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CANZONET,
BY 11. X. WHITE.
‘Maiden ! wrap thy mantle round thee.
Cold the rain heats on fliy breast.
Why (hould horror’ 1 , voice aftouml thee ?
Death can bid the wre ehed rclt!
All under the tree.
Thy bed may hr,
And thou may*ft dumber peacefully.
Maulers, once *av p’eafure knew thee ;
Now thy cheeks ate pale and deep, •
P'.ve has been a feien to thee j
Yet, poor maiden ! do not weep :
There's rest fur thee,
All under the tree,
Where thou wi;t fltep moll peacefully.
From 1 an EngHfh Paper.
JUSTICE IJARDISGL'S AD
DRESS.
To Mary Morgan (aged ahout 1 6 years J
eonvcled at Ptritcgn, IVales, on Thrtrs
dty, April ll th, of murdering her has ■
1 1> dchild ; and mho “Was executed on
S iiurdaj, the I yh.
“ Mary Morgan —upon evi
dence wnicii leaves not a (h ide
vs djubt in the mind, you arc
co ivjdtcd of murdering your
child, anew born infant, of your
own fix, the offspring of your
fecr.-t and vicious love ; murde
ring it with a knife, leledtcd as
the mp’cenenc of .1 purpose ddi
b'-rat-Iy formed, before its drj
tin- and victim came into the world.
“ Your hatred cf this inno
cent hitie ftiffercrj ccuid not
have been your motive. U nev
er offended you, and therefore
was no object df refentrrenr. It
is true, that if the child had liv
ed, it would have proved your
crime in its birth ; and your
shame would have been the con
hquence of that ptoof. Cot,
was this a rcafon to kill and mur
der it f If its firtt cries to you
(■ts natural parenr)for luftenance
arid care, made it by force your
living accuffr, could this be a
reason to hush thcic cries, and
ftifle that breath (of the uncon
scious witnds agaiiifl you) with
a knife that nearly feveicd the
t. Jad from the neck ? Ilad it liv
ed, you might have loft your
place j you might have loft o
ciier places j you might have
funk into poverty, as well as in
to shame ; but was this a reason
to kill an nfant ? Was it area
ion to acquire a fatfe charader,
with a guilty cor.fcience upon
your pillow, and ciies of the
murdered infant at your ear ?
\\ hen did this fear of shame and
poverty begin ? Was it an obfta
cie in the way of your criminal
intercourse with your lover ? No;
when you had criminal pleasures
to enjoy, you had no fear or r fk
When thele paliiona were satia
ted, and thde pleaflires were ac
cusers to tneir bitter fruit, then
you became futh a coward, that
you lacrificrd your infant’s life,
the peace and inteteft of your
foul her* and hereafter, to the
new-born fear. Alas ’ how dread
ful arc the landing places of guilt,
when it afeends its progrefa !
You began wi.h incontinence,
criminal in fifelf, but full of
complicated peril in its tenden
ty to worle crimes. Your next
guilt was a mask to the world,
in concealing your pregnancy,
which (beTides the vicious art of
the inapt,dure) was dangerous to
the chdi you had conceived.
Your Jail crime was the murder
of (hat child in Aided by your-
Tdf.*
“ Guilt is always a coward •,
guilt like yours, prompts the of-
to accuic herfelf, and
piovc her crime by evidence of
thetihifc in a moment of despair,
J<*ur, or lurprife. Madncfs, iike
this, comrs tr,o late s it is the ef
fect and the doom of guilr, it is
no (heller for it. You havemo
pica of ludden impulse to thts
a<ft (not that any such plea could
avail you, if in fa& it exifled) j
youi’s wa> a deliberate murder
the implement of the death’s
wound * obtained; and set ap :r
ior its utdined office and vic
tim had you escaped, many o
ther girls (thoughtiefs and light
os you hve been ) would have
been encouraged by that escape
to commit your crime, with
hopes ot your impunity} the
merciful turn of your example
v;il Cave them. Desperate acts
like ihefc, very often elcape from
pUuiflimtnt } merciful judges
numerous sccaiions to that
impunity ; If it he a defect, I
hope it will never be ‘re; cated;
Hut the fame judges are firm ru
their trust in a case like yours.
The life that you have destroyed
101 l its natural parent, when you
were its executioner, for guilt of
your own. It found a parent in
heaven ; there is not a more sa
cred object of that parent’s love
(whose children we all of us are)
than anew born child, created
in his image. Its blood is like
that of Abel; it cries from the
earth, and irs complaint is noced
in heaven. What your induce
ment was to facrifice this pledge
of your love, and your crime,
we have no means to afeertain ;
your conference knows it well ;
but we are able to know, that it
muff have been fdfiffi and cruel.
