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Bit n tt? to ith |lirtro t &l l ♦ DAVIS * SHORT, PUBLISHERS VOLUME X. The Brunswick Advocate, Iv published every Thursday Morning, in the city of ltrunswick, Glynn County, Georgia, at s’.! per annum, in ndeunce, or $4 at the end of the year. No subscriptions received for a less term than six months and no paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid except at the option of the publishers. 33= All letters and ,comniunieatipns to the Cditor or Publishers in relation to the paper, must be POSTPAID to ensure attention. O’ADVERTISEMENTS conspicuously in serted at One Dollar per one hundred words, for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents for ev ery subsequent continuance —Rule and figure work always double price. Twenty-five per cent, added, if not paid in advance, or during the continuance of tlu? advertisement. Those sent without a specification of the number of insertions will be published until ordered out* and charged accordingly. Legal Advertisements published at the usual rates. (UpN. B. Sales of L and, by Administrators, Executors or Guardians.' are required, by law, to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court-house in the county in which the property is situate Notice of these sales must be given In a public gazette, Sixty Days previous to the day ol sale. Sales of Negroes must be at public auction, on the first Tuesday of the month, between the usual hours of sale, at the place of public sales in the county where the letters testamentary, of Administration or Guardianship, may have been granted, first giving sixty days notice thereof, in one of the public gazettes of this State, and at the door of the Court-house, where such sales are to be held. Notice for the sale of Personal Property. must be given in like manner, Forty days previous to the day*of sale. Notice to the Debtors and Creditors of an Es tate must be published for Forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land, must lie published for Four Months. Notice for leave to sell Negroes, must be published for Four Months, before any order absolute shall be made thereon by the Court. 1» O E T It If . [From the New England Magazine.] AUTUMN. Upon a leaf-strown walk, I wander on amid the sparkling dews; Where Autumn hangs upon each frost-gemmed stalk, Her gold and purple hues ; Where the tall fox-gloves shake Their loose bells to the wind, and each sweet flower Bows down its perfumed blossoms to partake The influence of the hour ; Where the cloud-shadows pass With noiseless speed by lonely lake and rill, Chasing each other o’er the low crisped grass And up the distant hill; — Wlnye the clear stream steals on Upon its silent path, as it were sad To find each downward gazing flower has gone That made it once so glad. I number it in days, Since last I through this secluded dell; Seeking a shelter from the summer rays, Where flowers and wild-birds dwell. While gemmed with dew-drops bright, Green leaves and silken, buds were flancing there, I moved my lips in murmurs of delight, ‘And blessed them, unaware.’ How changed each sylvian scene ! Where is the warbling bird ? the sun’s clear ray ? The waving brier-rose? and foliage green, That canopied iny way ? Where is the balmy breeze That fanned so late my brow ? the sweet south west, That whispering music to the listening trt'SPj My raptured spirit blest ? Where are the notes of spring ? Yet the brown bee still hums his quiet tune, And thog|ow shiver of the insect’s wing, Disturbs the hush of noon. * ' The thimiransparent leaves, Like flakes of amber, quiver in the light; While Autumn round fier silver fret-work weaves In glittering hoar-frost white. O, Autumn, thou are blest! My bosom heaves with breathless rapture here, I love thee well, season of mournful rest! Sweet Sabbath ol the year ! R. C. W.^ “Pray sir,” said a gentleman to a wag, upon one of our wood wharves, the other day, ‘’Pray sir, what % wood now 1” “ What is wood now ?” replied th 6 wag, “why trees cut down and choppd up.” A village is like that subterranean cave called the ear of Dionysius, nothing pas-j ses m it, of near it, but it is distantly known. BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 16, 1837. MISCEIiLAIY. From the London Times. PRESENT STATE OF SPAIN. The following letter, just received from an eminent merchant in the Sleuth of Spain, will enable our readers to form a | tolerable idea of the internal state of that country. The writer of it, an Irish gentleman,but many years settled in Spain, is a man whose mercantile avocations and ! ext&sive connexions afford him the best opportunities for learning the real state of the country, and the feelings of the people. His opinion of Republican Rad icals of the Catholic