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ore Ml, etempt to palliate this tranhaton,
here can be no excuse given for me, unless intoxi
cation may be pleaded in mitigation of an offence#
It was a most cruel attack tipon an innoc u< girl,
whose years, whole entreaties must have fofrened an
heart not callous to every tender feeling. When her
cries had brought to her assistance fame neighbour
ing people, I continued my barbarity, by inciting
her in her distress, boasting of the fad, and glory
ing in my iniquity. Upon reflection, lam often
surprised that 1 did not attempt my escape; oppor
tunity to effect i: frequently prevented before i was
apprehended. Yet, by fame unaccountable fatali
'ty, I loitered unconcerned, as though my conduct
would bear the ftrideft fcruriny. The counsel of
Heaven determined that such a prodigy in vice
Should no logger infeft Society. At four o'clock I
was brought before Mr. Justice Daggett for exam
oration. The testimony was so pointed, that 1 was
ordered into immediate confinement, to await the
approaching feffon ci the Superiour Court.
On the sth of Augult last, I was arraigned be
fore the Bar of the Superior Court. My trial was
far more favourable than 1 capered. There was
every indulgence granted me which I could J^ve
wished ; and the court, jurors and fpeftators ap
peared very differently from tho^ 1 have seen at
Old Bailey. The jury had little hesitation ; in
deed the most compassionate hearer of this cause
could have only pronounced me Guilty, 1 beheld
with astonishment the lenity of the court, and am
fare, that in a country where such a sacred regard
is had to the liberty of the fubjeft, no man's life
can be unjustly taken from him. On the Tuefday
following, the Chief Justice pronounced Sentence
of Death against me. I thought myfelf less moved
with this pathetick address than either of the court,
or any fpedator ; and yet, I confefs, I was more
gfcded by it, than by any thing which had previ
bufly happened in my life. On the next sabbath I
attended meeting. The address of the Rev. Dr.
Dana on that day, and the subsequent advice and
admonitions which I have received from the Clergy
of this and other places, were calculated to awaken
every feeling of my heart. Much gratitude is due
from me to those gentlemen who have exhibited such
a tender concern for my immortal interest.
It now remains that I die a death jaftly merit
ed by my crimes. " The cries of injured inno
cence hare entered the ears of the Lord of Sabach,
and called for vengeance." If the reader of this
ftor, can acquiesce in my fate, and view me "Hum
bling on the dark mountains of the Shadow of
death," with compofare, he will yet compaffionace
a foul Rained with the fouleft crimes, just about to
appear unembodied before a God of infinite parity.
JOSEPH MOUNTAIN.
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Sentimental Repository.
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THE following extract from a late European
publication, (hews that the most distressing
consequences may result from judgments founded
on circumstantial and preemptive evidence, how
ever strong.
AN AFFECTING ANECDOTE. *
A young lady named D' Aumont was executed in
the Qcy of Lyons about Ex years ago, for the fop
'pofed murder of her uncle, the Chevalier de la
Ponlone, with whom (he lived in the moil affkaion
ate harmony from her infant years. Having con
ceived a passion for a very deserving young officer
who was quartered in the town, and between whom
and the young lady, a mutual affection subsisted,
Ihe came to a determination of eloping with hint
unknown to her uncle, and only admitted one fe
male servant to her confidence. It unfortunately
happened, that this woman wgleagued with a pri
vate soldier, who meditated the plan of murdering
the Chevalier, with a view of plundering the house
on the night the intended elopement fliould take
place, in order that the unhappy neice Should bo
judged the perpetrator of the horrid deed which
was accordingly effeaed with every degree of fa
yage barbarity. The young lady and the officer
were immediately pursued, brought back, and
committed to prison, The former war tried and
executed on the falfe evidence of the female ser
vant; and the latter was caffiiered, and condemn
ed to the gallies for life.
About five months ago, the fervanrbeing taken
ill, threatened to divulge the whole matter be
fore a magistrate ; to prevent which the soldier who
bad married her put an end to his wife's exigence :
But at length feeling sincere reraorfe for these re
peated murders, he voluntarily surrendered him
felf up to fradice, confeffed the ,whole affair/ and
was pablickly excuted amidst th, execrations of
the enraged multitude.
^•^hat adds to the dreadful recital is that the
young lady was not iefs remarkable for her beauty
chan for her unaffected piety and sweet simplicity
,1 raaan#s. A broken heart soon terminated the
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
rercrantßt
LONDON, SEPT. 24.
