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ON DEBT PRISONERS.
PASSING a small time since by the walls of
1 one of the Prisons in this state, a hollow
groan d ffuing thro' the iron grating of an a
partment, arrested my attention, and roused my
cunofity to fee from what sbjed of misery it
proceeded. I directed my Reps towards the
debtor's apartment, from whence the found
proceeded, and to my inexpressible sorrow saw a
Man (in a room alone) in all the agonies of a
convulsion fit, every feature distorted with ex
crutiating pain, which continued some minutes;
there I found a fellow fpe&ator of this Melan
choly fecne, but neither of us could give him
the least afliftance. After his recovery, he call
his languid eyes towards the grating where
we Rood, and perceiving the man that was
with me, lie made an effort to rife from his
bi", but alas! his limbs refuted their support;
after a Ihort time he made a second attempt,
and after many struggles, he arose and supported
himlelf by the wallj then walking round by the
lame, he at length attained the grating where
we stood ; when with his trembling hands he
grasped the man's hand,and bathed it in his tears,
unable for some time to pronounce a word, at
length in faultering accents spoke, “ Oh! gen
erous and benevolent benefactor," here his tears
again interrupted him, but soon in a pious eja
culation to the supreme being proceeded thus,
" Oh God! whole mercy is as infinite as thy
power, look down in kind compassion on my af
flictions, foften the heart of him that oppresses
me, grant me the return of my health, that I
may be enabled to make a return equal to the
unexpected relief each day receiv'd from the
hands of this friend—a friend indeed to the
wretched ; and O ! shower down thy blcffings
on him." He would have proceeded but ano
ther fit lay him proflrate on the ground, we
both ran to get the door opened, and after the
usual demand paid the prison-k, per, he opened
it, and we were permitted to carry him to his
bed, which confided of ftraw,very scanty fill'd,
one coarse blanket, and a log of wood put under
his straw bed was his only pillow, we both
Raid in the room until he recovered again, ad
ministering tohis relief; after, which my fellow
assistant took a handkerchief he had brought
with him, containing some provision, which he
gave the prisoner, which he received with the
frongeft mark of gratitude, faying “ Heaven
will never let such goodness pass unrewarded
From your hand alone have I received all the
food that has lengthened out so far the chain of
my miserable exigence.' How (interrupted I)
have you nothing allowed to sustain Nature in
this gloomy confinement ? ‘ Nothing (anfwer
cd he) for debtors; but criminals for murder,
robbery, &c. have a competent fupport.' And
is there nothing (said 1) allowed by the credi
tors that confine you. ' Nothing (,eply'd be)
by any means more than you fee.' And do none
of the wealthy Inhabitants, fend you any thing
to mitigate your fufferings ?, Nothing (laid he)
do I receive but from the hands of this benevo
lent man, once a day, the food that he can part
with from his family, which he earns by the
sweat of bis brow, by daily labour.' Do no
Physicians come to adminilltr aught for your
sickness ? ' None fir.' Do no Mmifters of the
Gospel of Christ, vilk you in prison, to preach
the glad tidings of salvation thro' the Saviour
and offer up prayers for your spiritual welfare?
'No' (replied he, accompanied with a pro
found sigh, arid wept,) Here my heart bled
within me—l could ask no more. When the
keeper came to inform us, he must fecurc the
prison, so we left this mansion of horror, and
feat of misery and distress. After contributing
afmall matter indeed myfelf (I would to God
it had been ten times greater) but like the wi
dow's mite, 'twas all 1 had. I then enquired of
this charitable map, what had reduced the mis
erable object we had just left, to that Rate of
distress. He informed me that he was a Native
of one of the Southern States, and.tame very
recently to the Northward, that on his arrival
he was taken lick of a nervous Fever, which
kept him a few weeks confin'd, and being a
poor man when he came, was consequently in
debted for his support and attendance when
sick, to the man which had provided for him,
and not gaining his health quick, being fubjedt
to fits, his creditor accused him of idlencfs and
poverty, the latter of which he was found guil
ty of, and committed to prison, his debt amount
ing to about 30 dollars.". After having learnt
those particulars, my companion left me, in the
midst of the moll melancholy reflexions, that a
poor sick man (and particularly a stranger,) for a
debt of thirty dollars,unavoidably incur'd, Ihould
be call into a prison without the means provid
ed for his subsistence even for a day, but there
to expire in the excruciating tortures of hunger,
without some private individual supports him.
