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and ilu* inidd'c o! (and aRain srpaiM'rly to statid the •vintt r : itiul this second division piodiic- cvl sixty sfM-n ])I.uus ; llicy wtMx* taken I'n a!ui divided Ijittwccn tlic -mid dle cf Maicli iii'd the middif of A)iril, 2Jid pi ttiurcd li\c liundrcd j)l;ii;ts. '1 lio of ears thus ])rodnrod from one gr:uii of uheiit wus '21,109, v.liith iDeas- iiiod ihrer ]>ecks aiid tliiee (niartcrs ol’ V heat, weifj;hod foi ty s«'vrn pounds se ven ounces, and weit esiinivtled at 576,- 840 grains. From the fvtw-Vork Sitatcsnian. THE KATTI.E OF 15UXKKR HILL. CoLUMiiii boasts no castle, From vhicli lic>* dartn to throw. No moated pile of ponderous stOHC To frown upon the foe :— She has more sure dcfeiice, And bulwark stronjjer still,— Such hearts most hold, of young' and old, As fought on Bunker Hill. The morning beamed in splendor, Vhen came the Ilritish pride, >Vitii stem resolve this height to gaie, AVhatcver might bctitlc. They found a patriot hand Of purpose firmer stdl— A liviiitf rock, that stood the shock Of v.'ur on Bunker Hill. Full sonn the pride of F.ng-land >S a:i Icvi lied to the rtou'uI, And wave of war v\as driven hack, As seas from cliffs rebound •, Our fathers foujfht for home. And knew the art to kill, For cool the aim, and sure the game Of those on liunkcr Hill. And now the da} was darkened Hy smoke of burnint^ town, And dcsolntion st-dked abroad With demon step and frown, liut nought could shake the soul Of men of free born will; Mid smoke and fire, and cannon’s ire, They fought on Bunker Hill! Full mny a fearless warrior Then yielded up his hrtath. And many a keen and eagle cy« Was closed in gloom of death, But gnf and deepest wo Did every bosom fill, %Vln.n JVap-m fell, mid battle’s yell,— Hero of Bunker llill! 'Twas blood, th.at bought our Freedom, And made us rich indeed ! Then guard the purchase with your lives. And give it to your seed. While ail who forui hied. We hold in honour still, Wc’ll ne’er forget the brave Lafuytttc, True son of Hunker Hill! Blest be the arm Almighty, Which tiirnel the tide of war. Scatte red the foeman’s proud airay. And drove oppression fiir. Thiit strong right hand divine,— That arm stretch’d o’er us sti^',— The power of (!ol, most wise and good, WqU] praise on Bunker Hill. * ESTRELLA. From the Charleston Courier. MR. nilOUGHAM LV EDINBURGH. The Scotch are converllnj; all their thistles into laurels to frrace the brow of Mr. BiiouGHAM. He has been preferred to Sir Walter Scott as Rector of the University of G!as(^o\v, whatever oppo site result the inuses may have desired. He has been feasted in Edinburgh, by what he himself, in his specch, calls most astonishing assemhlngc of iidclH~ gent indivtdnah that he ercr wilncsieJi sons- iomxhinc^ indeed, that it fi'an pant words to CLj.>rrss” Thi.^;, it will he {^ranted, was an ex'ravaj«;unt acknowledgement, but not loo r;real froni otiC, who at this same dinner, liud i)cen proclaimed lawful heir to that imii’oi tal statesman, Ciiahlls .1. Tox, and his successor, the fjuicie anti guut dian of the liberal j)ai ty, and princi ples in CIrcat Bri'nin. i’iie natiiral ••.vannili and (■xcit''ir,frii tau, whi*.h Mr. Jjuolgham must htne f( It on retiunintjlu the j)Iace of his nativity, and ft'iling the strong-co)itrast between his early and his presetit situation, may \\cl! excuse some .-’ppearance oi rov^e in the cxj>ression oi his stratitude. 7'her(! are some parts of liis speech, at tlie diiit’.cr, V, him ure (juite in character. Or;e of tiie Sp(‘akt.‘rs, i»i ailiidini^^ to the in('ru(jra’,)ili J of his iif;\ jf \\ Inch inlinitely the n.(/st ( onspiciious. was the (^lieen’s di‘fft:re—‘jjokeof his e\ertions oti the ‘ triar of tlie (^'leet;. 'I'ik* misuse (f llif //•/("/, sui so u,i( jslly uj)f;n the Ora tor’s sionia' ii, ihat iijioti this hint, as O’li' lif) said, Ilf yV.v;/(jf the Qiii'( 11 ! I nfMer, in piih- lie (^1 I'l pi'i V a'e !iv. : d so ?;i c. i a profan.i- i.u;: ol' 1'.. TiiC judicial proceeding, whicli we are accu.