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THE FAMILY DINNER
"I wish you would come and dine
with me some time in a friendly way,”
said continually to me, a young; man
whom I used to meet at the coffee
houses and the theatres, and who
fastened himself upon me in every
place, offering me civilties which I
did not feel much inclined to accept.
He was just such a personage as we
sec hundreds of every day; and there
fore I shall not describe him more
particlarly, lest my readers should
fix upon someone of their acquaint
ance as the original of the portrait.
" You must,” said he, “ come to my
house, and be acquainted with my
wife—there are not ten like her in
the whole world; and my children,
too—though I say it who should not
say it —such children as mine are
real blessings. I must shew you
how I live. lam the happiest mas
ter of a family alive, and a proper
example for young men who don t
like matrimony. Come and dine with
tne once. We shall treat you with
out ceremony, and give you only a
family dinner; but I will answer for
it you will be pleased.”
Although I am by no means averse
to splendid tables, sumptuous viands,
and numerous guests, yet there is a
quiet family dinner, particularly no
thing which 1 enjoy more than when
invited by an old friend, for the- pur
pose of having a little tranquil con
versation. It is refreshing to the
mind, to leave for a few hours the
tumult of the great world to be a
transient partaker of the unostenta
tiou pleasures of domestic intercourse
—and in such circumstances, aflass
of old lthcnish tastes better than
the Bourdcaux, Saunterne, and
Champagne at tables where 1 hear
no conversation but that relating to
the opera of yesterday, and see no
thing but artificial faces, and still
more artificial manners.
I met my above-mentioned friend
in the street a few days ago. The
moment he saw me he ran up to me.
laid hold of my arm and asked me
where I was going. “To dinner,”
was my reply. Good! good!” repli
ed he : “ now I have caught you, I
shall not let you go; you must take a
family dinner with me. It was in
vain that I pleaded a prior invitation
as an excuse—my too hospitable
friend would not admiit of it, and I
was obliged to follow'. I consoled
myself with thinking that I might fare
better that I expected, and that my
host might really have a pleasant
wife, well-behaved children, and a
good table.
We reached the house, which was
in the suburbs, and ascended to the
third story. As we went up stairs
we were greeted by the noise of chil
dren crying and fighting. “Ah!”
said my conductor, laughing, “do
you hear my little darlings ? The
poor sweet fellows are hungry, and
have been waiting for me,” Now,
thought I. if the little darlings make
as much noise during our dinner, I
shall have to repent my weakness.
Me knocked : a thin, sallow-faced
woman opened the door, and on see
ing me started back, with marks of
no v;ery agreeable surprise. My
dear,” said my host, “ this is Ilerr
C***, my friend, whom I have so of
ten mentioned to you—he is going
to take his chance with us to-day of
a family dinner.” The lady’s iong
visage became still longer at these
W’ords ; she made m§ a curtsey which
resembled a contortion of anger, ami
drawled out “Happy to see you,”
m so gloomy a tone, that it sounded
very much like “ [ w ish you were
hanged. Nothing can be more un
pleasant than to feel ourselves unwel
come iu bouses whither we came
against our inclinations. 1 wished
myself ten miles off; but my new ac
quaintance said, “ Now let us leave
the mistress to make her prepara
tions,” and led me into an adjoining
room, to shew me his dwelling. “ j
have not many apartrm ids,” continu
ed he, perfectly self-satisfied, “ but
every thing is noal and orderly '
I was then obliged to stoop to get
into a cabinet, which two little dirty
brats seemed to have been turning
topsy-turvy The floor and furniture
were covered with snips of paper,
pictures, knives, spoons, and toys of
all kinds. “ This is the only true
happiness—to be a father!” said.my
host, while he cleared a chair to offer
it to m . “Hey, Charles! Louis!
come and ask the gentlman how he
does.” “ I sh’a’nt,” said Charles,
and the father whispered in mv ears,
“ Full of spirit; quite a character. —
Come to me directly,” continued he
to the boy, somewhat more severely.
The boys laughed, and remained still.
