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CHARACTER OF THE FAIR SEX.
Through many aland and clime a ranger,
With toilsome step*, I've held my way;
A lonely, unprotected stranger,
T»> at ranger's ills a consent prey.
While steering thus my course precarious,
My fortune ever was to find
( M n’s hearts and dispositions various,
Hut woman grateful, true, and kind.
Alive to ev'ry tender feeling,
To deeds of mercy always prone,
The wounds of pain and sorrow healing,
With soft Compassion's sweetest tone.
No proud delay, no dark, suspicion,
Taints the free bounty of their heart !
They turn not from the sad petition,
Hut cheerful aid at once impart.
Form’d in benevolence of nature,
Obliging, modest, g«y, and mild,
Woman's the. same, endearing creature,
In courtly town, or savage wild.
When parch’d with durst, with hunger
wasted,
Her friendly hand refreshment gave,
llww sweet Uie coarscsi food has tasted!
How cordial was the simple wu\c!
n. r courteous look, her words caressing,
Shed cotnlurl on the tainting soul—
Woman’s the stranger's general blessing,
From sultry India to the pole.
A beam of tranquility smitM in the west,
The storm of thejnorningpursued us no
more.
And the wave, while it welcom’d the mo
meiu of rest,
Still heav'd, us rcmem’bring ills that
were o’er!
Serenely my heart took the hue of the
hour,
Its passion* were sleeping, were mute as
the dead.
And the spirit becalm’d but remember’d
their power,
A* the billow tbe force of the gale that
was fled!
1 thought of the days, when to power alone
My heart ever granted a wish or a fi. h'
When the sadesf emotion my bosom had
known
Was pity for those who were wiser than 1!
Sfelt, how the pure, intellectual lire
In luxury loses its heavenly fry;
Bow soon in trie lavishing- cup ofdesire,
The pearl of the soul may be melted a
way!
A/ui 1 pray’d of that Spirit who lighted the
fl«mc,
That pleasure no more might its purity
dmi;
And that sullied but little, or brightly the
same, -
! might give back the gem i had bor
row’d from him!
The thought a as extatk! I feltas If heaven
Had already the wreath ot eternity
sh ow.tr
As if, gaasiuii all chasten’d and error for
-given,
My lu art had begun to be purely its
own!
I look’d to the west, and the beautiful sky
Which morning had clouded, w as clou
ded no more;
t* Oh! thus,” 1 exclaim’d, "can a heavenly
eye
“ Shed light on the soul that was dark*
en’d before'.”
NEW SVSI BM OF PUNCTUATION.
At a dinner table, a slioi t time ago, one
Qf those nun descnpis called dandies call
ed a JJuudy. was sca'ed at the tap, and an
h< ‘iieat, plain dealing farmer as the button
Dining dinner time, a great many aflict
*d>V ,-oiitc speeches were made by tin
beau, and u great many course ones by
the laruier. When cheese was introduc
e i, tie top, in an utKcted nn icing tone
Asked the company .whether they prefer
■ red tire pure or impure. On asking tin
I ■ r tills Question, die old man replied
?‘l)— n your fibre or impure give me so.m
O. me musty ” “Sis,” say s tut* Dandy,
must beg leave to u-U y oil, that you ftavt
tn- ie many very u s .tent speech--*, dur
ing dinner; otto, Sir, if .1 iiave any rape
tition ot youi mso.ence, 1 ahull place my
t nr.O autt tongei « u each side ot vout
nose, and i.iaki * parenthesis of it.* 1 A
ptiretafmu ! slmll you ? savs the old man
—“the a 1 shad put my hit into your face,
Oakc %JvU 9ttfhT>
MXL ■
Remarks
On * Volney't viero of the toil and climate
of the United Statet.
Scarcely any work, descriptive of our
country, has had a more extensive circu
lation ilian the above mentioned. This
makes i» necessary that any err ore or mis
takes which may be in that work*, should
be corrected, to prevent their being per
petuated. Mr Brown the judicious Am
erican translator of Vobiey’s View, has no
ted a considerable number of those error*!
■ but there arc other* which either escaped
his notice, or he did not po»*»-s sufficient
• local knowledge of all parts of the country
described to correct them.
