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“the “museum.” 1 The following nest poet ry from the Charles ton Courier, refers to the dangerous YVind-Mill on Cape Remain, which being mistaken for the Light House, has occas-oned the loss of so many gallant vessels. Why is it not destroyed ? CAFE ROMAlN—Ohigivat.. The breakers are foaming and dashing along, The Pelican sits on the wave ; The sea gull and curlew are mingling their song, With the stream of the winds as they rave. The horizon discovers three desolate Isles, To life and to verdure unknown ; Save the Rattlesnake, where in his malice, he coils, Or the myrtle in pity hath grown. There are wrecks on the coast —there are bones on the shore, And a murderer’s beacon on high, That invites him to enter who goes forth no more, And yields him allurements to die. O’er-passing in safety the perilous sea, The mariner welcomes the land ; How short liis illusion—how fatal his glee, His corpse is ashore on the strand. The day star cf mercy shall dawn on the scene And the signal of pity, show ’ . aere the wreck of the innocent victim has been, And guard the survivor from wo. Ah !vv to a nation of freemen is dear, If rot ae bright son of the wave ? Whet * i home, and his wife, and his children, grow near, Gil! beckon him net to bis grave. \1 VGA MR DU CM ATE CRT, HFH lies WAV 11, ANII sen TWO LOIIEItS. Le Marquise du Chat clot was i celebrated fe iruUe gjo -netrioiau, who in concurrence with i Voltaire first made known in France, the genius; talents of Mew ion. Her connection with Voltaire was more than philosophical, but up- ’ pear.sto have been not quite exclusive. As for! the husband, every body, but himself, consul ore I 1 him as a cypher. It appears, however, that Yot-j taire was equally her du.-e. Mar.non.el, die i great fri iid of ail the parties, his well observed; that none but a fool would look for virtue in a( woman who lia.l ceased to be virtuous •*On the death of Madame du Chotclct, savsj Lady Morgan, an 1 in the first hirst of his grief, j Voltaire bad an interview with the widowed j husband, extremely affecting to bo*U parties.— ; Voltaire, on this occasion, ventured to beg back the ring which Ma lame <lu Chatelet had always! worn. ‘ You are rot ignorant of the friendship j which existed between us,” said the afll.cled 10-l rev to the afflicted husband: “and that ring, so) constantly worn, you are perhaps already aware, . coii'klivs my picture.” i “1 have witnessed your j ‘frieiVlslii;', sai l the Marquis du Chatelet, a-ul I know the ring you allude to, but it oon'ams not! Voitr picture ! that pi tu e was blatantly rep.a-! ’ced by mine.” The tears of Volt aire ceased to j flow: he demanded proofs of this treason to I friendship and love. The ring was sent for,the: 8 Orel spring was touched, the e la.nel He .v open,, aid die picture of the young S. Lambert stod c infessed! The pinl-iso dicr closed the spring, and re turned the ring to the disconsolate husband.” Cu i'JUi Circumstance in JWtiurnl Histo ry- It dated hy a gentleman of veracity, leani j. ami abilities,, tvho tills a ennspieu >us post in the company’s service in Min, tinted Patna in Bengal, rfept. ‘24. 1785. j The travelling F lquirs in this cou it yj are a kind of snper-uitio'J* who! pretend t,ogreat zeal in religion, bit irr i j t u;t Lie in iSt .vicious a.id pridli tatr j wretches in the world. — i’ V waiiderj about ihrt cuuniry here, as ;>ie Gy >si<> and > with y-.u; ami having sane little .