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Importance of New spapers.
Would parents and tithrs be careful to put a
well-conducted and chasft newspaper in the
of tlhgenious youth, they would find it lead to
greaWmd rapid in the science of
life and manners, with tlq least possible trouble
• to themselves.’ Novelty hft sufficient attraction's
for the young; and such aliteriiry dessert might
give a higher relish to its ripfyment.
The subsequent essay is ntenckd to encourage
this ffiqde of promoting jui and
to stimulate the managers g such publications to
gentler them meet for the lyes’of unsuspecting
innocence. I
Among the various causa that have contribu
ted. to the general diffusiorlof knowledge in the
present age, nothing seems ip have been of more
importance than the circqlattm of so many differ
ent newspapers. A super cial observer will,
perhaps, smile at this opinioi • vvKen he considers
what slender abilities are ge lerally employed in
the compilation of some, wl it prejudice is dis
pfeyed in conduct of othdb, arid what
principles ipc disseminated Tvougli this medium;
he will probably,’be suqjnseq that.'a newspaper,
however well it may be should come
in for such distinguished (ppliise. ‘ •
But where is'the good(hit it.aynot bi*pervert
ed to bvil? The blessing mat* ntay not be abused?
of lW>e-'ty degener ates ii to licentiousness;
ami too great indulgence in the pleasures of the
table may prove as fatal as thd iffost deleterious
poisons. 1
It is well known, that within these few years,
diurnal publications hitbe been (multiplied to an
amazing degree, and tntir characters, for taste in
arrangement and elegaihe of in some
measure, keep pace wth their lumbers. Com
petition- begets exertioi; and those who hope that
their writings shall behead, and their labours pa
tronized, study to adofa them with all the charms.
of polished diction, ind the attractive grace of
novelty. / ‘
TJie information, that newspapers formerly
conveyed was tri y al; and the circulation. was
proportionally con/ned.
The learned, thdrich, and the idle,alonethough.t
of encouraging tJcm, about half a century ago;
now all ranks ani descriptions of men, read, stu
dy, and endeav/ur to comprehend the intelli
gence they con/ey, and too often adopt the prin
ciples tljey recommend, examination; and
act on i 1 - Wf sanctioned by irre-
This, no doubt, is unfortu
nate; bul if £ income measure remedied bv the
contrary opinions of contending Journalists: and
truth ahdiustice may generally lie found by com
paring diFcrent statements, and keeping a mid
dle courU between both extreiffes.
It is- dangerous for those only, who read but
one papei and that Y>apbr is made the vehi
cle of false principles and delusive reasoning; on
whehs drift na! prejudice gives a wrong bias to
the mind; spd thus converts even salutary caiy
tion to criminal intemperance.
On the ether hand a paper conduced on pro
per, religious and political is calcuh
ted to do ii finite service among those, more es
pecially, win are incapable of thinking for them
selves, and v|ho, by habits,*acquire the SenfJmeiis
that perpetuilly meet their eyes, and amuse their
vacant hours And, in the country particular! v,
how many thousands receive what they lilad ii a
periodical publication as aid,
to whom a knowledge of social or moral dtitv
could not otherwise be cortnnunicated, as thevftoo
often Le established means of iastluc
tion, or despise its assistance. Hence the imf or
tahce ot journds that preserves these gtand
objects in vieir to illuminate, and tq re-
form. And from the same consideration, miv be
SAVANNAH GAZEIU’E.
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY, AND SATJURDAX' MORNINGS, BY MICILXEL J. K, YPPEL.
SAVANNAH. (Geoi-ia.)— Tl/jKSfijr .W?B.VZvVG, JANUAB V 14/ 1817.
seen the infamy /.nd guilt of those who poison the
public mind, weaken the faith of revelation, un
hinge the ties ojL order, andfedi-seminate
opinions subv(*Hive of the well bfeing of civilized
society. Could.the authors of such publications,
whether issuing regularly or octasionally from
the press, sit down and consider, with calm atten
tion, what pol?ible ill effects, may result from
their want of integrity or duty ,m< n and citi
zens, they wciftld shudiler at the reflection.
The solitary views of men may affect a few-»
but who can estimate the mischief of public ill
example, or itone Ibr the wide-spread effects of
pernicious pilnciples.
' f .. But, on the tendency of newspapers, p‘ chaps,
enough has been said, 'i heir genei al
it is to be lwj>ed, is good; and tiiat much more
service is done by the aggregate mass, than evil
is by particular past&
All, even the wnrst, in other points of view,
tend to convey instruction, and to generalize
knowledge. Bjugiying' intelligence from every
quarter of the globe, they excite inquiries; by
displaying the good and bad qualities of other na
tions, they, remove, illfoiinded or"con
firm deserved aversion. They communicate bp
nehc.al discoveries, which woufll otherwise be
lost; they record ‘transactions which milage ad-’
miration/or rives disgust; they warndiv example,
and instiuct by censure. They diffuse taste; thev
, correct prevailing absmdities. Thev awe the
proudesf into the conviction of keeping some
terms v;, i; public opinion.