It njay useful, even a * l' ,lS ®*y>
to point out some which be has omitted,
more espcciidly as several of them have
been transcribed into popular works;
thus, if some means are not taken to pie
vent it, they will be extensively dissemina
’ ted and long perpetuated. Those error*,
it is true, are not generally very impoi
tant; but being errors, the chance of their
being continued ought, as f;tr«s possible,
to he prevented.
The first I shall notice is contained in
page eighteen of the Philadelphia edition
of 18U4. In the preceding page Mr. Vol
ney, speaking of die Valley ot the Missis
sippi, says, ‘ The people o i the maritime
provinces arc accustomed to distinguish
this space by the names of the Ifackcoiui
try, the Backwoods, the Wilderness, or
more fancifully tnc Western country. 1
had scarcely pass-.it, he adds, the Allega
ny, when I heaid this phrase applied, by
the dwellers on the Great Kenhawa and
the Ohio, to the niaratime countrv,’and h<-
goes on to make some reflections on so
remarkable u fact. But Mr. Volney is cer
tainly, mistaken in the fact itself persons
who have lived many yens on the Ken
Imwa and Ohio, assert they never heard
the phrase applied there, as Mr. Volney
has. slated, uoi do tiny oelicve the idea
evpr- ss< <1 by it ever oecun edto the minds
of the people or that cnun'iy. It will ap
pear presently, from some qiiwtations from
inn work, and the r- marks wide ■ will be
made upon them, that Mr. Volney, irom
an imperfect knowledge of our language,
or some other cans .sometimes put a very
erroneous const rut lion on what lie hi ar-1.
in page nineteen, he tells u* the vine,
in tbe Western country, climbs to the
height of twenty or thi, ty feel,* When
Mr. Volney errs, he generally goes b« -
yond the truth; but in this case he has
fallen short of it. lie would m this case,
have been near the truth, had he vold ns
that the Vi n?, in that country, climbs to
the height of from twenty to seventy-five
or eighty feet.
In page twemy, he teils us very cor
rectly, that sonic of the w estern mnim
-1 tains are ‘distinguished by their ia)>id
sloped and the narrowness »f their sum
mits,’-but in a note he adds, ‘it is on the
summits howver, that the Indians, .-ml af
ter Hi- in the Americans, have tr-m- d their
paths or roads. One of the most sinking
specimens of this kind of road is to he found
on Guuly-ridge among the Kenliawamoun-
Hens. I lns ridge is not tifteefi feci broad
in die course of a mile, while there ia a,
perptndicular descent, on either side, of
six or seven hundred teet.” If this des
cription were correct, this would be the
must exlnturdinaiy curiosity in North A-,
merica. A natural wall, a mile in length,
fifteen fee t\ hick, and six or seven hun
dred ft-- 1 high, w nid be more astonishing
It UMt the Natural r)ridge, or the Falri of
N.agaia- But no such place exists as Mr.
Voln-v here dea-uibi*. I'lmj ridge which
In.- refers to is very narrow at the Hop and
the sides are very sleep, but faa - from being
perpendicular. Mr Volney, it is be hi
ved, is also mistaken when he says tin In-
L dmus traced -hc.r p iths on the summitsoi
these mountains. Their paths, so far -*s
the writ-sol this article lias had an op
! portuuiiv of ascertaining, were traced a
long the valleys, and not uu the summits
of the ridges; and certain itistliatai the
particular place Mr. Volney dasc.rib-s the
luuudous u u follow tlie tr ace < f an Indian
track.
In page twenty-nine, he tells us very
correctly, that the Blue Hidgc ‘ is deta-li
ed from tin great bow or knot of tbe Al
legany, 1 and, ‘is the immediate elonga
tion of this chain in ertfn-cg rr <m tire sum n;’
but adds lira *it crosses dames’ river a
bovc th- j iiictiuii us its two higlwv l‘i Iv
es, ilu P.-'.-iwinac above the bhanandoah,
and the tMisque-.iaunah abut- Harrisburg.’
We suspect there must be, m ti ls sen
tence*, Some error of me translamr of the
press. Part of it is unintelligible, A. part
of it not only contrary to Uct, hot to Vo >
net's own ideas exj icased in . 'her pails
of lua book. Hu liluc ridgv.it is well
known <<tosses Jam s’ river just below os
two principal brunches —the P;Uow iliac not
i ‘above* tint iniucd-ately below where mat
riv-v recei* sthe bltauamioah,and items
ses the husQU-’lrainta'i not übov--, but coo
• lembly below liailsb rgh.
