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H E R A L D.
A U G U S T~A,
WEDNESDAY, May 6, iSoi.
A letter from a young man in the Bri
tish artillery, who went out with fir Sid
ney Smith, in August 1799, on tile expe
dition to the siege of Acre, dated Bethle
hem, Judea, February 1800, gives the fol
lowing account of that country :
After the siege of Acre, we marched to
the city of Samaria, in Galilea, where we
lay fix weeks, when we got orders to pro
ceed to Jerusalem. We parted by the land
of Sodom, the 20thjanuary, and encamp
ed on 26th on the Mount of Olives, near
Jerusalem, and upon the 2d of February
marched into that city.—The religion
here is that of Mahomet, and there are a
great number of Pilgrims.
The city, which is about as large as
Dundee, in Scotland, is 40 miles from the
sea ; the fineft building in it is a Temple,
formerly dedicated to the fun,but now be. -
longing to the Turks. There is another
Temple, built over the place where our
Saviour was buried, and an image of the
Virgin Mary, of gold, to which the Pil
grims pay their devotion. There is to be
seen, likewise, the Cleft of the Rock which
rent when our Saviour gave up the ghost.
We lay there three weeks, and then came
so this town, namely, Bethlehem, ten miles
from Jerusalem. The town is about as
large as Perth, with some fine fireets in its
the place wdicre our Saviour was born,
is now covered with a chapel (about as
large as the fieeple of Dundee) where the
Christians wor fit ip.
The mod remarkable thing in this coun
try, is the cheapness of provisions, &c.
Wine is to be had at two pence per bottle,
lemons one penny per dozen, oranges the
fame; figs three half pence per pound;
butter, milk, and cheese very plenty. It
may with propriety, still be (tiled the* Land
of aland flowing with miik and
honey; for there is every thing in great
abundance: in fliort, this country almost
wants for nothing, money being very lit
tle used. I got a chest made at Jerusalem,
of the wood of Lebanon, which would
have coll me two guineas in Britain.
EXTRACT.
“ With regard to political disputes,
which so often defiroys the peace of fa
milies, and makes the supporters of the
•different parties, in the eyes of their op
ponents, enemies of their country, tht
following observations deserve in ibefe
times to be particularly recommended.
“ In society, political interefls and o
pinions will often occupy our minds, and
r.ot unfrequently become the theme of
conversion.—Oh such oocafions let us
be particularly careful to manifefl mode
ration, both of temper and language—on
scarcely any one fubjeft are we iefs entitl
ed to be positive than on the embarrassing
and complex one of politics. No human
work is perfect, and considering the mul
tifarious nature of its objects, it is, per
haps, matter of little furprize that the
science of human government is in gener
al so defective. None but those who are
actually engaged in conducing its highest
operations, can be aware of the difficulties
with which it is attended ; and consider
ing how many fnrhuietit palfiofls are to be
regulated, and how many jaring interefls
are to be reconciled in the vafl system of
national concerns, a good mind will be
disposed to pity, rather than to envy or
condemn, the greater part of the rulers of
mankind. Let us my brethren, frequent
ly turn our eyes from feeble, short-sighted
men, to that almighty ruler who fits at the
helm of the universe, and who, from what
ieemsto us almost a chaos, is constantly
educing order, virtue and happiness.
This will elevate and fortify our minds;
render us ealV as to thefinai ifliie of things;
and difpole us, upon all occasions to think
and speak of our fellow-mortals with
candour, impartiality and moderation.”
Inland Navigation.
Upwards of 3000 barrels of flour and
£oo hogsheads of tobacco, arrived from
the back country through the canal, in
the bafon, at Richmond, in one day—the
6th inst.
There were imported into Kingston,
Jamaica, in the months of May, June, and
July, 1800, from Africa, 6712 negro
(laves. ! !
From a late London Paper.
