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?he affixing History of Caroline
Montgomery :
r From “ Eth» 11w»« 5 or, the Relufe of the Lake,”
L a new and beautiful Novel, by Mrs. Ck a a lot t a
Smith.] ,
cc r>UT forms could do nothing to-
■D wards uniting our hearts more
clofely ; and the happinefs a marriage,
where love only prefided, was perhaps
too great for humanity t for thofe hal
cyon days were greatly obfcured by
the increafing illnefs of my mother,
who declined rapidly for almoft a fort
night, and then died in the arms of
Montgomery, commending, with her
laft breath, her two boys to his pro
tection. Her death, which long as I
had expected it, appeared utterly in
fopportable now it arrived, threw me
into a ftate of langour and dejeClion,
from which I was fuddcnly roofed by
hearing that lord Pevenfey, who had
quitted France immediately after his
difgraceful difmiflion from the houfe,
was now returned ; and enraged to
find that Montgomery was actually my
hufband, had determined to purfue,
with all the eagernefs rage and hatred
could infpire, the procefs by which he
hoped to deprive me and my brothers
of our legacies. Nor was this all; the
perfonai affront he had received from
Montgomery, he could not bare, tho
he had deferved it; and he now lent
him a challenge, which Montgomery
readily accepted j but to evade the ftrift
nefs of thofc laws which are in force in
France againft duelling,the place where
they were to meet was fixed in thedomin
ions of the Pope,alittle beyond Avignon.
« Montgomery, anxious only to
conceal this from me, found a pre
tence for his journey ; and telling me
he had fome military bufinefs to tranf
ad at Marfeilles which would detain
him for fome days, he parted from me,
concealing with courage truly heroic
the anguifh he felt, in knowing that we
were perhaps to meet no more.
« Providence yet preferved him
to me. He dangeroufly wounded his
adverfary ; and returned himfelf in
fafety. Then ht related the caufe of
his abfence ; and the happinels I felt
at his fafety, was augmented, when a
few days afterwards we received from
lord Pevenfey, who believed himfelf
dying, and was vifited with the re
proaches of a troubled confcienot, an
acknowledgment of the juftice of my
brothers claims to the provifion made
for them by their father, and an order
to his procurer at Paris to put an end
to every fuit depending againft ns. In
a few months lord Pevenfey recover
ed , we were put in pofleflion of our
rights ; and my beloved Montgome
ry, to whom I owed every thing, ftudi
ed not only to make me happy, but
to puriue as near as poffible that line
of conduct which my mother would
have done had lhe lived. A war was
raging with great violence between
France and England, and I was un-
APOLLO’s FOUNT.
FrOM bufinefs freed with eager paw
I feek that blcft retreat.
Where virtue, innocence and grace*
With love and beauty meet.
Its lovely inmates form’d to
And o n a for fomething more,
With fmile* and unaileded eafe.
Receive me at the door.
Or elfe, requefted by the fair
1 read tome novel tale,
Or grave or witty, new or rare*
Their fancy to regale.
But ah 1 how oft my truant ey/s,
Forget the page to trace,
Till s h a deteds them by furpriae,—
Fix’d on her lovely face.
Ours meet, the fweet delufion’s broke,
Confus'd my vifage glows,
1 Hammer, fpeak, refume the book,
My feelings to compote.
How flies my pulfe how beats my heart*
My frame with rapture glows.
What tranfports does the touch impart,
When sue her hand beftows.
Then feated round the cheerful hearth*
(Or back, if Summer fmile,)
With focial chat or lively mirth,
The fleeting hours beguile.
Thus pafs the hours till envious time,
(Which fwifter never flew,)
By Low proclaims the hour of nine
And I muft bid adieu.
Brom the Bost on Wisely MaOa»im«.
From the Muuchuiitti Macuim*.
the evening circle.
