The Mrs' whateVrthi M-ne in-.pu-e,
My soul the tii'n't.ilti-.uii.wliii!Ct....'i.rr,
FAimvixi..
The home that bleS'.c ami endears,
The lively hearth that warms und cheers,
The blushing smiles that charm our fears
And ocs dispel, 1
But prompt our grief, bilt swell our tcr,
When sound " Farewell,"
J".ch roc biul that adorn th! glade,
Each withering flow'r that blooms to fade,
Each falling k-af that deck the !ide,
And strewi the dell,
Seems in it dying chirms array'J,
To s,y - Farewell."
The ll'iOrning bi'eexe llii ru Jci hy,
And wavei the dewy re-bush dry i
WbiUt in a low and pensive aigh,
It accent dwell,
Seems but to sympathize whilst 1
Proclaim " Farewell."
Tik hard hen Love's seraphic fire,
Thrills thro' the breast with pure ihsire.
When partial beauty's heavenly ly re,
With rapturous swell,
B ids each advancing doubt retire,
To say " Farewell."
r.nlink'd in friendship's golden cluin,
Congenial spirit may remain 1
feut when love ad.li his melting strain
With magic spell,
How hard the t isk how sharp the pain,
To say Farewell. "
The tendrillM ivy may be torn
From its embrace around the thorn,
But there its mark, unccuing borne,
IN site will tell j
Hearts then rela.ii the sight forlorn
When f junda " Farewell."
The summer dries the mountain ril!,
And makes its murm'ring aters still ;
Its channcl'd way adown the hill,
Marks where it fell ;
Thus grief will furrow deep the will,
When sounds " Farewell."
I've known Ambition's dreams depart, .
I've felt Despair's envenom 1 dart,
But these are nothirg to the smart,
Which nought can quell,
When bursts upon the afflicted heart,
The sad" Fare ciL"
But when the noon of lite is put,
And death's dark eve approaches fust.
And borne upon the wintry blast,
Is beard knell i
Tkiit will proclaim a long a last,
A dark " Farewell."
Variet) 's tlie very spite of life.
That gives it ail its rlavor.
10 TMS fkSrl iUUUU),
THE RttilClDE Gfc.NKHAl.S WHALLEY
A.ND liOFFE. .
Of the fiity-uioc judges who signed
the warrant lor the execution of King
Charles the First, twenty-four died be
fore the restoration of Charles the Se
cond ; twenty-seven persons, judges
and others, were taken, tried, and con
demned; some of these were pardon
ed; but fourteen, nine ot whom were
judges, were executed. Or.lv sixteen
tied and finally escaped. Three of
those, Major-Ucneral Edward Whal-
lej, Major-General William ficfTc,and
Colonel John Dix ell,escapcd to New
England, w here they died, af:cr being
secreted nearly thirty years.
On the 22nJ 0f September, 1660, a"
prodamatba was issued, setting forth
that Whalley and Gofle had left the
kingdom ; but as there was great rea
son to suppose they had returned, a re
ward of 100. was oTered to any one
vho would discover cither of them in
any of the British dominions, and cause
him to be brought in alive or dead if
he made any resistance. Goffe had
married the daughter of Whalley, and
they escaped to New-Finland togeth
er, arriving in Iioston the 2?th of July,
1G60.
They did not attempt to conceal
their persons or characters, when they
arrived at Boston, but immediately
w t to the Governor, Mr. Endicott,
whi received them very courteously ;
and they were visited bv the principal
persons of the town. They fixed their
reiUeticc at Lan.bnore. a!)out
S-il't i all. nit f.,!lT
mihs from ttoHl.m. which thrv
fre
quently visited, attending rccularlv to
their religious duties. I hey appeared
grave, serious and devout ; and the
rank they had formerly sustained, as
well as their prudent demeanour, com
manded respect.
It had been repotted t!i..t all tl. e
judges of tlif late king would be par
doned, but seven ; and, Whalley and
Gofle, who had not been among the
most obnoxious, hoped to rrceive the
king's clemency ; but when the Actol
indemnity reached Iioston, which was
.tot u.uil the last of Nov ruber, St ap
peared that they were not excepted.
Some cf the powerful persona in the
government now became alarmed; but
pity and compassion prevailed with
others, and they had assurances from
some belonging to the general court
that they would stand by them.