. to page thirty, we uu- told the nortn
mooiiUuu‘detaches itself from the great
bow of tu A gaily, and holding a course
*■ tectnoa"d, but parallel to the f.-rmer, tra
verses the higher branches of James Hit
or,' Sic 1 suspect that here also is at
n-ror us the press or of the translator.—
’ Volney probable wrote, or intended U
- write, that tue north mountain holds it*
course eastward. |t would have be-.
more correct however, to have wntte
north eastward; for that, as is wall know n
is toe general course of that mountain.
. lu the Gutty-third page, Mr. Volm
informs us,, that among the mourta
which he passed through from blavi'ii
to Greeiibriar, are the warm, the hot, ami
the red springs. It is not easy to ascer
tain what ire means by the red spring, -
diere is no spring of that name along tb
c road which lie travelled There is a red
I- Hpung m the county of Monroe; but Mr.
n \ oluey iLid o- pass very near to it. lie
n however must have passed the white sul
t- pher—a spring more resorted to in tL
e watering season than aly other in Virgin
y ia; liul it Can hardly be .-opposed that *
is fAar which lie denominated the r-.u
r, s, n.ig. It is strange, however, that h
r- stiould nut menuuii so noted a spring as
e the while sulphur, especially asth-- raau
J, he travelled passed within » few feet i
iv the spring iiseJl. I describing the warn
•1 spring, he says, ‘it ris-a ai the- 'wutom ot
t a dee p valle), shaped like a funnel, ami
r- easily pircncd to be the waier of an t\-
: anguished volcano. It is believed that
y no person but Volney himself ever per
r ceiveu tins water. There ate certainty
A no indications at the place us any such
n thing. H-aides, a spring issuing' out us
;, the water of even an extinguished volca
no, i| a phenomenon, it is supposed, not
M yet Med ifiy «hers. Surely * *«& er
is one of the lest places in the world u
which we would expect to find * spring
In the page last quoted we are also tol'i
that ‘.west of the Allegany,'towards tie
vale of the Ohft, there are many ’remai
kable hills. The first of these called Key
nick, aid the high Ballentinea, eight miles
west ot Greenbrier, appears to me as lofty
thougl not as broad as the Blue
The aqthor has crowded into this last
sentence, more mistakes than 1 recollect
to have ever noticed in a sentence of the
same length. It is also in one respect ex
tremely vague and indefinite. What does
Mr. Vblney mean here by Greenbrier i
la it Kreenbrier river, „or Greenbrier
court louse f probably he means the lat
ter. If ao, he ought to have said Lewis
burgh, for that is live name of the place
where Greenbrier Conrt iluupe stands.—
Kow for his mistakes. Re evidently
speaks of Hey nick, and the’High Bellen
tin.es, us one mountain. But those he
means are not one, but two distinct moun
tains, He farther says, that it appears as
lofty, though not so broad as the Blue
Uidge If the two mountains he hear re
fers to, are considered separately, neither
of them is half so high as the Blue Ridge;
but considered as one mountain, they may
be almost as high, for they stand tike ter
races—the base of the Second is almost as
high us the top of the fust. If we con
sider those two mountains as one, as Vol
uey has done, they are certainly broader
than the Blue ridge generally is, or than
it is where Mi - . Volney crossedit. The
most extraordinary thing however in this
sentence is, that Mr. Volney has entirely
mistaken the names of those mountains—
The name of the first is the Bushy ridge,
b< ing a projection or elongation of Mud
dy Creek Mountain. The name of the
s> corn! is the Meadow Mountain At the
time Volney passed through that country
there livrd at tire foot, or rather on the
side of the Brushy ridge, a man whose
name was Reniek, and there lived neat
the foot of the M.adow mountain a mutt
man whose name was Hugh Ballentine—
Mr- Vofnty then was probably led into his
mistake in the following manner. Some