A r»*«X«»T.
willing to Tend lhe two dear boys to a
country where’ it would be now diffi
cult for me to fee them. But as I
knew it was the defire of my mother
and my benefactor to have them bro’t
up in the proteftanc religion, I fcnt
them with their tutor to Geneva, I
had hardly recovered the pain of this
parting, before one much more grive
ous was inflicted. The regiment in
madnefs ro think of following him ;
which Montgomery had a company,
into Germany. The fir
uation I was then in made it fcem
but I was convinced that I ffiould not
furvive his departure. He was to me,
farther, brother, lover, hufband ! I had
no other earthly happinefs ; and with
out him the univerfe was to me noth-
ever horrid the fcenes were to which
thus became a witnefs, I feared noth
ing but for his life ; that one dreadful
apprehenfion having the effeCt of all
violent paffions, and making me fore
go, without milling them, every con
venience to which I had been accuf
tomed, and meet without apprehenfion
a thoufand dangers to which I was
hourly expoted.
“Ina fmall village on the banks
of the Wefer, near the camp of Maref
chal de Contades, my dear Charles was
born, towards the beginning of the
campaign of 1759* But he had not
above fix weeks bleffed my eyes, and
thofe of his doating father, before that
dear father went out to the fatal field
©f Minden. I cannot defcribe what I
felt during the action. My faculties
were fufpended by the moft dreadful
apprehenfions that could agonize the
human heart; this frightful fufpenfe
was terminatd only by the certainty of
all I dreaded. The Englilh were vic
tors ; and the lervant who had long
attended on Montgomery had only
time to tell me that hc/ell at rhe head
of his company, his arm broken by a
mufket (hot, and receiving a thruft
from a bayonet in the breaft. The
man added, that with a party of fold
iers who adored their captain, he had
attempted to bring his mafter off the
field ; but that they were cut down by
a body of Heffian horfe, who, driving
every thing before them, had compell
ed him to abandon the enterprife. I
believe that my fentes for fome hours
forfook me, during the horrors of a
night too terrible to be defcribed j the
Englilh took poffelfion of the village
where I was ; but fortunately for me,
a young officer of that nation was the
firft who, in endeavouring to prevent
the exceffes of the troops, entered the
houfe where I remained with my infant
( in my arms.
«< Routed by my fears for my
child, I teemed fuddenly to acquire
courage. I demanded protection of
the young officer, which, with the gen
erous ardour of the truly brave, he in
dandy granted me ; and being himfelf
compelled to quit me, he gave me a
corporal’s guard, recommended me to
the men as an Englilh woman ; and,
having fecured my fafety, promifed to
return to me when the confufion of the
hour a little fubfided. The ftopor of
my grief being thus fhaken off for a
moment, I recollected, that if I fuffer
j ed mytelf to fink, my boy deprived of
the nourilhment which fuftained him,
would perilh miferably. I took there
fore the fuftenance my fervants offered
me; but I neither fpoke nor fhed tears ;
nor heeded any thing that was faid to
me ; my mind dwelling on the plan
I had formed to avail mytelf of the
generofity of the Englilh officer, and
to engage him to affift me in finding
Montgomery, whether living or dead.
It was late before this gallant young
man returned to me : the moment he
entered, he enquired eagerly after my
health and fafety. I thanked him as
i well' as I could for the prefervation I
owed to him ; but added, that to give
it higher value, he mult yet add anoth
er favour, and enable me to find the
body of my hulband, who had fallen
in the field.
ing. At firft his fears for* my fafety
made him refill my importunities ;
but he was compelled at length to
confenr, and 1 followed him, refiding
wherever he was encamped ; and how-
" He Termed amazed at my de
fign ; and reprefented to me, that be
fides the terrifying circumftances at
tendant on fuch an undertaking, To
unfit for my age and fex to encounter,
my endeavours would very probably
be fruitlefs. “ Nor (hould you, Ma-
dam,” added he, *• fo implicitly yield
to grief: he, whofe death you lament
as certain, may be a prifoner.”
