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BRITISH HOUSE OF LORDS.
Tuesday, June 24.
Slave Trade.
A short conversation took place between the earl of Westmoreland and lord Grenville, relative to the propriety of hearing council on a petition presented on a former day by the noble earl, against the abolition of the slave trade. Lord Grenville objected to hearing council, and no motion being made by the earl of Westmoreland, the former noble lord moved the order of the day for taking into consideration the resolution of the house of commons relative to the abolition of the slave trade, which being read.
Lord Grenville said, that upon this subject, after the repeated discussions and the minute investigations it had undergone for twenty years, he did not think it necessary to take up much of their lordship's time.—The resolution of the house of commons contained a conclusion drawn from certain premises, and the question now was, whether those premises were correct; and if so, whether the conclusion drawn was correct. The resolution stated, that the slave trade was contrary to humanity, justice, or sound policy, and ought to be abolished. That the trade was contrary to humanity surely could not be doubted for a moment, nor did he believe there was a man to be found who would venture to declare, that this trade was in the least degree consistent with humanity. Let it be considered in three states, of its progress: 1st dragging away the unfortunate Africans from their homes, their families and their comforts; next, the transfer of them from thence to the West Indies; and lastly, the treatment of them whilst there; and in all it would be found most inhuman. The means that were adopted to drag the unfortunate victims from their homes, were in the highest degree cruel, and at the same time contributed to keep up a constant
system of barbarism in Africa. Torn from all the tender and social ties from which they derived their happiness, and feeling poignantly the miseries of the condition imposed upon them by our traders, they were doomed to endure still greater miseries in the transfer from thence to the West Indies. It was impossible for any, however, steeled his heart, to read of the horrors of the middle passage, of the treatment which these poor negroes experienced, or the miseries which they endured, without shuddering at the recital. Arrived in the West Indies, a new scene of misery is opened to their view. Goaded with the lash, they were compelled to labour from morning till night beneath a burning sun, and under the oppressive tyranny of task masters set over them by their owners, and they might sometimes be mildly treated, yet it could not be denied that nothing was a greater corrupter of the human heart than arbitrary power, nor could be a temptation to the abuse of power, than situations where, as in the West Indies, a white overseer, among a great number of negroes, had it in his power to ill treat them in the grossest manner, whilst there could not be legal evidence against him in any of the courts of justice. That the trade is contrary to justice was clearly in his mind established; the principles of justice as among the individuals of a nation, applied equally amongst nations, and nothing could be more contrary to justice than robbing men of the fruits of their industry, without giving them any compensation, as was the case with those unfortunate negroes, the fruits of whose industry was wrested from them, they receiving nothing in return, but an aggravation of the injustice, the bitter portion of slavery. That what was contrary to humanity and justice, must also be contrary to sound policy, it was unnecessary to argue. As to any argument set up respecting the profit of the trade, it would serve to justify robbery or any other crime. On grounds of policy, he called upon those who advocated the cause of the planters, to agree to the abolition.—He also dwelt at some length on the situation of St. Domingo as holding forth an alarming lesson to this country with regard to the tendency of continued importations of new slaves. His lordship concluded with moving that the house should concur in the resolutions of the commons.
Lord Hawkesbury opposed the resolution, as being couched in terms too abstract to admit of a fair consideration of the subject. The question to be considered was, whether we could put a stop to the existence of slavery, which every one admitted to be a practical evil, but one which in some form or other, had existed at all times, and particularly in Africa. His opinion was that the only effect of the abolition of the slave trade by this country, would be to transfer it to those states, who conducted it on principles less humane than those adopted by the British merchant. With these sentiments, he thought the best way of disposing of the subject was to move the previous question.
The Bishop of London, in support of the resolution, quoted various passages of the evidence laid before parliament and the privy council, as to the mode of conducting the traffic in slaves. The lord Chancellor stated that from his personal knowledge of the state of the slaves in Jamaica, a great deal of the evidence respecting them was exaggerated; but he had witnessed the horrors which accompanied the traffic on the coast of Guinea in the middle passage, and he conceived that no man who believed in their existence could withhold his assent to the motion now made.
The original motion was supported in the further progress of the debate by the Bishop of St. Asaph, Lords Spencer, Ellenborough, Holland, and Grosvenor; and opposed by Lords Westmoreland, Sidmouth, and Fitzwilliam; the two latter, however, objected rather to the form than the principle of the motion.
Lord Grenville then spoke in reply; and before sitting down, gave notice that as soon as the resolution was disposed of he should move an address to his majesty, requesting him to concert measures with foreign powers, for more completely carrying its purposes into effect.
The motion for the previous question was rejected on a division, by a majority of 41 to 10, and the resolution
on was put and carried without a division, as was also the motion for the address to his majesty.
Last evening (says the Baltimore Federal Gazette) we were favoured with Liverpool papers to the 3rd, and London to the 2nd of July, both inclusive, received by the ship Abana, Captain Hobson, in 31 days from Liverpool. The only articles of any interest in these papers are the following:—
LONDON, July 1. The Omnium was, at 12 o'clock this day, at 6 1-2, and the other funds were in the same proportion. After our paper was put to press yesterday, we learned that dispatches had been received from France, forwarded by lord Keith, from off Boulogne. We repeat that a negotiation is in a train, and that it is the cause of the improved state of the funds.
We received yesterday, a letter from a respectable house at Hamburg. It gives the following article, which it adds was communicated by the French minister in that city, as the outline of the expected changes on the continent.
New Constitution of Germany. "Bavaria, Wirtemberg, Baden, which is to be considerably aggrandized, Nassau, and some other districts comprising the country all along the Rhine, to form a federative body, under the immediate protection of France. Switzerland to be divided. One-third to be given to Baden, one-third to the Kingdom of Italy, and one-third to France."
"Denmark and Sweden excluded from Germany, and from all deliberative influence in its affairs. The former to remain distinct for itself—the latter to be treated as to Pomerania, as she may behave. Some say Pomerania and Mecklenburg are both to fall to Prussia; which, with Austria are independent powers, and on their own bottoms, without regard to the former system of the empire. The emperor of the latter to resign his title of chief of the German empire, remaining only emperor of his own states."
"Hamburg, and some say all Holstein, Bremen, and Lubeck, federative and independent, under the protection of France, whose Emperor is to enjoy in those territories henceforward, the same sovereignty which the emperor of Germany formerly exercised—The inhabitants of this federative state shall be called Franks, being the land where the ancient Franks sprang from."
"Diet of the empire abolished."
"Saxony, not mentioned."
"These alterations to take place immediately: the army then to be called back to assist at the grand festivals at Paris, which are to take place very shortly."
Yesterday policies were opened in the city giving five guineas to receive 100 if preliminaries be signed within a week, and be actually followed by a peace; and 15 guineas to receive 100 if preliminaries be signed within two months.
The stocks have experienced a rise to day; Consols are up to 64: reduced at 62 5/8; Omnium is up to 7; a rise of one and an half per cent since yesterday.
The report in this city yesterday was, that Mr. Fox, had sent his confidential secretary after Mr. Adair to Vienna, with instructions, by which the latter may be enabled to open a communication with Mr. D'Oubril, the Russian minister at that city, and conditionally proceed with him to Paris. The funds were not much affected by this new rumor.
July 2. Baron Jacobi, the Prussian ambassador, has applied for his passport, preparatory to his leaving this country for Berlin.
