Vurtv
'i I Tt Killing or.ii ,
f,h .tl l l!,t ir
AvJ t'.t. ;h n4 tftiotlr r;rii,
cc , in ihe'.r nu cl,ui.' frt,
Tl' InA tli.t lIiKin.i! pte tf1 proof,
UKI cl.m ii t o !J Sffip.fi,
Thou4 KicfM fn.ro it! parent item
If grafted on I' lmrt
Of fin lion terf erf woull t,
Te keep Hfiwttfc'iUmpett free.
To ch ilioutl ihm Ckir flwer t given.
And fl xiriih itil I.k either rem.
Thl's left jow the purM ftcm
... . . . ,......
" tory wsythe parent item b fire,
Jl btM!nf It dcrirei from Hearts t
Jitd cherith, with parental ere,
TU three stet lovers that lluasom there.
C.
; rat mint rtiA.
Xaw, mvmc,' aia airierrr,
Contend, which iltftH superior b
Tie Lawyer pleads hi U your friend,
And will your rlfhti and eauH defend
The Doctor says, denyt who will.
That I.f and hraJtli art In kit pill 1 '
The fravt Dirinr, with look demurM,
To peniunu with teaea air
But stark the friends of nun, tad see
Vkert tnd tl'clr great civility 1
Without fct the Law ri dumb,
Without f the Doctor! miira
f lis Rcereoc mv, without kU dues
Toti might the joy of Metres low.
.Then be adviaed ia tone conftde,
Jtut Uk aound reaaow for your fault.
BlOflRAPHICAL.
GENERAL MINA.
- We are much indebted to a liters
17 gentleman of this city for the loan
of very valuable r tgliah publication,
from which we extract the following
interesting and authentic accouot of
the character tod military itrvice of
Geal. Midi, the Celebrated command.
cr.Pf.lbe C(iotituti9nl Jroopi in Cau.
Ionia. The wo fit was publithrd the
present year, in London, by Sir Mich-
rd Phillips Sc Co., sod it entitled
PubncCharactertcfatlnattentiCon.
9UtinrofBiorraphicalaccounttoJnrar.
, y three thound eminent cotemporu.
'. 4 riett alphabetically arranged t iaith nu
.tneroui pofrailit in S.vtl$ kwJ.Th)t is.
we believe, the only copy to this city,
and there ia iki- probably--another
-r gtyy; - .ye know pot when we
,r Jiaveinet witK a work ao "uicTuI and
'intereatin,' and we shall, with the per
mission of the gentleman who has fa
yored us with the loan of it, follow the
present extract with other biographic
al akctches of living character!.
-fc " Don Faanctsco haroz t Mima,
'one of the moat distinguished of the
Spanish patriots, ia native of Navar
rr
r, and was brti in 4 782tHel-4rmV
ir of .Ydocin, about two. miUt from
1 . fi t t..L .
la
Paninelura. Hy some he has been
represented as the son of a mere peas
ant, circumstance which, if trur,
would only tnch.mt hit merits but he
- it, in fact, ef a family of some consc-
quencf. During the war against the
French, his nephew, Don Xavier Mi-
:Ti .thenjl ttudent at the university of
" Saragosssj raise(raOoeTiila-coTps,-
with which he performed aeveral apir
itcd exploit!. X.ivier being taken
prisoner, in J 810,' the command of the
corps was transferred to Francisco,
who so n rendered hit name the terror
of the French. Brave, active, indefa-
. ti(Me, full of rcsourcei, and posetsed
of an admirable pretence of mind, he
.J iocr?sntly harrased sod wore down
-i;ihe iifn'Cty'WfwXf-' in
v iCrrf.' but If tntr iidthfeorlajr rovt;
Incep ot Alava and-Arragon - oucn
t1herapitKjy;i3f hiimoteraentsTthat
nothing' could ' Iscape htm' t'MriljojBfe
v'oy,lot"a detaclimenr, could move
frn'm nrir pbrc tff.aaothcr that Tie did
not rush upon it, and in almost every
msnnce ne was bucccssiuu inc inns
. . . whiohl the, Fre.nch sustained in this
kind of warfare, was incalculable
white his was triflinp, as th accuracy
of the tnttllience which he received
prevented hirn from being ever aurpri- J
laed, jiuLjr.bcji JxtJS a 3 JkLflut-iiumher
- d, n'f troops dwbanded bv signal, aiuL
"tx Jis?md. imAaeHbo4ats,iici
resumed offensive operations. It was
in vtdariitt resolving tQ;.eitermlate
""TiTs dlyisTor. the" eue my portd 25,000
' men into; Navarre. He not onlystood
hi ground, but eventually" rcrnainecl
master of the proviuce. Ifc was, in
Tact, rften denominated the king of
Kavarre. In 1811, the Uegercy gave
him the rark of colonel j in 1812, thaj
r of Brigadier genera) j and soon after
that ol general. His force in 1813,
tr; :-v:! rf !t,0'T;:i'4r.-.ry, a- 1 2500
t4Vii!rv, an 1 wit!i ti he to--..: rratcd
in lite blockade uf i'-mjliiat an 1 re-
covered Uri-rit Mut . n, laNfa,
JaCJ, and vjriui other t.UCri, 'When
the peace ws concluded, be was be-
liegitii; Jean Tied de iVrt. After
Ii4in put bit diviiton inti quarteri.
