Herald of the United States (Warren, R.I.), 1807-08-08 00:00:00

Herald of the United States.
WARREN, (R. I.)—PUBLISHED NEAR THE POST-OFFICE, BY NATHANIEL PHILLIPS.
[No. 36, of Vol. XV.]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1807.
Whole No. 764.
MISCELLANY.
We this day extract from the PROVI- DENCE GAZETTE, of June 27th, the AD- ELPHIAD, No. 109, which appears to have been written in consequence of its publishing the "EXTRAORDINARY fore- warning, as it really occurred in Lord TY- RONE's family, in Ireland."—As it was also published in the HERALD of the 23d May and 6th June, we are satisfied its Readers will be pleased with the writer on Ghostology.
Phighted boys relate, on winter nights, How cleanly milk-maids meet the fairy train, How headless horses drag the clinking chain, Night-roaming ghosts, by saucer eye-balls known, The common spectres of each country town.—GAY.
AT what period of time a belief in demons, genii, good and bad spirits, ghosts and apparitions, obtained a footing in the world, it is impossible to ascertain; but it can easily be proved that such a belief did exist before the most remote periods of antiquity, whereof we have any records. If there are any writings more antient than the book of Job, they are those of Moses, and those only. The spirit which was seen by Eliphaz the Temanite, one of the friends of Job, was more properly a vision, or a dream, than an apparition; but it shews us that the doctrine of apparitions was not then unknown. In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.—Then a spirit passed be- fore my face; the hair of my flesh stood up. It stood still, but I could not discern the form there- of; an image was before mine eyes; there was silence, and I heard a voice.—Job iv. 13—16.
We learn farther, from sacred writ, that the which of Eador raised the ghost of Samuel the prophet, who forewarned Saul of the fate which befel him, and his three sons, the fol- lowing day, on Mount Gilboa. The Jewish Rabbins are not agreed as to the mode of rais- ing Samuel from the dead; nor is it easily to be accounted for on the principles of either scripture or philosophy; but we are bound to believe many things, for which we cannot ac- count. The followers of Sadoe, founder of the sect of the Sadducees, denied this history a- way. They, as we learn from judicious au- thority, the New Testament, did not believe in any resurrection, either angel or spirit; therefore ghosts and apparitions could not have been very common among the Jews; as, in case they were, the Sadducees must have seen some of them, which would have destroyed their creed.
On turning to the heathen poets and my- thologists we shall find
"Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts." Hercules, Orpheus, Ulysses and Eneas, visit- ed the shades below, where they saw "swarms of spectres rise from deepest hell." Homer gives us two views of those doleful regions, one in the eleventh book of the Odyssey, where Ulysses gives an account of his descent, in quest of the shade of Tiresias; the other in the 24th book, where Clytemnestra conducts the suitors of Penelope to the mansions of departed spirits.—Virgil, in his account of Hades, as well as in almost every thing else, has copied Homer.—The great father of poetry has given us the o- pinions of the antients respecting ghosts, or spirits, and these opinions are orthodox to this day.
Souls unbodied dwell In ever-flow'ring meads of Asphodel. The empty forms of men inhabit there, Impassive semblance, images of air! Nought else are all that thin'd on earth before; Ajax and great Achilles are no more!
It was the opinion of the antients, that the souls of those who did not receive the cus- tomary rites funeral, were obliged to wait on the banks of the river Styx an hundred years, before Charon would ferry them over in his boat. These ghosts were supposed capable of appearing to their surviving friends, and to have the power of telling things past, present and to come. Some ghosts were disposed of in a very strange manner. Virgil, very un- naturally, confines the ghost of Polydorus in shrubs; and Ovid fixes Lotis and Dryope in trees.
Ecce vir Andraemon, genitorque, miserrimus, absunt; Et querunt Dryopen; Dryopen querentibus illis Ostendi Libton.
Some very grave historians have been be- lievers in ghosts and apparitions, and have told us of
That fam'd ghost, which in presaging found Call'd Brutus to Philippi's fatal ground; And of Tiberius Gracchus' gory shade.
Indeed the world has always been filled with stories of ghosts, witches and hobgoblins. Bishop Jewel, in preaching before Queen El- izabeth, took notice of the abundance of those stories of the devil, the witches; inasmuch that he was apprehensive her majesty might not be safe from their influence. "I pray God," says he, "they never practise further than on the subject." King James I. was so forcibly impressed with this subject, that he wrote a treatise on Demonology. The learned Grotius
himself was a little infected with this mania; no wonder, therefore, that the common peo- ple are almost every where, biased by it.—Ghosts have not been very common in Eng- land, since the famous Mr. Parsons, of Cock- Lane, London, was detected in the imposition of the Cock-Lane ghost, wherewith he at- tracted the notice of all the people of England, and many in other countries, during the years 1762 and 1763.
Shakespeare was one of the most consider- able inventors of ghosts, and he has explained the laws by which they are supposed to be governed. Ghost-makers always bring them on the stage during the night—it being unlaw- ful for them to walk in the day.
I have heard The cock, that is the trumpet of the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day; and at his warning, Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine.
The lovers of the marvellous, who have not read the tragedy of Hamlet, will there find matter which will be highly suitable to their taste. The ghost of Banquo, in Macbeth, will also furnish them with a pleasant repast.
I will not affirm, that such a thing as a ghost or apparition has never been seen; but I may safely affirm, that all the reputed ghosts which have lately been said to appear, have not only proved to be "as the air involun- rable," but they have been invisible also, to every one capable of making enquiry on the subject.
Some have turned a belief in ghosts to good account. Not many years ago a clergy- man at Pympton, in Devonshire (England) overawed the country round him with the ideas of ghosts, and his influence with supernatural powers, to such a degree, that no mischief was ever done in that neighbourhood in the night, and very little indeed in the day. Country people firmly believe, that every rich man, who is wicked, walks after he is dead. The parson kept the country in subjection by means of a ghost of that description several years, when, at the earnest entreaty of his parishion- ers, he agreed to lay him in the red sea. The contest with the ghost, say the country people to this day, occasioned most terrible thunder and lightning. The ghost burst several holes through the wall of the tower, and melted some of the church bells.
It would be impossible to comprise a com- plete essay on Ghostology in an Adelphiad. A work of that description might be extended to several volumes; I will therefore proceed to the object I had in view, namely, the account of Lord Tyrone and Lady Beresford, publish- ed in the Gazette of the 13th June. One fea- ture of this story nearly resembles what actu- ally happened at the sea fight between the English and Dutch, the 3d of June, 1665.—The young Lords Rochester and Sandwich agreed, that if either of them was killed that day, he should appear to the survivor, and give an account of the other world. Lord Sand- wich fell, but Rochester saw him no more; when he concluded there was no future state, and lived accordingly. The story of Lady Beresford seems to contradict all the ideas we have of spirits. The ghost of Lord Tyrone writes in her pocket-book, touches her wrist, and gives her sensations of coldness; it also draws up her bed-curtains: whereas we are told by an Evangelist, that a spirit hath not flesh and bones. It is not tangible. When Ulysses en- deavoured to embrace the shade of his mother Anticlea, he says—
Thrice in my arms I strove her shade to bind, Thrice through my arms the flit like empty wind, Or dreams, the vain illusions of the mind.
