Herald of the United States — Warren, R.I., 1807-07-04 00:00:00, page 4

APOLLO’s FOUNT.
THE MOUSE’. PETITION.
Jtaad it tb« tbav wbtrt bt bad bfta tta
JM all Night.
Farcers fobjeftis, > rieWHars fbperbes.—Vissii.
Oh ! hear a pesfivt prffsusr’s prayer.
For liberty 'that fight»
An! never let thine heart ba (but
Againft the wretch's cries.
Ver here forlorn and fad i fit,
Within the wiry grata 4
And tremble tt th’ approaching merfo
■Whichbrings impending fate.
If e'er thy breaft with freedom glow’*
And rpnfn*a h tyrant's cMin..
let not thy ftrong opprefflvs force
A free bom menfe detain.
Ob f do Mt ftaia with guiltlsfs blood
Thy hofpitable hearth 1
M« triumph that thy wiles betray •
A price fo littte worth.
The fcatter’d gleanings bf a test
My frugal meals fupply «
Bet if thine unrelenting heart
That flender boon deny. f
The cbeerfal light, the vital air.
Are blefhngs widely given i
Let nature’s commoners enjoy
The common gifts of beaten.
The well taught philofopMct mind
To all companion gives ;
Celts round the world an equal eye,
''And feels for all that lives.
If mind, us ancient fsges taught,
• A never dying flame,
ft* (biffs thro* matter’s varying terms,
. every form the fames
Sawsre, left in the worm you crufli,
*Tbn>ther’s foul you find ,
gknd tremble, left thy Iwcklefs hand
Diflodge a kindred mind.
Or. If this trarifient gleam of day
‘ -Be att of life wo (hare.
Let pity plead .within thy breaft
' That little di t to fparo.
Bo tfiay thy hofpitable boardl
With health and peace be crown a g
» And every charm of heart felt cafe
Beneath thy roof be found.
80, when fl eft rv fl ion lurks unf * n '
Which men, like mice, may mars.
May fonts kind angel clear thy path.
And break the hidden fnare I
The Nsdae. Anlxtraft from a Nuvel, of that
Name juft publilhed.
Cmtai9i*g tbt f»lu Imfirhtwt tf Itamqxa
ftie Ntgrt) bit Etrtuiiitiiii btftrt tbt
Jadgtt •td »tbtf Mttttn.
I RECOUNTED to him thehiftory
of his taking me from my native
land. The fecretary wrote both the
interrogation! and the anfwers.
The judge continued to queftion
me : " Tell me—you havs preferved
a violent refentment againft him ?”
•• lx would be difficult to forget hit
injurious treatment of me.”—" Write,
that he has preferred a violent refent*
ment againft M. Urban.”—" I have
Dot Paid fo. You made me take an
oath to fpeak the trdth ; I did not re
quire your oath that you would refpeft
ir, although juftice feemed to exa<ft
that.” TW judge without noticing
my objetfhon, ’ faid to the fecretary,
preferve the anfwer as it was written
by you ; it came from the firft emo
tions of nature i and confequently it is
the voice of truth. T»hen addreffing
bimfclf to me—" Did you not depart
on fuch a day, at fuch an hour, from
the plantation of M. de C-- ?”
«« Yes.”—" Whom did you meet on,
the road " The only perfon whom
I knew was Urban.”
•• Do you know that faid he,
prefenting a cutlaft to me. I examin
ed it. " Yes ?” I aofwered, i*
mine. 1 had nol before, recolle&ed
that I had loft it.”—" Write, that he
acknowledges the cutlafs to be hi!.—
And why is it ftained with blood ?”
«*1 cannot pofitively fpeak of<b<caufet
but to the beft of my rccolledion, I
mult have left it on the fpot Where
Urban was aflaflinated.” " t \
" M. Urban was affaffinated then?
How do you know that ?”—"!• was
prefenr.”—" Write.” And by Whom
was he atfaffinated ?—" By two ne
groes.”—" Do you, know them
•« No.”—" Obferve how he would im
pofe upon us'. Within three leagues
of the pl<ce there are no negr'des but
thufe of M. dcC— I, plantation.—
NO ftrong conchifion, no connefied fenfe,
Quotations here, not arguments, convince <
cTeamefs and’eloquence you vainly feek,
You a(k for as.iov, end be gives you Gassb,
When Babel aimed above the ikies to (hiiu.