The father went and pulled them to
wards me by the ears, assuring me
all the time oftheirobcdience. “Now
Charles, have you learned your les
son 1 repeat your fable.” The boy
muttered—
“ I was resolved one day to go,
To see the wild beasts at the show.”
andrunofi'directly to his play. “Very
well,” said the father; “now it is
your turn, Louis - Ah! you shall
see the boy’s a genius : lie says such
things, they are quite suprising.
Tell me, Louis, w hat is the greatest
wonder in the world V’ “ A mince
pie !” answered the hoy pertly The
lath r laughed long and loudly. “Did
I not say so ? you did not expect
such a witty answer, did yon ? I
shall bring him up to politics.”
At last the pale-laced mistress
thrust her head in at the door, squeak
ed out, “Dinner’s ready !” and im
mediately shut the door again with
a bang. “ Dinner, dinner 1” bawb and
the children, and rushed out of the
room before us. We followed, and
the father placed me at table be
tween his two sprouts, telling me they
would amuse me in a thousand dif
ferent ways. A great spaniel imme
diately began pawing me to beg some
thing of me, and a starling jumped
dowu on the table, and hopped from
plate to plate; while the lady handed
me a napkin, which would have been
white but for the service it seemed
to have rendered to more than one
predecessor. Mamma helped the
soup, which proved too little salted.
Papa took notice of this in the fol
lowing polite remajk :—“My Julia
is as sparing-of her salt in the soup
as in her words.” Julia was accord
ingly obliged to rise from table to
fetch the salt, which had been forgot
ten She excused herself, saying
that her servant had been away
all day to attend a sick mother.
“ That’s a lib,” cried Charles ; “ we
have not had a servant these three
weeks.” A smart rap on the knuck
les with a spoon rewarded his com
ment—he began to bellow, and would
no4ie quiet till mamma gave a bit of
sugar-candy, which he sucked instead
of soup. “ You must excuse our fare,”
said the lady ; then turning to me,
and offering me a dish of vegetables
with a fried sausage in it, “ I did not
know my husband intended bringing
a guest home—but he is always play
ing me such tricks.” I coloured up
to the eyes. “ Hey ! what!” said
the husband, “ O, friends will make
allowances; Herr C*** will, I know,
enjoy this family dinn r.” The lady
answered him with a most angry
glance.
The family dinner consisted of a
thin, watery soup, thickly powdered
with saffron, some radishes, and a lit
tle bit of butter, so small that the
children clamoured in vain for their
all wance of it to their bread ! next
followed beef, in which my eyes look
ed in vain for fat: then appeared the
sourkraut, warmed up for the second
time with a single sausage ; qnd at
last a dish in which I could discover
nothing but sauce. “ This is a fricos
see-chickt n,” said my amiable end
agreeable host; “my wife aas no
equal in cooking it.” 1 rejoiced at
first in the bops of getting something
I could eat : but aft< r fishing a long
time in a sea of liquia, I could only
bring up one chicken’s drumstick.
My host kept urging me to drink,
with the assurance that his wine was
not strong, but had a very rich fla
vour, and was perfectly innocent.
I took his word readily enough tor
the last qualification, as the taste led
me to suspect that my economical
landlady had made two bottles out
of one.
My charming little neighbours an
noyed me not slightly during dinner.
Charles amused himsif with kicking
mv shins .under the table ; and Louis,
with imperturbable coolness, wiped
his fingers on my clothes. The ca
tastrophe of the family party at length
approached : Charles, in endeavour
ing to take a bone which his brother
was gnawing, knocked down his own
plate, and spilled the greasy water,
w hich was substituted for gravy, over
mv now blue coat. Mamma, instead
ol assi ting me, began to bewail her
broken plate, and run after the child
to beat him, while he took refuge
behind his father: the father rose to
appease his wife—the dog howled
Hae tibi crunt artes, pacisque iinponere morem, parcere subjectis et debellare superbos.—Virgil.
MILLEDGEVILLE, TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1826.
—Louis grinned—Charles screamed
—the lady scolded—and the starling
quietly perched himself upon my
h ad, ami began pecking my hair.
