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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-04-03 00:00:00

A MINSTREL.

'(Fr Om Alexander Hume's Scottish Songs.)
A.minstrel sang in a garden bower
To a maiden fair and sweet,
As a smile that speaks in the•loveliest hour,
When love's eyes love's eyes meet ;
. The maiden look'd like a beauteous flower
• In the blooming month of May ;
The minstrel saug.with a witching power,
" Sweet maiden, come away, • •
0, come awaz, yes, come away,
Come, come away !
" The lark, he sings of his love on high,
While his fond mate lists below
To each clear note from the clear blue sky
. With a lover's ardent glow ;
The buds, like joys in the youthful breast,
. . Burst forth on bush and tree ;
But what are they to me, unbless' d
Without love's smiles from thee.
0, come away, yes, come away,-
• Come, come awayl."
. .•
• The maiden looked, she a rose espied,
To another it bent its head,
• Which blushed. asiieep as a new made bride,
O'er whom love's power is shed ;
• Two linnets wooing her quick eye caught--
As they warbled upon a spray ;
She felt 'twas love, and she panted and thought,
The sweet minstrel sang away,
" 0, come away, yes, come away,
Come, come away !"

She look'd again, but no rose was there,
And the linnets, they were gone,
Nor the minstrel's music.filled the air—
Did the maiden stand alone ?
Ah; no ! she had fled far away front the vale,
Close pressed to the minstrel's tide;
The gallant chieftain of Teviotdale
Had won her for his bride.
She fled away like a sunny ray
In the month of May !

Lord Eliot left town on Saturday ilfternoou for the continent,
~e 7111 g been charged-by his Majesty's government with a
f mission to Don Carlos, with a view of preventing for the
i,:•.re those executions of prisoners which h too
:Nttently attended the warfare on both sides.ave Hishitherto lordship
aetompanied as secretary by Colonel Gurwood, one of the
-nst gallant oOicers of the British army.—Standard.
pexEcurroN.—Ou Friday morning at nine o'clock James
lsstield, who was convicted at the assizes for Essex of setting
iti:e to the premises of Mr. Davis, of Topere was executd
'agrront of the convict gaol. He appearped tube impressed with.
,4" sense of his dreadful situation, and after he had ascended
'eaffold was constantly ejaculating prayers for mercy. After
e executioner had left the platform it was found that the rope
Las too short; it was therefore; removed from his neck, and a
~,)1.114er one substituted. The bolt was withdrawn, and the cul-
r. It died with a slight struggle. - Previous to being led to exectl-
„i‘on the risoner made the following confession :—" I had been
'; work [or Mr. James Piper, try master, and left off about five
c't4clack, Went home and had my ,supper, after which 1 went
thl. Perry's beer shop, where I found my neighbour, Letch,
"hoemaker; I had two pints of beer, and temained iu coin-
wild Letch until about ten 'o'clock, when I leftthere
wild went home. While I was undoing my shoes I thonght I
ti_t)t!ld set fire to Mr. Davis's straw stack. I went upstairs for the
4,,,,1aaer-box, and told my wife what I was going to do. She beg-
trie j would not go--and was sure I should be found out. She
atra, a great deal, but I left her, and went and set fire to the
Stack as I had determined: It blazed up directly; I went
,IT,e,as fast as possible, and stood there till the alarm of fire.
butu ,t-and no one else. Nobody else knew anything about it
a,„.i.i_lllY-Wife, and she begged me not to go. I had souse malice
,ait Davis—he was a witness against me when I was
th7N),efore—but I am now heartily sorry for having committed
orr, :.'r'nee—not only sorry that I am to he executed, but truly
J h tviog committed the trinic.--Che.lmsford Chronicle.

FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 3, 1835.

By the Parsee, Captain WKELLAR, we have advices
from Charleston of the 27th February, but they are
without interest.

By the Laura, Captain G. E. TOBIN, we have re-
ceived Demerara papers to the 19th February. We re-
gret to observe that the colony is in a very feverish and
unsettled state. The following is from the Guiana Chro-
nicle of the 16th February:—

