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•After the boats cast off towing, commodore j incut sent the following letter to captain Spen-
llutniltoti ordered Mr. (Gregory, first lieuten- j cor. lt is addressed to them:
ant of tho Cambrian, to go and take possession | the Gentlemen composing the
of the piratical corvette. Mr. Gregory was ill j Provisional Government of Greece.
the Cambrian's first gig. All the boats of the | “General Karaiscaki, with all his troops, left
squadron followed him; hut owing to the imm- Dobbrena on the 25th of November, directing
her of the boats, there was some confusion at j his course towards the villages Distomo arid A-
•fi'-sf, so tint when Mr. Gregory got alongside i rachova, to which villages captain Spiro and
the corvette, there was oolv one boat beside | Gardochioti, had been previously scut. I was
his t> : tr. Tins was tlie Talbot’s barge under j ordered to wait at the convent Dohbo, with
command of lieutenant YVrilson. The corvette I one hundred soldiers, to keep the position.—
w is not more titan three yards front the shore. On the 7th nit. more than two thousand Turks
There were hundreds of people standing on in infantry and cavalry, from Athens, arriv-
tlio rocks and batteries, as well as an immense ; ed.‘ I counted more than twenty-five nags.—
concourse standing near /{area's ship. The They blockaded us, and we fought from ten
boats towed the Talbot into the tuolo hurraing: o’clock in the morning till four. We killed
nl! the way. These hurras were returned by several and wounded a great many. In the
shouts of the people fioiti*Mlio shore, and of I evening all the Turks left, with the exception
course we anticipated a stout resistance. How- of eighty, who had the courage to remain and
ever, when the Talbot let hor stream auclior j attack us. Wc suffered them to approach pret-
go close alongside the battery, and within l wen- ty close; then we sallied out, killed ten and
ty yards of tlio.corvotto, the greatest confusion took twenty prisoners with their horses. We
took place on shore. The people fled in eve- pursued the remainder as far as the convent of
ry direction. A number of the people were Taxiarco. On the 29til ult. we received a
seen running about the decks of the corvette ; letter from general Karaiscaki, who wrote that
like frantics, tearing their hair,'and making a Kutaki Pacha, general of the Turkish forces
tremendous noise. Zacca himself was stand- at Athens, having heard of his arrival at Dis
ing oil the forecastle, entreating tho people to : tomo, sent two thousand troops under the com
ma!! the batteries. Some of the men endeav- mand of Moustaf Bey, Corioftl Bey, and Ka-
ored to escape on shore, but the people would j taya Bey, to possess themselves of Arachova,
not lot them land. When lieutenant Gregory ' and give assistance to tho Turks blockadod iff
appro lci'i<id tho corvette, Zacca, with hi# ata- Salona. The Turks on arriving at Arachova,
glim waving in a threatening manner, des'red began fighting with the Greeks who were there,
him to keep off. When lieutenant Gregory As soon its Kariascaki arrived with his troops,
got alongside, they fired right down Into Ins ho blockaded the Turks in the village. They
boat. We expected to see every man killed, have neither bread, water, or any provisions
but iliere was not evon one wounded. Lieut, i whatever. They took tho aiddecamp of Mou-
U. was on the deck iu au instant. Lieutenant | staf Bey alive. On the following day sever-
Wilson, of the Talbot, had hoarded on tho j al more Turks came to their assistance. They
starboard bow about the same time lieutenant j were turn by our men under the command of
G. boarded on the quarter. On stepping on captain Nikita and captain Agaloptilo, and they
tha quarterdeck <!. slipped aud fell; at the | were likewise blockaded with the rest. Two
same instant several shots wore fired at him.'
Tiiis fall no doubt saved his life. Just as lie
was rising,•« Greek was preparing to cut him
down with his atngkan, but at the very moment
he had raised his it,and for this purpose, lieu
tenant Wilson cut him down, and thereby sav
ed Gregory. Lieutenant Willson also shot
two men who attempted to cut him down as he
was boarding on the bow. A steady fire was
now kept up by the marines from the boats
and corvette, for they were not above ten min
utes in boarding and taking her. Lieutenant
Hay, of the Talbot, cut her cable, and was
towing her out, before the Greeks wffro aware
of it. All those who could jumped overboard,
and swam ashore. Zacca was among the lat
ter. Two men, while running on the rocks,
Were shot dead.
