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FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE G, 1828. The next session of the Legislature oi this State will be a very important one, and it behoves the people to exercise their utmost sagacity in the choice of their representatives. Over and above the usual business of legislation, in which every citizen is more or less interested, it will devolve on the next legislature to select eight Judges of the Superior Courts, Attorney General and Soli citors, and a Senator in Congress. With one or two exceptions, the present Judges will be candi dates for re-election; and were the question to turn upon the fitness of the candidates, the fidel ity and intelligence with which the present in cumbents have fulfilled all the duties of their offi ces, would, no doubt, secure to them almost a u nanimous re-election. But, unfortunately for our State, the foul spirit of party has insinuated itself into almost every department of government,, and in nearly every circuit, candidates have been an nounced, who place their highest pretensions to office on their adherence to a party. This is no as it should be. In this Circuit it is understood that the present incumbent will not be a candidate for re-election. In the middle Circuit Judge Schley will be op posed by Gen. Holt, of Augusta. And if tire peo ple of the Circuit, to whom he has given univer sal satisfaction, could decide the matter, there could be no doubt on whom the choice would rest. la the Northern Circuit it is yet rather uncor certain whether Judge Crawford will be a candi date for re-election, or whether he will compete with Gov. Troup for a seat in the Senate of the U. S. The Caucus at Athens must settle this matter. In the Western Circuit Judge Underwood will have two competitors, the late Judges Claj ton and Harris. There will be two competitors also tor Judge Kenan’s seat on the bench of the Oemulgee Cir cuit, Messrs. Thos. W\ Cobb and Eli S. Shorter. Judge M-Donald, of the Flint Circuit, will be opposed by Messrs. C. B. Strong and O. H. Prince. In the Southern Circuit, Judge Fort will be op posed by Mr. Holt. In the Chatahoochy Circuit, as Judge Colquit belongs the present dominant party, it is presumed he will be suffered to run in without competition. In all these cases, the Representatives of the people will have to decide between the of merit, the claim arising from past faithful service, and the claims of party. It is to be hoped, that the people will so far look to their own welfare, as to send such individuals to Milledgeville as will consult their judgments rather than their passions, and who will legislate rather for the whole state, than the confined limits of a particular sect. On Monday last, a very well favored woman, rather en- bon-point , of about forty, came before Justice Russell, dragging along with her, her bet ter half, in the shape of a tall, lanthern-jawed fel low, with a hook nose, standing about 6 feet 4 in his shoes, aged somewhat about sixty ; wbom she represented as the most faithless and incontinent of husbands, and prayed a decree of separation.— Is it not enough, 6aid she, that I have followed this abominable man all the way from Charleston on foot, but that I must now’ put up with his in fidelities, and pine away the live long night,while he is frolicking and junketing at places, where a decent man like him should be ashamed to show his face, and moreover, says she, as I loves him to distraction. Here she burst into a flood of tears. “Now your honor, says the husband, that s all stuff'. ’Tis she, the false woman, who has broken my heart w’ith her wickedness ; did she not con fess to me, not two hours gone by, that she had taken Patrick O’Donagon M’Shane.the strapping Irishman, to her bed and board, these two nights, to comfort herself in my absence! O ! the false jade!” Here the lady set up an hysterical giggle; she had, she said, told her husband that story merely to match him for his own vile conduct. “Was it so, my lambkin, says he, and was it all nonsense that you told me about the strapping Irishman, and you have not had him at all, my darling ?” The Justice advised them to kiss and make friends, which the parties consented to do on the spot, and went away,arm in arm humming Youngs love dream, &c. REPORTED FOR THE MERCURT. Tiie State, ‘j Charged with committing a violent assault and Battery vs. on William Wilson, a free man of color, on the 30 th day , Y’ork, a slave. J of May, in the City of Sa vannah, Chatham County, j At a Special Court of Magistrates, assembled for : the trial of the above stated case on Monday, June 2d, 1828. Present, Justices Russell, Chadbourn, and Valleac. The Court being duly organized according to law, and the Defendant appearing before it, the charge being read to him, to which he plead Not Guilty. The Prosecution wa3 sworn, who stated that, on the day he was working, with others, in the hold of a vessel screwing cotton ; that he had completed his w r ork, that the Defendant, also a laborer on board, was working upon deck handing the bales below by slmgs, that the Defendant threw down a bale while deponent was under