The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1825-06-30
JUNE 80, 1925.


ed him mangled with wounds, and the small
est gust of wind seemed to threaten her with
an eternal separations Did ship enter in
to port, her eagre steps led her to the spot,
and many an inquiry was repaid with an IN
solent rebuff
After eight months spent in this anxious
manner, ship arrived, bringing her the mel
ancholy pleasure, "that some Hessian Off
GERS, who were wounded, were on their pas
sage" Her impatience increased daily. A
vessel at length arrived, reported to have
Hessain troops on board. She kept at some
distance, for fear of giving too great shock
to her husbands feeling, should he be among
them.-He was landed with others: she
tainted and he was conveyed, she knew rot
where. Having recovered and going to the
different inns, she found at last her husband.
The master of the inn info med her "he was
very bad" and she begged her being in
England might be gradually broken to him.
| When she entered the room he burst into
| flood of tears. A lady was supporting him
in her arms. What words or painter, could
represent the tragedy that followed He
had marri d in .dmerica, and this person
was also his wife. He entreated '.paidon"
but was past reproach, for a few minutes
| after he sunk into the arms Of death. The
lady, whose melancholy history we are re-
cording, rushed from the room, and leaving
her clothes and money at her lodging, she
wandered she knew nc. whittier, vowing
s.that she would never enter house, or trust to
man" She stopped at last near Bristol, and
begged the rcfreshment OF little milk.
1 There was something SO attractive in her
whole appearance, as soon produced her
whatever she requested. She was young,
and extremely beautiful; her manners grace
~ 11l1 ,,,1h ha,- Dtnn inf
esting to- the last degree: She was alone
stranger and in extreme distress; she ask
ed only for a little milk but uttered no
complaint and used no art to excite compass
sion Her dress and accent bore visible
: marks that she was a foreigner of superior
BIRTH Al the day she was seen wandering
in search of place to lay her wretched head
she scooped towards night lodging for
herself in an old hay-stack. Multitudes soon
flocked around her in this new habitation.
attracted by the novelty Of the circumstance
her singular beauty, but above all by the
suddcnness OF her arrival. French and ltal-
ian were spoken to her, but she appeared
not to understand these languages; howev-
E er. when she was accosted in German, she
evidently appeared contused the emotion
was too great to be suppressed, she uttered
some faint exclamation Ill our tongue, and
; then, as if hurried into an imprudence, she
attempted to be also without knowledge OF
this language.
!. Various conlectures were formed, but what
seemed strange, was her acceptance OF nc
food, but bread or milk, and that only from
! the hands of females! On the men she look
!, ed with anger and dsdain, but swcetlv smil-
i ed as she accepted any present from the
: other sex. The .neighboring ladies remon-
. strated with her on the danger of so ex-
:, h,,t in, t1,pJ
= prayers nor menances would induce her tc
: sleep in house. AS she discovered evident
/ marks of insanity she was at length confined
:, in madhouse, under the care of DR.. Ran
; andct, a physician at the Hot zveLis. Or
C the first opportunity she escaped and repair
;, cd to her beloved hay y-stack. Her rapture
Il was inexpressible OIL finding herself at lber-
;, tv, and once more safe beneath this miser.
p able refuge.
Y Beneath haystack, Louisa's dwelling rose.
h Here the fair maniac bore four winters SHOWS.
G Here long she shivcr'd stifenng in the blast.
If And lghtnncs round her head their horrors cast
II Dshevcll'd 10! here beauteous trcsscs fly,
l. And the wild glance now fills the staring eye;
y The balls fierce glarlng i'll their orbits move'
st Bright spheres where bcam'd the sparkling fire
T. Of love,
ot Ill starr'd Louisa!
- ~ It was near four years, that this forlorl
% creature devoted herself to. this desolat'
=, life, since she knew the comfort OF bed, O
, y the protection of roof.-Har lship, sicknes
: intense cold, and extreme misery, have grad
=, ually impaired her beauty, but she Is still
!. most interesting figure, and there remain
uncommon sweetness and deicacy in her al
, and manner, and her answers are AWAY
4 pertinent enough, except when she suspect
j.. the question is meant either to affront o
Z, ensnare her, when she seems sullen or an
=, CRY. Some Quaker ladies at this time i'll
~ terposed, and Louisa, as she was called, wa
20 conveyed to Guys Hospital, where she a
NJ presents and still maintains her int!ignatio
l., against the men.
!! The person with whom she lodged, upo
~ her death bed, divulged the secret Of tn
H. flight of this stranger from Portsmouth
;! which corresponds nearly with the time c
~ her arrival near Bristol, and subsequent in
=, quiries have discovered that she is ''the nal
i, in ural daughter Of Francis, Enheror cf Ge,
many"
From the New Monthly Magazine.
LLUSTRIOUS EXAMPLE OF GRATITUDE
IS A young man was passing with his reg
ment through Lyons, in ~, where he fe
c. sick, and was obliged to remain at an hotc
an He was very i'll supplied with money, an