On the 22nd of February, 1661, the
Government summoned a Court of As
sistants.toconsultaboutsecuringthem; but the court did not agree to it. Find
ing it unsafe to remain auy longer, they
left Cambridge, and arrived at New
Haven, about 150 miles distant, on the
7th of March, where they were well
treated by the ministers, the He v. John
Davenport and the Kev. Nicholas
Street. On the 27th of March, they
removed to New Milford, and made
themselves known there ; but at night
they returned privately to New Haven,
and were concealed at Mr. Davenport's
house until the 3d of April.
About this time, news arrived from
Iioston that ten of the judges were ex
ecuted; and the governor received a
royal mandate to cause Whalley and
Goffe to be secured. This greatly a
larmed the country, and there is no
doubt that the court were now in ear
nest in their endeavors to apprehend
them t and to avoid all suspicion, they
gave commission and instruction to two
young merchants from England, Iho
mas Kcltond and Thomas Kirk, zeal
ous royalists, to go through the colo
nies, as far as Manhados in search of
them. The regicides had friends who
informed thsrn what was doing, and
they removed from Mr. Davenport's to
the house of Mr. Jones,aflcr wards deputy-governor
of Connecticut, where
they lay hid till the llih of May, and
then removed to a mill. On the 13th
they went into the woods, where they
met Jones and two of his companions,
Sperry and Iiurril, who first conducted
them to a place called Hatchet-Harbour,
where they lay two nights, until a
cave or hole in the side of a hill was
prepared to conceal them. The hill
they called Providence Hill, and there
they continued from the 15th of May
to the 11th of June. Kichard Sperry
daily supplied thcivt with victuals from
his bouse, about a mile off; sometimes
carrying it himself, at other times send
ing it by one of his bovs, tied up in a
cloth, ordering him to lay it on a cer
tain stump and to leave it; and when
the boy went for it at night, he always,
found the trasins emptied of the provis-;
ions, and brought them home, i he 1 his sword, to drive inni ofT ; a rcrcoun
boy wondered at it, and used to ask ter ensued: the reg-tiue ireeived the
his father the design of it, for he saw sword into the cheese, and held it lid
nobody. His father told him there w as
somebody rt work m the woods that
wanted it. "
The incident which made them ahan-
don this cave, is said to have been a
vinit which they received as they lay in
SIS- . S .
oeci, irom a nantner, or catamount,!
who putting his head into the door or
aperture of the cave, glared his eye
balls in so hideous a manner upon
them, as greatly aMrightcd them. One
of them was so terrified by this grim
and ferocious monster, end at his squal
j ling, that he took to his heels, and fled
down the mountain to Sperry 's house
lor safety.
Ti e second concealment w hich they
selected, was about two miles and a
half north of the first, nt the foot of
the mountain on the western bank of a the gentleman, who, desistip,rxclaim
small rivulet, which runs alonq; the west ed, " Who can you be f You arc either
side ol tne est kock. lor some
reason or other, they do not seem to
have sojourned here long ; tradition
says, because the Indian dogs in hunt
ing discovered them ; they therefore
sought another lodgment.
The third place of their abode in the
vicinity of New Havtn, was at a place
called to this day The I.tdje. It was
situated nt a spring in a valley, or ex
cavation in a declivity, about three
miles west, or a little north-west, from
the last mentioned place. When the)
came to this abode is uncertain ; it w n -in
the summer; and they left it, an!
removed to Milford, August 1C61 ; l
ter having resided in and :dout New
Haven f,t nearly half a year, from the
Tth of March, tu the rj;h ol Argust
1CCI.
Among the traditionary anecdotes
and stories loncerning the events whirl
took plare at New Haven, it is related,
that when the pursuers, Kellond and
Kirk, were expected, the regicides
walked out towards the Neck bridge,
the road by which they must enter the
i .h
town. At sonic distance, the sheriff,
or marshal, Mr. Kimberly, overtook
them with a warrant for their appre
hension. He endeavored to secure
them, but they stood upon their de
fence, and being expert at fenc'ng, re
pulaed the olli er, who went back for
assistance. He soon returned with ad
ditional aid; but in tne meantime, the
regicides had escaped into the woods
with which the town was surrounded.