-mutter-; j.ijr of miv-.i*,, music, or other a s, they in-; troducc tnemse! <■ by these in’m- wnore- j ever they go. One ul the.n ‘ died a lew j tl iyi ugo at my house, who had i b - iiuiluij large snake 11 a basket wniuli lie made rise, tip and and <noe about to ill • f inn at a pip l ’! on w:iteii lie played. It hajv.cticil that my, out bouse un i farm yard &e. had forj 8 nne time been infested with snakes.; which haJ kilied me several t urines Jf ;os2, (lack?, fowli, and even a cow and a tiit|i u;(<. My servants asked this mvt whether he could pipe'tbes s-vikes out of; t holes, ami catch them ?l ie answered j t icm in the aflirirt&iive, and they carried, hen instandy to the place where one of, thase snakes had been seen. He piumj, and in a short ‘me the snake came; and racing to hi n : the fellow caught him byj tile nape of the neck And brought him toj m*. As l was iaiiredjloiis, .5 ilid not gd to see tills first operation ; hut as he tookj this ronfi'e so expeditiously, and l still; sti• iict ■ i sine trick, 1 desired him to go 1 an I catch another, and went with hi n iny-j sc fto observe his motions. He begun by; ah ising hie snake, and ordering him to, cone out id’ his hole instantly and not hei ang'V. o'oenvisehe would cut his throat; a.i i seek ; iis hi i ul. 1 cannot swear that th> >’ke heard and tindei Stood (his ele jjs4-t iiiv.ica ion.. He then began piping; with ah his might, lest the snake should be deaf; he hid not piped above live minutes, tviieii an iin nense Urge Covne tl> r perie (the oioit venomous kind of serpent) pop ped his head out of a hole in the room.—- r i.en the man saw his no-e, he approach ed nearer t< him, and piped more vehein cnd r. till the .-•take was more than lial< tat. amiresdTtonv.sc a dirt at him ; he the i ni ,nd wfth only on? hand, and advan ced the other under the snake as it -was t-iisiti” its It to “isKe the spriog. When tile spake darted at his body, he made a snatch at hit tail, which he Caught very tlestgi itt-c' ? and held tho crcatuie ve.y fait without the least apprehension of be ing bit, until my servants despatched it. I hud olten heard the story of snakes being char med out of their holes by music ;* but ; never believed it, till l had this occular tie-1 monstration of the fact. In the space of; an hour the Faquir caught five very veno mous snakes close about my house. * That this method of charming the serpen tine race was practised at a very early 1 period of antiquity, appears from the allusion of 1 ■, the holy Psalmist, in the 4th and sih verses of the 58Ui Psalm. Frointhe Philadelphia National Gazette TESTIMONY. Some considerable time has elapsed since a French traveller has written a book ; upon the United States, of that poignant j character which the works of most of the j English tourists, such a* Jansen, Ttason Weiby and others, are distinguished and recommended. We ought not,’however, to use the phrase, /ts elapsed, bill rather to say, had elapsed in the year 1818 ; for, in that yrar, as we yesterday discovered, a French officer—a knight of St. Louis—a most enthusiastic votaiy of the legitimate race of mouarchs, professing to have fought in America among the French force, sent out to aid in the Revolutionary war, —pub- lished at Paris two volumes, thick 12 mo. entitled • Journey perfumed in the years IBIG and 1817 from New York tu New. Orleans, containing details absolutely new portraitures of the principal personages . f the United States, &c, By the author of ‘'Recollections of West Indies.” We have been much amused with live contents of the two volumes, and must attempt to convey some idea of their nature to our readers. In entertaining them, we shall it the same time do an act of justice, by shewing that the British tourists have not, an indisputa ble ciaiui to tlie prize of defamation, and that if the British reviewers could be impar tial they would pay compliments to the knight of S . Louis, on the score of discern ment and candor, quite as lofty as any which they have bestowed upon the for -1 incr. The “ Author of the Recollections of the j West Indie-” arrived, it seems, in the ;Chesapeake Bay, in the month of August, j 181!i ami landed at” Norf.dk” on the 281 b lof tho same month. His first paragrapu is 1 Si follows. j ’* tV-irf :l!c appeared to me dull and very ‘little populous, ile who sees 1 citv of the I United htatos, sees them all, as It were. I Brick houses, streets lad nut by a line, j clumps of poplars dispersed here and there; ! many shops of the small order ; no equipa \ ges, body of society without a bead mixed !up with a black c;e.v; a salmagundi of trangers of ail c untrics and all religions, jlrU g'-ne ady of the same democratic sen j t.iment, in the utmost latitude of the phrase; all iota united io a marked self sufficiency, ; gross ignorance, unlimited cupidity a most ; comical vanity, an unsalable thirst cfgold, . moruti worse than equivocal ; all ton, tin- | dm the sooty wings >f the blindest and im.st intnllerant superstition that ever de graded the human race,—such in a few words, is a hue picture of the socitty of the United States.” Tim must be acknowlepged to be a very ispirited beginning or debut, anti the worthy Chevalier doe* not fhg as he proceed -, ile avers that the French are disliked among us, and that ail the pretended advantages of our liberty are much more than couuter- I balanced by the evils of our climate, and j our politic * I and religious dissensions : which leave no peace to a stranger, who J finds him-elf” in a true volcanic crater;’, i who must be. nolens violent, either a De juioerafic or a Federalist, believe thg Amrr ! it’ tu sailors can beat the English, that the United .Safes will nave forty millions of’ ! souls in 2J years, and become the fi st ! country in the world. If the poor for.-ig j iier does u>t admit this, and mom,and prav jfor the in lapetnlente of (he Creoles of | South America he is put him Coventry, ! ami experiences, in all ids business, imp*-. ! diluents and einbarrasmen's, of wihcii, if j unexperienced, he will be at a loss to di vine the cause. At Norfolk, according tu the Chevalier, no idea existed of what was a proper lodg ing for a stranger, or a good table. Nit a word is ever uttered at dmner, which -ast* about ten minutes. This system ie de nominates le genre antigastronamique. In society, ladies have no occasion for aiv men! tl exet tiun. On returning from an as sembly, a gentleman will say of a lady wn -;n *>e nieans to commend— •‘Aludam behaved admirably well—she did not once open her mouth,,’ We must confess that ■ his panegyric could not be pronounced upon the ladies of Philadelphia. The ed ucation of the girls, says that Chevalier, consists in imbuing them with the most ri diculous pride. Wneri at “New York” af terwards, lie ha I occasion to make a simi lar remark, re-pecMng the ladies, young and old—here, lie observed that, tuuglit by the scorn ul air and lofty tread of tlicir husbands or other gentlemen with whom they go abroad, they assume the same as- i pr*ct and gait, “ trample modesty under four, and disgust the spectator by the se verity of their looks and the boldness of tlicir stare”—which .he deems the most un pardonable, as they are generally meagre and ugly- with enormous feet that betray the vulgarity of their lineage. Notwithstanding the awfil description which he gives of the appearance and man ners of the American Sex, the veteran; knight encountered one whose persona!! charms entirely overcame hi in, and stirred I into violent palpitations his -doggish heart, j grown almost torpid through fifty years oft misfortunes and toils by flood and field.