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FORGET THEE ! NO !
BY MBS. OPIE.
Then be it so, and let us part.
Since love like mine has fail’d to move thee !
Rut do not think this constant heart
Can ever cease, ingrate, to love thee.
No—spite of all thy cold disdain,
I’ll bless the hour when first I met tlice,
.And rather bear whole years of pain,
Than e’en for one short hour forget thee.
Forget thee ! No. .
M memory,'now my only friend,
Shall with her soothing art endeavor
My present anguish to suspend,
By painting pleasures lost forever.
She shall the happy hour renew,
When full of hope and smiles ! meet thee,
And little thought the day to view,
When thou would’st wish me to forget thee.
Forget thee! No.
Yet I have lived to v;c\V that day ;
To mourn my past destructive blindness ;
To see, now turn’d with scorn away,
Those eyes,once fill’d with answering kindness.
But go —farewell! and be thou blest,
If thoughts of what I feel will let thee;
Yet thouglrthy image kills my rest,
; Twere greater anguish to forget thee,
j Forget thee ! No.
NEW-YORK, NOV. 24.
A beautiful ship, pierced for 3? guns,
■was launched from the ship house of messrs.
A. & N. Brown*, on Saturday morning,
having been built in 73 days, under the
superintendance of’captain Banker, of this
eity.—Wc understand another corvette
chip, of 900 tons, will be launched this
forenoon, from mr. Eckford’s ship yard.
A letter, of which the following is a copy,
has been received from Bordeaux, by the
editors of the Mercantile Advertiser, .ac
companied by a request that it may obtain
a place in the papers of the different sea
ports throughout the United States, as an
useful article of commercial information.
“Caution to Merchants and Masters of
Vessels. —The undersigned, ship-brokers
Bordeaux, deem it necessary to caution all
merchants and masters of vessels trading
to Bordeaux against prohibited goods, am)
manufactured tobacco in particular, which
oflate are frequently secreted by pissen
gers or seamen, and cause very serious dif
ficulties on arrival; as vessels are answer
able to the customhouse for all thatis found
onboard, and are thereby exposed to seiz
ure, and at best have to sustain heavy fines,
after using the utmost solicitation to escape
the rigour of the law, which is the confisca
tion of the vessel.
Svizier, L vrrrrTE, & Constantin,
Ship-Brokers.
Bordeaux, Ist Sept. 1817.”
Agricultural flint —A writer in a New-
Jersey paper recommends the boiling of
corn for horse 9 and hogs. He says if will
afford one third more nutriment than when
given whole or ground, besides saving, in
the latter case, the tenth taken for toll.
He also ad vises hoiling of the cob, which he
says is as wholesome and sweet as the grain.
.fbvedoie. —A. gentleman was lately in
quiring fora vounglady of his aquaintr.nce.
‘ She is dead,” very gravely replied the per
son to whom lie addressed his enquiries.
Good God ! I never heard of it—what was
her disease?” “Vanity” returned the other;
“ she buried herself alive in the arms of an
old fellow of seventy, with a great fortune,
in order to have the satisfaction of a gilded
tomb.”
A letter from Natchez of the 27th ulf.
states, that there was no abatement of the
fever, that mosts the houses were shut,
:md that the bani had discontinued buri-
M>s r . The population, did not exceed
300 persons.
The governor vs N’ew-.lersey, by procu
rin'., -*cer*n:end* Thursday, the first)
,-, ,Jtr m’ v ;it xf, as h day of Tiinriks-j
u. l fVnyer throughout that state.
MILLfeDGEVILLE, DSC. 2.
FXGAGEMEXT WITH THE IjXMAXS.
Copy of a letter from major general Gaines to
the Governor of ■Georgia, dated at fort Scott,
near the confluence of the Flint and Chatahoo
cliie rivers, 21st. of November, 1817.