We are happy at having it in our power to acquaint our readers that Mr. Fox was yesterday so far recovered as to be able to sit down to dinner with the earl of Moira, lord Holland, lady Louisa Conolly, and a few other friends. Government has received advices from Mr. Stanley, the British consul at Trieste, stating that a proclamation had been issued at that place, bearing date the 29th of May, which notified that such English and Russian Vessels as might be in the port of Trieste, or any of the ports of the Adriatic, were to quit them in the space of three days unless prevented from so doing by stress of weather; and that the said ports would continue shut against the English and Russians.
LIVERPOOL, July 3. By the bill now pending respecting the abolishing certain fees and holidays at the custom house, all the 2nd letter days in the calendar, except the birth-days of their M-jesties Good-Friday and Christmas Day are abolished.
The hay harvest, in several parts of the country is reported to be very plentiful; and as to the corn, there never was a fairer prospect of an abundant crop.
As nothing can be more important to the American people, either for the knowledge, or maintenance of their rights than education, the following address, although rather more lengthy than comports with our limits, must be considered interesting.
A Charge
Delivered after a public examination, on Thursday, July 31.....1806, TO THE SENIOR CLASS OF The Philadelphia Academy, Upon their having completed the course of study prescribed by that institution. BY JAMES ABERCROMBIE, D.D. Director of the Academy. Virtrix Fortuna Sapientia— Juv.
YOUNG GENTLEMEN, IN conformity to the usage heretofore observed in this seminary, I shall conclude the exercise of the day by offering you my most ardent and affectionate wishes for your future prosperity and usefulness, and by suggesting a few sentiments respecting the prosecution of your studies, and the general direction and government of your conduct.
The time which has already been occupied in attesting your diligence and success, in acquiring a knowledge of those branches of science which have been presented to your attention, constitutes so large a portion of that usually appropriated to such examinations, that I must necessarily confine my observations within very restricted limits.
You have now passed through, and given ample testimony of your intimate acquaintance with, that course of study which is peculiar to this institution, a course which, as the experience of some years has incontrovertibly proved, affords the most solid and permanent foundation for a liberal or learned education, at the same time that it qualifies for immediate usefulness and action those who do not wish to pursue their studies beyond a correct knowledge of our own language, and the branches essentially necessary to constitute a complete English education. Your experience and consequent conviction of the utility and of the natural and necessary connection between the different branches of that system, will, I trust, induce a frequent review of their principles, and an unremitted application of them to the various subjects to which they relate.
The intimate knowledge which you have acquired of Grammar will not only enable you to express your own ideas with perspicuity, facility, and accuracy, but immediately to detect the least deviation from grammatical purity, in the writings and expressions of others. Grammar, being the foundation of correct language, is the most essential and important, and ought to be the first object of literary attention presented to the youthful mind. It is the corner stone of a field, though plain, and the keystone in the royal arch of a polished and liberal education; without which the superstructure on the one, and the necessary appendages of the other, will be feeble and unconnected, superficial and imperfect.
In acquiring this valuable branch of instruction, you have been guided not by the faint and uncertain glimmerings of a taper, the just emblem of the two generally received abridgements, but by the strong and steady torch light of the larger grammar of Mr. Lindley Murray, a gentleman whose unwearied exertions have done more
towards elucidating the obscurities and embellishing the structure of our language, than any other writer upon that subject. To him the world is indebted for an invaluable work, which must immortalize his name in the annals of science and polite literature. Such a publication has long been wanted, from the facility with which it is executed, cannot be too highly appreciated. While to this meritorious, this inestimable performance we attach that value which its intrinsic excellence demands, let us remember, with gratitude and patriotic pride, that its pious and learned author is a native of our country—that Lindley Murray, who has so successfully employed his time and talents in establishing for our language a standard of grammatical purity and elegance, is an American.
It was the want of such a work which induced the celebrated Dr. Knox, in his elaborate and learned treatise upon education, to lament that the study of English Grammar had so long been neglected, even in the most approved schools. "I have known," says he, "boys, who though they could write Latin grammatically, were unable, for want of this part of instruction, to compose an English letter on a familiar subject, without incorrectness; and, from the want of early instruction, and habitual accuracy, even some celebrated writers in English have made egregious mistakes in English Grammar." It is, I know, conceived by some, that a sufficient knowledge of the English may be acquired by learning the Latin grammar; but this is certainly a very pernicious and fatal error, the idioms of those two languages being essentially different from each other. And it is unfortunately an error which is seldom discovered by the scholar, till it is too late to be remedied.
Be ever on your guard, therefore, against the adoption of those phrases and expressions which too general usage has sanctioned, in direct violation of the purity and propriety of the just and well established principles you have imbibed; and always judge of your own language and its pronunciation, as well as that of others, by the established dictates of Orthography, Etymology, Syntax, and Prosody.
As grammar has taught you how to speak and write your native language with propriety and ease, so far as regards words, phrases, and sentences, so has the study of Composition, with which it is naturally connected, and which in the order of our series next claimed your attention, instructed you how to connect sentences in a regular discourse, to express your ideas with perspicuity, accuracy, and precision, and to accommodate your style to your subject; at the same time teaching you the nature and proper use of figurative language, and to discriminate between just and superfluous ornaments. Thus have you acquired an unerring test, by which to guide and regulate your own pens, and to ascertain the intrinsic merit of others.
Accustom yourselves to bring every composition, which you either form or peruse, to this criterion of propriety, and you will soon acquire that facility of correct criticism, which will enable you to command not only the force and vigor of pure and energetic, but the pleasing and persuasive charms of polished and classical, language.
The graceful and impressive communication of thought, according to the established laws of Elocution, constituted the next branch of your studies.
To read well, and to speak gracefully, are very difficult arts, which it falls to the lot of but very few indeed to possess. Yet, though an orator, like a poet, must be chiefly indebted to nature for his qualifications, much may be done by study and exertion, in correcting bad habits and avoiding palpable errors: while even the effusions of genius and the dictates of genuine taste require the guidance of sound judgement and the direction of mature experience, to restrain within proper bounds the effervescence of the one, and to direct the other into most pleasing and impressive operations.
This branch of your education the most essential importance to from the peculiar organization of general government, which opens a very avenue for the successful display of genuine talents, and particularly for the acquisition of wealth and fame, by the exercise of correct and graceful elocution. In most other countries, e-

Devotion to dignity of station and the establishment of professional celebrity depend upon the accidental circumstances of favorable patronage and personal influence; but, with us, inferiority of birth, or obscurity of condition, are no impediments to the attainment of the highest honors which the Bar, the Senate, or the Pulpit, can confer. Leaders of the people, luminaries of the church, oracles of the bench, and sages in the legislative councils, may owe their promotion and popularity to the influence of Eloquence and to the charms of Oratory.
“For language, polished to perfection’s form,” “Can, thus responsive to its end, enchant,” “The ravish’d audience with Persuasion’s force,” “And Oratory bid e’en myriads hang” “In mute suspension on attractive sounds,” “While skillfully she unlocks with Nature’s key” “The secret springs which agitate the soul!”
Under such circumstances, such flattering encouragement—enchantment and persuasion cannot be necessary to induce your most active and serious attention to the expansion of those principles, the cultivation of those habits, and the exemplification of those precepts on the arts of reading and public speaking, which you have so assiduously and successfully imbibed in this seminary.
Make it an invariable rule never to read or recite any composition in a careless or hurried manner; but with the strictest observance of the proper accents, quantities, emphases and pauses, and that due regard to looks, tones and gestures, which a correct and just expression requires; and, particularly, in the reading aloud of blank verse, the highest and most perfect species of poetry, let the injunctions of prosody be rigidly adhered to; without which, its three great objects, melody, harmony, and expression, cannot possibly be obtained.
