Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1828-02-21

mas prOUdOly uOuc ds uiuCh CD Guy "
Their man. In his death, bis afflicted
widow and children have lost kind,
affeclionaie and tender husband and
father; his relatives and friends, an
ardent and sincere friend and obigiBg
neighoor; and society generally, most
valuable and exemplary member.
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Turkish Cannon. is singular
that in our conflicts with barbarians,
or with half disciplined troops, we
generally sustain heavier loss than in
our battles with veterans and we'll or
ganized armies. Whether this arises
from our contemp. of the enemy Undue.
ing us 10 attack them at greater odds,
Or at closer quarters, or that such foes
are stimulated by the fiercer passions OF
Intamed nature, we canhot determine
but the fact is well worthy o! consider.
alton. In our battles with the Ameri
cans last war, our loss was always
heavy in the extreme. Our attack on
Alglers was attended with a loss OF
life nearly equal to any thing we had
ever sustained on board of fleet; and,
il we include the numbers killed on
board the Russian ships at Navarino,
we shall fad the total number OF killed
and wounded to be nearly as great a.
in any OF our battles last war. With
respect to the Turks, this may arise
from the extremely heavy cannon
which they generally use. In our ships,
and, we believe, in our battery, W.
seldom use heavier gun than 80
FOUNDER. No man of war carries any
cannon of large callbre, but the Turk.
make use of even 500 Founders.
When Sir j Duckw orth passed
the Dardanelles to attack Constantine
pie, in 1907, his feet was dreadiulIy
shattered by those immense sho. The
RoyaJ George, was nearly sunk by
only one shot, which carried away her
cot water, another cut the main mast
of ihe Windsor Castle nearly in two,
sho, knocked two ports ofthe Ihnn
deyer into one; the Reptslse (74) had
her wheel shot away and % men xii
led and wounded, by single shot,
nor was the ship saved but by the most
wonderful eXertions. One of these
guns was cast in brass in the reign OF
Amurate: ii was composed oftwo parts
Joined by a screw at the chamber, its
breach resting against a nassy stone
work; the difficulty of charging it
would not allow lis being fired more
than once, but, as Pacha once said
that a single discharge would destroy
almost whole feet of an enemy
The Baron de 'rott, to the great terror
Of the Turks, resolved to fire this gun
The shot weighed l,lOOlb. and he
ioaded it with 33Olh. of pow der; he
says, II iell shock like an earth
quake. ut The distance of eight hundred
fathoms 1 saw the ball divide into
three pieces, and these fragments of
rock crossed the Strait, and rebouuded
on the mountains" The heaviest shot
which struck our ship was of granite,
and weighed 800lb, and was two feet
two inches in diameter. One OF these
huge shot, TO the establishment of our
tars, stoves in the whole larboard bow
Of the Actiue; and having thus crushed
this immense mass Of solid timber, the
shot rolled pondetously aft, and brought
up abreast the main hatchway, the
crew standing aghast at the singular
spectacle. A few years ago. party
Of English midshipmen crawled into
one of these guns on their hands and
knees, to the 70 small amusement OF
the Turks. - London Paper.
Bones o. the Mommoth-Ths fossil
remains of this colossal animal lately
discovered by our country men in the
Burman empire. imbedded with those
of the rhinoceros, Illuminating animals,
tortoises, and crocodilss, given rise 10
much curious speculation among the
biologists of France. II seems that up
to this moment the moths bones
had never been discovered in equatorial
regions. 1t was thought therefore to
have been designed by nature to inhabit
cold countries. like the fossil elephant,
which was discovered entire on banks
of the Lena, covered with a coat of
Al 4 y A l.