— 1 We anticipate a little as to date, in felling the story, but we cannot help coup’ing it with the rehearsal of his strictures, since it may lesson their weight upon the reputa i tion of our unblesl country. Bung m the j steam boat of Burlington, on his way to ! New-Ynrk, he found on boaid, a young la dy, “ not a Quakeress,” of about sixteen years old,—“ of perfect beauty, ot features so regular, a skin so dazziiugly white, a | rosy suffusion of the cheek so fresh and pm e, a shape and size so elegant, blue eyes so charming, ’ that he coulii not recollect ever to have beheld a more lovely or fas cinating creature “Certainly it Would not have been difficult to commit extravagances to possess such a being. Happy the rich j man who could say to her—l give you my j fortune it is amply enough for us both.”— At 5 o’clock, the steamboat aniv e d at Burlington, and a genteman came to re ceive the belle—he (the Chevaiiei) alas! bail another destination. He remained sorrowfully on the deck, following the hap py mortal with his eyes, until losing sight of her by reason off an unlucky turn in the street, he said to himself—“ She is dead f or me—the affairis at an end for this life.” Finding himself alone in the stage from Trenton to New Brunswick, he could not but indulge himself in thinking of the Burlington fair one, and he then tells honestly, a tender, little proceeding not before related.—“Chance* gave him a seat near her on board the steamboat; one of her ’ glove- having fallen, unperceived by her, on the deck, he picked it up and softly conveyed into a slip <f paper, upor. which he had w itten impromptu the following couplet:— •'Gentle young Miss, vou will find in your glove, That, -f the fair, yon fairest l do love.” W e give his verse verbatim, which he has translated into French rhyme for his Par isian reade s. Soon after having restored the glove, which, the irresistib ; e beauty re ceived with a most gtariou- smile, he per ceived from a nnlher smile somewhat more arch, that she had read what he had so gallantly indicted; but then came the moment of departure. He dismisses the subject with a poetical and romantic quota tion. We hope the peeress unknown will read this column, and be induced to re member kindly, the enamoured sexagena rian, though he is so censorious and obdu rate towards all the rest of her country women. We shall accompany him, on Monday, on his visits to M . Madison, Mr. M onroe, and Mr. Jefferson, and to Balti more, Philadelphia, and New York. Hay and Corn. 59 Lundies Hay landing from sloop Income iv stouf. 9000 bushels prime white Maryland Corn, for s“le ly. MALL & IIOYT. june I t 40 Fringe Knitting , cSjc. II A DIES and Gentlemen are respectfully in -453 fi l med that ail kinds of knitting, such us “’ SASHF.S, Car. be done opposite Mr. John Grihbon’s in York-st. june 11 37 V. McDermott, J fit rectJV, d by the ship Augns a from New utbi York 12 ha:f ohts. of beG. Put up t-x ----j rest) for family use. june—ill Earthenware ! r}f\ lihds china ware selected particularly j XJ this market, just received per ship Emily and tor sale by JOHN LATH HOP Cc june 6 33 Corn Afloat. 3009 bushels corn, cargo of schr, Hamilton and Hiram For sale by june 14 JOAN LATHROP Si CO. Hills on New-York an and Phila delphia, FaOU sale by JOHNSTON St HILLS, june 19 li 44 Corn Afloat. ,oy\ jSt stybushels Baltimore CORN forsake 9X3CI sirin lots to suit purchasers Ap ply to PALMES & ROE. • IX STUBS. 15 hhde prime retailing Tobacco june 19 ill ■ 45 Cheese , Molasses, &*c. ENGLISH pine apple Cheese 10 hhds and 20 tierces Molasses 3000 pounds Ilams 1590 do Newbolds do 200 kegs Lard 5 pipes Cognac Brandv, (Seignette) 30 boxes white Havana Sugar 100 bbls prime Muscovado do 15 qr casks L. I’, Teneriffe Wine ;0 hhds Jamaica Rum 50 boxes Muscatel Raisins Summer Candles, Soap Crackers Rutter Biscuit, prime Beef, mess do Mess Pork, and a complete assortment of Groceries, by G.YU DRY & DUFAURE. june 19 c 44 Shot and Par Tread. ! 43 casks Shot, assorted from mould to No. 9. 