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(U^\, / }'¥'C c l fv* ^9 L** >w < '<^- y < E. MERTON COULTER W»»***4*M4**^W*tt«ft*H>*tt**M>#«*ttm^'t>m#*tomM*mto***i+m*M**4****>tt4+*»+♦+** •‘the union of tiif. states, ani> tiif. sovweigntv of thf, states BY MIRABEAU B. LAMAR. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1828. NO. I—VOL. I. THE COLUMBUS ENQUIRER I S published weekly, nt Titnr.E dollars por annum puynble in advance, or roim dollars if not paid bo- fore the end of tho year. Adviutisemlnts will bo inserted nt the rnte^ of seven- ty-five tents per hundred words for tho first insertion, and fifty cents forearh week’seontinunnee—twenty- five per cent, added if not paid (or before their publica tion. In nil advertisements, the words that do not amount to an even hundred will be considered ns nil hundred, and charged as such. When the number of insertions of an advertisement is not specified, it will be continued until forbid, and charged accordingly. Letters to the Editor on business must be rosT-r\io; and in all cases where it is not done, tho postngo will be charged to the writer in account against him. from the ladies’ magazine. THE TWO MAIDENS One came—with light and laughing air, Anti cheek like opening blossom, Bright gems were twin’d amid her hair, And glitter’d oil her bosom. And pearls and costly bracelets deck Her round white arms and lovely neck. Like summer’s skv, with stars hedight, The jewell’d robe around her, Anil dazzling as the noontide light The radiant zone that bound her ; And pritle ami joy were in her eve, And mortals bow'd as she pass’d by. Another came—o’er her mild face A pensive shade was stealing. Yet there no grief of earth wo trace, But that deep holy feeling. Which mourns the heart could ever stray From the pure fount of truth awav. Around her brow, as snow-drop fair, The glassy tresses duster, IVor pearl nor ornament was there, Have the meek spirit's hi-tre.— And faith and hope beam’d from her eve, Aud angels bow’d ns she pass’d by. — «>— YOUTH AND Ann nv s. t. cni,nnvt>Gi:, esq. Youth, n breeze mid blossoms straying, Where Hope clings feeding like a bee, Both worn mine! Life went a .Maying With Nature, Hope and Poesy. When I was voting— When I was young!—All! woful when! Ah, for the change ’twixt now and then! This hoii'c of day not made with bands, This body that does me grievous wrong, O’er bill and dale and sounding sands, How lightly then ittladied along: Like those trim boats, unknown of yore, On winding lakes aud rivers w ide, That n«U no aid of soil or oar, * Tlmt fear no spite of wind or tide! Nought cared this body for wind or weather, When youth and I lived in’t together. Flowers are lovely; Lovo is flower-like, Friendship is a sheltering tree! O the joys, that came down shower-like, Ofbcauty, Truth, and Liberty. Ere I was old— Ere I was old?—Ah, woful ere! Which tells me youth’s no longer here! t) youth, for years so many and sweet, Til* known that thou and I were one: I’ll think it but a false conceit, F» cannot Ic that thou art gone! Thy jiosper hell hath not yet toll'd, Anil thou wert nyo a masker bold, What strange disguise hast now put on, To make helieve that thou art gone! I sec these locks in silvery slips, This dragging gait, this altered size;— But spring-tide blossoms oil thy lips, And tears take sunshine from thine eyes! Life is hut thought, so think l will That Vmifli ami 1 are house mates still. ~ " r ~ivT\TfiWrI<7\s. ~\Vo have Ihilmi much graliih.-'l by iiu <*\;nniii;*- tionofn vtsry simpli) and ( IficitMit machine, in vented by our townsman, (’oh Myddmitox, for locking a* c linage or wngoii, while in motion.— For ordinary occ asious, it will oniw ir valiliRfio pnrpo'o, byenabling 'lie driver or any 0110411 tho carriage to loci; unu or moro ol tlio wheel,’,! without a moment’s loss ot time imtl to unlock by checking the horses for an instant. A much more importantpurposo, however, is to lie obtain ed by tins machine, in tho security which it af fords to persons in danger ot being run away with. This has long been a desideratum in carriage building; and is now supplied by means so .sim ple anti cheap as to excite wonder that it has been so long undiscovered. The whole machin ery consists in n moving crank, one, end ot which is attached to the centre of the hind axle- tree