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COMMERCIAL.
SAVANNAH EXPORTS.
Per ship Henry Kneelund, for Liverpool C 52
biles Upland and C-l bales Sea Island Cotton.
Savannah. Friuay, June 2G. 16*2'.).
Paeon, o’ 1-4 -i 7 1-2 cents per b.
“ slams 8 a
Flutter, 1c a ‘2O cts. per lb.
“ Xn rthcnf, i oft rio r qua lity, 10 a 13
Ikavij tc. Dundee <y Inverness, 21 a 2*2 cts.
• ° Tow, It) 1G 1-2.
Brand,], Cognac, Olurd , Dupuy $• tvs. brand , 1
50 a l 60.
*• other brands, $1 a 120—dull.
Cotton. Uplands, 71-2 a 1) I*2 cts
“ Sta Islands, 10 a 22, and above for far.
brands.
Cm no cargo sales, retail 48 a 50 cts.
Quest, none
bochcrij, *.io a 35 per cent. adv.
ftijftc, flurarm Green, prime, 14 \-2 a 10,
olio r qualities 11 u 13, sales.
Candles, Northern Movld Tallow, Vo a 11 cts.
“ Georgia, 1G
“ Sperm, 24 a25 !
Rur. Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond and j
Alexandria, $7 a 7 25.
Camden 5 1-2 a G
Pin, Holland, 50 a 110 1-2
‘‘ Northern, 23 a 30
tL-J prime Northern, Ist quad. 70 sahs
h]ivn Tea $lO6 a 110 per lb.
IrU, Saule s SIGG a IUo per ton.
L*</. (i a 7 cts. ‘
pgriirr, yellow pine Ranging Timber, $3 1-3 a 4 I
Steam sawed Lumber, SIG a 17
Pinr Lumber, Boards, PlugsScantling
$ 12
Quartered If inch flooring Boards, 14
II kite Pine Boards , clear , 17 a 18
Merchantable, $1) a 10
jf 0. llugshcads Staves, .sls a 18
fiO. “ 10 al2
Magics, rafted , 2 1-2
“ boated, ‘‘ 3
M rd,Ao. 1, sol*4
“ 2, ssl-4
* 3, $4 1-2
Classes, IV. India, 28 a 30.
‘ Neir-Orleanf, noge
knabuTghs, 9 a 10.
prime, sl l
Mess, 13 50.
sorter, $3
, $2 a 2 75.
pK>n, Jamaica, 90 a 112f. •
• “ II (st India 46 cts.
A. England, 32 a 35 cts.
yip, yellow, 0 a 8 cents per lb.
‘ V;i b cargo sales 40 cts.
*& !tTS i Havana, white and Brown,
Masco cuda, 0 a 9 1-2 St. Cropt, 10 a 101
Neir-Orleans, $8 a 6 1 2.
Mned Leaf, lti 12 a 16 1-2— Lump 15 a 1G
l,cl f° > Kentucky, Georgia, §c. 2;{ a 4 cts.
„ “ Manufactured do 0a 30
*mw-8 a 0
in bbls. *2O a 27.
in hds. 25 a 2Gc.
EXCHANGE.
V ‘"p. ? f Hlp. ff. pm. Darien Bills , par.
• \-2pr. ct. jV. Carolina S.B. Notes,
I,J M) (Is o-8 a $ 5 per rt dis.
Vo. (,0 ds l Stutc Bank of Georgia,
JJY 1 do b prem payable at the Branch
rs ‘U.LqdiiQ “ es other than Augusta
C" moTC ,l and Millcdgevillc, 1 a
Vi 11 pr c. dis. per ccjit. dis.
TSL$ s% 2-Bah\
?M. “ j
r ‘ FREIGHTS.
I-2d ‘ | JY. York. 1-2 ct. per lb.
1-8 a 1 1-4 e. j Providence, 5-0 ct.
Remarks.
. r UTnN\—Vve haye another dulj week all
°f Cotton; the sales ic Uplands will
; y amount to 1200 bags, at all prices from
mostly at 71-2 to 8. The prices of last
f ‘ nave been generally maintained, though
e ~.a rc and go off more heavily, and in one
hi f * ns ances a reduction of 1-8 to l £ pent has
jK cl , n fc 4nuttedTo on middling descriptions. The
fc, ‘ er Qualitities are getting scarce, and will yet
] s j r is downward. The transactions in Sea
If w Ji ia X e been fc'Jited/a lew parcels for tiio
*y t f ,n y r ke: have been picked up at JG a 17.
our quotations at 1( a 20.
lf u . K V* e have rio sales ol Rice worth
tu,,! I ’'® saice our fast; we continue our quota
s old rates.