The pirates ou landing met with no opposi
tion from (lie people, who Imd fled on the first
shot fired^yTlin pirates had retired to a cofl'ec-
liouso on tho beach, and kept up a fire for a
short time. On seeing resistance made, we o-
pened our after quarters, ami one of our thirty-
two pounders carried uway part of the afore
said cafe, and 1 regret to add killed a woman
and her infant child. Tito firing from the
shoro immediately ceased, and captain Speu-
ccr instantly ordered tho firing in the boats to
cease. On the commencement of tho firing,
commodore Hamilton immediately went into
his boat to see that no unnecessary slaughter
should take plage. Only one man was taken
olive, and this was the very man lieutenant
Willson cut duwu. He is dangerously wound
ed; lie received a dreadful blow across the
neck, lie is one of the capitanr and is the
greatest villain iu tho whole island. He mur
dered Condurioti's father, and several others.
No loss than forty distinct murders are laid to
his charge. Ten vessels were cut out by the
boats, without wounding a single man. Among
them is poor Miaulis’s brig. They had taken
possession of her after Miaulis left Hydra, and
were getting her ready for sea, for the purpose
of pirating. Tho brig was returned to poor
Miaulis yesterday, and sent to Poros. As
soou as we censed firing, a boat shoved off from
the shore bearing a flag of truce. Two of the
principal capitani enmo on board tho Talbot,
and assured captains Hamilton and Spencer
that most of the pirates had been put to death
by tho populace that morning. This, I be
lieve, was false. They said we had killed a-
bout fifty people. This, also, was uutrue.—
They plodged that if captain Hamilton would
wait till the next moining, tho cargoes taken
from the English ships should bo forthcoming.
This was, of course, agreed to; but the com-
snodore sworo that if they trifled with him any
longer, he would knock down the whole town.
The Talbot was the only ship in the mole: the
Glasgow and Cambrian were not able to come
up, there being no wind. Tho whole of the
vessels were towed out of the harbor in bno
hour end ten minutes from tho commencement
of the firing. Zacca was reported to have
been shot^but this wgs not true, for, on the
2GJi instant, he was at Spczzin, endeavoring
to tret some of the Spczziot men of war to come
FROM LAGUIRA.
New York, April 8.
By the schooner Swift, Captain Swift at this
port, from Laguira, wc have advices to the 28th
March. Bolivar was still at Caraccas. He
had sent away his staff and the troops which
accompanied him down from Bogota.
The Colombian ship of war of 64 guns (for
merly the Plato built at Baltimore) sailed about
ten days previous, for Carthagcna. A Colom
bian sloop of war, Capt. Brown; a French and
Danish frigate, was lying at Laguira. The
formor was boundto P uerto Cabello for repairs.
We have, been favored with the following
extract of a letter dated Laguira, the 24th of
March.
“The gloomy state of this country, at the
present time, is beyond description; revolutions
are daily taking place throughout the country.
Bolivar's arrival has produced a very differ
ent effect from what was anticipated; in place
of restoring confidence amongst the people, he
lias destroyed all; by his order, the stores of
many of our most respectable merchants hold
double the amount of their debt in Govern
ment paper, which they refuse taking at any
price.”
MISCELLANEOUS.
hours after we saw and took eighty animals
loaded with provisions for tho Turks. We
killed part of tho men who conveyed them,
and took the others alive. I have reason to
hope that the Turks blockaded in Arachova,
will die either by hunger or tile sword bofore
two days are passed.
“General Karaiscaki desires me to. inform
you, gentlemen, that so soon as any thing de
cisive takes place he will acquaint you with it.
I have tho honor, &c.
“Convento Dubl>o, December 3.
“NICOLO BURLOSSI.”
