The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1828-04-24
made cloan his hands be Goro he entered within


England have taken me from magnificent bap
tismal fonts; and, in the wild glens Of Scot
land, the prosecuted covenanter has sprinkled
me Oh many a guiltless head. have jumped
| from the banyan tree on the back ofa Hindoo
| god, and glittered on the marble checks Of do
| ties in Athens. Ihave trembled on the Turs 4
ish crescent; slept on the Russian cross; died
on the Chinese pagoda; and awakened be-
| tween the Persian and the sun he adores
Warm climates have ever been pny favorites;
| for there was often in heaven, in state OF
melting delicious languor; and my visltations
| to earth were ever among the beautiful and
brilliant For one hundred years was doom
cd to reluctant drudgery in the cold regions
of the north, during which my SOU was sent
| forth from the gipsy kettles, over tho Gey-
sers of Iceland, and embodied again TO freeze
| the head of the kamschadale TO his bear skin
pillow. | could tell wonders to captain Par
| ry, and absolutely craze Symmes with my dis
coveries. could, if chose, make known to
hardy adventurous, who have risked lie and
limb To ascertain il, whether or not wild geese
summer az tho pole; but the giant king OF tho
gaciers has forbidden me to reveal many
! things, which it is not exp0dient for the world
| tn know at present l dare not dlsobey him,
! for he once enchained mo in the dreary cham.
bers of an ice mountain, forty long years,and
had not the huge mass been seized with the
modern spirit of enterprise, and moved south.
ward, | might never have regained my liber.
| ty. The first use | made OF freedom was TO
rev sit those scenes had enjoyed so much
| when men wore comparatively strangers on
| earth. | sought repose, after my wearsomc
! journey, in the holy streams Of Jordan; but
scarcely had tho waves given me their wei
| come embrace ere the celebrated Chateau.
| BRAND conveyed mo from thence 10 France to
| perform my part in the august baptism OF the
infant king of Rome" For such an Office
was willing to leave my beloved Palestine, for
| seldom have rested on boy Of loftier pro.
mise, or more cherub lovoliness but LIKED
not the service in which the crazy politician
employed me, few years after 1t shames
mo to tell that the water sprnklcd on the son
Of Bonaparte, aided to prepare the vile pages
Of" Le 'Roi est mort -Vive 10 Roi !" with
which the capricious Frenchnen afterwards
welcomed tho tenth Charles Of Bourbon.
| Disguised with the servie race of courtiers,
| | hastened 10 England, in hopes offending an
aristocrscy too proud, in their long inherited
| greatness, To sue for favour of a never satls-
! fled multitude or to triumph over them with
! all tho vulgar superciousness of newly ac-
CURED power. Few, very few. such found;
| for true nobility of soul is rare but many
glorious exploit was achieved by me IN that
favoured land of intelligence and freedom.
in forming the rainbow which Campbell has
immortalizcd in such splendid verse and the
next day, Wordsworth apostrophized mo- as
lay quivering on the edge of his tavourite da l.
sy- moistened same of the pages of Scott,
be cfore they were wet with the worlds tears
and trckled from the point of Mrs Hemans
pen, when her eloquent spirit held communion
with Tasso. have eyaporatod on the burn
.ng page of Byron; and sparlIled on the span
gled lines of Moore.
1t would take too long time TO detail all
the services rendered the great, the gifted
and ths fair, during my residence in the " fast
| anchored isle" Suffice il to gay, with all its
advantages found much to dlspeaso mo, and
was anx ious to visit ntw rcpublick, which
had heard of" beyond the ocean, where laws
are just, and men are happy" This land, too,
has its evils; but love IL better than any spot
havo seen in ali my wIlderngs Niagara
has thrown me forth in spray; and, trozon on
its rugged Gifts, have seemed like giants
starting tear Ihavo streamod from the In
dian oar into tho mighty rivers OF the West.
and slumbcred in tho cold, blue depth of Can
adan lakes. | frolickod in the joyous little
stream which Aunt Deborah Denox praised so
seusibly, and formcd part ofthe Ryulet,
which brought back the happy drcam of child.
hood to the soul bryant; that soul on whose
wdvcless mirror, nature is ever reflected in
placid smile, ell radiant with poetry.
But in good truth. have had but little leis.
ure for recreatons like these; for ram drops,
as we'll as every thing else, are pressed into
full employment, in this hnd of business;
have laborcd hard in mills, manufactures, and
I dstlleries; and died Thousand deaths IN
pushisy forward the swift sailing boats on the
Hudson and Mississippi few months since
| Z = Al Il, ~ Iala I,h,
and soon lowered over the Boston Atheneum;
| | happened to alight on tho head Of a poet,
who was Just quitting the gallery, and was
scorched TO vapor in an instant descend.
ed lust in time for n Fronchinan to mix me
with the "eau de MEL" which he was pour
| ing into an elegant cut 9 ASS vial. A fash
| onable fop. who considered perfume "the SOW.
| sreicnest thing on Garth" presented me tn
celebrated bele I shall probably die on the
corner Of her embroidered handkerchief; but
tor me to die, is only to exist again - OF course
nv adventures will be as long as the world 5
history
| CONFESSIONS OF AN OLp MAIp-Lon-
don, 1923 Reprinted, " Y Confessions
Of an old Maid! confessions of on old fid
! llestick they are as much the one rs the
other. The book is real take int is q
thorough catch penny.-With such cap
Itvating title, ono that eXctes the hope that
Did maidenhood, like Frecmasonry, is a.
bout to be divcsted of its mysteries. the
book is an absolute bore-papcr, ink. ct
lpreterea nihil." We bear too profound a
respect for the fraternity the society.
of gentle spinstcrs, to suppose that one OF
their number is the authoress. The title
- IN ;n,noo;tion We are rcadv to make