The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1839-04-10

ing MS excrtions with the well earned gum
ea.-SeOtch paper,
From the Democratic Review.
AMERICA VEsPUCCI--A HEROINE,
| The circumstances which have led this
interesting young stranger to our shores
II is not a misnrplica,lon Of The ord TO dee
! ignste her Ms n stranger, though the soft
accents Of her native Tuscan are ms yet the
only Language familiar 10 her lps-nay he
thus briefly stated:
Ahsr spending, like most Of the young
Italian ladies Of rank, fourteen years Of her
youth in n convent for her education (lhe
convcn. of lie Signore della guiete. in the
environs Of Florencr) she was introduced
into the midst of the brilliant society of tbs
capital and court of the Grand Duke of
Tuscany, ut the age of seventeen. She
was placed by her parents in the service Of
the GRIND Duchess, as a "demoiseiis de
compdgnie," or maid of honor. There she
was of course surrounded will, nil the se-
duc,ive influences of European arisiocraiio
life, in The midst of the splrndors and lnxu-
res of tho Pitt Palace. Her mind had,
however, already, by ITS own sclf,derived
impulses, MS II would seem, for il was GER
tanly nt variance with nll the natural bias
of such an education and such,,a posiiion--
taken decided direction in the movement
Of liberal ideus which 10 the leading chnrac-
ierisiic Of the age, mud which in no country
has exercised n stronger influence upon tie
imagination of arden, youth than in Italy.
Possessed of rare natural talents, highly nc
complished by reading and cultivation, with
remarkable force of character, vivnciiy of
Imagination, and energy of will, il will not
be u subject of surprise, that, during the az.
itaiions that were fsrmening in the north Of
Italy immediately after the French Revolu-
tioD, she was one of the few females whose
social position and personal qualities gain
ed them admission to the secret societies
which were conspiring to rid Italy of tho
domination of a foreign despotism, and 10
unite the whole Of that beautiful and I'm.
happy land under . single sovereignty,
which might ngain restore il To = rank n
midst the family Of nations. But we nre
not awnre Of my Others whose nrdor carried
them beyond nic private machinntions of
conspiracy 10 the actual field of battle and
blood.
IN the attempted rising of August, 1882,
aud IN the engagement with the Austrians
on the banks Of the Rimini, in which !, will
be remembered by our renders TINT young
Louis Bonaparte took part, she conducted
herself with great gallsntry, and received a
severe sabre wound on the back Of her head,
from an Austrian dragoon, ito whom, how
ever, though namcless, the justice ought 10
lie done to state ii,a, he did not know her TO
he woman y and in her fall to the grouad.
her right arm wns broken by the weight If
her horse falling upon il. Though suspec-
ted, her disguised participation in this affair
could not be proved, and after her recovery
! from her wounds she spent two years IN her
q fathers house in Floreacr, though under q
vigilnnt surveillance. This resulted in tie
( intercepIion of letter TO her, as the secre-
tnry Of one Of The sections of the society of
La Jeune Haiie,' which made il apparent
that she could disclose its entire organiza-
ton in Tuscany. She was accordingly re-
quired either To betray her associates, ar to
qui, Florence rithn fpenty four hours Her
choice between these two alternatives does
not need 10 be stated. She found a present
asylum under the protection Of the Queen
Of the French; and il Is under The auspices
of the French Gag, aud the highest gusrsn-
/ tees of the genuincness Of her title To A.
, inerican sympathy and friendship, in all
points Of view. of character, conduct, fami-
Iy, mud position, that she 10 now here, IN tho
country - which she has always looked as
her natural home Of refuge and protec,ion.
Her letter to congress, already before the
public, presents her case to that body aud
to the country with an elegance and elo-
quence to which we can add nothing fur
tber, to support her simple and digni6ed
appeal to the generous magnanimity Of the
great nation 'christened, to use her own
Language, by the ancestor who has bequeath-
ed to her. ss to il, his imperishsble name.
wELLER,sMs.--"I' I'll be hanged if do"
ss the criminal said when the Sheriff told
him to step upon the gallows.
How irresisiibly KILLING you are" 40
the thief said to the hangmsu when he tied
the rope tn his neck. ~. =
You arc more familiar thso sGFossblev"
% the debtor said When lhe eoocIablo elspp-
% him % ,ts shssIier
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