At last my friend resumed his seat,
and said laughing.—“ Tfais you see,
my friend, is my way of life : and 1
feel myself more happy under my
lowly r*of than a king in his palace.”
He asked me if I was accustomed to
take coffee after dinner ; for though
there was none ready, he had a ma
chine which would make it in five
minutes I thanked him, saying that
coffee made me ill, that I had taken
a most excellent dinner, and was
obliged to go. “Farwell, then,” said
my friend ; “ I hope I shall see you
again soon. You now the way to my
house now—you now my family, and
the fashion we live in—as it is to-day,
so it is every day ; I hope you will
come often and take a family dinner
with us.” I hardly know what I said
in return ; but I hastily seized my
hat, muttered some compliments,
ran out of the door—and shudder
still at the recollection of the “Family
Dinner.”
FOREIGN.
GREECE.
The N. Y. Commercial Advertiser
of Saturday afternoon, (the only
evening paper received from that
city by yesterday’s mail,) contains
the following very gratifying intelli
gence —if we may rely on its accu
racy.—Nat. Journal, June 13.
POSTCRIPT— 2 O’clock, P. M.
GLORIOUS NEWS FROM GREECE!
We stop the press to announce the
arrival of the ship Desdemona, Cap
tain Nagle, from Havre, whence sli.
sailed on the 2d of May. We have
files of Lc Constitutionel to the 29th
of April, inclusive, and hasten to lay
before our readers the following glo
rious news from Greece. We have
time this evening but for a few ex
tracts ;
“ Corfu, April s.—The obscurity
which has hitherto reigned over the
horizon of Greece has been dissipa
ted.—lbrahim, having lost a large
portion of his army in his reiterated
attacks upon Missolonghi, lately re
called to his assistance the troop*
which he had left at Glanentza and
Pygros, to the number 4000 men,
and on the 24th of March made a
general assault, in which he was mor
tally wounded. The enemy attack
ed the city upon the sea side, where
the fortifications were known to be
weakest. It is not known how many
men have fallen on each side, but it
i- pretended that several thousand
Turks have been killed, because
8000 Greeks, arrived during the heat
of the action who fell upon the
Turks, and thus accomplished the
victory.
“ These troops were commanded
by Colonel Fabvier. Ibrahim received
’iis wound from the musket of a sol
dier who saw him employed in giving
orders to bis troops and recalling
them to discipline. After this de
feat, Ibrahim took refuge in Lepanto,
and passed over to Patras. Thus
finished this famous siege, from
which the enemies of liberty expect
ed their triumph, and flattered them
selves with the hope of seeing the
Greeks fall and return to slavery. ”
The state of things in the Pelopon
nesus improves every day, and every
thing is become more regular, and
returning to order. The National
Assembly, which has been convoked
not at Megara.but at Methora, (be
tween Corinth and Argos,) carries
on its business with zeal. The Gov
ernment has commanded Colethi to
set out and assemble and reunite the
forces of the Chiefs of Romelia, ard
fly with them to the relief of Misso
longhi Colocotroni is to remain
blockading Tripolitza, until that
place, pressed by famine, is forced to
surrender. Colispolo is to go to Pa
tras, and Nicetas is to observe those
of the enemy who are at Naverino,
and the President, Conduriottis, at
the head of the Spartrates, is to be
siege Modonand Coron.
Under the date of Ancona, April
15,confirms the above defeat, adding
tiie death of Ibrahim.
In another letter from Corfu, it is
said that Missolonghi still holds out
—repelling all the assaults of the
Turks. The camp of the Arabs ha
been burnt.
Another letter from Zante, April 5,
says every thing is still in favor ofthe
besieged. The camp of Ibrahim
has been burnt, and his troops dis
couraged. At this moment we hear
a very heavy cannonade in the di
rection of Missolonghi. We have no
tear, as the garrison is well supplied
with provison and ammunition.