religion and of its priesthood, and of Cipid’s foreign policy j and of its effects in Spain, is well wor-| thy of attention at this moment, the more so as the writer is himself by disposition a Radical. “If I were to fill twenty shects-of pa- i per, I could not give you an adequate idea j of the dreadful state of Spain. With a climate and soil capable, of yielding al most every production of the world, and of maintaining in luxury or comfort at least four times the present amount of its population, full" of rich mines, and a-, bounding in internal resources for fur nishing t lie most lucrative employment to its working classes, and with an extent of coast and situation for commerce which ought to render it one of the first ; of mercantile nations, this beautiful king dom presents nevertheless one continued scene of apathy, degradation, and wretch edness ; Its people contented to live on l the fare which they can obtain with the ! least trouble, and not knowing or caring what can improve their own condition or that of their country, to which are now added all the horrors of civil war and ol a total suspension, of all law, authority and government. With the exception of Gomez’s dashing tour last year, the South of Spain, thank God, has not yet seen J the actual theatre ofthe present civil war ; | but, although we are not exposed to the j fire and sword of civil war, we do not think that we enjoy peace and security. I From what I have seen and learned of the Northern Provinces, 1 believe that we are not in a much more enviable sit uation than they are. As far as respect for the law, obedience to the public au thorities, or any other kind of subordina tion are concerned, the Queen’s govern ment is a perfect farce. Every man who has a gun and dares to use it, or who is supported by or connected with one of the political parties, or of the numerous factions which exist, not only in every town, but in every village and hamlet, is at perfect liberty to do as he pleases, and may rob or murder another with all but certain impunity. The only partial ex ceptions to this state of things are the few large cities or commercial towns, where the number of foreigners and of oilier persons strongly interested in the .main tenance of tranquility is sufficient to over awe these villains. I have repeatedly seen a man or a party coming in a coun try town or village, openly and in broad | day, with their guns on their shoulders, | as if returning from a sporting excursion, j after perpetrating in the most cold-blood led and deliberate manner, for the sake jof plunder or revenge.the murder of some innocent person or family ; and although their intentions were previously known and avowed, and the murder became tbe talk of the whole town, vet he or they were left perfectly unmolested by the pub lic authorities and inhabitants. Men who are well known to have committed a do zen murders live among, and have the usual intercourse with, their neighbors, as if they were the most innocent of man kind. —Under pretence of supporting the government, and of putting down its en emies, or of taking up the cause of Don (hirlos as the rightful hetr to the crown, every part of the country is infested with murderous scoundrels, consisting of the dreas of the population, and of all the vagabond, of town an and country, who. being well armed, surprise families or in dividuals, attack and plunder houses, put undo* contribution all tbe peaceable inhab itants as well as travellers, and treat eve ry place they visit like a conquered coun try, often committing the most fiendish acts and dreadful .atrocities. In short, the saying of‘might is right’ is strikingly illustrated in this unhappy land, and I can only compare the present state of things to what is related of the jours de la tirrcur in the old French revolution. “It is impossible to travel, or even to go more than a few miles from the largest towns, or than a stone’s throw from the smaller ones, without an armed escort ; and, even then, if your escort is not large, or if it happens to be exceeded by tbe number and daring ofthe armed band with whom you may fall in, you are sure to be attacked and robbed, and perhaps mur dered, and certainly the latter if you have | attempted to resist and are overcome. So i frequent have become these outrages, that a friend of mine, who resided on his es tate only three miles from a considerable town, has been obliged to quit his house j and to take one in the town, artd he can not go to his property, and still less sleep there, even a single night, without being accompanied by a large armed escort. Last year, wishing to spend a short time there to superintend some works which were indispensable and important, he was obliged, as the ol incurring his personal safety, to open a