The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1823-03-11

cd. Mixing again, not many months si"cc, WIN
wOrL in which am stranger, and feel
shall remain So Just saw this celebrated woman
and heard, as it were, her last words, rs had
read her works before. uninhuenced BY any local
bias Perhaps the impressions of q man thus
dropped from another world into this one, may
be deemed something like those ofposterity.
Madame de Stae lived for conversation; she
was not happy out ola large circle, andaFTench
circle, where she could be heard in her Own lan-
guage to the best advantage. Her extrayagant
admiration of the Paris society was neither moro
nor less than genuine admiration OF herself IL
was the best mirror size could get and that vas
all. Ambitious Of all sorts Of notoricty, she
would have given the world to have been born
noble and beauty, Yet there was IN THIS eX-
cessive vanity SO much honesty and trankne0s,
It was 50 entirely void Of aecation and trick, she
made SO fair and so irresistible an appeal toyour
own sense OF her worth, that what wonld have
been Iaughable in any one else, was almost re-
spectacle in her. That ambition of eloqnencef
SO conspicuous in her writings, was much less
observable in her conversation there was more
GJGaGoR in what she said, than in what she
wrote while speaking, the spontaneous inspira-
ton was no labour, but all pleasure; conscious
of extraordinary powers, she gave herself up to
the present enjoyment Of the good things, and
the deep things, flowing III full stream from
her own well-stored mind and lHxurlant fancy.
The inspiration was pleasure-the pleasure was
inspiration and without precisely intending it,
she was, every evening of her life in a circle Of
company, the very Corme she had depicted.
Although in her attempts to personify that Cor
inne in her book, and make her speak III print,
she utterly failed tie labour Of the pen extin-
gushing the fancy
Letters from Havana to the 9Th Feb. say,
" 1t is dangerous for strangers to reside here
six or seven men have been murdered within
the list week some Of them in the most shock
ing manner, being seized, striped, and then laid
on a cot and completely hacked to pieces
The ST. Louis Republican, Of the 27th JAN
SAYS = the weather during this month, has been
Tor the most part warm, forming striking con-
tras to the severity Of the last. The ice has long
since disappeared from the Mississippi in this
neighbOrhood, and nothing is wanting but rise
ia tic water TO make the navigation as good as
ia May or June"
The schooner Weymouth, Capt. lie Fort ar
rived at Mobile on the first Of February, from
Havana, spoke, on the 221 of Janury, the Brit
u frigate Active, from Vera Cruz, who inform
cd that lturbide had been massacred, and that
Vera Cruz was besieged by military force
when the Active sailed.
A treaty Of alliance, offensive and defensive,
between Spain and Portugal was defnitively
adjusted on the 10TH Dec between the Spanish
minister plenipotentary at Madrid and was
shortly after to be admitted TO the CoFtes for
their sanction
Thursday the thigd day OF April, is appointed
by Governor Brooks, as day of Fasting and I
Prayer, throughout this Commonwealth.
Boston Paper.
The Richmond Inquirer says, g we understand !
tAat Mr. Hugh Nelson, accepts his appointment
as minister to Spain, and will probably sail about
the first Of April
"LiGn at WaatingtSn--We learn hy gen /
tIeman arrived this morning from Washington, |
that there was some sharp-shooting in the House !
Of Representatives, on Monday, which had well !
nigh produced some sharp-shooting out Of the |
house. In discussing the bill making an appro- !
priation Of fifty thousand dollars for extinguish
nent OF indian titles to certain reserved sec |
lions of lands in the state of Georgia. Mr. |
Tatnall, hasty and fiery member from Geor-
yil, supported the till, and FIR. Metcalf of
kentucky, opposed it. Mr.. TatnaIl spoke of Mr. !
NJ in terms which were considered rather in |
,ulting, Mr.. nj. replied in a cool and dignifed |
but with great severity, and Mr.. Z. |
IN consequence sent him challenge. The in |
reference Of friends, however, preyenteda waste
Of gunpowder, and perhaps the efusion Of blood. |