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BY MIRABEAU B. LAMAR.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1828.
NO. I—VOL. I.
THE COLUMBUS ENQUIRER
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from the ladies’ magazine.
THE TWO MAIDENS
One came—with light and laughing air,
Anti cheek like opening blossom,
Bright gems were twin’d amid her hair,
And glitter’d oil her bosom.
And pearls and costly bracelets deck
Her round white arms and lovely neck.
Like summer’s skv, with stars hedight,
The jewell’d robe around her,
Anil dazzling as the noontide light
The radiant zone that bound her ;
And pritle ami joy were in her eve,
And mortals bow'd as she pass’d by.
Another came—o’er her mild face
A pensive shade was stealing.
Yet there no grief of earth wo trace,
But that deep holy feeling.
Which mourns the heart could ever stray
From the pure fount of truth awav.
Around her brow, as snow-drop fair,
The glassy tresses duster,
IVor pearl nor ornament was there,
Have the meek spirit's hi-tre.—
And faith and hope beam’d from her eve,
Aud angels bow’d ns she pass’d by.
— «>—
YOUTH AND Ann
nv s. t. cni,nnvt>Gi:, esq.
Youth, n breeze mid blossoms straying,
Where Hope clings feeding like a bee,
Both worn mine! Life went a .Maying
With Nature, Hope and Poesy.
When I was voting—
When I was young!—All! woful when!
Ah, for the change ’twixt now and then!
This hoii'c of day not made with bands,
This body that does me grievous wrong,
O’er bill and dale and sounding sands,
How lightly then ittladied along:
Like those trim boats, unknown of yore,
On winding lakes aud rivers w ide,
That n«U no aid of soil or oar,
* Tlmt fear no spite of wind or tide!
Nought cared this body for wind or weather,
When youth and I lived in’t together.
Flowers are lovely; Lovo is flower-like,
Friendship is a sheltering tree!
O the joys, that came down shower-like,
Ofbcauty, Truth, and Liberty.
Ere I was old—
Ere I was old?—Ah, woful ere!
Which tells me youth’s no longer here!
t) youth, for years so many and sweet,
Til* known that thou and I were one:
I’ll think it but a false conceit,
F» cannot Ic that thou art gone!
Thy jiosper hell hath not yet toll'd,
Anil thou wert nyo a masker bold,
What strange disguise hast now put on,
To make helieve that thou art gone!
I sec these locks in silvery slips,
This dragging gait, this altered size;—
But spring-tide blossoms oil thy lips,
And tears take sunshine from thine eyes!
Life is hut thought, so think l will
That Vmifli ami 1 are house mates still.
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~\Vo have Ihilmi much graliih.-'l by iiu <*\;nniii;*-
tionofn vtsry simpli) and ( IficitMit machine, in
vented by our townsman, (’oh Myddmitox, for
locking a* c linage or wngoii, while in motion.—
For ordinary occ asious, it will oniw ir valiliRfio
pnrpo'o, byenabling 'lie driver or any 0110411
tho carriage to loci; unu or moro ol tlio wheel,’,!
without a moment’s loss ot time imtl to unlock
by checking the horses for an instant. A much
more importantpurposo, however, is to lie obtain
ed by tins machine, in tho security which it af
fords to persons in danger ot being run away with.
This has long been a desideratum in carriage
building; and is now supplied by means so .sim
ple anti cheap as to excite wonder that it has
been so long undiscovered. The whole machin
ery consists in n moving crank, one, end ot
which is attached to the centre of the hind axle-
tree by a ring, which is just long enough to ex
tend to the periphery of the wheel; 011 the outer
end is a.shoe, which list the tire, and to this shoe
is attached a chaino leading to a small windlass,
(which may ho concealed in any part of the car
riage,) which serves to draw up or lot down the
crunk at pleasure. When drawn up, it fits the
bottom of tho carriage, and is not soon; when
let down, the shoe falls exactly in tho track of the
wheel, receives it, and holds it until it is drawn
out by the windlass. Tho crank is thrown ra
pidly into the wished for position by means of a
small piece of clastic steel pressing against it,
and this pressure is counteracted when the crank
is not in use, by a rag wheel and dog upon the
windlass. When the dog is raised, tho shoe is
instantly thrown into its place. To do this, a
small iron pin, a loop or staple, is all that is re
quisite.
