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For the Savannah Evening Ledger. V'hy deep a* in the covert of the grave The mule* of my natal home, Why <ioe the willow, iti f. branches, wave In silence o'er the fagf-'i tomb? Will not one of the tuneful, youthful train, b.ffay the patriot’s fame to raise, “I o fino his wisdom in a worthy ‘train, Ami give to all his virtues praik. *J o tell that Baldwin, virtuous lag , is “4tf Unto his place of holy rest, ‘i ’enjoy ti.e hapninefs, that he i.as wo* And tliere to beaonipletoly hleft. f), that furh strains of purest hvav'n!) tire W cnilj pour their radianci on my hre w As did the l’rince of modern Bards inlpu.e Or were by nature'•mule polfcft ! Tor how flijll I, an humlile youth unkuoSsJ; Who ne’er l.ae Hi ung the founding lyre, Attempt a theme that (hould itself alo/io ‘1 lie chosen sons of Fame inspire. VTouin, Georgia, mourn, thy f.iddeft tribute pay, T.et “ fable weeds,” tl.y forehuad crown ; Mourn <le< ply mourn, death’s unrelenting /way, <,r thy adopted Soil is gone ! Is gone and where flialt thou his equal firnj, Or how fnpply his honour'd place, One l.ieft with confeious dignity of mind, Adorn'd with feientilic grace. Where was thy genius, Georgia, where 1 was Ut front thy sage ion her vilage turn’d, V lien Death triumphant on his fable car Tiom hence lore him so justly mourn’d? Tore lusn from hence, where now his wai.l is fwlt, When faction rears her Gorgon head; W lie’ the hui left the glooms where late 0- dwelt Ami blares now by fplendour led. One, who amid this tempest troubled (a, Thy feeble barque, could fafeiy fleer, And, by experience long, could truly fee Bach boill'rous wind, that would be near. W'hole prudence could, when at the beaten helm, Avoid the dang’rous gulph before ; Nor raflily mill, where waves would soon o'erwhclin, And hell fraught florins terrific lour. What tho’ thy Baldwin’s dead, yet (hall his foul, Benignly bright in Seav’nly truth, With in.ld complacente view this earthly rule, “V\ here once he /pent hi3 happy youth. Infule his spirit in fotne kindred form, llis svitdom,and hit niatehlefs worth, ’1 o bear him up against each threut’ning storm, That may o’erwhelm his native earth. ‘.And w hat tho’ now, the chilly hand of Death, And the dull coldneft of the tomb, Have llopt each spark of foul enliv’ning breath. Vet 111-all hlsfacred virtues bloom. Vet lliall they live within each honetl breast, VS’herr* 4 amor patriae” Indy reigns, And there foievcr, ever be impreft, In spite of envy and its pains. I.’lnconn#. April UCth, ISO 7. From a London Patter. Sit.'llflT COKHVKI’ONOKXCK. / Young lady, newly married, bang obliged to k/ -70 her husband alt the letter* she wrote, t ‘U he following to an intimate Friend : ’ cannot be satisfied my Dearest Friend! < c tlam in flic matrimonial stale, ’ >.a. I pour into your friendly boson, An 1 is ever beat in unision with mine, * various sensations which swell ’ .he’ liveliest emotion of pleasure, 1 me almost bursting heart. 1 tell you my dear oaud 13 the most amiable of men. nave new been married seven weeks, and • base never found the least reason to “ rev die day that joined us. My husband is “ b. .in person fie munners far from resembling “ii , cross, old. disagreeable, and jealous, ” vu msters, who think by confining to secure ; *• t. wile it is his maxim to treut us a ** i cam friend, and n*t as a *• t'i ‘V-thing, or menial slave, the woman of his choisc.— Neither party, “ he says, should always obey implicitly, v hut each yield to the other by turns. l * An ancient maiden nunt, near seventy, “ a cheerful, venerable, and pleasant old lady, “ lives in the house wih us—- he is the de “ light of both young and old ; she is ci vil to all the neighbourhood round, “ pone nous and charitable to the poor, “ lam i ertain my husband likes nothing more than lie does me ; he flatters me more “ than the glass, and his intoxication, “ for so ! must call the excess of his love) ot'o:. makes me blush for the unworthincss i its object, k wish l could be more deservng “of the man whose name l liear. To *• say all in one word and to ” crown the whole. my former lover “ is now my indulgent husband, my fondness *’ is returned, and l might have had “ a Prince, without the felicity 1 find in “ him. Adieu! may you be as blest as lamun *• able to wish that I could be more *• happy 1” A” B. The key to the above letter , (in cypher) is so be rn l thejirst, ct:4 then every alternate line only. To cm the Richmond Enquirer. In the Aripis of the 7th, it is stated, and the fact is now too generally notorious to be doubt ed, that the i hies justice Marshall has dined with Aaron Burr at Mr. Wit kbam’s, since lie himself solemnly decided, that tbcrc was pro bable cause to believe Burr guilty of a high nil .demeanor against his country. The story lias indeed excited some surprise in Rich mond, hut none of those sentiments of lively indignation, whit h a stranger to the country w ould naturally have expected. As to Burr himself, 1 feel towards him the same sentiment I feel toward’, every man charged with a crime—’.he wish, that lie may have a fair and impartial trial ; that if