J Li ,ITai —Liverpool l-2d. dull. To France
uqvh* 1 "1 cent. To New Ifork 1-2 cent. To
- .
. to rent;
THE two stores adicining the Cit,
]i|bgL Hotel, under of Mrs.*
Miller’s. Poseessioh given immedi-
apply t'o
I ?ri , 17 Rbilbrick & Baker.
We have scarcely ever witnessed a severer
thunder storm, than occurred ixr this city yester”
day, between 12 and 1 o’clock. Fur about half
an hour, the flashes of lightning were incessant,
and the peals of thunder presented a continuous
roar, which seemed to shake the very foundations
of thy. earth. A small house in Baptist Chutch
Square, was struck by the
electric fluid, and Mrs Riley, with her infant in
her arms, who was standing near the fire place,
was instantaneously killed. The schooner Sarah.
jane, lying at the wharf, at the upper part of the
city, received considerable injury. Slight injury
was also done to the Mill opposite the
city.
Atrocious Murder. —Malholm Dickinson, the
pyerse.er of Joseph Stiles, Esq. was on the 15th
instant, murdered on Green Island, 17 miles from
this city, by three negroes belonging to Mr. S.
The circumstances attending this murder, as far
as they have transpired are.—Mr. Dickinson,
when in the field, was attacked by a boy about
IG years of age, who struck him on the head se
veral blows with an axe; a girl about the same
age, named Jane, being present at the time, aid
ed him with a hoc— a fellow advanced in years,
acting in the capacity of assistant driver, (at the
distance of 100 feet, from the scene,) as soon as
t t was ascertained that Mr. Dickinson had been
despatched, came up and assisted in burying the
body in the marsh, about 200 feet from the spot
where the murder was committed.—These parti
culars are from the acknowledgment of the ne
groes themselves, who pointed out the place
where they buried the body. The three murder
ers have been arrested and lodged in jail—an ex.
animation before a Special Court of Magistrates,
will take placp tips evening.— Republican.
[The tlpee Negroes mentioned above, were
brought up before Point, Petty, Valleau
and Beers, lgst evening, and recommitted for
further examination ]
FOR THF SAVANNAH MERCURY.
Mr. Bartlett: —To substitute ridicule for argu
ment, and loud talking instead of proof, are no
new expedients. I have known many a knotty
question settled by pitching the voice in alto,
*1 on reason and common sense had been in vain ‘
brought tc bear upon the point mezzo vocc.
If I thought ygur correspondent, Servitus, waj !
really so happy as to be satisfied with the manner
in which he has settled the question of the utility l
of Infant Schools, in your paper of the 24th, I
would by no means attempt to disturb his tranqui
lity by a single remark, rather leave him to ‘
the quiet contemplation of that far famed, and ofl . t
re pasted poetical maxim,
“ When ignorance is bliss ’Lis folly to be wise.”
But common charity calls upon us for a different
conclusion, and induces me to hope that the vyhole
matter oft his part was intended as a mere jeu j
d'espril—one of those hasty ebulitions that often
oppress aplive imaginations, during the present i
altitude? of the mercpiy—and wlich can only find :
vent through the medium of type. The first line
of his communication is fraught with a very salu
tary confession— <; Not knowing any thing of this
institution”—and might, with great propriety,
hvae been repeated at the end. Were I disposed
to ring the changes upon his favorite epithets of
t; puppets, dogs, pigs and mechanical |
ces,” therp is no knowing where retributive jus- ;
tice might some qf them to alight, or what
kindred might be claimed, to the disturbance of
his nervous equanimity.