person giving him directions of the road
he was to travel, told him that after going
a certain distance he would pass Renick’s,
and going on two or three miles farther
he would pass Hugh Ballentien’s. Vo)
ney travelling on the distance first men
tioned, found himself ascending a moun
tain, andlhoi gh, that was what was inten
ded by * RcktiickV and going on two or
three miles farther fsnnd himself ascend
i g another lofty elevation; this he con
cluded must be what was intended to be
the second name which had been men
tioned to him, and changing the Christian
n.tine Hugh into the adjective' High, he
m tamorphosed Hugh Ballenline into the
• High B .dentines ’ This was certainly a
very ludicrous blunder, and the man who
could commit it, is evidently entitled to
Kssconfidence in his statements as a tra
veller, than we might otherwise be dispo
sed to repose in them. A few sentences
farther on, we are told * The G-mley ridge
or.ginat s among the fountains of the
Great Kenhawa This is a misiak., Gan
lev mountayi crosses the Great Kenhawa,
where ilis'ca led North river, a little a
bove the Great Falls and seveial hundred
miles below its source. The fountains cl
the Great Kenhawa are in mountains dis
tinct and far distant from the Guilty
ridge This sftows what vague and in
definite conceptions Mr Volney sometimes
formed,and what little pains lie sometimes
took to obtain accurate and distinct in
formation. in the 46ih page we are told
that in the country round Pittsbu-gb, on
the Ohio, in the district of Greenbrier, on
the Kenhawa and throughout Kentucky,
an examination- always b ads to lit., grand
calcerous foundation*’ This assertion is
m,uh too hto.id. The ‘c.tlcerotsfounda
lion’ «s found only in a small part of the,
extensive territory fuel ded in the county
ot Greenbrier. It is found no w’here on
flu Kenhawa; it is found only in apart of
Kentucky. A great proportion of what is
called the wjidt mess, in that state show’s
no calcuu ous rock. There are likewise
extensive districts along the Ohio where
it is to tK found
In page 51 and S 2, we are told there is
a calcareous region between the Blue
"ridge and North Mountain, v hich extends
from tlic Delaware about £aston to the
great bow oftlie Ml. gany This is tole
aiily correct; but he adds The county of
Boretoum, w’iiich occupies the latter re
gion, is ca led the limestone country, be.
cause it supplies with that material, all
tile country east ol the Blue ridge, where
none is to be- ftund.* There is doubtless
limestone in Boleionnt county; but it is
not so universally abundant in bat county
as in many ethers abote the Bme ridge,
a d Uouiouut has nevei byway . f enii
in ttcc, been call'd the limestone county,
nor has >t ever supplied the country east
of the Blue ridge with that material to n
considerable extern. It is moreover iry
strange that Mr, Volney did not know,
lt.it cast of the Blue ridge, a vein of lime
stone extends quite across Virginia, from
which the uppt r counties east of the Blue
i ig -1 , obtain almost all the lime they use.
! here are some other statements of Mr.
• olney, which might be noticed; such as
is assertion that .col Lewis ofPointPleas
ant, was a relation of Gen. Washington;
and his assertion,in page 26, that he was
• ena ded in various si nations, to make ac
curate measurements of our mountains,
and_then proceeding to give measure -
.i nls tone of which it would se«nti were
made by, him. But I will not detain my
readers with these matters
Upon the whole, Mr. Volney’s work is
a valuable onC; and although there in it a
great many mistakes, y€t he certainly col
lected during the short time he was a
nong us, a great deal of information res
pechngour co intrys and has given new
nd interesting views of some subjicts to
wilicit we. Americans, had acutely before
;urpeA our attention. .G.
From the Rational Recorder.
Jn*t:tUiio it ts the J leaf and Dumb at Parts.