The following humorous circumstance
really happened a few davs ago, in the
vicinity of Charing Cross : Two ladies
of considerable diftindtion Hoped in a
carriage at a jeweller’s; one of them only
got cut; the coach stood across the cause-
way. Some gentlemen wanted to cross to
the other fide, and requested the coach
man to move on a little; the fellow was
lurly, and refufed ; the gentlemen reman- ‘
ftrated, but in vain. During the alterca- ]
tion, the lady came to the door of the
lhop, and foolifhly ordered the coachman
not to stir from his place. One ’of the
gentlemen then, without hesitation, open
ed the door of the coach, and with boots '
and lpurs on went through the carriage ; 1
he was followed by his companion, to 1
the extreme difeompofure of the lady
within, as well as the lady without. To
complete the jell, a party of sailors com
ing up,obferved,thatif this was a thorough
fare they had as much right to go thro’ it
as the gem men, and they accordingly went
through the coach. The lady had some
difficulty to get into her carriage, as a
mob was soon, collected to enjoy the
feene.
PEDESTRIAN FEAT.
Last Saturday morning two Gentlemen,
on a wager of One Thousand dollars, let
out for Philadelphia on foot. They were
to arrive, (or either of them) in Philadel
phia within Forty Hours. —At Trenton
one of them foundered, and has been laid
up ever since with blistered feet. The
other of firmer iiamina and vigorous
nerves, puflied on, and arrived at the City
Tavern in Philadelphia, Five Hours with
in the time fpecified. [iV. York D. A.
natsassssoMßßi
DIED, on Thurfdav evening last, af
ter a lingering' illnefs which he bore with
chriftijn fortitude, Mr. Jacob Morse,
aged 27 years. His loss is lamented bv an
aged and tender mother, affectionate bro
ther and a numerous train of relations and
acquaintances to whom he was endeared
by many amiable qualities.
Died at his house in Slough Lane, near
Windsor, (England,) on Sunday, the ift
of March, Dr. Herschel, the celebrated
astronomer, and diicoverer of the new
planet Georgium Sidus.
NO T I C E.
PROPOSALS will be received by the
City Council of Augusta, until
Thursday the 21st instant, for repairing
and keeping in good repair for one year,
the several public Wells within the limits
of the City.
By Order ,
Joseph Hutchinson, Cl’k.
Mav 4.
F O T SALE,
ASET OF
DINING TABLES,
SIDE BOARD 6?TEA TABLE
THOMAS SMYTH.
Mav 6. (95)
TO be REN TED,
And Pojfeffion Given Immediately ,
THE HOUSE and LOT at present
occupied by Mrs. Rebecca Cocke.
For particulars apply to
WILLIAM COCKE.
Ma y 4- (95)
THE SUBSCRIBER,
Respeflful'y informs the public , that he has
moved his Store next door below Mr. Wil
liam White's Broad flrect.
WHERE HE HAS AN ASSORTMENT OF
DRY GOODS,
LIQUORS (S GROCERIES.
Among which are t
Jamaica Rum,
Northward Ditto,
Holland Gin,
Cogniac Brandy.
Madeira, 1
Sherry & >Wi NES.
Malaga j
Bbls. best Rack Cider,
Loaf and Brown Sugars,
Hyfon and Souchong Teas,
Coffee and Chocolate,
Which he will dispose of at the mod redu
ced prices for cafi or country produce.
JACOB DANFORTH.
April 29. (Bt. 94.)
WANTED.
TWO or Three adtive BOYS between
14 and 15 years of age, as Appren
tices to the CARPENTERS BUSINESS,
to whom good treatment will be given.
Enquire at this Office.
A P ril 30- (95-)
LOST,
During the Late Fire.
A MUSKET with a black flock and
a spring Bayonet-catch.—The finder
will be rewarded by leaving it at this
Office.
April 15. ,
The MORALIST.
Duelling is one of thole vices which receive a
colour of right from the fandtien of cullom, but
which arc abi'olutcly forbid by the laws ot Cod,
Nature, and Society.
(Concludedfrom our last.)