One time, when the pursuers were
searching the town, the regicides, in
.shifting' their situations, happened to
be at the house of a Mrs. Kvers, a res
pectable old lady ; fche, seeing the ene
my coming, ushertd her guests out at
the back door, who, walking out a lit
tle way, instantly returned to the house,
atid were hid and concealed by her in
her apartments. The pursuers com
ing, inquired whether the regicides
were in her house. She answered,
they had been there , but w ere just pone
away, and pointed out the way. 1 hey
went into the field i and woods ; and by
her artful and pulUe address, she di
verted them, put them upon a false
scent, and secured her friends. It is
rather probable, that this happened the
next day after their coming to New Ha
ven ; and that they then left the town,
and went through the woods to the
mill, two miles off, whither they had
retired on the 11th of May.
, About the time the pursuers came to
New Haven, and, perhaps, a hub: be
fore, and to prepare the minds of the
people for their reception, the Itev.
Mr. Davenport preached publickly
from this text, Isaiah, xvi. 3, 4. Take
counsel, execute judgment ', make tliij
shadow as the night, in the tnidit cf the
noon-day ; hide the outcasts, betray not
him that ivandereth: let mine outcast
dwell with thee : Moob, be thou a covert
to them jrom the face of the nf'oiler.
This sermon had such ant fleet, that
though large rewards were offered for
their apprehcniion, yet no pains w ere
taken by the inhabitants to discover
their retreat.
To show the dexterity of the regi
cidesat fencing, it is related, that while
at Huston, a fencing m ister had a stage
erected, on w hich he walked lor several
days, ihallenging anil defying any one
toplay with him atnwords. At length,
one of the regicides made his appear
ance, disguised in a ru'.tic dress, hold
ing in one hand a cheese wrapped in a
napkin for a shield, with a broomstick,
w hose mop he had besmeared w ith dir
ty puddle water as he had passed along ;
thus equipped he mounted the stnge ;
the fencing-master railed at him for his
impudence, asked what business he had
there, ami bade him becorc. The re-
gicide stood his ground, iipon -which
the gl .diatur made a pass at him w iih
he drew the mop of the broom over
his mouth, and gave the gentleman a
puirof whiskers. The gentleman made
another pass, and plunging his sw or J a
second time, it was caught and held in
the cheese, till the hrcx-m was drawn
I I
over ms eves. At a tniru uuure, trie
sworu was caugnt again, t.u tne mop
of the broom was rubbed gently all
over his face ; upon this, the gentleman
let fall, or laid aside, his small sword,
and took up the broad sword, und came
at him with that ; upon which the re
gicide s.iid, "Stop, sir; hitherto, you
see I have only played with you ; but
if you come at me with your broad
sword, know that I will certainly t ike
your hie." Tne firmness and deter-
t S t I
mination with w hich he snake, struck
Goffe, Whallcv, or .; dtvil, for there
was no other man in Lnrl.md that
could beat me."
And so the disguis-
cd regicide retired into obscurity, leav
ing tne spectators to tpjoy the diver
sion of the scene, and the vanquish
mentol the boasted champion. Hence
it is proverbial in some pnls of New
Iingland, in speaking of a champion at
atldciick and other exercises, to say,
that "none can beat him but Gcfl'e,
Whalley, or the devil."
From their cave in the woods rear
New Haven, they ventured to the
house of one Tomkins, near Milford
meeting-house, where they remained
two years without ever stirring out;
they afterw ards took a little more lib
erty, rnd made themselves known to
several ntr&or.s in whim liny could
confide.
In 1664, the commissioners from
Charles the Second arrived at Iioston.
On receiving this news, they retired to
their cave, where they remained eight
or ten days. Soon after some Indians
hunting, discovered the cave, with the
bed: and the report being spread
abroad, rendered it unsafe to continue
there any longer.'. On the 1 3th of Octo
ber, 1664, they removed to li.idley,
Massachusetts, nearly a hundred mi'es
distant, -travelling only by night. On
their arrival, they took up their abodj
with the llev. Mr. Ktlssell, who had
previously agreed to receive them. At
this house, and that of Peter Tilton,
Esq. they spent the rest of their lives,
for fifteen or sixteen years, in dreary
solitude and Seclusion from the world.
ri... ...ir..... k.. i.i- !
a tic iiuuisicr wai iiu suuuu u no
hoarders, ns thev received remittances
every year front their wives in Kng
land, as well as occasional presents
from other persons ; Goffe, who kept a
regular diary during his exile, has re
corded donations from several friends.
