North Carolina Newspapers

J ! t ; ' j '; , ;--'! : ' J ' 4 VOLUME IV. NEWBERN, N. C. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1822. NUMBER 204. t published weekly, BY A NO - PASTEUR 8f WATSON, X $ 3 per annum half in advance. MISCELLANEOUS. VILLAGE TALES. -rfVvi wsf.-Hulbom Hill was ' -i . Alochnrv. and I wan a bit i IIIIIC 1 1 . 7 , - r ... . ..it visitor mere .1 whn- vounr ; Ft dence of the Hawthorns hll been si fjreny Mui nmnr;onr L .If anlnrv nntl net H fin i hve Ol 113 i 1 jjm successively down to the am o ' .' i tK-.if wa enclosed unon pe j(S Ljra,l :Vr and consecrated to the reception i and the field, were literally groaning b-DoM-it . . T ., . neai. the nresfcure of the nnenin; hir- loved rem th;s moment the visit l paiu io young vi :..'r ulie.i I was on the eve of leaving mv iiative village for the great mart of co nmcrce of Pennsylvania, lie tiau on ly a fe-v yTS before come into posses s'un, by the death of his faTTier, and had aiw iWbccn what even in those times of M,rava-:ince would be called a good liver, i i.sdeced I thought, he well might be fir lie jot with his farm some hundreds in li(5e cash, fourteen or fifteen head of ! fit cattle, and two excellent teams o- i .rscs, besides a qu ntity of grain and u;:i-r fanning itock and ra itenals in pro fjiim. But wliat was my surprise to hf ir him talk of bard times of the-difficulty of procuring money and of the IMuuwiierly impudence of sundry per st.whom he said he happened to ot? m vJral small sums. In the course o conversation, however, he had fold x:i wr.t he hud been getting his new gig r;,.ied, which he had broken sometime bHun' in driving olf a bridge at ihe same li,,!. ilmi he had killed, a fine six yeais o! J hay, to replace which swept offa round l.vo hundred, that he had two law suits 0 i !m:i J and had not seen the sun rise cr look hold of a pl.ugh in two years. 1 Ind always took notice that Oliver ap peared the inot free and easy, man in all t!ie country for he never missed a hunt, a lulling varty, or a horse race within tnenty Uiiles round, but I never thought ot ihe cousequences of such a course, or I should not, assuredly, have thought stringe that hard times should overtake him. v V- And then it was really amusing to hear hiiii talk. He praised up the life of a far rn -r to the clouds, and hoped that every .'ii :n that was ashamed of the plough anilit want bread ; and how necessary it i. h-.: would say that instead of saying to a iti of workmen, go. to work, one should vn , come alons with me to work. In fi-.c ise preached the finest of doctrine of ai. fa::;jer in the whole country, and ac ted as directly opposite to his own advice as it was possible for a man to do. " Oliver had a young bi other who lived in a small but neat pine cabin at the foot of the hill. He had been unfortunate in incurring the displeasure 'of his father by muryin4 a poor but lovely girl, who had Clanged his affections while he was yet al most a child. The old gentleman one day c.illed him nd said, Bob, squire Maya's daughter is the person. I intend yi'-a s!nll marrv ; you will -theiefore let nKiiejr no more about Mary B." u Fa thY,'' said he, looking at his own hard hvids, and stretching them out,-i( w hile these hands and this heart are mine, I will not sell myself for all Holborn Hill." And iie never changed his mind he mar rd, renting the little cottage and the fe v acres on v. Inch he now lived he set- - tied himself, and bean the world without a farthing. O.i my return from the farm house, for so the i.:ansion.f. Holborn Hill was al .ys called, I stopped at Robert's and tik ith him a glass of beer and a slice j! sweet cake. Bob was too busy to t'dk much of the times, but as soon as I tad C;iihed my glass he invited me iuto the ir.ead.:v where he was mowing, and jj'-i uie s.-.ii myself ; there we talked an hour or ro, while he finished his day's and gave me a history of his af fiiri. He had never been three months 111 elt, he said, to any man and the rea- ' as plain. ' 1 work my little place le clace -..jres; iiai oeongs 10 my landlord ' fever toudi ; and as torticles which U hem t'ain I can raise more of, to my 8 aare ti:sn I c;ui use mv beeves I fatten 0.1 I . 