“ I have talked to you hich:r
£o, as a judge preparing and
b’JUnd by Ins painfuij office
to inflict the penalty of death
upon his convided prisoner be
fore him ; But look up to me !
I can give you comfort, and can
tell you ; without impairing the
weight of your doom in this
world, that you turn away your
eyes to the judge oftis all, whose
mercy has no limits, and whom
no finner can implore in vain,
if the tears of penitence and re
merfe be deep and lint ere. You
mull have expedt ed your fate ;
and l hope in god,that you have
prepared yourfelf by anew ma and
heart, for a better world, having
made all the human atonement
rn your power upon earth. To
cut off a young creature like you
in the rreming of life’s day (for
it ts little more than a day to
the oldest of us all) is an afflic
tion thrown upon me, which I
have no power to deferibe, or to
bear, so well as perhaps I should.
You mult not think we are cruel;
it is to save other infants like
yours, and many other girjs like
you, from the pit into which
you have fallen; your sentence
and your death is mercy to them ;
If you have repented of your im
pious crime, it is mercy to your
i’elf. Had you escaped, your
mind and confeience would, or
might have been so depraved,
rhac mercy, winged as it is, could
not reach it in time. You have
now the tears and prayeis of us
all around you. In our abhor
rence of your crime, we have not
101 l our companion for yot.r fate,
nor cur zealous hope that you
will find rnercy at the judgment
leal of a Redeeming Intercelfor,
who died for you ; that is, who
died, that penitent’ Tinners,
through him, would be relcued
from the doom they had incurred
and should expiate their pollu
tions in the atonement of his
blood;
You have murdered that
human creatine, who, of all o
chers upon earth, had the moft
affecting rights, as well as claim,
to your mercy and love. The
offfpring of your own guilt n
---t.iilrd in ionic degree by the
fliame of its defeent. At your
wild and youthful age, undeci
plinecl, I fear as well as unen
lightened ; and with such early
habits and depraved felf-indul
gence, it is not propable that a
religion like that of the New-
Tcftament, which bieathes in
every page of it, love to infants,
could h ive been imperiled upon
you r mind.
“ But the God of nature has
written a bock, which * he that
runs may read/’ You have read
that book, and the letters of it
were ftampt upon your feelings
at your birth. It was a law
written upon the living and
glowing tablets of the heart,
which told youj how unjust it
was to punilh the offspring of
your guilt—for the life you had
forced upon it by that guilt alone,
you Ihould have excited every
moment of your own iq atoning,
by redoubled attention to a
daughter so born, for the cala
mity of such a birth, Instead of
bracing yourfelf to this atone
ment, you were deaf to hear in
fant cries, and you avertad the
repetition of them with a mur
dering hand.
in this cnoice of cunt nines;
:n thic. conflict of balances, what
is it you have done s’ You have
encountered the peril of detecti
on and of punifhrnen:, by a death
of ihame, as the rrun defer of
your child. You have taken
the shame of dying impenitent,
or with a ccnfcience ill prepared
for so awful a change, as from
this life into the judgements of
eternity. You have taken the
chance ; had you efcaptd from
human detection—had you im
posed upon the world ever so
well, of lingering torments upon
the rack of life, a felf-accufed
and lelf-accurfed.
Thus it is, that one guilt pro
duces another, efpecialiy in your
sex, when gendered into irs cri
minal intercourse with ours.—
The natural delicacy and mode,
sty of the female character en
tangled all irs progress in guilt,
and a fucccfficn of accumulated
crimes are generated bv the fear
(if not by the sense) of shame.
At lift the energies of the mind
are half buried in the confufion
of fhifted expedients to efrape
from the importunate eye of the
world ; but there is another eye ;
“ about the path of bed,” from
which no darkness can seclude,
and from which no “ secrets are
Hid.” That eye never is doled,
and brings to light guilt 1,..e
yours in a manner, for which the
fagaeiry of human conjecture
despairs to account.
” I am now to pass upon you
the awful sentence of your legal,
your just, your ir.evitabl doom in
this world,—[Here he delivered
the sentence in a very expressive
manner, and proceeded thus ;]
“ You have heard the iirn
tence, and the imperious will of
the law. It affefts your body
alone; your foul it cannot reach ;
it is in the hands of your God.
May that fountain cf infinite
love, shew mercy to it, when it
shall appear before him upon
the day of its final judgement.—
May it there Ibc acquitted and
bleft.”