They deter the flagitious from crimes, lest they
should fee held up to the public detestation; and,
in fine, fiey w atch over individual and public li
berty, wpfich can never be violated with impunity,
while the press remains pure and free.
, , Thus, to the philosophic eye, the diurnal la-
of undignified by literature, ap
pear capable of producing more extensively bene
ficial hmseimences than the Abilities of a Plato.
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feel the value of the rank they hold;
and lever more disgrace if, by propagating vice
or wilful prror, by lending their sanction to the
wor/dess, or by weakening the bands that pre
serv|j mankind in harmony and happiness. V
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Tlnf importance of Education is feelingly portraved irt
tk* following extract from a late speech of counsellor
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gM>F ail lhe blessing^hick it has pleased Pro-
to allow us to cultivate, there is not one
which brffithes a purer fragrance, or bears an hea
v eiiliwaspect, than educatum. Itis a companion
yfhr.h no misfortune can depress—no cijine de
'stj-uy —no enemy alienate—no despotism enslave
—at home a friend—abroad an introduction—in
sqlitude a solace—in society an ornament—it
chastens vice—it guides virtue—it gives at once
apace and government to genius. Without it
\J<at is man? A splendid slave! a reasoning sa
4ge! vacillating between an intelligence denved'
e r ra( l a tion of passions parti
with brutes; and in the’accident of them
P u>t wte ascendancy, shuddering- at the terror of
i.i hereafter, or hugging the hornd hope of anni-
I atrfm. At [pit is this wondrmrs world of his resi-
“ A hiighty maze, and all v.-™ nt a plan.”
A dark ami desolate and dreary cavern, without
or ornament, or order. Bul light up within
thetorch of know hedge, and how wondrous the
transahon! The si'aspns atmosphere
breatws—the landscape lives— unfolds its
fruits--ocean rolls in its magnPicence—the hoa
veasdisplav their conrtellatiui canopy—and the
grand animatedspectaj?lrs of nature rise revealed
before him, its varieties regnjalvd; and its mvj.tr
ries resolved! The which bewilder—
the prejudices which debase—the sup’erstitirms
which enslave, vanish before edueatimi. Like
the holy symbol which blamed otP the be
fore the hesitating Constantine, if man follow but
its precepts purely, it will not him to
the victories of this world, bu.t-open the verv por
tals of omnipotence for his admission. Cast vour
cfe over the monumental map of ancient gran
deur, once studded with the stars of empire, and
the splendpius of philosoj.}iy. What erected the
little .State o* Athens into a/powerful common
wealtp, placing in her ’umd the sceptre of legisla
tion. and wreathing round her brow the imperisha
bh- chaplih o* lilei ary fame? What extended Rome,
Tte haunt ol a bamlitti, into universal empire?
animatcALSparta with that high, unbem’ing,
adamantine courage, which * conquered nature
herself, and has fixed her, in the sight of future
a-e s a model of publjc virtue, and a proverb of
na-inna! independence? What, but those wise
public iustitut&»s. which strengthened their
minds with cany aytPlication, informed their in
fancy with the. principles of action, and sent them
into the world, too vigibmt to be deceived bv its
clauns, and ton vigorous to be shaken hv its
whirlwinds? But, sui-elv, if there be people in
the M r orld,-to. w hom the blessings of edu cation are
peculiarly applicable, it i^ s fbe Srisli | eople. 1
think I know my countrymen —livelv, a i dent, in
telligent, and sensitive, neatly all their act. spring
from impulse; and no matter hov that imp. ’*e be
given; it is imfiiediately adopted, and the adop
tion and the execution are identified. It i s this
principle, if principle it can be called, vVhich ren
ders b ehind the poorest and proudest count) v in
the vym id-—now chaining her in the very ab fss
of crime—now lilting her to the very pinnacle of
glory; which/ in the poor, proscribed* peasant C a
tbolic, crew ds the jail, and feeds the gibbet; whirl b
» in the more fortunate, bocau-e more educated Pro ■
testant, victory a captive at her car, and
holds echo niitte at her eltKnience: making a na
tional monopoly of fame, antP, as ityvere,attempt
s' g to naturalize tlm achievements of the uni
verse';';, .
FROM THE tOVKAXT.
n'JIR. •
V/ar is a game, which, wore their sulydetp wise,
; “Kings slmul-l not phy at.” •' , Cowper.
