Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1823-10-29

the court, and no opposing cTeuitoF APP
pearing, he was declared entitled to his
discharge. He returned from the Court
to Southampton street, merely to din
ner, as the officer who accompanied him
was under the necessity of taking him
back to prison, from whence he would
have been discharged on Wednesday
had he lived. Mrs. Perry had prepar-
ed some dinner, to which he sat down,
laughing, and making some humorous
observations but at the moment he
was conveying part of lamb chop to
his mouth on fork he fell back in his
chair exclaiming. "Lord have mercy
on us - and instantly expired. Sur
geons we're sent for but Of no avail
the vital spark had fed; and, on a sur
gical examination Of the body, it was
discovered that his death was caused by
the sudden rupture of the main artery
of the heart. He was seventy eight
years of age; and a gentleman stated toI
the Jury, that the deceased's life was
full of vicisstudes; he had been opulentl
al extremely poor, he had friends and
was suddenly bereft of them, and hadI
many narrow escapes with his life inI
situations of eminent peril, and times of
great danger, one of which the gentle
man related:-Mr Perry was during
the French revolution, no less than nine
times in French prisons, and was confin-
ed during the reign of Robespierre, With
Thomas Paine, and was condemned to
death by the ferocious assassin, without
the, then thought necessary, form of
trial. He escaped this dreadful doom
by the following most singular fortu-
nate circumstance. His prison door
was hung upon swivel, and could by
the least motion be turned round. The
custom was to mark with red chalk the
doors of the cells of those who were
condemned to die. This course was a.
dopted in his case {; but the jailer, when
leaving the cell on the morning appoint
ed for execution, accidentally let the
| door turn round he took no notice that
the ''mark of death'' was turned inside
instead of being out; and before he had
noticed the circumstance, the officers Of
execution arrived in the prison. and
took from every cell marked with red
chalk the victims of Revolutionary fury
and perceiving Mr.. Perry's cell not
marked, they passed it; and when the
Jailer again came round, he was thunder
struck, on examining the door, TO find
the mistake he had made; but before
he had time to apprise any body of the
circumstance, the Infatuated mob had
burst the prison doors in seach of Ro-
bespierre; not finding him there, they
shot the jaller, released the captives
who in short period, saw Robespierre
bleeding led to the block, and there,
with his life, in some measure offered
retribution for his crimes. The Jury
remarked on the singularity of this most
extraordinary escape, and lamented
that a gentleman like him should have
been reduced to such misfortune, and
subsequently be so awfully summoned
into eternity. They returned verdict,
of-Died by the uisitotion ofGod.
NEW METHOD OF TEACHING MUSIC.
A highlander, having a scholar to
teach, disdained to crack his brain with
the names ofsemibreve, minutes, crotch
cts and quayers.
Here, Donald, says he, take your
pipes, lad, and gil Us blast. SO! very
well blown indeed, but what is a sound,
Donald, without sense you may blow
forever without making tune of it, if |
don't tell you how the queer things on
the paper must help you. You see that
big fellow with round open face
(pointing to a semibreve between the
two lines of bar,) he moves slowly
from that line to this, while you beat
one with your foot, and gil long blast
if now you put leg to him, and he will
move twice as fast if you blacken his
face. he will run four times faster than
the fellow with the white face but if
after blackening his face you bend his
knee, or tie bis leg, he will hop eight
times, faster than the white faced fellow
| Showed you first.
Noao 7Ohene'er you blo1o your pipes Do
maid, remember this, the tighter there fell
toes legs are tied the faster they 7viH run,
and the quicker they are sure to dance.
ANCIENT DANDIEs.-A writer, about a
century ago, gives the following descrip-
tIon of dandy of that day. "When he
walks the street he is easily distinguished
by stiff silk gown, which rustles 10 the
wind as ne struts along; haxen tie
wig, broad buly-cock hat, or square
cap of above twice the usual size white
stockings, thin Spanish leather shoes /;