10 casks Bar Lead, landing from ship Geor gia, for sale bv LAWRENCE & THOMPSON. I may 21 a Summer Hats & Clothing. rfc UE subscriber has just received by tne la- JL test arrivals from isew-York and Charles ton, the most fashionable Hats and Clothing, which will be sold at cost and charges, conse quently great bargains may be bad four doors east ol the City Hotel. HATS. 30 dozen men and boy’s Straw Hats 4 cases fine drab broad brim Hals Extra fine broad and narrow brim do And a great quantity of fashionable summer garments TA.YTALOOJYS. Consisting Camiaits, Coiican, Florentine with sattin, biue Searsuckers, white and color’,, drab colour and white Janes. COATEES. Black, blue, green, Brown, Liloquc, Boniba zells, Bombazeene, and Searsuckers VESTS. English Florentine, fashionable Stripe Val eneia Toilenett, black, blue and butt Cassi mere Vests Extra Vest of England blue and black dress Coats. SHIIITS. 15 trunks fine and extra fine plain and; frill’d Linen Shiite, of all size*. A great quantity of Ladies* andllemens’ Silk and Colton llozierv Four pair fine Gentlemens’ Eocks can be had for one dollar. Oznaburgs. The very best quality can be had at the most! reduced prices 13 cents. Negroes Summer Chat king. S.lie Umbrellas At two dollars and fifty ct-nis. Pa villion Gauze. Blue, white and green at two dollars a piece. ALSO, A few boxes Prunes, “t three dollars and fif ty cents. PETER DIiEGL. june 6 33 slate:. PRICES REDUCED. The New-York Slate Company have on hand a large and excellent assortment of the first quality Slate at the following riduced pricta 12 inch 475 S ll ‘ls. 20, 7 f I er S,ll!Sre -22 &24 8 J Orders left with the subscribers, will be far nibbed immediate!’,’ JOHN LATIIUOP St CO. ! june 5 L. U. Saxe iS* Cos. OFFER FOR SALE, 3000 bushels Corn 30 bbls. Ale 109 do Mess and prime Beef 20 do Mess Fork 20 qr. casks Malaga Wine 30 pipes : in 100 boxes Soap and Candles 50 bbls. Loaf Sugar 20 kegs No. 1, Tobacco 25 do Lard 20 bbls. Navy Bread j 10 thousand Help-no Segars 100 do Common do 100 kegs Crackers 50 bbls. Sugar With a general assortment of GROCERIES. June 1 John Lathrop £j Cos. Hunter’s IVluirf. OFFER FOR SALE, 4000 bushels prime Maryland Corn 100 bundles Hay 40 hhds. prime Muscovado Sugar 75 bbls best double refined do 50 pieces Inverness Colton Bugging 50 kegs Lard 30 bbls. prime Beef, New-York Inspection 10 hhds. 3d proof Neutral Ruin 10 boxes No 10, Cotton Cards 3 quarter casks March’s superior Madeira Wine 30 bbls. Glauber Salts 100 boxes No. 10 and 12, Window Glass June 1 30 New Summer Goods. BY the ship Georgia, just arrived from Liver pool, the subscribers have received a vari ety of seasonable articles, which with those recently received from England, make their assortment of BUY GOODS more extensive and general than usuai, an will lie sold at moderate advance and tong creai for undoubted paper ANDREW LOW &Ce ALSO, Crates Crockery ware and tea China London Porter m pint and quart bottles Casks Glassware, Sheet Iron, he. &c. mav 20 2m Lemons . Mackerel. 40 boxes fresh Lemons 20 bbls No 1 Mackerel 30 hlfdo do i just landed and for sale bv NEYVMAN h BLAIR Moore’s Wharf, june 14 e4O Paeon, Corn, §c. 30,009 pounds assorted Bacon 600 bushels Corn 100,090 American Segars Nov landing from sloop Resolution and for sale by PALMES & ROE. june 14 d4O NOTICE. QjTUIE Copartnership heretofore existing be -4A tween the Subscribers under the firm of. F. Gillet & Cos. in Savannah, and It. Ladevcze & Cos in Charleston, was on the 9th of April dis solved by mutual consent, those having any de mands against them will present them and those , indebted make payment to It Lsdeveze who will continue the business and is duly author ised to settle all the concerns of said firm. It. LADKVEZE. F. GILLET. R. I.adeveze having taken in partnership, G. Hreittmsyer, the business will hereafter be conducted in this place under the firm of G | BUEITTM VYEU & Cos. It. LADEVEZE. ! G. BHEITTMAYEIt. 