; Montego Baj,jlul, to.
- The Miraculous Efface of Captain Colin Campbell,
bfGlafcow^
MOMDAt lass, about two o'clock in the af
ternoon, a Wallop belonging to the fhp U
lysses, Cape. C. Campbell, of Glasgow, now at
Martha Brae, loaded witfi rg: hogsheads of sugar
from Orange-Bay, in Hanover, in a sudden squall
of wind off Round- hill', shipped a sea, which filled
tb'e fhaltop, and almost immediately funk her.—
Capt. Campbell, three feaeven, and a boy,were on
board. The boy, as he was never feenrafterwards
is fuppofed.to have perished in the vortex of the
veftl. Os the other four, only Capt^ Campbell,
and one of the seamen are furvirors; After the
loss the Ihallop, Capt. Campbell was so fortunate
as to catch an oar, and rhe surviving sailor, a calk,
which he held by the bang hole, and being near
Capt. Campbell, at his request assisted him in pul
.ling off his coat and docking. Their unfortunate
companions were dedicate of every assistance, and
their exertions for the preservation of their lives
unhappily proved ineffeawaL The seaman tl at is
saved, finding the calk rather drifting him rut to
sea than favour his reaching the land, forfcek the
miserable exiftanci of f he wretched officer, who di
ed fix weeks after the execution of the most amia
ble fufferer, in moll excruciating tortures.
A moll foperb monument is to be erefled at
public coff, in memory of this melancholy event.
THE UNNATURAL SON.
Phillip Thickneffe, Esq. late Governor cf Land
guard Fort, and author of the celebrated travels
through France and Spain, and other sentimental
work) of merit, has the misfortune to have a natu
ral Son (in other refpeds very unnatural) who af
fe&s to flight and be alhamed of his father. This
son, who in the maternal right has affamed the
name and title of George Touchet, Baron Audley,
and enjoy# a very considerable estate in England,
has upon ail occasions manifested the greatest con
tempt of his father,and frequently passes him in the
street, mounted in his carriage, without paying the
least attention to the old gentleman on foot. The
last time Mr. Tickneffe returned from Spain be
ing as usual quite out of caffi, and in great neces
sity, he applied to the son for retif, which was
peremtoriiy refufed. — In this emergency he in
ftahrly hired a little flall in one of the most public
Streets in London and put up a sign over the door
with a boot and Shoe painted thereon, and the fol
lowing words in large gilt letters : Boors and
Shoes.mended here by Phildip ThicK
nessk, Father to Lord Audley. —lt had
not hung there twelve hours before a billet was ,
feat, inclofing a bark note for a hundred guineas,
requesting that in confederation thereof the sign
might be inflantly taken down and burnt.— Afaft
of jhame mill operate upon the feelings ,f a bad man
mben be is become entirely callous to sbfe of natures
THE little value placed upon money by feafar
ing people in general is well known. - -Aft
honest Tar, who had lined his pockets with the
spoil of the enemy of his country, ordered a huge
gold ring. When the tradesman had finished it,
he told him it was common to have a poesy engra
ved on it.— Very well, (said the Teaman) what
most it be ?—Any thing you please, (replied the
goldsmith) —Then (returned the fellow) put oft it
" When money's low—the ring mus go."
This was done, and the honefl son of the waves was
so well pleased with the execution of the whole,
that he ordered a maffy pair of fiber buckles to
be made, with the rims as broad as the edge of a
two inch plank ; —" and here (said he) yon may
as well put a poesy on them also :
"1, that man's do —ip buckles tea/'
INDIAN IDEAS.
THE Indians call our Courts of Justice em
phatically Talking Howes, and compare La^-
yers to Ratilefaakes, having squint eyes and forked
tongues. They fay these gentlemen are so fond of
,&m flone, (so they denominate gold) that they
will do any thing for it- They have a poor opini
on of the Clergy, because they fay a Priest will
not flop rain when it is uufeafonabfe, or bring it
when wanted, without being paid a tenth of the
produce of hard and honest labour.
Our Phyfrcrans they despise ; they cut off limbs,
they fay, as we difmembeF a tree, and with as lit
tle feeling.