Their tongues confounded crufhed the proud defign
Thefe pages (how like tbeir ambitious throngs,
And talk confufion in a thoufand tongues.
EPIGRAM,
O« A VBbAStTVBX COMPOSITION.
Praia tbt Dublin Magaßim*.
If M. Uiban WM by ne
groes, it cuuld only be by theft, re
gard being had to the time and place.
A nd-an cbode of fix month! in that
plantation muft have made them all
known to him.”—" I do know them
all, but the afiaffination was not com
mitted by any of thtm. I have fpoken
the truth.?*., ; ,»
" Who, refumed the judge, ii he
who is called Otoufdu r” "He is
one of my friends.”—" you a
lone when you met M. Urban ?”*w.
<« Y«.”—" Otourou, theft - w«a not
with you " No.”—"Obferve how
he prevaricates. Otourou by hiy 9wn
avowal even, had paired many night!
wandering about the habitation. Con
duced to that place, he had pointed
out the fpot where he had ufually hid
himfelf j particularly the night of the
afiaflination he had paffed almoft en
tirely there.”—" The circumftanCe is
but the truth ii, that he was
not with me.”—" Ofte more was
he not with you " No, I tell
you.” ?
t ** Know you that ?” faid i the
judge, presenting fome cotton rags to
me covered with blood : “Yes : •• on
fweted I.*—" What is it — ,c The
rennins of.an bandkerchief, which I
torg to bind up the wounds of M. Ur
ban; and which I imagine, I left on
the place.”—” Did this handkerchief
belong to you f* —** Yes.”—” See a
gain, how he would impofe upon uii;
The bandage found on M. Urban's
wound is not of the fam? fluff with
I this, but part of a linen neckcloth,
which appears to have been the prop*
erty of M. Urban. Befide, the hand
kerchief which we have (hewn to him,
and which be claims to be his, is not
his property i for the mark on it is
different from that on his own linen."
—” In fad, I now recoiled my mif
take i and I fhould not have made it,
had I been previoufly informed of the
fubjeft of this converfation."— •* I be
lieve it: Well ?"—” I really did tear
this handkerchief for Urban’s wound;
but afterwards, recollecting that the
cotton would envenom the wound, I
removed it; and hence it was that you
found it Rained with blood, t then
united the neckcloth which Urban
wore ; it was, indeed, made of linen,
and that was the reafon which made me '
prefer it to mine. I cut it' intc ban
dages with the cutiafs which you have
fhewn me. My
occupied, I have unqueftionably left
both my handkerchief'and the cutiafs
on the fpot.’ This anfwer I fhould
have made at firft had you queftioned
me with more connexion; excufe my
franknefs.”
n But what do you” fay to the
mirk on.the handkerchief It is
true that it is not mine."—” Was
Otourou with you ” It is the third
time that I anfwer you, No.”—
” Whole mark is this on the handker
chief ? You have* faid it is yours, yet
it is not yours."—” But may I alfo
demand why you, whom I do not
know, prefs me with fuch queftions ?
Hitherto, politenefs has induced me to
anfwer you ; but it alfo appears to me
that difcretion fhould place fome
bounds to your curiofity,”—” The
condition in which you arc, this place,
my appearance alone, ought to have
informed-you that I am your judge."
” Why did you not tell me.fo fooner h
I fhould have thanked you for your
Cares; for,having committed no crime,
I have no need of a judge." I par
don your ignorance. I have not faid
that you ate criminal; but be perfuad
ed to anfwer me without prevarication.
If you are accuftd of a" crime, your,
filerice esnnot five you ; on the con
trary, is would pafs for a confeflion."
“ But whe;her_l jun filent or
{peak, it Ihpuld appear" to me.that I
i cannot tonfefs I have not done.”
* Of-what moment is yout canfeflidn
if proof*'fpfrak kgainft ybd ?” What
, occafiop, ibeo .was there for the oath
•which you defired me to takte
” The .-law exafts if.” ; W The la# 4a
erroneous or you interupt it (ll.’ If
I/he requires this oatbrit muft be un-
I doubtedly to the end Hbgqlge
lof truth may place the accukd m Ic*
cochy from the force of proofs which
chance may hate combined together.