[The above is an awful lesson,
efpecialiy to youth, of both fex
pes. The fair will probablyjfeel
its impressive eloquence; but it
too commonly happens that men,
whose importuuity and faithiefs
nefs are generally the efficient,
the foie caufc es such deplora
ble cataftrophers, instead vs re
fraining temptation and preserv
ing inviolate their engagements,
boast the luccefs of their fhame
ful aud ruinous intrigues—But
iet such remember that, befidc
the abhorence of all virtuous
minds, the day of retribution will
loon arrive.]
PRIVATE HOSPIIAL.
THE fubferibers [notify the
public, thtt having procured
an airy and commodious houle,
in a healthy part of the city •,
they have again opened a private
HOSPITAL, and hope, from
the innumerable advantages re
sulting from such an inftitutioo,
it will be liberally supported.
The poor will receive Medical
Services gratis; provided the
humane citizens will come for
ward and make feme appropria
tions for the board and nursing
of such persons, which fliall not
exceed fix dollars per week. It
is true, as it is melancholy, to re
late, that three fourths of the
feamcn, buried in this place have
died for the wrnt of suitable di
et, and nursing when Tick. For
no sooner are they indifpeted,
than the proprietors of the Houl
es where they board, stow them
away in a close garret, without
paying attention either to clean
liness or any thing cife, neceflary
for their This evil
can now be remedied. The
Tick in resorting to the hofpiral,
will find every comfort and con
venience at a moderate expence.
The institution is to be gov
erned by rhe fubjointd rules,
I ft. White patients rfiall be
entitled to one weeks residence
and attendance for ihe fun o t
twelve dc*l>;-s and for every tveek
afterwards eight dollars.
Negroes, ten dollars the firft
.veck and fix doll US for ever’
week afterwards.
2:1. Medicines, Nursing, di
eting and bedding, shall be fur
niftied by the inftjtutica for tht
sums above fpecified, but where
wine is necessary it mult be found
at the expence of the patients, or
owner of Negroes.
-jd: Patients ftril be visited
three times a day or oftener if ne
cefiary, by one or bulk of the in
fd tutors.
4th. In cases where impor
tant furcdcal operations are ne-
moderate additional
charge will be made.
sth. Seperate apartments
and nurses shall be provided for
white ptrfons.
As the institution will require
a considerable advance of capi
tal for bedding and daily expen
ses, it is necessary that the sum
fpecified for the firl week’s resi
dence in the Hospital, be paid
on ad million of the patient so as
to enable the fubferibers to con
tinue the institution without loss
to themselves, and with advan
tage to the community,
It is further necessary to be
understood, that no person, white
or black, will be received in the
Hospital, uniefs feme refponfiblr
person will become anfvverable
for the fttbfequcnt charges and
pay the fame on the difeharwe of
the patient. And .dfo in case of
death, the person who assumes
the payment of the weekly char
ges, shall in addition to what
may be due the institution, pay
theexpences of interment, which
in everv case shall be as mode
rate as portable.
Applications to be made by
letter or otherwise to either of
the fubferibers.
Peter Ward,
Janies Ewell.
Odloberi. ,3 io
Notice,
THE fubferiber, fosr.e time firce
being on his return from the India;;
natioii, came up with a JUHN IR
VINE (ss he called himfelf) who
had in his poflclfion anew negro fcl.
low ; from the countenance and con
versation of Irvine, when interrogated
from whence he had come, the man
ner in which he made rogelhet
with other circumfmnces of his con
Just confirmed she fubferiber in the be.
lief /hat the negro had been Itolcn.—
He therefore demanded of Irvine in
whaz way he had ccme ta the pofi.l
lion cf ll;? negro ; to vrhich he re
turned an avails;* answer. Ihe fub
feriber told him he h-tl good reason
to believe the negro had beer, llolen
md was detennided to /ake the
gro from him and have him advertised
and in <afe no pe fsn claimed hi n
wiihin eighteen months would cither
return or fed him.
This is therefore to notify all per
Tons whom it doth or may concert,;
That rhe fubferiber has in his pofics.
(ion /he said new negro ; he is about
five feet eight inches high, aged be
tween twenty live and /fcir/y years—•
no marks other than r. his back,
which appear to have fufftred under rhe
Cow skin } (peaks litt’c or no English
fays he came from Carolina, but does
not know r.hether from Ner/h or
South,'he irdiltiudtly communicates
(when -Iked in wha/ way the man
came by him) that he took him up in
/he read, when on his w;y to fish on
feme river or creek nearby. His own
er or owners aie ihersfore requelted
to prove the property of the negro
pay charges and /• ke him away:
Wm. Neciy.
Camden Ccu: /y on
St. Mary’s River.
Sept, 30. lair.igra 7.
Executors Sa/es, at Ricekoro'.