Is this the Country (thought 1) fam'd through
all the world as the asylum of Grangers—for
their humanity—and for purity of the Christian
Religion ? When a sick stranger is thus im
prisoned, and no one of humanity enough to
give him the least afliftance in the medical line.
And the sons of affluence who every day roll
in the cars of luxury and extravagance, and
feeding on luxurious dainties, not io much as
lend the crumbs that fall from their tables to
relieve him ; while the poor labourer with a
family to support, from the hard earnings of his
daily industry, cheerfully divides his frugal fare.
The Mipifters of the Gospel too, whole duty it
is particularly to visit those places, never once
so much as look thro' the grates, how can they
answer for their condud lto the author of their
Religion, vho every where profcffes himfelf to
be the wretche's friend (Qh ! Shame ! Shame!)
These nurn'rons ills, on poverty await,
But these alone, the baplefs debtor's fate.
For while the poor debtor is treated thus hard,
the murderer that may have robbed '>ciety of its
greatest ornament, or the tender partner of your
bosom; and the thief that has burnt your
house and perhaps plundered you of all the pro
perty that escaped the conflagration, are pro
vided the necessaries of life—unjuft diftinXion.
Though true it is that the murderer and plun
dering thief are often times suspended from
the gallows, while the debtor's punishment is
confinement only, but that confinement when
the means of fubfiftanee is deny d, is by far the
greater punishment, so the greatest tortures that
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER I, 1800.
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AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR.
OF ALL THE DISPOSITIONS AND HABITS WHICH LEAD TO POLITICAL PROSPERITY, RELIGION AND MORALITY ARE INDISPENSABLE SUPPORTS.
Extract from the Speech of bis Excellency Governor
Trumbull, to the Legfature of Connecticut.
" While convulsions, war, and revolution Hill
prevail in Europe, which threaten further de
rangement of their ancient fyflems of civil go
vernment, and political eflablilhments-; —and
when internal agitations are appearing within
these United States, which may endanger our
national quiet, harmony, and order ; —1 know
no better course for this State to pursue, than
to adhere steadily to her long tried Lability of
religious, moral, and political virtues, and to
attend cautiously to her ancient habits ofinternal
order: to herquiet submission to established regu
lations, and tranquil observance of her present
invitations of moral and civil administration.
In this course file may best fubferve the gene
ral interests of the Union, contribute to her own
peace, happiness, and tranquility ; and continue
to herfelf that reputation for political wisdom
and prudence, which file has hitherto so honor
ably obtained among her fitter slates. —For, al
though ufeful discoveries and instructive infor
mations are not to be rejected without consi
deration, yet the hasty adoption and pursuit of
every novel idea of improvement, which may
be dropped from the mouths or the pens of
ardent politicians, or fanciful modern philoso
phers, is certainly tending to the other extreme.
The true point of wisdom will lead us to ex
amine with minute caution, and to adopt with
critical diferimination, any projected innovations
in our established forms and regulations. At
all times this idea is important, but more especi
ally will it be found to be ufcfully practiced in
times of political turbulence and agitation
Under the influence of these virtues, & practif
ing our duty agreeably to their dictates, altho'
in the midst of political troubles, we may fafely
rely on an all-wife and all powerful Providence
for its direction and assistance. Our fathers
thus trusted in God ; and often in their times
of distress did they experience Divine inrerpofi- 1
tion. Like them, trusting and acting, we may
confidently hose, that like them, we may be
brought out of our troubles, by away which our
.wisdom had not known,and may be led in paths
which our prudence had not discovered ;
whence light may arise out of darkness, and
crooked things may be made straight."
