f
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taken to round toll in iliii h), iJ
ex.rl'i nje of contiguous territory i
in ill wiled ncconliur to the most ap
proved model, into suitable ' propor
tion of tillage pits'ure, and wod
land, with the mint r com partnioii ft
ofgnrd-ns ntid orchard. T'e Gr
errtl bo plain fd three thousand apple
trers. which art-yet mall, but thr ifty
opening to vistas u 1 1 over It is plania
tion. Ho is much engug.-d in H
cultivation of fruit of the best kind.
I In- snil of this large iract, though
Ut pci haps remarkable for iU natu
ral fertility, has been highly inproved
bv culture. Mud yelds wheat with o
ther agricultural products in abun.
dance It is finely wooded and wa
tered. Half a mile from thr house,
in the direction of Hose, there is a
large and living fountain, canalled in
a green vale, ami sheltered irotn the
un in summer by a grove of venera
bly imkk. lis limpid waters at thi
season rpose on a' bed of autumnal
Jewvts, and are as pure as tbey are
copious. From this rural and se
quemered retreat, a distant view of
the Chateau on one side, and of two
liftlf villages, witlfa spire to each
and the smoke curling above theni, on
the other, roak s n quiet and cheering
Washington Lafayette, (wbje iime
perl tip I ue somewhat loo familiar
ly to t t f ak- f diiii ciion,) ii much
Giig. geri in construed' gan icr-hoiis-,
upon the plan f Bime of those he
aw in our country. In short, nearly
ail ihr improvements nf La Grange
oow in prgre, are according to A
m . 'Ci. ii imdefs.' v
T. I), i-finrluded 'n our next.
The arrival of the ship Emerald, Fort was sbot dead io bi own bouse, attempt was repeated near the same
i Boon, 23 days fr in Liverpool, by huu prow.. eg. usm-am. f Mr plaee, uol lar from the house of a Mr.
has put u in p.ssession of English Fort dud iwo of Ins children were in Miles Parker, on the next Tuesday
i ivices of July 21 one day later the porch: Ins wife cauro in, passed night. A passenger, who was armed,
than those brought by Capt Bowne. through the house iih a caudle in snapped hi pistol in the face of the
The nrig Maria, of Liverpool, on her hau l, went mio the back room on depredator, who fled without effecting
her return from Buenos Ayres. sunk , the lefliside, had tak u some clothes bis purpose.
ni the British Channel, and 37 per- out of a trunk, and just as she had The Free Press, formerly printed
muds, including several women ana risen, a gu n was discharged tnrougti j at Halifax, has been transferred to
1 arborough and its publication wat
returned on the 2Zd inat
The Knoxville Enquirer of the 2d
ehihlren, who were pas-engers, were the window, aid hIio fell and instuul-
drow.ved, , ly expired It is thought th person
The profit able ofiico of kincr's prio-1 who did it mistook his object. It was
ler, for Scotland is conferred on fair
Walter Scott.
Mr Brougham is aain returned
for Winchelsea, and curiously enough
with Lord Ho ick (Karl Grry's eldest
son,) an unsuccessful candidate for
Northumberland. Mr. B's brother,
Mr J. Brougham, also a barrister, immediately t;iveii, and 1 wa among
is returned for Tregouy, ailing with the first who got there, and never wa
.a i
tue room in which Mt irt generally : inst. suys, "an uuexp.cied dnaver
sleeps; his life had been threatened has befollen us. 1 he v"orn crop, our
he was apprehensive of danger, and J only hope of a supply for sustenance,
was so prudrnt as not to carry a liht ' is uuw greatly injured by die worm
into the room when he went to bed. 'and thr) are daily nxtmding their
That night was the first time light j ravages Many fi Ids are already
had been carried in. The alarm wa 'nearly destroyed We have hen m
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formed of one tild of twenty acres in
t s i.a. ...
l)r Lushiriglon.
it is caieu ateu vnnf in tiiiK.ew-
sr . AJt .
fariiimeot mere woifirt be nrjori
ty of 41 iofarorof Catholic emauci-
hmliou.
' 1 so shocked before 'o ee the fa mi
iy in the greatest distress, her infant
iwo months old lucessantiy crying,
and the mother, an aoiiabie and iu
oft'ensive wemau, lying, just as he
had fallen, weltering in tier blood.
rM p ion attaeh i t two p Sous,
but it is impossible at present to be
fount! out who 'did it.
' 1 1) i s happeuetl on Friday night.
col
Extracts from the IVdl of Thomas
Jxjfeison.
"I give to. my Ir e .l Jitmes Made
son. of Moctoelier. u cold icountod
walkiue staff of aoim tl horn, as a On Saturday there Was a large
token of the cordial .pd tflVpAiotiate Jm ft! Kield. and in the evening.
frfermhrppv:rinr1
half century, h is united us in the swamp, fought ;-nnd one stabbed the
saw principles and pursuits of what other, thougti not dangerously.
we have deemed for the greatest gotd j
rOREIGN.
a
of our country,
1 give to the University of Virginia,
SUMMARY.
James Wills, Esq late Kditor ant!