1 "- ", - 11, a vwujuc ui vuw aujipiy us '" Gutter, cheese and milk, a little spot of ' cLthes us ail, rye serves us for "66T - r morning and night, jand thore is t,ew maple trees on the place from J,l;c'i I make all the sugar I wanWo use. 7 ana then I have a few .bushels of a few pounds of buiter, a cheese, J-ie wihw articles to sell j fiaU a ready marker, and - the money they pro- duceil can put in good hands, and have j compound interest for. It as long please - - I must confess, whether it looks like jorance r not, that long after this ; could not but believe Robert .Hawthorn to beithe wealthiest of the two ; but I-left Alesoury, and it was. 'only few-summers a go that I again had the; happiness of visiting its peaceful vale. Ten or twelve years make a wonder- ; ful difference in the aspect of things' gen- ? eralJY, ana AiesDury was cnangea; on : . .at I I II j how rhangecf. As I rode by Holborn, I tuuiu iiui. uuv it.wm.vi " .... m. ; Hawthorns. The farm house was im- j proved not a pane of glass was broken j in th$ windows the fences were tiht. vest:! the fruit trees had been trimed up and were loaded with the choicest fruit and tjie pasture fields were crowded with droves of cattle, sheep, and' hogs. W'ejl done' Oliver, said I, your example as welf as yo(ir precept now proves you the best farmer in the country I'll warrant ; but I shuddered when I passed the. cottage that once afforded to Robert i law thorn so neat a dwelling. Poor fellow, thought I he Has become wonderfully j changed : instead of the neat and rustic jsimplicit y that u'sf?d to be seen here, all was gloomy, the windows were stuffed vith old hats and dirty rags. 1 looked aroud, out not ajsoul was to be seen, a few half star- i ved shoats werl squeeling about the door, where the dog sat, in lank desOondency, and snarled as I passed.-Perhaps thought I, Robert is dead ; I'll look at the hurry ing pjace of the Hawthorns ; but when I came in sight of it 1 could not recognize a single new stone in it the old and well knowji monuments alone appeared. - It ihay readily be supposed that I did not Iqug remain a stranger to the causes which) had led to this transformation. And t cannot say I was more surprise:', than otherwise, or that I felt less joy than sorrow, when I learned that Robert Haw thorn' was now the owner of Holborrt Hill farm and that poor Oliver inhabited the cottage at lat. The two -brothers had never changed the habits of their early days,; Bob, though now the owner of the best brouertv alone Alesburv. was still the same industrious, careful and prudent .: - I.. . r..i ..;j... man. -I While Oliver though stripped of all he ever was worth and unable to pay even the petty rent demanded by his land lord still attended to every one's business but hjs own, was still as wise in 'theory, & as po r in practice as ever he had been. When I called at the farm house, Bob received me with a smile, and Mary brought out the old treat $weet cake and the finest home made beer, which, how ever, ; I had always thought better than Oliver's wine and segars. , ' Well,' said I, 1 hbw happens all this.' There was something I thought, of triumph in his eye, when stretching out his hands he re plied in the same language as thatwhich some vears before had turned him periny- I less from the very door, i these hands and this heart, Sandy, have bought ayd puiu tyi iiuiuuiu 11111 WILL OF E. BOUDINOT, L. L. D. It is generally known that this distin guished Philanthropist has appropriated a large proportion of his estateto reli gious and charitable uses, and as it must be accepable to all, aud particularly ad vantageous to all those conceivied, to be correctly informed on this subject, the following summary has beenj obtained and may be relied on as authentic. The Testator gives I 1. 7rh.esun of $200, to be distributed by his-daughter among ten poor widows. 2. He gives his daughter l5sharesin the Aqueduct Company of Burlington, the yearly produce of which she is to dis tribute among the Friendly Society of Temaies in Burlington. - - 3. rHe gives $200 to the New Jersey Bible5ociety, to be laid out in spectacles, for the use of indigent old persons to en able them to read the scriptures. 4. A devise of 4,000 acres of land, in the county of Warren,' andjtate of Penn sylvania, 10 11 the Society established in mIip Siitf r." Vpw.Vnrt. for meliorating the condition of the Jews," under certain conditions, for the purpose' of supplying nv wi m. m mm - n Jewisli settlers with farms of fifty acres each, at the option of the said; Society, the sum of $1000 within 2 years. o. ne Mllll OI NZUUU IS "IVCI1 lu inc Lnr.e4 Dretiiren ot Moravians, at Detn- Iehem,: to enable them to civilize and gospejize the Indians. '! 