$lomevl to call tridl, I «in pr(fcsbicna!!y and habitually tuufvht to levere. The thing is gone by, but with all the respect due to the adminis tration of justice, to which I owe rever ence, the statement made from Chair obliges me to ex|)ose, before I ])roceed further, the farce which he calls trial.— Trial, it i> none, where the accuser, who is interested, sits on the bench of justice^ and pretends to admiiiisn r it (hear, hear, hear!) None, where the defenceless vic tim is lamed out, (xposed to every shaft which the malic«‘ of her enemies can in ventor point, and when wisdom and ]>ow- er imite with the power of darkness— trial it was none, wheVe all the forms of justic** weie viidatwl by those who had broken throtiph them ere thev could pro duce themselves in court. 'I'alk to me or the pachas, the deys and the beys of Africa, and call them, as they i-cfc 1 themselvesv judges ! Talk to me of them with their ministers of vengeance, crouching tinder their frowns, and pre pared obsequiously to do their master’s I)ehests, against tlieir own feelings, in violation of their o\\ n oaths and pritici- p!es—and all because their master coni- maiids them I—If you hold t!»at \x trinl, then come and say that the Queen was tried. Six days have I stood in that place which they sacrilegiously called a court of justice. I dared to tell tlicm m\ mind, and 1 did it day by dav. , 1 daie not now tell them my mind, becausc 1 wotild have occasioti to r>ee tl»em once more ; l)ut were they to call me before them for telling you what I have though' of thent to-(iay, they would style that too a judicial proceeding: they would style it a trial !—Were I to com jiare the place to any thing, I would say that den, where I stood anrl saw their victim cast down, and trodden upon by one of her jud ges—one especially who was hound by erery honorable tie to j)rotect her, but whom I will not name, for then they would fall upon me for thus speaking to yoti, and you for hearing me; and there fore I do not say a word upon that sub ject.” From the above extract, It will be seen, that Mr. Brougham has the fearless hon esty to persevere in speaking unpleasant truths, though they provoke the resent ment of the living; and the friend ship which dictated them, cannot pierce the “dull cold ear of death.” In another part of Mr. Brouguam’s speech, alluding to the beneficial changes which have taken place in the adminis- ration of the Bntish Government, an-d nore particularly to the severance of British from Continental politics, he ^peaks in the following animated strain. I'he anointed Monarchs of the Holy Al- iance never sat for their pictures to an .I’tist who devoured their countenances with stich a\ idity. “For how many long years has it been gainful, and e\en degrading, to feel that vme was an Knglishnian ? I mean during that dark night, in which, in league w ith the tyraiits'of the Continent, England was foremost to succor tyrants in every at tempt against the liberties of niankind, and a CoiH-.scllor was always to be found in her at the ell)ow of every one who wished to sacrifice and tramj)lc on the rights of nations, and not a despot could turn his eye to this country but met the glistening eye of f*-llow feeling—and the iron hand of the oppressor reeking with the blood of the slain, was greeted in her friendly grasp. AVhen Euroj)e beheld the degrading spectacle of the union of Liberty with Tyranny—a set of despots leagued together against the liberties of the human race—and when the most de testable of the basest superstition ne\er turned in vain for assistance to the go vernment of the freest country on the earth ! That black disgraceful night has now gone dowii the sky—;the v(jice of E')p,rtslim*-n has been heard at last-.