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physical Instructions to avail himsrlf of physical aids and advantages; to act on mat fer to overcome rivers, ramparts, mountains, and human muscles; and these are not the highest objects Ofmind, nor do they demand intelligence of the highest order; and accord ingIy nothing is more common than to find men, eminent in this department, who are al- most wholly wanting in the nobleSt energies of the sOnl-in imagination and in taste, tn the capacity Uf enjoying works of genius, in large views of human nature, in the moral sciences, in the application of analysis and generaliza- ton to the human mind and to society ,and in original conceptions on the great subjects which have absorbed the most glorious un- derstandings. The office of great General does not differ widely from that of great mechanician, whose business it is to frame new constructions of physical forces, to adapt them to new circumstances, and to remove new obstructions. Acc rdingly, great Gene rals, away from the camp, are commonly no greater men than the mechanician taken from his workshop. In conversation they are often dull. Works of profound thinking on gener- al and great topics, they cannot comprehend The conqueror of Napoleon. the hero of Waterloo, undoubtedly possesses great mili- tary talents; but we have never heard of his eloquence in the Senate, or of his sagacity in the cabinet; and we venture to say that he will leave the world without adding one new thought on the great themes on which the genius of philosophy and legislation has medi- tated for ages. We will not go down to such men as Nelson, man great on the deck, but debased by gross vices, and who never pre- tended to enlargement of intellect. To in- stitute comparison in point of talent and genius between such men and Milton, Bacon, and Shakespeare, IS almost an insult on these ilustrious names. Who can think of these truly great intelligencies; of the range of their minds through heaven and earth; of their deep intuition into the soul of their new and glowing combinations of thought; of the energy with which they grasped and sub jected to their main purpose the infinite ma terials of illustration which nature and life af- ford; who can think of the forms of trans cendant beauty and grandeur which they created, or which were rather emanations of their own minds; of the calm wisdom and impetuous imagination which they Onjoned: of the dominion which they have exerted over SO many generations, and which time only extends and makes sure ofthe voice of power, in which, though dead, they still speak to nations. and awaken intellect, sensibil!ty, and genius, in both hemispheres; who can think of such men, and not feel the im- mense inferiority of the most gifted war rior, whose clements of thought are physical forces and physlcal obstructiOns. and whose employment is the combination of the lowest class of objects on which powerful mind gan be employed"
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From the Journal ot Commercs. DUELLING.