But beside this inconsistency, the prophecy of the ghost of Lord Tyrone differs from the facts related—for instance, he told Lady Beres- ford that she should have two daughters by her second husband, and die in child-bed of a son—the history says, that she died a month after flying in a third daughter. These and other considerations make it sufficiently evident, that the account of Lord Tyrone and Lady Beres- ford was fabricated by some enthusiast, who thought a pious fraud justifiable; or that, if the circumstances were related by Lady Beres- ford, they were occasioned by hysteria, where- with her Ladyship was probably troubled; and in that case her relating such a tale would not be any way extraordinary or strange. Z.
We have been favoured with the following an- ecdote of Capt. Chauncy, of the Unit- ed States navy.—Its genuine Yankee spirit will not be unpleasant to our readers at this crisis.
A VERY short time since, Captain CHAUNCY returned from a voyage to the East-Indies, which, under a furlough he had made as a private citizen. On the passage
home, in the Indian Ocean, he was brought too by a British ship of war of 64 guns, and a lieut- enant and 10 or 12 men sent on board his ship. The British officer, an impertinent pup- py, without saluting Captain C. as a person, having any pretensions to gentility, would have done, immediately ordered one of his men to stand by the helm. Capt. C. justly offended, told his sailor to knock down any man who at- tempted to take his place without his (Chau- cey's) order. The attempt was made, and the English sailor, by prostration, paid his tribute of veneration to the nerve of the Yankee. The lieutenant now ripped out as many handsome oaths as a person could wish, and advanced to take the helm himself. CHAUNCY stepped before him, and upon the Englishman's laying his hand upon it, seized him by the scruff of the neck and threw him overboard into the boat. Upon this the lieutenant and his men went off; and Capt. C. was presently boarded by 60 or 70 men, among them the first officer of "his majesty's ship," who abused Capt. C. in words not a little, for his treatment to the lieu- tenant; who replied, I treated the puppy as he deserved—He either did not know his duty or the manners of a gentleman, or would not exer- cise them. You have now a superior force on board the ship—do what you please. Capt. C. then went on board the man of war, where he received some more compliments from the Com- modore, to which he replied in the same man- ner; without giving way one inch to that haughty spirit which characterises too many of the officers of the British navy. This spirit probably preserved him from the effects of their violence, and he was dismissed as the d—dest obstinate Yankee scoundrel he had ever met with, without their knowing him as any thing else than the master of a common East-India- man.
Previous to leaving the British ship, Capt. C. very leisurely took a memorandum of the officers names who had insulted him, saying—"Perhaps I may come ashore you some day, when you shall know who and what I am."
[Balt. Even. Post.]
PATRIOTIC ADDRESS.
[We hesitate not a moment in bestowing the highest praise and eulogium on the following address. It is a production, in point of elegant literature, which is seldom equalled in our papers; and on account of natural, moral, and political law, is enforced with an ardor of truth, that renders the highest honor on the American character. The situation in which the addressers were placed, and the feelings excited on the spot where the late out- rage was committed, are sufficient to excuse some unnecessary expletives of invective.]—Bost. Gaz.
ADDRESS
Of the Committee to their Fellow-Citizens, of NORFOLK, PORTSMOUTH, and their Vi- cinities, on the Cessation of their functions. FELLOW CITIZENS,
THE Select Committee, previous to their dissolution, beg leave to recur to the cause, which gave existence to your resolutions: and to attract your notice to the principles, which presided over their conduct, in the exe- cution of them. The late outrage committed in sight of your shores, on the National Flag, by a British ship of war, which was previously prepared for that act of atrocity, by instructions and signals given by order of the Commandant of the squadron, at that time anchored within the Capes of Virginia; and the deliberate slaughter of your countrymen, who fell unsol- pecting victims, at the very moment, the hu- man voice was prohibited and prohibited, in articulating professions of peace and amity—roused and excited your indignation and re- sentment to a degree never before felt.
The last deed of savage ferocity, unparal- leled even in the naval annals of Britain, a- wakened the sentiment of abhorrence in every breast. Every voice was loud in its call for re- parations commensurate to the insult: British insolence and barbarity had reached the ne plus ultra. They had the unblushing effrontery to claim the rights of hospitality, while their hands were crimsoned and smoking with the blood of your countrymen. Even at the in- stant, they had declared war, in sight of these shores from which not many years past, their discomfited and recreant myriads were driven with disgrace—In sight of those monu- ments, which all your breath with a holy and inspiring admiration, for the valor and triumphs of your forefathers. The nation was unexpect- edly plunged into war, and yourselves the first exposed to its ruthless blast. The choice of tame submission or resistance was forced on your consideration; with one voice you declared that your ancestors had wrested their rights, their liberties and independence from the sover- eign grasp of British tyranny, by the sword; and that you, their posterity, had resolved with it to defend and to perpetuate the hallowed patrimony.
Remote, in this crisis of imminent danger and alarm, from the government of the United States, whose decision could not be immediate- ly had, and knowing this portion of the Union to be within striking distance of a savage and indomitable enemy, the deliberate violators of all those just principles and stages which religion,
law and time have sanctified; you assembled for the purpose of concerting the best possible means for the immediate protection of all that was dear to you—your wives, your children, and the sacred honour of your country. The resolu- tions unanimously adopted by this august as- sembly, in which the sublime majesty of the people presided, are spread before the world; in all places, they receive the pure and sincere homage of elevated patriotism. To enforce o- bedience to your resolutions, you appointed a committee of citizens from your body, whom you made depositaries of your power; but whose existence, as your organ, should cease and determine the instant the voice of govern- ment pronounced its decision. This, Fellow- Citizens, is a concise history of the outrage, and of your proceedings.
Your committee, though deriving no pow- ers from the Constitutions and laws of the land, yet feel an honorable and just pride in the re- collection, that the appointment conferred on them, flowed from the only pure and legiti- mate source of all power—the PEOPLE—the fountain from which branches, as so many streams, the constitution and the laws.
They were deeply impressed with a sense of the delicate situation in which they were placed, and filled with anxious solicitude for the right performance of the solemn trust com- mitted to them. All eyes were directed to them—they were regarded as the rallying point.—The public sentiment placed in their hands the lever which was to raise—to peacify—and to communicate momentum to the public force.
The course the committee was to hold, could not be accurately delineated; the eye had in prospect, wherever it directed its vision, danger; threatening and awful. They were im- periously called on to take no step without de- liberation; to sanction no measure that might compromise the honor and reputation of their countrymen. They endeavored, in all their proceedings, to respect the demarcations of civil and political powers; and by their ad- vice, to direct the earnest of opinion, as to com- municate to the complex machinery of govern- ment—accession of force. The committee kept in view, the alarming state of affairs; and their consultations were incessantly employed to promote the public good, by endeavoring to separate from it, the evils that are often blend- ed with it.