— Wiiatmaii is there *io\v, in half-rej)resent- ed Kjiglaiul, or in non-representoil Scot land, or evin in tortured, misgovertied, atid persecutcfl Island—what man, 1 ask, dare now stand fortii and say, “1 IjetVietid the Holy Alliance Not only is theic no sui'h man, I wil! not say s; wicked, Init so foolisli, who is nut bent on his own destriicliuii, or struck with judicial blin(’ness—tliere is no man out of tin* precincts ( f Bedlam, w ho w ill now dare lo say, ‘•'1 am a fi iend to the Holy Alii- aiice.” ]f there be any dupes of that ac- con)i)li'»hecl pink of jierhdy, the Spatush Monaich—if tlu're be any sjjeCimen of iiiihe'-ilhy waiitiug—ofa Monarch Ijasid} I'oiiejting iiis pledges and Ins dignity to puicliase his restoration to a throne : it tliere be any ma'! w ho approves of the condiict of ihdt ‘.cou.'ge of tine Italv, of tlie on[)'’t'.‘-',oi' Ilf tiie Austrian States oi fond of tnenanie uf the most cruel and *’iils(-t t\ran that evtr sal (Jti a throne— of ihat bullied iesj)ot ()f Soulh-Aiiu i ica still domiiuering o\er Old .Spain—»*' an_\ nun ha\e so uni,atm al, tio inuate a pi '.. pensit\ to royal admiration, at least they lia\e iu)W the grai e to coniine tiiemsclv( s to Uie rei^-'ioti tiial best l;efus them, of men locked up in so7ne of the ;fiices of ''tale, or to ((Hic.eal thei” m.'gr.uioi.s a- tix r'.g ii)c f,in;'liars of CoUr;, or to linge; ''ehiiui the anas of friendshijj w'ith tiie eiinin—ll>e ii.aural irihal)itan'.s M‘tli'' plaCw—or iy the scciei) of Ai- er.ander, Frederick, anvl Francis—of liz ards, vipers, and loads : and, v. orse than all, of those w ho eat tlie toads. I never can get thorn to confront me in Parlia ment; I seek them ihcre with longing eye. All attempts to call theunloriii are in vain.’*- In connexion with this cotnplinientary entertainment of Mr. Brocciiam, we ob serve, that Mr. Jeffries being called upon for a toast, complimented the L ni- tod States for their gratitude to the “ Na tion’s Guest,” and gave the following, which was received with great applause : “ The Marquis Lafatetti: and the friends of Liberty in Krance. From the American Athenjcum. W'e are gratilied, though not surpris ed, at the rajjid increase of literature on this side of the Atlantic. America be gins to feel her own power, and no longer plays the baby in depending on others for support. ‘^I’herealready a|)pears avast chan;.:^e both in the exeriioiis ol authors and the liberality of patrons. The title page of a native production is no longer suflficient to make it despised, and we no more hear the silly question, “Who reads an American book?” Critics, both abroad and at home, when they ))lace their spectacles across their nose to peruse an American volume, are w ill ing to suppose that they may be pnter- taitied ; and w e have at last, afier years of arduotis struggles, obtained the (ious privilege of ha\ing our works lead before they are condemned. WMieii F.ng- land is weisjhed with us in the scale of literary excellence, of course we snfl'er by the comparison : she can boast her Shak- speare, her Pope, her Sterne, her (iold- smith, and her Fielding, while we pos sess but a few who compose treatises for amusement while they calculate accounts for bread, and white poetiy with one hand while they make breeches wi:h the olther. Engand can toll how she was insulted by one and adored bv another ; how she wa?. flattered i)y Shakspeare and scourged by Junins. If we poor devils venture lo draw a Bryant from his seclusion, or a Percival or Ilallock from the bustle of their daily buisness, we are totally con founded by a cataract of great characters, each of whom has written ten or twelve volumes with the honest determination to astonish the critics by the binding, if not the matter, and take praise for the nuriber of their ])ages rather than the beauty of their ideas. They say- of us (God forgive them) thato\ir atmosphere is prejudicial lo the growth of mind— that our breezes bear no inspiration on their perfumed wings, and the same frost that kills our flowers^ nips onr fancy in the bud. Our skies slu'd no poetry from their expanse of azure light, and that our sun melts the energy of our mailer, and disarranges the shape of our type.