"MELANCHOLY.
It is our duty as Journalist to mention a ve
ry shocking fact. A child of Mrs. Dandy, of
Rotherhithe-wall, being some days ago engaged
with play fellows at a neighbor's house, the
grandmother suddenly took it home, and gave
charge to the servant maid to put it to bed, the
girl agreeably to her orders, went to the kitch
en and was undressing the child, when it began
to cry most vehemently, expressing a strong de
sire to return to its companions. The servant
impassioned, at the child's obstinacy, threatened
to put it in a copper kettle, unless it would
consent to go quietly to bed. Persuasion and
remonstrance being in vain, the servant suspend
ed the infant, not three years of age^ over the
place of terror, when, dreadful to relate, it flip
ped from her arms, and funk at cnce to the
bottom of the boiling water.
Imagination may paint what the power of
language cannot express. The mother, con
founded by sensibility & horror, and all the ten
der emotions which must naturally agitate a
parent, heard the piercing cries of her periling
infant, with the meft convulsive apprehension
and fear. In the plenitude of her anxiety and
madness, flie ran down Hairs ; but arrived, a
las ! too late to save the darling of her heart. It
died immediately in a most shocking Hate, the
very (kin corning off with the eloathes, when
taken out of the copper !
The Jury fat the next day, and, after a very
minute investigation, returned the following
verdict. " Feloniously killing and flaying by put
ting the Child in the Copper, but not with an
intent to kill !'' (Lon. pup.)
On the evening of the 2d inf. the dwelling house
of fames H. Meffcr, in New-London, wasfruck
with lightning. LJirJl (truck near the top of the
roof, on a rafter, at the imerfeßion of the upper
rib, gnd divided and went in different direaions. One
part ran down the rafter, tore off a board, and
split the rafter so as almost to ruin it ; and from
the bottom of the rafter it glanced over the plate,
without injuring it, to the post under the loot
of the rafter, and split the post thro' the center
from top to bottom, add did considerable da
mage to the fide ol the house, The other part
of the lightning followed the rib to the opposite
fide of the chimney, about 8 feet, glanced over
a rafter and a brace from the rafter to the king
post, entirely ruined the post, crossed the beam
without injuring it, split the post under the
forementioned king post—the ceiling adjoining
the post, in the kitchen, was thrown down,
and many pieces of timber were thrown in al
most all parts of the house, and a number of
squares of glass were broken. Mrs. Meffer
and two children were struck down by the vio
lence of the Shock ; but such was the goodness
of God, they were not materially injured, tho'
thearrows of death flew thick around them.—
a solemn warning, to fear Him who arms the
lightning with its arrows, and dirc^s them
where $0 fttH^ New-Landon, Q<% §„•
can possibly be inflided on the mod atrocious
villain, is the harmless debtor's fate, but (for the
fake of humanity) I hope it cannot be attribut
ed to any other cause than wane of fufficient
knowledge of the affair, that our wife Lcgif
tors have not made provision for them. I Ihould
be sorry to find it intentional negle& For
Who can unfeeling view so ;bfad distress.
And not in Pity strive to make it left ;
Can view a man,ft retch'd on fueb horrid bed,
A log °f wood a pillow for his bead ?
White fits convulsive rack bis feeble frame,
No med'eine giv'n to cool the fever sfame ;
No pitying band to footbe bis rifng fgbs.
Nor dry the tears that flagnate in bir eyes.
No pious wiJb nor prayer for him is given,
To lift his ling'ring foul from earth to beav'n,
By want, disease and grief alike opprejl.
One ray of comfort never cheers bis breaft.'
None but the man by sordid av'ricefwa, d,
Can view fueb mis'ry and not give him aid,
The mifer'sfelf would jueb distress relieve,
Could be this glorious precept but believe ;
For every joy, to fuff'ring mortals given,
There's ten-fold joys again repaid by beav'n.