They were taught by the pages of Amer- ican history, how much the magic enthusiasm of public sentiment ought to be appreciated—a sentiment to which the magisterial arm is in- debted for the far greater portion of its strength. They were sensible that to this di- vine and all-powerful impetus, could be con- fided to its appropriate orbit, that it would diffu- se around, like the Sun, the centre of our system, health, vigor and splendor. A constant effort was therefore exerted, to prevent schisms and collisions from destroying the harmony of the political sphere. Your committee have en- deavoured by vigilance and attention to every subject embraced by your resolutions, to realize your expectations. Their zeal and ardor were never remitted. No duty, however arduous or difficult to perform, arrested the steady movement of the hand that was ensconced with the Executive power. That they had erred, they are not so presumptuous as to deny. It is not the fortunate lot of humanity to boast of ex- emption from error.
To attain perfection is not permitted by the laws of our nature. We are allowed to progress towards, but never to reach it. If they are chargeable with deficiency in judg- ment, suffer them in extenuation to say, that their intentions were pure and honest. Permits them to declare, that next to the smiles and approbation of their consciences, they prize and value the esteem and confidence of their fellow- citizens. The exercise of their functions is no longer required. The government of the U- nited States has decided on the course that is to be pursued.
The outrage committed has roused into action its energies. You, fellow citizens have anticipated the wise and salutary measures which it has taken; you have the glory of perform- ing spontaneous acts of patriotism; you need not the promptings of authority, the rescue of government, to remind you of the relation in which you stand to the Republic—your acts are approved by the Executive Magistrate—they have his sanction. Your committee express a lively satisfaction in the great respect rendered to your authority. Few are the influences in which it has been questioned, because its foun- dation was not systematically laid in the consti- tutions and laws of the land. You have the merit, by wise precaution, and the temper and firmness discernible in all your proceedings, of securing to this portion of your country una- nimity!
We now, Fellow-Citizens, re-deliver to you the powers you entrusted to us, to promote the public good—we flatter ourselves that they flow back unpolluted to the source, from which they emanated.
We exhort you to feed—to keep alive the vital fire—we exhort you never to forget, that in unity there is strength, and that the best safeguard is preparation and sleepless vigil- ance.

We salute you with friendship, and pray God to bestow on you continual blessing.    Thomas Matthews,  Moses Myers,    Thomas Blanchard,  J. W. Murchison,    Daniel Bedinger,  Luke Wheeler,    Thos. Armistead,  Wm. Pennock,    William Newsum,  F. S. Taylor,    Richd. Bower,  Thos. Newton, jr.    NORFOLK, JULY 11, 1807.
From the National Intelligencer.
MUCH error having appeared in the accounts circulated, of what passed between the government and Mr. Erskine, in the case of the seamen, to obtain whom the Leopard made the late attack upon the Chesapeake, we are induced to state, that as we understand, on application by Mr. Erskine, for surrender, he was informed that it could not be done, and was referred to the written answer given by the Secretary of State, on a previous application in another case, for the principle on which the surrender of British deserters was refused. It was remarked to Mr. Erskine, at the same time, both by the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of State, that although the government could not deliver up deserters, it was so far from countenancing desertion, that general orders had been issued to our naval commanders not to permit any English deserters to be recruited for the American service. They also informed Mr. Erskine a few days after, that they had sufficient reason for believing that the seamen in question were native citizens of the United States, this being the result of an enquiry made by Capt. Barron, in pursuance of orders from the Secretary of the Navy. On this point Mr. Erskine expressed no opinion. This was not asked, because his opinion could form no part of the ground on which the government proceeded; and it was not offered, because it appears to have been his practice, and to have been held as his duty also, to do no more than to transmit without remarks, whatever documents or information relative to facts, he might judge proper to be forwarded to the British Admirals on different stations. In this case, he, accordingly, merely stated for the information of the British naval commander, that the result of an enquiry made by Capt. Barron had satisfied our government that the seamen, for whose surrender he had applied, were citizens and natives of the United States.
This report is in a train, we learn, to be formally verified in every material circumstance, by a recurrence to the sources of evidence pointed out by the seamen respectively.
* This answer was written Jan. 7, 1807. It was produced by an application for the surrender to their allegiance, of certain British seamen, who having united with American seamen left on board a vessel ordered to Halifax as a prize, brought her into the United States, and were charged with mutiny, piracy, and an attempt to murder their officers. The answer stated that not only no prerogative for the purpose in question is vested in the executive of the U. States; but that neither the law nor the practice of nations imposes on them an obligation to provide for the surrender of fugitives from the jurisdiction of other powers. The obligation can result only from special and mutual stipulations; which do not exist between the United States and Great-Britain; and which, indeed, as limited in the expired articles of the Treaty of 1794, do not comprehend any other offences than those of actual murder and piracy.
† The information reported by Capt. Barron was as follows:—
WILLIAM WARE, pressed from on board the brig Neptune, Capt. Crafts, by the British frigate Melampus, in the Bay of Biscay, and has served on board the said frigate 15 months. William Ware is a native American, born on Pipe Creek, Frederick county, State of Maryland, at Bruce's Mills, and served his time at said mills. He also lived at Ellicott's Mills near Baltimore, and drove a waggon several years between Hagerstown and Baltimore. He also served 18 months on board the United States frigate Chesapeake, under the command of commodore Morris and Capt. James Barron—He is an Indian looking man.
DANIEL MARTIN was pressed at the same time and place. He is a native of Westport, in Massachusetts, about 30 miles to the eastward of Newport, Rhode-Island—served his time out of New-York with Capt. Mallaby, in the Caledonia, refers to Benjamin Davis, Merchant, and Mr. Benjamin Corse, of Westport. He is a coloured man.
JOHN STRACHN, born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Queen Anne's County, between Centreville and Queen's Town—refers to Mr. John Price and—Pratt, Esq. on Kent
Island; who knew his relations—Strachn sailed in the brig Martha Bland, Capt. Wevill, from Norfolk to Dublin, and from thence to Liverpool. He there left the brig and shipped on board an English Guineaman. He was pressed on board the Melampus off Cape Finisterre, to better his situation he confessed to entering, being determined to make his escape when an opportunity offered. He served on board the frigate two years. He is a white man, about 5 feet 7 inches high.
WM. WARE and JOHN STRACHN have protested—Daniel Martin says he left his after leaving the frigate.
JOHN LITTLE, alias FRANCIS, and ALEXANDER WATTS, escaped from the Melampus at the same time, known to the above persons to be Americans, but have not been entered by my recruiting officer.
WM. WARE, DANIEL MARTIN, and JOHN STRACHN, state that some time in February last, there was an entertainment on board the Melampus, lying then in Hampton Roads—that while the officers, &c. were engaged, and all the ships' boats except the captain's gig, being hoisted in—Themselves and the two other men mentioned, availed themselves of a moment to seize the gig and row off—that as soon as they got into the boat they were hailed to know what they were going to do—They replied, they were going ashore—a brisk fire of musketry instantly commenced from the ship—that in defiance of balls and the hazard of their lives, they continued to pull, and finally effected their escape to land, namely, Sewall's Point—that they then carefully hauled up the boat on the beach, rolled up the coat, and placed that and the oars in the boat, gave three cheers, and moved on the country.
