The American Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1802-10-26 00:00:00, page 4

A person or inCTiiqi
resided at Depiford in Engffl^Hr
had a place in the custom-house hav#
ing constantly finished his business by
two o'clock, in his+walk to dinner he
frequently met a gentleman who lived
in that neighborhood, who was known
to be disordered in his intellects, but
whole conduct had always been inof
, fenfive.. It happened one day'that
the madman met him upon a narrow
causeway, and having a large (tick in §
his hand, when he came up to Mr.
Man he made a sudden flop, & stick-
Jng one end of the (tick to the ground™
while he held it with both his hand>,
he sternly demanded, “ Who are you,
, Sir ?" The other not at all alarmed,
and willing to sooth his assailant with
a pun, replied " Why fir, I am a dou
man, Man by name, and man by na
ture." " Are you so, fir," fays the
insane man—« why I am a man be
side myfelf, and we two wifi fight ,ou
two :" and immediately knocked Mr.
Man into the ditch, then deliberately
walked off.
An attorney in France, having pur.
I chafed a charge of Bailiff for his son,
' < advised him never to work in vain,
but to raise contributions \on thole
who wanted his assistance. “ What!
father, (said the son in surprise) would
you have me fell justice ?' , Why
not ?" answered the father, is fofcarce
an Article to be givenfor nothing ?"
N Sir Thomas More, the day he was
beheaded, had a barber sent him, be
cause his hair was long, which it was
thought would make him more com
miserated by the people. The bar
ber aiked him whether he would be
trimmed ? In good faith, my hon.
est fellow, said fir Thomas, the King
and I have a foit for my head, and
till the [title be cleared, I will bestow
no cost upon it ! !
Ore t===^^x^^^=^^
PLEASING HISTORY.
The LADY of the Cave.
1 [continued.]
A THE riddle is at last explained
has brough with him——«l will
not tell you whb, till I have pre
pared you to give him that wel
come in your imagination, which
he certainly deserves.—Besides it
would be letting you into the
plot too soon, and destroying
Ithat surprise, which so much
heightens the beauty of any great
gataftrophe.—Gradually then to
begin :—My uncle no sooner
got to London, than he went to
Sir G. M—,whom he found in a
1
,ftrating how impossible it
Tas for any considerations, to
overcome an aversion, grounded
on a natural antipathy, and the
ill effeds which forced marriages,
for the most part, produce.
Sir G. M——,heard him with
a great deal of patience, and then
told him, that he had not so stren
uously insisted on his daughter's
obedience in this point, on the
score of any advantage he pro
posed by the marriage, but mere
ly to comply with the promise
he had given to Lord H ; for
in truth, laid he, I have heard
some things of late concerning
him, which had I known before
I never should have approved of
the alliance.—To these he added
many other expressions, which
made my uncle fee that a recon
ciliation between them would
not be difficult to accomplish ;
and having brought him entirely
into the portion he wished, he
at Uh,.h ventured to inform
him that to his certain knowl
edge, the young lady he had
mentioned, was no other than
his daughter : but at the fame
time told him, that he must not
expea to be made acquainted
with her retreat, till he had given
his word 'and honor to forgive
her, and to make no use of his
authority as apparent to force
her inclinations. To this the
other said he would readily agree,
provided still her conduct, since
her quitting his house, had given
him no frefh fubje& of com
plaint against her.
My uncle thought there need
ed no mote from a person who
he found' was nicely tenacious
of his promises, and immediate
ly related the whole story of her
concealment in the cave, how I
had found her there, and after
wards at his desire, brought her
home with me. —The good old
gentleman, it seems, liftend to
this recital with tears of joy, and
as soon as it was ended, embrac
ed my uncle, said he never could
fufficiently acknowledge the ob
ligations he had to him, called
him, the proteftor of his daugh
ter's and his family's honor, and
swore he should always regard
him with much more than,a
brotherly affection. *
Such extraordinary demonftra-,
fens pf gratitude, for an a^ion,
Ideal of perplexity, not on-
I account of the little hope
of recovering his daugh
allo on that of lome con-
Ices her elopement had oc
which he did not as
Lk fit to mention.—My
fold him, he had casually
a young lady, who was
■be concealed at the house
I of his intimate friends,
roving good realons for fuf
it was his daughter, he
liken the liberty to wait on'
In order to assure him, that;
Ke the person he meant was |
I her, he needed be underl
Ipprehenfions that she had
[from his authority, on anyl
re which could bring dis-;
,r on his family ; and then
Leded to excuse this ad
hifobedience in her, by re-
which, in reality, was ne more !