the hatch-way, and was near being killed, and saved himself by the bale glancing, which he caused by shoving it in its fall; that witness enquired of defendant, why he had done it? To which he gave no satisfaction. Witness being irritated, believing he had a design in doing it, cursed de fendant. The defendant said to witness, “ Curse me, when you come on the wharf.” Witness, afler breaking off work, went on the wharf, where he met defendant and repeated to him what he had said before, when the defendant knocked him down by a violent blow with his fist, afterwards crossed his body and inflicted on him wounds and bruises, which disabled him so much as to prevent him from attending to his labor for a day or two. Here the Counsel for the Defendant took ex ceptions to the case proceeding any further, upon the ground that the prosecutor had no Guardian, and had not the power to institute a prosecution. The Clerk of the Court was called, who stated that no such a name as William Wilson stood of record in his office having a Guardian. The Prosecutor was called on to explain. He stated, that when living in the family of Mr. Wilson, where he was raised, he was called by those who knew him William Wilson ; that after wards he lived in the family of Mr. Warley ; that many called him efface William Warley, that he answers to each name, and is as frequently called by one as the* other. The Clerk stated, that Wil liam Warley stood on tire record as having a Guardian. The note of the Guardian to the Ma gistrate was then adduced, request ing a prosecu tion to be instituted against the defendant, and calling his ward's name William Wilson, alias Wilkam Warley. The Court adjudged that the exception should be sustained, and the prosecu tion dismissed—-Justice Russell dissenting to the opinion on the following grounds:— First —That in any course of the trial, this Court has power to amend the affidavit, because under the act of 1811, to establish a Tribunal for the trial of Slaves, the course there pointed out is general. Second—' That it never becomes a jurisdictional court until after an examination, has been gone through, and the offence is known; as for instance, the charge is felony ; if a larceny, then this court have jurisdiction; but if a burglary, they have not, but must send up their proceedings to ano ther and higher tribunal. And it could never have been intended that exceptions of this kind should be admitted as if under an Indictment in the Superior Court’ THE YANKEE IN GEORGIA. Mr. Printer , Sir—l keeps a boarding house in —— square, and most of the northern folks boards with me.— Yankees, you know, we call them, because as how they love molasses and hate brandy. They say you are a 6ir ; so if you have any friends who. wish boarding, please send them round to my house, where you may be sure they will be well attended to. But, as I was saying, I last winter had a yankee man staying with me, who was a very decent looking person, saving that he wore a bottle green coat of domestic manufacture, carefully repaired at the elbows, and his cravat— but I am never over perticiler about the dress of your yankee folks, because I know as how they pay their board regularly, and that is all I need look after. Well, as I was saying, this yankee man went to the up-country, and I never thought • syllable more of him, because, you see, he owed me nothing, and I reckoned as how he had a right to go where he pleased. But tother day when Nathan Cheatem-all, the pedlar,came down to buy goods, he brought me a large packet of letters, directed to Mr. lchabod Floggenbottom. of Blos somdale village, Vermont, with a request from my yankee boarder, that I should forward them on free of expense. Now, Mr. Printer, can you tell me where Blossomdale village is, and how 1 am to get these letters there, without paying postage? Is it on this earth, or in the West Indies, or the Moon ? Mr. Saveall, another yankee boarder of mine, advises me to have the letters printed in the Mercury, and then Mr. Floggonbottom can read them at the printing office, which is next door to his school-house, all for nothing. If you think so Mr. Printer, you are hereby requested to do it. Yours, To Mr. lchabod Flogginbottom, Schoolmaster Blossom-dale Village, Vermont . Dear Sir, I arrived here yesterday in the Rising States, from Providence, and was glad to get on shore j again ; tarnation sea-sick the whole voyage—and the darn’d mate kept stuffing me with fat porl and molasses—may the divil roast him. This is a famous great city—houses all in a row, and twice as big as the Deacon’s house on Gimblet-hill; but the place is all sand—nothing but sand—guess twould nt do for an onion patch. Did ever you year of dumb beasts who could talk, and people who could stand on the ground and jump over their own heads ? Guess nd. But the darn’d mate said, that,by paying half adollar, he would carry me where I could see the, and - too. So went to a place they call tie cir cus ; and a deuced droll place it was. Presently in there pame some half a dozen horses, witl boys on them, dressed out in jackets and pantaoons, and, by smart whipping, drove the horses several times round a kind of ring, and then they all lay flat down, like a drove of obstinate mules. Guess I teas bit. So I tried to get my money back again ; but the fellow at the door was too cute for me there. But I saw I was not alone in the scrape ; several hundred as much taken in as myself— some consolation in that. Y'ou have heard of Governor Troup ?