Sir,—The first brigade ot the United
States troops arrived at this place on the
19th instant, ‘1 had previously sent a run
ner to notify the Fowl Town chief, En, he
munt,hy, of my arrival, and, to ascertain
whether his hostile temper had abated, re
quested him to visit me—he replied that lie
had already said to the commanding officers
here, all he had to* say, and that lie would
not come.
He had warned major Twiggs not to
cross, or cut a stick of wood oti the cast
side of Flint river, alledging that the land
was his, that lie was directed by the powers
above and below, to protect and defend it,
and he should do so. This being the talk
referred to, and his town having continued
to be hostile ever since the late war—
having participated as the friendly Indians
assert in the predatory war carried for
some time past against the Georgia fron
tirne, I yesterday detached 250 men (sup
posed to be about the strength of the town’
under the command of major 1 wiggs, with
orders to bring to me the chief and warriors
and in the event of resistance, to treat them
as enemies. The detachment arrived a;
the town early this morning and were in
stantly fired upon, but without effect. —
The fire was briskly returned by the de
tachment, and the Indians put to fliglv.
with the loss of four warriors slain—and,
as there is reason to believe, many more
wounded.
Amonir the articles found in the house of
the chief, was a British uniform coat (scar
■ let) with pair of gold cpauletts, and a cer
tificate signed by a British captain of ma
rines, “ Robert White, in the absence of
colonel Nichols,” stating that the chief
“ had always been a true and faithful friend
to the British.”
The reports of friendly Indians concur
in estimating the number of hostile In
, dians, including the Red-sticks and Sem
• inoles, at more than two thousand—inde
. pendent of the blacks at and near Suwan
! ney, within 120 miles of this place, amoun
i ting to near four Inyidred men, and increas
: ing by the addition of every runaway from
; Georgia able to get to them. The friend
ly Indians inform me, that the hostile par
ty and blacks have been promised a Bri
tish force to assist them, from New-Provi
. dence. This promise, though made by
. Nichols and Woodbine, is nevertheless
t relied on by these deluded wretches, who,
- I have no doubt, will sue for peace, as they
t find their hopes of British aid to be without
foundation.
f I have called the militia from Fort Haw
t kins to this place, and have directed Col.
1 Brcaiiey to confer with your excellency
r upon the subject of an additional battallion
! for the protection of the frontier from Ok
i midgee to St. Mary’s.
1 have the honor to be, most respectfully,
- your obedient servant,
ED. P. GAINES, M. G.Comd’ng.
‘ Beware of counterfeits. Five dollar
notes purporting to boos the Mechanics’
’ Earth of this city, and at first view, well cal
culated to deceive,have recently made their
’ appearance. The notes are shaded with
blue waved lines, made payable to W. Lee,
and dated Nov. 14th, 1814. The signatures
are a good imitation; but on close.exami
nation, the engravings will be found inferi
or to t!ie genuine notes. The vignette re
. presents a ship on the stocks. The notes
f at present appear quite new, aud are evi
| dently of anew emission, but the vigilance
i of the public may prevent a more extensive
i circulation. No new genuine notes of that
description are in circulation.
A3 r. Gaz,
Vermont. —Gov. Galuska has appointed
the 4th December to be observed as a day of
public thanksgiving. “The being of a God”
’ says the governor “is written as with a sun
beam on the face of nature. The heavpns
bear the impress of his fingers, and earth
the footsteps of his power, the rise and fall
of kings and kingdoms, empires and repub
lics, nations and individuals, are but his
smiles and his frowns. On those we live,
at these we die. The sacred scriptures are
a display of his perfections, the signet of his
sovereignty, and history of his love. Hence
to dispute His existence, completes the cli
max of folly. To refuse Him reverence and
honor is the heighth of presumption. To
withhold from Him obedience and direction,
is the extreme of ingratitude.
We have received by the Trident,Bengal
papers of the 2d of August. The American
)ship Saltis, Harrow, arrived r.t Calcutta,
on the 30tl July from the west coast.
•V. V paper.