— 'i'he stupidity or malice with whicli cer tain foreign writers enlarge upon our country, are but sorry sj)eciiTnns of the {[ualities of their heads or hearts: fi-om. whatever cause the evil springs, the re sult is the same, and we arc reduced to the alternative of either rl'garding the ludicrous blunders with unrestrained laughter, or listening to their leel/le ca lumnies with perfect contempt. From their horrid descriptions of this nation, what ,would an uninfoimed reader ex pect ? whv, that we are either a mob of marl democrats, or cheated .slaves; that civilization had not shed on us one lurk- in" ornament of life ; that natui'e had not bestowed one blessing of existence; that we should be classed aniong tlie Goths and V’andals, without an ornament to dignity or a virtue to redeem us; our world would be made of barren moun tains, and st(“i ile meadows ; we would al ways be burned with summer heat, or chilled w'ith winter’s cold. They would strip from us every common qnali- ty of nature, and describe the paradise of tlie West as a gloomy desert, which Pro vidence had neglected when lu* beauliiied the rest of the woi ld, and be.stowcd not one soothing sniih' iijjon its rn!nderous. i)arbarous, truel, nnci vii, terrific, luKiibIc, eternally witlchet!, and treinendouslv di^^gusiing, |)ig;Stealing in habitants, “as the Quarlt'flu A POLYGLOr scholar. Mr. Diippa gives the follov.ir.g account of an extiaordinary linguist w'aom h saw in his Ktle travels in Italy—1). (,'ni- seppe MezzoJ'inU, ihe pnnci|)ul lii^rai ian, atid professor of the oriental languai;-es at Bologna. “He is,” says Mr. D. “a jjlain, nn.Tf- fected, modest man, with such an exten sive knowledge of vari;us laiigua!';es, as It is not easy to credit on any ordirjary testimony. Having heard and read of his K'val fame, I intiodnced myself to him in the [jublic libiary ; after talking to him some* time in ]‘,ii^;lish, he said, that he fi^und all the i'!iiroju‘at\ languages very eas)'. Of tne oiien'j.!, tin- Arabic was ihe r.vosl diniciil', ti-oii; iis rie'ini'ss in terms, 'i'o acquire tlie I'.nglish l.iii- g-iage gave him very liiilc lroii’l)!e: tliis ophiion surpriM'd me, and 1 entered into a discussion wj^th hiui on some gran.rnat- icilt pecuii.intif#’; 1 also lonai k( d (m the t ul irreguiai iiy uf our pronm.eia'.ion, v.iuili he moie j t i iVcdy un'.lers((.',d (;n principle, uii> I cv*.:- with o-n that svJiject: he w£is a1»o w obli ging as to read a page of an English i)oo1:, which I took from a shelf in the lil)rary; and, in reading and speaking, he never made a single mistake. The only sip'n of peculiarity was, that in speaking,^ he’emploved a word occasionally, not ol colloquial use, but which, nevertheless, was perfectly correct as to the sense. “So far as I can speak from my own knowledge, and a Polish countess, whom I knew perfectly well, and who speaks German, Rusw, and French, as native lan guages, in common with her o\yji, told me, ihat she conversed with him in all of them, and, to the best of her judgment, he understood and spoke them as well as she did. “A German ofRcer, with whom Mi\ Rose dined at Bologna, said, that he Should not have known him bv his lan guage from being a native of (iermany: and Mr. Rose’s servant, who was a native of Sntyrna, said that he miglu pass for a Greek or a Turk, as far as he was able to judge. In the course of a conversation, I asked him how many languages he knew ; he said about forty, and that he could speak about thirty, but that he had so little practice in speaking the oriental languages, that he spoke them with less fluency than the European. To add to thew’ondcrof these attaii'ments, he has never been out of Italy, anil I believe Flo rence is the greatest distance he has ever been from Bologna.” From the Portsmouth (X. H.) Journal, May 21. THE THELLUSSON ESTATE. In the late intelligence frotn England, it is stated that an argument was recently commenced in the House of Lords in a case involving the validity of the will of the late Peter 'Fiiellusson, Esq. As ibis will is one of the most extraordinary tes taments ever