A writer in the National Intelligencer, under the signature of Cato, observes,
The impressment of our seamen may be considered as the original, if not the principal cause of the dispute now existing between Great-Britain and the United States. The British government have uniformly contended for the right of impressing from neutral vessels persons born in their dominions—on the other hand, our government have denied this right, and assert that the flag of the United States ought to be considered a sufficient protection to every person sailing under it. While this subject was under discussion a number of our vessels (laden with bona fide American property) were captured by British armed vessels, and condemned by British courts of admiralty, by virtue of orders founded on principles contrary to the rights of neutral powers as recognized by the most celebrated writers on the law of nations.
Such flagrant acts of injustice did not fail to excite much indignation among our citizens, but as a change of administration had taken place in England about this time, there was reason to believe that an amicable adjustment of our differences with that power might be effected. Under these impressions, the President appointed two ministers extraordinary to open a negotiation with the British government, but before much progress was made, the then British minister of foreign affairs, the celebrated C. J. Fox, died, and the cabinet of St. James' immediately abandoned that liberal policy, which he had introduced—our ministers were therefore unable to obtain such terms as the President considered we had a right to expect—Still, however, animated with a desire to preserve peace, fresh instructions were forwarded to our ministers (at the court of London) in which it is understood they were directed to enter into further explanations and discussions with the British government, and with a view to remove every obstacle to a friendly negotiation, the President exercised the authority vested in him by Congress, in suspending the operation of the act prohibiting the importation of certain British manufactures.
While the President was giving such strong proofs of his desire to preserve peace, a British squadron entered the Chesapeake, and committed an outrage unparalleled in the annals of history, and unequalled in atrocity by any acts heretofore committed by the Barbary powers. The executive has not been unmindful of the duty which he owes to his country at this important crisis—a proclamation has been issued by him interdicting to all British armed vessels the use of our ports and harbors, and forbidding our citizens to furnish them with any kind of supplies. The governors of the several
states have been directed to have 100,000 men immediately organized and equipped, and to be held in readiness to march at a moment's warning. The greatest exertions are likewise making (by orders from the executive) to place our seaports in a state of defence. The sum appropriated by Congress for this object together with our gun-boats, will, it is believed, render most, if not all, of our commercial towns invulnerable to any attack, which may be made on them. Notwithstanding these warlike preparations, the President is still determined to offer "the olive branch" before a resort is had to arms—a public vessel has been dispatched with instructions to our ministers at the court of London; and although the writer of this is unacquainted with the contents of these dispatches, and with what is termed "cabinet secrets" he nevertheless ventures to predict that unless honorable reparation is made to us for the injuries and insults we have received, that the ministers of the United States at London, will demand passports, and immediately return to this country. Congress will be assembled by the time that our ministers may be expected here (in case they fail in the negotiation with which they are charged) and that honorable body will then no doubt adopt such measures as shall appear to them best calculated to avenge the cause of our much injured people.
Foreign Intelligence.
MUTINY AT MALTA.
Extract of a letter from Mr. T. G. MERCHANT, at Malta, to a friend in London.
MALTA, APRIL 13.
LAST night, another magazine of 560 barrels of gunpowder was blown up; but, thank God, with the loss of only three lives of any value.—It originated from a most disgraceful and determined mutiny, which broke out in Fort Recazoli, among a new raised regiment called Froberg's, consisting of thirty-two different nations, at least tongues. This mutiny made its appearance on Saturday, the 4th instant, when they overpowered their officers, murdered three, and wounded many others. The garrison was immediately put under arms, and it was hoped the mutineers would be immediately subdued; however, the General conceiving lenient measures, from the vicinity of the Fort to Valetta, to be best, only planted a sufficient body of troops to prevent their escape. This measure had no effect on them; the next morning they loaded all the guns and mortars in the fort and pointed them on the city; at the same time sent out a message to the General, that if he did not immediately send them provisions, grant them a free pardon, and provide sufficient vessels to carry them to their own countries, they would murder the whole of their officers, and all the English, men, women and children, they had in their power. It was now deemed necessary to man all the batteries; and about 150 pieces of cannon, besides mortars, were brought to bear on the fort, and orders were given at each battery, that, should the rebels fire, they were immediately to be fired on from all quarters. These preparations appeared, in some measure, to damp their spirits: they thought proper not to fire on the town, though they put many to death who attempted to escape from them. This was the situation of affairs from Sunday to Thursday, they daily sending threatening messages to the General. On the latter day, provisions beginning to grow scarce among them, and no probability that the General would accede to their demands, and no prospect of escape left for them, differences broke out among themselves, and the most of the regiment marched out and surrendered themselves, having first massacred the sentries that were placed at the gates. In this confusion, the officers, and English men, women and children, got out of the fort. There were not supposed to be
above twenty now left in the fort of the mutineers; but these were the ring-leaders, and consequently could not hope for pardon; however, they still demanded it, and would surrender on no other terms than they at first demanded, threatening still to bombard the city, and when they could do no further mischief, to blow up the fort; and, in order to shew that they were in earnest, on Friday evening, they threw two shells and several shot, but fortunately without doing any mischief. The General determined to carry the fort in the night by assault, but unfortunately, a dog which the mutineers had with them, and a musket going off by accident, alarmed them, and after a few shots and shells fired, they made their escape into the powder magazine; our people having secured but two of them.
"Here they were entirely cut off from all provisions and water; yet they would not surrender, but fired on our people whenever they could get a shot at them, thus they remained until 9 o'clock last night, when they sent out their last message, declaring that if provisions and water were not sent them in half an hour, as they were starving, they would end their miseries by blowing up the magazine. They kept their word; and at thirty-two minutes past nine, the explosion took place, but most fortunately indeed did no further mischief than destroying part of the works, and killing three centinels. Thus has ended the most determined mutiny I ever witnessed; but punishment, I trust, awaits the greater part of the regiment: never did I hear of so general a mutiny; very few stood by their officers.
"On Saturday twenty-four of the worst of those taken were tried and executed the same day. A court martial will be assembled to-morrow, to try a further number, who, it is supposed, will suffer the fate they so richly merit directly after. About 200 of them have been so very desperate, that it is almost impossible to select the worst: those executed on Saturday died in the most hardened manner possible, swearing, swearing, dancing, singing, and daring their fate to the very moment they were launched into eternity. Never, I believe, was such a scene of hardened villainy exhibited."
APRIL 16.—"It is said confidently that the five men who blew up the magazine did it by a train, and made their escape into the country; two of them were yesterday taken.—There is not the least doubt but they will all be taken very soon. It was a distressing circumstance to us to be able clearly to see our own people among the rebels, yet not possible to get them away, though we knew them to be near starving, and believed that at last they would be murdered. The fort lies a quarter of a mile from us by water, so that we could see their every movement. It was not intended that the mutiny should have broken out on the day it did, they not being prepared; but one of the sergeants told the officers, when one of them rushed out and demanded the head of the mutineers to shew himself, which he impudently did directly in arms. The officer attempted to stab him, when they all fell upon him and murdered him, but not before he had killed one, and wounded several others. He, and most of their officers were Germans.—While the men were in the magazine we were of various opinions as to whether they would or not have courage to blow the magazine and themselves up. For the safety of Valetta, we knew there was no danger; our only concern was for the officers and men in the fort. The former, at the time the explosion happened, were sitting at their wine after dinner. The magazine was so constructed, that in case of an explosion it might take to the sea, which it did accordingly."