If the law wifhes, on the contrary,
that the force of circumftantial proofs
(hall be preferred to the language of
the the oathbecOmcs ufelefs,
flnee it is no longer a fafeguard for in
nocence. In every cafe this oatb be
comes a crime either in the judge or
in the accufed. You yourfelf, as a
judgi, by requiring it make a tacit •-
you believe yourfelf bound
by.it. See the contradi&ion of the
law. If after his oath the' accufed im
pofes on yod, and you abfolve Him, he
is culpable of o ( inew crime. .If he
fpeaka the truth and you yield to ap
pearances which condemn him, it is
you whom the oath, renders critnin al j
for you have heard the truth and have
difdained it. v **-The law does not
admit of thefe fubtle diftihdtions.”—•
•• So much theworfe. I pity both the
guilty and the innocent.*
Arc you willing ttranfwer ?”-*•
<< Yes : for you have received ttiy oath,
and I will fulfil it in its full eating’
“ Whofe mark then,, is this which is
on the handkerchief ?” “ I will tell
you becaufe it is the truth—lt is the
mark of Otourpu ’t-' u Write., ft
appears thar,>hitherto, he haanpt told
us a word oftAithv*- And, inafmoch as
the handkerchief ftained with blood
was found on thc-fpot where Mr. Ur
ban had been afikllinated, and ai< at
fifft he faid chat it belonged co him,
although in tryth 11 belonged to Otou
rou, it is evidently dear that, this O
tourou was with him, though that is
formally denied by him.” •• The
confequence teems juft * I cannot deny
it.** Appearance. .ia_.undoubc<y)ly on
the fide of your ceafoning j and that
which I am now going to tell you,
which is, however, the truth, will cer
tainly pafs with you for a romance.—
This handkerchief makes a part of the
drefs of our country. It is worn as a
girdle round the loins. The rank of
my father obliged Otourou and I to
have them of a (tuff finer chan others.
Friends from our infancy, every thing
which belonged to one ferved the
other. Separated from him in a bat
tle, it happened that we loft this ac
coutrement, and each found that of the
other. Thia very article then, of
which we fpeak, had belonged to my
friend ; and thence it was precious to
me. When I came into thefe climates
I had no occafion for it in the ufual
way, and I made an handkerchief of
it, which I. commonly wore on my
neck. I have others alfo of the fame
piece i but upon this alone will be
found the mark of Otourou. Noth
ing lets than humanity could induce
me to facrifice it. I own, even then,
tue facrifice pained me j yet I could
not refrain from it : and now you
know the whole !” . ,
The refult of this examination,
faid the judge, is that Mr. Urban has
been alTalTmatcd by two negroes, who
according to- the declaration of the ’*
prifoner, do not belong to the only
plantation which is in that neighbour
hood j- that he haa-prefeeved a violent
refentment againft Mr. Urban j that
he faw the deceafcd on the fpot where
he was alTaffinated ; that he has ac
knowledged the bloody cutlafs found
in the fame place to be his j that the
handkerchief .bearing the mark of O
tqurou fofficien.tly proves, notwith
standing the explication which he has
given to the ctrcumftance, that it be
longed to that negro, that they were
together, and that we muft conclude
from this concurrent teftimony that it
was the prifoner and his comrade O
tourou who have murdered M. Urban,
h&cording tb the accufation.
Oh cried I, what horror ! I
murder him I I who—My knees ceaf
ed to fopport mt, I fell without fenfe.
They*brought me fpeedy aflif
tance, and I opened my eyes to the
light*. > I was placed on a chair. My
jinlors furfdundcd and fuprported me.
A furgeon made me fme.il at fome
faks, and he.wifhed me to fwallow a
liquid which he held in a cup.
Away ! Leave me !
geioceor dc>th 1 One I will have I
thought I perceived fome tnarki of
companion in the c >unteiiaote of the
fpe&ators, excepting the judge ; who
had not changed his place, and wW
preferved hia countenance unmoved.
Aftef fome paufc he demanded
of the ftirgeon if I.could fpeak. A
qnoment’s patience anfwered he. The
fur geon agaiti pre fled hne to take the
liquor which <’;e prefehted. He had
ft ill hold of my arm, and obferved the
beating of the puffed ; ‘
(Tt It CtnliiHid.)