Servitus seems higly scandalized that “the little
things rise at a single sign.” And why? For
sooth, because puppets can be made to do so by
means of a wire. Good!—Let us hear further:—
“They all sing a hymn—so can hand-organs.” — *
Aha!—That is a novel position, and if he can il- ,
lustrate it by practical proof, his fortune is made. ;
l should myself be glad of an introduction to one
of these hymn singing hand-organs. The next
offence to the delicate sensibility of our friend is
the scene of “the cent and Die ten command
ments.” The charge is of so complicate a charac
ter, thatT am hardly able to determine whether his
objection lies to the first or the last words of the
paragraph, or whether the iniquity consists in their
unfortunate combination; wc are, however, some
what assisted to a conclusion by an estimate of
the value conjointly—that is, something under
the smallest coin we have in commsn use—the
specification of charge however .ceems after all to
be this, that children are “taught the lgpsoji ”
If this is to be received in evidence at all, it woul,d
strike af the root of every acquirement, and prowe
botli Servitus and myself nearly allied to the
popagai species—the legitimate green par#kcct
el South America, that will never learn without
beating. We are doomed throughout this piece
to enconnter difficulties. Scarcely are we per
mitted to breathe after the happy, though labori
ous extrication from the former dilemma, when
w<3 are assailed with the plaintive wail—“ They
say the multiplication—so can dogs and pig3 ”
Ungenerous man! thus to puzzle us with new
intricacies at. turn. W r e know not indeed
where the blame is to attach. To the children
for learning the multiplication table, or to the
dogs and pig3 for doing so, or to
animals indeed can prove themselves, cither in
propria persona, or through their advocate Servi
tus, to be good arithmeticians, I am glad of it
♦vail all my heart, and they shall hsve due credit;
but I will not abate one ounce of intelligence from
isy children on that account; 4’ shall still consider
the useful rule*of multiplication as orthodox in my
arithmetic, until I look further into the matte-*, &
find some reason why children should not know
as much about figures as any quadruped whate
ver. But the “unkindest cut of all,” <fc that which
wounds the humanity of your correspondent most
j—} auppoßt Uue bam the chNumaUnce oi hie re*
THE ARGUS.
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY MORNING, JUt-Y 2, 182|.
serving it for his last attack upon the strong hold
of our sympathies—is the manner of “settling
quarrels iA Infant Schools”—as he cites it—name
ly by kissing. At first view wc are led tc wonder
at his sensibility, and to cry Cut at once that this
:s a very ancient and respectable mode of renew
ing fractured amity—and to suppose that the old
proverb of “kiss and be friends” grew ont of the
practice so obnoxious to Servitus. I say this is
likely to be the first, unasisted, uereasonable and
erroneous view's of the matter—but listen to the
terrifying consequences as deduced by him—im
primis: passions cooled—dreadful at this lime of
the year. The inexorable man having gained
this victory over our imaginations, proceeds with ;
a triumphant haste to plunge us from one degree !
of mental enthralment to another, until the Sty
gian gloom would be broad daylight compared to
our unhappy case. From mental obscurity we
are led or rather hurried downward, and never
sufferred to rest or to “cast one longing, lingering
look behind,” until wejarrive at the very lowest
cell of Egyptian darkness,” and left to grope our
way out again as we best can—but the same hand
that cast us down comes kindly to our relief, and
with matchless effort of legerdemain dsspels the
gloom, and changes the scene to the post road
between New York and Philadelphia. Conse
quence : the second then arises with a triple crown
of terrors—-this is “stopping the mail on Sundays”
—“burning Yvitches on Fridays”—and “persecu
tion”—these consequences, sir, please to notice,
are to follow the introduction of Infant Schools
into the United States. Aa a school for the culti
vation of the infant mind is soon to be opened in
this city, it truly becomes parents to consider the
alarming positions of Ssrvitus, and not allow
themselves to be duped into the silly notion that
instruction can develope intellect, or that tuition
is good for any thing but to prepare candidates
for manufacturing establishments. This warning
is not to be neglected because Servitus is the first
•• , => r i
and only wrßpr who has detected the danger, and
under this bed of flowers—“infant cultivation”—
has ferreted out the monstrous serpent “mental
mutilation.” ———. PAX.
JSavy of the United States. —The Navy of the
U nited States consists of qeyen ships of the line,
seven frigates of the first class, four frigates of
the second class, twelve sloops of war, and seven
schooners. The oldest vessels are the frigates
United States, Constitution and Constellation, all
jniilt in the year 1797. There are now building
in the United States, seven ships of the line and
six fiigates. Os the rank of Lieutenants and up
wards there are 325; Surgeons and Surgeons’
Mates 97; Pursers 41; Chaplains 9; Midshipmen
445; Sailing Masters 30; Boatswains 17; Gun
ners 19; Carpenters 13; Sail Makers 14. In the
Marine Corps there are pno Colonel, nine Cap
tains, and thirty-nine Lieutenants. The oldest
officer m the Navy is John Rogers, P*cslUcuw us
the Board of Commissioners of the Navy. He
entered the service in March, 1798. Ilis present
commission is dated sth March, 1799. There are
fifteen Navy Agents, seven Naval Storekeepers,
and eight Naval Constructors. The estimate re
quired for the Navy during 1829, is $3,000,277.