POLITICAL.
The war in Egypt is to be carried on with
renewed energy. The troops will exceed
100,000. The Grand Vizier and Grand Pacha,
are to be assisted by the English Gen. Koehler.
The French are said to be reduced to less than
8000 regulars.-—Gen. Menou who now com
mands them was formerly a Nobleman ; but
was one of the carlieft promoters of the French
Revolution. He is considered a great intriguer.
$, Other accounts speaking of Menou fay
he is of all the Generals in Egypt, the least ca
pable of conducing it ; and since he has deter
mined not to evacuate Egypt, hopes are enter
tained of taking it by force. Divided as the
French are in opinion, on the fubje& of the
evacuation, they will probably not oppose such
rigorous refinance as formerly. Menou is con
fidereda man of no liability—he has embraced
the Mahometan religion, married the daugh
ter of the keeper of the Bath at Rosetta, and as
sumed the name of Abdullah Bey, which he puts
before his own.—He has written the following
letter to Sir Sidney Smith.
H. Q Cairo, June 20, 1800.
Merou, to Sir Sidney Smith.
" I have received, Sir, the letter which you
have done me the honor to write from on board
the Tiger, off Rhodes, on the 9th June. As
the execrable murder committed upon the com
mander in Chief Kleber has deprived the French
Army of their leader, I have undertaken to
command them. As your allies the Turks
could not conquer the French at El-Arifch,
they made use of daggers—'which dastards alone
employ to be revenged. —A Janissary feut from
Gaza forty-two days ago, has been chosen to
perpetrate this horrid a&, The French wish
to believe that the Muffulmen alone are guilty.
The murder shall be made known to ail nations,
who all have the fame iotereft to revenge it.
The conduct which you, Sir, have yourfelf, ob
served rcfp;6ling the Convention concluded at
El-Arifch, plainly fbews me how I must ad. —
You demanded the ratification of your Court ;
and 1 too must likewise demand that of the
Consuls, who now govern the French Republic,
for all the treaties that may be concluded be
tween the Army under my command, the Eng
lish and their Allies. It is now the only legal
and authentic method to be adopted in negocia
tions. I too, detest the horrors of War, like
you, Sir, and wish to fee an end to the misery it
occasions. But I will in no refpeft ad anywise
contrary to the honor of the French Republic
and her armies, fam perfedly convinced that
you entet tain the fame fenuments of good faith,
honor, and morality which ought to charader
ize Treaties concluded between nations.
"The French Republicans are firangers to
those firaragems of War, of which Mr. Mor
ris's papers make mention. They know no 9-
ther rule of condud, but courage in battle, gen
erosity after viadry, and the ftrid observance of
Treaties.
“ One hundred and fifty Enghfhmen are pris
oners of war here. Had I only listened to Re
publican generosity, I would have sent them
back without considering them as pnfoners,
they having been taken en the coast of Egypt,
^d without arms, and I am convinced the Con-
Gen. Kleber's obfequics were celebrated in
great military pomp. At the place of inter
ment the Staff of the army knelt to falutc
the remains of their General; and the mili
tary of all ranks advanced spontaneously to the
tomb, on which they strewed crowns of cypress
and laurel, accompanying this last homage with
expressions of the most sincere regret. Citizen
Fourier pronounced his funeral oration.
“It was his wish tu be alone. He was found
expiring. The assassin, discovered under a heap
of rubbish, and brought to the head-quarters,
acknowledged that he had been solicited to com
mit the crime by the Aga of the Janissaries of
the Ottoman army commanded by the Grand
Vizier in person. The Vizier unable to con
quer the French fairly in arms, employed for his
revenge the dagger, the weapon of cowards.—
The assassin called himfelf Soukyman cl Alepi.—
He came from Aleppo ; airived at Cairo, after
having crossed the defart on a dromedary, he
lodged at the Grand Mosque Eleazor, from
which he came out daily to watch an opportu
nity to commit the crime. He confided his se
cret to four subordinate Cheiks of the law, who
fought to divert him from his purpose, but who,
not having informed against him, have been ar
retted in consequence of the depositions of the
assassin condemned to death, and executed the
17th of last month."