—So have I. But, after all, he is not half so pugnacious as he was said to be. His whiskers are darn’d red, to be sure ; but then he is tarnation polite : And you may meet him any where in the street without any more danger of being run over or trod upon, than though you had met the holy camel of the Frophet, just from a pilgrimage to Mecca. But the people are all wonderfully polite in this climate. Yesterday I met wifti a little man who ; shook my hand as lovingly as though we had been friends for years. At first, I thought he had made ! a mistake, so I told him my name ; “ Ah ! my dear fellow, (says he), I am glad to see you ! how is the good woman and all the little ones ?” Could nt tell, for the soul of me, who he meant by the good woman and her little ones; but guessed he was some relation of old Peg Merooney, whd, you know, was lately taken up by the Select-men of our town. So, 6ays I, they are very well off. “ My dear Sir, (says he), I am glad to hear it- YVhat do you drink ?” Drink ? why cider, says I. With that he took me by the arm, in the politest way you can conceive of, and led me into a sort of tavern looking place, excepting that there was no tign post at the door, and called for two tum blers of cider, quite as nice as any we could have got at the Deacon's. I offered to pay half the reckoning ; but that he would’nt hear of. But, taking me by the hand, which he squeezed very affectionately, “ My dear fellow, (says he), I fiopo you will support me ?” To a sartinty, says I. But, could’nt, for the soul of me, guess what he meant. • So I just asked a decent looking person, that came in, who the little man was, with the brown coat and red face. “O, he is a candidate, (says he), and electioneering.” Electioneering, says I, and what is Jtliat ? “ Just treating people for their • votes, (says he); did’nt he squeeze your hand and , ask after your wife and children ?” Bless me, say3 I, I’ve got no wife; never went a-courting but • once in my life—and then Polly Picket put snow balls in my bed, and gave me the bag! My name is Roger Longfellow, all the way from Vermont. O, a Yankee doodle, (says he). But look, hero comes another candidate ; he with the black whiskers and big club.” True enough, came, as polite and open-hearted as the other. But it would have made your hair stand on eend just to have heard him curse the Tariff and damn Jack Clark. And who is Jack Clark, says I ? “He is the Dare Devil,” said the decent man. A kind of scarecrow’, I guess. Rut what a tarnation sight of brandy, and gin, and rum, and whisky, these electioneering folks drink! I saw the little man with the red treat forty-seven, of his particular friends in the course of the forenoon,—and, at each time, he took the strongest pull himself. He’ll get fuddled to a sartinty, thinks I. But no such thing: He kept himself as streight as a loon’s leg, and talked politics like a law’yer Could’nt guess w hat kind of an office it Was, for which he was recommend ing himself by such queer means. So I just asked a respectable looking man, in a cocked hat, to in form me on this subject. “ Grog-drinker General for the whole State of Georgia, by G—d, (says he), and there isn’t a man better qualified for the appointment!” Mighty queer offices they have in, this country, thinks I, hut it will suit him to a T. But, in the course o( the day, I met with at least twenty candidates, all equally well qualified for the appointment, my friend in the brown coat. You shall hear further from me in my next. Your friend and obedient servant, ROGER LONGFELLOW. Mr. Editor— l the other day strolled to a parti cular part of the city, known, I believe, by no oth et name than as the Town Commons, and remark able in some measure for the refreshing breeze — md at this season of the year, for the dclighful ‘lerdure of its appearance—with no companion tut my tobacco box and walking cane—where I seated myself in a secluded shady place on the green sward, and fell into a train of thought on the numberless evils to which mankind are expos ed and the toe ten thousand vicissitudes of for tune and health, which by our own acts, we so frequently bring upon ourselves. Whilst my mind was abstracted by these reflections, and almost in sensible to passing events, the breeze sighing sadly in my ear, and ever and anon some renega do fly settling himself on my face, I w r aa suddenly roused from my reverie by the appearance of the most tcrrifick being I had ever seen or imagined in the whole course ot my life—his stature w T as at least seven feet, and his body strangely proporti oned to it—he wore a pair of enormous red whis kers, and his mouth appeared large enough for a grocery-store —his eyes rolled horribly in their orbits of about two inches diameter—and his nose rose upon his face, at a kind of compound ratio to ordinary ones—he carried with kirn a large needle hanging from his coat collar, and a pair of sheers that would have honored the strength of a Samp son I was astonished and appalled at the dread ful figure, and remained motionless, gazing at him. Rise, 6aid lie, with the voice of a stentor—imme diately extending his herculpan arm towards my face, catching aiy nose between his finger and thumb, and suspending me in the air—at the same time holding his sheers with the other, so as to embrace my neck in the angle. 