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*--*!- _ —= S.IFJXV.U'- GAZETTE. - -*• - S' * PRINTED XnD IU BUSHED Iverl Tuesday, Thursday,# Saturday Mornings,- HT TffE BRISK Bt)ItDIN > G (s»COW» DOOR BEE&W BARNARD* * tTREE¥)-p*. THE BAY. . “U.. c *"• f’erms g 6 pep ht Wut/nce. .12 cents tfii single paper. - t * ‘ ■* x ; ' ' ADVERT fi* ■ S will be p«M|dfed at VetrieA’ 4, Cents per sguareAhc first insertion, Aind* Thirty f ven ans an half Cents for ' waCh continuation, (ff Nofcdvertisenient discontinued until “thus ordered. i .a H V- * K *t 1' 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. * ■ -.j. , 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 ■■ ’ • ( —♦ — Tlnf importance of Education is feelingly portraved irt tk* following extract from a late speech of counsellor ---/ 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.