From L’Hemite de la Cliaussee l)’Antin #
“ Cratum eit, yuod patriae gives ptpuloque
dedtsti'’ —Juv,
V\ atking Fnd»y last on the boulevards
with an old comrade of the regiment to
w hich l formerly belonged (the chevalier
Maurice,) who usually lives to the country-,
but who comes to Paris two or three times
a year, wc amused ourseives in collecting
together xml examining the recollections
of our youthful day s; we called to mind
our ancient occupations, cur ancient pleas-
urt*, and we parted in i*viev the places
wluch had been the theatre of, and the
persons who bad partaken them—l waso
bliged to confess, that when w'e-‘ arrived in
a garrison. It was always he who was cho
sen to make enquiries and discoveries
and the next day we were sure of being
informed of all that was necessary to be
know'n, to wit, the names of the handsom
est ladies in the tow u, the best ordinary,
the most fashionable coffeehouse, and the
promenade the most frequented “ I was
then able,” said he, laughing. «to make a
complete statistical table of France, for
the use of young officers; at present 1
can still charge myself with that of the
capital, and 1 wager that I can teach you
(who by profession ought to know Pans
better than any one else) a great many
things of which you arc ignorant. ”
He then cited to me the names of twen
ty little theatres, as many gardens and
public establishments where fetes were
given, which in truth 1 had never heard
spoken of—Whilst he was speaking, we
were roughly jostled in one of the ride
walks of the boulevards, by a file of five or
six men, who walked along very fastaftei
the other—Maurice apostrophized pretty
sharply to one who had run against him,
saying that “a man, when walking, should
always look before him ” bo I most cer
tainly would, answered he, (still pursuing
his way,) “if 1 only had eyes!” “They are
blind,” cried the chevalier with the aston
ishment of a man who thinks he had made
a discovery. “1 see,” said I ‘.that you are
much more familiar y ith obj. cts of amuse
ment than wiih institutions vs public util
ity, and 1 will bet in my turn that yo i do
not even know in what quarter of Paris
the Hospital of the Quinae vingts is situa
ted.” He acknowledged his ignorance,
and his wonder increased on learning that
these unfortunate beings left every day
their hospital (wnich is situated at the but
tom of the fauxjnirgh St. Antoine) and
traversed Paris to go to the Palais Royal,
where they performed as musicians at the.
Case des Jvengels,* and afterwards re
turned home at midnight, without guide
or accident. The Chevalier could scarce
believe the phenomenon of such an in
stinct, and his astonishment was raised to
such a pitch, when I made him observe at
a distance from us, on the satm bmtlvard
where we were walking, two blind men;
who played piquet with as much assurance
and almost as fast as two amateurs of the
kercle. “You only see there, however,”
said I to Maurice, “a prodigy of address;
I wish now to show you one which appeals
at first glance to exceed the limits of hu
man intelligence,” and I spoke to him of
the Institution for the Dqaf and Dumb.—
Vs he appeared to call ui question tht
facts which he could not comprehend,
1 offered him the means of convincing
himself by his own eyes, apd proposed to
nim to accompany me the next day to the
public exhibition us the institution for
which I had tickets. He accepted with
. eagerness the invitation, and tame the
next morning, with his sister and .niece,
who wished to be of the party.
While on our way to the institution,
i hese ladies interrogated me upon itso
, rigin and progress, of which I could only
give them very incomplete details. The
sublime idea of restoring to society be
ngs which nature appeared to have ex
uded from it ; of supplying by educa
ion the organs of hearing and of speech,
w hich they were deprived of, had before
it was matured in the head, or rather the
. heart of the celebrated Abbe de L’Epee
! arrested, at different epochs, the .alien
, lion of a Spanish monk named Ponce, of
1 the English mathematician Wallis, atjd of
, Amman, a physician of Harlaetn; but the
honor of this admirable invention, does
not the less belong to him who brought
J to perfection tlje feeble attempts of his
s predecessors, w’ho united them in a sys
* tem, and who (like Vincent de Paul, that
. other benefactor of humanity) conseciat
, ed his lift and fortune to the foundation
, of one of the most useful establishments
j which honours France —Let us hope that
, public gratitude will prevent posterity
. from forgetting, that the Abbe de L’fcpee
. without office, without a living, without
, protection, without any other assistance
than |iis own inheritance (which did njt
, amount to more than twelve thousand liv
’ res a year,) maintained and instructed in.
, his otf n house forty deaf and dumb scho
, lars, that lie suffered for their sakes the
most long and paint'd privations, and that
during tue rigorous ‘ winter of 1/88, he
depriv ed himself of wood and clothes of
which he had need, in order tnat his pu
[ pils should want nothing ; all these la
hours and sacrifices would infaltally have
been lost, if the Abbe had not found in
' uis successor an heir of his talents and
virtues.