1 -could not speak, 1“ but sighed, and looked unutterable things.”— Base miscreant, said he, know that I am the Dea mon of party—that misrule, rage n.nd anarchy are the only laws that govern ine—consistency and plain dealing I despise—speak then, or hang till dooms-day; the command was no sooner given, than a low half-smothered guttural interjection issued from my mouth. I w’as dropped—and the Imp, as if delivered of an onerous load, appeared to relent ; for ho looked milder—l was relieved— but human pleasures are ol abort duration—for ere I could half ejaculate rny thanks for his mercy, the clouds of discontent and rage darkened his brow —his hair rose on end, and his whole body writhed as if in torment —his appearance forbade supplication, for reckless of my feelings he ex tended me suddenly at full length, and in a voice like thunder, commanded me to open ray mouth— at the same time placing his thumbs on each side of my jaws, and pressing with the vehemence of a madman —they separated, for he had touched the spring. Your tongue must Come out, said he—- then indeed all the miseries of human life stared me in the face, and the sweat run at every pore, for I was agonizing. I was not left long in sus. pense, for he again suited the action to the word, by thrusting the points of his sheers to the root of my tongue—they were sharp, and I knew it. I saw distinctly the handles closing—l closed my eyes—my struggles were useless—for with a slow unerring movement, the operation was performed. Your mouth must be sewed up, said he—for you must neither eat, drink, uor speak—the needle was immediately introduced—one murderous stitch was taken—l struggled, with more than human strength, to extricate myself—for the operation and consequences were too violent for human na ture, and with one violent and desperate exertion, 1 sprung from the ground, and stood erect—roared murder—witches—fiends and sheers. I looked around me, and soon found—it was only a Dream. C. W. WASHINGTON, MAY 26.—1n the Senate on Saturday, many private aud lo cal bills were passed; aud some time was spent in the consideration of Executive ; business. In the evening session, a motion to lake up the bill lor placing certain offi cers and soldiers on the Pension List was rejected. Some private bills were discus sed and disposed of. After 11 o’clock, the ; orders were laid on the table, and the Se nate went into Executive business. At 12, the Senate adjourned. The House of Representatives acted on many ol the Senate bills on Saturday, and closed their Legislative business for the session, soon after midnight. A vote of thanks to the Speaker was moved by Mr. S. VV right, which led to a few remarks on the uuusual character of the course ; but the discussion was arrested by the demand fur the previous question, and the resolu tion was passed by a vote of 111 to 28. A number of members declined votiug. The discussion of the reports*of the two Select Committees on Retrenchment and on the Assault, was postponed, as well as all fur ther proceedings on the subject of those reports. The two Houses of Congress terminated their legislative labours for the present ses sion, on Saturday night. The meeting this , morning is merely u pro forma matter; and before this paper will be in the hands , 0 f the greater part of even our city readers, the adjournment wijl have taken place. The House of Representatives were taken bv surprise on Saturday, by the unusual course of Mr. S Wright,, evidently ♦he re sult of concert and consultation, in moving a vote of thanks to the Speaker Such a resolution, at the first session of a Con gress, unless where the Speaker resigns his station, is entirely without precedent. It is true, that the leaders of the Opposition have omitted no opportunity, during the session which has just terminated* of ex pressing their universal and unqualified contempt of precedents ; and in this case they have given another practical illustra tion of that feeling. T. he Speaker has certainly merited the thanks of his party. Those thanks be has now received. But the people may be as much at a loss as we are to discover any extraordinary merit in his course, or ability in his decisions, which should call for so extraordinary mark of approbation. Did the Opposition party in the House consider it necessary to di rect and fix public opinion on the subject ! Did thev desire, by this course, to awe the people into that admiration which they might not voluntarily express! Was it in tended to convert the voice of the nation into a mere echo of party acclamation! We are justified in supposing that some such motive led to this movement; because we