This machino is now in use upon Col. Myd-
dloton’s carriage with entire success. It will
add very much to the safety of carriages, and
especially of the public stages, and wo under
stand has been approved find is about to ho a-
dopted by Mr. Randolph;—S. C. State Oaz.
A Mr. Smith gives notice, in the National In
telligencer, that after trying four years to earn
money sufficient to project a machine for “sail
ing in the air,” he has been compelled to forego
his labors, and to deposito his plan and model in
the patent office, and requests those who may
see it and think it practicable, to lend him a little
money to carry it into effect.
Printing Presess.—Siuce tho introduction of
the Napier Press into this country, a very lauda-
blo ambition has been excited among our me
chanics, to make improvements in the printing
press. It has been stated that a machine litis
been recently invented and in operation in this
city that prints both sides of a paper before the pa
per leaves the machine, and this press is suppos
ed to be capable of printing SOOO sheets an hour.
N. Y. Advertiser
MISCELLANEOUS.
A CHILD’S DEATir
Yes!—it is indeed exquisite to watch the
dawnings of reason, the blossoming and blowing
of the intellect; but let o\cry parent beware of
the bitter rebuke which is impending over his
paternal pride, if he possesses a daughter ofpre-
cious talent—as I did once! Fluttering hilt fa
tal gift! resembling the hectic flush upon the
cheek, the beautiful efflorescence that announces
inward disease and decay. Twice did the grim
katg of Terrors stretch forth his abhorred hand
—its sh idow fell upon her Mill blooming fea
tures, like the pass ng rloud that throws its lurid
frown upon a rose, and she bent in mock resigna
tion: but our tears, or our unceasing vigils, or
our prayers, prevailed; we drove the phantom
away, and dented upon our reprieved child as if
we had bestowed a new existence upon her, and
the nffcctiims of throo lives were concentrated
in one. It scented as if tho knot that tied her
to our hearts had been drawn tighter liv every
attempt to tear her away from us. Nothing is
so endearing as to watch over those whom we
have thus preserved. Prole and self-love are
apt to impart a painful feeling to benefits re
ceived; gratitude is too often associated with a
sense of humiliation; but the pleasure nris ng
from tho favours we have conferred is pure, un
alloyed, and perfect. We do not in general
serve people because we love them, half so much
as we love them because we have served them.—
By a beautiful provision of nature, heiielirenrc
is its own reward, and a double happiness ema
nates ti om n single virtue. Towards a beautiful
and beloved child, whom our cares have twice
snatched from the grave, our attachment be
comes intense; the feelings can bo suld'.m'zed
no higher.
But the Insatiable would not lie disappointed
of his prey: he hovered over the head of the
victim, meditating a third attack, and though we
dared not trust our tongues with the avowal, we
ro id deep apprehension and sad Mi sgivings of
tlio heart in one another’s eves. The patient
Ino, (and never did a youthful suffin or better il
lustrate the meaning of tlie word!) w.lli the fear
ful acuteness of hor intellect, instan'ly interpre
ted our limits, and though resigned upon her own
account, seemed resolved to make an effort to
live—for our sakes. It wis a sotil-siiliduing
sight to behold that fair, meek, and powerless
child, struggling and wrestling with the dread and
invincible king.
It was one of those delicious mornings when
the spring is about to give up the green and beau
tiful earth to the guardianship of summer. The
air wafted towards me the renovating breath of
buds and blossoms: every thing seemed to be in
stinct with life; young leaves wore fluttering a-
liovn me5 fresh flowers were nodding in die
healthful breeze; new-born insects were buzzing
about upon their busy w,ugs; the birds were pur
suing their twittering courtship; new birth w is
the universal purpose of nature ; it appeared ns
if nothing could die. As my other cli lilreii gam
bolled on the, green before me, l sunk into com
placent reveries, imagining that the invalid li id
actually derived benefit from the vitality of the
season—that a change had really commenced,
aud I might soon hope to see her frisking wi li
her companions—when a sudden and hideous
shriek pierced through my ear and smote upon
my heart. Rushing instinctively buck to the
chamber, 1 beheld tho nmdier and the child
stretched beside one another upon the bed, I ke
a full blown flower and its delicate hud laid
prostrate, in tlioir pride of beauty, by some pass
ing tempest. 1 boro my wife into the air; and
leaving her, after she had recovered f om her (it,
in the hands of her attend an s, I slowly and mis-
givingly went back to the chamber. I knew not
what had happened, but an undefined dread of
something toil'dile crept through my veins. My
cli Id was before ino, exactly in tlm utiitutlo !