[Menou then relates tV trial end execution of the
affiffin, and bis confidents —the former was impaled
and the latter beheaded. It appears by Gen. Me
nou's letter, that Gen. Kleber bad capitulated a second
time, (April lift)for the evacuation of Egypt. —
Since then Monou is determined " to preserve to the
Republic the magnificent colony of Egypt.")
“ A horrible event which has few examples
io the annals of hiftory has raised me to the. pro
visional command of the Army of the Eift.—
Gen. Kleber was assassinated the 14th June laft*
A wretch dispatched from Gaza about 48 days
ago, by the Aga of the Janissaries of the Otto
man Army, pierced with four thrufls of a poign
ard, the General in Chief, at the moment when
he was walking with Citizen Protein the archi
teft, upon the terrace, which from the garden
of the head-quarters commands a view of the
place Ezbekier. Citizen Protain,in attemping
to defend the General, was himfelf pierced with
fix strokes of a poignard. The firfl blow which
Kleber received was mortal. He has fallen.—
Protain is still alive. The General who wasgiv
ing orders for the repair of the head-quarters, &
of the garden, had with him no Aid-du-Camp,
none of the corps of guards.
PARIS, SEPT. 6.
CT OVERNMENT has received by the ftiip
CT Oliris, from Egypt, official letters from the
army.
Gen. Menou to Buonaparte.
H. ^, Caro, ,uly J, igoo.
“ Citizen Consul,
r. Confirmation of the AfTaffination
of KLEBER.
Late Foreign News.
No. 3.
Constantinople, July 27.
1 To!. XI.
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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, TWELFTH YEAR'
Oracle of tbe Bap.
Morning, by CHARLES PEIRCE, Printer of the Laws &c. of
in New-Hampshire.
Not one of the bees, young or old were , di
ed , and though there appeared to be at least
50,000 of them, they were all the produdion
of one queen or mother bee. Moflof the ho
ney, from the observation of the gentleman to
whom the house belonged, was collected in the
latter end of June and n^mth of July.
rr^ii Kile London Naperj.
The Danilh ship Norway, Captain
Olson, arrived at Diamond harbour
from Batavia on the 11th of January.
By this ship we learn the loss of the
American ship Ceres, last from the Isle
of France, which was wrecked in the
month of Odober, upon the Island An
guna. Part of the crew arrived at Ba
tavia in the jolly boat belonging to the
Ceres, with about four or five thousand
dollars, part of the treasure With which
the veffei had been freighted. By the
accounts of these people, as soon as
the Ceres had struck, the Captain and
flip's company fought the shore in
boats, carrying the treasure with them ;
upon their landing, the natives came
down upon them, and the Captain in
order to conciliate their good will, ad
vanced towards them with the supercar
go, and one or two passengers, making
signs of submission ; the attempt was
vain, for the savages immediately put
them to death, the rest witnessing this
barbarity, betook themselves to flight,
and found refuge in the woods. The
party who survived to relate the above,
visited the shore at dusk, and found the
jolly boat lying, there with the trea
sure, but stove. They however con
trived to repair the damages by the
application of their jackets to the leak,
and prosecuted their perilous way to
Batavia.
Sir Sidney Smith has answered this letter ex
pressing his most heartfelt sorrow for the tragi
cal catastrophe, and adding the official and sol
emn assurances of the Grand Vizier, that he
had no (hare in the horrid deed, with which
the French in Egypt are now said to charge
their own Chief.
fuls would have approved of my conduct. But
your Allies the Turks, detain the Citizen and
Chief of Brigade Baudet, Adjutant of Gen. Kle
ber, though his person ought to have been sa
cred, even to barbarians, for he went on a par
ley.