Your knowledge of the rudiments of that interesting and inexhaustible source of entertainment and instruction, Natural History , will enable you to rank all those wonders of creation, with which we are surrounded, in their respective classes, to investigate their peculiar proprieties, and to determine the ends for which they were designed: while, “looking from Nature up to Nature’s God,” your minds will be impressed with a constant sense of the omnipotence, benevolence, and wisdom of the DEITY.
To promote this happy consequence of investigation, as well as your improvement in so pleasing and important a branch of Literature, let no object belonging to that science pass under your observation without an immediate application of those principles by which you will be enabled not only to classify it in that of the three kingdoms of nature to which it belongs, but to determine its particular properties and usefulness.
Your daily and increasing intercourse with society, and your consequent attention to the general concerns of the world, as well with respect to those nations with whom we are politically or commercially connected, as with those, who, though not engaged with us in reciprocal communications, excite an interest in their welfare, as constituting a part of the great family of mankind, will, of course, lead you to keep up a constant recollection of their relative situations, manners, and customs, to which your attention has lately been directed by the study of Geography .
When, therefore, you either read or hear the name of any country, city, river, lake or ocean, if you do not instantly recollect its position on the globe, remember to embrace the first opportunity of ascertaining its exact situation, extent and boundaries by a map. Thus will you keep alive in your minds a vivid representation of every part of that great theatre of action, in which the several varieties of men and other animals are stationed; together with the various productions, both vegetable and mineral, which different climates produce for their subsistence and accommodation.
That acquaintance with the faculties of the human mind, and their operation in apprehending, judging, reasoning, and arranging our thoughts, which you have obtained by wandering through the intricate labyrinths of Logic , you will find, if carefully attended to and improved, of infinite service to you in your intercourse with mankind. It will teach you how to detect and incontrovertible arguments every subject, to detect in plausible deception of false, to supply, and consequently, to correct, the corruptions of the memes used in common conversation, and, on all occasions, not only to detect the delusions of sophistry, but to support your sentiments with that conviction of strength which none but the scholar can feel, and which a know-
ledge of Logic alone can teach most easily and effectually to exert.
In every act of reasoning, therefore, regulate your own arguments by the precepts of logical science; and carefully examine those of your opponent by the same principles. Thus will the cause of truth be most effectually defended, and the artifice of error most easily detected.
These, my young friends, being the most prominent features in that plan of English education which this seminary embraces, I have dwelt more particularly upon them, and annexed a precept to each, which I trust you will faithfully remember and uniformly act upon; at the same time, as diligently improving the knowledge you have also here acquired of arithmetic, writing, book keeping, the elements of mathematics, &c. &c. and above all, those principles of morality, and of pure undefiled religion, which have been daily inculcated by reading a select portion of the holy scriptures, morning and evening, accompanied with prayer, and, at the close of every week, with the recital of your respective catechisms, and a lecture on some one of the leading principles of our holy religion.
This branch of instruction, though mentioned last, is, be assured, not least in the scale of importance—it is, indeed, by far the most interesting and valuable of all the subjects to which your attention has been directed, inasmuch as the concerns of eternity infinitely transcend those of time in duration, and consequently in importance.
Human life was evidently intended by the Great Author of our existence as a state of unremitting activity and exertion. And, if we for a moment seriously consider the high destinies of man, the various and extensive duties he owes to society, and the great, the indispensable preparation he must make in order to qualify himself for admission into a state of happiness hereafter, how inestimably valuable do the fleeting hours of time appear! For “How much is to be done!” And how short, how uncertain, the period, in which it is to be accomplished! “The days of our age are,” at their utmost extent, “but three score and ten, and though some men be so strong as to carry them to four score years, yet is their strength then but labor and sorrow. So soon passeth it away and we are gone!” Remember, therefore, and let the remembrance be ever carefully preserved and kept actively alive in your minds, that in this short portion of existence, we have in early youth to qualify ourselves for a favorable reception into, and respectable establishment in, this world ; and, as well then, as during the remainder of our probation here, to prepare ourselves for a happy entrance into the world of spirits. Great and important objects indeed! Objects worthy the contemplation and exertion of a rational and immortal Being!
With respect to the means of attaining the former object, I earnestly recommend to you the most active and unwearied diligence in the prosecution of your studies, should you incline to prepare yourselves for one of the learned professions; or, should an immediate entrance upon the duties of the counting-house be adopted, be equally assiduous in the discharge of them.
The satisfaction which you must experience from the consciousness of having so diligently employed your time, while under my tuition, as to acquire a general knowledge of those branches of science which we have just reviewed, cannot but be highly soothing to you. Cherish the animating sensation—persevere, nobly persevere in the acquisition of knowledge, and thereby expand and improve that inexhaustible source of honor and of comfort. Increase, strengthen, and confirm your habits of industrious application, and beware of indulging in any degree the interruption of their influence.
Idleness, be assured, not only paralyses the mind, and renders it torpid with respect to every virtuous emotion, but thereby promotes the influence of our wayward passions, cherishes the propensities to vice, and frequently leads to the commission of criminal actions. Be persuaded, therefore, never to relax the diligence you have so long been accustomed to exercise, nor suffer a day to pass, to prevent its opportunity of improvement, without availing yourselves of the high privilege it offers, and adding to your flock of knowledge. “I have lost a day,” said one of the wisest and most amiable of the Roman emperors, whenever he suffered a day to escape, without having acquired some useful information, or performed some meritorious action.
“So should all speak; Reason speaks in all.”
In order to acquire eminence in any profession, the basis of which is formed of scholastic literature, you must exercise yourselves in serious thinking, & accustom yourselves to solitary study and literary labour. When you do mix with society, endeavor to associ-
ate with men older and wiser than yourselves, from whose knowledge and experience you may hope to gain solid improvement. Preserve on all occasions a dignity of deportment and an uniform urbanity of manners. These will conciliate the esteem and respect of the virtuous and the wise, will most effectually repel the obtrusive insolence of folly, and awe into reverence the insidious and delusive artifices of vice and immorality. Cultivate benevolence of disposition, and habitual serenity and cheerfulness of temper. Avoid the company of the frivolous, the licentious, and the profane. Be ever on your guard against the alluring solicitations of sensuality, and the fascinating and contagious influence of evil example. —For which purpose fortify your minds with the inflexible resolutions of intrepid virtue.
“Be just and fear not,” “Let all the ends you aim at be your Country’s, Your God’s, and Truth’s.”
Consider that you are now about to enter upon the most dangerous period of your existence; to step upon the arena of the world in which, like the combatants in the ancient amphitheatres, you will be immediately assailed by the most formidable foes, which are the more to be dreaded, because they will approach you with expanded arms, and insidious smiles, under the mask of innocence, thereby endeavouring to lure you into their fatal embrace.
Or, to speak in plainer language, and without a metaphor, you will be surrounded by various temptations to sin, by the fascinating charms of pleasure, and the delusive seductions of vice, from without, and by the goading impulses of depraved propensities and boisterous passions from within, acting in unison with each other, and exerting their most potent energies for your destruction.—O listen, therefore, to my warning voice! and wisely determine to enter upon this hazardous field of action with that virtuous and manly firmness and independence of spirit, with that vigilant precaution and circumspection, which a knowledge of your danger should inspire. “Fight the good fight of Christian Faith,” and invigorated and animated by the virtues she gives birth to, endeavour to be eminently and singularly good. Strive to be distinguished in society by those qualities and that conduct which will shed a luster round your character, and induce the admiration and esteem of all; —by an affectionate and dutiful attachment and submission to your parents; the most invincible adherence to truth on all occasions; chastity and correctness in your sentiments and conversation; modesty, politeness, and gentleness of manners; a regular attendance upon the public worship of GOD, and a conformity to the rites of that particular church in which you may have been educated; a readiness to forgive injuries; and a submissive regard to the authority of reason, and the dictates of conscience. By the uniform observance of these and similar principles, you will be sure to command the soothing decisions of a peaceful conscience, the affectionate and respect of individuals, and the approbation, the confidence, and the patronage of the public.