The Abbe Sicard, now the
deaf and dumb, has completed the work
ot tue Abbe (de L’Epee; he lias deducted
all the consequences of die system of e
location, of winch the former had laid
flown the principles; and such is the per
fection of the method employed by me
abhe bicard, that one is tempted some
times to believe, that in the place of st ek
ing a compensation for the organs of
which nature has deprived his pupils, he
lias applied himself to the developement
ol an intellectual sense in them which is
wanting in other men. 1 will give as a
proof, two of the well known answers of
Massien, who when asited for a definition
of Eternity, immediately answered, .i
day without yesterday or to-morrow ; and
of Gratitude, The memory of the heart f
While thus conversing, we arrived'at
the ancient seminary of Saint Magloire,
wheie the National Institution of the deaf
and dumb is situated. A large corpulent
portress, towards whom nature has per
haps been too liberal in the gift of speech,
which she has refused to the other inhab
itants of the house, pointed out to ustlie
hall of exhibition at the bottom of a vast
court, around which the most brilliant e
qnipages were ranged. It was already
tilled; the first seats were occupied by ele
gaiit women, and by a number oi stran
gers o* distinction; the rest of the assem
bly was composed of men of letters, of
scholars who came to hear a course of mo
ral physiology from this skilful professer
and of somcflhasiers and mistresses of
boarding schools, who habitually came to
nis lectures to learn o. - thography, and cor
rect the faults which perhaps they had
.aught the day belort!
Tnc young deaf and dumb pupils of
i-oth sexes arrived and placed themselves
in their scats: those who were designed
to answer questions ranged themselves in
a species ol amphitheatre, the extremity
Literally , cotlec house of the blind—
It takes its name from the circumstance of
jthese blind men playing there.
of which WM provided with a bkck fcowd,
destined for demonstrations
While these youlig persons occupied the
attention of the spectators, the latter w ere
in their turn tire object ol the animadver
sions of the former, who communicated
their observations t>> each other, from ope
extremity of the hall to the other, in a
manner less noisy, but quite as rapid as
the audience. Their features are so ex
pressive, their gestures so animated, that
without being initiated into the mysteries
of their language it is easy to divine the
object of their conversation? it Is some
times so gay, so epigranimatical, that their
overseers are obliged to impose upon ,
them the silence of inaction. Their criti
cisms, more lively than malicious, were'
particularly exercised upon the ladies,
whose persons, features, and manners,
were,by turns discussed b. judged in their
little tribunal. Tne sister and niece ot
Vliiurice did not escape this examination
They svere placed in such a manner as on
ly to be seen by one scholar, who under
took to draw their portraits for the bene
fit of his comrades The pretty face of the
niece, her modest behaviour, and tin. glow
of health and youth which distinguished
hei, were described in a manner s<> pic
turesque, that the amiable model, by
whom the action of the painter, was not
unobserved, blushed at the same time
with modesty and pleasure. The mute
interlocutors then inlenogated the same
young man respecting the mother ot her
whose portrait had been drawn so glow
lously.—He described her by' gestures
so comic, he pointed out so pleasantly the
curve of her pai rot nose, to which her
chia seemed momentarily inclined to join,
that all eyes were directed upon the good
lady, who laughed herself at tiie grimaces
of which she was far fi om supposing her
self the object.
The fi r aL part of the exhibition was
consecrated to grammatical questions,
which the Abbe Sicard developedjfor ihe
instruction of ids hearers, and of which
solutions were given by li.£ scholars -wuh
a clearness and precision which would
have done honor on the most learned
grammarians ? and if vte reflect lor a
i moment on the immense efforts, the pati
ence and the combinatio »s which are ne
cessary to cause so many abstract ideas to
enter into die heads of those children
without the aid of Speech and by means
of tiie eyes alone, it is impossible not to
be filled with the most profound admira
tion. 'This sentiment is atiil further aug
mented, when, passing from grammar to
metaphysics, we /icar(if 1 may here use
die expression) persons deaf ami dumb
from their birth, nalyze the human thought
by a process of which they have created e
van the expressions / among many answers
lemarkabie for their admirable sagacity , I
choose these which Massien and Leclerc
(two of the most learned scholars) had
■ u.-aiie tome ? i asked them the difference
between desire and hope : tne answer of
Massien was,“ Desire is a tree bearing
, (eaves, Hope a tree hearing flowers, Eh
joymenta tree bearing fruit';’ - * that of
Leclerc, “ Desire is an inclination of the
heart, Hope a confidence of the mind.”
1 may be deceived, but it appears to nic
that this last definition would have been
admired had it even been found in the wri
tings of Locke or Condillac. It is by si
milar examples, that the Abbe Sicard is
, able to demonstrate, i hat not only all tin
different shades of language as it is spa
ken, can be appreciated by the deaf an
: dumb, but also that their language, whie
may be called the language of ideas, i
richer than ours, for it cannot be deuie
• that a man endowed with a lively imagin'.,
tion and expanded mind, concedes mau
i ideas which he cannot find words to ei
plainer utter.