ENGLAND.
LONDON, JULY 4.
Vice-Admiral DUCKWORTH is to be succeeded, we hear, in his command in the Mediterranean, by Admiral MARTIN.

Domestic Occurrences.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
WASHINGTON, JULY 31.
By the President of the United States of America.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS great and weighty matters claiming the consideration of the Congress of the United States, from an extraordinary occasion for convening them, I do by these presents appoint Monday the 26th day of October next, for their meeting at the city of Washington; hereby requiring the respective Senators and Representatives, in order to receive such communications as may be made to them, and to consult and determine on such measures as in their wisdom may be deemed meet for the welfare of the United States.
In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed, and signed the same with my hand.
Done at the city of Washington, the 30th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seven; and in the thirty-second year of the Independence of the United States.
TH: JEFFERSON.
By the President. JAMES MADISON, Secretary of State.
Arrived here on Wednesday the U. S. Schooner Enterprize, Capt. Porter, in 35 days from the Mediterranean. Capt. P. left the frigate Constitution and Hornet at Syracuse. He states the information of a rupture between the Barbary powers and Great-Britain to be unfounded. Capt. P. likewise furnishes the following intelligence:—
Some time in May a deputation was sent by the Bey governing Rosette, to the commander in chief of the British forces at Alexandria, inviting him to come with his troops and take possession of the place; and stating that on his appearing before Rosette, the keys of the city should be delivered him. The British commander pleased with the proposal, marched next day with 3000 men for Rosette; and agreeably to the promise of the Bey, received the keys, marched into the public square, and was about allotting quarters to the different officers, and making arrangements for guards, &c. when at that moment, the tops of the houses were covered with Turkish troops, who commenced a heavy fire upon them, and killed great numbers of the British. The British commander seeing his men fall in every direction around him, without a possibility (from their crowded situation, and from the secure position of the Turks) of defending themselves, ordered a retreat. They fought their way to the city gates through a tremendous fire, but found them in the possession of the enemy, with whom they had a severe struggle before they could gain possession of them—they at length succeeded in getting out, where they found a body of between 4 and 5000 horse ready to attack them. They then formed a hollow square, fought their way down to Alexandria, and of the 3000 men, 1500 were killed, among whom were two general officers. The Turks showed them no quarters, and as they were unable to bring off their wounded, they all fell a sacrifice to Turkish fury. The bodies of the two general officers were, however, brought off, and sent to Malta to be interred.
Admiral Louis died about the middle of June at Malta.
About the 15th of June a great battle took place in the province of Constantine, between the forces of the Dey of Algiers and the Bey of Tunis, which was said to terminate in favor of the former; in consequence of which there was great rejoicing at Algiers. The war between those two powers appears to be carried on with great vigour; and the Portuguese squadron formerly stationed at Gibraltar have proceeded off Algiers (as is supposed) to co-operate with the latter. Sid Soliman Melli Melli was at Gibraltar when we left there, and purchased military stores, which had been sent to Tunis.
The whole of the coast of Barbary is declared by the Russians to be in a state of blockade, and a number of small Russian privateers are on that coast.
A communication was made in June, by the Marquis de Circelle, prime minister to his majesty the King of Sicily, to Mr. Gibbs, American consul at Palermo, announcing to him that his Majesty had declared every part of his dominions then in possession of his enemies in a state of blockade.
It is said an attempt will be made on Naples by his Sicilian majesty shortly, as there are but few French troops now in that city, and as his party there still remains strong, notwithstanding the rigid means that have been used by the present government there to reduce their number.
On the 16th of May, about 40 sail of Sicilian transports sailed under convoy from Messina for Palermo, for the purpose of taking in troops.
The British and Sicilian troops possess a small part of Calabria Ulterior. The rest is occupied by the French troops.
VIRGINIA.
NORFOLK, JULY 27.
We have nothing to inform our distant readers, respecting the operations of the British
ships in the bay; a part of them occasionally go out and return again every day. They have not made any attempt to land, or taken any steps respecting the five persons detained. Commodore Sir Thomas Hardy, who now commands, behaves as far as we can learn with great politeness to the vessels going out and coming in, giving them no interruption.
It is to be regretted that Commodore Hardy had not commanded from the commencement of this affair. We think he would never have written such a letter as that of Commodore Douglas which has been productive of indignation scarcely short of that produced by the original outrage.
The Revenge, government Schooner, is in Hampton Roads, and proceeds immediately to England with the communications from the executive to our ministers in London, touching the affair of the Chesapeake. She may be expected to arrive in England about the first September; before which, the British government and people will not only have received an account of the transaction, but of the sentiments which it has excited in the United States, together with the President's Proclamation.—The first account of this affair will probably reach England about the first of August, by two ships that left this place the 27th and 28th of June, by each of which we forwarded to our correspondents our extra sheet of the 24th June, besides which we know that an unusual number of the Ledger went by the same vessels. The Proclamation went from here on the 9th or 10th July, by two vessels for England. The minds of the government and of the British nation will therefore be prepared before the Revenge arrives; the effects produced in England we shall discover and possibly feel, about the middle of September. If the British government is determined to insult Admiral Berkeley, orders will be given to seize and capture our vessels without exception; if otherwise, they will not be interrupted. The English government will perceive that war is inevitable, if it avows the principle of searching our national ships, and act accordingly.
PETERSBURGH, JULY 14.
The capture of the two petty officers, and three seamen, by our cavalry at the Capes, we learn had greatly exasperated the British commanders; and that they had taken five American citizens out of a coaster, to be held as hostages until the British seamen were restored.—What paragraph of the President's Proclamation authorizes the capture of the British seamen?
CHILICOTHE, JULY 23.
Extra of a letter from Lexington (Ken.) to a gentleman of this town, dated July 15.
Mr. Blaunerhauff was arrested in this place yesterday, and Thomas Todd, circuit judge of the United States, has directed the marshal to take him on to the city of Richmond, in Virginia, where he has been indicted for high treason. He is confined in the jail of this place, until the marshal is ready to remove him.
STATE OF NEW-YORK.
NEW-YORK, AUG. 4.
IMPORTANT.—IF TRUE.
Capt. Storey, who left Norfolk on Friday last, informs, that he read, in a Norfolk paper of that day, the arrival of the brig Venus, Capt. Hall, in a short passage from Malaga.—Capt. H. informed, that just before he sailed, there was an engagement between the United States frigate Constitution, Capt. Campbell, and a British frigate, which lasted six hours, and that the latter ultimately struck her colors, but was not taken possession of by the Constitution. Capt. Storey adds, that the news was believed at Norfolk, and says the battle was produced by a misunderstanding between the officers of the two frigates about the right of search.
TRANSLATION
Of an Order of his Imperial Majesty Muly Soliman, Emperor of Morocco, given at Mogadore, 9th May, 1807.