are utterly at a loss to perceive* in the career of the Speaker, any of those indica tions of mental superiority or political mag nanimity, which, of themselves, would be sufficient to warrant this procedure. [Journal. Alexander Macomb has been appointed by the President of the United States, with the advice and consent of the Senate, to be a Major-General in the Army ot the United States. The bill for abolishing the office of Ma jor General in the Army, which had pass ed the House of Representatives, the reader will recollect, was rejected in the Senate. The Senate accordingly proceeded on Sa turday, to consider the nomination of Gen. Macomb, which was made by the Presi dent some weeks ago. The injunction of secresy having been removed from the pro ceedings of Saturday, we are enabled to lay before our readers the votes which took place upon that question. The first vote was upon a motion of Mr. Eaton to lay the resolution on the table, which was decided as follows: YEAS—Messrs.Barnard, Branch,Chan dler, Cobb, Eaton, Ellis, Foot, Ilayne, Johnston, of Lou. M‘Lane, Macon, Parris, Rowan, Silsbee, Smith, of Maryland, Taz ewell, Tyler, Williams—lß NAYS—Messrs Barton Bateman, Ben ton, Bouligny, Chambers, Chase, Hend ricks, King, M‘Kiuley, Marks, Noble, Ridgely, Robbins, Ruggles, Seymour, Van Buren, Webster, Willey, Woodbury—l 9. The question then recurred on agreeing to the nomination, and was decided as fol lows ; YEAS—Messrs. Barnard, Barton, Bate man, Benton, Bouligny, Branch, Chambers, Clnise, Foot Hendricks, King, M‘Kin!ey, Marks, Noble, Parris, Ridgely, Robbins, Ruggles Seymour, Siisbee, Smith of Mi ryland, Thomas, Van Buren, Webster, Willey, Williams—27. NAYS—Messrs. Chandler, Cobb, Eat on, Ellis, Hayne, Johnston of Lou , Me Lane, Macon, Rowan, Tazewell, Tyler, Woodbury—l 2, The two important bills extending the countenance of Congress to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, received the signature of the President of the United States on Sa turday. A meeting of the subscribers to the stock of the Canal Company is adver tised to be held on Friday, the 20th of next month, to choose the officers of the Company. Intelligencer . The following extract of a letter to the editors of the Baltimore American, from a Member of Congress, furnishes information which cannot fail to be read with deep interest, — “ W ashington, May 24ih—The citizens of Ba timore must not infer from the fact of the House of Representatives refusing to pass the bill exempting from duty Iron and Machinery for Rail Roads, that there ex ists any other than the most fiiendly feel ings towards this important work. The fact is, that at the present session, Con gress have actually voted nearly half a million of dollars as an unconditional gift, to aid and encourage this great experiment. The duty, on bar iron is fixed at thirty seven dollars and fifty cents per ton ; while the duty on Kail Road Iron, which is no thing more or less than bar iron, drilled, cut and prepared to lay on the road, is spe cially exempted from the operation of the new tariff, and pays but twenty five per cent, duty or thirty seven dollars per ton—- at which price this correspondence with the Company proves they can obtain it in En gland. The duty will therefore be $9 1-2 per ton. which deducted from $37 1-2, leaves a clear grant to the Company of S2B 1-4 per ton, on 15,000 tons, or four hundred and twenty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. This argument was conclusive with the Representatives from the Iron Manufacturing States, who are 144 in uumber. There is a large ma jority of both Houses who will vote a sub scription of oue million dollars to the stock should the company require, or be wil ling to accept, the aid of Congress in the progress of the work.’* _ EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENTS. Extract of another letter to the Editors of the American, dated “ Washington, May 24.—The Senate has coufiimed the nomination of Gen. V\ m. Hinry Harrison as Minister Pienipoten tiary to Colombia. “ The nomination of Gen. Macomb, as Commander in Chief of the Army of the U. States, has beeu confirmed by the Se nate. “ General P. B. Porter is nominated, and will doubtless be confirmed Secretary gs War. M Mr. Watts, late Charge to Colombia, is nominated Secretary of Legation to St. Peteisburgh. ‘ Mr. Taylor, son of the late Col. Tay lor of Washington, is nominated Secretary of Legation to Cofombia. “ The bill increasing the compensation of the Medical Staff of tlie Navy, has be come a law. Also the bill allowing ten dol lars, additional pay per month, and one ra tion per day. to tiie Lieutenants of the Navy.” FROM ENGLAND. By the arrival of the packet ship Napo leon, Capt. Smith, who sailed from Liver pool on the 25th of April, the Editors of the Morning Courier have received their regular files of London papers to the 24th, and Liverpool to the 25th, all inclusive. We have only time to make a few ex tracts. The passage of the Pruth has been post poned on account of the weather. Russia and Turkey. —Though the Rus sians will not cross the Pruth till the be ginning of May, the delay is to be attribut ed to the state of the weather and the na ture of the country, and not to any change of determination on. the part of the Empe ror Nicholas. It is the opinion of the most well informed persons, that as the deter mination to enter on an offensive war a gaiust Turkey is so extremely popular throughout Russia, it will be almost impos sible to induce the Emperor to abandon that determination.