Thus much with respect to this world , and your success in its pursuits.
But, my young friends, you are endowed with higher powers, and invested with nobler and more glorious privileges than present objects can possibly awaken or call forth into action. As inhabitants of this world , “this evanescent speck of earth,” you are mortal , and your period of existence limited and uncertain in its duration; as rational beings, and candidates for eternity, you are immortal , destined to exist in the world of spirits, and your condition in that region of immortality will altogether depend upon the tenor of your conduct here. Awful, yet exhilarating consideration! How assiduous then should you be to secure for yourselves a happy immortality! And this, be assured, can only be effected by the power of true religion. Let, therefore, her sacred precepts be most cordially received by you, and have an uncontroverted influence upon your sentiments and conduct. “Remember your Creator in the days of your youth.” “Acquaint yourselves with God, and be at peace.” Dedicate to his service, and consequently to the salvation of your souls, the first fruits of those talents and intellectual powers which he hath given you for the promotion of that great end. It is of the utmost importance, that virtuous and religious principles be cherished by you at the present interesting period of your lives, to enable you to counteract and subdue those boisterous passions and vicious propensities of depraved nature, which commerce with the world invariably calls forth into action; and which, if not counteracted and restrained by confirmed and deep rooted principles of
virtue, will utterly disqualify you for the enjoyment of happiness, both in this world and the next. That you may be enabled to support the trials, and be guarded against the temptations, which will, ere long, assail you, let religion, that “day spring from on high,” illuminate and direct your inexperienced minds. By fervent and daily prayer, and by frequent perusal of the holy scriptures, support that intercourse with your God, which will enable you to grow in grace as you grow in age.—From that book of divine revelation learn true wisdom, and regulate your thoughts, words, and actions, by the injunctions of the unerring laws contained therein. An acquaintance with the gospel of Jesus Christ, and a compliance with its precepts, will expand and enlarge your minds, sublime your affections, soothe your sorrows, and mitigate the unavoidable evils of life, by resolving them into the dictates of infinite wisdom; while, at the same time, you will be animated by the prospect and glorious state of retribution, after death, for your perseverance in virtue and in piety here.
Human life is but the dim dawn of our existence. The dark mists of the uncertainty in human affairs, the lowering clouds of disappointment, and the scowling tempests of adversity, interpose an awful and terrifying gloom between this world and the next, which nothing but the piercing eye of Christian Faith, guided by the fervid ray of genuine devotion, bearing from a heart irradiated by the Grace of God, and glowing with the celestial fire of true religion, can possibly penetrate. This ray of light divine opens a communication between earth and heaven, which invigorates the soul, enlightens the understanding, harmonizes the affections, controls the passions, dissipates the fears, and animates the hopes of man, during his pilgrimage through this wilderness of sin and sorrow, and even illuminates and exhilarates with its radiance the deep and silent caverns of the tomb.
On a topic so interesting to your welfare I would gladly indulge some additional sentiments.—But I must forbear—I fear I have already trespassed on the patience of the audience.
Farewell, then, my respected and beloved pupils—may the instruction which you have received in this institution be remembered and improved by you through life—may you experience every degree of worldly dignity, profit, and pleasure, which is consistent with the dictates of honor and integrity—and may you finally obtain the eternal rewards which are promised to the pure in heart!
Receive now that public reward of diligence, which this seminary confers upon her meritorious sons, accompanied with my most fervent benediction and ardent prayers for your success in the prosecution of your studies, and for your future health, prosperity and happiness.
“Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme,” “O teach them what is good, teach them thyself!” “Save them from folly, vanity, and vice,” “From every low pursuit, and feed their souls” “With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure;” “Sacred, substantial, never fading bliss!”
The following is a copy of the certificate given:
“In testimony of the zeal and industry with which A. B. has pursued, and the honorable proficiency which he has attained in the studies of Grammar, Writing, Arithmetic, Composition, Elocution, Natural History, Geography, and Logic, in the Philadelphia Academy, under my tuition, of which he has given proof, by a public examination, this day;
“And also, in testimony of my affectionate regard, and sincere wishes for his future prosperity and usefulness, I have granted him these presents.
Dated at Philadelphia, the 31st day of July, 1806.
“JAMES ABERCROMBIE, D. D.” “Director of the Philadelphia Academy.”
Each of the following young gentlemen received a certificate;
James J. Barclay, Samuel M. Cohen, Roger Eddowes, T. William Freeman, Henry Harrison, George W. Hockley, Joseph A. Maybin, Jacob Nathan, Thomas Traquair, Tobias Wagner, Richard Willing, William W. Young.
A Hungarian Soothsayer has obtained some celebrity on the European Continent by certain prophetic effusions, in which he has followed Bonaparte as closely as ever Patridge, the Almanac maker, did the whore of Babylon, till at length he has actually de-
ted the final termination of his earthly career, and that of his dynasty, which he has fixed for the Christmas of 1808. His death to take place in the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem! This Prophet boasts of having foretold the French Revolution, as well as many subsequent events attending it, and among others that of the assumption of the imperial dignity by Napoleon whom he calls Apollyon!!
London Paper.
LYNCHBURG.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11.
DECIUS in our next.
“We once more earnestly request the owners of places of deposit, and poll masters, to be particular to deliver the Stat to the proper owners only.”
The late rains have been peculiarly beneficial, more especially for crops of Tobacco, and late Corn.
The post route established by law hence to Lexington, will be commenced on the first of the ensuing month. Micajah Clark has firmed the carriage of the Mail—and the very name of this man is a guarantee for fidelity and punctuality.
In an extract of a letter under date, Liverpool, 19th June, the arrival there of Mr. Pinckney, our Minister to England, was announced.
Wool-Carding, and Wool Spinning Machines are getting into common use in Pennsylvania. The vast advantages that would result from proper encouragement being given to domestic manufactures are particularly noticed and recommended by the “Commonwealth” a Pittsburg paper. The mechanical excellence of a Mr. Eltonhead, in the construction of the necessary machinery is particularly noticed.
London advices, under date June 25th state that the Earl of Yarmouth had reached Paris about ten days before. To this circumstance is probably owing the surmise, on which considerable stress is laid in some of the papers, that pacific negotiations were in considerable forwardness.
The Legislature of Pennsylvania have passed a law against duelling. The restrictions are in the highest degree forcible but in other states where the laws are not less so, they have been eluded and violated, frequently with impunity.—Johnson’s remark on the subject is full in the recollection of most of our readers.
JOHN PAGE, Esq. the late venerable Governor of Virginia, has been appointed Commissioner of Loans, in the place of MERIWETHER JONES, Esq. &c. &c. We have not yet understood whether Mr. Page has accepted the commission.
[Vir. Argus.]
A few days ago, says a late Limerick paper, a man was summoned to appear before our chief magistrate, charged with a species of fraud hitherto unknown in this part of the United Kingdom, to wit; telling his wife for 10 guineas, and then passing another man’s wife on the purchaser, instead of his own.... “Splendid fallax.”
EUROPE is full of the eventful and wonderful —Bonaparte is still the grand master of ceremonies—the Hero, the Ruler of the great political Drama.
Russia and Germany tremble at the name of Bonaparte’s invincibles.
Holland has become submissive and affectionate.
