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philosophers, oralis, patriots, in such a Continued strenra of ory ? Wtirre nuw is live tribute paid, so justly due, for tht tlviitiiUioa r.d improvement' of mankind f .Who guard the offer ing at the shrine uf genius, of which the critic ikh's i W'lut nation is the foremost iti discharging the debt of gratitude to their srsctstitrs, by confer ring bene ti upon their descendants f To this inquiry it is our unwelcome taslc to answer, that the children of this renowned race, after having endured for nearly five centuries a more than Egyptian bondage under the most aus tere and insolent task-masters that have ever yet vexi ami tormented any por tion of mankindafter having been the slaves of the rheaoe&t and basest of slaves the sport and plaything off eunuchs and panders, have at length risen as one man, and, drawing the sword, have tast ' away the scab Lard, to redeem thcmselve from slave ry, and purge the foul stain from the name of Greece. That this strife, in fcuch a cse, has pow endured for up wards of twelve months 1 and that En gland, with the name of liberty upon her Hps the supposed patroness of the injured and the oppressed, (we say no thing of actual assistance, but) has not Vouchsafed to encourage and hearten them in their career, by one cheering smile of approbation by one anima ting expression of applause 5 nav, more. that, not content with cold indifference and selfish apathy, this same England, under the mask of an ill-disguised neu trality, has actually sided against the sufferers, and has given her aid towards delivering over' the Christian descen dants of Greeks to the whips and scour ges of ioRdcl Barbarians! And that, too, when Englishmen of former days, before this nation had grown into the firmness .and consistency of power whilst a people comparatively in the gristle, and under the dominion of a woman, stretched out a helping hand and saved the Hollanders in their 859 ny of danger and glory and, by so doing, braved and defied, when in the Very zenith of their domination, the hereditary pride of Austria, and the supercilious loftiness ol Castile. vY hat! Is the doctrine of legitimacy come to this f D ieithe Holv Alliance open its capacious and accommodating arms to embrace the foe of Christendom the Toik ? Does prescription run in favour also of hit dominion f Are the qu mti ty 1 nd duration of suffering to be made, in every possible case, the very reasons for its continuance : when everv man a heart feels, and his understanding con firms th.r feeling, that, the longer it has been protracted, the ftmre aggravating and afflicting is the injustice t "Sarelv, surely, our political cli mate has been severely altered, or there is something peculiarly malignant in the uistemperature ot the prestnt sea son. Is there a people, whose govern mcnt is theoretically and practically vi cious, where chance of amendment is desperate, and patience no longer a vir tu-. and do they endeavor to better their onditmn,and prohtby the spread iny itjht and information of mankind ? Tv very first breath of a whisper of .-t y such attempt makrs the flesh of o. r rulers creep. A military force is called in, and quells the movement by the sword. Their svmpathv is excited by the endearing spectacle of reason yielding to power. Tranquility, they saw is restored. Dirt we have no time for a commentary : our text is Ge no.i, Parga, Spain, Portugal, Naples 5. America, the Ionian Isles, Greece i it l jLftn,ittonsoe parceled outana uiviuca amongst the ruling powers as the spolia op:ma ot victory let unoffending and harmless people be transferred from one mister to another, as the live stoc of the land which they Inhabit le precedents be created destructive of the - r i ui'.Miac ui rawer, nuoi me inucpen denes of weak states amontjst the strong irt any aspect or snnpe ot things be t.'kcn,' but that of change in the form of government, and their firm nerves will never tremble- But the very in- . r 1. . ainuaiioa in sum a- cnange minion ar He torn the herM of a. wthy world, New from nil nation hintUVinr at hi back. t There are many bad cases el leve iu the Fever Hospital, cording to safe and glorious example though from the very worst ti that which all experience concurs with all reason In showing; to be the best fills them at once with aniraosity and ter ror. f- thcns t the property of the Kitlir Ag (the slave cf the iwrajrhn, and giuirdian of the womeiO who appoint the Yt'vodV. A Van- Att nil Kllmieli lhr r nnt fwJi t!"!!f , - ppelkliofH now ?vmt Uie Vovernar of Ath ena '. Im-4 Byren't .Volt ta th Uiatttr, T!.'m he v. ay -.th men of hi. When the Persians fani to demand rth and water in , tnk.