by a ring, which is just long enough to ex tend to the periphery of the wheel; 011 the outer end is a.shoe, which list the tire, and to this shoe is attached a chaino leading to a small windlass, (which may ho concealed in any part of the car riage,) which serves to draw up or lot down the crunk at pleasure. When drawn up, it fits the bottom of tho carriage, and is not soon; when let down, the shoe falls exactly in tho track of the wheel, receives it, and holds it until it is drawn out by the windlass. Tho crank is thrown ra pidly into the wished for position by means of a small piece of clastic steel pressing against it, and this pressure is counteracted when the crank is not in use, by a rag wheel and dog upon the windlass. When the dog is raised, tho shoe is instantly thrown into its place. To do this, a small iron pin, a loop or staple, is all that is re quisite. This machino is now in use upon Col. Myd- dloton’s carriage with entire success. It will add very much to the safety of carriages, and especially of the public stages, and wo under stand has been approved find is about to ho a- dopted by Mr. Randolph;—S. C. State Oaz. A Mr. Smith gives notice, in the National In telligencer, that after trying four years to earn money sufficient to project a machine for “sail ing in the air,” he has been compelled to forego his labors, and to deposito his plan and model in the patent office, and requests those who may see it and think it practicable, to lend him a little money to carry it into effect. Printing Presess.—Siuce tho introduction of the Napier Press into this country, a very lauda- blo ambition has been excited among our me chanics, to make improvements in the printing press. It has been stated that a machine litis been recently invented and in operation in this city that prints both sides of a paper before the pa per leaves the machine, and this press is suppos ed to be capable of printing SOOO sheets an hour. N. Y. Advertiser MISCELLANEOUS. A CHILD’S DEATir Yes!—it is indeed exquisite to watch the dawnings of reason, the blossoming and blowing of the intellect; but let o\cry parent beware of the bitter rebuke which is impending over his paternal pride, if he possesses a daughter ofpre- cious talent—as I did once! Fluttering hilt fa tal gift! resembling the hectic flush upon the cheek, the beautiful efflorescence that announces inward disease and decay. Twice did the grim katg of Terrors stretch forth his abhorred hand —its sh idow fell upon her Mill blooming fea tures, like the pass ng rloud that throws its lurid frown upon a rose, and she bent in mock resigna tion: but our tears, or our unceasing vigils, or our prayers, prevailed; we drove the phantom away, and dented upon our reprieved child as if we had bestowed a new existence upon her, and the nffcctiims of throo lives were concentrated in one. It scented as if tho knot that tied her to our hearts had been drawn tighter liv every attempt to tear her away from us. Nothing is so endearing as to watch over those whom we have thus preserved. Prole and self-love are apt to impart a painful feeling to benefits re ceived; gratitude is too often associated with a sense of humiliation; but the pleasure nris ng from tho favours we have conferred is pure, un alloyed, and perfect. We do not in general serve people because we love them, half so much as we love them because we have served them.— By a beautiful provision of nature, heiielirenrc is its own reward, and a double happiness ema nates ti om n single virtue. Towards a beautiful and beloved child, whom our cares have twice snatched from the grave, our attachment be comes intense; the feelings can bo suld'.m'zed no higher. But the Insatiable would not lie disappointed of his prey: he hovered over the head of the victim, meditating a third attack, and though we dared not trust our tongues with the avowal, we ro id deep apprehension and sad Mi sgivings of tlio heart in one another’s eves. The patient Ino, (and never did a youthful suffin or better il lustrate the meaning of tlie word!) w.lli the fear ful acuteness of hor intellect, instan'ly interpre ted our limits, and though resigned upon her own account, seemed resolved to make an effort to live—for our sakes. It wis a sotil-siiliduing sight to behold that fair, meek, and powerless