To all Merchants in Mogadore, Moors, Jews and Christians:
AT this time I have found this place destitute of goods and such merchandise as is wanting in the country, and I observe the reason is, because you do not bring goods which pay duty, but you only bring hard cash, which is no profit to me, and ballast, which is an incumbrance.
I wish you to bring such goods as are necessary for the country, and also benefit and fill the port. For my own part God has not made them needful to me; for which reason, I have ordered Beh Abdebeck, that whoever does not import goods to the benefit of the country and employment of the port, or brings only ballast and empty ships, not to suffer such empty ships to remain in the harbors, but to send them away.
And he will allow them sufficient time to convey this order to their friends. And be peace with you.
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the translation sent me by Mr. James Renfshaw my agent at Mogadore.
(Signed) JAMES SIMPSON. Tangier, 11th June, 1807.
Palermo, 25th May, 1807.
I have the honor to enclose you herewith for your government, copy of an official notification sent me by H. E. the marquis de Circelle, his Sicilian majesty's minister for foreign affairs, where all the ports of the kingdom of Naples, occupied by his majesty's enemies, are declared in a state of blockade.
You will of course do what is needful with the same for the information of the American flag.
I am, &c. (Signed) ABRAHAM GIBBS. John Gavins, Esq. U. S. C. Consul, Gibraltar.
WARREN:
SATURDAY, AUG. 8, 1807.
From WASHINGTON, July 29.
On Sunday last, a gentleman arrived from the Mediterranean, with dispatches for the Secretary of State and Navy. The contents of these dispatches have not yet transpired. The gentleman who was the bearer of them brings, we are told, the intelligence, that the British are capturing, indiscriminately, all American vessels in the Mediterranean, and sending them into Malta.
On Tuesday evening, the United States Schooner Enterprize, 37 days, from the Mediterranean, came up to the navy yard.
The Circuit Court of the United States commenced its sitting at Richmond the 3d inst. when it is expected Col. Burn's trial will come on.
Letters from Liverpool mention, that but few goods will be shipped for America this season, owing to the unsettled state of affairs between this country and Great-Britain.
We learn from Washington, that the cabinet closes its deliberations for the present this day, (the 3d inst.) and that the President departs for Monticello for a short time. It has been determined, we understand, to require the attendance of Congress on the 26th of Oct.
Previous to the separation of the cabinet, the President had made every necessary arrangement for carrying into execution, so far as was in his power, every measure called for by the public exigency, for protection and defence.
The executive officers are to be in readiness, immediately to assemble at the seat of government, in the event of their services being called for any unforeseen emergency.
[Aurora.]
Washington, July 31st.
A Gibraltar paper of the 30th May, expresses a fear that Gen. WANCHOR had been killed, and General MEADS severely wounded at Rosetta.
The account of Lieut. PIZE and his party being cut off by the Indians is totally unfounded. The latest information, entitled to credit, states that his party, having missed their route, and passed from the Red river to the Rio del Norte, in the territory of Spain, had been arrested in their course in the month of February, by a detachment of Spanish troops, and taken to Santa Fe, and thence to Chihuahua, the residence of Governor Calcedo, who had treated them with great attention, and given them liberty to return to the United States. [N. Y. Gaz.]
DIED.
In this town, on Thursday evening last, Mrs. NABBY MAXWELL, wife of Capt. LEVEL MAXWELL, in the 51st year of her age.—This amiable woman devoted herself to the discharge of the various important and interesting duties of life, with the most virtuous ardour and perseverance. She belonged to the Methodist Church, in this town, for which the Society have to mourn the loss of a valuable and worthy member. Her illness was long and peculiarly distressing, which she sustained with magnanimity, patience, and a truly pious resignation to the Divine will.—Her funeral will be this afternoon, at 2 o'clock, which the friends and relations are requested to attend without further invitation.
Herald Ship News.
STATE OF RHODE-ISLAND.
DISTRICT OF NEWPORT.
ENTERED. FROM Sloop Juliet, Pearce, Charleston Golden Age, Justin, New-York CLEARED. FOR Sloop Enterprise, Holmes, Boston Aurora, Cahoon, New-York William & Mary, Brown, Ditto Bolly & Betsey, Savary, Ditto Halcyon, Cahoon, Ditto
DISTRICT OF PROVIDENCE.
ENTERED. FROM Sloop Friendship, Jeans, Washington Prudence, Foot, Baltimore Mary Ann, Chase, New-York Schr. Nancy, Gladding, New-London CLEARED. FOR Sloop Juno, Comstock, New-York Brig Traveller, Merry, Barbados
DISTRICT OF BRISTOL.
ENTERED. FROM Sloop Caroline, Munro, Matanzas Becca & Betsey, Pearce, Providence Ship Commerce, Cole, New-York CLEARED. FOR Sloop Becca & Betsey, Pearce, Providence Redoubt, Hicks, Newport
The ship Nancy, Noyes, of Providence, was left at City Point, the 27th ult. to sail for Liverpool in 4 days.
The ship Eleanor, Taber, of Providence, was spoke July 15th, 15 days from Baltimore for Tonningen.
Admiralty Court—DeBart's Comments, London.
JUNE 3.—This day the Right Hon. Sir Wm. Scott, proceeded to the adjudication of the following case:—
Rolls. — Coffie, master.—This American ship, laden with a cargo of hides, and bound from Mount-Video to New-York, was seized (on the ground of a breach of blockade) in the River Plate, on the 20th of November, 1806, by his Majesty's ship of war Medusa, and carried, first to Maldonado, and afterwards brought to the River Thames.—The Court, in this case, was of opinion, that there was a competent authority to impose a blockade, and accordingly condemned the ship and cargo.
NEW INVENTED
CARDING-MACHINES.
THE Subscriber has lately had erected, by one of the first Workmen in the United States, at a great expence, to accommodate the Public, at a place known by Kingsley's Mills, in Swansea, NEW INVENTED CARDING MACHINES, (which will commence business in all next week) for the purpose of Picking, Carding and Breaking WOOL:—He renders his services to those who will please to favor him with their custom, and they may rely on the strictest attention and punctuality to all commands or orders.
EBENEZER COLE.
Such of his Customers, that with it, may leave the Wool at my Store, in Warren, from whence it shall be sent to the Mill and brought back, gratis. JULY 31, 1807.
Female Academy at Bristol.
Miss Susan & Charlotte R. Smith,
PROPOSE to open, in this town, on Monday next, a School for Young LADIES, in which will be taught, the following branches of Education, viz.
READING, WRITING, ARITHMETIC, ENGLISH GRAMMER, COMPOSITION & GEOGRAPHY, with the use of the GLOBE. Plain SAVING and MARKING, MUSLIN WORK and EMBROIDERY, DRAWING, PAINTING, MUSIC and DANCING.
The terms of Tuition will be reasonable.—Suitable places for boarding young Ladies from abroad, may be had and at moderate prices.—The strictest attention will be paid to the deportment and health of the Pupils. Nothing will be omitted on the part of the Instructresses to gratify the reasonable expectations of Parents and Guardians.
