The Litchfield County post., 1827-06-28

when they were few and feeble, under Cali Eula, and Nero, and DOmitian And, even tt hereditary monarchy, and all the evils of title and hereditary and prOAigate nobility, be entailed upon them by the ages of dark ness and superstition which proceeded, have thay no right to reform these evils, and to yindicate their claims as rational beings, made in the image of their Creator? The gospel must be erased from the book of God, before We should believe this. We avOw our belief, with open face, and with unaltered and un- alterabIe conviction, that "where the spirit of the Lord is, there will be liberty"
 
 IHe Sermon concludes as foIlotcs :-
 "The members of the Legislature now be- fore me are convened on holy ground. Here is the sacred place, where liberty in its best form first struggled into being. This is the very spot, where pulsatiOns of the heart of true freedom began to beat. who was born and nurtured in another State, may venture to say this, without the appearance of self gratulation. The remembrance of early days rushes upon my mind, and rekindles the enthusiasm with which then read the story of your efforts and sufferings on this ground, in behalf of our cOuntry's freedom, while bedewed the pages with tears which recorded
 
 ed that feeling; and it has been already aug mented, by personal knowledge of this place and people. It is my most fervent sup plication to God, that here where freedom be- gan, her reigns may continue down to the end of time. Here may the flame of Chris tian liberty, which has been kindled, burn brighter and brighter, until states and em- pires shall be no more
 But if the inscrutable purpose of heaven, and in judgment to our race the cause of free dom must again sink if she is to he wound ed in every part, and the current of her blood to be drained from every vein and artery of the body; may the seat of life here still re- main in action! But if even the very heart, too, must be drained of its last drop, and life cease to beat then, let the funeral obsequies of human happincs be kept in solemn sadness; let the heavens be hung with black, and the earth cloathed with habiiments of mourning, in token of grief that the liberty of map is no more Amen.
 NORFOLK, JUNE 1S,-Below, bound here, brig Crawford, D obson, ofTroy, (Mass.) late Brightman, from Matanzas, (saied gath ult.) with sugar, coffee and molasses, origin ally destined for N. York, put in here in dis tress. The circumstances under which the Crawford has come in, are perhaps the most tragcal that have occurred within the rec collection fany of us. She sailed, as a. bove stated, coiIu'andod by Henry Bright man one of the owners. with Edmund Dob son, the mate, and four men before the mast named Oliver Potter. Asa Bicknel, Joseph Deliver and Nathan -, aud ti.o eAnk, There were also eight passengers, to wit, Norman Robinson, of Connnecticut, an l. rishman, and man belonging to Provi- dence, both of whom were carpenters a Frenchman named Alexander T'drdy, another Frenchman and three Spaniards. Consid- erable money was also brought on board, and the whole of the cargo was consigned to G. G. S; s. Rowland, of New-York, & Crawford Allen of Providence. Nothing particularly occurred until the morning of the Slst, when at the solicitation of Tardy, the only foreigner of the five last named who could speak English, one of the Span iards was called upon to assist in getting breakfast ; and after Capt. B.. the mate, end MT. Robinson had ate, they were all taken sick, and Capt. B. suspected that some design was practised upon his life. On the morning of the 1st of June. about 9 o'clock, the awful fracas commenced with the aforesaid Tardy, and the three Spaniards, on the captain and the crew, by stabbing and throwing them overheard. Dobson, Potter and the Cook, all having been stabbed as we'll as the others, got up to the vessels crosstrees, the Cook for ward, and bleeding, heard the groans of the wounded below, and heard them thrown overheard. MT. Robinson and Nathan jumped overheard, the former out of the cabin window and Potter being mortalIy wounded, fell from the masthead over board. On Tardy's learning that Mir. Dobson was aloft he prevailed upon him to come down upon deck and promised his life; MT. DobsOn at length came down and knowing that the others were not nav igators or sailors, felt himself in some re- spects, safe, from the circumstance in which he was placed as first officer. All the vessels papers, letters, books, were destroyed; colors thrown away, and name defaced from the stern, and new set of papers in Spanish, corresponding with the vessel, were produced, Spanish manifest made out in which the vessel has new name given her, to be commanded Sy the said Tardy; and after making a small Spanish ensign of some bunting which they had brought on board, ,Tardy then told Mir. Dob son that they must sail for Hamburg. Find ing, however, that they would require more provisions, they concluded to put into Saint Mary's in Georgia, Tardy saying he did not like to go to Savanna or Charleston, flor there he was known--Ehe was naturalized in Charleston, and Mr. D. saw his paper,1 but would proceed for the Chesapeake. The