lie may he punished, if innocent, acquitted. His efforts, to whatever end directed, have not as yet been attended with consequences, which ean excite in the bosom of a patriot am thing like personal resentment. I heard -with plea sure, that Burr on his arrival in Richmond, was readily furnished with the supplies neces sary to his comfort : I thought it a signal proof of the generosity of my countrymen. I heard with pleasure, how zealously and ablv his counsel hud defended him : I thought such exertions honorable to our bar. Tlirt his coun sel should admit him to die freest communion of a professional nature, and that such inter course should be conducted on their part with civility and tenderness, e c-n tho’ they may think him guilty, I am not disposed to deny ; but I insist, that no situation should, (God for bid, that the profession of the law should !) ex cuse a man, for wanting the ordinary feelings ol a citizen towards the violators of the law. And truly, my surprise would have equalled my indignation, had Burr been admitted to the familiarity of private friendship, much more to the house and table, of anv man, but Mr. Wickham. This gentleman (if we may ‘lis ten io tiie once loud peal 0 f angry fame, which sull rumbles, though at a distance) was once himself regarded as a sort of stale offender, as an insidious foe to the liberty and independence ol the United States. 1 shall not vouch for the truth of the shocking charge I allude so, nor discuss its probability. 1 resign that task to Mr. Wickham, if lie think proper, or dare, to encounter it. lint il it be true, no wonder Burt’s situation shimid excite hi:; sympathy. I will not press the subject. Yet Mr. Wick ham should have remembered, and having for gotten, should be publicly instructed, that as the people ol \ irgini i have generously forgiv en the errors ot his youth, (1 choose the mildest phrase, for I too have joined in the p-.-.rdoii) he should modestly have refrained from recalling to our recollection, by entertaining a suspected traitor to the union a* hm guest, a report ho damnatory to his own fame. I have never had any, the least confidence in the political principles of the chief justice. I have never do,, overed in his public (For i am ignorant of his private) character, any of that noble candor, which Iris friends have made the theme of such extravagant euiogium. I can not discern in hint, lor my soul, those splendid and even godlike talents, which manv of all parties ascribe to him : his hook cc-rtaiulv dis plays none such. But! have al wav- been in formed, and ’till now have believed, that lie was a man of excellent judgement, most con summate prudence, and of a deportment high ly decorous and dignified. I took his merits upon trust, anti bountifully gave him credit for good qualities I find lie does not possess. Let me inform the conscience of the chief justice, that the public do not view bis dining with Burr, as a circumstance so trivial as he himself may incline to consider it. It is im poßsiblc to separate the judge from the man. • W e regard such conduct as a willful prostra tion ol the dignity of Ins own character, and a wanton insult he might have spared his coun try. How has Run-entitled himself to be the social companion of the chief justice l Is he rot si ill si peeled ol tlvs blackest crimes ? llow lias he manifested hit- innocence? liar, lie even thrown oil that cloak of mystery, which truth, innocence, and virtue were never known to wear, and in which all liis words and actions have been enveloped ? What will the people of Virginia, who yet regard the name ot John Marshall with a kind ol parental fondness, and too faintly condemn the fatal errors, or impious ambition, that led him to desei t them—what will the people of the union, who look up to the chief justice, as the head ot the third great co-ordinate branch of government, too high to be ambitious, and supported again t any tall from dignity by his ‘cry elevation, (for such is the impracticable theory of our independent judiciary)—what will they think, how will they feci, when they learn, that the chief justice has feasted at the same convivial hoard with Aaron Burr?—with whom ?—With the very man, of whom that very chief justice has declared, that there is probable cause to believe him guilty of a high misdemeanor against the United States; at whose trial the chief justice is himself to pre side i who is suspected to have plotted Schemes hostile to the happiness, the liberty and inte grity of the union, schemes which would have rendered the chief justice an alien to his own lather; who is charged on the evidence of a gentleman, cn whom his country have bestow ed many testimonies of esteem, I mean Mr. Raton—with having entertained the abomina ble design, or at least imagination, of assassi nating the president, dissolving tho congress, disrobing the chief justice himself of his er mine, overturning all our sacred institutions, state and federal, and erecting an execrable despotism on the ruins of freedom. Whether Burr will be able to rcpell these charges or not, I shall not pretend to decide ; for I do not mean to prejudge him ; but Ida say, tlut the evi dence they rest on, is sufficient to vender him an unfit companion for the chief justice. I have searched in vain in my own mind, for some apology for conduct so grossly indecent. Perhaps, it may bethought that my understand ing is not likely to be very ar.cute on such a subject; but indeed I have heard no excuse offered by any other person. Surely the chief justice does not pretend to be the private friend of Burr; if so, 1 beg leave to enquire, by what services Burr has obliter ated from lus metnorv, that very, very horrid deed, which was called the murder of Hamil ton? By what merits has he conciliated the gorxl will of all good federalists? Surely not by the appearance of a rebellion against the go vernment ? \\ as the chief justice ignorant that Burr was to be of the party, to which Mr. Wickham invited him ? If so, what arc we to think of Mr. Wickham’s delicacy towards his friend? If so, why did not the judge leave the house, so soon as he discovered the indignity imposed upon him ? If so, let that be assigned as the reason, and I shall more rejoice to hear it, than any of those sycophants, of whom the judge boasts so numerous a retinue ; for I regard his conduct as a disgrace to rnv country, and shall be happy at any alleviation however trivial. But 1 take it for granted, the act was wilful. But it may he said, Mr. Wickham’s was a friend's house, and surely the chief justice may dine at a friend’s house, with any person whom that friend may think fit to invite. Indeed! Suppose that, that “unfortunate gentleman,” Thomas Logwood, lately consigned to the pen itential/ had been bailed, as lie might have been, had his friends been as zealous as Burr’s —and suppose that, pending the prosecutson, Mr. Edmund Randolph had thought fit to give his client an entertainment, (though I ought to bespeak Mr. Randolph’s pardon for even sup posing such a case) —and suppose Mr. Ran dolph had invited the chief justice to be of the party ; how would he have felt ? how act ed ? Would he have laughed at the folly, or burned at the insolence, which must have in duced such an invitation ? Yet, where is the man, so ignorant of the nature and consequen ces of crimes, as to compare that of Logwood to the misdemeanor, for which the chief justice has declared that Burr ought lobe tried ; much more to tbc treason of which he is suspected ? Or is it only the grandeur and sublimity of the crime, which redeems the character of the cri mirial and exalts him to a level with a federal judge? lias the chief justice forgotten or neglected the maxim, which is in the mouth of every ty ro of the, law— that the administration of justice should not only be fvure but unsuspected? I Warn him to have it constantly in his remembrance, and to beware how he inconsiderately betrays motives which may expose him to further scru tiny. I doubt not, this will be deemed a very sin gnlur publication. The style of it is, indeed, ltllle consonant io that which prevails too gen crally throughout this superb and courtly me tropolis. But the sentiments, as well as the manner in which they are expressed, are sui table to my own temper, and sanctioned by my own judgement; and I am not very anx ious to obtain the approbation of those, who approve of the conduct which I have here con demned. A stranger from the country. NEW-ORLEAN T S, February 24. 1 Tribute of Applause. Ibis excellency General James Wilkinson. Sat.—The subscribers, masters of vessels in the jK>rt ol New-Orleans, beg leave to cx p-ess to you, through this channel of commu nication, the high sense they entertain of your services in the present alarming crises. Surrounded, as t e arc by suspicious or de luded, persons more than ordinary means are requisite to frusterate their nefavious designs, and though we deprecate military ascendency in a free government ; yet, we consider it at this juncture, the only alternative to preserve ihe peace of the country, and maintain inviolate the real interest of the United States. In all your measures, sir, we have perceived the arm of power, guided by the dictates of patriotism ; and we are well convinced that the civil authority is set aside, only, because it is incompetent from the nature of its process, to avert the storm which was ready to burst over us. I hat your exertions may lie crowned with success, and your services meet tire reward which they so justly merit, is the sincere wish of Sir—Your admirers and friends, Richard Stites, “William Allen, David Brown, Samuel Smith, Benjamin Brvan, John Pratt, Edward O’Bryan, John Cough, Richard field, .1. Seymond3, John Brown, P. Brown, Stephen Clay, John Richards, .Tames Stanford, James Wilbfan, Daniel Orr, Philip Wilson, jun. I .lord Jones, John Waller, Benjamin Swinson, William J. Pigot. Sam’l M’Cutchcon, Edward Hunt, Amavia Williams, O. Bostruck, 1 rancis Pearson, Thomas Churn skids* Robert Swain George Chapman, Thomas Stacy, Prcsalvia \\ aldron, Mew-Orleans, 7ih February, 1807. Richard Stites, ) „ Llovd Jones, l Committee appointed to Wiillim J. Ragot,J wsut on the To eaj. ” Ins Richard Stiffs, I.lxjd Jcr.es etii Urn. J. Vigo:—a committee from