'rhe Genius of War may fitly lie termed the
Aiolocb of the WQjrld ; exeyv ‘leneration, for more
than 50db years having ollyied up no inconsidera
ble part of its children to thut bloody mid accursed
idol. the general destruction bv the wa
ters Os the flood, not all (he yials of God’s wrath,
poureri out ih'p'fagUes, earthquakes,-fiery erup
tions and watery mtindaifions, are equal in*num
bers ihose who have been ‘destroyed by men
themselves. W'haf-' nation, what single tribe of
our whole race,.but has, first or last, been'ei)ga,r
ed*in the hombie w ork of butcher ing, and oFbe
ing butchered with the sword of war ? •
Angels of mercy! See a world of creatures
but lihle lower than yourselves^members all of
one family—apostate from God, and thence
alienated Irom one another—mortal by nature,
and beginning td draw tow ar ds their end as soon
as they are born—individually weak, knd greatly
needing each other’s aids to‘soothe the sorrows
and lighten the bur dens of their fleeting lives; see
their instr uments of carnage, their encampments,
their death boiling marches, and all the terrible
forms of their warfare ; see them with the fury
ot the fellest beasts of the forest, engaged in the
shock of battle, and with shouts and’Veils, pouy
out one 'mother’s blood, and overspread the en>.
battled field with quivering limbs and mangled
corses! Itis the regular trade of man; it is his
honorary and boasted profession ! Notv ifhstand
ingthat there is in mankind such a natural horror
ol other forms of bloodshed, yet this species of
mankilling has been the most distinguished and
applauded of human trades and’professioiis in ail
ages of the world.
Ajjjbto attmm.i an enlarged detail of the’jho
ial and physical evils of war, I shall but mention
in relation to it, two particulars which have not
been noticed so generally and with such marked
attention as they deserve; the one is the awfd
suddenness of-the innumerable deaths it occa
sions ; and the other the absence of all decent se
pulchral rites.
The first of these circumstances is slrikin<>--
ly pictured in the following lines of Wallace : ®
Those very men, who warm in life,
Pant to begin the deadlv strife—
Fond haste! to-morrow’s eveningray
.Shall see their glory pass away.”
Sudden death that gives no time wall for re
flection, nor for even the shortest ejaculation to
Heaven, is ever .iccountt'd peculiarly calamitous.
When a single individual in vigorous health, and.
. especially one in the early days of life, by a thun
derbolt, or by sbme fatal casualty, is ‘made to
drop dead in an instant, the catastrophe is re
garded with an unusual degree of mourning, /ac
companied with surprise and consternation. Not
yery commonly, however, is life extinguished
thus suddenly, by the more act of God. ft is the
act of man that has produced three fourths per
haps of ad the instant anemia deaths’ which have
ever happened to t>m tyoHd. Instarifanebusly
are thousands in a single da”, and in some in-
Itan'-es tens and scores of thou-amis, cut off bv*
the hand of man, the furv m
to tljeir ’ *
Nor is the exposed condition of the bodies pf
the dead upon the field of battle, a thing of too
trivial importance to be seriously noticed as one
of the horrible attendants of war. As such it has
been noticed in the sacred volume, in which the
beasts of prey are summoned to gather them
selves, together to eat the flesh of the slain.. As
such, it has been noticed also by old Homer, in
the version of Pope, thus—
; “No father shall bis corps compose, t
His dying eyes no tender mother close ;
But hungry birds shall tear those balls awav.
And hovering vultures scream around their prev.*’
Whence if is not unlikely, was suggested to the
living Poet Southey, the*matter of rim follow iii'-r
lines, descriptive o‘s the Asiatic field of blood, in
his poem— The Curse of Kehama.
“The steam of slaughter from the place of blood,
Spread o’e thetainted sky;
Vultures, for whom ti»3 Rajah’s tyrannv
So ofthadfunushe i food, from far and nigh,
Sped to the lure ; aloft with jovful cry
Wheeling around,they hovered over head;
Or, on the temple perched, with greedy eye,
Impatient watched the dead.
F iroi ?’tbe tygers, in the inmost wood,
Heard the deitb'-sbriek, and snuffed the scent of blood,
They rse. and through the ei t went their wav
Couuhe dat t;> ff e dye, ami w aited for their pi ey ”
This is nut the garnish of fiction, but is a’mat
teroff. ref. Upon many a tic hl o f battle, have
been lot -nd the bones oi‘< e slfin scattered about,
and lyin g v hyre they had been strewed bv the
beasts and. birds that had scenU-d the can W
afar, ano assembled themselves together to Li
quet on h uman flesh. *■ .
said, tlmt it is no matter
whether the bodies of the iFead be buried decent
ly, or be thrown promiscuously into pits, like the
burial ol beasfy, or be left above ground as the
banquet for ravenous animal§; that since the
, lead are beyond the reach of injury, the manner
in which then* bodies are treated is a thing of iio
mo-inenf. This is not the voice of nafum-
she «pyaks.a different , language. All nations,
from foe highest point, of civilization, down to
the lowest order of savages, pay a sacred retard
to wha’t they thein.-elves deem’a decent and re
spectful disposal of their dead. It is a Hnd of
receipt. That is wutten upon the hearts of m cn j a
all ages rtnd countries, and which, seems’iiever
quite effac ed in any other case ti an that of war.
