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MOIINIXGS, MY
RAPPEL # BART LET,
On the Bay.
POETRY ~
[FROM TIIE If Y.EVKXING POST, MAY 29.
Sir Philip Sidney said, as Addison tells us,
that he never could read the old ballad of Che
vy Chase, without feeling his heart beat within
him, as at the sound of a trumpet. The follow
ing lines, which are to be ranked among the
highest inspirations of the Muse, will suggest
similar associations in the breast of the gallant
American officer.
THE AMERICAN FLAG.
When freedom, from her mountain height,
Unfurl’d her standard to the air,
She tore the azure robe of night,
And set the stars of glory there !
She mingled with its gorgeous dyes
The milkey baldric of the skies,
And striped its pure celestial white
With streakings of the morningl ight;
Then, from his mansion in the sun,
She called her eagle bearer down,
And gave into his mighty hand
The symbol of her chosen land !
Majestic monarch of the cloud !
Who rear’st aloft thy regal form,
To hear the tempest-trumping loud,
And see the lightning-lances driven,
When stride the warriors of the storm,
And rolls the thunder-drum of heaven !
Child of the Sun ! to thee ’tis giver.
To guard the banner of the free,
Tohcver in the sulphur smoke,
To warde away the battle stroke,
And bid its blendings shine afar,
Like rainbows on the cloud of war,
The harbingers ol victory !
Flag of the brave ! thy folds shall fly,
The sign of hope and triumph high !
When speaks the signal trumpet-tone,
And the long line comes gleaming on,
(Ere yet the life-blood, warm and wet,
Has diwm’d the glist’ning bayonet )
Each soidier’seye shall brightly turn
To w here thy meteor-glories burn,
And, as his springing steps advance,
Catch war and vengeance from the glance!
And when the cannon-mouthings loud,
Heave in wild wreaths the battle-shroud,
And gory sabres rise and fall,
Like shoots of flame on midnight’s pall !
There shall thy victor-glances glow,
And cowering foes shall sink beneath,
Each gallant arm that strike below,
That lofty messenger of death.
Flag of the seas ! on ocean’s wave
Thy stars shall glitter o’er the brave,
When Death, careering on the gale,
Sweeps darklcy round the bellied sail,
And frighted waves rush wildly back
Before the broad sides reeling rack,
The dying wanderer of the sea
Shall look, at once, to heaven and thee,
And smile to see thy splendors fly’,
In triumph, o’er his closing ey e.
Flag of the free hearts only home,
By angel bands to valour given!
Thy stars have lit the welkin dome,
And all thy hues were horn in Heaven !
For ever float that standard sheet!
Where breathes the foe but falls before us !
With Freedom’s soil beneath our feet,
And Freedom’s banner streaming o’er us !
CROAKER & CO.
Miscellaneous Selections.
THE BUTTERFLY IN CHURCH.
Last Sunday afternoon a butterfly ap
peared in the church. Borne on the wind,
the variegated stranger fluttered in, and
immediately attracted the attention of half
the congregation. The younger auditors
watched every motion, the older looked
occasionally at the insect, and even the
gravest cast an inquiring glance on the
beautiful stranger, as it wandered about
without any apparent object, now hovering
over the flowers of a bonnet, and now waft
ed toward the roses on some beauty’s cheek.
After a few vagaries of this kind, the but
terfly went out as it came in, through a
window.
Thi- little creature is a striking emblem
of a belle at church. Just like our butter
fly, the airy Milissa enters the house with
out a thought on the object of the assembly,
without a care except to see and he seen.
She too is the subject of universal notice,
as she glides gracefully to her pew. Nor
is site a whit more still, solemn, or engaged
in the business of the place. This lady’s
bonnet, that lady’s shawl, and yonder gen
tleman’s wealth, talents or looks, catch her
thoughts by turns for a moment, as her eye
rambles over the congregation, and her fan
often emulates the restlessness of the but
terfly’s wing. The hour past, she flits
away in like manner, the gaze of all the
fops, the nity of all the wise, and the envy
of all the weak girls among the audience.
