they were weary of fight, and grieving for the death of those who had met a fate, which, should they continue in armus, might shortly be their

Here lies the Remains of the
Rev. Mr. BARTHOLOMEW YATES,

More than a century, yea, near two centuries have passed since the ringing of the mason's trowel, broke the stillness of the surrounding forest, when who departed this life the 26 day of July 1734, in the 57

year of His age.

He was one of the visitors of William and Mary College.
AND ALSO

Professor of Divinity in that Royal Foundation.
In the conscientious discharge of his Duty
Few ever Equalled Him,

He explained His Doctrine by His practice, and Taught, and
None ever surpassed Him.

the walls of this temple of the living God rose like a flower in the wilderness of Middlesex, and invited the wayfarer to its sacred precincts. More than half a century has gone by, since last the solemn organ pealed forth its sublime symphonies, and the anthems of the choir told upon the feelings of rapt worshippers,-now the church is a desolate ruin; and the choir, and the worshipperswhere are they? There is scarcely a vestige of the interior left; the pulpit, the tablets, the altar, the chancel, the all gone! The house is roofless, windowless. The walls alone are standing. The walls surrounding the spot constituting the church-yard, are in ruins too, portions only, remaining to mark their boundaries. The tombs He was Minister of this Parish upwards of 30 years; and are nearly all in a dilapidated condition; but of to Perpetuate His Memory, this Monument is Erected at the charge of His Friends and Parishioners. many, there is enough left to mark them as having been monuments of the most exquisite sculp

ture.

Led the way to Heaven. Chearfulness, the Result of
Innocence, always sparkled in His face; and by
the sweetness of His Temper, He gained Uni-
versal Good will. His Consort enjoyed
in Him a tender Husband; His chil-
dren an indulgent Father; His
Servants a gentle Master;

His Acquaintance a
Faithful Friend.

I could but mentally repeat, as I read this tribute to one who was distinguished more than a

"The coffined sleep of the good and just

Is a sure and blissful_waking."

I have loved to visit the church-yard, the vil-century ago, the lines of the poetlage church-yard-in the beautiful month of May, or in "leafy June"-when the flowers smell sweetly, and the grass waves luxuriantly, and the cool Near the tomb of the Rev. Mr. Yates, are the breezes play among the green leaves of the forest, monuments of the Hon. John Grymes and his wife. when here and there the daisy spots the little grave These are, or rather have been, the most magniof some gentle child, whose life was like the exis-ficent in the yard. The marble of the former rests tence of the flower that nestles amid the grass on what was once splendid sculptured facings, but a above its little resting place-briefly sweet,-when portion of these are shivered. The tablet of that even the eulogy seemed not so very formal in its of Mrs. Grymes, has, by some Goth, been hurled studied phraseology, upon the tall monument, (for from its supporters, and the facings lie scattered there is aristocracy sometimes even in a village, about the yard, and the tablet itself is broken in and they will carry it even to the grave with them,) three pieces. With some difficulty, we collected and the white marble glittered not so coldly in the the fragments of the latter, and transcribed the insunlight, and here and there some bright winged scription-nevertheless, there were parts of words bird would perch upon a tomb, and plume its pinion we could not find-those omissions, (the parts in the balmy breeze. being lost,) I have supplied with asterisks.

I have loved these things, I say, and the churchyard did not seem the gloomy place to me, that I had heard others say it did to them. But the visit to "Middle Church" was characterized by no such soothing and inviting circumstances. The day was cold and rainy, and the wind howled mournfully through the leafless branches of the trees that surrounded the spot.

The young friend who accompanied me, (and who, by the way, bids fair one day, with perseverance in the divine art of painting, to make some noise in the world,) assisted me in decyphering the inscriptions, a few of which I now furnish for the Messenger."

HERE LIES INTERRED

The Body of the Honorable JOHN GRYMES, Esq. Who many years acted in the Public affairs of this Dom

nion with Honour, Fortitude, Fidelity to their Majesties King George I and II. Of the Council of State, of the Royal Prerogative, the Liberty and Property of the subject

A ZEALOUS ASSERTER.

On the Seat of Judgment clear, sound, unbiassed. I
The Office of Receiver General Punctual, Approved.
Of the College of WILLIAM and MARY, an Orname:

Visitor, Patron, Benificent to all. A support to the
Distressed, A Pattern of True Piety, Respected, loved

revered.

Lamented by His Family, Acquaintance, Friends, He departed This Life the 2nd Day of Nov. 1748, in the 57 year of His Age.

Here follows the inscription on the tomb of his

The one which immediately follows interested me much, and will, I hope, gratify the patrons of the Messenger, in reading, as it did me to trans-wifecribe it. I give it verbatim.*

* I have, however, taken the liberty of punctuating the MS.; as there was not a point on the stone.

THIS MONUMENTAL Marble,

In Remembrance of all that could endear ye living and make the dead lamented for Benevolence and Truth,

IS PLACED HERE.