had loft bur; her eyes wore wide upon, and still
bright, hut they did not move; I rivetted mine
for above a minute upon them with a fixed inten
sity; still they did not move; and all at once
my heart sunk within mo, and tho truth flushed
through me with an electric shock, and a Ivv-
rowing awfuhicss took possession of me, for 1
felt that a mighty [lower had entered tho cham
ber—I stood in the presence of Death!—1
might indeed have exclaimed with Rome 1,
“llcutli, that hath suck’d tlio honey ofthy breath,
Hath liiul no power yet upon thy beauty;
Thou urt not conquered; beauty's on-ignyet
Is crimson in thy tips and in thy cheeks,
Aud death’s pule Hug is not advanced there:"
but so far from trusting my eyes well a second
look, I covered my face with my h mils and wiiii-
dre w in a mute consternation.
The shutting out of the summer son, and .he
other external signs of woe adopted upon tbrae
occasions, are too much in unison with benight
ed hearts to afflict them with additional sadness;
but there is a deeper oppression of die spirit
when we see children, ihose creatures of hg!’t,
stealing about in tho unnatural dimness of noon,
treading upon tiptoe, with solemn looks aud
questioning eyes, unconscioiidy disire-s ng us
by their inquiries, or st ir ling us by the mourn-
fuhtess of their uu irnistomed s’lence. It ws a
relief to run when I followed my poor child to
the grave, and deposited hor in the earth—a
ready-made angel.
That I looked upon her for the last time e a;
here lovelhiess was tainted with i.tty of tho gh is -
ly tints that precede the cnimlil'ng back of l.o
incarnate earth to its original state, is to mo a
subject of permanent consolation. Iler li." 1
—tlio roseate transparency of her cheek—her
gentle eyes—remain painted upon my niunim ,
fresh, glowing, unpolluted. Vain wore Meflou’s
incantations, and tlio abstruse vigils of tho alchy-
mists, in search of the elixir vita.* that wit. to
confer perpetual youth! Death with one blow
of his scythe, has cut tho (iordian-knot and un
ravelled the secret. It is ho alone who possess
es this magical power. Many yours and other
mournful events have passed over my head since
the calamity I have been recording, and l s'.ll
think of my beloved daughter as of a beautiful
child, although had she lived, Am might now
have been tho mother of children herself. That
waxen bloom of youth must have passed away,
time or sorrow might have set their witlKM'ing
brand upon her face; sickness and suffering
might have bowed to the truth that graceful And
elastic form. Perhaps Heaven took her hack in
its mercy. Blind ns we are in our discontent,
we sometimes bewail as a misfortune that which
is our greatest blessing, just 11s in tlio darkness
of our ignorance we exult in those Judas-Ike
sm les of fortune that do but betray us to our
ruin.
Notwithstanding these trials, my children have
always been my greatest happiness. I have tic-
cnmplishod the great purpose which most men,
unborn oi utllucncc, propose to themselves in
life. 1 have followed the great chose of the
woild, jo imd the general Hunt of ambition or af
fluence; an I, hax.ug run down the prey, I find,
I ke the o’hi sportsmen, that the solo pleasure
was in the pa.suit, the object itself lining utterly
ignoble mid wer.Idess. Other spo-lsmon, how
ever, look firvurd to a removal of tie chase, but
the grand hmil of life can only be mti once—at
least fora bachelor; and I cannot tonceive anv
thug mo 0 disconsolate than the situation of such
a m in, who, h iv ng fulfilled li is destiny, and ac-
compl shed the sale and selfish object of his 'ex-
steuce, has notVng 'o do when sickness and
age are enr.impn.sdnjr him about, hut to sit down
in solitude and wait fur death. From this blank
desolation I un happily exempt: .lie buoyant
and elastic expectations of my youth are revived
n my cliddiea: they are commenr 11? the career
wlieli I h ive’.enniua'ed; and I share tho inter
est, w ii ia’ p rfepatingin the labours of their
pursuits. I’ s ie,v.ng to them that 1 fe retains
non;; it s owing to them that death is
depr.ve ' of its •• >■•>'■.<; for 1 cannot (li nk upon
hose whom t an > quit, without recollecting
those whom I 0 1 > rejoin. On the cnhngnlden
evenings o at 1 , when the season and the
seit n’t sun rein ■ 1 mu that my course also is
nearly ran, i *’i the glowing firmament,
andas die ■ ion p issing cl'iinls of purple
li 'tige i w h 1 1 1 , othinks I behold the friends
who have ", looking down upon me
with a Ia n v! Above nil I distinguish
the gentle e, lost daughter!—she leans
forward!—Jen " locks, filing from the
cloud, become well light !—she speaks
—she beckons Yet a little while, my be
loved, and 1 coo
I’ltOVIDIYVTI \l. S Or TITOS. PAINE,
Hum o. !" ’ ell IISVOI.l 1 ins’.