Then follow two long letters from Karaisca
ki, dated five days later, (December 3,) ac
quainting them, that ho has taken or destroyed
the whole of (lie Turks blockadod in Aracho
va, with the addition of eight hundred. It ap
pears that the Turks, on the night of the 6th
instant, made desperate by hunger, sallied out
and endeavored to cut their way through their
enemies. Tho Greeks lost few men. The
women HCtuully joined in the battle, and pur
sued the three hundred who escaped among 1Kr
tho mountains. Many of them have been, ta
ken and tho rest must dio of hunger. AU the
three Boys were killed, aiul their heads, toge
ther with fifteen hundred pair of ears, have
been sent to tho government. Karaiscaki gives
this as his reason:—"Pour que-notre people
croit, itfaut qu'il voit." Ho says he 1ms ta
ken an immense booty inarms, in money, and
one thousand horses. Tho horses ho gives to
the government. He has also sent a young
Bey with three hundred Turkish prisoners.—
This is a glorious victory, sullied by horrid
brutality.—Globe,
Tho news from Constantinople is most favo-
rublo to tho cause of Greece. The victory or
Karaiscaki is fully confirraod. This brave
general captured from tho enemy twelve hun
dred iiorscs and a largo quantity of arms and
ammunition. This victory has given tho sig
nal of revolt to all the'provinces from Janina,
and Agrapha to Mount Olympus.
LATEST FROM BUfiNOS AYRES.
Wc have obtained the use of files of Buonos
Ayres poners to the 3d of January, receiv
ed at tllr coffee houso by tho William Wal
lace arrived at this port.'
From Various articles in thoso papers, it ap
pears that tho interior of some of (he Buonos
Ayrean provinces, is infested with bands of
brigands who lay tho inhabitants of villageS'un
der contribution, occasionally commit murders
and are guilty of other atrocities.
In some of the provinces, tho disturbances
have assumed a very serious aspect, particular
ly In Tucuman, Santiago y te Rioja, and Ca-
tamarca. It is mentioned that “colonel Be-
doya was to start from Tucuman with fifteen
hundred men under his command for Santiago,
nnd a force of fivo hundred men was to march
for Gatemarca to reduce tp order tho anarch
ists who have invaded the provinces of Cata-
marca and Tucuman, without provocation and
with tho solo design of causing the people to
renounce tho national authorities.” Notice is
taken of the movements of large bodios* of
tish, their idol or oracle, was unfavorable to his
• «• rv I . • 1 li.it
advance. Mr* D. obtained permission to try
the WhitS man’s Fetish. Being provided
with a galvanic battery, he had a fowl killed,
which he placed upon the battery, and it per
formed the ordinary actions of the bird while
it was alive, fluttering and almmost flying away.
The natives could not resist the miracle and al
lowed him to proceed. This anecdote reminds
us of that recorded of Columbus, who found
great difficulty in obtaining provisions, &c. for
his followers while in the island of Hispaniola.
He told the natives that God was angry with
them, and that on the morrow the Sun would
become red as blood, the stars would shine at
noon-day, &c. By his skill in astronomy
he had ascertained that an eclipse of the sun
was then to take place, and he made use of this
expedient, which was entirely successful; the
natives crowding around him with abundant
supplies, and reverencing him as a demi-god.
These two anecdotes illustrate, with great
force, the advantage in moral power possessed
by the enlightened over the unenlightened—
the educated over the uneducated; and go to
strengthen the many arguments in favor of a
practical scientific education, wherever attain
able.—Boston Patriot,
•such intended to remain. Mr. Duffey, 0 f JJ
Laura, wished the magistrate to place her'
his charge, that he might restore her to hern
necessity for it; she was a sailor now
ther. At this she gave him a look of SUrpi
and then remarked to the magistrate she
made choice of her present mode of life
meant to pursue it. The magistrate disci
her..
and attack us. He sworo ho would burn half 1 men in some of the other provinces.
i
a dozen brulots if he could get them, provid
ed ite could but burn the Cambrian. Those
threats are of course not attended to. On the
23d, the wholo of the cargoes taken from the
three English ships was sunt on board tho
^Cumbrian. It consisted of cheese, tin, cop
per, sails, apt) other stores. These wcfe sent
on board the corvette to tnke to Smyrna. Tho
corvette has eighteen guns on board of differ
ent calibre; she is a very fine ship, nearly new,
and cost about forty-five thousand dollars. She
belonged to the Hydriot primate Conduriotti.