Such it the beautiful, lively, acccnnipli*h
od,thoughtless Melissa, whom I shall nev
er ••• again on Monday, without thinking
of the butterfly iu church.
Columbia H. C. ‘ftl.
Beauty in England, France, and Italy.
BY M. STANDHAL.
ancona, (italy) may 27.
I met, at St Cirac, a Russian general, a
friend of Erfuth, who had just come from
Paris.
A physical peculiarity of the French
shocked my Russian friend very much :
the dreadful leanness of the most of the
danseuses at the opera. In fact it seeing
to me, on reflection, that many of onr fash
ionable women, who are extremely slen
der, have caused this circumstance to enter
into the idea of beauty. Leanness is, in
France, considered necessary to an elegant
air. In Italy, people think, very rationally
that the lirst condition of it is the air of
health, without which there is no voluptu
ousness.
The Russian is of opinion that beauty is
very rare among the French ladies. He
maintains that the finest figures he saw in
Paris were English women.
If we take the trouble to count in the
Bois de Boulogne, out of a hundred Frenclu
women eighty are agreeable, and hardly
one beautiful. Out of a hundred English
women thirty are grotesque, forty are de
cidedly ugly, twenty tolerably well, thro’
moussadas, and ten divinities on this earth,
from the freshness and innocence of their
beauty,
Out of a hundred Italian women, thirty
are carricatures, w’ith lace and neck bes
meared with rouge and powder ; fifty are
beautiful, but w ith no other attraction than
an air of voluptuousness ; die twenty oth
ers are of antique beauty, the most over
powering, and, in our opinion, surpass
even the most beautiful English women.
English beauty seems avaricious, without
soil and life, beside the divine eyes which
Heaven has given to Italy.
The form of hones in the hand is ugly at
Paris ; it approximates to that of the mon
key, and it prevents the women from resist
ing the attacks of rtge. The three most
beautiful women of Romane are certainly
more than 45. Paris is farther north, and
yet such a miracle was never yet observed
there. I observed to the Russian general
that Paris and Champagne w'ere the parts
of France where the configuration of the
head partakes the least of beauty. The
women of Pays de Veux (in Normandy)
and of Arles (in Provence) approximate
more to the beautiful forms of Italy. Here
and there is always some grand feature,
even in the heads of the most decidedly
ugly. Some idea may be formed of this,
from the heads of the old women of Leon
ardo da Vinci, and of Raphael.
As to male beauty, after the Italians we
give the preference to young Englishmen,
when they escape clumsiness.
A young Italian peasant that happens
to be ugly, is fright ful ; the French peas
ant is silly; and the English is vulgar.
The conversation at a party turned up
on the duration of connubial happiness,
and various anecdotes were related of
couples living in harmony together for
nearly half a century. At length, some
one observed, that he knew a pair who had
been married upwards of fifty years, and
that the husband, who was the survivor,
had assured the relator, that they never
exchanged a cross word during the whole
period. “What think you of that,my lord ?”
said a gentleman to a worthy Scotch pre
late,who was mute during the former part
of conversation. “Wiiy, sir, (replied his
lordship, in the true scotch accent) I think
it must a been very dool” (dull.)
THE BEGGARS’ GALA.
To the Editor of the Sporting Magazine.
Sir —An old fellow, but a particular
friend, well knowing 1 have a predilection
to witness any thing of a novel nature, pre
vailed upon me the other evening to visit a
house in the vicinity of St. Giles’, famous
for the resort of beggars : he had been there
frequently, and of course was awiare how
to act. Having attired ourselves in a suit
able manner, we set out, resolved to engage
a hackney coach a part of the way, but soon
found it impossible, being ridiculed by every
coachman. After some difficulty howev
er, we arrived, and were surprised to hear
a violent commotion in the room above.