AS in fame measure connected
with this,, it will not be altogether foreign
from the fubjeCt to examine the character
of the duellilt ; —he who supposes that
there is no alternative for an affront, 01
even degradation of name, than the calm
and deliberate exchange of a (hot, whert
it is the avowed intention of each to de
prive the other of his life. I will ask what
charaders are they who so erroneoully de
fine the word honor r —Are they men of
rcfledion—of cool and difpaifionate
tempers ; —or are they hot headed, fiery,
turbulent maccarnnies—men in whom
die “ lmall itill voice of reason” has no
.tfeenda cy ? A large proportion are of the
latter c!ali>; ami ot these, the challengers
perhaps compose tile grtateft number. Let
necn..rader of thole (ingle combatants
be carefully lcanned, and 1 will venture
o alleit, that for the mod part we (hall
rind them to poll el's few of those traits
vviiich entitle them to the appellation of
gentlemen—As such they may rank from
their birth, their fortune, or their situation
in life, but not from their virtues—These
alone form the character, and make the
only just diltindions among mankind. 1
repeat it: Ducllifts are commonly men ol
loose and abandoned principles, who think
it hut right—indeed exult in having ftep
ed forth to vindicate a luppofed or some
times really injured reputation, by taking
away the life of him who had done it.
That men of refpedability and probity,
and at other times of virtuous and honorable
principles have fought duels, I do not de
ny; hut the instances of these are rare,
when, compared to the number of those
whole characters are diametrically the re
verse. Neither does this furnifli a plea for
committing the inhuman deed: all nicu
are liable to errors:—the precedent which
they afford is bad, and ought not to he
imitated. Let it, however, be granted,
that a man has been ill-treated—that his
reputation or “ good name” has fuffered
from the malicious aspersions of a calum
niator; —let it be ftippofed that the en
venomed tongue of slander has been ex
ereifed upon his character; —let it even be
imagined that he has received a blow,
called a liar, pulled by the nose, or (pit in
the face; will his coming off victorious in
a duel by killing the person who had thus
injured him, or falling himldf in the com
bat, prove to the world the justice of his
cause ? Will this be a proof of his inno
cence? Will the blood of hisantagonilf or
even his own wadi away the stigma which
has been made upon his reputation ? Does
not victory proclaim itfelf as often on one
fide as the other r*
It would be a consoling reflection, but
it would not, in my opinion, in the leaf!
palliate the crime of duelling, if fortune
always declared itfelf against the aggreflor
or promoter of the quarrel whicii gives
origin to the duel: if the person guilty a
lone incurred the danger of (offering, or
actually did fuffer,it would be less material,
but not less criminal. But from the fre
quent instances to the contrary of this, it
in some measure juftifics the supposition
thitthe Great Dif'penfer of Events takes
this method of convincing mankind, that
to deprive a fellow-being of his existence,
oreven to make the attempt, is in direCt
opposition to his will.
And how happens it that so few duels
prove mortal ; scarce five in fifty $ The
reason I think is obvious. A falfe cou
rage commonly animates duellifts: it is
thtpr*:of despair, and an impious and
of the Supreme Being,
which no true hero ever yet indulged—
So powerfully are they in general under
the opperationof sear— so pusillanimous
are the parties, that they tremble into each
others arms on the flighted interposition
of the seconds ; and thus from the mere
solemnities without, the danger of the com
bat, they leave the field with the reputa
tion of men of honor.
When I hear one boafling of his hav
ing exchanged a (hot, or parried a thru ft
with a person with whom he had quarrel
ed—of his having received a wound in a
Angle rencountre; or when I hear him ex
ult in the numbers he has sent out of the
world in this way; I immediately note
him not merely as a rash imprudent man,
but as one whose mind is deflitute of every
* Duelling at apunifhment is absurd ; because it
is an equal chance whether the punishment fall upon
the offender, or the person offended. Norisitmuch
better as a. reparation, it being difficult to explain in
what the fatisfaction confifb, ar How it tends to undo
the injury, or to afford a compcnfation for the damage
fuftamed.
Pahy’i PHiiesorHv.
principle of humanity, honor and genuine
greatnefs;—as one who is bereft of every
noble, generous lentiment; and laflly, i
mark him as a very dangerous mtmber of
tocirty, and, as a violator ot the molt sa
cred and well founded laws, meriting ex
emplary pumlhment.