On the 26th instant, the Glasgow was sent to
Poros to protect the shipping, tho government
having sent a despatch to say, that a strong
party was forming to taker tho ships out, by
force, for pirating. The same morning tho
Rose sailed for /Egina, with prince Mavrocor-
dato, Miaulis arid the Hydriot primates on
board. When we left Hydra on tho 28th in
stant, tho Brisk was cruising off Hydra; the
Cambrian was at anchor in Garden Bay. Mi
aulis was at -lEgina, with his frigate, endeavor
ing to man a few men of war to attack tho E-
gypfian fleet Poor Miaulis, may ho meet with
success! The primates are fast assembling at
■iEgina to form the new government. Mavro-
cordato is expected to be mado president.—
Just before we got under weigh, the govern-
Tho files of papers being incomplete, wo
cannot giv$ a connected view of the events
in the interior; but wc gather ftom various
disconnected’ articles, that dissatisfaction with
the levies made for iho army, has induced in
dividuals to form themselves <n'o bands of bri
gands in some of the provinces, while the
more serious disturbances u the other provin
ces originate in dissatisfaction with the consti
tution.
Since writing the above, Mr. Sanderson has
put into our hands another file of the Buenos
Ayrean papers, extending to the 22d of Janu
ary. One of these paperscontams an account
of an action fought between the Buenos Ay
rean and Brazilian squadrons at the puss of the
island of Martin Garcia. Considerable im
portance is attached to tho result of this ac
tion, as it enables the Buenos Avreans t<J
command tho principal pass by water to tho
interior; but tho battle, though it lasted threo
quarters of an hour, does not appear to have
been a very bloody one. One of tho artiller
ists of tho Buenos Ayrcans was wounded, and
their vessel, the Sarandi, received five shots in
the hull. “Without doubt,” the account adds,
“the enemy has suffered much, particularly the
corvette, and tho brig which lost ono of her
masts."—Philadelphia .Gazette, 3d instant.
HORRIBLE TRANSACTION.
A letter from Granada contains the follow
ing accouut of a most extraordinary and horri
ble event, which has takqn place in that an
cient capital of the Moors.- On the i8tli of
December last, the Feast of die Conception, a
church appertaining to a covenant of the Nuns
at Granada, was filled as usual, with a crowd
of the faithful at high mass. After the ceremo
ny, the crowd disappeared, and the only per
sons who lingered in the church were two cav
alry officers. They.also were in tho act of
retiring, when n nun, who had remained be
hind the rest of the sisterhood, made a sign to
the officer who was following his comrade, that
site wished to speak to hint. He accordingly
told his comrade, to wait for hint, nnd returned
to speak with the nun, when the following dia
logue took place: “You are a man of honour
and discretion, I presume, sir?” “Yes sister, I
am both the one and the other.” “Are you
willing to render mo an important service?”—
“Yes sister.” “I will not conceal from you
that the service I require at your hands, -re
quires not only discretion, but extraordinary in
trepidity; knowing this, are you still willing to
render me the service I require of you?” “Yes
sister I am determined.” “Very well, when
you hear the convent bell strike half past
twelve at nigh:, he at such a gate [particulariz
ing the gate]—1 skill be at the other side to o-
pon it, on your knocking twice, aud you shall
thon learn, what it is I require of you. ' Will
you be faithful to the rendezvous?” “Yes sis
ter, I shall be there.” “Weil, I depend on
you—adieu.”