\ly friend instantly acquainted me that
they were only changing their clothes
to prepare for supper ; both males and fe
males dressed, he said, indiscriminately in
the same apartment, each having a box for
clothes. Iu about ten minutes supper was
announced, and we proceeded upstairs;
judge my astonishment f From forty to fif
ty men and women, of the most strange
appearance, were seated at table, some of
whom I remembered in the streets. My
friend instantly commenced, speaking slang,
and as 1 did not understand how to express
myself in the attic style , he introduced me
by saying I was a good one from the coun
try, but lately had a ruffer (bad job,) and
was out of (£. The supper consisted of
boiled beef, vegetables, mutton chops, beef
steaks, and likewise two lasge apple pud
dings. The plates were pewter, and all
the knives and forks chained to the table,
yet ho judiciously that a person could use
them in an agreeable manner: but the
noise created by the chains reminded me
id a regiment of soldiers exercising with
swords. To complete the scene, a fellow
was seated in a kind of pulpit, to observe
nothing was embe/./.lcd, and particularly
that no one pocketed any provisions. Al
ter all were apparently satisfied, the roa
tram gentleman put a question to the chair
man in the cant phrase, which was answer
ed in the affirmative. (I did not under
stand it.) Instantly the table was let
down to the room below, which so intimid
ated me, that I was in the act of rising.
But my friend seized my arm, and told
me to remain tranquil. 1 began to suspect
a fancy trick on foot, which once was un
fortunately played upon me ; however, it
proved nothing more than for the purpose
of clearing the table, for in a few seconds
it was icplaccd, and the question put
meant “it all had done.” After supper
some ale, others gin, or porter,
and each produced the sum collected dur
ing the day. One man had a pound in
copper, another ten shillings, and none
less than five. They now recounted the
tricks they made use of, and the effect
they had on the public—were all acquain
ted with magistrates in town, and descri
bed several in the most ludicrous way.
They are a corporate body, and have laws ;
and I was admitted a member for which
honor I gave a pot of porter, and a penny
to their own bishop, as they called him, for
inserting my name—(he was once a parish
clerk, and (he only one of their friends
who could write.) When solicited for my
name, I said Jaclc Sprat, which excited
laughter; and the president, after giving
the health of mr. Sprat, shook hands with
me, and trusted I should soon prig the
London cocknies.—Each individual gave
one shilling and six-pence for supper, and
an half penny to the waiter. The liquor
w’as paid for as it came in. We remained*
three hours, and I oenfess I was much a
mused with the select party.—Yours, &c.
AMICUS.
Bedford Square, Feb. 4. 1819.
P. S, Every one resumed his old attire
before he departed from the house, and
each individual left it separately.
Sporting Magazine, Feb. 1819.
Foreign News.
from the char, times, 11th inst.
KINGSTON, JAM. MAY 7th.
Letters were yesterday received in this
place from Curracoa, which state that Bri
en’s squadron, composed of nearly 20 sail,
which had sailed from Margarita for Cu
mana, had experienced a severe gale, in
which the whole squadron had been either
dismasted or otherwise injured, and that
the commodore’s ship had with great diffi
culty succeeded in returning to Margarita,
with 6 feet water in her hold. These let
ters add, that out of 800 British troops
which had arrived at that Island, 200 had
already been carried oflby disease,although
it is considered the most healthy of the
VVest-india islands. Other advices say,
that Bolivai was completely paralized in
his military operations.
KINGSTON, MAY 18.
By the arrival af H. M’s. ship Sapphire,
in 12 days from Porto Bello, vve have, re
ceived the following intelligence ; It ap
pears that a force of 1000 or 1200 men,
commanded by gen. Hore, began their
march on the 28th ult. from Panama for
Porto Bello, and on the Ist inst. attacked
the place while the Insurgents were in bed.
M'Gregor escaped with great difficulty,
in his shirt, by jumping out of a window
20 feet high, and to save his life ran to the
shore, jumped into the sea, and swam to a
schooner, from which he was conveyed to
the brig Aero. In the action about 100
men were killed and wounded, and gen.
Lopez and col. O’Hara lost their lives.
Nearly 300 Insurgent troops and 70 offi
cers were taken prisoners and sent to Pan
ama—only 12 escaped. The Insurgent
squadron left the port during the confu
sion.
