The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1820-09-06

some with long coats, some with short
cpass, and others with NO coats at all, in
colours as varied as the rainbow ,----some
with sheir hair cropped like the army OF
Cromwell and others with Wigs whose
curis aowsd with grace around their
shoulders. Their march, their accout-
Tenents, and the whole arrangement of
the troops furnished matter OF amuse-
ssent to the wits Of the British army.
The music played the airs Of two centu-
ries ago, and the fout ensemble upon the
whole exhibited a sight to the wondering
strangers that they had been unaccus-
toned to in their native land Among
the club Of WITS that belonged to the Brit.
ish army, vase ply attached to the
staff by the name OF Doctor Shackburg,
who combined with the science of the
Surgeon, the skill and talents Of mu-
sician. To please .rother Jonathan he
composed tune, and with muc h gravity
recommended it to the officer, as one Of
the most celebrated airs Of mart ial music.
The joke took tire no small amusement
OF the British Corps Brother Jonathan
exclaimed, il was nation tine, and in
few days nothing was heard in the pro-
vincial camp but the air Df 1ankse Doodle.
Little did the author or his coadjuiors
then suppose that an air made for the
purpose Of levity and ridiculc, should
ever be marked for such high des,inics;
in twenty years from thar TING our ma.
tional march inspired the hearts of the
heroes Of Bcpker-lIill, and in less than
thirty. Lurd Cotnwa!lis and his army
marched .irxo the lines to the tune Of
Yaakec Doodle. M.
We copy the following sensible and Eeclingre remarks
upon The practice of tong bells at Funerals.
t.om he boston Daily Advertiser.
2OLLJhG q or BELLS.
I called to see my patient at the usual
hour; the weather was oppressively
+ warm, the windows and doors were oprp.
--Sle WIS very interesting young wo-
man. Il had no hope Of ever seeing her
better; she had begun to realize that her
end was approaching. Her mother was
tanning her and attempting, by disguised
cheeriulncss, to conceal her own dreadful
apprchensions.
I observed in my patient aush, and
expression Of anxiety and distress, not
unlike what had sometimes before seen
IN her, but, not in SO strong cast. !
enquired into her feelings and sensations,
lesl should alarm her; she turned her
deep blue eyes upon me, and with more
energy than had remarked in he, for
son,e time" Doctor, /" said she, "if you
knew how that nATRyuL BELL strikes
OH my poor bewidrrvtl brain, you uindced
would pity mc.''-Seenang, theo, to try
20 suppress the tears that Neir coming
If" said she, " il had rot such excru-
ciaiing regularity of sound, ! could bear
ltbcusr lit strikes, and goes TO my very
heart; and recover from the misery II
inflicts, just in time to spend some dread
inl moments in expecting a repetition of
my misery from the next succeeding
blow. From me, all other sounds are
fearfully kept away; but oh! how cruelty
does this one break OH the silence that
reiy,ns around me-" replied, that i had
often seen in the course oi my practice,
like suffering from the same cause--<hat
the subject had been often mentioned to
those VINO had authority in su ch matters,
but still the custom continued.
"To whom," she answered, /" can
this cus,ombe usefuI2" Isitto mourn
ful friends, who sit in silence, ard appre.
hension, around the sick; TO those, who
have ceased to hear, forever, as mortals !;
to those. who follow them to the place OF
the dead; TO those who are compelled to
think ON the chances, and changes to
which human beings are subject and es-
pccially those Of quickened scnsibihty, in
whom susceptibility becomes at length,
A,scpMable from their disease. .
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