6. To the Magdalen Societies of New York and Philadelphia, and " the Insti tution at Cornwall, in Connect! cutr for educating the Heathen," respectively the 7. To the Trustees of the ! General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, three houses in the city of Philadelphia, i t uie rents oi which are io oe ima out tor the purchase of books for pastors of Con gicj;aiiuiis uic uisijrcurs rem ip oe ai- vided equally be' ween, the Presbyterian ai cnaciutwi i own nr. j. ana tne Episcopal Church at Burlington. k 8. The testator's library is (eft, after his daughter's death, to the Theological Seminaiy at Princeton, N. J. 9. 4,000 acres of Land, in Luzerne. I county Pa. to the GeneralvAssemb!y .of the fresbvtenan uhurch, the proceeds of which to be appropriated to the edu cation of such students of divinitv in the pl..... q-.- - fi " i iiwinitdi Qeiuuiaiy hi .rrinseion, .bs are not able to support themselves each student not to receive more than $200 annually. 10. 4,00 acres of land in the said coun ty, to (he Trustees of the college of New .Jersey, from .the profits of which are to eb appropriated $1,000 in.the first instance, for the improvement of the cabinet of nn rifJi History, anq tne residue lor the establishment of fellowships in said Col- I 1 I iej;r, so tnyi no incumoeni nowever De allowed more than $250 per annum. 11. 4,542 acres of land in Lycoming county, Penn. to the American Board of Commissioners, for foreign missions in Massachusetts, for the purpose of sending the gospef to the heathen, .and particular ly to the Indians of this continent. 12. 3,270 acres of land in the county of Bradford, and state of Pennsvlvania to the managers of .the hospital in Philadel phia, for the use of poor and destitute foreigners, and- persons from other states than Pennsylvania, to enable them to gain admittance when necessary into this in- stitution.. j . 13. To Messrs. Matthew Clarkson William Woosley, Samuel Boyd and John Pintard, of New-York, in trust for the AMERICAN BIBIE SOCIETY, 4,5S9 acres of land in' the county of Northumberland, and .state of Pennsyl vania, the profits of which are to be ap plied to the general purposes of the insti tution, but especially to sending the gosr cfel-fo the heathen. 14 To the mayor and corporation of r Inlademhia, acres oi land in Centre county, Pennsylvania,, for ihe pur pose fcf forming a fund for supplying the ; poor of that city with wood on the low est terms from this fund, a medal worth $10 is to be given to any person who will undertake the purchase and distribution j of the wood gratuitously. 15'. The sum of S'5.000 to the general IT assembly of the Presbyterian church, ne half of the inteiest of which sum is to be appropriated to the support of a mission ary or catechist, who is to instruct the poor in the hospital, prisons, &c. in Phil adelphia and the other half for like pur poses in the city of New-York. j 16. The residue of his estate, the tes tator gives and devises to his trustees and among the trusts are the following of a public nature, to be carried into effect after his daughterseath. lf To" the trustees of the college of New-Jersey the sum of $10,000, half for usc artW udii iof u.di of the Theological Seminary, as directed in the devise of real estate above men tioned. " j 2. To the American board of commis sioners for foreign missions, the sum of $5,000 for like objects, as stated in the, devise of real estate. ! Finally, after providing very liberally for his nearest family friends and connec tions, by a codicil, he gives the residue of his estate after the death of his daugh ter, andafter satisfying his specific ap propriations, to the" use of the General Assembly of the' Presbyterian Chuirch to wards the support of such of the members as are of the Synod of New Jersey, and whose salaries are insufficient : for their support. Or this fund may, at the dis cretion of the. General Assembly, be ap plied, in whofeor part to misionary pur poses, or to the use of the two education societies under the superintendance of jam "cuciui iissemui). i5; un lets and Executors are Mrs. Susan Bradford of Burlington. Richard Stockton, Esq. Counsellor' at Law, ai.d Samuel Bayard, Esq. of Prince ton. ' Lucius H. Stockton, Counsellor at Law, Trenton. Elias E. Boudinot, Esq. Newark, N. J. iVeifl Brunxicick Times. LORD BYRON. George Gordon Byron, Lord Byrop, is rhe grandson of the celebrated Com modore Byron, whose outset in a disas trous life has interested us so much in 1 : r A '. He was born in Scotland in 179L His ? lather, the