made, a chort account of it may not be uninteresting to our readers. Petei’ Thullosson, a merchant in Lon don, died (m the 21st of July, 1797, leav ing ahont £700,000 of productive personal property, real estate in England worth £140,000, and two plantations in the West Indies. His wife, three sons, three daughters, and ten grand children, were living at the time of his death. By his last will he gave to his wife his coutilry hotise at I*Iaistow, his furniture. Sec. and an atinuiiy of £2140 so lOng as she I cmained a widow ; but in case she married again, the house and furniture were to be sold, and her annuity reduced to 575/. To each of his sons,, he gave 7,600.— making, with the money alreadv advan ced to them, 23,000/. each. “This pro vision,” he says, “and great success they have met w ith in business will be suffi cient to procure them comfort; and it is mv earnest wish and desire, that they will avoid ostetitalion, vanity, and ])om])- ous show.” And in another part of his w'ill he says, in relation lo his sons, “I tnost earnestly hoj)e and pray to God that they will never quit business.” To each of his unmarried daughters, he gave 12,000/., to be forfeited, if either of them married at all during his life lime ; or married after his death, without the cons(>nt of his wife and executors: and to his married daughter lie gave an annuity of KiO/. and some small legacies; to his brother, his executors and several friends, he gave all the residue of his es tate (consisting of about 600,000/. in per sonal property, and of land yielding an atinual incomc of 4,500/.) to certain friends in ti-usty to receive the rents, inter ests and profjls, and to invest tlie same in ilic purchase of lands as fast as receiv- j*d, so that thewh(dc might accumulate during the lives of his three sors, and the lives of their sons which mjghtbe living at the'time of his death, and the lives of any sons of Isis granilsons which might he born during his own life, ani as long as iht last survivor of any of these should live. He then directed, that at the death of such last survivor, tlic accumulated i'und sliould be divided inio three parts, and that one part should be conveved to the eldest male lineal descendant (jf each of his three sons; and upon faihire of suc.h descendant of eillfer of liis sons, that share to go to tiie others ; and upon failure of such lineal male descendants, the whol'' to go to the sinkitig fund to wards paying the national debt. \’ariov.r; computations h.'ive been made of the pi'obable value ot this accumulated properly at the time of its ultimate dni- sion ; founded of course, on the pro!)ai)ie duraiion of the lines of tlie tevjator’s c>'i,danls, 'J he calculation makes it r,inelern millions of pounds sterling, or Sf'4,.TrK),0()0, about tirfnfi/-eiu:/,t millions, onr hnnthcd and tventy thousand dollars lo a ,';lt(ire. It is worliiv cf remark that the testator !iad no ipiarrel or dissatisfaction will, any member of his family, bui lived wilh them all in habits ol friend;.hip and con fident e : thraigh he delermined that not one (/I tliein w !kj was lining during his own life, should enjoy his i')roi,ertv. It is etjiiully remai’kalilr', tiiat‘while he in culcated !-o e.’.ines'lv habits of itiflusirv and frugality to Iiis sons, he should pro vide such enoriDons fortunes for his re mote descendants. It doubtless origi nated in vani'y. 1 he provisions of this will excited so miich-aileiition. that ilj'ave rise to an act of parliunu iit C-IOfijco, III. chap. 93) pro- hiMim.g any p-erson lor ilie fiMure Vi om sclikrj U er period than twenty-one years aft'i • death of the grantor or testator—} the longest lime in which a fun7/’?' be wanted for the benefit of minor T? dren. ““• In the valuable Report of the Jedideah Morse to the Secretary of W on Indian Afl’airs, made in 1822, under commission of the President of tho States, for the purpose of ascertuinir.J for the use of the Government, the uc tual state of the Indian Tribes in country, we And a case