We Understand that a young man named Mer
rill, says the New York Gazette, who arrived here
a few days since, in the schpcpqr Exit, from Rich
mond, attempted to commit suicide on Friday
afternoon, on board the schooner New York,
Capt. Snow, by cutting his throat with a jack
knife. It. appears, as we learn, that he went on
board early in the afterneon, and continued in
pleasant and friendly conversation until a few
minutes before the act was committed—not giv
ing, during the whole time, any evidence of men
tal alienation. At the time the deed was done, the
captain was in the cabin, but, on hearing a noise,
ho came on deck, and forthwith sent for medical
assistance, when the young man was sent to the
Hospital, and is likely to recover. On being ask
ed if he was not sorry for having committed such
a rash act, he replied in tha negative, and observ
ed, that he was without money, friends or employ
ment, and that he had better be dead than alive.
We do not know when we have perused a par
agraph, says the Baltimore Patriot of the JOth
inst. which gave us more pain, or created in our
bosoms greater indignation,’ than the following
one. We trust for the sake of humanity, that the
conduct of the Physicians implicated has been
misrepresented. For our parts we conceive it
impossible that two individuals could be found in
a profession so well calculated to liberalise the
mind, could act in a manner so much at war with
every generous or humane feeling of the heart.-
If however we are mistaken, and the Physicians
have acted in the brutal manner represented, we
think it due to the cause of humanity, and to the
citizens whose hospitality they have so outraged,
that their names be given to the public.
An interesting little boy, three or four years
old, came passenger in the Swiftsure, which arri
ved about 4 o’clock on Wednesday afternoon
from Albany, accompanied by his mother, Mrs.
Sloat, No. 86 Bowery. On reaching the wharf,
sho immediately went home, leaving her infant
and baggage on beard, and intending to roturn
for them before the departure of the boat at 5 o’-
clock; from which, however, she was prevented
by sickness. In the mean time the child was tak
en with a violent tit of that most distressing dis
order, the croup, and being without a protector,
every possible attention was paid to it by the
Captain and crew, tyvo of whom proceeded in dif
ferent direction to procure a physician. After
several fruitless calls, the gentlemen being from
home, they both succeeded in their attempt, and
two physicians were accordingly in attendance'.
The child was by this time removed to a neigh
boring house, (where it was humanely received
and most kindly treated,) the Captain having de
layed the departure of his boat for 15 or 2U mi
nutes, in the hope of being able to commit the
little sufferer into the hands of its mother. Those
who had interested themselves in its behalf, noYs?
felt their anxiety removed, expecting that the
claims of humanity would be regarded, and such
relief afforded by the physicians as they were able
to bestow What then was their surprise, when
they saw them retiring after asking if the child
had any friends, or something to that effect, icith
out making any prescription, or giving any ad
vice, except that it had better be taken to the hos
pital! Is it p'ossible that in a case like this, they
should have been influenced by the paltry conside
ration of fees, (which by the way would have been
cheerfully paid by the Captain or Agent if neces
sary) when it was more than probable that the ad
ministration of an emetic, or some other prescrip
tion, which they could have given in ten words,
would have removed all present danger, and
migtigated sufferings which it was painful to bo
hoW? We sanaot, and wiU act believe it.
Soon, afler the departure of the physicians, a
messenger earne tor the child, and conveyed it, in
great agony, to its anxious mother. Scarcely,
however, had she time to look upon it and take
it into her arms, when it breathed its last. It was
burried on Thursday afternoon.
[From the N. York Eyoning Journal]
Caicge of the explosion. —“ The dead tell
no tales,’’ and we would charitably hope
the explosion was, as usually termed, accD
dental. But the following circumstances
which we have learned uecessarilv excite
suspicion. A sailor by the name of Jack
lianoan, a desperate wretch, had been for
some days under guard, charged with rob
bing a trunk belonging to one of the mid
shipmen. The commodore had during the
foreuoon satifactorily ascertained that Jack
was guilty, and had informed him that as
lis time of service had just expired, he
could not be punished in the Navy Yard,
but would be handed oyer to the civil autho
rity, aod that perhaps his punishment
would be imprisonment in the state prison
| for life Lieut. Brackenbridge was the of*
! ficer of the day, aud when he permitted the
magazine to be opened, adopted the usual
precautions of placing a sentry, £tc. and
expressly charged the gunner to- be very
I careful. But unhappily Jack Hannan was
allowed to accompany him, his hopes of lib
erty being blasted, perhaps in dispair he
blew up the Frigate.