The paiket ship William Thomp"
York on luesdav from LivernooT
whence she sailed on the 20th July.
The most important articles f intel
ligence relate to lh existing contest
between the Turks and the Gniks,
arni to the'afiairs of these powers in
di vidua) ly. There are rumors of en
gage mi ntsby sea and land which re
sulted fttvornbly to the latter; but on
a much more certain basis, it is sta
ted that Lord Coehrar e has gone to
the assistance of the Greeks, carry
ing wnli him several steam vessels.
aro'ed with Perkiu's nevly invented L
stfam Cannon; which, if the Europe
an syrem of warfare has heretofore
Jbeeu a matter of wonder to the mui
flflmen. what will ihei lliii.lr nf tlila
more reeent invention for destroying
human life: and how will lhe he as
to.ihed, should the hero of Basque
ads. in di-fianee ol wim) or tide,
pas the Daidanellt't, and u nke a
duli at ConstaiiliiMiple itself?
An article from Beilin states that
the Pi ussian Committee in fnvor of
the Grreks had sent a first subscrip
tion of 830, oo or L7 500 to Mr.
Eyad, the Hwis Philhellence, to be
pip ioyed as he would think it best
for the aid or relief of that heroic
pe-ple.
Oae hundred and thirty-three mem
ber have been returned to the New
Parliament from England and Wales,
who were not members of the last
Parliament. In Great Britain, the
I distresses amom the commercial and
" nianutacljfTng clnsses, so tar from
haying abated, seemed almost daily
16 inerease Stoeks were yet declin
ing- -B rks and Bunkers suspending-
pay meiit Master Manufacturers giv
ing up work- and thousand and tens
of 'houands of poor laborers reduced
almost to starvation. The govern
ment eyiden.ly was perplexed and
uluroicd and that the pricos of A
mericuii produce in the British Mar
kets should, under such circumstan
ces, continue to give way, can be sur
prising to none 'The quotations of
our C ton M Liverpool on Hie 21st
of July, were 5 1-2 a 7d Tobare'o
J, , Leaf. 2 1 2a 7d Rteinnieda I 2
to Sd Poi' en cn u rap emeu t ,t I is. "t o
the urowr. of these articles here!
' T.h"''tVrK'l,,M ' Lnmmereial Chtilri-'
icle bniHiiinees the arrival ol Mr.
my Library, except such books only, i proprietor of the Edenton Gaz t'
and of the same edition as it amy ni- after a long 'and distressing ilk'-ss
ready possess when this legacy shall ' died on the 8th instant vlr- Will
lake effect the rest of my said library was a native of the state of New-Yrk.
remaining, after , those given to the but had resided in thi8'ntt upwu.i
University shall bave been taken out, o f thirty-five years, and was, we be
1 give my two grandsoos-in law Ni- lieve, the oldest editor in the Htate.
cbolas P Tritt and Joseph Cpolidge. His widow, who has conducted th
To my grandson Thomas Jeftersou . Gazelle juung the five months otMr.
preference to the golden one, because 1 under her own management and for
of its superior excellence. My pa- the benefit of the family. We hope,
pen of business going of course to with Mrs. Wills. 'Mhat thegentleinen
him. as my executor, all others of a of Edenton and the adjacent counties,
literary or other character, 1 give to will afford hersuch a share nf their
him as of his own property.-- . 1 patrt nago and favour, as w ill justify
... L give d gold teh to ea.fif a?y 'her in the -undertaking."
grandchildren, who shall not have Nroian Edwards, of notorious mem
already reeeived ono from me, to he orv, at present a candidate for the
purchased and delivered by my exec- office of Governor in Illinois, in an
utor. lo my grand sous at the age of swerto n query onjha subject of his
21, and grand daughters at that of ou'fit a minister to Mexico, says,
sixteen. . . that when he resigned his appoinr-
I give to my good, affectionate and ment, it was with the determination
faithful servant But w ll, his freedom to. settle with the Government for the
and the sum of t :ree hundred dollars, amount of the outfit, and that as soon
to buy necissartes to commence i his as h s health allowed him, ho trans
trade of painter and glazier or to use mitted through Mr. Cook, a mint to
ivtherwife as he pleases. I give aijo he placed at his credit in the Branch
to my good servants John Hemings Bark of the United States, which left
and Joe Fosset their freedom at the in hibnds between 2 and 3000 dol
end ol one year after tny death: and lars only, and that he took measures,
to each of 'hem respectively, all the last winter, for the settlement of all
tools of their respective shops or eal his accounts with the Government. '
lings; and it is my will that a com-. The moiinta.inou districts of Vir
fonable log-hou. he built for each of gima are severe ly afflicted with siek
the three tervauts so emancipated on nens. An epiderviic, of peculiar ninlg
some part of my lands co venient to nity, is raging in an unexampled man
them, with respect to the residence of ner. attended with a mortality unu
their wives, aud the University, sually great
where they will be mostly employed, A letter from a personal friend of
and reasonably convenient also to the Commodore Porter to Mr. Niles says,
interes's of the proprietor of the lands; T)o not b surprised that Com. Por
of which houses 1 give the curtilage ler should at ti e head of the allied
of an acre to each, during lifs life or natives of Mexico and Columbia, be
personal occupation thereof come the terror of the Spanish Coast.