TO BE SOLD
At PUBLIC-AUCTION, •
On Monday the $d Day of'vfagl at io
t*Clttb, A. M. tbt Prmiiih i/'fxir'i if
I Mt, tbt utxt Jttbr ity. i
A VALUABLE Farm moft pleaf
fandy Gloated, lying •• <be Towt ot
about Six anile* I'om P/vwwlrvcx <
Bridgt, aad xi-3 mile* Horn jbe Town of
ffarra*, it coataio* about 70 Ac»«» of LaNB,
with a large Dwelling Hoose, Baum, and
Con* a» excellent WeUof Water, uttd *
8* OrcHM.wl* a good (land for a Public Hoof* >
aad b«»b»»P occupied a* (uch for m«*|y yt»r.» ;
the Whole Farm i* under good improvemeat, if
it well watered with Spring* that are never dry , J
tlftge proportion of mowing Ground with a<
xtcUjMXjsrdeo foe Oaiona end other
blea, the remainder it good pllage.—• Co eJi
tfoni, I - joo Depart will be expected down, iha
iremaiadcr a liberal credit will be given with
good Security* VIAL ALLEN. > < •
■ . •Jorr*»gre«, JO, 1807*. w
NOT 1 C,E.
THE Subfcriber hereby give®No-*
lies, That be ia determined to »(• ox<h*
edt to refover all the Land* belonging to
Him, that wa* Sold at Public Andion, fame-'
time fioce, and therefore wetat all Perfona from
porchafiog the fa mol •• there can be no legal 1
Title givaa thereto bat by me.
CALEB CHILD.
*fPdrrt», J nut 12, 1807. }
BY Virtue of an Irrevocable power*
of Attorney from John Caxr, of thio
town, Mariner; now at Sea defcributg certain
Eflaie, and aulnorizing the (ale thereof ro ed
jad bie account*, hod pay hit debt*.—l hereby
notify all perfona having any claim agninft* Mem
to appear if they fee fit, and render to me -all
fnch evidence of debt that I may be enabled to
afeertain the fame for fettlcment by the firft of
Aegoftbext.
ALL Perlons indebted ’are re
qaafled to make immediate payment to.
N. M. BURR, Atttrxtj tt
' JOHN CARR.
•jTerrerr, Afar 28, 1807.
WanttJ iarauJiattly,
A CAPABLE WOMAN, acquainted with
Cooking and Hoefewaik, to whom ex*
t<a wages will be given.—— Inquire of the
Printer. <) ,Jnut 19, ISO 7.
Will Hand at the
Stable of ibp Sabfcriber, ia
f/’y'Vl Rtbtbttb, the prefect fcsioo
,o b* * e * t 0 Mares, at Two
dollars for a fiogle leap, 5
Dollars for the feafon, and Five Dollars to in
fare a foal-Said ho'fe is of a beautiful bap
coloar, Fifteen aad a half hands high. Trots
fall of life, and is every way well proportioned.
He ia Seres years eld, aod was fired by the
noted fell blooded bode Bafiiaw, bis dan waa
a fell blooded Mare from Conntflicot ; faid
mare was fited by the old imported horfb Swee<
Bryer, aad is equal if aot before aay ia Nrw
“England. PETER CARPENTER, I
Rtbibttb, May >9, tic*.
NOTICE is hereby given, Thac
the Hon. Court of ProbaK for Barring*
ton, have ebia day allowed Three- Mbnths fur
ther for the Com raiffioners to receive and ex
amine the Claims of the Creditors to the Ef
tato of
JOSIAH VIAL,
late of laid Barrington, dcCrafed.—We the faid
Cooamiffioners hereby notify laid Creditors us
attend this notice and exhibit their Claims »•
gainft faid Edate, at our dwellings in faid Jar
rtngM within faid time.
JOSEPH C. MA UR AN,
KENT BROWN.
Barrington, J ant I, 1807.
WHEREAS, the Hon. Court of
Probate for the Town of Barrington,
appointed the Sobfcribcrs comtaiffionera to the
Eftate of
ALLEN EASLEECK,
late of Barrington, Mariner, deceafed, repre*
fented Infolvent.— All perfons having demands
agsinft faid Eflate, ora hereby notified to ex
hibit <he fame to either of the fubferibers with
in Six Months bom the 6th of April 1807, as
their refpefiive dwellings, being the time a|«
lowed by faid Court.
CYRIL MARTYN,
SAMUEL R. MARTIN, j
£3* All Peltons indebted to faid E(-
are requeued to- make immediate pay*
. moor te • ... - t
BENJAMIN MARTIN, Mtr,
*Btrriagt»ii Jaat lloy.
YOUNG BASHAW,
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