The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1823-12-04

One power, which to no cline confined,
sways either sex. and every mind,
Which cheers the monarch on has ,hrtnc,
Tbe sisse beheSlh the torrid zone
The soldier rough--the lei,ered sage,
And careless youth, and helpless age,'
And all that live, and breathe, and move
'ris the pure bliss oi infant love !-BLANcn.
Ch.fles Sedpwiok, at the age OF sixteen,
had Jeff America Tor the g,esi melr opol,s oi
the eastern void. He had ,psoi three years
in the fashionable ciscies oi Londcn, when his
occupation permitted him to resish his naive
la0d. For some time after he arrived on
board the ship tha, was to bear Aim from
scenes he so we'll remembered and SO much
loved, he forgot the pleasure OF revisiiiog the
new, IN the pain ot departing from he old
wofid. His thoughts and fec,ons ciune TO
the land he was leaving, and u seemed mo'e
dear to him because he might behold II no
more.
There were several other passengers NOV
ing along the deck, as tho noble vessel rode
proudly over the waves; the mssts cresked,
as they bent before the gale, sod there was oil
the bustle oil shou'ipg commands, and hastily
obeyipg them: but he needed the m not. lie
sood leaning oD the rail at the stern, to watch
tho land that was fast disappearing tom his
view (; and 90 the Welsh coast was more
family seen in tho distance, soon shining like
light cloud IN the horizon, and then iis last
blue Nstsge fading awbv--ihcrc came ths,
swelling in the thtos,-thst toll tenderness.
ot the heart, tha, makes us ready 10 weep OF
ally 'hing--,ha, duh, deep melancholy, that,
thooeh f'eung, will sometimes ds,krn the
young hopes Of youth into temporary despair.
The terrible, effects Of the sea soon com.
PEELED him 10 fling himselt into his birth, end
be ielt that he woud be glad to die. But
these were the suggestions Of Q dull spirit
aod when, after a lew days, his appetite re.
10, ne q, and nc came upon deck snd ssw the
vide .scesn ncAsin. sbd swslI'cg sfcuad. be
wondered how he could have bs, bored senli-
ments so unmsny. HE disposition was nat
ufaIly gay and when health recalled The color
to his cheek, and made his eye sparkle with
It's accustomed briliancy, his good nature DO.
gan to appear by his kind attentions to every
one ,ound.
lie had been familar with the highest com.
psny du,ine his srsy IN EogsLd; and bad
there sequired polish, o fascination oi mao.
ner, which, when joined to his native good.
ness Of heart, soon made him he tavotiie of
ns,vre. He delighted to call he attention Of
has companions to tho heecy clouds, that
stretched their white folds 10 90 many shapes
as they Aos,ed calmly end steadily On io tho
Sili sn--o, lay in rich heaps like huge banks
Of snow, or mountains OF gold, blight aud
bssu'iiui in tho rsys Of The summer suo.
Sometimes he rom. ked tho white sp'sy, that
roth and fosmed before the bow Of the ves.
sci, ss che bounded over the liquid waste that
separated hin from his naive iand--snd y.
gam h, eye would be fixed In medi, aiion on
The WIDE expsose tina, lay stretched around
him, end his fancy ranged far beneath, to the
vety bottom Of the gIea, ses--smidst huge
rocks, end migby caves, and beds OF coral,
and temnants OF w. ecks, and all the myslerics
OF ,bs, unsesrched solitude.
"Pe'hsps even now," though, he, I" somo
great soimal--some Tremendous snake, 10
dragging his popderous folds beneath my
feet; or some uisbsppeo monNer, whose
home is far from the light OF heaven and The
scenes Of this void, IS chewing tho wafer
midst wonders TOO gres' tor the fancy ol man.
He re me mberet, too, the tales ot the mer-
ns,d, that rides silently on the sudsce, or
floats fsr beneath, with her cold, strange, On.
meaning eyes gazing around.
When he spoke OF these things, end some.
times sitnos, vpeonsciously exps.isted on the
wonders of The deep, with the rich eloquence
Of his young en- hu,issm, more than one eye
was fixed IN admi alton on him aud sii cas-
csugh. his words with delight.
Among the passengers wste Ms. II. sod
her child Cs,hafine. These were hssteniog
TO visi. M. B who had been long In Amefies,
on impetious business. Csths'ine might
have been sbou, tn ee years oi age. IL Is al.
most useless 10 attempt description Of ne' !;
We nigh, indeed speak Of her rich golden
b,, pa,,ed m glossy fingles on her lair tore
| head, end falling 10 aiming luxu''snee about
| . neck a. pure ., the driI,ed soow--wo might
describe her eye, ." so ds'kiy deeply bsdu.'
| folly blue," sud sparkling with oil the 'pis"
gence oi you,h-snd her 'o'y lip, wearing
smile 10 "is.c,ns.e saee,," and opening by
TO .pesk the expressions Of her sr'Ies, sHse
uon,. We nigh, pein, the whole outline o
her angel fscs end form, bu, the reader eon''
no, be hold her IS che was. She seemed ere
s,ed periec, in body and soo'-koow,ns no
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