than common humanity would
have obliged any man to, very j
much embarrassed my uncle. He
was not sorry, however, to find
the impression it made on him,'
because it could not but faciliate
the good work he had so happily
begun--Indeed there now requir
ed no more solicitations. The
father threw off all reserve, and
frankly owned, that as things
had happened, he was so far
I from being troubled his daugter
, had been guilty of swerving from
I that duty she had in every other
larticle observed towards him,
I that he rather looked on what
|fhe had done, as inspired by Di
! vine Providence.—" For a girl
of her years," said he, "to Tun
all hazards, expose herfelf to all
dangers, rather than become the
wife of a man, whole exterior
form h^ nothing to create so
strong an aversion, seems to me
to have something supernatural
in it ; and I must think it was
by the direaion of her guardian
angel, that she took this only
method to avoid a man, whom
I am now well convinced she
never could have been happy
with, even had her love been as
extreme as her hatred is at pres
ent."
All this a little astonished my
uncle ; but the other soon put
an end to the suspense he was in,
by telling him on what occasion
his fehtiments were changed, so
much to the reverie to what they
had been.
It seems, some little time be
fore it was publicly known, that
Sir G. M - had resolved to
dispose of his daughter to Lord
A ;a young gentleman of
family, equal in fortune to him,
and much his superior in accom
plishments and personal graces,
came to demand permission to
make his addresses to that young
beauty ; but her father was ob
liged to reject his offers on ac
count of his promise being al
ready given ; on which the oth
er desisted.—The father, how
ever, after her elopement, was
not without some apprehensions,
that she had privately encour
aged the passion of this new lover
and might possibly return it in a
manner no way to the advantage.
of her charaa:er, till the rivals
happening to meet in public
company, and this lady being the
topic of conversation, Lord H—
fpoke of her in terms highly in^
jurious, which the other, who
truly loved, though without
hopes, relented, by fending him
a challenge the next morning ;
but Lord H refufed to ac
cept it, faying he knew better
things than to fight on the score
of so worthless a girl, who, he
doubted not, was by this time a
common prostitute. This af-\
'fair made a great noise in town,
and it was not without the in
terposition of all the friends on
both sides, that it was made up,
by Lord H-—consenting to ask
pardon, and declaring he knew
no ill of the young lady, but had
spoke prematurely. The faith
ful lover however, was so uneaiy
! at this slur on the reputation ci
a woman he sincerely believed in-
Inocent, that he came to her fath
er, and offered to do his utmost
in assisting the search he was then
1 making, that if she could be
found, and would accept his
hand, he would ask no other
.fortune with her, than the hap
piness of possessing her.—This
generosity so much charmed the 4
old gentleman, that he wished to
recover her, not only from prin
ciples of tender affection, but
chiefly that he might giye her
hand to a person so extremely
deserving. This it was that had
made him now express himfelf in
the terms he did, on hearing the
account my uncle gave of her.
To be cenitosi.
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—■ —— —
Money loft.
LOST, yeflerday, between Chand
lei's tavern is Bofcawen, and E'q. Bryant's
in Bow, a red Morocco Pocket Book, contain
ing thirteen dollars in bills, and some papers
of no cOnfcquence to any person but the own.
er— Whoever will return it to me, or leave it
with the Printer hereof, (hall be handsomely
rewarded, by PELEG YOUNG.
Oa^ber I 8, 1802. 89
NETP PAPER MILL.
THE public are refpeOfully in.
formed that a Paper Mill is now erod
ing in Pembroke, near Osgood's Mills—where
Four Dollars a hundred will be given io C,fh
for good R AGS suitable for the manuta&u<e
of paper. It is hoped that every person will
be dlfpofed to encourage this ufeful manufac
ture in the inferior of Newhamrfhire, which
will effeft a confiJerable feving of money io
the vicinity, arid which can in no way mere
effeauaUy be done, than by the Ladies in
faring their RAGS :—Thus, they may essen
tially ferre themselves, the Public, and confer
a favor on their humble fervaots, by whom ev
ery favor will be thankfully received.
FULLER, LEWIS, & CO.
Pembroke, Sept. 16. t^oz. Bgtf.
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John Hoit, do.
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Stephen Cushman, do.
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Timothy Ladd, do.
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Samuel Page, do.
John Page, do.
Samuel Cochran, Pembroke.
Arthur Rogers, do.
Samuel Phelps, do.
Nathaniel Wiggins, Bow.
Stephen Lang, • Loudon^
Moses Rand, Barnftead.
Stephen Sutton, Canterbury.
William Harper, janbornton.
Reuben Keezert Northfield.
Amos Farrington, K Henniker.
The Constable of the Town of New
Hampton.,
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Abner Hammond, New Hacipfhire.
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