Tho foil in i ling account, in Mr.
I’vne’s own wc’s, • extracted from a letter
0 I nly Siivth. “ In 1 ■ ’Is, in lTfltl, I had lud-
'ings in die it ie ’’ a. 1 ’i’g St. Dennis, No. fid.
They wove *li'i i"'-.' • o ilile for situation of
any I e.,- had hi I’ •* except that they were
ion remo'e li u d;.- ’ ■ > ’. 'aliuu of which I was
then • oron'i v B" ‘0 tv is rocompencod by
he" ’ " I * also .a oo'• I 01 die al ums and con
fusion into wld.’li 'lie 0 ' io” of Parts was then
often I In'own. Then".' of those tilings used
to at rive to us, s Y we wave in a state of tran
quility 01 die •-•ni.stvv. The bouse which was
incl'i- el |#v 1 wi 1 ,n ! tramway fron the street,
w is 1 good 10 Hike.in ild m aisinn firm-house,
Old die 111 i-yard wax like a !iinn-i"l|{l, stock
'd wi h fowls, duck , tank vs, and geese; which,
fir am tseinuit, we used V j feed out of the par
lour w iv low on 'll.' you a • floor. I’liere were
some hii'chc < fin 1, Sibils, and a s. v will two pigs.
Bi'Vond, iv sag rrli'St of move tli"t an acre of
ground, Wt 11 Hid <>m, ami shirked will excellent
fcui'-irees. Too orin.'e, apricot, ami green
gage plum, w ■ e-hr >"■' 1 ever tasted; and it
is ihe only place vche ■■ 1 saw the wild cucum
ber. Theid i-o ■: llirnit.'.iy been occupied
by some cn •. a s p >a.
My tips "o: ■ ci 1 ''ited of three rooms;
the fust, i'o am , i. or, V ■. wi’ii an old flrdi-
loii"d cl 1 e - • . 1 mi > 1 !i' 1 hangup clothes
: ii; tho me. - o \i- min; and beyond it
ho sitiin "- < 0 lanl d into the garden
through ! or!, on the outside, there
\v is 1 soi ,h ■ railo | in, and a flight
ofn'Tr"* '. ' , It l ien by the vinos that
'■re.v ov - 1 , . • could descend into the
g i d 11, Wi hi lown stairs through the
“(It i to my rhamlier to write
and d for two friends who were
undo , ■ : ir. ended to take to the
git d. : e t i their release. Justus I
li; ! 1 , me iii'ii my room dress
'd i" 1 1 on 1 of 11 cap aiti, and spoke to
ii'. .n ■ 1 : it. ad w.th a good 'iddress.—
if} told mo ii>',’ ' i young men, Englishmen,
W'.e •. ■ 1 1, letained in the guard-house,
ar d ii' t '"o 1 (meaning those who repre-
1 l ist a. 1 I M". for t!ie section) h id sent him
10 ask me i’ll ".V them, in which case they
would be I. v >d. This matter being soon
si li. ' be’'.'.' 'i n , ho talked to me about the
Rev..! if io i, nd . •"! 'him; about the “ Rights of
Mm," '.vim h he had read in English; and, at
p eeii. , -ii red ic." in a p ilitaand civil m inner
in.; servi:'. ;. Ami who do you think the mm
wi-: til t otieriid mo his services’! It w.is no
oilier tli n tin p dilic execiitiotier Sam.so.v, who
'tiilloti'ind tlm k u.r, and all who lived in the
> no : i >.>, in the same street with me.