-n f submission, the Kpsrtaiis and Athenians 't.ivtr.l tnem into . muddy ditch, telling them to bdp theuisclvci there w J plenty of botu I ixvr miom r.rnopE. ' HSW.TRIIS, H'ttt 15. lie p'kt suip ranthea, Captain ikniiitt, arrived yestenlny fiom !iv,li-pooI, having iailed on the 8th of May, and brought Wi paptr f tlial day, ith London dates to the evening of the 6th. ,. . , : frm the tenor of the previous advices frm France, interesting news was expected by this' rrivat 1 but it appears there was no trutti in tbe ! war rumor fi oro i tavre, and, according to the la ter dates, there a no expectation of war. i There was no further circumstances related concerning the shipwreck of the Albion. " About 1500 letters, saved in a mutilated state, reached Liverpool on the 4ih. A vessel had sailed from Liverpool with apparatus, with a view of fishing for whatever might be found on board the w reck. We find it stated in a Lo.wlon paperi that Ste phen Cliase was the steerage passenger saved. There were do arrivals at Liverpool from the United States, from the 1st to the 8th of May, the winds having been easterly all that time. Capt. Dennett informs that he has had rough weather on h passage borne, The West India Trade bill, and the Agricul tural bill, were postponed to the 13th of May. The Catholic Peer bill was to have a final read ing on the 9ili. The importation bill, and the navigation bill, had passed a second reading in the House of Commons. ! ION DON, MAT 3 Intelligence of an important character, as regards the Turkish squadron, arrived yesterday from Vienna. It was brought by an extraordinary courier, the advices being of the vn y rerent date of lite 24th ult. We learn that on official communi cation has been made from St. Petersburg to the court of v lenna, indicating on the part ol the Emperor the most pacific sen timents, and a perfect acquiescence in the proposal submitted to nun by the nicdi tine powers, for the purpose ot preser? ing the peace of Europe. The exact na ture of the arrangements suggested has not transpired ; hut we are Assured that be message from wo cabinet of St. I'c- tersburgh was in a tone so conciliatory, (at a period too. when perhaps contrary semi mentt were anticipated, that nieasengcrs were immediately dispatched by the Aus Irian government to convey the agreeable intelligtnce to the different courts uf Eu rope which have taken an interest 1 the negotiations. I here is little doubt that a Congress the expedient so often adop ted for settling the affairs of Europe is to be resorted to on this occasion, and that the period of its assembling is not far dis 10KDOW, mat 6. Mails from Hamburg, Holland, and landers, arrived this morning. The complexions of the accounts by these mails, is decidedly of a pacific nature ; not the smallest fear of a rupture between Russia and Turkey appears to be enter tained in the great ci.it s of the continent. An agent pf the piovisional government of Mexico has arrived at Hamburg, on his way to Spurn. The bargain about to be concluded ft- tvreen the Cvvtrnment and I lie Dank of Kn- eland, fixes much of the public attention The bank is to surrender that portion of its chartered privileges by w hich the num ber of partners in any other banking con cern throughout England is limited to six ; and in return for this concession, 1 is to be allowed to exercise all its other privi leges and prerogatives until the year 1 843, instead of 18J3, the period at which the existing charter expires. What sort of a bargain this ought to be considered for the public, we mav cues, from the cor Jinl'iiy with which it waa received by the meeting ol proprietor held on 1 hursday hist at the Bank. The continuance of the monopoly was there regarded as having been got on such cheap terms, and, by ne cessary consequence, as having been sole by the Ministers so much beneath its val ue, that it was approved of unanimously by the Proprietors of ths bank stock. v' Irr land. The distress, in consequence of a shortness of proviMons, is very great- Subscriptions were raising at London. Liverpool, and other places, for the relief of the people. I'rom an actual surrey of a part of Clare, tt is ascertained, that be tu--n JtO ami M.Ckl r knll oviihnnt the yieuns of subsistence.' In Limerick,! Kerry, and Mayor counties, the distress appears to be in a similar degree in that described in the following account from estWAT", APRIL 27. The distresses of the poor increat-f dai lynew group of beggars are coitiit- ly to be seen arriving fiom the country, principally from the westward. No spot upon the face of the habitable globe pre sents such a scene of 11. it.er, want, and wretchedness, a this town docs at pres ent. Many are now Hffccied with that kind 01 Twer uhich is ever attendant up- Amon' other tales of high life which ppear in the fashionable English period-1 icalsj we were struck with the following i Love Tukcns. The eiving of receiving