he went to MJrHf and hd the mor
tiCcatioQ 10 find, that he had been la
bound? only f r the rc-tnaUnhfrient
ofdipotiifl.. Ditg utrd withthe&m.
duct of Ferdinand, and having fru (
lenlr rcmonitrated with him, he en.
dravoured to perauade the other Span
Uh r Derail in th? capital to join with
him, and makc'aa etT ri in the c.tuar
of freedom, l;uth';aclT rta were render
d kUortlve, Dy ilie' bautfuriiiflaencr
of the pricithoud, Mina then haiten
ed to Navarre, with the intent! .0 of
putting himi:lf at the head of hi di
vision f but he found that the pew cap-
uiDgcncrai niu uiamiatea tne iroopt
which compoted it. lit', however.
gained over the carriaoo of P-mpelu-
ea, and wai on the point of proclaim
ing the constitution, when h'u plan
wat fruatrtted by the puiillanimity of
tome o( the olucefi. lie had row ho
reiource but to aeek an aa'ylum in
France, and he reached l'aria ia aafety.
While he wai reiidtng in the French
capital he wai arretted by a commint.
ry of Poller whom the Spaniah ambai
tador, Count de Caia Floret, had oer
tuaded, or more probably bribed, to
commit thit act of inaolence and in
iuitice. On this occaiion Louia be
haved in a manner which waa highly
honorable to him. He turned the com
miliary out of hia place, intiited on
the ambanador being recalled, and not
only released Mina, but granted him
a pennon ol 6000 franct. i be Span
un general waa not ungrateiui. II
refused to have any intercourte what
ever with Napoleon, quitted France
and joined the king at Ghent, and rr
turned with him to Paria. Till the a
my at Cadis raited the atandard 0
r?Aoro Jl cM'ii?Jk rJ
privately in Prance 1 but as soon ai
that event took place he hurried bat
to Navarre, collected a few hundred 0
ft'i followers, isaued a proclamation
'Qmo on ine rc" 10 J'"n n,m 1D
was advancing against Pampeluna
when a deputation wat tenf to him by
the inhabitants, to inform him that the
city had accepted the constitution.-
After the klrnr had Submitted ti the
iicvrbrdei ' fit thUgiRfraaTwas-ap
pointed captain-general of Navarre
llii talents, however, were soon re
quired in the field. A few fanatics
and lovers of despotism having sue
ceeded in exciting a formidable insur
rcction in Catalonia," Mina waa entrus
ted with the Command of the army dea
tined to act against them. The rug
ged nature of the country in which h
had to act. the weakneit of hit own
nd-tht-streBgth of the rebels
I rendered his operations seemingly tar.
I J.....I'- ....... -J.l I " I?
ay ai uic ouuci, ana inc ultra royalists
began to manifett the utmoit confi
dence and exultation. But they soon
discovered that they had wonderfully
miscalculated. Mina was too prudent
to commit any thing to chance, when
a repulse might have been productive
of disastrous consequences t but, as
soon-as-he had fully prepared every
thing for the ctmflict, he attacked the
bands of traitors with his wonted im
petuosity, routed them in several en
counters, and drove them before him
in the utmost confusion, over the Py-
renean frontiers, into the French prov
ince of Routillon. These victories
have increased his fame throughout
t.urope, and he is regarded as the
w-OTtj-aSpg
indisaHiejet
tutiooarcause''
. ioToir, jcit 5, 1823.
Mij dear Friend t I have been to
see ajjjhe sights since I came to Bos
ton I have seen the governor and the
glass-house, the mayor and the mum
royj the mall and the mill-dam, the
stone house and the steam-boat, j
drawing room of dandies..' and a cara
van of wild animals t a description of
JjwULjoJLlucn, J shall j-cscrve lor our
first meeting.-.
to hear aoftiethiog about the Boston
fash;$nK4yVtf:.be fashion to
wear rtea ealashe instead of bonnets.