Another account says—On the 50th
April gen Hore attacked M’Gregor’s force
at 6 o’clock in the morning, and surprized
it, but he had the good fortune to escape
by leaping from a window of the govern
ment house, 20 feet from the ground. The
foolish adventurers who followed his stan
dard, have been all either killed or taken
prisoners and their baggage has fallen into
the hands of gen. Hore—7o officers and
300 privates were taken prisoners and
marched off’to Panama. M’Gregor, who
k nows much better how to leap than to be
a military commander, instead of retiring
to the fort and there defending himself,
abandoned his men and escaped on board
of a vessel. The insurgents kept up a
brisk fire of cannon and musketry, but the
Royalist 9 experienced very little loss. Gen.
Hore was to leave Porto Bello for Chagres
on the 3d of May, and would then return
to Panama to give same rest to his brave
troops.
Extract of a letter from Porto Bello, dated the 4th
of May.
“On the night of the 30th ult. the Span
ish forces from Panama, commanded by
gen. Hore, marched into the neighborhood
of this city, intending to make an attack
at daylight on the town, in conjunction
with colonel Santacruz’s division, accord
ing to previous arrangements—This divis
ion, however did not arrive as soon as was
expected, and general Hore was in conse
quence about retiring when it appeared—
and at f> in the morning lie entered the
town without the smallest opposition.
The Spanish troops occupied at the same
time,all thedilVercut posts — the Insurgents
who were exercising in the square, were
immediately attacked, and the greater part
of them compelled to surrender—colonel
O’Hara received two bullets in his groins
as be was going into the Fort, and was ta
ken prisoner—-lie died the second day af
ter lie waa put into thu hospital. M'Ure-
gor was in bed at the time of attack, and
to escape leaped from a window into the
street, ran to the shore and swain on board
the brig Hero. Gov. Lopez, who slept
in the next room, was killed in bed. Col.
Baster, with a lew fellows retired to a fort
on the beach, where, being attacked by the
Royalists he was compelled to surrender.
—The loss of the Insurgents amounts to
30 killed and about 50 wounded. The
Spanish lost only 4 men, which must be at
tributed to M'Gregors having been com
pletely surprised, on account of not having
a single centinel or piquet stationed out of
town. Seventy three officers were march
ed off to Panama, and gen. Hore, after ma
king all necessary arrangements respect
ing the disposal of his forces & the security
of the prisoners, returned to Panama by
way of chagres. The greatest care has
been taken of the wounded and sick.
After the capture of Porto Bello, gen.
Hore issued a proclamation, promising to
provide those of the prisoners who were
mechanics with the means of following
their respective trades ; and all of them
have been treated with great humanity.”
COMMERCIAL.
FROM THE CHARLESTON TIMES, JUNE 10.
FROM THE HAVANA.
By the ship Pierce-Manning, capt. Campbell,
we have received from our correspondent Ha
vana papers to the 31st May, and a letter, cf
which the following- is a copy:
HAVANA, MAY 31.
“I sent you a Price Current of the 22d inst.
per the Roderick, via Savannah, w ith corrections
up to the 28th inst Coffee continues to droop,
and prime parcels have been offered in the mar
ket at §2O£ —§18 and 20 is a fair quotation of
the_d_ay. Rice is enquired for and has a good
prospect—Also Beef and Codfish. The drought
~bks been excessive throughout the country, so
much so, that the planters are at a non plus how
to feed their negroes—this, together with the
extreme high price and scarcity of jerked Beef
is the cause of the present demand for provis
ions—within this day or two past some light
rains have fallen; though the Coffee estates
have suffered much, and we apprehend has
caused a failure of the last and principal blos
som ; consequently the coming crop es Coffee
will be small.
By the arrival of a packet from Santa Martha,
some rumours have spread that Porto Bello is
in possession of Sir Gregor M’Gregor, and that
Lord Cochrane’s fleet is at Panama. Informa
tion on this subject is so difficult to be obtained,
that I will not vouch so- the veracity of what 1
communicate. His catholic majesty’s ship of
the line Asia, arrived here hesterday from Vera
Cruz, likewise a frigate from Cadiz.: they bring
nothing important.
The brig Catharine, of your port, capt. Wells
man, has arrived from Gibraltar in 44 days, is
discharging, and will sail for Charleston in the
course of next week.