Providential Escape. — A Mrs. Moftt-*
gomery, on boat’d the frigate Fulton, and
just before the explosion, retired to her
hammock, being much fatigued by washing.
Although she was very the magazine,
she was not injured, only frightened and
detained prisoner until the timbers above
her were cut.
The following anecdote has beentold us
-—whether correct or not rye do not know;
At the time of ihe dreadful explosion of the
steam frigate Fulton, an English sailor was
on board, who had joined the navy a few
| days previous. When the vessel was blown
! U P was thrown with others, some distauce
in the air, but fell in the water and receiv
ed no harm.—When he touched the elem
ent he sunk, but sooo arose again, and the
moment his head was out of the water he
exclaimed with great sangfroid,—" There,
I koew it, I knew it; I was sure the
Yankee powder would’nt hurt me!”
We have before us a well written arti-1
cle iu the Edinburg Scotsmen, on the sub
ject of the customary manner of placing
children at school. The author is a phy
sician, and argues that it has a direct bear
ing on the health, happiness and life, of ma
ny of tbo young. He writes like a man of
good sense, and much observation, as well
as of sc’mpce. In speaking of the impropri
ety of constructing seats in schools, with
out any support for the back, he makes the
following remarks:
“The amount of this grievance is much
greater than many imagine, as it not only
impairs the bodily strength, but evidently
weakens and distracts the attention of the
schollar from the true business of the day:
his ltsson. This may be understood
by those who recollect that the body is sup
ported in the erect position, solely by the
operation of the muscles or fleshy parts of
the frame, (something in the same way as
the mast of a ship is supported by the
ropes,) and that it is the free and varied
play of these muscles, which by alternat
ing with and relieving each other, gives
them that strength and power of resitance,
without which, the spine would yield as rea
dily as a mast would do unsupported by its
cordage And hence it happens, that if the
body is long restricted to one position as in
sitting, and is thus deprived of variety and
freedom of action, instead of a variety of
muscles being alternately called into play to
support each other, the same set is kept
continually on the stretch, till the position
becomes painful, and the muscular power
is exhausted, and then the erect attitude
can no longer be maintained. Now, that
is exactly what happiness in schools, where
the benches are unprovided with backs, to
aid the muscular efforts; and every one who
has been educated at a public seminary,
must have experienced the uneasy restless
ness and fatigue, and the interuption to the
power of attention, which the mere effort
to sit, unsupported iu a crowded room, very
speedily occasions, and not a few carry
with them, I suspect, through life, proofs of
its injurious influehce on the general
health. ’ —N. Y. Daily Adv.
Extracts from English Papers , received at
the office of the Morning Herald.
Death-Extraordinary ! ! ! —On Friday
last expired in Saint Stephen’s chapel,
Westminster, that celebrated character
Humbug Sinking Fund, Esq. He was
born about the year 1798, and has all his
life long been endeavoring to reduce a con
siderable swelling in the constitution, which
he could never accomplish. His death has
been expected some time, notwithstanding
the attempts of several known quacks and
ignorant sciolists to prolong his useful ex
istence. He expired under the stroke of
a pen administration, by an obscure physi
cian, of the name of Goibourne, and, hav
ing been deserted by his friends, his death
seemed to excite neither surprise nor regret.
There was some talk about perpetuating
his name through the medium of a “surplus
revenue,” but upon investigating his affairs
it was clear to every one there would be no
siich thing in existence. Lords Green
ville, Sjdmouth, Goderich, and Bexley,
vvejre, invited to attend the last obsequies,
but each of them sent excuses. He was
interred under the cashiers* office at the
great house in, Threadneedle-street, be
longing to an old lady, his relation whosu
ultimate destiny Is thought to be much
bound up in the fate of Mr Humbug Sink
ing Fund.