Every body wears them. Those who
wear Legjiorns,' cause them to flap
down over the shoulders, ao that a
short irsonls nearly covered by them,
rand looks fof all the world, like a lamp
under, an extinguisher. These leg
horoyor. gyp?iea are not, however, very
common. . (
p i itt.
fr U lieslO wtar(i'nfrvcrysimi
tjr to u t) jt druthrr li ill Luik!rs foun 1
( i .: . i t l ...
iiiiiixiic iv linn fuuni, t my
re ti ck leittier strjpi, which buckle
very flht about the waist, 1 should
give cu a more particular description
of them, only that I presume yt-u taw
an account of the faihiont So a late
GjUxv. lathe country, you know,
we are taught to ctnctal all the artt by
whit h we improve our appearance j
and instead of letting the fellows know
how light we are Uced, we endeavor
to nuke them believe it it only our na
tural shape. But here, n the Contra
ry, mere appears to pe no such deli
c-tf, - . '
: ' Ue great and j fashionable accoro-
pluhmenr, which is tow learned by
lidif t school, it to play with the
cup and bait. Thefe is another plv
of the same species, called the devil
upon too ttkki, whiih is played by
ladies of every agr j but it it rot
so common as the cup and b'l).
It is all the fashion now, alio, for
young girlt in study Latin a few
months in which time,' you may be
sure, they become monstrous great
scholars. When we went to school,
you know, it wat indispensable, ii
order to fnith our education, that we
should learn to play a tune on the pi.
ano forte, aad to embroider a funeral
piece, reprricnting a mikhaprn urn,
with something intended for a female
figure bending over the urr, and a
great weeping willow bending over
both. But now instead of working
embroidery, the misses atudy Latin j
and instead f learninr to nlav on the
pijno forte, they learn to plait the devil
and the cup ani hall ! U my good old
grand mothtr.! You will cry out, what
will this world come to at uvt This
is all a certain proof, as our parson
says, of the awful depravity of the age.
I have not had an offer yet j when
I do, you shall hear ol it by the fut
posU It is not so fathionuble here,
among the men, to marry, as it is in
the country.' TTTEe sr'hYe oflne'Doir
ton fashions hugely j hut in one thing,
at least, give me the country fashior,
lay I. So no more at present but 1
remain your loving friend till death.
Sacthariita Chrittina .Imrka Scrtj-pm.
ADVICE.
A late writtr eondensfi in a few
liaes a bole volume practical ad
yic Uli. FiHTua rvour tioic,o Juily
with useful eropioy-mcms-as to leave
little leisure for pursuits rf -a double
character. Endeavor further to ac
quire such a strong sense of duty, tuch
a taite for contemplation! of a higher
order, and tuch well arranged habits
of sacred study and devotion, as may
supercede the temptation to devote to
idle, if not injurious amusement, mo
ments which may be ao much more
I profitably given to the great concern
oi mating your calling ana election
sure.11 Keep in mind the claims
which your family, your friends, and
society, have upon your hours of r
tirement t and the importance of so
employing those hours, he they few
or many, mat your oouy aru mine;
may be refreshed for the returning do
tiet oU each successive day. And
Lstly, guard against habits of idle c
rioiity j and be not ashamed to own
that there are many things with which
neither your time cor your taste per
mits you to be acquainted, and least
of all with every new tale that happens
to be the subject of popular converse-
UVU
CHILDHOOD.
There js itv hrdhood an holy iirm-
ancUtt;
without aomethioi: jof . the. re vercntial
feelings with which onr should ap
proach beings of celestial nature. The
impress of the divine nature is, as it
were, iresh on the infant f.pintfrrstr
and unsullied bv contact with this with
ering world. One trembles least ati
impure breath should dim the clear
nets of its bright mirror. And how
perpetually must those who are in the
habit of contemplatinr childhood of
studying the characters of little chili
drenfeeland
nearts,- y t sueh is the kingdom of
wisest amongst us, may not op to
receive' instructi6n -and teouVef fr orn
thrcharacter of Flittle cluldr WhicK
of us, by comparison, with its sublime
simplicity, has not reason to blush for
the littleness iosinceritv the' world
iness ihe degeneracy, of his own J
v Blanks,
OF the varioua kinds commonly in tfse, for sale
at the Office of tke Witiiaa Cuduiui,
It l is lifrrt very u:.iona. -le uuiy
coMitn.scATr.i)
0 i tlltlll IKHllllll,
Mr, White i y are r.otfcf the rpin.
on ir.at every trronroua vt icurriloui
piece which ia lent abrod in the week
ly newspapers, ought to be noticed by
the friends of religion j no, erroneous
or scurrilous at they may be, they ev
idently do good. They ihow ta the
world how week thereaaoniarr, whiih
drt be urged against benevolent de
signs," and how grossly immoral thoit
charaiirri are wnouppose mrse or.
iens. lothit wavlihezcaUutfrirndi
of the prince of daikneis hive ebvi-
ouily of late, done much to c olound
a . - .a
the desirnt of their master, and to
strengthen the energ'etcf christians.