child, struggling and wrestling with the dread and invincible king. It was one of those delicious mornings when the spring is about to give up the green and beau tiful earth to the guardianship of summer. The air wafted towards me the renovating breath of buds and blossoms: every thing seemed to be in stinct with life; young leaves wore fluttering a- liovn me5 fresh flowers were nodding in die healthful breeze; new-born insects were buzzing about upon their busy w,ugs; the birds were pur suing their twittering courtship; new birth w is the universal purpose of nature ; it appeared ns if nothing could die. As my other cli lilreii gam bolled on the, green before me, l sunk into com placent reveries, imagining that the invalid li id actually derived benefit from the vitality of the season—that a change had really commenced, aud I might soon hope to see her frisking wi li her companions—when a sudden and hideous shriek pierced through my ear and smote upon my heart. Rushing instinctively buck to the chamber, 1 beheld tho nmdier and the child stretched beside one another upon the bed, I ke a full blown flower and its delicate hud laid prostrate, in tlioir pride of beauty, by some pass ing tempest. 1 boro my wife into the air; and leaving her, after she had recovered f om her (it, in the hands of her attend an s, I slowly and mis- givingly went back to the chamber. I knew not what had happened, but an undefined dread of something toil'dile crept through my veins. My cli Id was before ino, exactly in tlm utiitutlo ! had loft bur; her eyes wore wide upon, and still bright, hut they did not move; I rivetted mine for above a minute upon them with a fixed inten sity; still they did not move; and all at once my heart sunk within mo, and tho truth flushed through me with an electric shock, and a Ivv- rowing awfuhicss took possession of me, for 1 felt that a mighty [lower had entered tho cham ber—I stood in the presence of Death!—1 might indeed have exclaimed with Rome 1, “llcutli, that hath suck’d tlio honey ofthy breath, Hath liiul no power yet upon thy beauty; Thou urt not conquered; beauty's on-ignyet Is crimson in thy tips and in thy cheeks, Aud death’s pule Hug is not advanced there:" but so far from trusting my eyes well a second look, I covered my face with my h mils and wiiii- dre w in a mute consternation. The shutting out of the summer son, and .he other external signs of woe adopted upon tbrae occasions, are too much in unison with benight ed hearts to afflict them with additional sadness; but there is a deeper oppression of die spirit when we see children, ihose creatures of hg!’t, stealing about in tho unnatural dimness of noon, treading upon tiptoe, with solemn looks aud questioning eyes, unconscioiidy disire-s ng us by their inquiries, or st ir ling us by the mourn- fuhtess of their uu irnistomed s’lence. It ws a relief to run when I followed my poor child to the grave, and deposited hor in the earth—a ready-made angel. That I looked upon her for the last time e a; here lovelhiess was tainted with i.tty of tho gh is - ly tints that precede the cnimlil'ng back of l.o incarnate earth to its original state, is to mo a subject of permanent consolation. Iler li." 1 —tlio roseate transparency of her cheek—her gentle eyes—remain painted upon my niunim , fresh, glowing, unpolluted. Vain wore Meflou’s incantations, and tlio abstruse vigils of tho alchy- mists, in search of the elixir vita.* that wit. to confer perpetual youth! Death with one blow of his scythe, has cut tho (iordian-knot and un ravelled the secret. It is ho alone who possess es this magical power. Many yours and other mournful events have passed over my head since the calamity I have been recording, and l s'.ll think of my beloved daughter as of a beautiful child, although had she lived, Am might now have been tho mother of children herself. That waxen bloom of youth must have passed away, time or sorrow might have set their witlKM'ing brand upon her face; sickness and suffering might have bowed to the truth that graceful And elastic form. Perhaps Heaven took her hack in its mercy. Blind ns we are in our discontent, we sometimes bewail as a misfortune that which is our greatest blessing, just 11s in tlio darkness of our ignorance we exult in those Judas-Ike sm les of fortune that do but