Under the date Augsburg, April
24. we find the following; “ While
the French journals make Ibrahim
Pacha take Missolonghi by assault,
the Cortu packet brings us letters of
the sth April, winch confirm the news
favorable to the Creek l *. Ibrahim
made another assault upon the 23d
ofMarch;but the Egyptians were
repulsed with a loss of several thou
sand men ; three Beys and a Pacha
remained on the field. Ibrahim
himself has been dangerously wound
ed ; and according to a report in the
lonian Islands, has died of his wounds;
but this last news wants confirmation.
Letters from Zantc, received at
Venice, April 15, announce the death
of Ibrahim Pacha.
We fiind many other articles, all
tending to confirm the fact that the
Greeks have met with some great
and unexpected success.— Laus Deo.
The Boston Courier gives the
following accounts brought by a ves
sel to that port, and although the
news is of a more remote date, it will
be found not without interest, as it
communicates the situation and
movements of some of our country
men :
From Smyrna. —By Capt. Rich of
the Cherub, seventy-five days from
Smyrna, the following intelligence is
received.
Information has been received at
Smyrna, from Mr. Washington, in the
Greek service, that a Greek fortress
which commands Missolonghi. had
been taken by Ibrahim Pacha, the
garrison of which fled into Missolon
ghi, and as the Greeks in the latter
place had only fifteen-days’ provis
ions, it was expected the place would
soon fall into the hands of their
enemies. A Greek fleet was fitting
out at Napoli with provisions anil
munitions of war for their relief. The
Greek cause was not considered
hopeless, as they began to be more
united for the common cause of
their country, seeing themselves a
bandoned to fight it out without the
least direct assistance from foreign
powers.
In Canada nothing but the little
rock Cerabure remained in their pos
session.
Napoli de Romani was sickly. Mes
srs. Washington and Jarvis were
directing their way to Missolonghi.
Mr. Miller was going to Ncgropont
to join Favier. Dr. How was at
tending the Hospital at Napoli. Mr.
Allen had arrived in Smyrna Bay. It
was veil known at Smyrna, by recent
arrivals, that preparations were
making at Alexandria and Constan
tinople for another expedition to the
Morea against the Greeks.
From the Etoile, dated Ist May.
Lusanne, April 27.—The Lusanne
Gazette of 27th April gives, in an
extraordinary number, news from
Greece. It says—The following
which we have just received from our
private correspondents, are too im
portant to be put off till Friday,
the day of our ordinary publication.
We hasten to communicate them to
our subscribers this very evening
Leghorn, April 19.—We have just
learnt from Ancona, where a vessel
had arrived in 12 days from Corfu,
that Ibrahim Pacha had been wound
ed in the last attack on Missclonghi.
The captain has made this declara
tion, but without giving further par
ticulars.
Corfu, April 3.—lbrahim in the
last attack had combined all his pre
parations in a manner, which prom
ised decisive success.
A considerable force was ordered
to advance by land, while 200 boats
and small crafts, with 3000 men on
board, were to attack on the sea side.
An attack on this point at first suc
ceeded, and Egyptian troops, after
having surmounted all the obstacles
that th nature of the ground pre*
sented, penetrated to the custom
house.
But on the other hand, the Greeks
had prepared every thing to receive
the enemy courageously. Intrench
ed behind a long line of hogsheads
filled w ith sand, which extended from
the custom house to the mills, they
had planted their cannon there, and
from behind this rampart kept up a
brisk fire upon the enemy’s troops.
On both sides the battle was ob
stinate and terrible; but the resist
ance of the inhabitants and of the gar
rison was so intrepid, and the car
nage of the Egyptians, commanded
by Ibrahim in person, so frightful,
that they were at length obliged to
retreat in disorder; the massacre
was dreadful; part of the boats fell
a {trey to the flames, and the troops
on board perished in the tire Sev
eral others ran aground. Scarcely
500 men escaped on the sea side from
this terrible desaster. The troops
on the land side had the same fate.
Ibrahim received in the battle a mor
tal wound.
It was at that very moment that
the arrival of Fabvier.Botzaris, Gou
ras, and Karaiskaki was announced,
with about 8000 men, regular and
irregular. A corps of Turkish troops
under the command of Mehemet
Redschid Pacha, w as immediately di
rected against them ; but is was sur
rounded and destroyed, am} Mehe-
met Rcdschad, the commander made
prisoner.