It is unnecessary to speak of the pleasant-ness and salubrity of this town,—it has long been justly celebrated for both.
Bristol, July 31, 1807.
JUST RECEIVED AND FOR SALE BY
N. M. Burr,
16 Bartels Brown SUGAR, 1,000 Feet finished OARS, SALT PORK, Dried and pickled MESS BEEF, Hogs LARD, Indian CORN and RYE, Rye and Indian MEAL, Clean white fine SALT, 5 Keggs plugg TOBACCO, in chop.
Choice Cyder VINEGAR, 100 Straws TUMBLERS, 100 Wt. best Russia GLUE, 100 Wt. Concord HOPS, Round Turnip SEED, Logwood per Hund. very low. Gum Arabic 1st Chop, cheap. A new Two Horse Waggon at cost, A Coachee and Harness on very accommodating terms of payment at a reduced price.
July 17, 1807. TBC
One Cent Reward.
RANAWAY from the Subscriber, on the 26th Inst. an Indented Apprentice named ELAZOR WOODMANCY, in the 13th Year of his age, of light complexion and brown Hair. Had on when he went away, a pair of Tow Trowsers and Linen Shirt.—Whoever will return said Boy to the Subscriber, shall receive the above reward and no charges paid.
CONSIDER TRIPP.
ALL Persons are forbid harbouring or trusting him on any account, as I shall pay no debts of his contracting after this date. Barrington, July 31, 1807. p3w
FOR SALE, BY
Jonathan Bradshaw, A Quantity of PILOT BREAD of the best quality,—on reasonable terms. Warren, July 31, 1807.
FOR SALE, BY
Messrs WM. & HENRY MOORE, THE best Quality of GEESE FEATHERS, at 58 cents per pound; Newport, July 3, 1807.

APOLLO'S FOUNT.
From the NATIONAL ARGUS.
MY COTTAGE AND MY GROVE.
THE flocks shall leave the mountains, The turtle doves the floods; The nymphs forsake the fountains; The dryads quit the woods:  The streams themselves shall backward stray, And rocks and hills remove; E're I forget my youthful haunts My Cottage and my Grove.  As rivers slowly bending Towards the Ocean run, As fires aloft ascending To seek the parent sun:  So to the scenes that once were dear My fond affections move; And faithful memory hallows still My Cottage and my Grove.  Twas thus as slowly wand'ring On Saco's verdant bank; Where thro' the vale meand'ring It laves the willow bank.  I thought upon those lov'd retreats Where I was wont to rove; Then dropt tear, and sighing cry'd, "My Cottage and my Grove."  Then gentle Hope appearing On lucid wings upborne; With smiles my bosom cheering, She bade me cease to mourn.  My smiles shall cheer the devious path As thro' the world you rove; Tho' far from Saco's lov'd retreats The cottage and the grove."
From the DUBLIN MAGAZINE.
The Negro. An Extract from a Novel, of that Name just published.
Containing the false Imprisonment of ITANOKO (the Negro) his Examination before the Judges and other Matters.
CONCLUDED.
WE had not foreborn, said one of the two negroes, to have made the avowal sooner, had we known the danger to which innocence was exposed, by our deed. We inflicted vengeance: we were no assassins. We attacked Urban with arms in his hand. He took the advantage of our sleep, tore us from our country, and plunged us into slavery. Death awaits us.—Well, we will endure it. Your God shall not deceive us. He exists, since there are such men as you on the earth!
Ah, my friends, conceive you all the rapture which I felt in this moment? I had saved your judges from a frightful deed of injustice; I had saved you from death; and I had led two souls to honour and virtue.
When the day appeared, the negroes pressed me to depart, and fly to the salvation of innocence; and the two unfortunate men were ready to accompany me. My children, said I, it belongs not to me to be your accuser. I have pointed out your duty. You shall have courage to perform it. Advance before me, and yourselves acquaint the judges with the whole fact. We will do all that, replied they; but we will attend you. You are feeble, and have need of assistance. It is the only good we can do you. We now departed, and all the other negroes followed us as far as the fear of danger would permit. At length we must separate; and they turned back, heaping benedictions on me.
I cannot paint to you their last farewell to their comrades. It was the voice of nature disdaining a crime, and triumphing in an effort of virtue! It was the national spirit that repulsed the members who disgraced them, and which caressed the heroes who constituted their glory!
The two negroes and I continued our route. Pardon, my friends, my worn out strength. It took me two days to perform my journey back.—Alas, the impatience of my heart made me suffer more than fatigue.
We arrived. They quitted me to attend the judge. On the way I had not heard a single sigh from them, but they conversed calmly, and sometimes cheerfully, with me. Their countenance was serene, their heart without a murmur. I beheld in them the satisfaction of returning innocence and the triumph of virtue.
I passed some time at home to take a little repose and nourishment; then ran to the judge. They were yet in his anti-chamber. When they saw me, they said—All is done, my good
father. My tears flowed in spite of me, and I embraced them with affection, with veneration.
May Heaven recompense you, my children, said I; and I left them to enter the closet of the judge. You have prevailed, said he; your friends are saved. I presume that you wish to see them. Here is my order: it will open the prison to you, at any hour of the night; but, charitable old man, how have you accomplished this?
I could not but satisfy him: and I recounted to him all that you have heard.
This miracle was worthy of you, said he, respectfully taking my hand. But that which will surprise you most is, that the manes of Urban will go unrevenged. How! said I. The truth, replied he, deposed by these two negroes, is sufficient to save the accused; but it cannot be admitted to condemn themselves; and there are no proofs against them. Itanoko's evidence cannot be received, even if he should recollect them having been himself tried for the crime. There is then only their own confession; and this confession is destroyed by an axiom of the law, which says: Nemo perire volet. From the strange circumstances of this wonderful event, it happens that, even in their own confession, they find the recompense of an effort, just indeed—but painful to nature.
I quitted him and flew to Ferdinand. I found him with Honoria, both lost in mute anguish. I could only cry out, that you were saved; and, without my giving any explanation, without their asking it, we ran here; and I have the sweet delight of beholding your felicity in the very place where your sufferings have so often wounded my heart.
It will be easier to imagine than describe the sentiments by which we were all agitated. Bruno could not moderate our transports. Otourou, his father, Ferdinand, Honoria, and I, successively embraced him. We all spoke to him together: we gave him no time to answer any of us.
He would have gladly returned our caressed, partaken in our transports, but his heart could not withstand the pressure of so many delights.
Our friends gladly would have had us, instantly, quit our mournful abode, whose bare aspect recalled to them all that we had endured. But some formalities of the law must detain us yet four and twenty hours longer in the prison. We all needed rest: it was even necessary to preserve our health.
AMARYLLIS.