of hair, as a token of love or of remem brance, has been loner considered dahtret- ous,nay fatal to the duration of an attach- ment. Never was the justice ol this ob jection rendered more manifest,, never more strongly exemplified, than by a late " marriage In high life." The now Coun tess Of H was " the relict of the late E." T. I). Esq " and "in one little month, or ere those shoos were old," and so forth, we find her onCc more a young and blooming bride." The Countess was remarkable for a beautiful head or hair ( wu, we say, for it has hot had lime to be renewed.) On the decease ol her late be loved husband, she approached the coffin in which his remains were about to be en closedseized a scissors, and (oh ! heavy tale!) cut off, " at one fell swoop," those beauteous ringlets, which (as she pathet ically exclaimed upon the occasion) he had loved so much while living, and which he should bear with him to the grave j" suiting the action to the word, she ened with Gertrude, " sweet to the sweet," strewed them on his corse, and was borne away inanimate Peace to his manet. Ae w- IV Amen awi'itancc j he seized I'cltur and tcpt hi gripe upon him until they bdth sunk to gether to the bottom. At this perilous moment, a Captain Newbury, who had been sitting on the bank, threw off his coat hd shoes, exclaiming " for Cod's sake don't let them drown," leuped into the water, and swam to their assistance. Feher, nearly expiring, made hi escupe i but the drowning man made a fatal grasp Upon Newbury. When taken out, blood was gushing out from the mouth and nose of NewbUry, which led to the supposi tion that Truby had clenched him byihe neck. An attempt was made to resusci tate them, but without ellect. DOMESTIC mr. .irmi. The following note from the If orl. George M'Duflie, was received in this city this- morning. It is dated, 1 M SISTER'S rXRRTi 8th ii'at. "The contest is over I am wounded, but not dangerously but four hours have elapsed, and I feel perfectly comfortable. The bullet entered obliquely into the back, just below the short ribs, floth surgeons agree that there is no danger and my feelings indicate the same. We shall start this evening and , move slowly homeward. Another letter, dated same day, from the friend of Mr. M'DufTie, says' Our friend M Duffie is shot in the small of the back the wound," -ho we ver, is trilling. We start this eveniug, by. the advice of Dr. l isher, for Mcfitzimons place, near Augusta. It is tyce hours since the fight, and every symptom has been fa vorable. M'DufTie is cheerful and strong." We need ,mt aT how much we ure de lighted at this intelligence, which removes the melancholy apprehensions previously entertained, of the fatal termination of the duel between Col. Cummin-' and Mr. M'Duflic. Charlatan Courier. ira Scrpt-nt, or nmetlJuj Ult it, tortured. Kitw-roiiE, 4ukk7. We have conver sed with a .Zr- John Ucers, a resident tfi manner. Middletown, county of Monmouth, N. J. who anived i;i this city on Wednesday night last, and states, that a monstrous creature, between 30 and 40 feet in length, 18 feet round, was captured on MoiuUy last, in a Cove, at Brown's l'oint, near Middletown Point. The monger was discovered for two or three days previous, having the appearance of a large lug fioa ing, with two bunches, which after wards proved to be fins. Two men shot balls into him from muskets, which had no effect. He continued flouncing about. but was unable, from the shallowness of the water, to get off. Five or six its were then ri;;ged and manned, and went in pursuit, and surcecdi-d in putting five harpoons into him, which drove him cn the shore, where they lanced and killed him. "The creature Ins been sLinncd, snd it required two horses und six men to drag the skin alxnit 1Q0 yards, which is to be stuffed and will be brought to this city on 1 uesday next. A number of old whaler and other seamen have been to view it, and they all declare that they have seen 110 animal of the same kind, and from the description given 01 a bea Serpent, they consider it one of that species. That he had no en trails, no heart, but a liter which produ ced 4 barrels of oil, had six rows of .small sharp white teeth. The upper part of the tail is about 7 feet, and the lower bbout three feet ; the skin is of a Icidish color, and will sharpen a knife like a stone. T he iw uvki st imi a Mi'go nun. Ail. .. Dr. Mitchell says this animal is neither whale nor flesh, but absolutely fuh.of the shark species. He conjrriures it to be what is familiarly called the batkmg thark the most inoffensive of the race, and the first that has been caught in our raters. ItEV. MIL SUMMERSPIFJ.D. , , The Christian World, and the admirers of r ulph eloquence, will greatly regret to hear that the pioUs and the eloquent Mr, n j. ( 1 1 !H . .Jl 1 k vummcrtjieiu is w