betray us to our ruin. Notwithstanding these trials, my children have always been my greatest happiness. I have tic- cnmplishod the great purpose which most men, unborn oi utllucncc, propose to themselves in life. 1 have followed the great chose of the woild, jo imd the general Hunt of ambition or af fluence; an I, hax.ug run down the prey, I find, I ke the o’hi sportsmen, that the solo pleasure was in the pa.suit, the object itself lining utterly ignoble mid wer.Idess. Other spo-lsmon, how ever, look firvurd to a removal of tie chase, but the grand hmil of life can only be mti once—at least fora bachelor; and I cannot tonceive anv thug mo 0 disconsolate than the situation of such a m in, who, h iv ng fulfilled li is destiny, and ac- compl shed the sale and selfish object of his 'ex- steuce, has notVng 'o do when sickness and age are enr.impn.sdnjr him about, hut to sit down in solitude and wait fur death. From this blank desolation I un happily exempt: .lie buoyant and elastic expectations of my youth are revived n my cliddiea: they are commenr 11? the career wlieli I h ive’.enniua'ed; and I share tho inter est, w ii ia’ p rfepatingin the labours of their pursuits. I’ s ie,v.ng to them that 1 fe retains non;; it s owing to them that death is depr.ve ' of its •• >■•>'■.<; for 1 cannot (li nk upon hose whom t an > quit, without recollecting those whom I 0 1 > rejoin. On the cnhngnlden evenings o at 1 , when the season and the seit n’t sun rein ■ 1 mu that my course also is nearly ran, i *’i the glowing firmament, andas die ■ ion p issing cl'iinls of purple li 'tige i w h 1 1 1 , othinks I behold the friends who have ", looking down upon me with a Ia n v! Above nil I distinguish the gentle e, lost daughter!—she leans forward!—Jen " locks, filing from the cloud, become well light !—she speaks —she beckons Yet a little while, my be loved, and 1 coo I’ltOVIDIYVTI \l. S Or TITOS. PAINE, Hum o. !" ’ ell IISVOI.l 1 ins’. Tho foil in i ling account, in Mr. I’vne’s own wc’s, • extracted from a letter 0 I nly Siivth. “ In 1 ■ ’Is, in lTfltl, I had lud- 'ings in die it ie ’’ a. 1 ’i’g St. Dennis, No. fid. They wove *li'i i"'-.' • o ilile for situation of any I e.,- had hi I’ •* except that they were ion remo'e li u d;.- ’ ■ > ’. 'aliuu of which I was then • oron'i v B" ‘0 tv is rocompencod by he" ’ " I * also .a oo'• I 01 die al ums and con fusion into wld.’li 'lie 0 ' io” of Parts was then often I In'own. Then".' of those tilings used to at rive to us, s Y we wave in a state of tran quility 01 die •-•ni.stvv. The bouse which was incl'i- el |#v 1 wi 1 ,n ! tramway fron the street, w is 1 good 10 Hike.in ild m aisinn firm-house, Old die 111 i-yard wax like a !iinn-i"l|{l, stock 'd wi h fowls, duck , tank vs, and geese; which, fir am tseinuit, we used V j feed out of the par lour w iv low on 'll.' you a • floor. I’liere were some hii'chc < fin 1, Sibils, and a s. v will two pigs. Bi'Vond, iv sag rrli'St of move tli"t an acre of ground, Wt 11 Hid <>m, ami shirked will excellent fcui'-irees. Too orin.'e, apricot, ami green gage plum, w ■ e-hr >"■' 1 ever tasted; and it is ihe only place vche ■■ 1 saw the wild cucum ber. Theid i-o ■: llirnit.'.iy been occupied by some cn •. a s p >a. My tips "o: ■ ci 1 ''ited of three rooms; the fust, i'o am , i. or, V ■. wi’ii an old flrdi- loii"d cl 1 e - • . 1 mi > 1 !i' 1 hangup clothes : ii; tho me. - o \i- min; and beyond it ho sitiin "- < 0 lanl d into the garden through ! or!, on the outside, there \v is 1 soi ,h ■ railo | in, and a flight ofn'Tr"* '. ' , It l ien by the vinos that '■re.v ov - 1 , . • could descend into the g i d 11, Wi hi lown stairs through the “(It i to my rhamlier to write and d for two friends who were undo , ■ : ir. ended to take to the git d. : e t i their release. Justus I li; ! 1 , me iii'ii my room dress 'd i" 1 1 on 1 of 11 cap aiti, and spoke to ii'. .n ■ 1 : it. ad w.th a good 'iddress.— if} told mo ii>',’ ' i young men, Englishmen, W'.e •. ■ 1 1, letained in the guard-house, ar d ii' t '"o 1 (meaning those who repre- 1 l ist a. 1 I M". for t!ie section) h id sent him 10 ask me i’ll ".V them, in which case they would be I. v >d. This matter being soon si li. ' be’'.'.' 'i n , ho talked to me about the Rev..! if io i, nd . •"! 