They parted and the officer quitted the
church. On rejoining his comrade he told h rn
what iiad taken place, aud asked him if he
should keep, his appointment. The other on
being informed that the nun was about thirty,
and not ill-formed, advised him to keep his ap
pointment, and offered, for fear of accidents,
to accompany him to the gate, at which the
nun was to be. Accordingly at the appointed
hour the two officers were at the gate, which
on the concerted signal being given, was open
ed by tho nun. The chosen officer entered,
and the other remained quite closo to the gate,
to watch the conclusion of this extraordinary
adventure. Tho nun said to the officer who
entered, “You are a man of courage and hon
our, and are entitled to my utmost gratitude.”
The night being very dark, and the passsages
through which they had to go obscure, the nun
mado him hold a corner of her robe, and in
this manner conducted him to hor cell, whore
there was a lamp u-Jight. She made him sit
down, and invited him to take a glass of liquor
with her, at the same time producing two hot
ties. She filled him a glass out of one, and took
a little herself out of the other. After he had
emptied his glass, she told him to go to one side
of the bed, while she placed herself at the other.
The officer obeyed. Tho nun then said “wo
are alone—rtny door is fastonod—look!”—and
at the sarao moment sho proceeded to puli’
down tho bed., clothes, and discovered to his
great horror and amazement, the dead body of
a monk who had been poniarded. Tho nun
then continued—.“you must take upon your
shoulders this body ond carry it outside the con
vent—I will light you to the gate of the first
esurt. You roust instantly obey, or you aro a
dead man, for the first motion you make unless
it be to take up tho dead body, I will shoot you
through .the head;” and suiting the action to
the word, she drew .a pistol from her bosom,
and presented it at him. “I know, said she,
that my own life will bo the forfeit if you re
fuse—for after shooting you I have another
pistol for myself.” The officer seeing no otb*
cj means of escape, took up the body on his
shoulders and accompanied tho nun, who car
ried a dark lantern, proceeded’to tho gate by
which he had entered, and on issuing from it,
threw his Irorrid burden at tho feet of his com
rade, wltp was waiting to -laugh with him at
what ho supposed was a pious lovo intrigue.—
After recounting to his friend the almost in
credible odventuro in which he had been en
gaged, thoy both resolved to repair instantly
to the Corregidor, and inform him of tho cir
cumstances. They had proceeded scarcely a
hundred paces from tho convent,when the officer
who had brought out J^o body, suddenly com
plained of the most excruciating and burning
pains in the stomach; he soon after fell upon
the pavements,-and in a few moments expired.
His friend beside himself with terror, ran with
the utmost speed toknockup the Corregidor,and
inform him of this tissuo of horrors. Notwith
standing the exertions of the magistrates and
tho police, no discovery has yet been made of
the female demon who has perpetrated this
double murder.—Paris Paper, Jan, 10.
NURSERY DISEASES.
“Practical Observations on the Convulsions of Infants,
by John North, Member of the Royal College of
Sufgeons, ,Vc.”
Wo do not very often review Medical
Works, but Mr. North’s Book is one of such
obvious utility, that wo can feel no hesitation
in recommending it to general perusal. Pos
sessing all that scientific knowledge which is re
quisite to give his observations value, this gen
tleman has, further, the happy talent of convey
ing them to his readers witli such clearness,
that the most ignorant nurse can have no diffi
culty in comprehending him, and this, as the
work especially tends to the instruction of
those who undertake that lowly, but not unim
portant office, constitutes no slight recommen
dation in its favour.
We cannot follow him through his details.—
A useful hint or two, by way of specimen, will
suffice to shew the value of Mr. North’s obser
vations.
“Many nurses and mothers are in the habit
of suddenly rousing children from their sleep
and carrying them from a room comparatively
dark into a glare of light. Such a custom is
decidedly improper. A child should bo grad
ually and gently awakened. Much mo
mentary excitement is produced even in
the adult by being roused suddenly from
sleep; and there can be no doubt, that children
become in consequence of such imprudence,
more liable to convulsive affections. Mon
taigne, we aro told, always contrived to break
the slumbers of his infant son by tho gradual
sound of a soft musical instrttmont. The idea
was happy, although its general adoption would
be attended with some difficulty.”
Tho importance of temperance in a nurse he
strongly- insists upon.
“A predisposition to convulsive affections
in children may bo originally produced iu con
sequence of their being suckled by a nurse ad
dicted to the frequent use of spiritous liquors.