very 111 i"ut bieiiiicr hopes of his recovery arts cherished. We never interchanged a word with him, we never saw him but onCe i yet, Oir hearts ache and our eves overflow at the Infor mation that so interesting arid extraordi nary a young man, is likely so s3on to be called from a world which he Was admi rably qualified to improve. , f here is another and a better world," and to that world, it is humbly but confidently ucliev ed, he is rapidly but resignedly advancing. . l'hitadeliiiu Dcuu I'm. LAKCASTER, (0Hl6,) JUKR G". Sig 0 bi ttef li mr The court of c6m mo'n pleas for Fairfield county, commen ced it s session in this town 011 Monday last ; the grand jury was but one day in ses sion, and returned no indictments. . The docket was gone through, with but one jury trial duiing the term, and the court clor.rd its scsssion on Wednesday, having Sat three days only. There is not a per ton confined in the prison of this county A NEW CAST. At Superior Court of Law for the county of Spottsylvunw, held in this town, the case of the Commonwealth against Ilobbins, was tried en Tuesday last. Mr. Hobhins was indicted for cruelly and unmercifully whipping and beating his own slave. The defendant's counsel at tempted to rescue him by arguing that the allcdgcd offence was not indictable ; but the court overruled the objection, and the point was reserved for the decision of the. General Couitr The jury retired but for s short time, and assctscd the fine at ihrcr hundred dollar$. , This penalty, though small in itself, may be considered justly sevcte and exemplary, from the circum stances of the defendant. As this is the first case of the kind that is known to have occurred in Virginia, it cannot fail to be in the highest degree inteiesting to every humane bosom ; since it exhibits the law interposing to protect the whole of our servile population from the merciless ri gor and cruelty of those who ure disposed to exercise their power in an unfeeling W e rcirurd it too, as a trikini; instance of a good and liberal policy, as nothing surely, can be truly aid ultimate ly politic, which directly outrages the tight of humanity. Frffcriikiburg Jlcr. riiiLADtipnu, mat 23. Last week our city was honored with the presence of several hundred clergy men the Presbyteiian General Assem bly, Episcopal Convention, Methodist Con fcience, Associate Reformed Synod, and, as we are informed, the baptist Associa tion also, all silting at the same time. The General Assembly lias not yet risen, and its present session will be rendered remarkable by the union, which has long been in contemplation, having been c flee ted between the Presbyterian wid Asso ciate Reformed Churches. CGtiuirreci on tS.o same day upon the to. lowing persons, alumni of the University, viz. Dr. Thomas Faddis, Thomas I. Green, William A. Haywood, jr. Walker Ander son, James K.Polk, Iverson L. Brooksj and Simon P. Jordan. Hillsborough Utc, . NATURAL rEAUVCAUV. A Iwitiff Tiiad was found in a stone ta lie ii i rum me uanai, at i,ocKpori, . i. The nearest distance from the exterior surface of the rock, to his place of con finement, was about 6 inches." lie ex pired in a fetv moments after being expo sed to the air. Facts of this kind are well calculated to excite the speculation of tWS curious. Buffalo Patriot. ' Lxtract irum a letter of Judgo Touhnin of Ala hamav puhluhcd hi the (London) Monthly Magazine for April. ' I enclose a specimen of the language of hiy neighbors, the Choctaw and Chick asaw Indians. - . 4J I made obt this list in the Choctaw nation, about nine years ago, and the oc casion was this : I had, a short time before. received a letter front Judge Junes, of Frankfort, n Kentucky, informing me, that in the year 1784, as some Southern Indians were passing through Lexington, to join the American army north of Ohio,, an African negro was driving a wagou through the streets of Lexington, w'en, seeing some Indians, and hearing them, converse, he suddenly slopped his wagon, and asked his master's permission, (who. was riding near him,) to go and speak to the Indians.- They were probably the first he had seen in Ametica; they con versed together with apparent ease, to the astonishment of Mr. Parker, his master. He Iritjtared of the negro how he could converse with the Indians f who told his master that he was a native of the town of Goldcau, fn Africa i that while he was a boy, the negroes brought in some pris oners, and detained them tbci a along time, in consequence of which he learnt their language. He said that they were people of the tame colour, with the same kind of lung blutk hair, and spoke tlie same lan. gunge with the Indians then present. l or the purpose of examining more minutely into this affair, being on a jour, ney into Kentucky, I made a list of the words inclosed, with the assistance