A letter from admiral Brion, to a’gentle- 1
man in Kingston, dated Augustura, 29th <
Sspternber—says:
“It is with the greatest satisfaction that
I am enabled to date my letter trom this
city; the Venezuelan flag now flies tri
umphant on the whole of the Oronoque,
whilst gen. Bei mudaz has marched with a
strong division to join general Zaraza and
enter Caraccas.
BUFFALO, NOV. 11-
NIAGARA FALLS.
Bridge to Gyat Island. —Augustus Por
ter, esq. the proprietor of the American side
of the falls of Niagara, some time since pur
chased Goat Island, lying in Niagara river,
dividing the falls- This island, being situ
ate in the rapids, has hitherto been deemed
inaccessible or dangerous of access, there
being only one point to approach it, and that
by putting into the river, a mile or more a
bove the falls, and then dropping down be
tween rapids, on the head of the Islands;
this way however, could not always be con
sidered secure, as the least mismanagement
of the boat in departing the island would be
fatal. In order therefore to approach the
island in safety and to improve it to advan
tage, the enterprising proprietor has con
structed a bridge 34 rods in length, found
ed on 11 piers, each pier when filled will
contain 50 tons of stone; and from the size
of the piers and their foundation being solid
rock, it is confidently believed that the
bridge will be permanent. It is, we under
stand, the intention of judge Porter, to cul
) tivate this enchanting island, and erect,
thereon suitable buildings for the accom
modation of strangers and others, who de
sire to view one of the grandest curiosities
of nature, in a new character.
The Island contains about 80 acres of
’ land, is about 100 rods wide, but at the low
er end between the falls, it is only 90 rods.
Burial of lieut. Brooks. —Several officers
of the army, at Detroit, friends of this gal
■ Sant and accomplished officer, (son of Gov.
Brooks of Mass, who fell 10th Sept. 1813,
. at Perry’s victory,) who was buried at Put
. in-bay-1 si and, have removed his remains to
. the city of Detroit, where on Friday week,
. they were interred with military honors.—
. The clergy, civil, military and citizens, all
testified their respect for the memory of the
deceased.
LONDON, SEPT. 29
a Hatch Cruelty. —The horrible tragedy of
* Dutch cruelty’ has already commenced in
Java; and it will not stop here. The Quar
terly Teview, just published, contains the
following account of a most atrocious trans
action, to which we scarcely know where to
look for any parallel, unless it be that of
the Black Hole in Calcutta, the massacre
of the English in Amboyna, or of the Chi
nese in Batavia, when the streets of that
capital literally ran with blood. “We
pledge ourselves (says the Reviewers) for
the truth of the statement; and by exposing
to the whole world a scene of such infamy,
’ feel that wc are performing a public duly.—
May we hope that this exposure, will be the
means of creating such universal indigna
. tion against the parties concerned in the
> bloody deed, as may prevent the recurrence
. of such inhuman and disgraceful transac
. lions.!
i “ Towards the latter end of November
, last, the Petingec or chief of the village of
; Chipamoonchong, in the district ofChatsem.
. named Keysa, observing dissatisfaction to
. prevail among the inhabitants of the ais
. trict, in consequence of some unauthorized
exactions of the Capato Choorack, and other
native chiefs in authority over them, took
advantage of the circumstance, and getting
several other heads of villages to join, pre
vailed on a number of the lower class to
assemble, under the ostensible plea of going
to Indramaj’o, to lay their grievances before
the “ Landrust,” as the president’s assist
ant, who had charge of the police in those
districts,was usually called.
“ Having collected together a body of men
in the first instance, small parties, under
aqtive emissaries, were dispatched to the
neighboring districts to beat up for recruits,
and many cases occurred of poor people
being actually tied and forced to join the
party. As they increased in numbers, the
part y moved towards the river Chitnanock,
the boundary between the Indramnyo dis
tricts and Chcribon, and in their route were
joined by all who had, or fancied they had
any grievance to complain of. Among these
it is understood, that, very few were from
kandang houses ; but some heads of villa-*-
gesatid a considerable number of the lower
class, are stated to have joined them from
the district of Indramayo, anil of the latter,
a number from the lower Crawangdistricts.