Thev were in constant terrour, though 1
. 1 , , , "
they had reason to hope alter some
years that all enquiry for them was
over. They read with pleasure the
news of their having been killed in
Switzerland; and having exact intelli
gence of every thing which passed in
England, they were unwilling to give
up all hopes of deliverance, ll is said
that their" greatest expectations were
from the fulfilment of the prophecies,
as they had no doubt that the execu
tion of the judges was the flaying of the
witnesses. Their lives were miserable
burdens, and they complained of being
banished from nllhuman society. Gofle
corresponded with his wife by the name
cf Walter Goldsmith, and she as Fran
ces Goldsmith. Their letters, some
of whith are preserved, strongly de
scribe the distress of two persons tin
dcr such peculiar
cirnnm'.tance.H, who
I I
appeared to have lived very happily i
together. j
During their residence at Hadlev,
the most memorable Indian war took
plat;. This was called King Philip's
war. rhilip w as a powerful Sachem,
and reside! at Mount Hope in lvhode
Isl.tnd, where he was soon after put to
death by Colonel Church. All the
frontier towns of New England were
attacked, and Iiadtey was then expo
ted as a place of this dcscripiion.JTbe
time the savages fixed on to nuke the
assault, was while the inhahitahts were
assembled at the meeting-house to ob
serve a fast day ; but fortunately it had
been some time a custom for the men
to attend public!: worship armed. Had
the town been taken, the discovery of
Whalley and Gofle would have been
inevitable. The men took op their
arms and attempted a defence, but were
soon throw u into confusion ; when (as
it is related to this day) a strat ger sud
denly appeared among them of vener
able aspect, and different in his appar
el from the inhabitants, who rallied
and disposing them in the best milita
ry manner, led them to the t barge,
rotited the Indians, and saved the tow n.
In the moment of victory their deliv
erer vanished. The inhabitants, una
ble to account for the phenomenon, be
licved they hid been commanded by r.n
angel sent from heaven lor their pro
tection. This supposed angel was
Goffe, whenever before ventured from
his concealment in the cave in the
woods, nor was it known whoso aljy
led thetu against the Indians until af
ter his death.
GolTe and Whalley appear to hrv.-e
been much respected on account of
their professions of piety, and their
grave deportment, by persons w ho did
not approve of their political conduct.
Whalley, w ho became reduced to a se
cond childhood, died about the year
1676 or 1670 ; and Gofle, it is suppo
sed, did not live bevend 1680; his last
letter is dated April 2nd, 167!).
r wrrrrt
r.XTR CT 1 liOM r.ltAl r.liUllKiC If ALL.
Tiir Your? I.ovai. To a man who is
a ' n,c 01 I'"'"05? inf.r a a ,,uc,,cl"r
lr ww Mll " WJ lill (UV SW.t'V
rienco in the follirs of life, begins to look
wjth. ! Inn.rfj ry? upn th? pj-s of man
and eke of woman; to such a man, I
say, there is somethinR very entertaining
in noticing the conduct of a pair of young
lovers, h may not be as grave and sci
entific a study as the loves of the plants ;
but it is certainly as interesting. I have,
therefore, derived much pleasure since
my arrival at the Hall, from observing
the fuir Julia and her lover. She has uli
the delightful blushing consciousness of
an artless girl, inexperienced in coquetry,
wlu lus nude her first conquest ; while
the capuin regards her with that mixture
of fondness and exultation, vith which a
outhful lover is apt to contemplate so
beauteous a prize. I observed them yes
terday in the Rardcn advancing ulong one
( f the retired walks. The sun was shin
ing with tlclieious warmth, making great
masses cf bright verdure and deep blue
shade. The cuckoo, that harbinger ol
spring, was faintly heard from a distance ;
die thrush piped from the hawthornj and
tlie yellow buUct flies suited ami tuyeu
and coquetted in the uir. The fair Julia
was leaning on her l-aver's urm, listening
to his conversation, with her eyes cast,
down, a soft blttsh upon her clicek, and a
quiet smile, on her lips: while in the liani!
that lump; negligently by her wide was a
hunch of flowers. In this way they were
sauntering slowly aloti'. and when I con
sidered them, and the scene in which they
were moving, I could not but think it a
thousand pities that the season should ev
er change, or that ymniK people should
ever trrow older, or that blossoms siiouiu
five wav to fruit, or that lovers should
-- ,, . . .