mentioned sonic, what similar to that now existini» be tween the Creek Indians and Georo-im,. Mr. Morse relates it as follows: Haleigh Register. “We ^ound the Wint-ha^oes and IMenominecs -who live on Winch,kto Lake, Fox River, anil near Green Hnv in a state of consternation ; the fori’ier in consequence of the resent murder uf two of our men, at Fort Arnistron;, W two of their warriors ; the latter ijl’ot. count of an unauthorised tieaty, prof^-s- sedly in behalf of the Government of the United States, which the Indiana- CCeiit had just concluded wilh the.Mcuf,. minees, for the jjurciiase of a lar;;e trnot of their most valutMl land, on both sidci of Fox River. Nearly all the real, ac- knowle.'g;ed Chiefs of the nation were strongly opposed to the sale of theiaiui which they very justly considered, as the most valuable part of their territo ry. Divisions and contentions ininu'di- ately sneeeeded this sale, between those who si,2;ned, a!id those who were op posed to the treaty, one immediate con sequence of which was, the nuinlcr, w’iiile we were at Green Bay, of one of the sij^ncrs of the treaty. Happily, and for the honor of the Government, and for the union and peace of this tribf, this treaty, after a statement of the facts in the caso to the President, was not submitted by him to the Senate, and has not been ratified. The joy expressed by these poor Indians, on receivine; in telligence that this treaty was not to jj;o into effect, was correspondent to the extreme j^rief and depression, which they had previously felt.’’ GALVANISM.—A writer in the New- York American states, that he had wit- nessed, at a lecture of Prof'essor M'Xc- veirs, on Galvanism, a most extraor dinary occurrence, and one winch is certainly worth recordin';. A cat, j)reviously stranded initil life appeared extinct, was laiti on the table. Its neck was not dislocated, nor the an imal heat sensibly diminished, but it Avas motionless and apparently lilelts?. f5ne of the wires leadi.n2: from the poles of the battery was introduced into the rectum, the other repeatedly applied to the mcuth. The cat was imincdiiitely thrown into violent convulsions, whicli were renewed at each ai)plioatioii. the eyes also opened and sluit. In about one mimite the animal stretehed out its paw, and bt'2;an to res|)ire: it soon breathed stronsfly, and in ten minutes walked about the room. From the com plete success of this ex[)eriment, we iraj' justly infer, that were this power* Till ac;ent speedily applied, in of suspended animatiim, tiie most happy ivtiiilts would ensue. The ITon. .Tosr.ra Bartlett h:is i"!- sued proposals for pul)lishin^, by s’.;-)’ serij)tion, a memoir of himself his men fimrs, with remarks upon the threat men he has met with in his jo'jr- ney thrrtnL«;h life. If this work c\b;P‘ its a faithful j)ieture, it must indc'(‘‘l interesting;; for uo man in tiie I'- has witnessed a ii;reater variety scenes. He has been a schnlar vard .Fniversity, a .S'c/it)()/-fnash'^’t ^ nicrc/Kirif, :\(h'umntisl, ycr, (I .srno/or, an author, He has lived in din’erent eouiitni"^- * jokes are reniembern/ at Coveiit den Theatre, and at Kdinhur^, often repeated ainoni:;''t th(‘ nioinbei^' tlie bars of Middlesex, Siin«div ftn'' sev^ in Massaeliiii^etts, and all shf)re tliron.';!i Ncvv-IIampshire I’’ e X t re m i ty o f .M a i 11 e. /o ' 'J"he Moravian JMissionaric'^i aniong the I'iSijuimaijx, under date'f " ■ 1824, state, that ‘tlie cold, Inst was intense. Fora hwi2;tiuH‘ h'tH'-'' heit’s thernionieler simk to ~0, 'AS hcl )W 0.’ 'J'hev inlorin n>. tliat t‘' seUlenients in tli.^t country are pi"''!''' ous. llrolher and sister Ivohl'i^*^''*'’:'^' aHer thir/i/-JuKr faithliil ill that missMin, were about torchun ^ Hurope. What an adu'.irahie to tlie cause of (’hi istiaiiity ! , ‘ and sincere must be their convii'Hon^^^^^ the truth they preieh, and Iuj'V their zeal fur the spK-id of tlic Ouspi- • Full i^i’owii cucuiiiiiors wfro ^ ^ Philadi'lpia,_0!i tilt l Uh ul'.^-^-
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