'him; about the “ Rights of Mm," '.vim h he had read in English; and, at p eeii. , -ii red ic." in a p ilitaand civil m inner in.; servi:'. ;. Ami who do you think the mm wi-: til t otieriid mo his services’! It w.is no oilier tli n tin p dilic execiitiotier Sam.so.v, who 'tiilloti'ind tlm k u.r, and all who lived in the > no : i >.>, in the same street with me. As to in M.'ii, 1 used to liml some relief by iv Iking done in tho garden after dark, and curs- iif , with hearty good-will, the authors of that lerriliJo system that h id turned the character of .'.111 ivolu 'on 1 had been proud to defend. ! went Imt * .fie to the Convention, and then onlv io m ike r/iy appearance; because I found ■: f 'ii' 1 Id f ■ fin iii their tremendous decrees, iii’ a- 'less anil ' i Mgerotts to oppose them. My h ■ring voted . n! spoken extensively, mure so f .11 ni v nt; lumber, against tho execution of t'l" kin r, ! :.-;ady fixed a mark upon me: n.tidier ! : . of mv associates in the Con vention ' ' l ee, and speak in French for me, ny !. 11. • lit liave dared to have writ ten. Pen - ' "ci then ef no use to me: no go i'! e • by writing, and no printor dared to v' | .J whatever I might ha”e written for my private amusement, as anecdotes of the times, would have been continually expos ed to lie examined, and tortured into any mean ing that the rage of party might fix upon it; and, as to softer subjects, my heart was in distress at the fate of my friends, and my harp was hung upon the weeping willows. As it was summer, wo spent most of our time in the garden, and passed it away in those child ish amusements that serve to keep reflection from the mind; such as marbles, scotch-hops, hatile-dorex, &c. at which we wore all pretty expert. In this rein'd manner wo remained about six or seven weeks; and our I uullord went eve ry evening into the city, to bring us the news of the day, and the evening journal. Two days after, 1 hoard a rapping at tho gate; and looking out of (ho window of die hcd-i ooin, I s iw the landlord going with a candle to the gate, which lie opened, and a guard with muskets and fixed bayonets entered. I went to lied again, and made up my mind (nr prison; furl was then the only lodger. It was a guard to take up , but 1 thunk Clod, they were out of their reach. „ The guard came about a month after, in the night, mnl took away the landlord, (Jeorgeil; and the scene in the house finished with tho ar- restation of imself. I was one ot he nine members that composed the first Committee of Constitution. Six of ilicin have been destroyed; Sieves and myself have survived, lie, by bemluig with the times; and 1, by not landing. The other survivor joined Robespierre, anti signed with him tho war rant far my arrestuthm. After the fall of Ro bespierre, he was seized and imprisoned in His turn, and sentenced to transportation.—Hu has since apologized to me for having signed the war rant, hv s lying, ho fell himself in danger, and was obliged to do it. 1 [email Serltclles, an acquaint ance of Mr. Jefferson's and a good patriot, w. s mv suppli ant as a member of tho Committee of (,'nnstntition; that is, lie w is to supply my place, if 1 had not accepted, or had resigned, being next in number of votes to mo. He was impris oned in die Luxembourg with mo, was taken to the tribunal, mi l to the guillotine; and 1, his principal, was left. There were but two foreigners in the Conven tion, An treharsis Clouts and myself. Wo were bo'h put out of the Convention by tho same vote, arrested liv the same order, anti carried to prison together tlio same night, lie was taken to the guillotine, and I was again left. Joel Barlow was with us when wo went to prison. Joseph Lehon, one of tlio vilest characters that ever existed, and who made the sheets of Arras run with blood, was my suppliant mem ber of the convention for tho department of tho Rays do Calais. When I w is put oul of tlio convention, he came and took my place. When I was liberated from prison, and voted again into the convention, he was sent to the same prison, and took my placo there; and he wont to the guillotine instead of me. IIu supplied my place all the way through. One hundred and sixty-eight persons wore tn- ken out ol'lho Luxembourg in one night, aud a hundred and sixty of them guillotined the next day, of which l know 1 was to havu been one; and tho mamier I escaped that fate is