In several instances I lmve known children
rapidly recover their health when the nurse
was changed, who had exhibited most of the
premonitory symptoms of convulsions, while
they were suckled by a woman who indulged in
the common vice of gin-drinking.
“Violent emotions of mind, or excessive
bodily fatigue, should be avoided by nurses.—
Mr. Gilbert relate? the case of a child, who
died of convulsions after having sucked a
nurse, who had been exposed to hard labour
under a burning sun. Boerhaave knew some
instances in which epilepsy was produced in
consequence of their nurses having had violent
fits of passion. Beaumes remarks, that ho was
informed by one of his professional brethren,
that his child died suddenly a of convulsions af
ter haying been suckled by a woman who had
(jfen violently exasperated.”—London Cou
rter."
Ingenious Expedient.—Mr. Dickson, one of
the English gentlemen engaged in making dis
coveries in the interior of Africa, was detained
William Brown, the Sailor.—Tho London
Chronicle of the 17th February contains a long
account of an arrest on board tho Commerce
steam-packet, at the moment sho was about
starting for Dublin, of a female who was dress
ed in sailor’s clothes and passed by the name
of William Brown. Tho officers, who took
her in custody, acted from information of the
disguiso, which thoy supposed might have been
done to conceal some theft. Tho sailor was
conveyed to prison. From some inquiries tho
huuso where Brown lodged was discovered, the
proprietor of which referred the officers to the
master of tho brig Laura, of New York, as
knowing all about hor. Her story, as well as
could be collected, appears to be as follows:—
Her father is a merchant in London. About
threo years ago, she left his house to follow her
lover who was tho mate ofa vessel in tho North
American trade, and hearing he had sailed for
St. John’s, sho ccmo to Liverpool, and took
passage for that port. On arriving at St. John’s,
sho discovered the vessel had gone to Quebec,
thither she went, and there learnt that her lov
er was drowned on his passage up the St. Law
rence.—Sho immediately determined to be
come a sailor for his sake, and assuming tho
garb of n man, engaged as cook and steward to
the master of a vessel for London, with whom
she remained upwards of twclvo months. The
next vessel she joined, and in which she also
served upwards of twelve months, some weeks
back, brought hor to Livorpool, but the mas
ter, suspecting her sex, oxtortod from her the
secret, and wished her to remain with him, but
sho would not consent, and she was atout to
proceed to Ireland. While in prison, sho said
her namo was Selina Augusta Hamilton. She
is said to bo a complete sailor, taking her grog
and using tobacco like tars. Sho states that
she will have four thousand pounds at her dis
posal when sho comes of age, (she is not yet
nineteen) and intends to equip a vessel und
take command. Sho was brought up for exa
mination on tho 16th February at the Town
Hall, when it appoarod that hor arrest was
caused by tho captain of tho Laura. The girl
refused to toll tho magistrate, alderman Bourne,
ANECDOTE OF THOMAS PAI*£ I
One very warm evening about twenty y e ,
ago, passing the house where Thomas 1 311
the lower window was open, and seeing u
sitting close by, and being on speaking te f Vi|
stepped in for a half hour’s chat; seven or ey!
of his friends were also present, whose dojw
and his own, he was laboring to remove Cj
long talk about the story of Joshua comnuLl
ing the sun and moon to stand still, & c ,,
concluded by denouncing the Bible as the «{
of books, and that it had occasioned mitten,
chief and bloodshed than any book everpri m
—and was believed only by fools and design,^
knaves, &c. Here he paused, and while \
was replenishing the tumbler with his favo
btandy and water, a person, who I afterwa,
found was an intruder, liko myself, asked Jkj
Paine if he ever was in Scotland? YheiatJ
was,yes. So have I been, continues the spe a u
or; and the Scotch aro the greatest bigotswhU
the Bible I ever met—it is their school-bt
their houses and churches aro furnished
Bibles, and if they travel but a few miles fos
home, their Bible is always their compan
yet continues the speaker, in no country w|
I have travelled, have I seen the people so c
fortablo and happy; their poor are not in
abject poverty as I have seen m other coun.,.,
by their bigoted custom cf going to church o
Sundays, they save tho wages which they ct
through the week, which in other countries iL.