negotiation with the leaders of the band who were chiefly known to infest that part of the country, and to purchase their forbearance by a heavy bribe. Besides this in order to gratify their vanity and insure their good-will, he was literally under the ne cessity of inviting them to a large dinner or feast during his stay there, and to wel come, receive at his table, and drink to the health of a whole gang of cut-throats and highwaymen, most of whom were pub licly known to have been guilty of innu merable murders, rapes, and of every otlierepecies of atrocity and crime. “Internal trade is, as you may suppose, | almost entirely at an end ; and if this des-j olating contest continues a few years lon-1 ger, 1 expect that the farmers will cease to ! cultivate their land, and the vine growers! their vineyards, and that scarcity of food will be added to the present calamities of Spain. Where the Queen's Govern ment still has sufficient authority those poor people have to be National Guards, and, if necessary, to fight when the far riosis, as the Carlists are called, come! into their district ; and if the cause of I Don Carlos is the strongest there, they are, with their sons and servants, pressed | into his service. In either case they are plundered without mercy, and generally by both parties, their horses, and mules being taken sans reremonie for their bag-! gage train or cavalry, or pressed into the' service and worked to death in convey-1 ing the baggage and provisions through! their district ; and their cattle,sheep,corn, and wine, being appropriated to provis-j ion the army, and their forage the cavalry, whenever any of these things are wanted by either party. Sometimes, indeed, the form of giving them a written order for payment is gone through, but one would think it intended as a mockery, and few of them are so foolish as to take the trou ble of even presenting it. The conse quence is, that the ground is not half tilled, every thing is neglected.and every farmer is being ruined. Again, either from real inability, or from taking advan tage of this state of things to plead it, hardly any farmer pays a farthing of his rent, and even large landed proprietors i are starving if they have no other proper ty, particularly as they are bow obliged to take refuge in the towns, and are thus put to great additional expense. “Many people say that the influence of the clergy is greatly diminished in Spain ;>■ but unfortuneately,this has taken place in a j way which has done much more harm than good. It is the influence of the qui et, peaceable pastor#, who lived on good terms with their neighbors, and did not meddle with politics, which has diminish ed, while that of the priests who are vio lent fanationl bigots* and who also carry on the trade of political demagogues, is, I think, greater than ever. It seems to me, from what I learn from the English newspapers and the communications of my friends, that the same principles and feelings are now at work in Spain and in Great Britain and Ireland. The priests who carry on the joint trade of. rapid fan aticism and political agitation in this coun try, support the Queen, as the priests who are playing the same game in Ireland are ostensible advocates of liberal opin ions ; their real inward motives and feel ings are the same, namely, to reinstate the Catholic religion in its former pleni tude of power, and in its absolute sway over the minds and temporal affairs of men as well as over their spiritual con cerns. Then we have here our wild re publican theorists, who only know how ’to shout and hurrah for what they call “liberty,” and whose heads are as empty and void of any notion of practical gov ernment as the red cap which forms their boasted emblem. “The real state of Spain is this ;—The great bulk of the people of all classes neither understand nor care a fig for any matters relatingto politics, government, or public affairsj>fhoy are as indifferent about the Queen and her party as about Don Carlos and his. All they want is to be left quiet, to mind their mvn concerns, jand to go on .heir old jog-trol way. The only exceptions to this general rule arc the Republican theorists, and the politi cal priests and their dupes, whom I have already described, and the inhabitants of the Basque provinces, who support Don 1 Carlos merely because he promised to respect and confirm their fueros. There ,is no energy, no enterprise, and neither public spirit nor public honesty, to be found in this country. Every man is ei ther totally apathetic, or he only seeks to profit by the scramble and to take care ofi himself. This feeling also generally per vades the soldiers on both sides; they care not a jot for their country,their coun- j “HEAR ME FOR MY CAUSE.” [trymen, or their party; plunder and re i venge