The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1822-06-14

them with the utmost hospitality and
kindness. From Gen. Prietor, the patrio.
commandant, capt. B. states that he re-
,ceiyed every possible kindness and assis-
tance that his situation required; and al.
tributes 10 the humane exerlions of gen.
r. the preservation Of his life, and that oil
his fellow sufferer-they having been
three days without sustenance, their bo-
dies dreadfullY lacerated and reduced by
hunger and fatigue. They proceeded
with the ship to Valparaiso, where capt.
ID. wrote a letter to the supreme director,
informing him Of his mis!ortunes, and OF
the very great humanity he had expe-
rienced from gen. Prietor. There was
runor current at Valparaiso. previous
to capt. BIS. leaving there, that the mon-
ster Benebedas had been taken and bro't
to ST. Jago, where he was to be shot.
Capt. Bennett reports that during his
voyage he has cruised among the Mar
qucsas, Society and Friendly Islands, and
discovered some islands of considerable
extent, uninhabited and Astounding in
wood, water, cocoa>nuts, fish and green
Understandable places for the resort of
ships that visit those seas-both as Afford
ing supplies, and the means Of curing the
sick.
CONCORD, On. II. MAY 27.-Longevity..
Mr.. Samuel WEIGH, now living at
Bow, in this state, about s miles from
this place, has advanced more than eight
months in the one hundrefh and fzveifth
year Of his age. He was born in King
| CT Eost,
Ipswich, Ms.-was soldier at the siege
of Louisbourg, and died Immediately alter
his return to Kingston. His grandfather
emigrated with the earliest settlers of
Ipswich from England. Mr.. Welcn has
resided in Bow, nearly so years. His
life has been marked by no extraordinary
vlclsstude; he never was in battle, never
in the army-he never was endangered
by the Indians, who frequently visited
Kingston after his birth, and took cap,
tives; nor was he ever sick but once DUR
ing his long life, and then of a slight fe.
yer. He WAS ALWAYS TEMPERATE.
Through life he has been man of hard
labour; and appears ito have been of a
retIrlns disposition; preferring the mos,
| obscure retreats, to the noise and the
vexations and dangers of society.
We lately visited this old man, and
found him sitting in his chair-his pre-
sent wife, now "a years Of age, smoothing
his white locks with her comb, and ex-
hibiting the utmost interest in his welfare.
lie is now unable TO walk, except by
holding upon chairs or the arms o: his al
PENDANTS, though his health does not ap-
pear rapidly to decline. When at the
age OF one hundred and FIVE, he USED to
walk about his little farm, cut his fire.
wood, SIC. and until the last two years he
walked out of doors without assistance.
lie is in person rather above the middle
size, of GreciaD features, with dark pe
netrating eyes. His locks are of clay.
ey white, looking as if they had already
mouldered in the grave. His frame is
| now feeble-the least movement causes
his bones to CRATE at the joints and we
feel a momentary chill at the presence of
man whose appearance speaks such a
lesson of decay and gradual dissolution
His hands are witherec, dry and cold
the expanded veins standing out in rudy
tuIness. His counteDance is fair, though
wrlnkled with the cares of century and
an eighth. His mental faculties appear to
ne little impaired; his memory, however.
as his wife informed us, begins to fail,
and he cannot connect his ideas with
much precision. He is still aimable and
social, and were it not that his hearing is
'omewhat affected, he would be a most
interesting person in conversation. We
asked him many questions, 10 all which
he made very sensible replies. His life
he said, was but span, though he had
lived more than half the time since the
landing of our fathers at Plymouth rock.
II haG now become burthen to him, and
he vas willing 10 depart when it should
please the Almighty. With the present
generation OF men be seems to have lit.
tie acquaintance our fathers and our
grandfsthers were his cotemporaries.
In the annals of longevity in this state,
there are but three to be found who have
| reached the age Of Mr.. WEIGH. Those
three are MIR. LovewelI, OF Dunstable,
who lived to be 100; William Perkins.
OF New Market, ll6; and Robert Mack.
lin, OF Wakefield, lis. The two first
are supposed to have been born in Eng.
land; the last was 1alive oil Scotland
We cannot recall to recollection a single
instance of any one born in the state of ".
Hampshire who has arrived al the age of
Mr.. WEIGH.
The following is a comparative view Of
our Navy in 1901 and 1899 III will he.