As to in M.'ii, 1 used to liml some relief by
iv Iking done in tho garden after dark, and curs-
iif , with hearty good-will, the authors of that
lerriliJo system that h id turned the character of
.'.111 ivolu 'on 1 had been proud to defend.
! went Imt * .fie to the Convention, and then
onlv io m ike r/iy appearance; because I found
■: f 'ii' 1 Id f ■ fin iii their tremendous decrees,
iii’ a- 'less anil ' i Mgerotts to oppose them. My
h ■ring voted . n! spoken extensively, mure so
f .11 ni v nt; lumber, against tho execution of
t'l" kin r, ! :.-;ady fixed a mark upon me:
n.tidier ! : . of mv associates in the Con
vention ' ' l ee, and speak in French for
me, ny !. 11. • lit liave dared to have writ
ten.
Pen - ' "ci then ef no use to me: no
go i'! e • by writing, and no printor
dared to v' | .J whatever I might ha”e
written for my private amusement, as anecdotes
of the times, would have been continually expos
ed to lie examined, and tortured into any mean
ing that the rage of party might fix upon it; and,
as to softer subjects, my heart was in distress at
the fate of my friends, and my harp was hung
upon the weeping willows.
As it was summer, wo spent most of our time
in the garden, and passed it away in those child
ish amusements that serve to keep reflection
from the mind; such as marbles, scotch-hops,
hatile-dorex, &c. at which we wore all pretty
expert.
In this rein'd manner wo remained about
six or seven weeks; and our I uullord went eve
ry evening into the city, to bring us the news of
the day, and the evening journal.
Two days after, 1 hoard a rapping at tho gate;
and looking out of (ho window of die hcd-i ooin, I
s iw the landlord going with a candle to the gate,
which lie opened, and a guard with muskets
and fixed bayonets entered. I went to lied
again, and made up my mind (nr prison; furl
was then the only lodger. It was a guard to
take up , but 1 thunk Clod, they
were out of their reach.
„ The guard came about a month after, in the
night, mnl took away the landlord, (Jeorgeil;
and the scene in the house finished with tho ar-
restation of imself.
I was one ot he nine members that composed
the first Committee of Constitution. Six of
ilicin have been destroyed; Sieves and myself
have survived, lie, by bemluig with the times;
and 1, by not landing. The other survivor
joined Robespierre, anti signed with him tho war
rant far my arrestuthm. After the fall of Ro
bespierre, he was seized and imprisoned in His
turn, and sentenced to transportation.—Hu has
since apologized to me for having signed the war
rant, hv s lying, ho fell himself in danger, and was
obliged to do it. 1 [email Serltclles, an acquaint
ance of Mr. Jefferson's and a good patriot, w. s
mv suppli ant as a member of tho Committee of
(,'nnstntition; that is, lie w is to supply my place,
if 1 had not accepted, or had resigned, being
next in number of votes to mo. He was impris
oned in die Luxembourg with mo, was taken to
the tribunal, mi l to the guillotine; and 1, his
principal, was left.
There were but two foreigners in the Conven
tion, An treharsis Clouts and myself. Wo were
bo'h put out of the Convention by tho same vote,
arrested liv the same order, anti carried to prison
together tlio same night, lie was taken to the
guillotine, and I was again left. Joel Barlow
was with us when wo went to prison.
Joseph Lehon, one of tlio vilest characters
that ever existed, and who made the sheets of
Arras run with blood, was my suppliant mem
ber of the convention for tho department of tho
Rays do Calais. When I w is put oul of tlio
convention, he came and took my place. When
I was liberated from prison, and voted again into
the convention, he was sent to the same prison,
and took my placo there; and he wont to the
guillotine instead of me. IIu supplied my place
all the way through.