seem to he their only motives of action; and their presence is as much dreaded, or perhaps more,by those whom J they call their friends, as by their avow ed enemies. Neither party Ims sufficient energy or strength to overcome the.other, and I fear that matters have now come |to that pass, that the present system of skirmishing and guerilla warfare may go on for a century, or until the whole coun try is devastated, and the people extermi nated by fire, sword, famine, and other sufferings, unless the mediation or forci ble interference (but in an ij/utual man ner) of other nations puts at: end to the contest.” Lord Brougham. If there was any man in England whom I wished to see and hear more than I did auy other it was Henry Brougham. I had heard so much of his nervous antics, and anomalous physiognomy, that I expected to be rather amused than interested by his personal appearance. You may as well suppose, therefore, that as I waited -with the ex pectant thousands in Exeter Halil, for his arrival, to take the chair, at one of the great anniversaries, my curiosity was wrought up to a high pitch. When at length he came in, and advanced to the front ofthe platform, amid the enthusias tical greetings of the vast assembly, I con fess I was much disappointed. He wore a plain frock coat, and there was nothing in his dress or address to distinguish him from any well bred private gentleman.— Lord Brougham is not much, if any, be low the middling stature—rather spare | than corpulent—carrying none of the common marks of high living in his face; and if he ever wore that angular, huddled and spasmodic visage, which has been as cribed to him, he must have left it with the Lord Chancellor's wig, in the West minster wardrobe. I was near him on this and other occasions, for hours to gether, and cannot be mistaken. He is not a handsome, but neither is lie an ill looking man. llis features are very strong, but not grotesque. lie appears to be rather under fifty years of age than over. His forehead is broadly furrowed, j bis eyes are small and restless, and deep ly shaded in their retirement, under arcli ; ing and shaggy brows. llis nose is rath ;er short and blunt than aquiline. There is a slight nervous twitching about the muscles of his face, even in its repose ; and when he is highly excited in debate, it becomes extremely active. His voice has neither very great power nor com pass ; and yet lie speaks with so much dis tinctness and deliberation, that all can hear in the largest assemblies. Ordinarily when he commences, if you did not know who he was, you would not be particular ly struck, either with what he says or with ! his manner of saying it. Belore he has 'proceeded far, however, you perceive that the energies of a mighty mind are waking into action. His sentences as they fall ■ one after another from his lips, are as perspicuous, as well turned, and as much ’ condensed as if he had written them off tor the Edinburg Quarterly in his closet.— The whole vocabulary seems to be entire ly at his command ; and it is extremely interesting to follow him step by step as lie culls from the inexhaustible store-house the very words which most exactly and forcibly express , his meaning. When Lord Brougham is thoroughly roused, (and I happened to hear him on one such occasion,) his mind seems more like an intensely heated and devouring furnace, than any thing else to which 1 can com pare it. The Hashes are so excessively bright, that they almost blind you; and wo be even to Nebuchadnezzar’s mighty : men, if they venture too near to the mouth !of it. I believe it is conceded on all hands, that no man equals him, in the bitterness of his scorn, or the burning and over whelming power of his invectives. Very few, when his indignant spirit is seen to be on fire, have the temerity to meet him, i with such weapons as they can draw from the same armory, and of those few, there i is not one, probably, but that secretly re pents of his chivalry, before the onset is over In his premeditated attacks, you ;see the little eddy, which at first only raises the leaves and dust, but which widens and gathers* strength every mo ment, as it advances, till at length it be- j comes a perfect tornado, and wrings off the studiest oaks in its progress. Tftis, I admit, is not one of the most amiable traits of character which a great man can possess ; but then it ought to be remem bered as some apology for him, that hard ly any man was ever so much goaded and chafed by a powerful and relentless press, as Lord Brougham has been within the last six years. As the great champion of re form both in and out of Parliament, he has made himself obnoxious to the high Tory party, particularly in the upper House. Many of Lord Brougham’s friends re gret his elevation to the