Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1841-02-20

PHEasayArfos or Tas AMsHseAn Missfos
PaepEHrt IN THE BeM "a HIM esT On UErF0gT,~
We are pltassd u, ieArn sl,at The houses, seminary,
printing oitiss, &c, OF the Americas Mission sta-
heh 10 syria were not destroyed in the benbard~
tnei't OF Bsyront, although The house of The A ineri~
ss'' set'a,tl and every valuable BIS possessed WAS
wattphly destroyed. Three Ut Tho faissi6h faml.
lies Ned to Jerusalem Just before tho attack COM
f%,tebeetl aud the two others were taken on board
NE y y. sloop Of war Cyane, then In barber, after
ttts ehfuhonade commenced. After IL WAS OYER MIR
Weofeot went TO the city expecting to fad every
mthss destroyed. Tbs following Il his account, rs
published II tho " York Observer
a drew near the mission house ! was eh~
sot'fasad by seeing tho American flag, wlish ! bad
b listed, still foat,ng o or 1t, anil sDen net my
l@,ii'ssary, who informed me thaf he had remained
through We whole, placing as many thiekhssses Of
stphs wall rs he could tihd between himself aud
tho range OF ships wlci, they fred. He assured
tnss TO my Jits, eakable relief that although the
soldiers bal etieatbped In my garden and the paslia
ltad Withdrawn bis guards Immediately Upon our
leaving, i liad not been ~pilIaged. After showing
inc q pilssi cannon balls whiehhe had picked ntt
Oh the premises hs proceeded 10 point out the
avenues which some VI tlteta hnd opened through
The house. " one y sixty eight FOUNDER, had
entered the bed room. and after piercing the outer
wall of solid stone, ono had ieboahded from The
opposite wall into the apartment, md The etheg
had passed through into The court Of the house
A third had gone through tbe kitchen aud an adj
Joining store room Into the The garden, A fourth,
also Il sixfy eight peaHlef. had penetrated tho
basement. wliish ~ appropriated 10 The bays sen,-
inary, aud lodged In one Of HE rooms, after tore-
Ing 4 passage through four stoiis walls, each twelve
Inches ~ thickness. fwo or three ethsr balls had
gfRsed HE houses. and two bombs had burst In he
yard, carrying away the stone gate posts, and tie
trees aud fence around nh bore marks of The storm
The furniture IN tbs house WAS uuinjarefj not an
article belonging to the mission has sustained tbs
leHst harm.
We hid tfembIed for Ills library, on aeeoap. Of
The delicate aud costly apparatus of The seminary
wbie', u contained, aud on account Of It's valuable
manuscripts aud books, especially The writings Of
the Christian fathers, IN eighty folio volumes IRON
which Mr. hind drew such convincing arguments,
and The loss Of which TO the missiDn would
have been most lffspafabis. Dat when | entered
The room, II wore the same quit air ~ when | left
IT,
WIN & grateful hsArt ] now proceeded to Mr..
Tf,6mps6D's house. The wall in frost Of 1T had
been faised to double its height, aud used ~ a
breast work BY the soldiers, The consular Janis
sary had fleh, bit another natl W. guard whom Mr.,
Thompson placed ~ the b7ase had remajned.-
Though much exposed, il had wholly escaped, nor
bad tho ''s,nell OF fire t,assed OH 1t" LIS basement,
which has been converted into n native ellap8 was
FLIED with goods which the NATIVE had brought
u,itber for safety, aud tliess aud Nil which II bad
shattered had isih updi disturbed. THIS ~sitHatj6h Of
this 'tot's " Pei bAPs me HhsSt 0h ts eHps. Sua
The visw from its open court never seemed more
delightful.
My tour was not yet completed and ] according.
y hastened 10 Mr. Smiths bottse, recently oeeH-
pied by Mr l. Thompson aud Dir Van Uyek. The
field afoand II had been pioa4bed up by cannon
balls, but on entering the ibelesttfs, al The traces
Of war had vanished. Tie beautiful expresses were
still standing there ,sHd the ORA nss and lemon trees
were bending beneath their rich load. The ian.
issary had remained, and die hopse was ,tbfopehed.
The basement Of this js used for the printing es-
tablishmentt and press together With The types,
v hieh With 10 small resson, we hal ftared would
be transmitted mic bullets, we're uehat ned, and
all, above and below, had been free from ~iHolesta-
tibh.b