Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1826-10-21

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Iyeady biged, and at each successive SURGE gave
way to the unrelentins waves and as the pale ray,
fthe moon merged from the 4" old grey clouds and
dingy scud," the Bishop distinguished the wretched
objects who inhabited her, and who supplicated at
the Throne Of Grace, forgiveness ofther sins, ere
olackness, and despair that yawned for their ap-
proach. The shattered barque rolled on her bed
ofrocks, and each successive tbroe, told that the
hour was near at hand, when she must submit to
the stern DEGREES of the dashing pillows that sur
rounded her, and at each moment warred upon her
feeble frame.
! The Bishop gazed wistfully on the dreadful
scene, and whilst he would have turned from the
dismal picture, humanity told him not to depart till
he had rendered all the assistance he could MASTER
or had snatched the sufferers from impending ruin.
Ash he watched the stranded brigantine, and each
moment beheld her sinking beneath the fury Of the
waves, the morning broke upon the world, display
! ing all the horrors ofthe shipwrecked crew. On
the larboard quarter stood little group, who, by
heir manner, indicated the intensity Of their feel
ngs, as they offered up their prayers to the God
Of Mcrcics, whilst the prov, stood Arm and erect,
a female figure, whose lovely form was pelted by
the piless storm, and she gazed calmly on the
scene that surrounded her,
The ship was shuddering as she stood,
And viewed the black and raging food
"Forgive me-" shrieked the maid, and kneh
Trembling all over;---for she felt
As if her judgment hour near;
While crouching round, half dead with fear,
Her landmarks clung, nor breath'd nor str'd;
When hark! second crash-a third
And now, as If a bolt of thunder,
Had riven the laborng panks asunder,
The deck falls in-what horrors then!
Blood, waves, and tackle, shrouds, and men
Come mix'd together through the chasms
Some wreches in their dying spasms
Still fighting on; and some that call
For Coo and Mercy, as they fall"
AT length. the already wrecked brigantine gave
way, and in moment, those who were on board of
her. sunk beneath the darklins wave, and the wa
ters closing upon them, buried in the DEPTHS of an
angry food the hapless, helpless wanderers of the
ocean. Nothing was now heard but the wild
WINDS AMI the noise of the foamns billows as they
dashed upon the strand. The morning sun had !
now burst upon the world and left the Bishop to |
"oh 'ha' surrounded him. Faint and heart SICK he
wended his way home, and reaching the door, fell
exhausted upon the floor. Reviving from his
iethargy, he found himself surrounded by the
lew inhabitants who resided in the vicinity of his
dwelling, and who had visited his humble domcil.
to receive the aid Of his religious councils Anon.
'hose who composed the group, he recognized the
young man, whom he had seen at the abiding place
Oh the Mysterious Visitors, and he hastened to en-
orace MN but ere he could perform an Office so
'ra'ciui 10 his heart, the stranger escaped, and
was no more heard of; nor could the visitors give
my account Of him, or tell from whence he came or
whittier he wandered.
When the tempest had abated, the Bishop, &C.
'omPanied by his friends, visited the shore. hopny
nat something had foated from the shipwrecked
'rigantine, to tell the history of these who had.
win The wreck, found an unit mely and watery
rave NO traces, however, Of the vessel, were
eH' nor had any of the bodies of the drowned. |
Dated TO the shore; and who they were, or from
'hence they came forever remained unknown. S
Some day, elapsed, and the Bishop, as was his
ustom visited the sea-beat shore, to gaze upon the
iblime scenes it presented, and to mediate upon
'e wonders of the Almighty. As he strolled care.
ssly along the forest, that secluded the adjacent
eadlands from the sea- he reached the precipice of
1at dismal chasm, now known by the appellation :,
Pursatory, about which so many frightful tales Il
ave been told, to frghten the too credulous. and s.
interest the lovers of the wild and wonderful.-
he tide was then on its food, and as he looked "
18th amazement down the distant gulf, the BODY of e
female. floating on the .argii waters that dash T.
5alnst the fny sides, arrested his attention and p
his CONSERVATION, he recognized in the ghastly II
'rpse, the person of the once beautiful Mari. An. m
,lica. IL
we regret that anterior arrangements, made
r our columns, will not admit of our closing the
lie OF the Mysterious Visitors. 1t shall be done
our next.-CADErl l.
THE VILLAGE REJI.E N