S I off as there are so many. bitter en
emies of that which it good, and to
much apathy among others, which
mutt, I y tome means, be destroyed,
we will rejoice rather than wtrp, to arc
the rulings f l heir phrenstic bclngt
circulated. They do often excite the
dormant letlii.gs of a god mar, and
impel h;m to actious, when even the
kind admonition of a fr'ur.d would be
unavailing. Xtny who are rot quick
lo'd'ccovtr error, are li-blr to be mir.
bd by the trMimenttcf the 44 Lay
Preacher, which appeared in your pa.
per of the 8'h of July. As this wri.
trr w so w ise a to assime this hurr..
le name, one v hich imparti n igno
rance cd logical sermonizing, we will
puss over the irrelevant ot his exor
dium, his curious oalopy between the
Jewish and American Phatisee, and
hi forced rxegrti btit at his strong
appeal, we will nop a moment, and
ttur k. 44 But what in the name of
...
lommon tense, nave tor A menr-ns to
do with tneie people: fthe Hindoos.!
We have never act fo t in their cour-
try as conquerors. We c in do noth
ing iher-, unleii by a moral force,
Our miiou.rici are ai powerless there
i the Jew up doctora would have been
at Rome.' Now we profess to have
little 44 common sense,' but canno:
understand, why it is ntceisary to con-
quer'a people, telore w can acr the
part of pluianihrc pist., and christians
tow arils tin in. We cannot understand
how the great command xif our Mas.
tci 14 Preach the gopl to every crea
tors, " in annulled, at it rrfpects thoe
over whom another nation holt's a 44 ci
vil and military control." We cannot
see wl y 'we should be 'inactive, tecau'r
44 we can do'ncnhirff unlcss.bv a (r
ul force,. since thi isall the force we
wish to eteft all "we, are cemmatidrd
to ex.rt. Nor can we see ihe ground
on wheh the Lay-Preacher could i
stitute a comparison betw een our mis-
sicnaries in Iidia, and the Jewish doc
a a 'ii I
tors at nonie. i nese aoctors were
the avowed enemies of Christ. Th
missionaries are his friend, and goat
his command. Had he said our mis
sionaries are a nowrrUss there as the
X,...A n.I.ii,,.. -U I,,.,, k
i, ,u. r l.l
in'Hti ) i mm tin. irrwiiii uf liiiuiia ivere I
:t Home, he would h;.ve come within
the rench of our 44 common sense"
He would have told the truth. And,
indeed, we are constrained to think he
intended to ipeakjhe jruth, when he
said, 44 20,000 American citizens per
ish annually from intemperance. But
allow this, and allow that the Suttees
and Juggernauts car.do. ntt-dcstrcy
annually more than 10,000 of the Hin
doos we cannot see how he, draws the
conclusion from hence, that 44 our dar
ling idol, alcohol, is twelve' times as
destructive as the gods of the hea
then.1 In order to admit this conclu
sion, we must not only allow his bold
assumption to be true, but must con
clude, .that the accounts pfnjtn of
it??. VTPSllTi respect mg the- millions
arineior' weFflfouiaid'
waya v hich pagan superstiluliofias
irivehted for '''lh'e'deTtrucfiolBiTnen,
are false, We have tod much res
pect for the names of Buchar.nan, Cary,
Wnrd and Hall, to admit this, Had
the Lav-Preacher said that our idol
alcohol was one fourth as destructive
as the gods of the heathen, it would
ave been bad enough to excite our
sympathies, and he would not. have
trespassed c n our 44 common sense,"
though he would not then have gained
tht'ttfid
cd. But if we allow that his statements
and deducuonjare true", stilt we cannot
see. any analogy between the friends
of .Asiatic Missionsf and the Pharisees
of ld, unless they are? "atiiJrunkards'.l
1 hen, indeed, as he says, there would
be a beam in their eye which ought to
be cast out. Now we are ready to ad
mit, that there can be no connexion be
tween his text. and discourse, unless we
suppose he meant this i but strange as
it may appear, in direct contradiction
to tne acope oi. both, he assures us he
A. I w r. t tl f. a.1 ir
Ul 1 ' .l I . il li d, HI ' ' I I
honeif, pious tforfe ! i j v c n r r a
t
a
their sutstancc free I vf f r the ; it
cf Asiatic missions," Honest, j k,ui
people are Certainly no drunk ariJi, .
they are not like the Llasphemout 1't
riicet they have r. t a I earn in tL.r
eye, con pared with wl.Uh ti c a!oml
naiit.ru ct the htaihen arc but a mote.