peerage, because it has withdrawn him forever from the House of Commons, the finest field in the world for the exercise of his powers ; and it is believed, from hints of his own, that lie regrets it, as much as any body. I heard him say myself, at the meeting for the protection of religious liberty, that he could not serve the people with half the efficiency now, as he had once been able to do, in the popular branch of the legis lature. the Lords, ho is sure, on all great questions of reform to encounter a dead majority, and to he voted down in the end, however triumphant I* may be in the argument. But even there, his power is felt and dreaded, more than that of any other member. He is the last man in the world, to be brow beaten and si lenced any where. As an example ofthe style in which he sometimes cymes out upon their lordships, I will give you a short extract from one of his speeches, at the last session on the Municipal Reform Bill. They were determined to put him down, by calling loudly for the question, and by other boisterous interruptions, in the midst of his answer to a pretty sev ere attack, from Lord Lyndhurst: “One or two of you cry qurstion when I attempt to meet this attack ; from a total ignorance of my nature, and of my habits of life from a foolish and ridiculous and absurd i notion, that by crying qurstion, yon can put me down. Why, I have stood up against half the House of Commons, when they cried qurstion, for three quarters of an hour, and they could not put me down rata lip (/••glad ios contempsi; into tuus ptr~ timrscaru. I know what it is to stand against three hundred men, pretending to be representatives of the people, who have attempted to drown the voice of one man, who was their real friend, and representa tive,and they did not succeed; and do you think, that one of you ! can put medown?” I hardly need,to add, that they were obliged to give it up, and let him finish his speech at his leisure. R was generally thought, I believe when Sir Robert Feel resigned, and Lord Mel bourne was again brought into office, that Lord Brougham would return with him and he reinstated on the woolsack. In forming the administration, however, he was left, for the great seal was put in commission. This excited a good deal of speculation, in all political circles, and the answer of Ministers, to some questions put to them in Parliament, on the sub ject, was that the arrangement was mere ly temporary. Whether it was made on purpose to exclude Lord Brougham, or for some other reason, it is hard to say.— It was reported, that the king was highly offended at some unwarrantable liberties which he had taken with the great seal while it was in his keeping, and would not consent to his again coming in the Cabinet on any terms. It was also surmised, that Lord Melbourne and his colleagues quite willingly yielded to his Majesty’s pleas ure, on the ground, that the ardent tem perament of the late Chancellor might oc casion them more embarrassment, than his counsels would aid them, in carrying on the government. Whatever might be the true cause, it was evident that Lord Brougham felt it keenly, especially as his enemies taunted him with being repudiat ed by his own friends and habitually spoke of him, as flic decayed and Dowagir (J/umrrllor. Greatly to his credit, how ever, he manfully sustained the adminis tration, in all their measures; and it was most obvious to ovary one, that whatever might be their views in regard to the ex pediency of his being in the Cabinet, they were very glad of his assistance, and that in the House of Lords, they could hardly have done without it. Though out of office, Lord Brougham is not out o tpay. lie has a pension, for life, of foe thousand pounds, about the same as our President’s salary, and there are now living tvva oth er Ex-Lord Chancellors—Lord Lyndhurst ami I believe Lord Eldon, upon the same comfortable and permument stipend ! no very favorable specimen, you will say, of British economy. [Dr. Humphrey’s Tour. % Thf. Police of the Salons. If pop ular rumors were to be believed, the po lice had myriads of agents scattered in all public places and in the salons. No word, not a gesture could eSSape this in cessant surveillance. Unquestionably, the police has its agents, and I am far from denying that it has many and of va rious kinds, but it has infinitely less than is generally supposed. The police expends large sums; but if it had to pay all the agents that are given to it by rumor, its budget would amount to an incalculable sum. I have heard marvellous aeoouuts of important discoveries made by the po lice. I have sometimes taken it into my head to trace them to their origin, and I have almost invariably found that they resulted from accident, from some unex pected piece of folly. But if