Second letter from Corfo, April 4.
I have the pleasure to announce
to you the happy news of the death
of the famous Ibrahim. This news
has been brought to day official from
Prevcsa to which place three Tar
tars have been dispatched to fetch
surgeons, who did not find him alive.
Ibrahim, in the attack on Missolong
hi, seeing his troops discouraged, and
in part destroyed by the fire of the
’Greeks, rushed towards the ramparts
of the place with his sabre in his
hand, at the head of some men whom
he had been able to rally; But a
Greek having perceived him, took a
good aim at him, and he fell on the
spot.
Other letters from Zantc, by way
of Trieste, confirm the defeat of Ibra
him.
Third letter from Corfu, April 6.
The last letters from Missolonghi
entirely confirm the preceding ac
counts—•namely, the complete defeat
of Ibrahim, mortally wounded in the
action, and the arrival of Fabvier
with the Greek chiefs before named.
They also state the arrival of the
Greek fleet, and the retaking of Vas
siladi
Rome, April 17. —I have just this
moment left the Russian Ambassa
dor. He showed me letters which
he had just received, direct from
Corfu, and which gave him positive
information that Ibrahim had been
mortally wounded in an attack on
Missolonghi.
We extract the following abla and
judicious article from the Richmond
Whig of Tuesday last. The freedom
of the press is so completely identi
fied with the freedom if our institu
tions, that public opinion will prompt
ly and universally decide against
every indication which points, be it
ever so remotely, to its infringement.
If, as has been admitted by all liber
al statesmen, it is better to endure
the evils of a licentious press, than
to strike at its liberty ; we must be
utterly at a loss for reasons to justify
a refusal to insert in a public newspa
per the defence of an individual who
can avail himself of no other efficient
means. Rejecting, as we do, the
idea that Mr. Tattnall would, in the
exercise of his cool and correct judg
ment, attempt to impose any fetters
on the press, we can only infer that
the language of his letter to the S- c
retary of War was suggested in one
of those moments when strong per
sonal feeling usurps the place of rea
son, and throws a paralytic influence
on the judgment.— Nat. Journal.
From the Richmond Whig.
The Secretary of War and Mr. Tatt
nall.—We publish in another column,
from the National Inteligencer. acor
respondence between these gentle
men, which, if it strikes the appre
hensions of the reader as it has ours,
will be looked upon as one of the
most singular events of the day.
Mr. Forsyth, a Representative from
Georgia, on the floor of Congress,
reflected with much severity on the
conduct of Ridge, Secretary to the
Creek delegation at Washington
Ridge vindicated himself through the
National Journal, not having the
privilege of replying to Mr. Forsyth
on the floor of Congress, where he
was attacked. Os the merits of
Ridge, or the justice or injustice of
the attack made on him by Mr. For
syth, we know nothing, and shall
therefore express no opinion, but
from Ridge’s reply, the temper ofthe
vindication seems at least to be upon
a level with the dignity of attack.
It was this reply that drew forth Mr.
Tattnall’s letter to the Secretary of
War, to which we specially invite the
attention of the reader.
Mr. Tattnall complains, “ that the
National Journal, in which the offen
sive article was first published, is re
garded by the public, as the leading
administration paper.” Mr Tattnall,
therefore, holds the Executive re
sponsible for whatever appears in
that paper, offensive to the Georgia
Delegation!—he will not look to the
proprietor of that paper for responsi
bility, but to the President of the
United States, and the Heads of
Department! The inference from this,
is, with the public, (if they are disin
genuous enough to derive an infer
ence from such premises,) that the
National Journal is not merely the
organ of the administration, in pub
lishing its acts, but edited by it—that
nothing is published in it, but with
the sanction of the administration,
and that by consenting to publish
Ridge’s reply, the members of the
Government had in fact invited the
indignities to the Georgia Delegation,
of which Mr. Tattnall complains
This is a further specimen of the I
liberality extended to the administra
tion, by those opposed to it. Not
satisfied with condemning all his acts,
they are now to be made responsible
for the acts of private individuals
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over whom they have no control-
Mr. Tattnall complains—" That
these indignities have been offered
under the eye. of tke Government ; and
by persons who derived consequence
from being recognised by the Gov
ernment as official persons. ” We
cannot, for our lives, perceive., the
propriety of the remark that thse in
dignities( which are no where speci
fied) were offered under the eye of
the Government. Were they more
under its eye than the thousandother
indignities which have been offered
to private and official persons in
Washington, during the session of
Congress, by members of that body 1
Were they more under its eye than
the indignities offered to Ridge and
Vann, by otic of the Georgia delega
tion itself ? The Government never
supposed, ot Mr. Tattnall for it, we
presume, that it possessed the pow
er, or had the right, to prevent Mr.