One hundred and sixty-eight persons wore tn-
ken out ol'lho Luxembourg in one night, aud a
hundred and sixty of them guillotined the next
day, of which l know 1 was to havu been one;
and tho mamier I escaped that fate is curious,
and has all the appearance of acciden*. The
room in which I was lodged was on the ground
(lour, and one of a long rango of rooms under a
gallery, and tho door of it opened outward and
flat against the wall; so that, when it was open,
tho inside of the door appeared outward, and the
contrary when it was shut. I had throo com
rades, follow-prisoners with me: Joseph Vtm-
liwle, of Bruges, since president of the munici
pality of that town, Michael Robins, and B.istini,
nf Louvain. When persons by scores and by
hundreds wore to bo taken out of prison for the
guilloline, it was always done in the night, and
those who performed that office had a private
mark or signal, by which they know what rooms
to goto, and what number to take.
We, as I said, were four, and the door of our
room Wits m irked, unobserved by us, with that
number in chalk; but it happened, if happening
is a proper word, the mark was put on the door
when it was open anil flat against the wall, and
thereby came on the inside when wo shut it at
night,—and the destroying angel passed it by.—
A few days after this, Robespierre fell; and the
American ambassador arrived and reclaimed me,
and invited mo to his house.
During the whole of mv imprisonment, prior
to tho fall of Robespierre, there was no time
when I could think my 1 To worth twenty-four
hours; and my mind was made up to meet its
fate.”
After Mr. Paine’s liberation, ho found a
friendly asylum at tho American minister’s
house, Mr. Monroe, now President of the Unit
ed States; and for some years before Mr. Paine
left Paris, he lodged at M. Bonville’s, associat
ing occasionally with the groat men of the day,
viz. Eon lorcet, Voinov, Murder, Joel Barlow,
«Vc. &c. and sometimes dining with Bonaparte
mid his generals.
FOREIGN LITERARY NOTICES.
Ilmlitt's Lift uf Kupoleon.—The two first
volumes of the above work are published. Tho
public will, therefore, decide, whether, as a phi
losopher und de.-criber of the comet-like course
of their wonderful hero, .Mr. llnzlitt is better
qualified for his ta«k than his eminent rival, Sir
Walter Scott. Tho forinor gentleman should
pei form Lis work run amort', since wo under
stand that he himself selected tho subject.
Moon 's Life of Lord Byron.—Some incor
rect statements having appeared respecting tho
late agreement between Mr. Mooie and Mr.
Murray 011 this subject, we think it right to give
the circumstances of the transaction accurately.
It is not true that the Messrs. Longman entered
into any terms with Mr. Moore for the purchase
of this work. The sum which they so liberally
advanced to him (JOOO guineas,) at the time
when ho consented to tho destruction of Lord
Byron’s Memoranda was merely in tho nature
of a private lo in, to be repn' ! nut of tli! pm!i:s
of tho works they might publish for him; and a
Life of Lord Byron, ftiuiulod upon the v ihi ible
materials in the posses-ion of Mr. Moore, It s
for some time been in preparation. Within the
last few weeks, however, Mr. Murray, h.i\ eg
been induced bv the la:e sh undid in s epri' i' i:-
ntions of Lord Byron’s cli ir.'.ctor, to bring tlioso
letters and papers of the noi l" poet which bo
bail originally intended In ri".crve 1 1 vne fu
ture period, subtil.tied a proposition to Mr.
Moore, offering not only to place T - - matcri Is
at His dispos'd, blit to give Him •ttlil') gu'nc'is fur
the work. Acknowleilg ng the I lie: I t\ of tins
proposal, Mr. Moore morelv .stipulated tint the
sum in which he stood indebted to the Messrs.
Longman slninM lie immediately rop; d, t>
which Mr. Murray assented, nil'!, with the full
consent and apprnbn'iim of din Messrs. Long
man, this agr",'incut, s 1 intocosiing to all lev as
of genius, was on Friday last lorm JI v ratified
hv tic p irlies.
Third series of Sm/iiigs and Dot;;"?.—In
tlio-e talcs, new chamfers and new c nub na
tions of characters, are sa aluind'iiit, gx to m To
the reader nt once astonished at die fer'ility of
the Author’s mind, and del glitod wait h'; pow
ers to amuse and to interest. Tlm an her, n-
riei'il, Ins had so much experience of the world,
and seen such a variety of incident ari l cli me
ter, that his resources may he considered as d-
mnst inexhaustible.
