The Wilmingtonian., 1823-12-11
NINA.


strike an everlasting root into the most unfavora
Bile soil" It is true that whatever freedom or pa
trotsm existed in Spain has been trampled in the
dust; but even patriotism may be necessary to|,
ensure the vigorous and triumphant growth OF VI
nation hereafter. Nina stands amidst these wrecks
and runs, not solitary, indeed, but grand and
magnificent. lie behods the fall Of his native
country, and laHents a destiny beyond his cour
age and physical energies to prevent. Content;
plate now Nina with his little band OF persecuted
patriots in the mountains of Calatonia, surrounded
by rocks and precipices, and Ferdinand enterng
Madrid in triumph, at the head Of foreign army
which spectacle is the most august sn'l mag
nihcent How does artificial majesty shrink from
such comparison. Stern in the contemplation
of duty, and holding no compromise with dshon-
or, Nina remains overrowered, but not conquer
ed At the head Of armies or loaded with letters
and chains, he still remains hero. On the scat.
fold, II he be doomed to such punishment, his
heart will remain mistaken. With a stern seren-
ity, he will view the apparatus of death, and his
free born spirit take its fight to the Skies amidst
the admiration of the surrounding spectators.
The country honored by being the place wherel
such a character first saw light, canno, long re-
main in servitude. But freedom, who now frownsI
upon SPAN, prepares TO unyell the whole gloriesl
lof her countenance to Greece That fairy landI
lendeared to every classic recolection--the landl
lof romance, of immortal song and Of heroic deed;
the seat of heroes, the repository OF genius, ap
lpears now to be blest with sons worthy OF sires,
lin history immortal What must be the reflection
Iof Nina, when he turns his eyes towards Greece,
Ito behold freedom lowering beneath the feet OF
oppression in his native land, and so triumphant
and victorious in the Morea. What must he think
when he contemplates Spain & Greece, contend
ling for freedom in the same century Will he
mot feel himself banished man in his native land
follow the fetreatng spirit of liberty to the
:. shores of the Archipelago, and exclaim-"Whe here
liberty dwells, there is my country"
d The HOLY ALLIANcE.-The ministers OF
the several members of the holy alliance
lin Switzerland, have required of the Swiss
governments that they expel all the politi-
: tcal refugees in their territory, and furnish
. them aoith passports only for the United
a States Of .America, by way of the Bremeu
or Hamburg. A list of two hundred was
furnished.
In noticing this article, Mr.. Niles, with
his usual pungency, remarks:
81 beLet them come. We have room
= enough and to spare. They will add tt
our wealth, strength. and population: and
4 must needs be Jealous defenders of the
:, principles of that government which onts
. can afford them safe and peaceful asy
um.-When the people Of Europe shal
get tired of their kiags, they may sent
them hither also; and, in the freedom .
: our institutions, they will soon see hov
much they have been deceived in the esti
nation Of their own greatness. But w
/, would rather receive supplies of farmers
and mechanics than of kings aud priests
!. though the political weight Of the latte
= = would be less than that of the former
]" Kings they would be regarded here
i with their stars, &c. like Indian chiefs
i |" with horse shoes in their noscs," by wa,
Of ornament.
:, TO tie .amer lean and the European
Public.
IN Having seen an extract from the Lon
~ -, don Courier of the l tn. September, rela
~ tive to the proceedings of the Insolven
:" Court of Dublin, in the case of the BA
RON Won HOFFMAN, | deem it
duty incumbent on me for the benefit {
50 the public generally, and to guard theu
he against the wiles of an imposter and swir
sh Idler, to make known the means by whic
i,e ne he has swindled ME out of my property I
hv bvI the amount of Twenty Thousand Dollar
an Having introduced himself to me as
'r- relation and Baptized Jew, he represen
t, to ed to me Joseph Van Nospawes, Esq. S,
,a; .nd cretary to the Emperor of Austria. as b
re- re. ing the Administrator of his estate in S
cut. rony-he also represented himself as a n
re- alton Of H. Blanebany & c." Bankers.
, tor or Prague lionel Van Lonelsfield, the B
by ron Van Pepper, and many others-he 8
mos so produced to me letters purporting to
dis. land apparently regularly post marke
ha, from the Kings of Russia, Prussia al
'g'n ! !, Denmark, and by those means induced /,
!; san to advance him money and notes to I
y Of above amount, for which hold his dr.,
bat at thirty days sight, on II. Balebany a
rs OF Co. Of Prague. which he represented
,Ius, ,Isy me as being regularly accepted by tn,
oun, for sixteen thousand eight hundred duca
Los which has proved to be forgery. Fl. Ba
4 re- bany & Co. having neither funds of his
.;n.s tne pay it nor any transactions Of any XII
: eng al' with him.
a. Of 1t is with no little surprise perceiv
10y the above extract, that he produced