brother of the late lord, was I aa officer ia the Guards -7 his motbei a Gordon of Park, related to the' Earls , Fife. The poetry that finally took I due aspect in Ins person, had given van - ous intimations of itself in his family, i inesnape oi verse-wniing laaies ana ro- I manlic adventures. The race, who were greai country proprietors in lorKsuire; were ennobleil irMhe person of Sir John j Byron for His loyal efforts in the cause of I Charles the First ; but the greatest Byron I of old was one recorded in Sir John I Beaumont's poem of Bosuorth Field for 1 his friendship for his companion Clifton. l-'ord hyron is of good stature, with a - very handsome face and person. His hair is brown with a tendenrv to run in -..i . , . v ihkis, mis eau ana loreneaq nneiy cut; his eyes of a lamping blue, and might give his face too haughty aii ex pression, if it were not for his 'mouth; and chin which are eminently bland and beau tiful It is nor new to the public, fthat all his beautv of aspect, has one contta- I diction to it, in a lame foot; but! the I lameness is hardly perceptible in a mod- I ern aress, as lie sits or even when he is lounging about the room, he seems lit tle more than sweeping hither and thither with a certain lordliness of indolence. It is a shrunken foot, not one raised upon irons, or otherwise promptly defected. We are the less scrupulous in alluding to his lameness, because it has bren men tioned in the grossest mann-er Ly some poor creatures, who thought to worry his Lordslup's feelings.. It is remarka ble that the two eminent living writers, whose portraits of humanity are upon the whole mixed up with a greater degree of I scorn than those of my of their cotempo raries, are both of them lame..-The other we atiude to is sir Walter bcott. Lord Byron was bred at Harrow, where he cultivated his young friendships and ver- ses with equal ardour. He has told us that his regard for another living writer was first awakened by a youthful pubh cation, in which similar inclinations a a ! 1 ' bounded.. He recollects his school-days with regard and yet at Harrow the first seeds were probably sown of that mistrust and disappointment at human nature which is so apparent in his writings. School-boys ia general understand little but one another's defects ; and when he left Cambridge, he was destined to find that friends of whom lie expected other wise, could soon forget him in the bustle of tne world. He grew careless and rio tous. The first productions of his pen, (common place enough it is true, like those of all young writers who are brought up in the midst of artificial models,) were contemptuously treated by the reviewers. I he rest of his life is well known. Religious SOLITUDE. Solitude is essential to the Christian. Our. Lord himself has given us an exam ple of occasionally retiring from the world, when he spent nights on the moun tain in reflection and prayer. Holy men !n nil aT; linv fnll'iivprl hi PTmn!p They have assured us that ihey have made .hH:r at(a nnicnts n the fe of the son . during their hours of lonelv retirement, in unwitnessed meditation, in unpartaKei musing, in whispered p ayer. In such hours they have recovered that sense of the value of divine things, , which the world had made them forget ; they have j restored that sensibility of .conscience, which intercourse with mankind had blun ted; they have gained new life to those aflections,- which had been deadened by the ihe excitement of other affections in company of men and then they have returnedto (he a'clive duties of their cal ling, prepared to pursue them with fresh ardor and diligence, and to combat temp tation with increase!) strength. Every one, indeed, who hashad any experience at any time of the genuine influence of religion on his soul, Imust be aware how much his zeal, and steadfastness and com fort, and improvememy"have been owing to his solitary hours, and how these- have languished and jrone from him, in pro portion as he has neglected a reasonable retirement, and suffered himself to be en grossed in the cares of the world. It may be assured as a maxim amongst Christains, that he who ceases to have anv time to himself, will cease to improve as a religious man. The spirit within him will be dying away, the warmth of bis lieart will be waxing cold, the beau tiful regularity of his aflections and dis- positions, which were once the source of his choicest peace, and thajrdevout frame f contemplation and heavenly-minded-. ness, which