Nothing has ever been heard of the Legal
Tender, it is very much feared that she is lost,
and that all on board have perished.
Our city and harbor is very sickly, and cases
of the most malignant nature occur daily'. Mr.
John Lynch, of the house of Lynch & Martin,
of this place, was buried yesterday. The wea
ther is extremely hot, and we fear it will be a
fatal season for foreigners in this place.
Enclosed you have papers and prices current,
to which I refer for the general state of our
markets.”
Beef, cargo, bbl §l6 a 17, prime', do. 19 a
20—Butter, yellow, per qq 20 a 26—Cheese,
Holland, do 14 a 18 : do English, do 20 ; do A
merican, do 12—Candles, sperm, lb 5 a 5$ rials;
do mould sixes onlyrper qq §2O a 24—Codfish,
qq §6 4 rs. a 7 4 rs—Flour, superfine Philadel
phia, bbl 16 4rs a 17 ; do Richmond, 15 4 rs;
do N. Orleans, 13 4 rs a 14—Hams, per qq 20 a
23 —Lard, do 16 a 20—Pork, cargo, bbl 20; do
prime bo 22 a 28—Rice, per qq 5 4 rs a 7 4 rs—
Soap, Am. do 10 a 12—Boards, M. feet, §26 a
30—Hoops, per M. 30 a3s—Pitch, per 11b. 5 a 5
4 rs —Tar, do 4 4 rs—Spirits Turpentine, per
qq §lO a 12. Exports —Coffee, Ist qual per qq
§2O 4 rs ; do 2d qual 18; do 3d do triage 14 a
15—Molasses, per keg, 9 a 9£ rs—Sugar, mus
per atToba, 17rs a2 1 r; do brown, 1 6 rs a 1
7rs; do white, 2 6 rsa 3—Segars per 1000 §9
a 12.
Our Havana papers contain accounts of the re
capture of Porto Bello by the Royalists, which
had been received in that city by way of Jamai
ca. These accounts agree with those given by
capt. Fleetwood, who arrived at Baltimore, and
which we published yesterday. The Spaniards
give gen. M’Gregor great praise for jumping,and
drily say that nature formed him rather to jump
than command. In this affair gen. Lopez and
col. O’Hara were killed. The first in bed, and
the ‘latter in attempting to enter the fort, re
ceived two balls through the body.—Particulars
tomorrow.
The Markets, says the N. Y. Gazette*
are supplied with an unusual abundance of
every thing for the season, and it has been
supposed that the prices would have been
something like the limes.—The scarcity
of money and the difficulties of trade must
very soon affect the necessaries of life.
The Baltimore markets, says the “ Par
trlot” of that city, are about 25 per cent,
higher than those of Philadelphia and New-
York—And the Charleston markets are
worse than either. Ought these things to
tie P
Priceat Georgetown, June 9.—(’of ton,
I Acts; Rice, prime, §3; middling. H 2 H 7;
Flour, Philadelphia, 10; Fayetteville, 10;
Cum 75 cents.
S.l VAXXJIU.
TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 15, 1819.
THE qUIZICONONLItIA,
By Fudge FufFendorF, Esq.
[ln this number squire Pvffendorf laketh a hold
stand, a nd tpeukefh concerning war and blood .
shed, m n i tyle becoming the dignity of his office,
lhs zeal waxeln hot ,- but, {after the manner of
other godly people ) he venteth it in words, and
cometh to himsef again —Tobias j
1 here is nothing In the wide world, but con.
tiuuid war and unceasing hostility. Even the
very elements of nature, seem compounded from
the jarring principles of opposition ; whose re
pelling influence sets at defiance the laws
peace and order. Every particle of inanimate
matter seems te delight in the ruin and destruc
tion of its fellow. I have seen the lightning c f
heaven dart fury to the bosom of the earth;
whose angry bowels belched forth again columns
of liquid fire and burning lava, with mighty noise
and bellow ings, that drowned the feebler thuu
der of the clouds. 1 have seen outrageous tor
nadoes, and merciless tempests, that drove ru.
in over the face of nature; and marked the
rudeness of the mountain peak, that grinned in
mockery, in the face of the storm. Earthquakes
and inundations, have swept regions to oblivion,
and conflagrations have levelled the pride of the
forest.