MEssRs. EDITORS :-The most formid- able moral medium in this country is-pu6- Hc sentiment. As long as this medium is discolored or contaminated, the vision of the community cannot be clear or it's res- piration healthy. Truth alone can make it translucid to the eye and salubriouS to the lungs. Truth alone can correct public sentiment; publick sentiment alone can correct the evils of society enlightened publick sentiment alone, we suppose can exterminate the barbarous and nurderoms folly of duelving. What is it that makes some men superior and utterly impervious to the shafts of that raillery which men of honour and of ton are unable to withstand ? Are they not the brave ones, and the oth- CTS the pusillanimous What is it, to have one's principles nominGlly and none prac- tically? What to have one's principles, oue's peace, one's independence, in the keeping of every dandy, and every profli- gate, who can ape the air and arrogate the consequence, and unhappily the name of gentlemen-who can fire pistol and drink a quart in Broadway? What things of b. ped form, ourangoutangs included, can compare with such on the scores of degra- ded, empty, eontemptible !? Were it not for their souls, of the existence of which they seem wholly uniformed it would be a charity to community to gidbet them from society as fast asthey should identify them- selves by duelling, either as principal or proxy! But they arc not biped brutes but immortal and accountable creatures On that account we must bear with them, instruct them from their courses; and a. bove all, endeavor to prevent in many, what we can cure-I had almost said-in none!
 If mistake not there is discoverable, among some of the leaders of public senti- ment in the two countries, a morbid com passion to the mortal vices of the fashiona- b:e:-dueHing and suicide. AIf man {. plays the Roman fool'' and kills himself, especially if he were nominally conspicu- ous as a gentleman and officer of State. Oh good soul, he was undoubtedly in- sane. No man in his right senses could do such thing howwe feel for the widow and relations! how cruel to insinuate that he was not deprived of the use of his reason! we can now all reccollect certain instances of his eDerration! He was not himself. Cares and vexations overwhelmed him and what is e poor devtItO do? The cor Oner ought to be instructed; and he will inform ,he jury of inquest. So they did when my Lord CastiereGgk opened the carotid artery with his penknife, and expi- red in lunacy; the good jury saw through it, when the Coroner appealed to their hu- manity. The heat of their feeling became the light of their underssandings, and they
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returned verdict of UiOlcnt deGtk inflicted by kis LOrdsklp's OsCn kGRd iR q ft 0f ia- sanity. That was npercifH verdict, and must have been consoling to the friends of his Lordship !'-Yes! and very cRcOra- ging to the feats of occasional mental aber- ration in other noble Lords and especial ly ignObLe ones, whose vices and sins have raised a moral tempest in their bosom, which can be allayed, they think, only by arterial plebotomy, or the fash of a suicid- ical pistol. If there be any eternity, where nobility is no protection to crime, or license to have practised it,the remedy may prove worse than the disease!
 The same false leniency is often found to foster the spirit of duelling. Possibly the views of your correspondent BeccGriG, may have that tendency. Hesquotes a part of Graham'S letter as proof of his insanity. To me * contains proof enough of something ac0rse, but none at all of phys ical derangement. Let us admit distinc- tion here. Insanity is properly and im- properly oftwo kinds: physical and moral. The first alone diminisheS moral account ability the second is itself a sin, and the worse in desert the greater the degree of such insanity sin can never become its o'cn ercMse, either by the excess ofits pre- dominance, or any other criminal illusion connected with it. The more sin, the worse ;-the quantity can never become the excuse; or, the greatest guilt is the nearest innocence! What right has man to allow himself in lasting, calculating, punctilious mood, which he may call 'aot malice or what he chooses? His heart is " decetfnl above all things" as well as desperately wicked. In the judgment of God, and by the law of the land, he is a MURDERER, and miserable victim of false principles!
 The frenzy of the brain may be redrsssed
 By medicine we'll applied, but, without grace,
 The hearts insanity admits no cure! a
 Let no apologies be made for crime. The community is injured less by duel, than by the softness with which it is wont to be extenuated in the associations of the living. PRoDELus.
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a stone dOubIet On:" for these are plastered up, all but their heads, in a round stone tOnh. which are left out, not out of kindness, hut io the injury of the weather, and assaults of birds Ofprry, who wreak their rapine with as little remOrse as they did devOur their fellow sub jrcts." Mir. M'Donald, in his Geographical Memolr. says, "The body of the cuIprit is sometimes torn asunder by being bound to branches of trees, afterwards separated aud do remember having once seen four thieves built into waI all but their heads, and thus left to perish."s
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from his chest, and retiring 10 his birth. Rob
ertsOn soon after laid hold Of him, when he
was pushed back, and his life threatened in
case he did not desist. But Robertson con.
tinued to modest his antagonist, when the lat
ter suddenly sprung forth and stabbed him in
several places in the side. The ScOtchlnan
fell, never to rise again. 1t was afterwards
found that the knife of the man-slayer had
entered the heart of its victim. When the
perpetratOr found that he had killed the man.
or nearly SO, he manifested degree of sorrow
by weeping. After a Grand Jury examina-
ton, he was committed TO New-LOndOn Jail.
His age is but 10 years-that of Robertson
was &c.
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we also know that il is perfectly in unison
with the declared object Of his most Christian
Majesty's powerful army which he has order
ed into the Levant."
PROROGATIoN OF PARLIAMETT.-Parlia
ment was on Thursday prOrogued to the SOth
of October, when it is expected to be pro-
rOgued to some days between the 18th and
s6th of November, then to meet for the des-
patch of business" The faverish state of our
continental relations, says the London Sun,
and the no less critical situation of Ireland full
ly warrant the meeting of Parliament. +
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NATIONAL ELECTION.
MONDAY, NOV. s, 1928.
National RepubItran EtrkRt.
FOR PRESIDENT,
John Quincy Adams,
of Massachusetts,.

