Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-03-18

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The authenticity of many blessed bodies has been
called in question before now. How, in This case,
the identity of CHARLEs's remains was ascertained
doth not appear unless in the distant hint about the
arm which was enshrined apart. But among the
means Of verifying the Emperor, there is which,
we warrant, did not occur TO them, though obviously
the only sure one we mean that of comparing the
remains with the personal description left us by the
veracious Archbishop Turpin, in his Life Of Charles
the Great" II is as follows, except the bad Latin
Of the original
"The Emperor was Of a ruddy complexon with brown
hair Of well-made handsome form, but visage
His height about eight Of his feet, which very
long He of strong, robust make his legs and thighs
very stout and his snews firm His face thirteen inches
long his beard palm his half palm; his forehead
foot His onke eyes flashed fire like carbunces his
eyebrows half a palm When he was angry, it
terror to look upon him. He required eight spans for
his girde besides what hung loose. He ate spangy of
bread but whole quarter Of lamb FOWLS goose,
large portion Of pork, peacock crane whole hare.
He drank moderately Of wine and He strong
that he could single blow ceave asunder armed man
horseback, from head to the waist and the horse likewise
He easily vaued four horses harnessed together and
could raise armed from the ground his head upon
his hand, as be stood erect"
We find in a late London Morning Chronicle
the following good epistolary satire upon some Of
the British monuments to the national heroes, es-
pecially the late huge equestrian statue Of the Duke
of Wellington and the column to Lord Nelson:
Serious Dscouragenaent 10 Good Se~r'ce Jy Sea and
Land Penalty one for many victories The being ebbeed
cheuai opposite your Lar and Penate in Piccadly
that you 60 out any morning without seeing
cacaure Of yourself besides being the theme Pcs
pen and pencil during three months Achilles at your back
and Sir F. L. in 'front.' make many mans house unnhabi-
table.
Penalty two: Plloed in cooked hat and cable
pillar Charng surrounded by dumb walters and soda
water bottles backed too by the most pay of national build
ings on the finest site in Europe
Who will venture upon victory if this sort of fine hang
ing his aureled head Better to capulate with Bur
goyne and Cowas and Whteock than run the of such
columns, arches, and horses.
There is indeed exception in the Duke Of York. who
gained ayctory and did make convention wo but
his column is ugly that eye upon and he
Kings and botherand both these relations visit
ed in the way and neighbohood their pg-tas
and cued wigs Per contra, Charles l. and James IT.
both in stone but then they (raher against their willy had
rendered the most important services their country and
kind, and should have been spared With the exception Of
royal personages, against whom would lay down rule,
propose that in future subscribers scuptors shall be per-
mtted to insult great commander in this ungenerou way
but such be reserved entirely for those generals
who have away or laid their down.
think that such a regulation the breaking out of war;
which cannot unhappiy be very distant will victory
and remove the present serious obstacle to success.
Your obedient servant,
| Brookes's, Nopeniber l.. p.
p. s. H. however, be thought abrupt break through
this custom at once, likely throw Of and
out Of work. suggest that all these testimonials should
be placed hereafter in cahed where they win live in great
secusion and in which the spectator will have pay, very
properly handsome fine for his mpernent curiosity, espe-
cially at ST. Pauls
We in this country, have not been quite pouse Of dis
couraging hideous bronze. MONTGOMERY has
tomb WASHINGTON the Baltimore column and several sta
tues De KALB slight mausoleum but what marks the
graves of the other who saved in the Revolution
How sleeps the body of the Hero Of Guford and Eutaw
The bones Of the victor the Cowpen in an obscure
grave near his birthplace
Beneath rude and nameless stone he lies
and he who led Us, after many defeats the brilliant victory
of Kings Mountain reposes in private grave, Rocky
Mills, the kindred and awful but equally undn-
guished dust of the mighty Orator who first reused
the Stamp Act, and by that fact made the Revolution. His
only monument stands in two lines Of Byron
HESRr, the forest-born Demosthenes,
Whose thunder shook the Philip of the seas.
We not but that have before with the fol-
lowing but does much honor both the lord and the
rustic that must give it place
! THE EARL FAaMER.-A farmer called Earl
Fitzwiam and complained that in his hunting excursions
with bis hounds he had uodden down field of wheat
to do it damage. The earl told him that he would procure
estimate of the loss he would pay it, The informed
him that he had done already and believed the dam
age would ESQ The earl paid it. But, spring came
the wheat which had been roddcn down grew and
the best in the field The farmer honestly returned the
fifty pounds. "Ah, said the earl, this Is what like
this is ought to be between and man. After max
ing inquiries about his family the carl into another
room and returning gave the check for hundred
pounds saying, ake Of this and when your eldest
is Of age present il to him. and tell him the occasion that
produced t"-Lecester Mercury
1t is pleasant the nation whom Gibbon justly de-
scbed encampcd in Europe for the three hundred years
preceding giving such signs Of Progress the sub
joined progress in quite opposite to that
which those Turks Of the old "Swod and Koran" school,
our Conquest" and Manifest Destiny {" men would
have take Nor any thing better than the example of
the Musseman illustrate the truth Of hosc much people may
be in reality sggrandzed by the loss Of territories which had
the social skill to manage except by the sword Within
the last tweny years Turkey has lost all Egypt and the
part of Greece yet in proportion she shrnks she be-
better governed, until last by dnt Of having been
reduced something like right limits she absolutely promises
10 become civilized land
Amen BIOLOGICAL MusEum AT CoxsrASrISorLE.--The
latest Journal dc Consdntnopie which have received
speaks in most encouraging of the created by
order OF the Sultan, and the exerons Of Ahmet Feh Pdcha
part Of the imperial palnce Of Top Capo, at Db Hane
The commands to the governors Of provinces to send all
makable objects 10 Consannope have begun to bear their
fruits Zaf Moustapha Paha Governor Of jerusalem has
sent an admirably executed baseef found from Esca