--mornm^ p Chronicle, April 23. Portugal. —(Extract of a letter dated Lisbon, April sth) —If any thing could hi therto induce Don Miguel to defer the ex ecution of his designs, it is the certainty that the diplomatic body, with the excep tion of the minister of Spain, would protest against aa act so contrary to legitimacy, and that the representatives of the sover eigns would haxo the court of the usurper Evacuation of Spain — Bayonne , April B.—The general who commands this place received this morning a telegraphic des patch from Paris, ordering the French garrison of Pampeluna and St. Sebastian, to evacuate those places immediately, and to return to France. [From the Paris Quotidienne.] Frankfort , April 17. —[Private Corres pondence ] The following is a summary of the different accounts which are receiv ed from various quarters through commer cial channels : “A great quantity of transport ships and of flat boats, which had been successively assembled at Taganrog, Keisonand Odes sa, have arrived in the bay of Sebastapol, where the Russian squadron of the Black Sea is assembled. These ships, are, it is said, to take on board troops aud horses, which leads to the supposition that there is really an intention of landing on some of the coasts of Turkey. In case the chief army of the Russians cfoes nt invade Constantinople by the low er Danube, or proceed along the coast of the Black sea, the army is to be suppled with provisions by means of the squadrons and transports. It may be recollected that in the late war against Constantinople the Russian Cabinet conceived a plan of cam paign similar to this ; and which was partly put into execution PARIS, April 20.—The States of the Prussian Provinces of the lire have been convoked for a near period, in order ii is thought to demand a contingent of men and money. The following article, in allusion to Moore, is from a late number of the London Literary Ga zette. If any of our booksellers could lay his hand on a stray copy of this collection of lampoons, he might make a profitable job of it.—Lord Byrons Curse of Minerva, we believe, was first printed entire in this country.— Phil. Chronicle. “ Rumours are abroad of another illustrious bonfire in the world of letters. It is said that the elegant author of many-popular works had recent ly amused himself with writing a small volume en titled Familiar Epistles, from Captain Rock to his Majesty the King ; that this volume was printed and that the whole impression, 5000 copies) wa put into the flames on the eve of publication, in consequence of a legal opinion signed by a cer tain eminent barrister and Statesman to this ef fect j “ there is a libel in every sentence, and sedi tion in every page—no, not tbe whole impres sion, for strange to say, this story comes to us from Edinburgh, where our informant saw, and perused a copy now in the possession of an emi nent wit and critic of “ the north countrie.’— Our friend adds, that the suppressed work is a$ remarkable for its wit as for its wickedness. Capt Rock’s account of the breaking up of the late ca binet excited, in particular, his highest admira tion, and that chapter, he says, might be, and ought to be, given to the public. Anecdote of Mungo Park , —ln the case of Mungo Park, we have a striking illus tration of the use which Providence oft® l makes of the most trifling means to animate the mind. YV hen travelling in Africa be was seized by a bawditti, plundered and lift almost entirely destitute of clothing. “ 1° ibis wretched situation he sat for sometime looking around him with amazement and horror. In the midst of a vast wilderness; in the depth of the rainy season ; naked and alone ; surrounded by savage animals, and men still more savage; five hundred miles from the nearest European settle* ment.’ —all these circumstances crowded at once on his recollection, and no wonder his spirits (as he confesses) began to laid him. “At this moa<ent (says he) painful as my recollections were the extraordinatJ beauty of a small moss, in ft uctuation, irre sistibly caught ny eye. 2 mention d* ll (he adds) to show from what trifling cto cumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation; for though the whole was not larger than one of my fingeis, * could not conn mplate the delicate forP a * tion of the roots, leaves and capsula, with* out admi ation. Cau that Being, thought I, who planted, watered and brought perfection, in this obscure part of the I a thing which appears of so small inip° ance, look with unconcern on the situat> ott ß and sufferings of creatures formed us e I His* own image! Surely not? Refine* ■ tions like these, would not allQ' v Jo despair. I started up and both hunger and fatigue, travailed forwar assured that relief wa§ at hand ; aud I*l cot disappointed.”