« This ray of probability would
have cheered for a riToment the black-
nefs of my defpair, had not the partic
ulars related by Montgomery's fervant,
left me nothing to hope. I related
thefe circumftances to the Englifh of
ficer, with that gloomy defperation
which precludes the power of (bedding
tears. He faw xhc ftate of my mind,
and generoufly refolded not only to
gratify me, but himfelf to protect me
with a party of his men.
** With my little boy in my arms,
for I refufed to leave him as obftinately
as to relinquifh my project, I went
forth on this dreadful errand j to a
feene of death and defolation fo terri
ble, that I will no: fhock you by an
attempt to paint it : lived bodies cov
ered with ghaftly wounds, from whom
the wretches who follow camps, male-
ing war more hideous, were yet (trip
ping their bloody garments ; heaps of
human beings thus butchered by the
hands of their fellow creatures, affeded
me with fuch a fenfation of lick hor
ror, that I was frequently on the point
of fainting. But Montgomery among
them 1 left to be the food of wolves or
dogs—that beloved face, that form on
which my eyes had fo doated, disfig
ured and mangled by birds of prey 1—
This horrid image renewed from time
to time my exhaufted ftrength, and the
pity of my noble condudor, more and
more excited in my favour, fuffcred
him not to tire in the mournful office
of attending me.
** We had however traverfed in
vain fo much of the bloody field that
my fearch feenttd to be at length def
perate ; and my protedor entreated
me to confider, that by a longer per
feverance I ffiould injure my own
health, and perhaps deftroy my child,
without a poffibility of being of the
Jeaft ufe to the loft objed of my affec
tion. It was now indeed night ; but
the moon (hone with great luftre; and
juft as he had agreed to indulge me
with ten minutes longer, on condition
that I would then defift, the rays of
the moon fell on fomething white a
few yards from me, which glittered ex
tremely. An impulfe for which I can
not now account, made me fuddenly
catch it up : it was part of the (leeve
of a (hirt, and in it was a button fet
with brilliants, that had once belong
ed to lord Pevenfey, and which, as the
diamonds furrounded a cypher formed
of her hair, had been, after his lord
fhip’s death, given by my mother to
Montgomery.
“ This well known memorial con
vinced me of one fatal truth—that
Montgomery was among the dead ;
but it revived the wretched hope of
finding his body, which I imagined
could not be far off. My conductor
allowed that it was probable, and ac
counted for the remnant of his cloath
being found, by fuppofing that it had
been torn, and dropped in a difpute
for the fpoii, which had happened a
mong the plunderers of the deceafed.
« Animated by this melancholy
certainty, I more narrowly examined
every ghaftly countenance near the
fpot ; and at length, half concealed by
the blood that had Bowed from his
arm, which was thrown acrofs his face,
I difeovered thofe well known features
fo dear to my agonized heart.
Then, that grief which had
hitherto been filent and fallen, fuf
pended perhaps by a latent hope of his
being a prifoner, broke forth in cries
and lamentations. I threw myfelf on
the ground ; Ipoke to Montgomery,
as if he was yet capable of hearing me,
and, in the wildnefs of my phrenzy,
protefted that I would never remove
from the fpot where he lay, but would
remain there, and perifti with my in
fant, by the fide of my hufband. The
young officer, with all that humanity
which characterizes the truly brave of
nations, bore with my extravagances
and with the moft patient pity attempt
ed to foothe and appeafe me, by call
ing off my thoughts.Jrom the dead, co
whom I could be no longer fervicea
ble, and fixing them on my child, to
whom my exiftence was fo neccffary j
but a new idea had now (truck me-—I
infilled upon it, that Montgomery was
not dead j that I felt his heart palpi
tate j and that if I remained there and
watched by him, he would recover. I
laid my head clofe to his mouth ; I
fancied that though feebly, he (till
breathed. My generous friend, who
imputed all I faid to the delirium of
extravagant forrow, yet condefcended
to humour, in hopes of affuaging it;
but when in compliance with my earn
ed entreaty, he enquired into the real
ity of my hopes, he fancied, with ming
led aftonifhment and pleafure, that he
really found a (light pulfe in the heart,
and that the body had not the clayey
cbldnefs of death. Fearful, however,
of indulging me in an hope, which if
found fallacious might drive me into
madnefs, he only faid, that though he
thought it improbable that any life re
mained, yet that to fatisfy me the body
(hould be removed to the houfe where
I lodged, where a furgeon (hould at
tend to examine it; and if, as he great
ly feared, there was indeed no chance
of the vital powers being reanimated,
I (hould at lead be gratified in feeing
the 1 aft offices performed ; and (hould,
as long as I remained where I was left,
receive, both in regard to executing
that mournful duty, and co my own
(afety, every good office he could ren
der me.