there is a great mistake in re ference to the number ofthe agents, there is fully as much in respect to the charac ter of the persons from whOra the poiide obtain their most valuabloun formation. It is useles to repeat here that. J speak J. W. FROST, EOITOS. Hnon a*. ’• *Bt | only of the political police; the police for ! robbers and assassins is quite'another af fair. No one reflects hov large « num ber of persons there are, always disposed to tell what tfcey have heard, or what they know, and that without any evil intention. They talk for the mere sake of conversa tion. They tell qne piece of ritews for the purpose of hearing soflgg other,which they may have the satisfaction of hawking about. A man of talents would secure .ill the fruits of political police, by his ! salon, his breakfast, and dinners. Fouchh, during the periods that he held the office of minister, rendered great ser vices to many persons, and to persons of all Opinions. He was every where welk received, and particularly so in the roy al faubourg St. Germain. ‘When you have anything had to say of the Emperor or of the government,’ he would say to the noble inhabitants of the noble faubourg, ‘wait until my arri val. My presence will drive away the spies. They will think there can be nO occasion to tell me what I might hear my self. Isl am not with you when you bab ble anything,—they will repeat your con versation tome —they will even go so far as to repeat if elsewhere, and if I have not taken the necessary precautions, I shall myself be accused of negligence. I have heard M. Real relate the means by which he succeeded in shutting up a salon, where politics were too much dis ! cussed. M. Real had himself rendered j important services to persons of the an dint regime. Many showed themselves grateful. He frequently received the vis its of a very t.llented lady, who is at this time Duchess of C*** B***. ‘Madame,’he said one day, ‘your hus band goes regularly to the soiries of Mad ame delt****.’ ‘Yes, regularly enough.’ ‘Tell him to be oti his guard.’ ‘How ! is that V ‘I tell you nothing— remark particular ly, I say nothing; 1 only angage you. to inform your husband, for whom I have a sincere friendship, to he a little on his guard whenever he goes to the house of Madame de R****». On the whole, he would do better riot to go there at all.’ ‘Those persons are then in your inter est ?’ ‘I do not tell you that.’ ‘lt is you, then, who help them to sup port the luxury of their house?’ ‘I do not say so ; and I pray you to keep what I tell you carefully secret. It is a friend who speaks to you ; and if you repeat what I say I will send you all the commentaries that may be made on the subject. So act with discretion.’ ‘1 promise you faithfully. Ah ! the villains ! I will never enter their door a gain.’ M. Real knew that his secret was well placed ; that very evening it was very mysteriously confided to a dozen intimate friends who also promised silence; in two days, all Paris was informed. The day for the next soiree arrived ; the salons remained perfectly empty. One evening, M. Real encountered Madame de R#**** at the opera, who ac costed him angrily. ‘Sir,’she said to him, ‘you have stated , that 1 was paid by the police—it is an in famous falsehood.’ ‘Madame,’ replied M. Real, raising his voice, so that every one might hear, I ‘l have never said that you were paid by the police ; if you are paid By the police, 1 know my duty too well ever to say so.’ After so clear an explanation, the sal ons of Madame de R****# lost their rep j utatiou forever. On the organization of the Government of the United States in 1789, the Presi dent occasionally met witlkthe Senate in thefr chamber, and conferred with them upon the Executive business with their province. On the 22d August 1789, he “wune into the Seuate Chamber, attended by Gen. Knox, and laid before the Senate 9 statement of facts relating to the nego tiation of a treaty with the Southern In dians, with questions annexed for their advice.” On these occasions, the Presi dent took the chair of the Vice President, wboth id a chair on the floor, but wfs considered as the head of the Senate. The Heads of department, too, wets sometiufcs, we believe, called, upon, Os admitted, to appear in either of the National Legislature, to explain* hr enforce the measures which tbe *TT*llini|t tration recommended. ♦ “Precocity.” A yttaag eUM hwif asked what tbe cake, a pioceef atftiefc k was eating, was baked in, wad toiddut it was baknd m a “apidw.” Intheicawe of the day the Uttje qeaatio am. «ftM evidently revolved the mysterious nutter without obtaining a satisfactory solution of it, and determined tdgrs|i&her oflfin*. ity, in all the simplicity oF cniidkk fhirow cence inquired—“ Where IkMCt that you bake in ?”—{Gftdtidtdwsf '\wftp