UllliOMLLJhi.
ACO VISTA. -
Thursday Morning, July 27, 1820.
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Counsellor Charles Phillips, the noisy,
hut sometimes eloquent, anti-mihisteha
Irish orator, has lately been purchased b'
the British ministry, by being created
Poet Laureat to George the fourth. Thus
whilst the government party chops off the
heads of the humble radicals for sowing
seeds of rebelliion, they distribute, in the
higher walks of life, liberal rewards, to si
lence those very tongues that have mainly
contributed to set those poor half starved
wretches on. And thus the corrupt Wal
pole's Aphorism is versified—“that eVery
mau has his price.” H ash. City Gaz.
Richmond", (Va.) July 18.
The case of Mr Greene, Cashier of the
Plioeuix Bank of New-Yoi k, excites the as
tonishment ofmany-wno have heard of it
This mau had hitherto home a fair charac
ter. The breath of calumny had never da
red to sully it And yet for years? theie
has been a canker in the bud, eating awav
the heart of it. What mus* this man have
felt, when he heard of the curses that were
lavished upon other defaulters; wuen his
conscience must have whispered to him;
“ And I too, am as bad as they. Let the
veil be undrawn; and I shall appear like
them I too am speculating upon funds
whieti do jjot belong to me. I 100 am was
ting away the substance of the widow and
the orphan.” <
This “ deficiency” is said to amount to
5147,00O —and part of it has been “ of
several years standing.” —This appears to
us to be the most singular feature in the
whole transaction. We are not acquaint
ed with the mysteries es banking, but it
appears impassible to continue so long a
lelaulter, if the directors had not been
guilty of the grossest neglect of duty.—
Why does not every board, at short peri
ods canvass the siuation of the bank? count
the funds on hand, and prevent by an un
sleeping vigilance the opportunity of a
large or a continued fraud on the part of
the officers?—Had David J. Greene been
regularly brought to account, it seems im
possible that his deficiency should not have
been known, and therefore preventer!
from swelling to such an enormous amount
—We could here utter a great many cara
mon place truths, as that man is liable to
error; and public offices exposed to cor
ruption; and more particularly offices
where money is entrusted; that guards
ought to be invented for the management
of such, and that they ought to be rigo
rously carried into effect without respect
of persons—and a hundred such truisms,
ut the events of the day ought to teach
move affecting lessons than a host of such
speculative notion*. Let these events
warn and awaken ua. We have parsed
through two ms, very differ*,.- M .
" n,,t * the era of s«p er « 7 A •,
• 1 ..assure. Some three ■ *
s'- paper money was b 0 V "S *
most of those who had acr , *; " B \
drew upon them for iaV H - e s ..:' ■ .
cd into extravagance tm
and debt was geneiwy- the \ .
-tome it appears, who could u t
at tutor command, drew tr . ‘
not meaning prohalvly o'
but calcul .ting that itW.il ' V !
before they would be cs\\
money they used, and that n' V
have it forlh-conimg when., - ..“ y ■ i
y>ly appeared. This eta r. v .■
was succeeded by one ot
The banks called in their
aal embarrassment came
had been employed cudld no-’b '“'“‘H I
enquiry was awvvkt aeV; a .1
began to be unmasked to the i t-u » '
We should devoutly hope h .H '
alogue could end with D j 1
have noguaianteetouhßefh 1
not what the next day may iuiL'Bl
Bit tins We know (an lit ,» W
commc-n place truths tlia ni,. v üßf
culed, but is not on that account 9
worthy of respect)-,} iat in Vtst 'B ;
ought to be made in every :.9i
institution, in every shup-\ ..vhe-e jB
h-s been entrusted—No pains ,JH !
spared tu ascertain i n what tn.,l'l
have passed through th.- two
have sketched. The best wav t,
frauds, is never to shut unit :
hould purge the Augean stalilo. H ’
art some heaven-tempbred »pi r 't.
uothi.ig can sedneq Tom tin p a ■
tegni}; some Wieij,whose boius.,B
Mount Atlas, übpitiMM; Ui se i e, .H
f. v >n.es igatup
it H 3 the bird of the night a or. H '
ablins tin. day.