thirty-one masters of vessels in the fort of Aeor - Orb ans- Gentlemen —I receive, villi great satisfac tion, Uiis testimony of your approbation of my conduct, pending one #f the most painful and jnu.resting scenes of my life. ■ *l hc spontaneous offerings cf a band of pat riots, assembled at this remote point, from va rious quarters of ihe American union, of a body of respectable citizens, who, though personally unknow to me, have had an opportunity of wit nessing my whole conduct, cannot be too high ly appreciated ; because they must be consid ered the genuine offspring of the breast, unin duced by management, and untinctured by pre judice or personality. If an ardent, honest zeal, has impelled me to anticipate the tardy course of the law, for’ the salvation of the constitution, I hope the magnitude of the motive may extenuate the partial, personal, momentary trespass ; and that the decisive slops, which have been forc ed upon me by a combination of imperious circumstances, may be preferred by every vigilant, faithful citizen, to a timid circum spection, which would have put to hazard, the safety of this emporium andti whole coun try. *1 beg you, gentlemen, and those whom you represent, to accept my acknowledgment for* your partiality, and my warmest wishes for your individual prosperity and happiness. JAMES WILKINSOX/ RICHMOND, (Vir.) April 7. On Thursday last, before the District Court ofßichmond now silting-, William a sol dier m the public guard, wa* convicted of mur der in the second degree, for shooting Mr. John M‘Credie, and the term of his confine* ment in the Plcnitcntiary fixed by the jury at five years. We understand that aii the “evi dence taken by a committee of the executive, appointed to examine into the circumstances and causes of that unfortunate event, together 1 with the proceedings of the council upon tho report made by the committee, will shortly be published. Y\ e arc also informed, that four members of the council, viz. Messrs. Stuart, llcning, Aylett and Mumford, were cf opinion that captain Quarrier had been guilty of culpa ble neglect of duty, in not having had the or ders of the several governors Monroe, Page and Cabell properly and regularly communi cated to the men under his command, and es pecially to the centinels ; and thereto! e al though they acquitted him of any evil inten-- tion, and of the accusation of having given any orders contrary to those he had received, they voted for removing him from office. Messrs- M’llae, Guerrant, Heath and Harvie voted a gainst his removal. The council was there fore equally divided, and, according to the con struction which for some year,? has been giv en to the Constitution, the governor declined giving the casting vote. Os course, captain Quarrier remains in office : but has lately giv cn notice of bis intention of resigning on the first day of August next. Messrs. Stuart, Ilening and Mumford also voted for removing lieutenant Underwood, on the ground of neglect of duty, but the other five gentlemen voted against it. Lieutenant Underwood has since resigned, and major Pe ter Crutchfield, of Hanover county, was unani mously appointed his successor. PHILADELPHIA, April !. A more boisterous, unpleasant day than yes terday, has not been experienced during tho last winter. It began to blow a heavy gale at N. E. attended with rain, sleet and snow, about 1 or 2 o’elok in the morning, and continued till near neon, when it came round to S. E. then to S. AY. and so to W. and N. W. all the lime, and at every point blowing excessive haul and cold. 1 he gale has done considerable damage among the small craft at our wharves, and it is to be feared, wc shall hear of much damage along our sea board. April 4, Wc have seen letters from Princeton, New- Jersey, dated Thursday, which state, that a ve ry serious rupture has occurred in the college of that place. Upwards of 150 students have openly revolted against the authority of the principal and teachers; in consequence of three of their fellow students having been ex pelled. a he whole number of Literary Insurgents have been dismissed from the walls of the col legc, until a hoard of 1 rustecs, to he immedi ately convened, shall give a decision on the subject. We sincerely regret, that any thing should have occurred to tarnish the reputation or interrupt the progress of so respectable and useful a ceminary of learning. A handsome Carpet, manufactured at Wor cester, has been procured for the Chamber of the Senate and House ot Representatives of Massachusetts, and will be spread previous to the next Session. It is preferred to Kidder minster. We understand, (says the Baltimore F.venf ing Post) that Judge Chase will preside at the ensuing Circuit Court, to be held at Richmond, before which, it is believed, Burr will appear, to answer for the offenees by him said to be committed. I Tow slippery is for tune ! But a little while since, Judge Chase was arraigned before the Senate of the United States, where Burr sat as judge, to answer charges of the most serious nature, preferred against him—and now he sits as chief justice on the case of Burr, who is arraigned as traitor !