Memorials nf Shalspearr.—Memorials of
Shakspe ire, iiioluil.in; skeirhes of bis char.ic'er
and genius, collected and edited by Dr. Drake,
who Ins already illustrated the great bard, with
so many valuable documents, in his curious
“History of Slmkspcnre’s Ld'e and Time;-,” xv'll,
we understand, very shortly ho published.—
They w 11 include some intoreiting and hitherto
undiscovered references to Slmkspeare, unknown
tn Stevens, M done, and the various commenta
tors.
The Man of Ton.—Wlnt is called tlio
“ Fashionable world," is on tho tpii vine for the
appearance of a satirical Room which has been
announced, under tho title of “ Tho Ma.a of
Ton;” and is, wo understand, written by a well-
known Baronet.
Salathirl, a Romance of the early ages of
our Religion, and founded on a striking super
stition of die primitive Christiaans,—is in the
Press. It is attributed to a ve"v eminent win
ter, holding a distinguished rank i 1 lie Church.
Lo <don papers.
Copley, the Painter.—Of sill die distinguish
ed painters who have contributed so greatly to
the honor of our country abroad, none of them
can so truly be called mi Anieriran R im er, as
he Into John S. Copley, R. A. He was th.rty-
six years of ace before he Went o Europe, con
sequently lie must h ive le irned Lis art prnc pal
ly in this ro mtrv. Desirous to olitabi any inci-
ilen's in tho life of Mr. Copley, which might lie
interesting to Ills count vinen, Mr. M irso, Presi
dent of die National academy of Design, address
ed a 1 tier some little time since to Lord Lynd-
Imrst, the present Lord High Chancel orot Eng
land, and son of Mr. Copley, making some in
quiries respecting Ills f.tlic,'. A lew days ago,
Mr. Morse receive a letter from Lord Lynd-
hurst, from which wo are perm fe I to mako the
following extract, and which wo tbmk will be pe
rused with interest.
“ The tenor of my father’s l'fe was so uniform
as to afford few materials for die biographer.—
He was entirely devoted to his art, which he pur
sued with unremitted assiduity to the last hour
of His life. Tho result is before the public in
his works, which must speak for themselves, and
considering that he was entirely self-taught, and
never saw a decent, picture, with the exception
of his own, until he w is nearly thirty years of
age, the circumstance is I think worthy of admi
ration, and affords a striking proof of what natu
ral genius, aided by doterm notl perxeverence,
can under almost any circumstances, accomplish.
I remain, dear Sir, your fa thful servant,
LYNDIIURST.”
This latter remark applies with great force to
his Lordship himself, who, if wo have been
rightly informed, at a very early pound in life,
fixed his turn upon the high station to xvhich ho
lias but recently been elevated, and which lie so
well adorns, thus showing, in his own case, also,
“a striking proof of what natural genius, aided
by determined perseverance, can accomplish.”
.V. Y Uaihj Ailurtisir.
Quackery and impudence. Some short i nto
ago, a soi-disant doctor sold water of the Pool
of Bcthcsda, which was to cure all complaints,
if taken at the t : mo when the Hngel visited tho
parent spring, on which occasion the doctor’s
inittle manifested, he said, its svmpa hv with
its pertubation. Hundreds pic chased the Be-
tlicsdu water and w itched for the commotion
and consequence, wi h the result to bo expected.
At last, one less patient than the re-t went to
tho doctor, and coinplaiurd, that thouali he kept
his eye const only on tho water for a whole
year, he Had never yet discovered any tli ng
like tlte signs of an angel in his bottle." That's
extremely strange,” exclaimed the doctor;
“what sized the bottle did you buy, s vl”—Ra
tion;: ‘A half guinea one, dorter.’—Doctor;
“Oh, that accounts for it. Tho li If guinea
bottles contain so small a quantity of tho invalu
able Be hesda water, that the agitation is scarce
ly perceptible; hilt if you buy a five gu.nc 1 bot
tle, and watch it well, you will in duo season
see the commotion quite plain, sympathising
with that of the pool when visi'ed by the angel."
The pa'ient bought tho five guinea bottle as ad
vised, and kept a sharp look oat for the angel
till the day of his deatit.—London Magazine.
Attempt at a duel. Two members of In
Pennsylvania Legislature recently met to decide
an affair of honour, when one of the seconds
fainted. The principals upon this shook hands
and returned to the tavern which the' had left,
hearing tho inanimate body of their sensitive
friend.