Plantation, ra Penitence, the property of J. H. Albany, Esq.,
was on Satuyday afternoon last, a scene of the most disgrace-
ful tumult and outrage, of which we now intend to attempt
some fhint relation, since to give a true picture of all the occur-
rences is beiond our power—in fact, the whole affair " beggars
description."
In the afternoon of Saturday, the whole of the field gang of
this estate simultaneously struck work when they had com-
pleted about two-thirds of their labour, and behaved in the
most violent and contumacious manner, declaring that they
would do no more that day. By the exertions of the pro-
prietor, and the manager of the property, a district court was
very shortly after assembled for the trial of the offenders, con-
sisting of George Ross, Esq„ Chairman, Peter Rose, S. A.
Holmes, and J .Koert, Esquires,.S.P., supported (such was the
violent conduct of the labourers) by a large police force from
Georgetown.
As soon as the labourers, who were collected on the side lines
:and darns, saw the police approaching, they immediately fled,
in all directions into the cane fields. Four men were, how-
ever, secured, and some women subsequently surrendered them-
selves. The men were immediately tried, convicted, and
punished on the spot, to the amount of thirty-nine lashes each,
and the women, to the number of forty, were committed to the
gaol for trial at a subsequent court.
Affairs being in this state, Mr. Albouy represented to the
court that be entertained very serious apprehensions for the
safety of his property, as all the men, saving the four just
punished, had betaken themselves to the covert of the canes,
and it was quite impossible to predict what damage they might
commit there, or what illegal acts they might during the night
ne- guilty of, and concluded by requesting an order from the
court for the assistance of the militia. To this Mr:Ross, fhe
chairman, immediately objected, declaring that he could not do
so without previously consulting the governor. The other mem-
bers of the court, howeKer, took a different view of the matter,
and signed the order, with an understanding that Mr. Ross
should likewise do so, when he had learnt the wishes of one
whom he dared not disobey! Pitiful l—contemptible !
Thus matters stoird till the following morning, when his ex-
cellency, thinking with another illustrious personage of ancient
history, that " veni, vidi, vici" was all that was required, re-
paired with his staff to the property. A conversation here
occurred between his excellency and Mr. Albouy, which we
regret we cannot give sufficiently in detail. The following,
however, will give an idea of it; we must, however, first remark
that neither his excellency's manner nor tone of voice be-
tokened much of that suavitor in modo for which he is so espe-
cially remarkable :
Governor.—Perhaps you work these people too hard. [This
was said before the whole gang, who had now •emerged from
their hiding holes, to greet his excellency.
Mr. Albouy.—These people are by no means overworked.
Governor.—You don't pay them, then, for their extra labour.
Mr. Albouy.—Every one that knows ine knows that I pay
every man for what he does for me. •
Governor.—How much do you give them?
Mr. Albouy —Some of them can earn two guilders per day
by their extra labour.
Governor.—Two guilders a week you mean.
Mr. Albouy.—Two guilders a day.
Governor.—Show me one that earns two guilders, a day.
Mr. AlbOuy (calling to one of the negroes, who immediately
stepped forward.)—You, sir, come here. What can you earn
by your extra labour?
Negro.—Toder day me make only five bit; but some day me
make two guilder.

Mr. AlCouy.—And do you get the two guilders paid to you

Negro.—Yes, massa.

The farce--rfor such his excellency's proceedings made it—
concluded by his excellency declaring that it was the police
that had frightened the negroes into the cane-fields, and that
they had no intention of running away.
We pause here for one moment to admire the philanthropy
of his excellency, and to pay a passing tribute to that acute
faculty of discernment which he evidently possesses, that
enables him to divine, by intuition, the intentions and caprices
of the negro mind.
In this transaction, his excellency highly disapproves of the
conduct of the court in proceeding in so summary a manner to
flog the offenders. They might have been tried on Monday, or
Tuesday, or any day, he teemed to think; but they certainly
ought not to have been punished in no off-band a way. Had
no punisiurent been inflicted' that evening on the estate, we
venture to 'predict that, by this time,'La Penitence would•have
been a larren waste, and the proprietor minus a magnificent
property.

Such a scene is any thing but calculated to uphold the
dignity or increase the usefulness of Governor SMYTIIE.
Even the negro must look upon him as. being more
passionate than wise. The colonists generally are dis-.
satisfied with his conduct, and what he has since done
must tend considerably to increase their dissatisfaction.
On the day after the scene aboVe described his excel-
lency went the..'extreme length of depriving of their
commission, as justices of the peace, three of the most
able and upright prOptietors in the settlement, namely,
Mr. ALBOUY, Mr. PETER ROSE, and Mr. I. H. HOLMES.
This, we fear, will lead to further mischief. It amounts
to little less than encouraging insubordination in the co-
lony. Mr. ALBOUY, who was thus insulted and harshly
treated, we are assured, is a gentlemen of the most
honourable principles; and the most generous disposition.
He is universally respected in Demerara by all classes.
But we trust that the immediate recal of the governor
wilt 'put an end to such undignified.and mischievous pro-

ceedings.

t •
The American question is set down for discussion in the
French Chamber of Deputies for the 7th instant, and a
long and stormy debate is expected. Twenty navies
have already been entered of intended speakers favoura-
ble to tie claims, and 'thirteen against them. By this
time Mr. DvINGs-rOiv's. correspondence, as it appeared
in the New York papers, and the comments thereon,
must have reached Paris; and as it no doiibt would create
a sensationove are anxious to learn the effect of it. We
should be incliued•to think that the sentiments uttered
by the envoy, and the curious disclosures be' has made,
would have a teddericy to induce many of the deputies
to reject the claims. If so, war must follow; but whe-
ther a paper war, like that of Lord PALMERSTON, or a