At this stage of their progress, it appears to
have been first circulated aiming them tlmt
the I’ungaiian Kanoouian might be expect-)
ed from the “seaside,” to join them as their
chief. The Pungarian Kamooman, who, I
understand, was banished during the insur.
rection of Bagoos Rangun, is represented
to be a descendant of one Seedan, who was
first promoter of the disturbances in Cheri
bon formerly, and his family have always
possessed great influence in the western
part of that district.
“ Whatever the real object or expccta.
tions of the leaders of the deluded people
may have been, it. is ascertained that not a
single chief of rank, above the head of a vil
lage, joined them, or appeared, in any man
ner, to give them support or countenance.
“ By the time they arrived at Lobenar, a
village situated on the banks of the Chima
nook, 7 palls from Indramayo, the party
amounted to about 900 men, which number
it never exceeded. It is a fact well worthy
of notice, that in the course of a desultory
march of nearly fifty palls, from Chasm to
Lobenar, not an instance is known to have
occurred of property of any kind having
been injured ; arid although they remained
stationary at Lpbedar for many days, du
ring which the rice, paddy, cattle and other |
property of Mr. Muntainghe was most
temptingly in their way under the charge
only of a few slaves, not a single article was
touched, not a human being molested,
“Preparations were now in forwardness
by the residents of the Priangar regencies
and Chcriiion, to attack the insurgents, if
they may be so called, and it was carried
into execution at Lebonaron 20th Dec. It
is estimated that 100 of the insurgents fell
in the engagement, and 504 were made
prisoners. Kevsa, the Petangee, who first
commenced the insurrection, was observed
to be very actively encouraging his men to
repel mr. Mottman’s attack, and this man
was found among the killed. When the
prisoners were disarmed, mr. Motlman,the
Dutch resident (whose conduct merits
praise for courage and humanity) deliver
ed them ever to the military, in order that
they might be securely guarded to Indra
mayo. On their arrival there, they were
all put into a coffee store-house within the
fort, and the store-house surrounded with
centinels. In the course of the night it is
stated that an attempt was made on the
part of the prisoners to escape from con
finement—the soldiers oh guard fired upon
them, and, horrible to relate, it ended in
the masacre of about 500 souls, in cold
blood, by the military, under the orders
and in the presence of their own officers !
. Mr. Mottman did all that was in his power
to stop this dreadful sacrifice of human
blood, but without effect; no attention
seems to have been paid to his representa
tions, and he was obliged to submit, as he
himself declares, with feelings not to be
. described, to the spectacle of .an unarmed
multitude of poor misled creatures, whom
he had vanquished and made prisoners in
the morning, massacred by their guards,
commanded by two officers, one bearing
his Netherland majesty’s commission of
captain, and the other of lieutenant, under
the weak, inconceivable, and inhuman pre
text, that they could not be otherwise res
ponsible for the security of their prisoners,
or for their own safety.
Will it be credited that a number of un
armed wretches, confined in a secure leak
wood building within a fort should ever
think of attacking a military force surroun
ding them as guard.*:; and to whom they
had justKurrenilcred with their arms yet
in their hands? He must be credulous
indeed, who can bring his mind to be
lieve thus 1- It ever the truth comes
to light, it will then,” I am convinced be
found that an effort to give themselves
fresh air, quite natural to so large a body of
men confined in a building of comparative
ly small dimensions, the doors and win
dows of which were no doubt dosed for
security, was by tiie pusillanimity, if not
cruelty of their guards, considered as an
attempt to escape—and the scene of blood
once begun, the prisoners apprehending
what was to follow, made such resistance
as they had in their power, in the vain hope
of saving their lives. But let this be as it
may; those who remained alive from the
massacre were embarked in coffee prows,
and dispatched up the river to Canony
Samburg, and while on the river the second
act of the tragedy took place. An attempt
is said to have been again made by the
prisoners to escape and on this occasion
many more were sent to the other world to
join their companions in misfortune. In
deed, so insatiable appears to have been the
thirst for Javanese blood, that of 504 taken
prisoners by mr. Mottman, on the da} r of
engagement, but 113 arrived alive at this
place where they are. now in confinement!