England is wearied with watchfulness, perplexity, and suspense—though John Bull has new Fox’d his boots for the Chaise.
Ireland hopes for better days. Italy, Spain, and Portugal feel the sovereign arm of France.
The shores of the Mediterranean acknowledge the fame of Bonaparte perpetual as their Pyramids.
France in admiration of its foreign emperor, is fast rising to its zenith of glory—ambitiously grasping the honors and emoluments of the world.
America, the dignified neutral power in its active majesty, regards the whole—and feels most happy, with her children affectionately grouped around her.
Bos. Pap.
NEW-YORK, August 25.
It is melancholy to reflect that the state of Mr. Fox’s health is but too likely to leave but little of his life to the accomplishment of those grand and beneficial purposes he has long promised the world and his own heart to perform; if ever he should have it in his power; and his pledge for one of which he already began to redeem. The abominable court dust of the old Bute faction, continued under the Jenkinsons, being swept away by this august statesman, he has now no obstruction in the way of his glorious, humane views. The slave carrying trade will be abolished! —Would to God that all the traces of it could be expunged from the annals of mankind! We venture to say that the entire extinction of the East India Company monopoly,—the repeal of the test act,—and the entire extinction of their rights to the Roman Catholics of Ireland will follow. The obliquacy of the king under the influence of the Bishops, who will tell him that his assenting to the last of these would be perjury, may for a time—but it will be a short time,—postpone the accomplishment of that, Mr. Fox’s favorite project. In the mean time,

the life of him on whom such a mass of human misery now rests; is in the hands of a being who will not fail to dispose every thing in a manner, whatever we may wish, the most conducive to the happiness of his creatures. Yet it cannot be impious for us, and we are sure every heart that feels for the wrongs, of a large portion of some of the best of their fellow-creatures, will join us in, to offer up our vows to heaven for the prolongation of that valuable life.
[COMMUNICATED] The difference between to day, and to-morrow. "To-day man's dress'd in gold and silver bright; Wrapt in a shroud before to-morrow night." To-day he's feeding on delicious food; To-morrow dead—unable to do good. To-day he's nice, and scorns to feed on crumbs; To-morrow he's himself a dish for worms. To-day he's honor'd, and in vast esteem; To-morrow not a beggar values him. To-day he rises from a velvet bed. To-morrow lies in one that's made of lead. To-day his house tho' large, he thinks but small; To-morrow no command, no house at all. To-day has forty servants at his gate; To-morrow scorns'd, not one of them will wait. To-day perfum'd as sweet as any rose; To-morrow stinks in every body's nose. To-day he's grand, majestic, all delight. Ghastly and pale before to-morrow night. True as the scripture says, man's life's a span. The present moment is the life of man."
A CAMP-MEETING commenced near the Pine Woods Meeting House, about seven miles from this place, on Thursday, the 24th ult., and continued until Monday morning following. Those who have been accustomed to such meetings, say it was the largest within their knowledge. The number of people that attended could not be much less than five thousand. There were two hundred and twenty-four Tents, in which there were three thousand two hundred actual residents and two hundred and forty-three wagons and carts. The meeting was attended by thirty Preachers.
Augusta Centinel. To Men of Letters. A Gentleman of respectable literary acquirements, whose political principles are DEMOCRATIC, would receive the most liberal terms, in conducting the Editorial Department of the Boston Courier and Democrat .
B. PARKS. No. 16, Anstreet. Republican Editors will confer a particular favor by giving this Notice a few insertions in their respective papers. August 19.
A French Counsellor. A thief was one day discovered in the great chamber (a court of justice in Paris) seizing a purse. The court allowed the knave a counsellor to defend him. The advocate went up stairs to him, and taking him aside, "It is true," said he, "that you stole the purse of somebody now in court?" "It is very true, sir, (replied the thief) but—" "hold your tongue said the lawyer, "the best counsel I can give is to scamper away as fast as possible." The thief took the hint, and ran down the stair case. The counsellor returned afterwards into court, the first president asked him what he had to say in defence of his client? "Gentlemen, (replied he) the poor wretch confessed his crime to me; and as he was not guarded by any one, and I was appointed his counsel, I thought fit to advise him to run away. He did not hesitate, but vanished in an instant."
Extracts of a letter from the capt. of the Eliza Halsey, to a person in this city, dated Halifax, August 8. The brig Iserte , capt. Barns, whose cargo was nearly the same as mine, and the voyage similar, having gone through the regular course of trial, was acquitted, after paying to the amount of 1400 dollars, on account of some colonial produce on board.—After this, my papers were overhauled, and a private court held, and nothing but the indigo being the least against me, they suffered me to proceed on paying 600 dollars. My vessel is much injured by the detention, but I can get no recompence.—All the letters I had on board were taken out, broken open &c. and have been returned to me in confusion. Bills of exchange &c. separated from the letters they belong to. I shall sail this day for Nantz. n. v. Pa.
Capt. Gillies, (arrived at New-York) informs, that an embargo was laid on all foreign vessels in the ports of Jamaica, 25th ult. to continue till the 10th August; in consequence of the sailing of the homeward bound fleet.
Sir John Borlace Warren's squadron was off Antigua the 17th July, and intended to remain in that quarter for the protection of the islands, in case Jerome Bonaparte should suddenly return there.
PHILADELPHIA, August 23. We were misinformed in stating, yesterday, that the whole of the cargo
of the two schooners belonging to Miranda, had been put to death by the Spanish government of Caracas: their fate, however, is equally deplorable. The following, whom we presume held commissions under Miranda, were put to death, and their heads exhibited, as stated yesterday, a few days previous to the sailing of the Endymion ; the remaining 48 were sentenced to ten years imprisonment in the mines.—
JAMES LEDLIE , formerly of this city.—He was induced to join the expedition at Port-au-Prince, and is said to have had the commission of a major. He was naturally fond of enterprize.
MR. LIPPINCOTT —a young gentleman of amiable and respectable connections in this city. He also joined the expedition at Port-au-Prince; and was no doubt seduced into the fatal project.
Capt. DONAHUE , also of this city, who has left a wife and small family, to deplore his unhappy end. He commanded a vessel belonging to this port; and urged by the infuriating temptations of Miranda's agents, abandoned her at Port-au-Prince, and entered into a cause which has cost him his life.
MR. GEORGE KIRKLAND —This gentleman was formerly a captain in the Provisional Army of the U. States, but was discharged on the reduction of that establishment. He was afterwards concerned in the publication of the Washington Federalist . He was not deficient in many of the ornamental and useful attainments of literature. He afterwards commenced commercial business in this city, but proving unfortunate, adventured to Hayti, with a view, it is said, of offering his military talents to Dessalines. He there joined Miranda, and is represented as holding a very important rank in his establishment.
Capt. GARDNER —Of this person we have no knowledge.
PAUL GEORGE —We are equally ignorant of this character; as well as of
MR. SMITH , a butcher of New-York and a Polish Gentleman.
We have heard some individuals express a doubt of the truth of the above melancholy intelligence. We are sorry to observe that the sources thro' which it has been received, admit of no such consolatory hope. Four boys only, belonging to the crews, had their fates undetermined—They were still confined in the castle.
Phil. Gaz. NEW-ORLEANS, July 26. Extracts of a letter from a gentleman at Fort Adams to his Friend in this city, dated 21st July. "We are hourly expecting the arrival of General Wilkinson. In his late letter to the commanding officer here he promised to be at this place by the 20th instant, if his orders were not countermanded."
"I am not enough of the politician, statesman or soldier, to tell what is the contemplated movement."