Whom Washington, in 1884, appointed Minister to the
Netherlands, and in 1895, Minister TO Portugal. and
considered the most valuable public character we
had abroad';
Whom Jefferson, in 1875, esteemed 80 highly that he
said to Mr. Gerry-''I congratulate our country on
their prospects in this young man,
Whom Madison, in 1909, commissioned Minister to
Russia, appointed first to negotiate Treaty for
Peace and subsequently Minister to England;
Whom Monroe, with the advice of Gen. Jackson,
placed first in his cabinet;
Whom The People, in 1924, e.evated to the highest
station in the world;
Whose Administration, though assailed from the be-
ginning by an Opposition unexampled Tor its tier
ness and profgacy, has been singuIary prosperous;
And who, in less than four years. besides def aging the
expenses of government, (great and extravagant AS
they are said to be by hisopponents, and besides APP
plying upwards of Twelve Millions to works of pub
lie Improvement and national defence. has pa d
Dmore than thrtyeight millions of the Public
Debt.
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Administration Electors.
HOMER BOARDMAN, Litch6eld Co
SYLVESTER NORTON, Hartford c.
RUFUS HITCHCOCK, N.Haven Co
MOSES WARREN, N. London Co.
CHARLES HAWLEY, Fairfield Co.
ROGER TAINTOR, Windham Gu.
GEORGE PRATT, Middleser Co.
WALTER R. KIBBE, Holland 70.
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FOR NONRESIDENT.
Richard Rush.

Of Pennsylvania,
Whom Madison, in 1914, appointed Attorney General
Of the United States;
Whom Monroe, in 1917, appointed Minister to Great
Britain;
Whom Adams, in 1895, appointed Secretary oft
Treasury;-and
Who has proved himseIfhe able and fearless advocate
of the Interests aud Honor of his Country
Literary cadet and Rhode-Island statesman. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1827-1829, 1828-11-01
NtJ- OHIO SAFE. On

The returns have been received from the different counties
In the Siats of Ohio which makes CERTAIN that Ohio Is
safe for the Administration Mr. Tumble Is elected by =
maturity Of from TO 10000 votes.
fErom the Ohio State Journal Of Oct. %
"THE ELEcIioN.--AhisMgh We have rs yet received
but partial Of the late general election In Tins State
yet enough have 10 hand TO make appear probable
las considerable change has been effected IN our Congress
sonai Delrgalion and that Messrs Irwin, Thompson,
Goodenow and Shields Jackson candidates. have
ceeded In the districts represented by Aesrs Beecer,
eltnne, Wright and Woods. This unavorable result,
which the operation of local causes, and the peculiar ori
ton Of some Of these districts had led us,n mease,
u anticipate i however, Than counter 'inred by
lse already ascerained facts, that hee Will be clear Ad-
insration majority in each House Of the General Assem-
hiy und that Gov. Trmbe against whom the Opposition
had directed their principal efforts, las BEEN Rec
LECTED BY A VERY HANDSOME VOTE.
The maorhy 6 Judge Crane, (Admnistraon) to succeed
Mr. MI can IN Congress- is about 1000 votes.
Tho majority Of Gen. Vance (Administration 1000
votes.
The majority II Mr. Whhtrsiey (Admnistraton) Is be-
tween and 5000 votes.
The majority Of Mr.. Creighton, (Admnis'raion) over
500 votes
The districts Of Mr. vnton and Mr. Barley, (both Ad-
mins,ion) have given large morities for them aud the
Administration.
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the deck--burst of the hachcs and siovo The com
panion way and binnacle. She righted, foil OF wa
ter, the sea making'a complete breach over her-the
crew lashed themselves to the windass bits and
night heads, except passenger, Mr. Scott, Of Ger.
many, and sick seaman, who were Iashod 10 the
tafrail In this situation they passed the first night,
in Imminent peril Of their lives. the spars sill, hang
ing by Tho rigging and washing frequently on board
with the sea. On the following moroIng all hands
succeeded in getting aft, which they found the most
secure, where they remained without food or water
for sumo time. On the 2Oth, Mr. Scott dicd-the
sick man on 2lst. When the weather became mode.
rate, they obtained some food and water from the ca
bin, which, however, was very bad but having final
ly procured cask Of wine from the hold, with the
aid of some fish which they cadght the remainder of
the crew were happily preserved until fallen IN With.
During the latter part ofthe tmc their greatest suf
fering from the heat. which was intense as to
raise bisters on their bodies.
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sloop NARROW, I'm Newport. CID brig Constitution