curious, and has all the appearance of acciden*. The room in which I was lodged was on the ground (lour, and one of a long rango of rooms under a gallery, and tho door of it opened outward and flat against the wall; so that, when it was open, tho inside of the door appeared outward, and the contrary when it was shut. I had throo com rades, follow-prisoners with me: Joseph Vtm- liwle, of Bruges, since president of the munici pality of that town, Michael Robins, and B.istini, nf Louvain. When persons by scores and by hundreds wore to bo taken out of prison for the guilloline, it was always done in the night, and those who performed that office had a private mark or signal, by which they know what rooms to goto, and what number to take. We, as I said, were four, and the door of our room Wits m irked, unobserved by us, with that number in chalk; but it happened, if happening is a proper word, the mark was put on the door when it was open anil flat against the wall, and thereby came on the inside when wo shut it at night,—and the destroying angel passed it by.— A few days after this, Robespierre fell; and the American ambassador arrived and reclaimed me, and invited mo to his house. During the whole of mv imprisonment, prior to tho fall of Robespierre, there was no time when I could think my 1 To worth twenty-four hours; and my mind was made up to meet its fate.” After Mr. Paine’s liberation, ho found a friendly asylum at tho American minister’s house, Mr. Monroe, now President of the Unit ed States; and for some years before Mr. Paine left Paris, he lodged at M. Bonville’s, associat ing occasionally with the groat men of the day, viz. Eon lorcet, Voinov, Murder, Joel Barlow, «Vc. &c. and sometimes dining with Bonaparte mid his generals. FOREIGN LITERARY NOTICES. Ilmlitt's Lift uf Kupoleon.—The two first volumes of the above work are published. Tho public will, therefore, decide, whether, as a phi losopher und de.-criber of the comet-like course of their wonderful hero, .Mr. llnzlitt is better qualified for his ta«k than his eminent rival, Sir Walter Scott. Tho forinor gentleman should pei form Lis work run amort', since wo under stand that he himself selected tho subject. Moon 's Life of Lord Byron.—Some incor rect statements having appeared respecting tho late agreement between Mr. Mooie and Mr. Murray 011 this subject, we think it right to give the circumstances of the transaction accurately. It is not true that the Messrs. Longman entered into any terms with Mr. Moore for the purchase of this work. The sum which they so liberally advanced to him (JOOO guineas,) at the time when ho consented to tho destruction of Lord Byron’s Memoranda was merely in tho nature of a private lo in, to be repn' ! nut of tli! pm!i:s of tho works they might publish for him; and a Life of Lord Byron, ftiuiulod upon the v ihi ible materials in the posses-ion of Mr. Moore, It s for some time been in preparation. Within the last few weeks, however, Mr. Murray, h.i\ eg been induced bv the la:e sh undid in s epri' i' i:- ntions of Lord Byron’s cli ir.'.ctor, to bring tlioso letters and papers of the noi l" poet which bo bail originally intended In ri".crve 1 1 vne fu ture period, subtil.tied a proposition to Mr. Moore, offering not only to place T - - matcri Is at His dispos'd, blit to give Him •ttlil') gu'nc'is fur the work. Acknowleilg ng the I lie: I t\ of tins proposal, Mr. Moore morelv .stipulated tint the sum in which he stood indebted to the Messrs. Longman slninM lie immediately rop; d, t> which Mr. Murray assented, nil'!, with the full consent and apprnbn'iim of din Messrs. Long man, this agr",'incut, s 1 intocosiing to all lev as of genius, was on Friday last lorm JI v ratified hv tic p irlies. Third series of Sm/iiigs and Dot;;"?.—In tlio-e talcs, new chamfers and new c nub na tions of characters, are sa aluind'iiit, gx to m To the reader nt once astonished at die fer'ility of the Author’s mind, and del glitod wait h'; pow ers to amuse and to interest. Tlm an her, n- riei'il, Ins had so much experience of the world, and seen such a variety of incident ari l cli me ter, that his resources may he considered as d- mnst inexhaustible. Memorials nf Shalspearr.