To revile at the follies of the age ; to
centure the ablurdity of cultom ; or to
paint an evil even in the molt glowing
colours, without pointing out a remedy
for its correction, is limilar to a pin lician’s
discovering the caufeand nature of a dif
eale without being able to devile a cure.
1 am aware of the ditheulfy ot eradicat
ing a vice which has so long received the
lanCtion of cultom, and the practice of
which has so frequently been permitted in
the molt open defiance of authority and
contempt oi the laws.
When the mind becomes indifferent to
the principles of virtue or is liltlels to the
admonitions of reason—when the confct
ence becomes callous to the loft emotions
•of humanity, and men rush into enormi
ties at which innocence bluftics, and which
degrade beings called civilized , the power
legally veiled in certain individuals and
collective bodies fliould exert its full force,
and the molt condign pumfhment lliouhi
await every commilfion of a crime. The
penalty for every infraction of the law
prohibiting duelling cannot be too severe,
and it ought invariably to be exaCted.
No mean, trifling evasion fliould prevent
the punilhment—A few examples, 1 will
venture to allert, would Ipecdily have a
tendency to check the growth of an evil
which is alarming in its nature. Nor
fliould the lcconds cfcape the jult severity
of the law, but as acceflaries before the
faCt, they fliould be tonfidered as princi
pals and meet the lame fate.
Taught to admire the fy Item of govern
ment under which I live, and knowing
the blelhngs which emanate from it, I
cannot but detest monarchies and more
particularly those which areabfolute. Yet,
even in these we sometimes have prools of
wildom and policy.
Guflavus Adolphus wiflied to abolilh
duelling,and viewed it asan unnatural cul
tom. He enacted a law bv which it was
made death to any challenger. Two mi
litary officers having had a quarrel, alter
much difficulty obtained the king’s per
miflion to decide it with the sword, on
conditions that the duel fliould be public
and itt his prfence. When they were
ready, the king cried out “fall on; but
the moment one of them is slain," laid he
to the executioner, “instantly bring me
the head of the other.” Whether the idea
of certain death, or con rition for the ♦
crime they were about to perpetrate ope
rated molt forcibly on their minds, is dif
ficult to afeertain : I presume it was the
former. They declined the contest and
vowed eternal friendlhip. Thus, if death
was made the inevitable portion of the
hiccefsful dueliift or if the mode of fight- *
ing was prrfcribed by law in such a man
ner that both mu ft fall—Such as putting
the muizle of the pistols into each others
mouth, or, as was once* proposed by a
foreign count who w’as challenged by a
hot-headed Engliflunan—fetting fire to a
barrel of gun-|>owder in a room with
themselves, w-e fliould have fewer inflan
ces of this wicked, unchristian, and abo
minable practice: they would fpeedily'be
come Id’s fafliionable in Georgia—-But
in the general way in which duels are
fought, and under the belief that they
will be reputed men of honor and of having
their names enrolled with th e heroes of the
age, even if a shot is not exchanged , they re
sort to the field for the mod trifling cir
cumstances—circumstances for which in
a court of justice they would not recover
fix penny worth of damages.
Let not a perverted sense of honor
any longer trample on ail the precepts of
morality—on all the restraints of virtue :
let not the fear of the falfe imputation of
cowardice tempt men to the commiflion of
a deed, which divine and social laws for
bid, and which conflitutes a crime of the
blacked die; and if the goading stings
of conscience or the fear of the just ven
geance of heaven are not fufficient to
check so barbarous a custom, let the full
power of offended justice be executed ;
let the coo! blood-thirsty dueliift,like every
other murderer, die with circumstances of
ignomy, or in the words of the law, let
him “be hung by the neck until he is
DEAD —DEAD.”
JUVENIS.
March 30, 1801.
TO THE PUBLIC.
THE fubferiber would be much oblig
ed to any person, who has L ; nen to
make up, for their custom, which (hall be
done cheap and in the neatest manner.
ANN M‘FARLIN»
May 6.