The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-01-07

buHSS SCCllICu " lOllOW MIN Wherever he
went. The Empress could not believe that
any man IN his senses was travelling through
the ice. and SHOWS of uncivlized Siberia,
merely for the sake of seeing the country,
the people, &c. She ina gined that he was
an English SPY, sent there merely for the
purpose Of prying into the state of her en-
pire and her government. She therefore
/ employed two Russian soldiers to seize him,
and convey him cut Of her dominions TAX
/ en-, he knew not why-obliged to 90 off
I without his clothes, his money, or his pa
pefs, he was seated in one of the strange
looking sledges used in those northern des-
erta, and carried through Tartary and
/ White Russia, to the frontiers of Poland.
/ Covered with dirty rags, worn out with
hardships, sick almost unto death, without
friends, and without money, he begged his
way to Coningsburg, in Prussia.
| In this hour of deep distress, he found a
/ person willing to take his draft for five
/ guineas on the Royal Society of England.
/ With this assistance, he arrived in the land
of our forefathers. He Immediately appli-
ed to his ever ready friend, Sir Joseph
Banks, for employment. Sir Joseph, know
I ing that nothing suited him better than per-
/ ilous adventures, told him that company
had just been formed for the purpose Of
I penetrating into the interior of Africa, and
/ discovering the source of the River Niger.
/ Burning sands, savage negroes, venomous
serpents, all the frightful animals of the
/ torrid zone, could not alarm the intrepid
! soul of Ledyard. He Immediately express
ed his desire to 60. When the map was
spread before him, and his dangerous jour
ney pointed out, he promptly exclaimed,
81 will 60 Tomorrow morning" The gen.
tleman smiled at his eagerness, and gladly
entrusted him with an expedition in which
suffering and peril were certain, and sue
cess extremely doubtful. He left London
on the Both of June, 1888, and arrived in
Grand Cairo on the 18th of August. There
he spent his time to great advantage, in
searching for, and decyphering the various
wonders of that ancient and once learned
land. His letters from Egypt were de-
| lightful. They showed much enthusiasm,
united with the most patient and laborious
exertion. The company formed great hopes
concerning his discoveries in Senaar, and
awaited letters from that country with
much anxiety. But alas! he never reach
ed there. He was seized with a violent
illness at Cairo, died, and was deccntly bu-
ried beside the English, who had ended
Sther days in that celebrated city.
w . never Tedu dCCOuHLS Vi SICdt
or good men, without learning some profit
able lesson. If we cannot, like Ledyard,
defend Gibraltar, sail round the world with
Capt. Cook project trading voyages to the
North West coast; study Egyptian Hyero-
glyphics, and traverse the dreary northern
zone, on foot; we can, at least, learn from
him the important lesson Of perseverance,.
The boy who peIseverngly pores over a
hard lesson, and who will not give up an
intricate problem, until he has studied it
out, forms a habit which, in after life, will
make him great man; and he who reso-
lutely struggles against his own Incidence,
violent temper, or any other bad propensity,
will most assuredly be a good one.
The BOTTLE CONJURER. The Duke of
Montague being in company with some
other noblemen, proposed "A wager, that, let
man advertise to do the most impossible
! thing in the world he would find fools
enough in London to fill a playhouse, who
4 would think him in earnest. Surely"
said the Earl of Chesterfield, "if man
should say, that he would Jump into a quart
hottie, nobody would believe that" The
Duke was staggered little: but, sor the
sake of the Jest, determined to try the eX-
pertinent; accordingly it was advertised
that, "the next day Jan. z, 1749) person
at the theatre in the Haymarket, would
play, on common walking cane, the music
OF every instrument now in use, to surpris-
ing perfection; that he would, on the stage,
get into quart bottle, without any equivo-
cation; and while there, sing several songs,
and suffer any spectator to handle the bot
tie; that, if any spectators should come
masked, he would, if requested, declare who
they were; that, in Il private room, he
would produce the representation of any
person dead, with whom the party request
ing it might converse some minutes, Us i!
alive"
In consequence of this advertisement, the
theatre was at an early hour crowded with
company, who waited till O'Clock; then
growing impatient and noisy, a person came
T before the curtain, and declared, that, il
the performer did not appear the money
should be returned; on which one in the
pit cried out, Z" For double prices the con-
jurer will go into pint bottle" A tumuli
now began, and person in one of the boxes
threw lighted candle on the stage; the
greatest part of the spectators hurried out
and, the mob breaking in, they tore down
the inside of the house, and burnt it in the
street. During the confusion, the money
which had been secured in box, accord
ing to "a contract with the proprietor of the
house, was carried off. Several persons Of
high rank being present, the pick-pockets
made good booty and among the rest
the Duke of Cumberland lost his sword, fol-
which n reward of thirty guineas was adver.
tiSod, to the no small diversion of those who
were in the secret.
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