On/he 31st cay of October next,
will beorpofed t* public fa!e—at the
heufe of Thomas Larcafier, depeafed;
The personal property belonging tQ
his efti/e—Cor.fitiirg of valuable no
grocs ; House ar.d kitchen furniture,
Dry Goods, Liquors, a valuable col
lection of Books Sic. Sizi His dwel
ling heufe Stores &c. will a!fo then
b: ren/ed for oneyeaj a/ public
due.
John Conper.
Qualified F.xo’r,
Scfitr- 20 7 12 $O.l.
Alt persons having any
emands ag unft ;he efluie of Thomas
Lancheficr efq. dicesfed, late mer
chant at igiceoorough—will pleats de.
liver a.-rfted fti/trarents thereof, to
the (übfcril-cr vs i/h whom thofc
indebted ‘o th3t efiate are requested
to fettle Without delay.
John Cooper.
Qaaififd Exb’r.
Septr. 7 tii'jcl.
’ Prme CGT-70N & RIC&-
Lands,
For faie, by the fubferiber 450
•acres on Colonels Island nea?
Sunbury will adopted 10 the
cultivation of Cotton ; on the
premises one gcod dwelling houfev
Cotton heufe and other suitable
buildings necessary on a planta
tion ; fuuared on a iaitßiver,and
in point of health and good water
equal to any in the lew country.
One other trade on Bull-town
Swamp fix miles from Rict-boro*
adjoining lands lately bought by
Mtffrs, Miller & Currie, contain
ing one thou land acres a large
body of the Trad. is of the firlt
quality Rice land, one hundred
and fifty acres has been cleared
and planted and may be again
fettled to advantage with but
little trouble. Terms will be
madeeafy to purchafcrs by apply
ing to
A. May ban k*
Sunburv, October t,
BILLS ON LONDON,
FOIt SALE BY
R. & J.’ BOLTON.-
I\’ f 8. ts-
NuVV LANDiNIj,
And for Sale,
60 Barrels Superfine F LOUR
(Georgia make)
7 TotiS Waggon Tl RE,
1 do* Square AXh. BARS &
SHARE would a
3 Boxes SADDLERY AOned,
“0 Bags Green COFFEE.
20 Kegs F. F. G UN- PU WDE I’-
*#* A General Supply of
GRU C ERIES as usual, *
An aw. Knox,
Barrack Gibbons’s Wharf.
Rrofember 20, 7. St.
Georgia, LifixitTY, *
Superior Court,
March Ter at, 1805.
On the petition ot John Bol
ton, executor of Robert ifolton,
praying the foreclofure of the e
quity of redemption of all thac
lot of land situate in the nuwn or
Sunbury, containing ffvmty fees
front, and one hundred and thir
ty feet deep, known in the ori
ginal plan by the number leven
ty-eight(7B) which Laid lot of
and, with the improvement,
thereon, was mortgaged on ths
twentieth day of June, one thous
and seven hundred and ninecy
five, by William Hunter Tor
rans to the said Robert Bolton,
for securing the payment of the
sum of forty-two pounds fterfirng
equal in value co one bunded
and eighty dollars; with interest
thereon, due upon a certain bond
or obligation from the said Wil
liam to the said Robert bearing
even date with the said mort
gage,
It is ordered, That the princi
pal, interest and coil due on ths
laid boud be paid into court with
in twelve mG.qths from this time
and uniefs the principal, interest
and coil be so paid the equity ot
redemption of the said mortga
ged pren iffes ftiall from thence
I forth be forecloled, and such
other proceedings tat;e place ag
the law directs.
And it is further ordered, That
a copy of this rule be published
in one of the Public Gazettes, of
this ltatt at least once in every
month until the.time appointed
for payment, or served on
mortgagee, at least fix months
previous to such time of pay
ment.
Ext raft from the Minutes„
‘This ‘loih March *305.
A. Forest elk. c. s. c. l.
March 28 lam i2t 61
KOTTCE. - -
NO i iCE is hereby given that
:.re Subfcnber will at the expiration
of ripe months from the date, apply
to the Honorable the justices of the
Inferior Court of this county for
‘cave to fell and difpbfe cf ail th at
• ‘ lantl or tradl of -land generally
known anJ called Bitrnside, together
with a” *t! a pout ten a ness, xonmin
i ing about two hundred and sixty 3 -
ct es, pi high land and a body a:
mztfli adjoining thereto, lying a rid
. being in thi county and situated t e
tween Bewlie and Sktdaway Islan * a
abe fold as p?>. of the est ate of fa*
nob V^adburgher, deccaicd for
benefit of thr (aid est arc.
JOHN MHXEDGH.
jL_.it ‘
AprJ IS be.