We arc then compelled to leave all we
have gone over as irrelevant, and tak e
hit meaning from the Beit tenttnee.
44 IlSey have probably been deceived.
But, how deceived I Thit we cannot
undtritand. Did ihey mistake the
cemmandef tleir Master f, That ia
i'ery plain i 44 Prr ach'the gorptl to ev
ery treaiure, , Were thry deceived
in their AmicipaiKnaLjn.ey did, in.;
deed, think that a morur infiueace
might be exerted, through the agency
of missionarict, to relieve the woet of
the wretched heathen. And their fee
ble effort! have been crowned with ,
sucteis, beyond their highest expects
in n. There it ro deception, They
aUu tb ughf, that if they discharged -this
duty, thry might, in return, wit-
. m a
nets an cc('rr,r;irmect i tne prom
ise cf Cod, lie that watereth others,
shall be watered also himself." This
wai urged by an able statesman, at the
time the luhj'Ct of granite the socie
ty a t barter wr i before the Legislature
of Massachutcttf. He pleaded in fa
vor of a giaM, that 44 religion w as that
kind of tt n.rrodity, that the more we
taper ltd, the more we should have at
horm . No ont, who has attended at
fall, to the prcgrctt i f religion in our
country, ran doubt whether there las
been deception here. They also kneir
the effect which would result Irom cul
tivating an expansive principle of cha.
rity. 1 hey knew , if the eye of chru
t'un benevolence ctflld be made to sur
vey the Islands of the tea, snd the re
mote region of pagwn darkness, it
would, of course, weep over that soul
at home, who slumbers in the arms of
moral death, or who degrades himself
to a level w iih the brutes by his dissi
pation. Tn17iis7lh'e tThi te tx iinT
been no deception. The re-action of
benevolent exertion has been, as was
snticipsttd. The sacrifice of money
and of labor, for the promotion of vir
tue atd the ruppression of vice, io our
own country, is now ten fold greater
ih.-jn it wat Jen jcart ago,Yea, Mnce
ihe first miis'onaries were sent IrOaa
rtur shores to Irvd, rocre has been""'
done for the moral imnrovemeTttrf cmr:
ctt:zeni, than, ait that wai ever, done
befotc. And this, tec, principally, by
those who have first been txcited to
do something for the heathen. Take
any good institution, w hich has for its
object the suppression of intemperance,
or any vice, or for the promotion of .
virtue, and the friends of foreign mis
sions are always the abettors and sup-
. .... . i
ponera ei u. 11 uic u
f it. If the Lav-Preacher.
tw - rrtfe" he-weepovr the prevalence of
. ,
intemperancr, does not find warm co
adjutors to help forward any good
scheme which he can devise, 44 to check
this poison which is consuming us,
this Hydra that is devouring usw it
is because there are no elevated friends
of foreign missions around him. Not,
as he intimates, because their benevo-'
lence is exhausted on a foreign object.
This" principle of benevolence canrot
be exhausted. It expands and gairs
strength by exercise, and prompts to ;
ev ery good work, at home as w ell as
ubrod.
The- Domestic Missionary Society
of this State, though a large portion ,
of its funds are expended in the wes-'
tern part, is entirely.. sur ported by. the
IHtncKi
d tlw;asier totmti
aslmTnyothTr
me uiciaies oi reason, inai mosc wuu
will do. omhing fcjr the -heathen rw ill-do---nothing
for their own citizens. They
have no principle of Benevolence to
which an appeal Can be made with suc-
cess. Ask them to give to tne nea-
then, ,and they .say, we have heathen -
enough in, our own country. "Ask theni
to assist the destitute in their own
state, and they have hard work to pay
their own Minister, Ask them to aid
in giving instruction to the perishing
n'afi'yfsi
are many poor children-around them.
- . it
iwho as much need instruction. -A tET
them giv ferth educatiort of-the .
ptrprhMfiisn
cultv that they ca educate their own, .
families. IVowit is easy to aeetnac
this method of repelling an object of
charity, though usually accompanied
by the sage adagey 44,Charity begins at
home, is nothing but a despicaoie :
subterfuge to avoid doing any deed of v
charity. , 7 ah o85?RVIB. . v
1 s