The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-06-04


extent Of their biblical knowledge. These
arrangements are extended over the whole
population; including Protestants, Catho
lies, and Jews. Where the latter are nu
merous enough, they have their own schools
otherwise they must send their children t.
the Christian schools. This plan of univer.
sal education, and the making of the peas
ants landholders, will endear the memory
OF the present king of Prussia, and mus
eventually place his kingdom far above
those members of the German empire who
are not wise enough to follow his example
1 AFFECTING INCIDENT. In the West Indies,
the children of slaves By Europeans, although
approaching near to the color of the fathers, are
still slaves, and so on for several generations
( Mark the consequence that sometimes result
from this law - AZ Ji.e noss of e-Als Marlsy
tered the vendue room, when his attention was
! Immediately directed towards three genteel
weli-dresseG, young females, exposed for sale in
one lot. They were sisters, of the caste denon-
mated Mustees, their mother having been a
! Quadroon, and their father white man. The
handsome forms, the apparently cultivated man
ners, the soft and pleasing faces wholly Euro
pean, even more fair than numbers of our coun-
I try women, and tlse neatness, nay elegance, of
their dress, aided by the faint verniliion tlnge,
which their unfortunate and public exposure to
all eyes forced into their countenances, caused
them to form very interesting group. There
were few people in the room who did not feel
pity for their lamentable fate; and it is proba-
bic the sensations Of these poor girls were such
as to battle description. Their father had been
a respectable gentleman, and they were his
! family by brown woman, who hac been slave
of his own He had brought them up in gen
D III al m
had been educated similarly 10 the free ladies IN
! the island, the father never having considered
them in the light Of slaves. They had been ac-
customed to receive the same treatment, IN
every respect, as the free children OF man IN
somewhat opulent circumstances, SO that moth
( inc could have been more distant from their
| thoughts than that ever this would be their
| sorrowtu situation--that they were one day to
/ be exposed in a public vendue room as slaves,
I and knocked down to the highest bidder. The
/ granting Of their freedom, unhappily, (for their
/ mother had died a slave) had been postponed
frofl time to time by their father, till death re-
moved him from this mortal stage, without the
deed of Inanuinission having been executed,
| His affairs were found i'll embarrassed state,
that his creditors attached his whole property,
and even his own children as part of his estate.
/ The consequence was, these girls were brought
to the hammer to pay their fathers debts, being
held TO be part of his movable property. No
oAerers appeared, however, and though they
were several different times advertised, and ex-
! posed to public auction, they would not sell,
Their genteel manners, liberal education, and
pleasing appearance would have entitled them
to comfortable marriages 10 Britain; and 1t was
/ the very same reasons that prevented any one
in Jamaica from making a purchase OF them
because the neighborhood would have cried
shame, had they been put to any laboTious or
even serVile employment, considering the very
special situation in which they had been brought
/ 10, contrasted with the unfortunate and unex-
pected one in which they now stood. And as
the lot could not be separated, and no prospect
of sale offered, they were allowed to roam at
large, in the same manner as II they mad been
free'-liariey; or, a Planters Life in Jansaica.
THE MIsERs PRAYER Among a variety Of
curious papers of John Ward Esq, of Hackney,
NJ P (who being convicted of forgery, was eX-
PEELED the house, and in the year 1927 stood III
the pillory) there was found, few days ago a
paper in his own handwriting, which, we think
may be very properly entitled the Miser Pray
err" Oh Lord, thou knowest that have nine
houses in the City of London, and likewise that
have lately purchased an estate of fee-simple
in the county of Essex; beseech thee TO pre-
serve the two counties of MiddIesex and Essex
L
mortgage in Hertlordshire, | beg of thee like
wise to have an eye of compassion on that
county, and for the rest of the counties thou
mayest deal with them as thou art pleased
, Oh Lord. enable the Bank to answer al theil
bills and make all my debtors good men, Give
: a prosperous voyage and return to the MermalC
sloop, because ! have ensured 1t and as thot
hast said that the days of the wicked are bu
short, trust in thee that thou wilt not forge
thy promise, as have purchased an estate IL
reversion, which viii be mine on the death o
of that most profigate young man, Sir j.
: L.. Keep my friends from sinking, aud pre-
serve me from thieves and house-breakers; ant
J, make all my servants so honest and faithful
: that they may attend to my interest and neve
: cheat me out of my property, night nor day.
9 Ward was suspected of joining in a conveyanc
> with Sir John Blunt, to secure 100000 Of tina
. directors estate, forfeited to the South SCI
Sv,rrsf-~., ~ Tao Company recovered sho ESQ,
> GOO against Ward, but he set up prior convey
e ances ON his estate to his brother and son, ant
concealed all bis personals, which were suppos
ed to be e1,620,000. These cOnveyances be
!, ing also set aside by bill in Chancery. War
!, was imprisoned for many years.
o London paper.
p .
!, The Masters aoYitten Instruction TO John
i fright, to spell sorite right.
hold a right to write to you, John Wright
+ that you do not write aorite right, when yo
write it aoright. You must not write apritt
wright, neither must you write it right--Do
: even should yeu write il rite. To write aoyit
right, you must write it aoyite. If you are
: good wright, you viii write a0rite aorite, whic
: will be right; 50, if you wish to write the wor
e rite right, you must neither write it wright
r write, nor right. The sense is known by spell
: ing right will give you an example, job
Wright: ,orite, you are right, he is a sorigk
we have a RIGHT, they have rite. have her
: spelt all right. Now, John Wright, write ri
! right.--NesoLarg Gazette.
HASeiNG. a Highlander was one day brougf