Love and Jealousy , or ihe llandsoin
Cousin. — Francois Paiiie a respectable
farmer in the hamlet do la Mauro, iu the
arrondissement of Craguignan, was put up
on his trial last month before tlieAJorrec
tional Tribunal of the latter place under
the following circumstances:—Francois, it
seems, has more money and a prettier wife
than any body else iu all La Muure, which
accumulation of good things appears to
have excited some little envy amoDg such
of his neighbours as had money less abun
dant and spouses less agreeable. It was
soon observed that M Paiiie was always
peeping and prying into the motions of
Madame—never, with his own good will,
absenting hirnself many yards from the end
of her apron string; and folks began to
whisper that IVJ. Faille had become a prey
to the “green eyed monster. 1 *
Now, it so happens that his very next
door neighbor is one Monsieur Jacques
Paiiie, a cousin of liis owiTa most unpleas
ant relation under any circumstances to a
jealous man, and particularly when, as in
the present case, the said cousiun happens
to be a fine young fellow of twenty-five, 6
feet high, with a very prepossessing physi
ognomy, the c orypheeus of the village
yonth and the rustic Don Giovanni of that
part of the country. Then “lie could talk,
good Guds! how he could talk!*’ and
Francois Paiiie, as wo have said before,
was his cousin, and he felt a great regard
for his cousin, and proved it by being: a
constant visitor at his cousin’s house. Os
all nuisances, rural or urbane, iione is so
annoying as a cracker of jokes, and these
nuisances abounded in the hamlet de la
Maure, and when they saw Francois Pailia
they winked, and they nodded, and they
put their forefingers up to the side of their
noses in a very queer way, and they said
that Jacques was a very affectionate cous
in, and that it was very unlucky his cousiui
Francois should be out of the way so oftea
when he called to see him; bqt then again
they said, it was lucky madanie should be
always at home, aud, of course, she would
do ail she sould to make so amiable a rela*
tion welcome. In short, there was no end
to their sayings, and Francois at length al
most confined himself to the house, that lit)
might be* always at home to receive hi)
cousin; still eyebrows coutiuued to be ele
vated, and heacis to be shaken, and thev
“did say—but Ural’s neither her e nor there!.
On the 3d of March last (it was the las;
day of the carnival, and consecrated t 6
follies of all kinds) a melodious voice was
heard serenading uuder the window of
Monsieur and Madame Paiiie; then camo
a gentle cough, aud then a whisper, “Hem*
HistH dtc., and an instant after, in a much
louder tone’. 1 “Help! help! murder; help!”
Outrun the neighbors, and found the hand
some cousin Jacques, with two marvellous
black eyes and a very bloody nose, seated
in the mud and yellow like a catalaw.—
According to his own account fts had only
been taking a quiet walk “in the gloaming, ’’
ntscio quid meditans nugarum et toUs in
illis, when all of a sudden, just as he caoio
near his cousiu Francois* house, a man
jumped out of some bulrushes, in yvhiipl} he
had been concealed, trad, without saying a
word, gave him such a tremendous salute
with a stout cudgel across his nose that the
bridge of that m®st useful as well as orna
mental protuberance was completely crush
ed, while both eyes went into instantane-j
ous mourning for the injury done to their
neighbor. The blqw having taken effect,
the* uncivil incognito , who was, as M.
Jacques verily believed, no other than Jus
own beloved, but ungrateful cousin Fran
cois, leaped over the hedge, and, taking an
opposite direction to that of the house, va
nished amidst the obscurity of the shades
of the evening.
The declaration of M. Jaques was, it will
be observed, unsupported by any other tes
timony than that afforded by his own eyes
and nose; his cousin y/as, however, taken
into custody on the strength of it, and oVi
the 15th April appeared to answer the
charge of wounding ‘with
and ambuscade.*
On the part of the prosecution several
witnesses wer;e produced, who
having heard Francois two nights beforo
that of the assault, asking of his cousin,—
‘whereabouts, and uttering such sentences
as ‘by-——l won’t stand this much longer.*
‘1 will go to Paris.’ ‘I will go to
Still none of them could state any overt
act bearing upon the accused, whose coun
sel consequently avowed himself much em
barrassed in his defence by the unwilling
ness of his client to allow that he was at all
addicted to jealousy, though he admitted
he had the ‘highest esteem* fcrdiis wife,
and did not wish any body else w feel it'in
so gieat a degree. The fact however, was,
that whether he could allow it or no, Fran
cois’ stockings were unquestionably a little
yellow, and to that must be attributed the
expressions which had been proved against
him; and no wonder be had used them when
the whole village had been quizzing him
for wc£ks together. With the black eye s 9
however, he had nothing to do; and wheth
er Jaques had endeavored to *put his (Fran
cois’) nose out of joint’ or not, be (Fran
cois) had never himself meddled with that
of his handsome cousin.
The counsel for the prosecution combat
ted these assertions on the score of proba
bility, and begged hard for the influence of
two years imprisonment of Francois; but
the court was against him, acquitted tho
prisoner, and dismissed poor Monsieur
aques without any other consolation tliau
iat his nose had excited the commissora*
ion and sympathy of some of the
sornest women iQ dll the commute.
[No. 7~ vol. 11.