was once to him as the fore castle of Heaven, will be passing from Ulw. anri hf will omniinllv hor'nmo a different man. He may still, in a cold, calculating way, show fidelity to his irexidly trusts, ana bg obedteut to the. of i demand of his several stations in llr- itsj but he cannot continue like a discing of - f Jesus, h s heart dowinir with holv fepf. inline, and his mind enlarged interested -ana elevated by habitually acting in sight as it-were1, of invisible and infinite tllinT, thinr: Asa religious man. tUortfrr ho to improve. He never retires from the world, and the world bv d lizes all his thought and concern. eprees monopo- Christian Ditciplc. " Life js short : the poor pittance of 70 years Is not worth beint? a villain f S What mailers it if vonr nriaUh terred i'n a snlenrliit imh? ' , . . . : r yv with innocence. Look behind vnn il,r' vou . the. tracks of time, a vast desert of un numbered ages lies open in the retro spect : thr ough this desert have your fore fathers; journied on, until wearied with years and sorrows, they sunk from the walks of man. . You must leave them w here ihey fell, and you are to go a little ! further,1, where" you will find eternal rest What ever vou mav have to eiicnnntm between the cradle and the grave, be not dismayed. The universe is in endless motion ; everv moment ibig with innu merable events, which come not in slotr success on i rurstinc torcib v from a re volving and unknown cause, fly over this orb with diversified influence." blair. 3 FOREIGN. Latest from England. I Charleston Feb. 4. ' . By the ship Bayard, Capt. Vandyke, arrivedjOn Saturday evening, in 33 iuxg from Liverpool, we have received t"ur regular files of London Papers to the 27th. and Liverpool to the 29th December. ! Our jiles by the Jlayard, furnish aa unhroken series of intelligence up to tlie 2Jth ot! December but the accounts by jier from Ireland, are not so late as those received at this office by the Fama. War ; hail not actually commenced be tween Russia and Turkey, but on all hands it appears to be considered as in" evilable. ) ;' . r ( At the same time, the Greeks appear, unassisted, to be making head against the Mahometans, and, we are sorry to say have been 'guilty of the roost horrible ex cesses towards the Turks, particularly at Navaim aud Tripolizza, after those rda ces had capitulated. Wome.i. and chil dren were massacred by tbem, after hav ing surrendered j and some of the circum- stances aresaid, in r the London papers, beVn too atrpcions foroublication- to have A civil jvar bad commenced in Snain. and that ijlfated, distracted country, ap pears destined to be the theatre of the most appalling scenes.- . A number ot -famifies passed through Cayenne, on the 7tn December, on their way to France, whither they were flyin? in consequence of the disturbed state of" the interior of Spain. 'Jbey reported pat no persons of property wee safe, juuless they embraced the popular cause ; that open rebellion had been declared in tiany places ; and that there is a complete vstem of correspondence among the dis affected from, one end of the kingdom to he other, j -r - ..-.-'.' ' ;v ' - ,! Private letters from Lisbon, to the 12tli Of December, represent the situation of Portugal as very precarious. : Assassina tions and roberies are frequent 384 of the former are reported by the. Intendaut ' of Police to have taken place within the ' last ten weeks. We are oh the eve (say the writers) of some great change. The King was without money to pay his daily expenses Ihe other , day j with diffic ulty . some was procured Cor his present subsis ttnee. .j. ' j ' -'' ' ' The tremendous hurricane of the 30th ijsov. (says one of our London papers) whether in regafd to the loss of shipping or other valuable property, or, what is infinitely of more value, the, loss of men'j ljves, will i?e regarded by future gei.era ttons, as tlie most fatally destructive of any on record. It is stated, that Mr. Alexander Car ifjg realised Ll20,000 by . transfers ia French Stock in two years. He has iur- cjhased the noble mansion and domains f the Hon. Mr. Petre. in Norfolk . fo H.300,000, j - . THE COTTON MARKET. . Liverpool, Dec. 28, 1821. Yeslesday there was a very good de- riiand for Cotton, aud about 1900 bales sold ; no advance was obtained, but hol ders are rather stiff, and many are Incli ned to think that rather better pi ices may i bklooked for in the spring'; the stock 'g " sro a,ler an J"0 f.lWr' S tA uvi w i t i t 'i t i