“ Chidncore . 2ld Jav. 1817.
It is added that the Hutch had taken to
themselves great merit for the gallant con
duct displayed by their troops on this oc
casion. Poor Javanese ! what a dreadful
change of mitsterp have you experienced.
From the Columbus (Ohio) Gazette.
To the Curious. —Mr. Willoughby ink;,
Ornithology, gives an account of a goose,
which was knownto be eighty years 0 f
age. Had that goose annually produced
six goslings, two males and four females
had those goslings with their progeny cur’
tinued and multiplied in the same ratio til)
the eightieth year, at the death of the old
goose, what would be the number of herd*
scentanls? Were those geese arranged in
one straight line according to their a?
each occupying the space of a foot; hoy
long must the old goose live that she maj
visit her remotest ofispring, flying at the
rate of twelve miles an hour ? Again, what
sum of money would purchase those gees,
at 25 cents each ? Were the purchase
ney given in soli4 gold, allowing a cubit
inch to be worth 8177,11, and this gold
posited in the plane contained within
Herschel’s orbit, whose semidiameter j 9
1,803,584,599 mi.es, to what height would
the whole plane be filled ? Whoever will
answer these inquiries shall he entitled t
‘one of the goslings. zei.os.
iw* ’nmsygoinumm w-wewßWiwin
DIED. —In this town, yesterday morninj
mr. Vjj f or Uohet, by suicide.
■.•■n.flill- Hal nnnnM*!,. . | OTWMW MUX'RRZSUU*
Port of £>ahannal].
ARRIVED,
Sloop Katty, Carpenter, St. Mary’s.
cleared,
Ship Woodbine, Willet, Havre de Grace—£
Howard & co.
Ship Prudence, J-ield, New-York— C. If. Cc
peuter & co. •
Sloop Liberty, Gilbert, st. Mary’s— master.
The schr. Two-Brothers, Coakley, has arrbed
at Nassau,from this port.
Clearances for this port.
Brig Georgia, West, at Boston, on 22<! nit,
Aurilla, Hitch, New-York. 2(3ih.
Schr. President, Adams, Alexandria, Ya. 2/&
Vessels up for this port.
At Charleston, sloop Express, Hammett, was
to sail on the 3d instant.
At New-York, Nov. 26, brig Roderick, Har.
ding, to sail on the 27th.
At Boston, Nov. 24, brig Almira, Atwood, tn
sail with quick despatch.
Baltimore, Nov. 27.
Ar. brig Calypso, Neill, Port au Prince, 20ds.
sugar and coftee. Left schr. Jane, Fisk, from
Balt just ar ; schr. Ann Maria, for Bait, in 2 ct
3 days ; brigs Heroine, , for Norfolk, unc;
Margaret, late Ritchie, N. York in a few days;
Cosmopolite, Campbell, do. for Bordeaux; schs.
Lady Macdonough, Ingersoll, N. York in 2O ds;
Milo, Snow, N. Orleans, 0 ; Spartan, Johnson, K.
York, unc ; Eagle, Blackman, Philad. 20; Han
nibal, Norton, Wilmington, unc ; iioakby, Spin
ney, Portsmouth, s- h. do; Kising-sun, Gardner,
Philad. 8 days ; Paragon, Mackay, Boston, 3ds;
Hector, Holbrook, Philad. unc ; Gazette, forN.
York, do ; L'nion, for Norfolk, do. ; sellr. Elia
f’iglm, Wwtcr-'WR, XT Vrlr. f1i0L...’.-1/Jg*, had
run ashore on the x. s. end of Turks Island,” ses
tained but little damage, except loss of anchors
and cables. Passed oti Point Eemetine, bound
up, ship Rapid, of and for N. York. The schr.