At home, and ip the of pea. e 4 roriiing
scarcely could har.ow up <mr feelings so -ly
as to see only a few mangled cones of our fellow
beings (not to say our near Wative<)’iyijig iff the
streets or the fields, fed upon by tkigs and
ravens, and not suffered to be put in graves.
Such a spectacle vve should contemplated, ith the
utmost horror. And yet the scene hei/m detant,
and regarding'* it as the common wip
can’'contemplate almost jvithout an.v emotions oF
compassion, the condition ofihyuad- of fellow
beings, that on the field ofbattlqf “1 ave lain un
wept, unburied, unblest, nor graced with any
common rite.” So deadening to alj, the genuine
feelings of humanity, and soch-mq ately haiden
ing to the heart, is this trade of nMk.d.
Roll on, auspicious age, predicted by the holy
seers, when under the reign o? the' Fringe of
Peace, the swm d shall cease Io devour, and the
whole world shall rest from war!
KINGDOM OF JliiTTf COUQT, #c.
The: Royal Almanack of Hayti, for I.* >(., con
tains 127 pages. Its court lists mhy vie with
those of any empire of whatev*>!. er com
plexion. The King, who has attained the sixth
year of his reign, will be 49 years of age on the
fth October. The Qtieen is in her thirty
ninth year. The Prince Royal James Victor
Henry, entered his teens on the Sd March—he *
has two sisters, Princesses. There are five Prin
ces ot the blood. I'he ministers and gn aud offi
cers of the crown amount to twenty. In thepeer
jige are eight dukes, nineteen counts, thirty-f »ur
•barons, and nine knights. The king’s household
consists ol about 140 chamberlains, pro
fessors, almoners, secretaries,&c. The < t 'ueen
has 1-1 ladies of the bedchamber, besides her male
attendants, 'f here are six’ regiments of guards.
'Die order of Henry boasts upwards of ISO mem
bers. In the army we find (' marshals 3 lieute
nant-generals, aiid‘2l greiierals; of artillery, 2 re
giments; of engineers, 1 coms; of infantry, 1 . re
giments filled up* and 8 other named; of ciAairy,.
2 re.irimenysLof naval erfficers, including the ■ .rand
B admiralA/dßsides cadets: Eon<: li>ts are :>lso
sn <v and* Judicial d('partments.
e ! ' A elr oourt bn 'I hursday, at five
W he King receives petitions at ten o’clock,
on fse court days, and returns an answer on the
Bl hursday following. Such is the progress o* this
interesting settlement The Cotle Henri, which
■ has been published, is a thick volume. I'helawa
are of course on the French model. *
BRITISH CONSULATE.
Baltimore, December 2ft, 1816.
Genti&m f.n, —l have much pleasure in statin*
to you fofithe benefit of all persons concerned m
Br itish shipping, the follow ing rule, which, on ap
plication to, has been estahltshed bv the secieta
ryofthe treasury of the thrited‘States as to
vyhat destroys the continuity of a voyage in fela
> rion to the VVesf-li;dies:
If a British vessel sails from a British port and
enters and clears frqm a British port in the West-
Indies or in America and from thence to a port
,in the I mted States, the continuity of the voy
age will he con-idered broken, and the vessel sub
ject to foreign tonnage; w h ile on &e oth>r hand, if
a British vessel sails from a British West-India
port, and enters into a foreign port or a Riifish
h.uuopean port, and clears a port in the
U. S ides, the continuity of the voyage being bio
ken; foreign tonnage will not be exacted.
AVhatever tonnage duty therefore ha« been le
vied in violation of this rule will be repaid.
WM. IIAWBON.
THOM. IS MOORE TUR.S'EIf PSALMIST.
icreon Moore, who has written so much a-
Iwut love, lust, and wine, has just manufactured
tor u« a parcel of sacred hymns ! If he succeeds
as w ell in de ß cribing the love of God, as »fie love
of women, it will certainly prove the great ven a
tihtv of his genius. Moore has been long ciuaff*
ing at the fount of Helicon, and if he has r. i ariy x >
deserted that intoxicating spring, to drink
“ fountain of living we are reioi**’*’'
the change of his taste, and hope hewi^/^’ ove
powerful a champion in thecausez^” p^’^on aTl< i
V irtue, as he lias heretofore lm*rtof 1 and-
Vice. FV, F.