of an intellir'rni liiilf-l.ifd 1Tpi-i K. hnn-A. cr, great difficulty in catching the sounds of the words so distinctly as to be able to spell them with accuracy. No two per sons would spell them alike. On reach ing Kentucky, I found to my mortifica tion that the negro was dead. Mr. Par ker, howevr, confirmed the account, and a neighbor of his (Preston Drown, Esq.) informed me that there were other Afri can negroes in the neighborhood, whot though not previously acquainted with our Indiaus, could converse with them in their own language. These facts open an interesting field of inquiry, and seem to lead to a determi nation of the long agitated question, ' From what quarter of the world did the aborig ines of America originally come .'" I sus pect that they may be allied to some of the tribes of wandering Arabs. Their lubits are very similar, and those acquain ted with the language of these tribes might, from the meagre specimens I have given of the Choctaw language, be able to determine whether there be such a simi- lauty as would justify a suspicion that they were ol one origin. I have seen no spe cimen of language of the modern Arabs which would enable Tne to pursue the inquiry j but many, no doubt, are in England." AMZMCAX MANUFACTURES. We are happy to hear that some of our domestic fabrics find not only a ready market, but are highly approved of by the people of South America. Letters to this effect have been received by the mercan tile house in Boston, concerned in the Spanish American trade. As an illustra tion of the consequence to which souie descriptions of Ameiican manufactures have arrived, we have to mention that the Waltham cotton cloth, with the stamp of that corporation, has bctn imitated in En gland, and ship to this country for tale. Providence paper. C!t 8 Wsr.t of fuod, iriu tnui wV ieiuius some death after a very short illness. A town meeting is called for on the 6th of My. April 28. The price of potatoes this day was eiht pence ner stone. The sit- uation of the poor is really deplorable. XtLiNCllOLT CASUALTY. On Suturdav the 1st inst. Ansrl Truby, Geo. Felter, Hiram Chnse, D.inicl Loom is, and Morgan Comsiock, went into the river at Walton, Delaware county N. York, to bathe. 1 ruby was disco c. c tl to be strangling, when Chase swain to his nnslstance. I he drowning mm fiacd!nicr, George Tarrv, and Alexander E. M.n.vtr.icr.MU i . At the commencement at th Universi ty of North-Carolina, which took place on the 6th June, the degree of Uathclor of Arts was conferred on the following young gentlemen, viz. James bowman, John L. Davics, Wm. B. Davies, Thomas F. Da vis James G. Hall, Win. A. Hall, Wm llordeinan, Item. F. Haywood, Fabitis J Haywood, Thomas Hill, John A- Ilogan, Joel Holleman, Wm. D. Jones, Samuel Kerr, Robert Kittrell, Kobert (- Martin, lo!rt II. Mas. a, Washington Morrison, Kobat N. Ogden, Wm, D. Pickcl, Lu lius J. Polk, Abraham Hcncher, Marion Saunders, James li. SUde, Benjamin Sum him by the hair, and with much difficulty he extricated himself and reached the shore. Loomis then mpdc the ultcmpt, but he also was seized by Truby, and who great 'exertions broke from his gtasp. About the same time Felter came to his Witlson, Icing members of the senior Class Thc degree of Bachelor of Arts was also conferred on John Elliot, an alumnus of the University. The degree of Master of A.rt was Bernaihtle.On the eve of the bat tle of Wagram, Bonaparte gave the or der that the soldiers were not to quit the ranks durintr the action, even to remove the wounded info places of safety; but Bernadottcdid not insert this prohibition in his orders. Dur ing the battle his division suffered much,, and many wounded lay on the plain. , Bcrnadotte consequently or dered some horses to be detached from the artillery, in order to bring up the carriages iu which die wounded w .-re to be removed; and when it was ob served to him that this step might ex pose the artillery to be taken, "What does that signify n said he, "it is but limtis ; the biood of the soldier is more precious." , The Emperor's order, however, h.vl been executed through out the army with the greatest snicl ncss ; insomuch that a Marshal of France, seeing some grenadiers carry ing their Colonel, whose thigh hid been shot off by a cannon ball, made them lay him down, and said to the dying Colonel with an air of repri mand, "Sit, a soldier should know hor to die, on the spot where he is struck. Col. Le(Hrun vya near this Marshal, and shuddered. "Our trade is not carried on rvvith rose-water," said the ferocious warrior; it is not on the day of battle that we are to think of Phi lanthropy ' Examinations are formidabU even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool mr & rate that tfce wisest man can answer.
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