Franklin, Fitz, from Balt, v.as spoke off the Mole
on the 24th Oct. bound to Aux t ayes. On the
18tli Nov. lat. 36, 14, lon. 75, 40, passed the sch.
Calypso, of Charleston, blowing fresh, could not
learn where bound. A number of other Amen
, can vessels left at Port au Prince, names not re
collected.
Cleared—brig Harriot, Cathell, st. Salvador;
schr. Sarah & l.ouisa, Murphy, Martinique.
Nov. 28.—Ar. sclu. Sampson, Powell, st. Jago
de Cuba, 16 days, sugar and coffee. Left brig
Fanny, Stevens, of Balt just ar. from windward;
ship Montgomery, of Charleston, for Turks Isl
and 1 in 5 or 6 days ; brig Gen. Jackson, Hambur
ger, for Philad. in 10 or I2 ; schr. Eliza, Tho
mas, 9 days from Norfolk, and a few others.
J hUadelphia, Nov. 27.
Ar. brig Betsey, Johns, Portland, I2 days;sch
Julia-ann, Johnson, do 1 2 ; Resolution, Mar
shall, New-York, 4; Orion, Champlin, do 5; Bel
vieiere, Cobb, Boston, 13 ; Comet, Hall, do 15;
sloop Sally, Chase, Newport, 7 days.
Below—ship Mercury, Singleton, I jvcrpooi
and dutch ship America', from Amsterdam.
Cleared—dutch ship Vrow Elizabeth, John
son, Amsterdam ; schr. Ann, Clark, Mobile.
New-York, Now. 26.
Ar. the british packet countess of Chichester,
Ki: kness, 49 ds from Falmouth, via Halifax, t
days, with the October mail; ship Eliza
Taubman, Dublin, 54, coal, bale goods, drill
passengers; schrs. Pocahontas, Sevbert, Ph&
delphia, 3 days ; Eliza &. Dorcas, Pugh, Wai
ington, c. 5 ; Aretas, Price, Philad. 3; Fas-
Play, French, Baltimore, 10 days.
Below last night—ship Albert Gallatin, ClaA
66 days from st. Petersburg, hemp andiron.
Cleared—ship Paragon, Halstead, N. Orleans
schr. Critic, Jeffrey, Halifax.
[J!y the schr. Henry & liobert, er. at Chartestei ]
NASSAU, Nov. 12.—Ar. his majesty's brill
Rifleman, capt. Huff, from Havana; schr. Tw
Brothers, Coakley, Savannah ; schr. Swift, Bali
New-Orleans.
Nov. 15—Sailed, schr. Two Brofliers, Sno%
for Halifax ; Speculation, Hester, for N. York
The schr. Do, of this port, Wm. Milk-r, mat
ter, from Philadelphia, was wrecked on Abaft
in the night of Friday the 7th inst.—the vessel
entirely lost —a small part of the cargo has be {S
saved, which with the crew and passengefs,ar
rived here on Thursday night last.
Nov. 22—A few weeks ago a schr. apparent?
bound for this port, w as seen by several persons
on this island, to be brought to and carried ort'm
another schr. which was at the time asserted
be the \ emis of this port, then on her pa*ap
to Jamaica, and whose arrival there has
mentioned in the Jamaica papers. It
now that the capturing vessel was a priw
trom Amelia, and the schr. captured, a Spam®
slave vessel from the coast of Africa, which j”
endeavoring to gain this port for safety- •>’
was carried lo Amelia, w here the slaves wit
sold, as report states, for 50,000 dollars
Cleared—brig Venus, Morris, v Orleans _
Boarding.
I.IROM s*x to eight Gentlemen c m hr :u p
tinted w ith hoard atui lodging in !l ‘ ‘" u *,-
pleasant part o the citv. Appl> to tin- |>n”
..ov 1* *n “