.lOOp NARROW, I'm Newport. CID brig Constitution.
Laguira. .t
Ar 18th, schr Ahra hence.
CD at Baltimore eth, ship Portland, Cunning.
ham, st Thomas. In the river, ship States, HIP
kins, Rotterdam.
Ar at Baltimore 2sth, brig Ann Wayne, Goldman
I'm ST Thomas. Left 7th, schr Baltic, from Bristol
discg.
Arr at Norfolk. 25lh, sloop Traveller, Gorton,
DIS hence.
Arr at Wilmington 18th, brig Susan Jane, FELTON,
I'm st Barts; 10Th, brig Beisey, Bishop, Havana;
2Oih, brigs Albert. beth. Trinity; Mary Andros.
hence; President Manning, Grafton, N York. CID
brig George, Merrill, Guadalupe.
No arrivals at Charleston 2Oth. Adv 2lst, brig
Laurel. Sheldon, for this port, to commence loading
same day.
Arr at Charleston 2ls,, soop Hope, Simmons FIN
this port. Cld brig Plato, Croft, Havana.
Arr at Savannah l9th. ship Envoy, Wheaton, 6 DIS
hence Passengers. Mr. Padeliord, lady and child,
Miss Padeliord, Mrs Sibey and 2 children, Miss
Sibley, Mrs Reed, Miss Dovil'e, Mr. Wood, lady
and children, Mr. Prouty, lady and 2 children, Mrs
Stone and 2sons, Mr. Blair, lady and child, Miss
Briggs, Miss Hill, Messrs Hill, Bowen, Whiting.
Siblcy, Wood, Lppiu Dorr and Cowng.
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CIEAHED.
Per Steam Boat.

Arr st New York on Wednesday, ship Virginia,
Collins, Bordcaus; brig Ann Maria, from New Or
leans for Boston, IN dis,ress iav schr Two Friends
I'm Cape Hsy,i. Cid ship Susan, Scott, City Point;
%srqwes Creciae Blanchard, Charleston; Concordia,
Baeij,n, Bremen; brigs New Hanover. Habler, VIII
nsington; Benz Rugges, Waite, do; Algsrins, Otis,
Tobasco; schr Magnet, Tooker, ST Barts.
f Arr on Thursday, schr Franklin, Baker r. Frede
sichshure Below ship 0ihsllo I'm Charleston. Cid
shps Cosin,hian, Loudon, France, Havre; brig La
Plaza, Leshora; schr Nestor, Havana.
Arr q Philsdclphia 2jib, brgs Panama, YsrnaIl.
psssspbsco, sepi 2s; Mary Ana, Rusan. Lagurs;
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ssqusnces. There are, doubtless, numerous
other distinguished English authors. desirous
Of having their productions circulated through
''out this country. by means Of so splendid a
vehicle as the Atlantic Souvenir, who may be
induced, now that the publishers have violated
its domestic character, in favour Of that ele-
CANT writer, siso TO offer their efiasions. which
they will feel both delicacy and difficulty in
rejecting. (Sekefed.1
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MARRIED, ,

In this town, 22d ult. by Rev. MIR Pickering Mr. Brown
Bowen, To MissSaly Brown, both Of Smithheld.
On the same day, by the same, Mr. Thomas Fisher, to
Mis- Judith Wilston, IN h OF Smthiield.
On Sunday evening last by the same, Mr. George Bowers,
to Miss Martha Read both Of Dighton
On "Wednesday last, by the san'e Mr. John Aen Of sci-
uate, TO Miss Sarah II CrOssnan, OF cumberland.
On Thursday asi, by the same, MIR James Simmons of
Troy, TO Miss Charoits VOsc, Of this town.
In smthleld, on Sunday evening last MIR George a.
Streeter, To Miss Ann frances Spragie
In Crnnsto, Thursday evening last by Rev. Mr. Picke
ring Mr. Sylvester Inles of North Kingsown, to Miss Ma
sy Ann Brownell, Of Wesipor.
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PORT OF PROEIDENCE.
ARRlV Ed,