THE Subfcribers hereby give pub
lic notice tb all concerned, that thay
have been duly appointed, and taken upon them
the cruft of Exicutiri, to tha left will and tafta*
neat of
late of Rthtbttb, io laid county, decaafed, by
giving bond at the law diredt : they therefore
reqoeft ell peridot who ere indebted to the faid
deceafed Eftate, to make immediate payment :
—And thoie who have any demanda thereon,
to exhibit the fame for lettlement to oa
ALLEN MUNRO,
THOMAS MUNRO.
•Rtbtbttb, Junt *7, 1806.
THE Subfcriber hereby gives no
tice, that there will be (old at Public
Auction, io Sinirnt, Mafs. on Monday the
Firft day of December next, at 11 o’Ciock,
A. M. the following real Eftates belonging to
the heirs of SIMEON POTTER, Esq. late
of Savanzty, deceafed, vis.
The very pjeafantly ficuatcd Man
sion House, being the well knowh beat of
the late Htnry Boivtrt, Efq. with the out Hoo
fer and Eighty ACRES of Land adjoining, alt
ander good improvement and well fenced with
Stone- Wall. Thia leal prefen ti one of the be ft
views on the River, and is ia the veiy heart of
Somoritt,
The Dwelling-House, Stores
aed Wharf, heretofore belonging to Mr.
Lltjd Bowtn, this is confeffedly the beft ft and
in Sorntntt for BoGoefa. The Stores ore ample
and convenient, the Wharf is in good repair
and well boilt, it at the head of the deep navi
gable water, and at ordinary Tidea, Veffels of
200 Tons will float along afide.
The Mansion-House and Lor
whereon it ftaods, fronting the Main.Streec,
and very conveniently Gtoated for BoGaefs,here
tofore the property of Mr. Caltb Biwtrt, fob
jeft to a right of Dower.
A Ten Acre Lot at the head of
broad Cove, a Wood Lot of 12 Acres, and
snot her of Three Acres. The above Eftatee
will be Sold entire or ie Lota at fhall (nit par
chafers.——The Terms of Salo will be made
known at the Time and Place of fale, which
will be on the Premifes. For any information
that may bo wanted eboot the Premifes, apply
to Mr. David Anthony, of Somerfet.—By Or
der and in behalf of the Heirs of Col. Simeon
Potter. WILLIAM D’WOLFE,
Agoat for tbt Htirt.
•Bristol, Juni 13, 1806.
NATHANIEL MARTIN,
late of Barrington, Bfqnire, deceafed, art re
qvefted to make immediate payment to the
(nbfcribers, Execotors to the left Will and Tof
tament of faid Nathanisl: And thofe who
have any demands againft faid Eftate are alfa
reqnefted to exhibit the fame to
CALVIN MARTIN, \ StU(attrN
ANDERSON MARTIN,
9 Barri»gton, Marti I, 18q6, ($«•)
ALL perfons any ways indebted to
the Eftate of
* t bt tnttu/itJ ia nr rtxt )
NATHAN MUNRO,
Advertifement.
NOTICE.
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