" I have thus been forced against my will and
inclination to use reprisals against your country
men ; but they shall be rcleafed the moment
Citizen Baudet reaches Damietta. He shall
there be exchanged for Muftapha Pacha and
other Turkish Commissaries. if, as I make no
doubt, you possess influence with your Allies,
this affair will soon be fettled. Your honor is
interested in it, and it concerns 150 of your
countrymen.
In our last we Rated the conviction
of two more of the Hermoine's crew.
The hand of Providence has evident
ly shewn itfelf in the punishment of
these atrocious wretches, the ihame of
England and humanity. They had
all made their escape, and were fafe in
an enemy's country ; yet by various
ways and unaccountable means,.Divine
Vengeance has pursued and delivered
them up to the arm of their .offended
country ! We trust this strong and me
morable document will not be loft up
on the navy, and that it will recur in
the verv fitft moment of artful mutiny
and political sedition.
" I have the honor to repeat to you, Sir, that
with an enthusiastic joy, I shall fee terminated a
war which has so long disturbed the whole
world. It behoves the French and English na
tions to efteern, and not to destroy each other ;
but if th 7 treat together, it must be on condi
tions equally honorable to both, and equally con
ducive to their refpedlive welfare.
“ Please to accept, Sir, of the most sincere af
furancts of my efteern and rcfpe&, I have the
honor to be, &c. (Signed)
The Batavian army is informed, that the Em
peror having rtfufed to fubferibe to the condi
tions of the Preliminaries of Peace, which had
been signed by his Plenipotentiary at Paris, the
government is under the necessity of continuing
the war. The armistice is, in consequence brok
en off, and it will cease to have effect the 7th
September, at one o'clock, P. M.
The General Officers and chiefs of corps Will
profit by this interval, to pass the troops in re
view, and to dispose every thing in such man
ner that they may be able to march and fight as
soon as th" shall receive orders.
WORTHY OF IMITATION.
A London paper fays, “ at Paris, every inha
bitant is obliged by the Police to water the space
of the ftrect before his own preroifes. Upon
negle&, it is done by the Police, who levy,he
payment with a small fine. We are not very
often inclined to copy any thing from the Re
public, but we think in this inflance we might
imitate with advantage."
From a London Paper.
The following very extraordinary quantity
of honey was taken vat of a bee-hive which
had been formed in the roof of a gentleman s
house in the neighbourhood of Glasgow :—
Fine white Virgin, Honey 5 0 ™s.
Os brown comb 46103. and
Left for support of the Bees golbs.
PRICE I DOLLAR 50 CENTS Per Antuni
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WAR ASPECT.
H. 6>.near Frankfort, Aug. 28.
GENERAL ORDERS.
“ Abdulah Bey, J. Menou."
In all 1261b5.
HANOVER, OCT t,.
A Society has lately been incorporate
ed, in London, under the patronage
of th * King' called the Royal Insti
tution of Great Britain. Its object is
the promotion of the ufeful arts :—
"To diffufe the kn%\)kdge artd facilitate
the general introduftion of ufeful Mechani
cal inventions, and improvements ; and for
teaching, by ourfes of philfpbical lefinreg
and experiments, the application of piffle
to the common purpofa of life."
Its eftablithment is on a basis liberal
and extensive ; as might be expected
from an institution, originating in prin
ciples of humanity and benevolence.
Its officers are a President, one or more
Vice Presidents, nine Managers, nine
Visitors, a Secretary, and Treasurer.—•
The Members are called Proprietors,
and 50 guineas are to be paid into the
funds on admission. The regular meet
ings are monthly, besides a general an
nual meeting for the election of officers,
&c. and occasional extra communica
tions, for special purposes. Lectures
on Chemistry and Natural Philosophy,
are to be regularly delivered, at the
house of the Institution, where also,
experiments will be made, and ma
chines of recent invention, calculated
to facilitate labor, and improve the arts,
will be exhibited in adual motion. A
periodical paper will be published by
the Society, containing, besides their
regular journals, accurate notice and
descriptions of all new discoveries in
science and the arts ; of all novel me
chanical inventions, and improvements
in Agriculture, Manufactures, Com
merce, and, generally, in all arts, which
tend to the advancement of society and
the happiness of mankind. O Dif
cudions relating to Politics or Religion,
are utterly excluded from the Institution.