In fad, the Indians, a few disorders excepted,
are the firft Physicians and Surgeons in the world,
of which there are innumerable instances. To
them we are indebted for the difeovery of Gum
Guiacum, and Jesuits Bark#
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eafk, aril gained the Shore at Try^e, by A^mmin^
about two hours 'after dark, :*.d arrive 'here the
next d?v in a boat from Flint River, believing that
he was the only period saved, as he 101 l fpht of his
unfortunate fellow-faffcrers after three , o'clock.—
About 8 o'clock oriMonday night, Capt. Camp
bell, who has already been mentioned, was posses
sed of an oar, his feet touched fame thing which,
proved to be a Shade, which made an attempt to
seize him, and struck him with the fnoat in the
breast. This new terror, behead of disheartening
Capt. Campbell, animated lira wbb freSh Strength
N and power ; and till 5 o'clock in the morning,
when he was taken up by feme negroes in a canoe#
who heard his cries ,before cay break, he was de
fending himfeif agaitut the Shark. The method
he took to oppose the ILtuk, was, femetimes by
pressing with his hands arid the whole weight of his
body with the oar upon the Shark, whick made him
Shear off ; at other times getting to the extremity
of the oar, and Striking at him ; and by these and
other Araiagems that the moment foggefted, he
wonderfully preferred bimfelf from being destroyed
by the veracious animal. Ths Shark was about
eleven feet long. Caph Campbell arrived here
yerterday morning in his way to Martha Brae, and
we are happy to fay it# good health, considering
the uncemmen 'etigue of body and mind he mast
have undergone for fifteen hours, the time he was
in the water#
An uncommon incident. —On Sunday fe'nnight
two women and their companions quarrelling, in
a court upon Saffron hill, London, one of the for
mer in the a& of derision- was trolling her tongue
cut cf her mouth as far us it was in her 'power,
when (he received fd violent a blow under her
Chia from the other, that from the pressure of her
teeth# accompanied with a fall Against a table, her
tongue was absolutely Separated, the piece upwards
of an inch long, was immediately taken up, and
in a piece of paper,with its !cofer conveyed to Bar
tholomew's Hospital, where She is row in a very
dangerous slate. Her antagonist was immediate
ly apprehended, aad on Monday examined before
a M^glfbate ; who, perhaps, not knowing how to
'edimate a tongue, committed her to New-Prifort
for further examination on Thursday. The Sepa
rated part was observed to quiver for Several mi
nutes after the accident eccured. The circum
flance upon the whole, molt firongly enforces the
p ouriety of the adage, Zse, thy tongue mitbin tb,
Uetb.
STOCKHOLM, [SWEDEN] AUG. gtj
C~ M O day peace was proclaimed with the usual
1 solemnities in the different quarters of the ci
ty. The royal family, and other persons of dif
tindion, affilted at the Te Deum, which was sung
with great pomp at thd Cathedral, after which
there was a court and a pubtick dinner at the pal
ace, and the evening is to close with illuminations
and other demonstrations of joy.
^A*IS, SEPT, I&
The declining health of Mr. Neckar has at sass
induced him to depart, but being unable to fettle
his accounts, he left that business t<4 Mr. Dufrefne 0
and set out with his lady, about the gth of SeptJ
He was flopped by the militia of Arey, a final!
town in Champafene, who refuted to let him pro
teed without leave from the National A£embly.=
Mr. Neckar wro e in corfequence to the Assembly,
u ho after some debate, ordered the rr unicipality es
Arey to fuffer him to deprt. It must be confeffed
that notwithftending the great talents, integrity &
perfeveranee of this great man, he was deficient in
prudence, by exposing his authority in matter#
that did not belong to his province. By support
ing the rights of rht Nobles against the opinion of
King's Council, be loft the favour of the people
without acquiring the friendffiip and good will of
the nobles who confider him as the principal au
thor of the revolution. Too often he presumed to
give his advice when it was not efted, and, by hi#
oppefing the rorrent of publick opinion, he injured
his health and popularity. It is to be willed,
however, that Mr. Neckar may soon be able to re
lume his business, and to endear himfelf to his fel
low citizens by new exertions of patriotism.
We canrfbt better conclude this ffiort statement
of the affairs of France, than by mentioning the
new tribute paid to the memory of a man, who, as
a statesman, as a philosopher, but particularly as
an Amenican; has for ever gained the applause and
-esteem of the French nation. The Academy has
- decreed the highest premium for the next year, 04.
an encomium of Dr. Franklin.—Thus the legifla
< cure,'the people, and the fanauary of letters, hav^
combined to contribute to the immortality pi
Franklin, because, joined to alt bis foperior quali
- fications,ihe lad the particular .advantage of being'
a diftin^ui&Q citizen of the United States,
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By Yesterday's Mail.