1 give also to John Hemings the If I err not, it is his destiny to exact
service of his two apprentices, vladi- from the mother Country, by the bril
son and Easton Hemings until T their , lianey of his aehievroents,-an -ac
respective ages of 21 years, at which knowledgment of the Independence
period respectively, I give them their i of the houthorn Kepubhcs.
It is computed that the blacks in
i. : . : l. i i i . .
tlllB UCIgUUUMIUUU, IIJBI Will nor. It Ig
believed, yield more than ten huh'-i.
On night before last, w had a very
eoptou- and refreshing shower, vh eh
is the tiri for mAny days "
Win. Hai!e, esq is tleefed lo Take '
the place of lr. Uankin, late m m
ber of Congress from Mississippi at
the s eond session of the present
Congress.
Mr. King, late minister in London
with his family, hsve arrived at N.
York jn (he ship A cast a, .
- br E itgfl striiirm fry have ptae frj
the Steam bo Comet, at the disposal
of our ingenious e tuntrymdn, Mr.
P rkins, lor the purpose of expert
lieot
Tlie venerabl!' John Jay, of New
York, is the only surviviug member
f Congress of 1771.
Toe powder nulls of Messts. Keat
r ig aud Bell, two miles from Cincin
nati, Ohio, were blown Op oo the
3 Is- July. Two of the workmen
were killed.
A Frenc h fl?et of considerable f rcff
ban :.AnehArAd.inIlamptoa.llu.a4a.it-'
from the West Indies to escap lh
nitumnai gales.
create about sixty thousand a year in
this country, and that the Coloniza-
thousand a
solemn, and dutiful thanks
Charlottesville Gazette.'
i. . - wi I ".,.. ....... .
Dating and inhuman act- Tto
Warreoton Importer of Friday last
contains the following extract: of a
leUerYfrorn'EnfielrJ, in Halifax Coun
lt'ijVTjiiVd the lit instant:
' night last,, about half
freedomAnd I humbly and earnest
ly request of the Legislature nf Vir
ginia a confirmation of the bequest to
these servants, with uenms9ion to re- tion society remove a
main in this Slate where their-fami- yoar.
lies and connections as additional in- Forty villages in Indostan, eon-
stance of the favour, of which 1 have laming about 40 000 inhabitants, have
received so many other manifesto- publicly renounced heathenism, aud
lions, in l,he, course of my life, and become converts,
for which I now give them my last j A duodecimo volume of original
poetry, entitled l'r'c ioems, ')
William . G. Simm, jr. a youug gen
tlemao f Charleston, 8. C wbos
pruductioos, says the Courier, have
occasionally graced our periodical
Fr evidence R. I Aug, S,
We learn of Cap'ain Car cnfer
from Honduras, arrived tisSbirn,
ing ni Quarantine, that ho ; took on.
b-mr-l ar passengers Colonels Willfia
Perkins and Carlos Beaeske. Coin
nussioiiers from Guatemala, who
liave been negotiating for the Canal
'o be soon opened from the River
Guatemala to the Pacific Ocean, tho
distance of which to be cut through
land is ascertained to be only eigh
teen miles, and that believed to bo
not difficult. The above ptsseogprsj
were on 27th ult lat. 37 50. pl-.rej
on board the brig Eloanr r. bnun 1 to
Philadelphia. ho Columbus ru
for eveo days between 37 degrees
and 37 50
Shocking Etfeels of Intemperence'
An instance of the horrid effects f
his beastly sjn, has recently occur
red in !ms county We are ioform'dy
that on Thursday last, a man nnmed
Waiter Downs, an habitual drunk
ard, residing in Peterboro , wnt to
his houo in a state of partial in Via
tion A little child, whose breath ho
had already poisoned by frequency
feeding it with the intoxicating li
quor, approaehed hm, prying for
whiskey. I he monster, under a pre
tence of curing an appetite which hit
inhuman hand had created and cher
ished, admioinistered nearly a pint of
liquor, from the effects of which the
child never recovered, but died in tho
course of tho following day. and even
before thefatber was sufficiently re
covered from intoxication, to realize
the fatal effects of his crime. A eo
roner'f jury reported that the death
of i he child was occasioned by whis
key admimntered bv its father.
CazenoViO N Y.j Mm tor.
The ceramoo'es attendant upon ta
king the Black Veil) were performed
at the Convent in Georgetow . on
Tuesday last; when the vows which
are to s e per a! eJiet frum lha w uiLd&i
to confine her in future within the pre-
publications, is i iu the press and will jcineti of the Convent were ti.k -uy
soon be published. (MissJ
ones, daughter of C in. Jones,
Yn ineffectual attemnt was mads ,t. o!V (he Uuited Mates' N'Vv The
Friday night the tith iust. to rob the Whiti Ve I Ma's iakeii htjj&A
1
his woy to Lyoni with his
!prtyffiJ(jWski the wife if Ricfc.
t5 m unajjo, i pviur' ' i. '.
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