James Murray, who was to have been execute
ed at Leicester last week,under sentence of con
demnation for a highu ay robbery,made his escape
out of the jail at Leicefter,by a most extraordina
ry exertion, and a series of good fortune almofl
beyond credibility ; Soon after 6 o'clock on Sa
turday morning he knocked at the door of his
cell, desiring permission to go to the privy ; the
turnkey let him into the felons' yard where it
is situated, and having no suspicion, from hit
uniform good conduct, left him. Murray took
immediate advantage of his abfenCe, and with
the affidance of a stool placed at the top of the
pump, jumpt to a window above, and from
thence to a spout, each several feet above his
head ; having gained the summit, he quickly
defeended into an adjoining yard belonging to
a butcher ; the servant being gone a milking,
had left the key under the street door, that ena
bled him to go out without noise into the High
street (one of the moil public in the town)
down which he walked with great seeming
composure ; he paffea three or four perlons who
recognized him, but in the moment of surprise
let him pass. From thence he went into
Sweine's market, where his chains were observ
ed ,• but by some extraordinary fatality, no per
son attempted to flop him ; in the mean time
one peffon who had seen him in the High
street, went and told th© jailor he was at large ;
an immediate alarm was then given, Without
being able to difeover what was become of
him.—Murray, it appears, got cifir of the
town, and effected his escape to a village some
miles from Leiccfler, where he hid himfelf in
a barn, but being difeovered by fonie boys, he
offered them a milling to fetch a blacksmith;
dreading, however, an alarm, during their ab
sence he got out and fecreced himfelf among
feme standing corn. What he had anticipated
was soon verified, the clamour became general ;
several persons returned with the boy ; being al
most defponding & quite exhausted with extraor
dinary exertion and fatigue,he determined to sur
render himfelf, and immediately came forward,
declaring, that since it appeared he must die, he
would surrender without farther trouble, but
in this dread moment of horror and suspense,
his good fortune did not defect him $ the par
ties, instead of exulting ' in the death of a finnep,
were alive to that flrft grand principle of fociaß
order—" Do as you would be done by ;" —the, a
fuffered a sense of duty to give way to the tende,
emotions of pity and cominiferation ; and then,
instead of hurrying him back to an ignomini
ous death, they liberated him from his chains—
relieved the wants of nature—changed his dress #
—gave him money—and sent him "on hit;
way rejoicing ," and from that time he has not
been# heard of."
Among the Managers, and probably
the originators of the plan, we are hap
py to notice the name of Coun* Rum
ford, a native American, and late citi
zen of New-Hampshire ; a gentleman,
whose fuccefsful exertions, to meliorate
the condition of his fellow-man, especi
ally of the poorer classes, have already
rendered him dear to humanity.
Such an Institution cannot fail to
meet the support of every friend of
man ; not only in Great-Britain, but
throughout the civilized world.
We learn, that the Hon. Dr. Whee
lock, President of Dartmouth College,
is refpeafully invited to a correspond
ence with the Royal Institution.
or «nuOQ ^v.rm • ■ ^ —=• v—r ^^ , r—
Subferiptio^ for the Oracle, at I dollar JO cent,
per annum, payable Quarterly, —fcmi-annually—or
annually, as u conveniehtyor Shribers,
are thankfully received at tbe Cohri^^Bfo^o^
and Oracle Fri^mg-Ofre, Nai % Daniel,rt&^
WASHINGTON'S Lr.GAcr.
Extr&a from a late Londen Paper.
SINGULAR ESCAPE.