cvcr B UumM.-inyaw
.The hiht number of the Quarterly Kcvicwcx-)!:un.-i
the formation cf kebergi, inlands uf ice,
iutlie following manner i
A vill of water, fallintr little cascade
from it tin:' ipitous heiijlit, in converted into
(ll"',:t Wc ' t!lc t(Jll''Hi; (,f ,"!,m: stvc!'e 'in"
tr( il such a sheet h not entirely melted m
t)(. mnmM follows, its volume will
ii-resiai ily he increased the ensuing winter, anil
llnis tin; prelection ot the promontory Iron) eat
to year, will swell, till the iniim-nse mass, by its
on weight, and probably undermined by the
e instant cla!iihr of the waves break oil' and U
Pouted into the ocean. All our northern navi
gators atlinn, that stones, mow ami earth have
been okvrt ed on the float ingicci.-i j of DnvWs
Str.tit ;: Untfn'i Ji.nj."
However valuable ancestry may be in
the eye of a man of family, it is in little
estimation among fanntfrs, if we may
jude from the reply of a country lad
made to one who boasted of his ancient
fumily. " So much this worse f'jr thee,"
said he, " every Iwdy knows the older the
seed, the worse the crop."
UVsous.
( r tiiaiiY , iircinreii, naiinrir ionics arc inn.
ii.. i .. .i - i.. i .i .. -
whatsoeiL-r things are honest, whatsoever thin;;?
are j'ist, whatsoever tliin;;) are pure, wlaliocv
cr tiling! are. lovely, w li.i'sof.er tiling are of
' i;ood report; if tln-rc be .my virtue, and if ther.
any praise,
thin
on these tliiiii.
rioi.Lii i im iv i
It i$ not, I think, a little surprising
to sec many Christian divines, of the;
first learning and abilities, employing
that learning and those abilities, and
much of their time, in framing labo
rious svstems of ethics from the Lwr
!of nature ,-whitst thev have the books
of tlie New Testament continually lv
ing open before their eyes. In Plate
and Aristotle, in Cicero and S.tuca,
this was a laudable and useful under
taking ; but, in a Christian, it is nei
ther useful or meritorious, nor wiser
than if any one should chuse to shut
his eyes in the brightest day-light, on
ly to try it he was able to grope out
his way in the dark. It is now as im
possible for any" man to form a relig
ious and moral institution by the mere
efforts of human reason, .is tu see bv a
farthing candle in tlie midst of a me
ridian sunshine. He must unavoida
bly adopt the doctrines and precepts of
the Gospel, and then mistake them for
l is own. If his own are true and j-jst.
li.ey must be exactly the same ; and if
they ditfer, they are unworthy of no
tice. If we bcl.evc the doctrines and
J precepts transmitted to us in the New
testament to lie a revelation from
God, we cannot, w ithout presumption,
st arch out for any other, nor even ac
cept the same on an inferior authority.
Whatever may be their authority, their
unrivalled excellence is indisputable.
The moral lessons of Christ are all so
concise, so clear, to unencumbered,
with definitions and inquiries, and en
forced by parables so apposite and in
structive, ns brings them nearer to our
hearts, and renders them not only su
perior to, but unlike a!l which had ever
before been published to the world.
In omitting all unnecessary disquisi
tions on moral and religious subjects,
the Apostles imitated the example of
their maMer. In the passage now be
fore us, St. Paul w riling to the breth
ren at Philippi, enjoins then to think
on, that is, not to forget to practice,
il whatsoever things are true, whatso
ever things are honest, whatsoever
things are just, whatsoever tiiin? arc
pure." He takes it for granted, that
those to whom he wrote, as well as all
mankind, knew what things are true,
honest, just, and pure ; and therefore
he enters not into any metaphysical in
quiries into the abstract nature of truth,
honesty, justice, and purity, which are
always useless, and sometimes detri
mental, and they never induce men to
be virtuous, and sometime serve to
furnish them with excuses for vices.
Men want not knowledge of their du
ty, but inclination to perform it. A
definition of virtue will never make
any one less profligate, nor an inquiry
concerning the origin of property
make any one more honest ; no more
than a dissertation on optics will make
a man see, or a receipt for distilling
brandy or brewing sma'l beer will
make him sober.