Forsyth from attacking Ridge on the
floor of Congress. Then why should
it interpose its authority, even if pos
sessed by it, to screen Mr. Forsyth
from the consequences of his own
act 1 Ridge, though a foreigner, is a
free man, in Washington, on business
of his countrv, and entitled to the
protection and privileges of our laws.
Was he to be debarred the privilege
of defending himself when assailed 1
Was the freedom of the press to be
invaded, lest the sensibility of the
Georgia delegation should be woun
ded 1 The expresion “ under the eye
of the Government ” will apply equal
ly to the Inteligencer, the Phenix
Gazette, and the Telegraph, as totho
National Journal: and if, by it, Mr.
Tattnall means that the Creeks,
beingjin Washington, on business with
the Government, have, for the time,
yielded all right to protect them
selves when injured, the Government
ought also to have extended its cen
sorship to those papers. By no
other means could it have prevented
Ridge from replying to Mj. Forsyth,
or protected the sensitive feelings of
the Georgia delegation from insult,
real or supposed. Yet, we will ven
ture to say, that if the Secretary of
War had attempted to exercise this
censorship, and had required the
various Editors m the District to
suppress all reply from Ridge, wo
should never have heard the last oi’
it, Mr. Forsyth and Mr Tattnall
would have been among the first to
complain, and properly to complain,
of this highhanded attack upon the
freedom of the Press, and to sound
the alarm for the security of our
liberties. In that case, the govern
ment would not have been reproach
ed for encouraging the licentiousness
of the Press, but with the much more
heinous design of destroying its free
dom, and with it, one freedom of the
country.
The whole affair then amounts to
this : That in the opinion of Mr. Tatt
nall and his colleagues, Ridge,
though first attacked( whether right
or wrong is nothing to the purpose)
being an Indian, is by no means entitl
ed to defend himself; but that, having
availed himself of his supposed right
to a defence through the papers, the
administration is censurable for not
having prevented him, though ig
norant of his design, by infringing
the liberty of the Press! Whether
the means be most unconstitutional,
the addressing the complaint ot
Ridge’s behaviour to the Secretary of
War most extraordinary, or the com
plaint itself most whimsical, we leave
to the reader to determine.
We think all three comic— -facihs
descensus Averni.
FINE COMPLIMENT.
During his stay ?.t Geneva, Prince
Henry of Prussia visited the watch
work manufactories, and remained a
long time in the shop oi a wheel
maker. At his departure the prince
read this inscription over the door—
“ The leisure of idle people is the
bane of those who have something
to do.”—“ That might have refer-i
cnce to me at this very moment, ’
said the prince.—The artist who was
a man of wit answered ingeniously,
“ Yes sir, it is on your account that
that inscription has remained where
it is these five and twenty years. At
that period I used to receive authen
tic intelligence from Germany; the
whole neighborhood ran to my house
to hear accounts of your victories,
and 1 was obliged to employ this hint
to get rid of their troublesome vis
its.”—Soavenirs et Melanges.
.4 QJUJVD EXPLOSION.—' To
answer a double purpose ot celobra
ting the next anniversary of our in
dependence and making improve
ments, som<; of the citizens ot Ulster
County, **ew York intend to charge
a rock wnh tzvo thousaud pounds of
gnn-powder, and it is expected that
the report of the explosion will he
heard over a great part of the New
England States.
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