—Memorials of Shakspe ire, iiioluil.in; skeirhes of bis char.ic'er and genius, collected and edited by Dr. Drake, who Ins already illustrated the great bard, with so many valuable documents, in his curious “History of Slmkspcnre’s Ld'e and Time;-,” xv'll, we understand, very shortly ho published.— They w 11 include some intoreiting and hitherto undiscovered references to Slmkspeare, unknown tn Stevens, M done, and the various commenta tors. The Man of Ton.—Wlnt is called tlio “ Fashionable world," is on tho tpii vine for the appearance of a satirical Room which has been announced, under tho title of “ Tho Ma.a of Ton;” and is, wo understand, written by a well- known Baronet. Salathirl, a Romance of the early ages of our Religion, and founded on a striking super stition of die primitive Christiaans,—is in the Press. It is attributed to a ve"v eminent win ter, holding a distinguished rank i 1 lie Church. Lo <don papers. Copley, the Painter.—Of sill die distinguish ed painters who have contributed so greatly to the honor of our country abroad, none of them can so truly be called mi Anieriran R im er, as he Into John S. Copley, R. A. He was th.rty- six years of ace before he Went o Europe, con sequently lie must h ive le irned Lis art prnc pal ly in this ro mtrv. Desirous to olitabi any inci- ilen's in tho life of Mr. Copley, which might lie interesting to Ills count vinen, Mr. M irso, Presi dent of die National academy of Design, address ed a 1 tier some little time since to Lord Lynd- Imrst, the present Lord High Chancel orot Eng land, and son of Mr. Copley, making some in quiries respecting Ills f.tlic,'. A lew days ago, Mr. Morse receive a letter from Lord Lynd- hurst, from which wo are perm fe I to mako the following extract, and which wo tbmk will be pe rused with interest. “ The tenor of my father’s l'fe was so uniform as to afford few materials for die biographer.— He was entirely devoted to his art, which he pur sued with unremitted assiduity to the last hour of His life. Tho result is before the public in his works, which must speak for themselves, and considering that he was entirely self-taught, and never saw a decent, picture, with the exception of his own, until he w is nearly thirty years of age, the circumstance is I think worthy of admi ration, and affords a striking proof of what natu ral genius, aided by doterm notl perxeverence, can under almost any circumstances, accomplish. I remain, dear Sir, your fa thful servant, LYNDIIURST.” This latter remark applies with great force to his Lordship himself, who, if wo have been rightly informed, at a very early pound in life, fixed his turn upon the high station to xvhich ho lias but recently been elevated, and which lie so well adorns, thus showing, in his own case, also, “a striking proof of what natural genius, aided by determined perseverance, can accomplish.” .V. Y Uaihj Ailurtisir. Quackery and impudence. Some short i nto ago, a soi-disant doctor sold water of the Pool of Bcthcsda, which was to cure all complaints, if taken at the t : mo when the Hngel visited tho parent spring, on which occasion the doctor’s inittle manifested, he said, its svmpa hv with its pertubation. Hundreds pic chased the Be- tlicsdu water and w itched for the commotion and consequence, wi h the result to bo expected. At last, one less patient than the re-t went to tho doctor, and coinplaiurd, that thouali he kept his eye const only on tho water for a whole year, he Had never yet discovered any tli ng like tlte signs of an angel in his bottle." That's extremely strange,” exclaimed the doctor; “what sized the bottle did you buy, s vl”—Ra tion;: ‘A half guinea one, dorter.’—Doctor; “Oh, that accounts for it. Tho li If guinea bottles contain so small a quantity of tho invalu able Be hesda water, that the agitation is scarce ly perceptible; hilt if you buy a five gu.nc 1 bot tle, and watch it well, you will in duo season see the commotion quite plain, sympathising with that of the pool when visi'ed by the angel." The pa'ient bought tho five guinea bottle as ad vised, and kept a sharp look oat for the angel till the day of his deatit.—London Magazine. Attempt at a duel. Two members of In Pennsylvania Legislature recently met to decide an affair of honour, when one of the seconds fainted. The principals upon this shook hands and returned to the tavern which the' had left, hearing tho inanimate body of their sensitive friend.