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FOKKIGX. ■
London, Huy
An abstract of the net produce
Revenue of Great Britain, i u
ended the sth ot April, 181-;, uni
of vpril IS2 d’stuigiiislung tlu- n ,-^B
the produce ot the Lors didatui 9’t
the annual and other duties, lus
printed by order of the house ofnAß
From this account we learn, ta.r.
amount of the ctmsoiidatedfund
For the year ouded the
sth.qf April, 1819 i42,22i,72tH
Ditto 1820 42 J 478.1b2H
Total amount of Ueve r
mie for the year cn- H
ded the slit April, H
1819 49,''56,56}H
Ditto 1820 48,2 15,1*3 ■
Deficit in the last B
year, as compared B
with the year B
preceding i858,38n8
For which, if the receipt be dt di®
of the produce of the property an .
propnated war duties in the rtspecß
years, the account will stand thus— I
sth April, 1819. sth April, 1829
Total He- H
venue 2/49,056,563 i 48,218175 ■
Ueduct re- I
ceipt up- I
on prop- B
erty Tax I
&c. 407,533 78,743 ■
2-48,649,030 /.4« --v s./B
Deficiency 2-50a.6vi I
Duty on British spirits from Mali, pi
,v the six pr-ncipai houses in Lomluisl
From slh July, 1818, I
o 10th April, 1819, 2-978,0331|
From sth Julv, 1819, I
dla April, 1820 779,304d|
eing a deficiency, in nine n. oaths,!
-198,779 os. fid. including the additiul
■ay of 3d per gallon. I
The 2-50,000 advanced last year, by pi
lamehtary grant, to aid emigratuin.ini
.-con expended. Five thousauu peis.v
tre gone to the Cape, and no njere *
.ie allowed till the success of these isi
certained.
We regret to !iave occasion again
remark that tranquility is not yet us o
ed iu the county of Roscommon,
outrages have bc,'en recently commit
scarcely less atrocious man those li
waich the law has lately exacted so iit»
a retribution.
The magnificent pier at Jloly’ieid
now completed, and, togetlier wuh is
new lighthouse, is illuminated with apt
culiarly hue ga», extracted from u.,1
A letter from Fails, cj’t lie 3 J M.» , -t-h
that since the pa-sing of the Ut*<
laws a degree ot discontent, wind • ' e
ry iinperfcotly concealed, has dfioA
self among all classes in tuat city, * ;i,i
a similar spirit has been .ivauif e-l' d.
some ofthe southern department Ij*
Due d'Aagoulerne, who left Fans on m
25th, on a journey to me south, iu F-’--'
through one of Ute prrinc.pai ’‘. i
Whose name our corresponded does na
venture to give, w'as exposed to in
from the populace, w hich evin ? -
sence of the military which were ci.» u
out to receive him, was insufficient :
strain. It it even added, that a cc id'
took placebetweec the populace a ;| -
soldiery which did not terminate w- '' l -'
considerable din.culty in their ui s ? t,<
sion , .
’ His Majesty (he King of Great
has given 25M francs (2-lu4 3j- ’
wards the subscription for erecting a »
ument to the memory of M. Male--- ■-
the herojc defender ofthe martyr
Is XVl.— Jlloniteur.
Cato-atreet Conspiracy.— Saturday
ning, at nine o’clock, when the Conin'-
Serjeant had taken his seat on the oe'—
Abell Hall, slioemikcr, John Firtu ■ _
keeper; Kobt. George; Win. Sim® •
servant; Thomas Fresto.i, shocmaati. ■>“
T. Haxard, coffee--shop-keepei’i
brought into court in custody cl »*■ - *
kins, keeper of Ute House C‘> - L
and Mr. Nodder.of P r ‘"'
Hall was first placed at the o-u, ** ill lU ' ‘
been called by the Clerk of the * '
and having answered to hrs name, '
infortrfed by Mr. Shelton, that as n- “
appeared to give evidence agaim> l
to prosecute him, he was di«cha; £C ; J
others were then put to the bar • • -
cession;-and the same form gone (
with respect to each ot them, "f" ci
them attempted to address the y ou '
cept Preston, who, on being tola
was discharged, waved his Uatid, * n
Iris peculiar grin, exclaimed, nl ,
in a tone indicating th« cemmenee -
a constitutional oration ot no ‘ \ -
length. He was, however, cut