I ltavo visited, is generally spent by mechanic
and other young men in taverns and frolic a
Sundays; and of all the foreigners who land o
our shores, none are so much sought after!
servants, and to fill places where trust is rep
ed as the Scotch; you rarely find them int
erns, the watch-house, almshouse, bridewell,*
state prison. Now says he, if tho Bible isspl
bad a book, those who use it most would betb
worst of people, but the reverse is the case.-
This was a sort of argument Paine was «
prepared to answer, and a historical factwhid
could not be denied—so without saying a word
he lifted a candlo from the table, and walked#]
stairs; his disciples slipped out one by
and left the Speaker and T. to enjoy the s
—N. Y:Com. Adv.
A FRAGMFNT FOR THE LADIES. |
‘Thy grandmother,* said my undo Tobya.
dressing himself to young Arabella, just froi
London, who was playing the Battle of J
rengo on the piano, ‘thy grandmother, i'
said he, ‘used to play on a much better i
ment than thine.’
‘Indeed,’ said Arabella, ‘how could it hatj
been better? you know it is the most fashion
bio instrument, and it is used by every 1
that is any tiling.’
by the Shah natives on pretenco that the Ft- her father’s name; sho said sho could seo no
‘Your grandmother was something, yet i
never saw a piano forto.’ ' __
‘But what was the name of tho instrumt®
had it strings, or was it played by keys?”
‘You must give mo time to recollect t
name: it was indeed"a stringed instrument, 1
was played by thy hands.’
‘By tho hands alone?—how vulgar! but i
protost I should like to seo ono, and pap
buy me one when 1 return to London. Do j
think we can obtain one?’
‘No, you will not probably find ono in 1
don, but- doubtless they may be found in a
of tlio country towns.’ .
‘How many strings had it? Must one Pfl
wait both hands? and could only one play t
double bass?*
‘I know not whether it would play doul
bass, as you call it, but it was played by toil
hands, and two_strings.’
‘Two strings only? surely you are jesting!—
IIow could good music be produced by such a
instrument, when tho piano has two or three
hundred?’
‘Oh, tho strings were very long, one«
fourteen feet, and the other might bo length®
ed at pleasure, even to fifty or more-’
‘What a prodigious deal of room it must take
up, but no matter. I will have mine in tbt
old hall, and papa may havo an addition bi»
to it, for ho says that I shall never want any
thing and so does mamma. Were the strings
stuck with little mallets liko tho piano, orW
they snapped like tho harpsichord?’ *
'Like neither of thoso instruments, as I ^
collect, but it produced a soft kind of humnu?
music, and was peculiarly agreeable to the l"
band and relations of the performer.’ -
'Ob, as to pleasing one’s husband orrM'
tions, that is all dicky, in the haut-ton J*
know: but I am determined to havo one at*
ny rate. Was it easily learnt, and was it tat)j®
by French or Italian masters?’ ..
‘It was oasily learnt, but French and
ans scarcely dared to show their heads ma®
country in thoso times.’
•Can you not possibly recollect tho ■
How shall wo know what th inquire fori ,
*Yes, I do how remember the name,
we must inquiro for a spinning wheel'
The following noto was found among ft 15 P*
pera of the lato Lord Erskinc:
TO OSNSRAt’ WSSHIWOTOir.
Sib—I havo takon tho liberty to ,ntr f'
your august and immortal namo in a slj orl1 1
tenco, which is to bo found in tho book l
you. * oi!
I have a largo acquaintance among t# e '
valuable and oxalted classes of men, but.
are the only human being for whom I cVC
an awful revcronco. u
I sincerely pray God to grant * W j
sereno evening to a life so gloriously®*,,
to tho universal happiness. T. ERSKIR
London, March 15th, 1797.
Tho Nashville Gazette states that th»^
of the last cotton crop in West Toenm*^
venal#the present reduced prices, p
exceeds three millions of dollars.