Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-08-02

Perhaps, Sir, you may be lieutenant?' High
er. if you please Captain Another step.
Majors' go on, go on Lieutenant-Coln
mel, presumed? You have hit it at last, thong
not without effort These words were pronoun
ced in tone Of arrogance; and the several an
swers in the preceding dialogue, were accompe
MED by cloud Of smoke puff+d full in the En-
peror's face. Now comes my turn, good MIR
Traveller said the officer:-, Pray what may
first glance, ! should say Captainl' High
err, if you please .Majori' Go on, if you
please Lieutenant Colonel?' Pray. 60 on
: CoIonel?' "a little higher, if you please
Crhe Officer upon this threw away the stump of
his cigar.) Major Generaf' Another step,
if you please The officer now stood inmOyea
BILE at attention.] 'Your Excellence is then
Lieutenant General You not quite up to
the mark In that case have the honor to adj
dress myself to his Serene Highness the Field
MARSHALL Do me the favor, Lieutenant Colo
mel, to make another effort 'Ah sireH cried the
officer with emotion, ''wil your Majesty deign
to pardon mel But could l imagine that the
Emperor-' Il am not offended; and, to
prove it, If you have a favor to ask, will grant
it with pleasure
Spanish Northumberland Tcyxeyro, an in
babitant OF Granada, who had performed the dam
gerous service of communicating intelligence to
the nearest Spanish General. was discovered,
aud might have saved his life if he had named
the persons through whom the communication
was carried on; but he was true to them as he had
been to his country, aud suffered death contend
eddy. The other instance was attended with
more tragic circumstances. Captain Vincente
Moreno, who was serving with the mountalneers
of Rnuds. was made prisoner, carried to Grana-
tla. and there had the alternative Of suffering by
the haD.man, or entering into the lntruder's SER
vice. His wife and four children were, by the
Generals orders. brought TO him when he was
upon the scafnid tn see it their entreaiies would
shake his resolution; but Moreno, with the c0u.
rage ct martyr. bade her Withdraw, and teach
her sons to remember the example which he was
about to give them. and to serve their country,
as he had done, honorabiy and dutifully to the
last. THIS murder provokeda public retaliation
which the Spaniards seldom exercised; but when
they did, upon tremendous scale.
Turkish Justice.-A young man desperately
in love with girl Of Stauchio, eagerly sought
to marry her. but his proposals were rejected. -
In consequence he destroyed himself by poison
The Turkish Police arrested the father of the
obdurate fair and tried him for culpabe homi-
eide! If the accused (arsued they with be.
coming gravity had not had daughter, the de-
ceased would not have fallen in love-conse-
quently he would not have died; but he the ac
cused) had daughter. and the deceased had fall
len in love, &c Upon all the counts he was cal
led up to pay the price of the young mans life
and this being fixed at the sum of 80 pastries,
was accordingly exacted.
DR.. Ciarke's Tavels.
Dr. Uofcot He was a man of great natural
humor, as his satires under tie signature OF
Peter Pindar fully demonstrate. Among 9th
err facetia, he frequently related that when a
young man, and engaged in his uncle's labora.
tory, his fancy imputed language to the NOR
tars at which it was his daily task to labor
whenever was using the large marble one.
thought it repeated the words linger-'em long,
linger-'em,long; but when the little brass one
was rung upon by the pes,le. he cried, kill-'em-
uuiek kilj.'em -ouick kill 'em quick