KINGSTON, (Jam.) July 26. On Thursday, the Serpens Sloop of war, 16 guns, capt. Waller, returned to Port-Royal, from a cruise. On the 17th inst. she fell in with Vice-Admiral Sir John Borlace Warren's squadron in the Mona Passage, and received directions from him for Vice-Admiral Dacres. Sir John states that he had arrived at Barbadoes on the 12th instant.
On the 14th the Admiral learnt that Sir Alexander Cochrane was on his way to Antigua, having lost sight of Guillaumes's squadron on the night of the 6th inst. which after going through the passages by Tortola and St. Thomas's, had hauled to the Northward.
Sir J. B. Warren adds that he failed from Barbadoes, intending to pursue his route to this island, but meeting with the Serpens, and not obtaining any further particulars, he should steer to the Northward, hoping to intercept them on their return to Europe.
The American Brig Mercury , Adams of Boston, from Trinidad bound to New-York with a cargo of sugar, coffee, and sulic, detained by the Aréthuse , arrived on Thursday.
Some account of the country and productions near the Red River, In Louisiana, in an extract of a letter from Dr. John Sibley, to Dr. Calvin of Raleigh.
"The district of Natchitoches contains about 3000 inhabitants, strung mostly along the river, occupying its banks for about sixty miles, in which, till a short time ago, was a Spanish garrison, and now an American one." "The inhabitants immediately on the banks of the Mississippi are less sickly than on the large Rivers in the Carolinas and Georgia, probably owing to the immense depth and purity of the River water, which is always cool, and never emits putrid miasma. On Red River it is much the same, with the difference only of the brackishness of its water, from the great
number of the salt Springs, lakes and creeks, with which the country thro' which it passes abounds: the water of Red River is so salt, that wherever it is stagnant, large coales, clams, shrimp &c. resembling those on the sea-coast, are found in plenty. At Natchitoches lime made of the cockle shells is plenty, and used altogether, though limestone exists in abundance. Lime made of shells is sold at 25 cents a bushell, and a common labourer's wages is 75 cents a day. I have never seen on Red River any fever of the putrid bilious infectious kind, none worse than an intermittent or remittent that six or eight doses of bark a day, for three or four days, after proper evacuation, would not cure; though I have often found such a degree of debility, that blistering, and the disusive limulus, was necessary. Pheumonic complaints carried off a number of persons last winter; they were most fatal to old people. At Natchitoches there are several instances of longevity. There is a German that has been here fifty years, who is ninety five years old, in good health, labours constantly, and can walk thirty miles in a day. Several who were born here of between eighty and eighty-five, and upwards of twenty above seventy.
"I have kept this summer an account of the degrees of heat by Fahrenheit's thermometer, hung in a house surrounded with a piazza, against a plank partition that divides a common hall from a chamber. The 5th of June at 3 P. M. it was 94; no other day has been more than 90, and but a few days more than from 84 to 86. Our Nights are always cool. The latitude of Natchitoches I believe to be 32 10. Sugar cane grows pretty well here, and four oranges. I have taken the liberty of enclosing you some samples of coals which I have found on Red River in great plenty; it is sometimes called saphora; but more commonly in French, bois d'arc or bowwood; it is used by the indians for their bows to throw their arrows, and by the French for axe helve, and handles for other tools. It grows two or three feet in diameter, resembles in colour most exactly the patent yellow, takes a beautiful polish, and I think would be highly esteemed by turners and cabinet makers, particularly for inlaying and inlaying; but probably more valuable as a dye wood. The colours marked 1, 2, 3, are made by a simple decoction of the wood, only of different degrees of strength, and is the colour of the wood. Other colours I made from the same decoction of logwood, blue vitriol, salt of tartar, copers or alum; these colours will not wash out nor fade by being washed in strong soapsuds. As the quantity of it on Red River cannot, by exportation, be exhausted, and every particle of it may be used by either turner, cabinet maker or dyer, I have no doubt but that in some future time it may be a valuable article of exportation."
"There is between Natchitoches and the sea shore, at a small creek near the Quelouche lake, the skeleton of an animal, which from the description I have had of it, is the skeleton of a Mammoth. If it is so it contradicts an opinion that has existed, that these animals have not been in a latitude so far south."
"Should the western limits of Louisiana extend to the river Brave or Grand (Great River) the mouth of which is in latitude 26, the United States will be able to make their own coffee and chocolate, both of which articles grow well in that latitude, and will include a country, particularly at and about St. Antoine, that in point of beauty and fertility is superior to any part in Europe or America; the surface of the country is neither level nor too hilly, is in perpetual verdure, of the most luxuriant grass; the pastures in summer and winter are equally rich; a great portion of it rich prairies, thro' which flow the most beautifully limpid streams, meandering over gravel and pebble bottoms."
"The city of Santee Antoine is about 140 years old, is 500 S. W. of Natchitoches, and contains about 500 houses, mostly built of white free stone, situated on a river called St. Marches, or St. Antoine river, and about 180 miles from its mouth, in which it is said there is a good port about 100 miles below St. Antoine. On the same river is the town of Eberdee, which was first settled in 1662, by Mons. de Salles a Frenchman. Some of his descendants now live there, and there are French canons now there which they brought with the engraving of Louis XIV on them."
BOSTON.
VISITATION OF THE SCHOOLS. On Friday last, the Select men and other gentlemen composing the School Committee, made their annual visitation to the public Schools in this town. They were accompanied on this pleasing duty by the Hon. Senators of the County of Suffolk, the Representatives of the Town, the Sheriff
and Judges of the various Courts, the Clergy, Members of the Board of Health, Overseers of the Poor, Firewards and Straagers. The exercises were such as to give pleasure to the visitors, and did honor to the youth and to the ancient republican institutions of our fore-fathers. On the lists of the several Schools, are 1030 boys 730 girls; of whom 733 boys and 83 girls were present.
After the visitation, the company assembled in Faneuil Hall to partake of an elegant dinner. Their pleasure was heightened by enjoying the convenience and beauty of the New Hall, and by several classical and appropriate toasts.
Palladium. DIED —On the 3d inst. after a short illness, Mrs. Hubbard, of this place, the wife of John Hubbard, one of the Tobacco pickers of Spring Warehouse.
PROPOSALS. FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION ON, THE WORKS OF Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Philosophical, Political, and Literary. [Hominum rerumque repertor.]
The publication of the writings of Dr. Franklin, in a complete edition, was long contemplated by the late Benjamin Franklin Bache, his Grandson, who transferred the copy which was devised to Mr. W. Temple Franklin, for the purpose. It was originally designed that the corrected edition should appear in three languages, and in England, Germany, France and America, at the same time; this design was frustrated by the devise (W. Temple Franklin) who it is now believed facilitated the work and the honorable trust reposed in him, for money, to the immortal hatred of the English Ministry against the deceased sage.
As soon as this fact was known, the present editor of the Aurora turned his attention to the collection of every paper and circumstance which could tend to preserve and do honor to the memory of a man to whom America is so much indebted; and who as he was the first that from his genius and talents reflected back lustre on his native country, must continue to be ranked to the latest posterity, among its greatest benefactors and ornaments.
This edition will be published from the copies revised and corrected by Dr. Franklin, the corrections of which are in the hand writing of the author, and may be seen by any gentleman, in the possession of the editor of the Aurora .
Early admiration of Dr. Franklin; educated in veneration and reverence of his character—combined with other incidental circumstances not necessary to be pointed out, have concurred to favour the collection by the present editor, of the best materials that could be obtained after the sacrifice of the work by the devisee.
With some industry and with some expense he has possessed himself, not only of the copy with the corrections and additions in Dr. Franklin's hand writing; but also of several articles which have never appeared in any former collection, and of several which have never appeared in print.