I THINK the world very beautiful, said the youthful Amaryllis to a reflection of her mother's that was produced by experience and sorrow—but Amaryllis was young, and her world did not extend beyond the village in which she was born; she was in the vernal season of life, when happiness weathes its simplest flowers round the brows of innocence; her ears were only accustomed to the soft voice of affection; and her mind, like the violets of her native valley, had expanded in the shade. She was candid, for she was a stranger to the passions that gave birth to concealment—simple in her taste, for she had never seen anything more splendid than a bandeau of wild flowers. The smile of ingenuousness played on her face, yet she was not beautiful, her charms were those of simplicity, and her graces those of youth. The only sorrow that had assailed her bosom was when the closing year had caused her favorite plants to droop—but it was quickly moved by the happy facility with which youthful minds efface all impressions but those of joy. At the return of spring she shed the sweetest tears of gratitude and pleasure because nature was revived.—Her religion was that of the heart, but it was pure—and her offerings to the throne of mercy were the hymn of thankfulness, and the gay song of content. She knew not the artificial manners that are taught by the world—her
politeness was that of sensibility, which made her recoil at giving pain—her companions were the villagers, whom she attracted round her by the charms of kindness—when she danced it was with the light step of a fairy, yet she knew no rule but the instinctive one of natural grace. Her partner was a young exile, who had been driven by misfortune with his family to the remote village in which she resided, and their hearts, prompt as their feet, bounded with innocence and gaiety—her manners with him had no tincture of reserve, for her breast contained not a thought that she would have blushed to reveal—between the dances she told him all the occurrences of the day, for the flower of love was implanted in her bosom, and with enchanting simplicity she bestowed on him its first bud. In their walks they sported innocently along, gilding to-morrow with tints more beautiful than to-day—every desire was fulfilled by hope, and the perspective of futurity presented to them an endless train of innocent pleasures which they enjoyed by anticipation.—Happy facility of enjoyment! Pleasures drawn by the fancy are seldom realised, but fate allows us to be cheated by the delusions they promise, whilst they fly from our embraces. Thus passed the morning of life with these children of nature—they nourished simplicity, ignorant of the sorrows it prepares for its victims. The parents of the young emigrant were noble—misfortune had persecuted, but could not triumph over them. They cherished in adversity the animating idea that they should once more revisit their native country, again be surrounded by the splendor that so much adorned the exterior of life. Their son was now eighteen, and had passed many years in retirement—he listened with raptures to the recital of the former greatness of his family—but the idea of Amaryllis was always mingled with it—he forgot her plebeian birth, and his own fallen state when he met her—and if he imparted to her his griefs, she participated with him so truly that she received them into her bosom and deprived him of their sting. Amiable
Why are you doomed to wither in the cold region of disappointment? The first real sorrow that ever visited the peace of Amaryllis was now approaching. The exile was recalled to his country. Agitated by contending emotions he ran to Amaryllis to inform her of the new turn fate was on the point of giving to his destiny, and sketched with the warm coloring of youth the perspective of futurity—for to part from her had never occurred to him, he had no idea his parents would separate those whom affection had so firmly united;—she wept, but they were tears of joy at the brilliant prospect that was opening to her view. Alas! they were succeeded by those of sorrow, of anguish, when she discovered that her lover had been constrained to leave her, that his parents, cruel as the chill blast that nips the tender buds of spring, had forced him from her without one adieu!—without uttering to her one word of comfort. Ah! Who can paint her agony? She lives, and her companions weep over her, for they imagine her insane—they have not yet learnt to know that it is possible to smell strongly and yet be rational;—a hundred times a day she utters his name—a hundred times she fancied he would return, and hope, in pity to her distress, throws her enchanting veil over the sad realities that oppress her. Now she reposes on the strength of his affection, as on her guardian angel, then the certainty that he is absent rushes on her mind with all its force, and leaves her a prey to regret, to misery and all its sad train of attendants.
Children of sensibility, to you I address her tale; to you I appeal. Condemn not feelings for which she is accountable even to herself. That Being who gave a deeper tint to the rose than the lily, protects them alike from the chill blast—he does not reproach the drooping flower, if oppressed by dew, it refuses to be revived by
the fervor of the noon day sun. Then how much more will he cherish the human heart more sensitive than the plant that recoils at the slightest touch.
the fervor of the noon day sun. Then how much more will he cherish the human heart more sensitive than the plant that recoils at the slightest touch.
CAUTION TO HEADS OF FAMILIES.
LET no infidel, or "profane person, reside under your roof. Do you admit, or harbour such a character, when discovered, you give your children and family an instructor and example, whose contagion, like the leprosy, will contaminate the house.
Were such persons to labour for you without wages, instead of profiting your children, they would lay up for you and them a sad inheritance."
Can you expect the divine approbation, "when you place such examples before those he has committed to your charge, to train up for him? Will you be instrumental of corrupting their tender minds, under pretence of increasing your estate for them? The best inheritance you can bestow on your children is wise advice and pious instruction. In this work, be watchful, diligent, persevering and faithful."
Let the young cease to observe the examples, and to hear the instruction which causeth to err from the words of knowledge.
RECIPE FOR A LADY'S DRESS.
LET your ear rings be attention, encircled by the pearls of refinement; the diamond of your necklace be truth, and the chain christianity; your bosom pin be modesty, set with compassion; your bracelets be charity, ornamented with the pearls of gentleness; your finger rings be affection, set round with the diamonds of industry; your girdle be simplicity, with the tassels of good humour; let your thicker garb be virtue, and your drapery politeness; let your shoes be wisdom, secured by the buckles of perseverance.
Carding of Wool.
JAMES BLISS, of Rehoboth (Ms.) with their Custom, in Warren and its vicinity, that he will receive WOOL from, and return the Robbs without delay, to Mr. JONATHAN SMITH's in Warren—and that said SMITH will receive payment for Carding. July 31, 1807. p3w.
TO THE PUBLIC.
NOTICE is hereby given, That the Subscribers, in a Joint concern, have agreed to revive and carry on the CLOATH-ERS Business, in all its various branches, at the Mills lately owned by Jonathan Kingsley, in Swansea. All who will please to favor them with their custom, may depend on fidelity and dispatch.
JACOB BARROWS, BENJ. BUTTERWORTH.
N. B.—They will commence the above business the first of Sept. next. Swansea, July 11, 1807.
WHEREAS, the Subscriber, in Rehoboth, in the County of Bristol, has been duly appointed Executor to the last Will and Testament of
ELKANAH INGALLS, late of Rehoboth, deceased, in the County aforesaid.—All Persons indebted to said Estate, are requested to make immediate payment; and all those having demands are desired to exhibit them for settlement.
SAMUEL INGALLS.
JULY 11, 1807. p3w.
NOTICE is hereby given, That the Subscriber having been duly appointed Administrator to the last Will and Testament of
DAVID SANDERS, late of Warren, deceased, and has taken upon him that trust by giving bonds according to Law.—All Persons indebted to said Estate are requested to make immediate payment; and all those having demands are desired to exhibit them for settlement.
ALLEN HOAR.
Warren, July 11, 1807.
NOTICE is hereby given, That the Subscriber having been duly appointed Administrator to the last Will and Testament of
MARTHA DAVIS, late of Warren, widow, deceased, and has taken upon him that trust by giving bonds according to Law.—All Persons indebted to said Estate are requested to make immediate payment; and all those having demands, are desired to exhibit them for settlement.
ALLEN HOAR.
Warren, July 11, 1807.