~
ttH. WEDNESDAY, Oct %.
sloop Charles, Spolman from Albany, with grain
and lumber.
Sloop Mary, Wcstcott I'm Wickf,rd.
Steam ship Benjamin Franklin, Bunker from New
York.
THURSDAY, Oct 30.
Brig Plato. Bradford (of Bosion), i6 days from
Savannah, with cotton to Waterman & Arnold and
Hill. Left brigs Eagle, Mauran, and Margaret,
Patterson, for this port in or ds
.schr Henry, Emery fn Saco.
.Schr Spencer, Taylor fm Yarmouth.
:Schr Mary, Coggins fr Ellsworth.
u I. sloop Superior. Child, ~ hours from Now
: York, with merchandise. On Wednesday evening,
at dusk, 80 miles from New York, passed the steam
bost Washington, with only one wheel going
u l. sloop Mary, Heath, days from New York,
Sswith merchandise.
sloop Syren. Deming FIN Hartford.
leloop Reaper, Bcsse FIN Warebam.
4Sloop William, Chubbock fin Sandwich.
Sloop Leopard Blair I'm East Greenwich.
sSoop Narragansett, Williams I'm Taunton.
sSoop Becea and Betsey, Pearce I'm Bristol.
f3oop Rising Sun. Presbroy I'm Taunton.
Sleop Fame, Walden, Newport.
Steam boat Babcock, Babcock. Newport.
FRIDAY Oct 81.
Steam boat Fulton, Tomliison, New York.
CLEARED.
Brig Havre, Pearce, New Orleans-Iiumphry &
Everett
.Schr Eliza Ann, Sioman. Wilmington
Schr Crown, Baker, Boston
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RlItpWl,ECK.

Arr at New Havea 9Th. brig Gold Hunter, from
=, Barts 20. On the 9,h Oct. lat 20 %, lon 66 30,
fell IN with tho schooner Hope Success. Wioslow, Of
Harwich and took out tho captain and men, having
been wrecked in gallo the 10Th Sept aud brought
them into port She sailed from New York 23d
Aug. for 81 Thomas, and experienced varisbls and
battling winds, until the 18th Sept when salo came
on, IL the violence Of which tho vessel was thrown
on her beam snds--ths lanymds being cut, both
mss,s we're carried away, and every thing swept om
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MAELZEL's EXHIBITION

OP AUTOMiTA, AND TiiE CONfbAGRATiON OF
MOSCOW.
fgNIE Antomas; Speaking Figures; slack rope Dancers,
nc. Is oneB Evrny rvrSISG, (sHiuify- eveePeI) nj
the FRssxLis HALL, ~ this town.
Exhibition commences precisely at half past oecck.-
D or. open half an hour pfevtal-.
AdRht1nre 81 eenis-fhiid half nicn
TAs foo Jrom ts"eAss as eseipss'iy appropriated 70
ChUirsH. NH.
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VESSELS RPOK EN-.

20 ut Int ~, Ion 81 80, ship Merrmack, Smith, So DIS
Gn stockholm for salem.
18th uli. oir fiuda snip Addison, IA Dis fm Philadelphia
for l.avana
Sept 30 of Girlar ship Commerce, from Gibraltar for
Coria, who informed that the contagious fever still
raging the Pthte day previous 10 her sailing, there
10 and II deaths.
I'd ut lat IS ~, Ion 2S .G bp Fame, Thompson fOm 81
Ubes for Portland.
9TH uI lat 80 So lon 20 30, ship Sarah Rals'on f Lisbon
for Phlldelphla.
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SAMUEL ". WHEELER.
FAMILY BREAD.

VyNfIE sbscrer woul ifTm s friends and the pull's
n IN general that lIe h1s taken the Bake fldae formers
occupied by Mt. r. Gardner, be weeE No 1903 and iGs
North Main street, where he intends 10 carry o raxfrfJ
business, In all its various branches and where may be aH
nj any har Of u day the following kinds of kraa viz
Loaf Bread, Sugar aud Molasses tingesc,d, iasd AND s,t
Crackers sugar do, IA articlc) SewY@k DO. Ship
aud p'ot Bread Sugar a'd Moias'es Cokes; Bn"; Ten
Kusk, &C. sc.
Also, or sale above. at refaI Pr o the gst gWIay
Stores and taines, al any part VI the town, niay I've s
pile. from his cart, with any OF the above articles.
~ b. The subscriber would here state, for te graiaar
ton Of the curious. that al tie above n,med kinds f Bseai
which he has for sale, actually baked in this tewn.
rct4 f WILLIAM DXx.
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0o-Tbe steam boat Rush Light will leave
New York this day for Newport

Jaeksonism in Conneoticut.---At n Military Review in
Middlesex county, Connecicut last mouth, deler IN
Hot Oysers' aimed In the midst Of a
OF people, tnrm for jackson Hu,ra for Jackson II
there We any Jacksonans present let them maik up, and
will give ench of them n bowl Of Hot Oysters" No at
FIRST seemed Disposed to" walk up but a length an odd
eyed negro about three quarters staggered along up
to thu oyster dealer aud exclaimed, for Jackson
den gib me de OsseY''-.- Com.