All animal being, seems likewise compounded
from the same hostile ingredients, and alike im
patient of peace. Every species is at war with
its neighbor, and every element is a field ofbat
tie. The eag-le preys on the inhabitant of the
air, and the tyger lives by slaughter on the earth.
I'be shark, the pike, murders, under water, and
the mole under ground. And man— reasonably
man !—wages interminable and merciless war on
them all! and on himself! Every being that
breathes, seems to be his destined prey, and
every particle ofelay that composes this wicked
w orld, appears deeply steeped in the blood of
his victims. His highest sport is the death of
innocent and unoffending beings; and even his
meal is tasteless unless it savor of blood. Yet it
is not alone all this, that weighs most heavily
upon him. His appetite for slaughter is not
glutted with all these butcheries. Like the fa.
bled monster, he preys on himself, and drinks,
the current from his own veins. I have seen
the father fight against son ; bro Jier against bro
tlier, and the mother slain by the hand of her
own offspring. Mothers have destroyed their
children in the cradle, while the milk of their
breasts was yet in them ; and children have rai
sed their hands against the parent, whose limbs
trembled with the palsy of age, and whose “ head
blossomed like the almond.” There is nothing.
in the wide world, but continual and unfeeling
war!
The old man, trembling on the very verge of
the grave—who turns to bid a last farewell, to
the friend of seventy years, quarrels with hint
about the baubles which children play with.
And I have seen the little urchin, just launched
into time, also quarrel with the breast from,
which it was drawing life. This spirit ofhostility
seems to fill every bosom, and operate in all the
departments of life. In the mighty man, it is
lauded and laurelled on the field of victory; and
in the humble one, it is punished on the gibbet.
At one time, it is seen at the head of armies,
stalking over thousands of the dead and dying—
-8; at another,displayed in the terrible wringing
of noses, and the pulling of hair! Among the
votaries of honor it murders the friend in a
duel; and among married people, it breaks out
in logomachy, and the ringing of cups and sau
cers !
And, were it not, that I myself, am reckoned
of that number, I could very well tell what old
batchellors and moralists quarrel about. But
that I may be spared for the further edification
of my readers, and the good of the public gen
erally, I shall be merciful to them all, for my
own sake—which act of clemency I hope they
will give me credit for.
Capt. Dexter, of ihe schr. William, arrived
last evening, states, that the markets at Port-au-
Prince were very low, and overstocked, except
the article of Lumber, which was in demand.
Coffee was in market in considerable quantities*
but the many purchasers, (particularly for the
European market) kept the price up, and it
could not be bought for less than 36 sols, which
price was expected to continue for some time.
Baltimore Telegraph, Juried, ,
NEW-TOEK, JUNE 3-
Sailed} Yesterday afternoon, the elegant ship
Martha, Sketchlev, for Liverpool, with the fol
lowing passengers: mr. Thos. Woodhead, of
Xew-york ; niessrs. Shuter, Scott, and Pattin
son, of Montreal; mr. Capper, of Birmingham;
mr. Longsdon, of Leeds; mr. Gray, of Liverpool;
and niessrs Jones, Wilmot and Thompson, ot
England.
Also, ships Griswold, for Lon
don ; Rebecca, Miner, New-orlcans ; l)cbby-&-
Kli/a, Sprague, Rotterdam; U. S. brig Enter
prize; brigs Eunice, Sterling, Charleston;
M Pelham, Schuler, Lisbon ; Penelope, Doyle.
St. Andrews; ship Telegraph, Sutton, Clmih'>-
ton ; and several others.
Passengers in the Cincinnati!*, for London :
ntr. Philipps, the vocalist, lady and servant mr-
George Waite, ami mr. Thorburn, of <**” c,t > :
mr Hams, mi Blake, mr Hewlett, ami m’
M’Guflie, of laimlon, and 20 in the ataeraip*
The elegant new altip .Rlapliania, capt ~“ r c
sailed in the afternoon for Havre —John
Aator, e*q. is a j*u#a*’iiger in her.