Proposals would have appeared long since in this city, had not an advertisement of an intended edition, been published in the English prints; the present editor, thought it might yet be possible that the edition advertised, was that which Mr. Temple Franklin was entrusted with; but it now appears that the English edition is only a republication of the former compilation with some final additions; but still very deficient, on a comparison with the corrected papers in the hands of the editor.
The whole will now be carefully collated, and the work executed in a style worthy of the great patriarch of American liberty, and apostle of the American press.
The additional papers will form at least a volume, perhaps more—the authentic papers already printed, form three—& it is intended to begin with the second volume, which will be put to press immediately; and to publish the Biography last, so that such additional particulars as may throw any useful light on the life of this great man, may be engrafted on his memoirs; to obtain which, and other important materials, the editor will spare neither pains nor expense.
Gentlemen who may be possessed of authentic or original papers, or correspondence of Dr. F. or who can give information where any are to be found, will render public service by communicating them to the editor.
CONDITIONS.
The work will be elegantly printed, on a new small pica type, and pale vellum paper in large octavo.
The work will be ornamented with numerous engravings, a vignette to each volume—a whole length portrait from the best likeness allowed to be in existence, now in the possession of.....
The price of each volume will be 2 dollars 50 cents, payable on delivery only.
Subscriptions will be received at the Bookstore of Wm. Duane, No. 106, Market Street, Philadelphia, and in Pennsylvania avenue, Washington City; and by other booksellers and private gentlemen, whose names will be notified in the several states of the union, in due time.
Will: will, it is hoped, be duly appreciated, and departed from in no instance. It is impossible, that the wisest system of education can give to youth those inestimable benefits, which might otherwise be derived, if Parents and Guardians do not strenuously, and zealously comply obedience to that economy, which is here so earnestly recommended; and, that every one may know what may be considered as the necessary expenditure of a student, at this College; it is stated, that
  The board, for the course, will not exceed dols. 100   Fees to two professors, 30   Candles, fuel and washing, 35   Pocket money, not to exceed 40   205   By the Society. J. MADISON, Pr. August 19. (2w)
BY VIRTUE of a Deed of Trust executed to us by Archibald Compton, of the county of Pittsylvania, to secure certain debts due to Grady & Pannill, we shall on Saturday the 27th day of this month, proceed to sell by way of public auction (on the premises) for ready money, the following NEGROES , to wit: ESTHER JIN, CREECE, CRUMMEL, and MILLEY , as expressed in said Deed of Trust.
Johna Stone, } Trustees. William G. Parham, } Pittsylvania, 8th September, 1806. (2w)
TAKEN up by John Gills, living in Bedford County, on Ivy creek, two Estrays, one a brindle Steer two years old, with some white spots, no horns, and unmarked, appraised to 24 shillings.—One a black heifer two years old, marked with a crop in the right and a crop and nick in the left, appraised to 24 shillings.
Valentine Cox. Thomas Johnson. Samuel Poindexter. Acknowledged before me, ISAAC OTEY.
A Copy, Teste, J. STEPTOE, C. B. C. April 12—1806. 3w
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TO be leased for three years, and possession given at next Christmas with liberty of sowing wheat, or other small grain the present season the LAND & PLANTATION formerly the property of the late Dr. Charles Jones, about six miles from Lynchburg—The sale will take place on the premises and the particulars of the same made known the day of sale which is to take place Saturday the 27th inst. (September) LUELLEN JONES. (2w)

claws; these works have also been found, in full preservation, to the present time. A lateral corridor, on the right hand, leads to a second court, which is surrounded with a portico, (as rectangular columns prove) and covered with stucco. In one of the apartments are two Bacchants, armed with a thyrsus. Above the window on the right hand, an Europa of astonishing beauty is painted; she is entirely naked, and seated on a bull rushing through the sea. Underneath is a young boy, supporting a basket of fruit; he is standing on tip-toe; this attitude required of the painter a very decided expression of the muscular system. Opposite is a beautiful female dancer, who is playing with two cymbals; veal which is flying behind her, has a very beautiful effect. In passing from one to a neighbouring hall, I observed a beautiful pavement of the most beautiful African marble. The ceiling represents Venus between Mars & Adonis. A small bronze image, a gold coin weighing three ounces, and five others of brass, with Vespasian's effigy, have been found in this place.
In this hall on the left hand fragments of paintings on wood, with a design in chalk, are clearly to be distinguished. It was the bed chamber. The eight small pillars that supported it are still to be seen; they are of bronze; and on their summit some fragments of gold work are attached, which probably formed a canopy. On the lateral wall are two priests with long beards, clothed with a blue and green pistachio gown; they have been carried to the museum. The kitchen contained a vast quantity of utensils, the greater part made of iron, inlaid with silver, with inconceivable ingenuity. But what struck me most was a chandelier, painted in fresco on a very brilliant yellow ground. I could not quit the apartment that contained these master-pieces of taste and elegance; they were supported by small figures, dressed, clothed, and draped with such taste, as to render them worthy of serving as models to all the belles of the universe. In this house, like all those of antiquity, not a window was to be seen opening into the street. I was struck with the wreck of a car, which is still in a kind of coach house, the axle-tree, wheel-bands, and the bronze ornaments of the car are perfectly discoverable. On the side of this magnificent habitation is seen a door that leads to another room, which to judge of it by the exterior, will present equal beauties, when permission is obtained for its opening.
"Such are the gratifications which I felt in my descent into Pompeia; the ancient world seemed open to me, and my imagination tracing back some centuries, bore me to the time when I might have made one of the inhabitants of this city. Such are the delights which an antiquary can feel. He may live into the womb of the earth, and explore the Senates and the Forums of buried cities, he may frequent their Porticoes and Temples, and imagine himself an ancient Roman."
"In a research that was commenced about seven years ago, the top of a pillar was perceived, supposed to be the lateral front of a large door. The works being continued, during the last winter, the correspondent pillar was discovered. The brass hinges of the door have been conveyed to the Portici Museum. The habitation to which the door leads is convenient and grand, rich in paintings and Mosaic work; a beautiful wall of free stone forms the inclosure; the joinings are so perfect, and the cement so cohesive, that the wall might be said to be a solid mass. The passage that serves for the entrance is two yards in breadth, and three in length; it leads to a court, the walls of which are covered with stucco of different colours. The top and the cornices are well preserved. I saw a rose which was a chef d'œuvre, as much for the design, as for the beauty of its form. All the apartments are ornamented with luxurious paintings, on red, blue, and yellow grounds; small pillars with flowers, chandeliers, and ornaments of the most exquisite taste are also to be seen. On the left are two apartments, which probably belonged to the master and mistress of the house. The painter has given great scope to his imagination in the composition of the pieces which adorn them. Nothing can be more graceful than a dance of naked personages. It is the peculiar marks of a great genius. In composing a subject to which an idea of voluptuousness is supposed to be annexed, the artist has contrived to extinguish every indecent thought, and save the blush and dignity of modesty. It is upon this that Titian built his reputation. The modesty of the most chaste was equally unbounded, whether they gazed upon a Madonna or a Hercules, seated on a small globe; these two pieces, one of which weighs twenty pounds, and the other is of finished workmanship, water falls from the mouth of a lion into a beautiful shell of Greek marble. Behind the pedestal was a table, the feet of which represents ca-
In Council, Augt. 19, 1806.  THE Governor submitted to the Council a letter which he had received from Christopher Clark, Esq. resigning his seat in the Congress of the United States, as a Representative of the District composed of the Counties of Bedford, Franklin, Patrick, and Henry; Whereupon it is advised, that Writs of election be issued to the several Sheriffs of the Counties aforesaid, directing them to hold elections in their several Counties to supply the vacancy aforesaid, at the following periods, to wit:—in each County composing the said district, excepting the County of Franklin, the election shall be held on the Court day of such County, which shall be in the month of October next, and in the said County of Franklin, the election shall be on the Court day of that County, which shall happen in the month of November next.  For the information of the electors, within the District aforesaid, it is ordered that a Copy of the preceding advice be published for three weeks successively in the Virginia Argus, and in the Lynchburg Star.  Extract from the Journal.  Attest, DANIEL L. HYLTOM. Clerk to the Council.
