The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1823-09-30

i poor, therefore without the means of long in
y dulging his propensity volatile and unthinking
y therefore not likely to reform; and without
% those principles Of virtue, from which alone .
y reform could be expected he saw him fond, but
# he knew well that love in mind like his, kind
led and blazed, and expired, bright, perhaps
but at best transient flame. He refused tn
o lcountenance the suit, and the marriage took
IS place consequently without his knowledge.
o The parent dsowned his child-he did not
persecute, but he left her to the lot she had
/ yentuTOusly chosen. Aud without one Kind
g farewell, or one blessing from a relative Julia
:, sailed with her husband to New Orleans. Here
4 Mr. Marville, for that was the name Of the gem
tleman who was now her husband, engaged Id
business in a counting house in the heart OF the
city and the prospect of success was hattering,
> but the disasters anticipated by Mr. Sellers over
d took him in the end--he gambled and lost BIZ
S IAN he then took to drink, and abused the sf-
n tectionate girl he had made the partner of his
mistortunes. Times grew dreary, and be was
, obliged to decamp in haste. He set out accord
ingly on foot, for he had no other means Of trav-
cling, for an inland town one hundred miles
!. from New Orleans, his faithful consort with
three children accompanied him all the way
4 TO soOthe him in sorrow, to animate him in des-
E pondency, and to cheer him under bis fatigue ;
e but he failed in getting business there when he
arrived and at last the poor unfortunate family
>. retraced the weary way to New Orleans, in the
decline of Autumn, without shoes to their feet,
orclothes sufficient 10 shield them from the damp
} air OF the evenings.
After. suferings the most intense they arrived
at New Orleans but oh, how changed from
r what they We're three years before. Fallen
b from competency to absolute beggary they were
/, compelled to seek admission into the house of
. one who had been in better days their friend
! II was granted but there Is something in the
worlds most frequent charities which has mix
tUre of gall, and taste of bitterness. The unfor-
tunate woman saw and felt this. Her husband,
even now abandoned himself to the intOxicat-
ing bowl and every hope Of his doing any thing
to retrieve his situation gradually died away.
o In the sickness of her heart, it was natural
that most unfortunate of women should think of
e her far distant home, where plenty flowed,
= where a fathers smile illumined the board,
and mothers fondness soothed each little woe
4 Some clouds indeed had passed over that bright
heaven of her early peace, but what child would
not rather seek forgiveness from parent than
! charity from strangers.-She resolved to en-
bark for Philadelphia, and having laboured long
o and hard, and scraped together all she could
# save for six months with a small sum given her
in charity, she was enabled to take passage for
herself, her husband and family.
n Mr.. Sellers, in Philadelphia had received a
letter from his suffering daughter one morning,
IN which she spoke Of her expected embarkation
the next day, and which gave also a concise but
heart rending picture of her situation Moved
2 once more with affection, he walked down to
I enquire whether the vessel had come in. A
= schooner from New Orleans was sweeping up
} the river, and when she anchored Mr.. Sellers
r went on board-walked into a mean looking
cabin, and beheld his disobedient child, stretch
4 ed out and gasping with OVERLOOKING grief and
misery on the corpse OF her departed husband,
while her children cried around unheeded.
But let the scene close. Julia lived not many
years in this world of suffering, and doubtless
r she is happy now. 1 viii draw but one infer
ence from the thread Of this brief tale. 1t was
2 the character, not the poverty Of Marvile that
Julia's father objected tot was this that ac-
I complished his ruin. The intrinsic worth Of
men is fixed by their characters alone.
Il
FROM THE EDINBURG SCOTSMAN, JAN. 7, 1928.
Remarks upon the american publication, entitled
"a sketch Of Old England by a Neg England
Nan
Men are seldom losers in the end by fair con-
duct, or gamers by calumny and abuse. For
many years English travellers and English re-
viewers have found it either pleasant profta-
bic to let out their liberality and petulance upon
the people of the United States. Honest john
BULL received the illusions of these persons with
satisfaction, because they gratifed his self-love,
and furnished him with reasons for despising
4 those whom he was rather inclined to dread
But these repeated INJURIES and insults have rais-
ed a New ENGLAND MAN to look a little more
closely into Johns character and pretensions
and the result is the two volumes now before us,
on the character, manners, literature, and insti-
: tutions OF England written something in the
spirit of the lea tatiOnis We cannot say that he
returns measure for measure, for id vigour Of
Intellect and talent ag a writer he IL GIANT
mong the pigmies, who have teased and goaded
him by their impertinence into this act of retri-
butive Justice. He has shown, that however
low our vanity may rate the requirements Of the
! Americans, they have at least literature enough
TO Fepel insults. Her men of letters like her sea-
men, begin apparently to think that the time of
taking kicks j. past and that there might possibly
be some small chinks in her adversaIies mail
i through which home thrust could be made
: In truth, nobody has been much addicted to
mistake his own character and that of his neigh
bours-to cry himself up for qualities lie wanted
and to cry down Others for tailings with W hch
he was himself chargeable, as john BULL. Ger
j tainy il is not his interest to provoke a censori-
Gus spirit for he has his full share Of the vices
well as the virtues, the shame as we'll a. the glory
OF civilization aud what is wrong in his charac-
U ter it is not easy to cOnceal-TO say nothing OF
/ more serious charges, such as our bloody crimi-
COut, our SWdillS Vi anu COnNlCLSs
! our two million OF paupers-hOw much food for
ridicule would an American find, in the fopperies
i of our courts, founded on exploded manners
/ in the forms, powers and pretensions of our civ
, il and judicial functOnaries and our old corpo-
rationsin our close burghs, where the represent
alive elects his constituents-in our large sala,
ries for small duties, or no duties at all-in all
! these matters where we have thrown sense and
: reason behind u.s. Gin Difference to the wisdom OF
our ancestors :" The New England Man has not
a neglected his advantages. He has drawn a por-
trait of John Bull in which his false pretensions
: follies and absurdities are brought out with ev-
E cry advantage Of light and shade. We do not
IL mean however, that he visited England on pur-
/ pose to misrepresent the character Of the people
! but the falsehoods and calumnies SO zealousy
E lpropagated by English writers against America
. had evidently given him bad impression, botl
II of the people who found qualification in them