1 jfie6 r.i” 4 Hircy siitpM James Bell makter, *.. Greenock, c an . • ■ 500 bales Cotton on freight if fcurtv' ar ,, ; l M is made to the master on board, or to’ J. 11. *, i-.fl june 19 44 For Providence, ■ 1 *‘ e s; ‘ding Regular I’a- k-I -EsS&i U ‘ ; 'S ROLI A, ’■ ■ // Harrington master—. will positively cl SUNDAY, the 23dinst. For passage on\\M handsome accommodations, apply to l ie B oil board at Moore’s Wharf, or to C 1Q .. s M.YNroyl june 19 44 m For Providence, I Sloop RESOLUTION, ( apt. j, ■ Wfflo will sail with dispai-h far JVeiqfß passage apply on board at Rices vHia.f june l7 42 fl For Providence. I *J|s\ Ship RISING STARS, capt. [y lt J - will sad with despatch (or j j passage having good accommodations a-* vj board at ltices w harf or to ‘ I • cr an OURAY T.. m . I june 17 042 I For Baltimore, Tlie fast sailing j Schooner BAUACOA, \liaymmd master —will meet with dispatch II (freight or passage, apply to the capt. on barl ;stli uitou’s Central Wharf, or to | HALL & HOYT, Hho have for side on board suit! vets.-’ I | Baltimore Howard-st. superfine Flour I l’riine white Maryland Curn j 25 boxes mould Caudles, 4toß’s | jnne 15 For Liverpool , 1 Ship FALLAS, I j Capt. Land —lias one half of her cargo rrariß anil now taking on board. Siie will be uisl patched without delay—for freight, apply to Wood, or , ■ JAMES DICKSON tj CO. I junels 41 I For Charleston, I The regular Packet Sloop il - pLado MARY, I ; ‘trmen matter —will sail on SL’NDA Y NEXT.-.I ’ L'>r freight or passage, having ban-lsome acJ eoinmodatio’is, apply to capt. Brown on board at Exchange Wharf, or to ISAAC COHEN.- june 20 4 T——c r _ For New-York, jjys£\ The Regular Packet Ship COTTON PLANT, •V Fash master —will sail on SUN DAY NEXT. Fur freight or passage, apply on boa-d, or to GEO GORDON’, June 59 42 c For Darien. k’Jfy'y Tl-e sclir. DECATUR, TANARUS) Trii-Mn, master, will sail tomorrow, wind and weather permitting. For Freight or passage, bav-.ug good accommodations. Apply to the master on board at itoituiis wharf, or to ISAAC gCHEN. june 70 i45 For New-York, v The fast sailing Vpacket sloop TNt .aKSte* COME, S. D. Vail, master, will mee with immediate dispatch. For freight or pa-- sage, having handsome accommodations, apply to capt V. oil board at Jones upper wharf, or to HALL k HOYT. junel4 40 For Alexandria , v tV4i\ Or i !*• >rt in tlie Chesapeake. The -i? s?fi ,|e fast sailing schr HAMILTON and HIRAM, Capt. Turpin, tip freight haveing excellent accommodations, apply on board at Ancieaux’sj wharf or to JOHN LAT'IItOP £c Cos. jtine 14 40 For New-York. ‘I he fast sailing packet sloop EMILY, Brower, Master V\-'ul positively sail on Sunday next, (wind per i milting) passage, only, apply to the Masteron board at Bolton’s wharf or to CLAGIIOBN & BASSETT, jtine IS 4> Foots and Shoes. JOHN a. WICK, has just received 1 trunk gentlemens’ fine morocco Boots Ido do wax calf do I do cheap copper nail do 1 do wooden pegs do 1 do fine morocco walking pumps i do line Seal Skin do 1 do gentlemens’ calf skin shoes 1 do do Seal 1 do Ladies black damask Saltin figured Ido do colored do do The above goo ’s have been made to order and can be confidently recommended to be equal to any in this city. June 18 si43 Landing from brig Almira , 4.31 bags Sugars, of a superior quality 17 hhds Muscovado do 40 cases fresh London Mustard 3 pipes otard Dttpey &. Cos. Brandy For sale by LAWRENCE £if THOMPSON, rnav 29 27 nt Coffee $ Sugar 300 Bags prime green Coffee 50 hhds do N. O. Sugar 50 do do Mut. do For sale by E. WILLIAMS £# Cos. june 17 42 I’klME PORkT 37 Barrels Prime Perk, New York city in spe tion landing from Brig Native, ALSO, A few cask Linseed Oil for sale by ISAAC COHEN. Jr.ue 17—*—c