For Sale,  WILL be sold to the highest bidder on Saturday the eighteenth day of October next, at the Post Office in the town of Lynchburg, all the personal estate of Josiah Leake, dec'd. consisting of a number of valuable LAW BOOKS, one bed &c. and several other articles of house hold furniture:—A credit of nine months will be given on all sums above ten Dollars, on the purchasers giving bond with approved security, bearing interest from the date if not punctually paid, for all sums under ten dollars cash will be required.  WALTER LEAKE, Admr. Lynchburg, September 3—1806. tdk.
VIRGINIA, to wit: At a Court held for Pittsylvania County the sixteenth day of June, 1806. John Morrice, Plff. AGAINST Joseph Matherley, and Zaccheus Seal, and Rachel Cook, Josiah Cook, Elizabeth Cook, Samuel Cook, and Nancy Cook, children and heirs of Josiah Cook deceased. IN Chancery. Defts.
THE Defendants not having entered their appearance and given security according to the act of Assembly, and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that they are not inhabitants of this State, on the motion of the Plaintiff by his counsel, it is ordered that the said defendants do appear here on the third Monday in September next, and answer the Plaintiffs Bill, & that a copy of this order be forthwith published in some news paper of this State for eight weeks successively, and posted up at the front door of the Court-house of this County on some court day.  A Copy, Teste, WILL. P. HARRISON, D. C. P. C.
To Rent,  FOR a year or term of years, and possession given on the first of January next, the STONE TAVERN in the Town of Warren, in Albemarle County, which is at present occupied by the subscriber; the tenement is in good repair, and there is attached to it, about fifteen acres of excellent land inclosed and in cultivation; it is an eligible stand, there being no other tavern in the place, and terms will be made easy.  JOHN STAPLES.
Black Smith  FROM the pressure of employments in the HORSE SHOEING line, and from the encouragement of my friends and the public in general in the BLACKSMITH'S BUSINESS I would wish to employ a sober, well educated and good journeyman to the said trade.  TWO brisk apprentices will be taken to the above business.  GEORGE ROBERTS. Lynchburg, August 26th, 1806.
Notice.  A PETITION will be presented to the next general Assembly of Virginia praying for the division of Amherst County.  A FREEHOLDER of Amherst.  TAKEN up by Robert Scott on Campbell County on the Otter river, a red heifer marked in the following manner, viz. with an under keel in the right ear, and a half spade in the left, the end of her tail is white—and about two years old.—From the information of said Scott the said heifer came on his plantation last summer. The above estrar is appraised to four dollars—was posted and the appraisers was duly qualified before me this 12th day June 1806.  BENJN. W. PORTER. HENRY BELL. JAMES DEERING. A Copy, Teste, JOHN ALEXANDER, D. C. 31
NOTICE.  I SHALL Petition the next General Assembly of Virginia, for leave to build a WAREHOUSE, for the reception and inspection of Tobacco, on my lots in the Town of Lynchburg.  ROWLAND JONES. 30th July, 1806. tf.
VIRGINIA, to wit: At a Court continued and held for Pittsylvania County the 22d day of July, 1806. John Wilton, Plff. AGAINST John Owen, Glen Owen, George Owen, James Rutledge, and his wife, formerly Owen, and Jenney Mulgrove formerly Jenney Owen, Defts. IN Chancery.
THE Defendants not having entered their appearance and given security according to the act of Assembly, and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that they are not inhabitants of this State; On the motion of the plaintiff by his counsel, it is ordered that the said defendants do appear here on the third Monday in October next, and answer the Bill of the Plaintiff, and that copy of this order be forthwith published in some newspaper of this State for eight weeks successively, and posted up at the front door of the Court-house of this county on some court day.  A Copy, Teste, WILL. TUNSTALL, C. P. C.
IN conformity to a Decree of Bedford Court (Ward vs Millers) we shall proceed to sell on the premises for ready money, on Saturday 20 Sept. next, the LAND and its appurtenances, mentioned in the said Decree, lying in Bedford County, on the waters of M'Daniel's Creek, adjoining the Lands of Col. Thomas Lettwich, George Hackworth, &c.  Thomas Lettwich, John Clayton, Mark Anthony, Samuel Smith, Comrs. 31st July, 1806.
H Y M N S.  Just published and for sale at the Star-Office, (Price, Twenty-Five Cents.)  A choice selection of Hymns:  This first part, contains the newest and so much admired Spiritual Songs practised with such beneficial effects, during the late Camp, and other Meetings, in the counties of Amherst, and Bedford, and in the vicinity of Lynchburg.
Just received and for sale at the Star-Office—Price 50 cents—a PAMPHLET entitled S K E T C H E S of the History of France FROM THE EARLIEST HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS To the present time....1806: With some remarks concerning the Life and Achievements of the celebrated NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, now Emperor of France. [By an American.]
Of this very interesting Pamphlet, notice has already been taken in the Star.—It contains a correct and succinct detail of the principal facts and occurrences during the period specified, and the greater and most important part of Bonaparte's official communications, as French General, Consul, and Emperor. The style is energetic, concise, and classical.  As a Court held for Amherst County at the Court house the eighteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and six.  Major James Benjamin Coffland, Compl. } In Chancery AGAINST John Smith, Deft. }
THE defendant not having entered his appearance and given security according to the Act of Assembly, and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that he is not an inhabitant of this State, and without the jurisdiction of this Court, on the motion of the complainant by his Counsel, it is ordered that the defendant do appear here on the third Monday in October next, and answer the complainant's bill, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Lynchburg Star for eight weeks successively and posted up at the front door of the Court-house of this County, on some Court day.  A Copy, Teste, W. S. CRAWFORD C.A.C.
NOTICE.  AGREABLE to a Decree of the County Court of Bedford, will be exposed to sale on the 10th day of October next, for ready money, a TRACT OF LAND, the property of Sandford Holley, lying in the County of Bedford, and containing 254 acres, to satisfy a debt due from the said Sandford Holley to Holley's administrators:—the sale to take place on the premises.
Julius Hatcher, Charles Stewart, Benj. Robertson, William Rucker, David North, Comrs. July 29th. 1806. $w.
NOTICE.  A PETITION will be presented to the next General Assembly of Virginia praying the establishment of a FERRY across James River, from the lands of James Waugh, in Amherst County to the lands of Tamberlane W. W. Davis, in Bedford County.  JAMES WAUGH. July 19, 1806. 3m
Amherst, June Court, 1806.  James Wills, jun. Plff. } IN AGAINST John Johnson and John Higginbotham, jun. Defs. } Chancery.
THE defendant John Josiah not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of Assembly and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this country: On the motion of the plaintiff by his attorney, It is ordered that he appear here on the third Monday in October next, and answer the plaintiff's bill, and that a copy of this order be inserted in the Lynchburg Star for two months successively, and posted up at the front door of the court-house of our said county on two successive court days.  A Copy, Teste, W. S. CRAWFORD, C. A. C.