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MY NATIVE LAND.
[b *IM(N I’OSICIW, KSU.]
All hail to the land, where corn, peaches and ’tatocs
Grow ripe in profusion to fatten the swine,
Where deer and black cattictrot through the pahnettoes,
And wood-peckers, thumping, are heard on each
pine.
All hail to its ponds, swamps, savanas, and marshes,
\V here bull-frogs and cootas are lolling on logs,
And where alter cattish the crocodile splashes,
Hr snaps his huge jaws in the sedge at wild hogs.
All hail to its copper-snakes, vipers and liz/ards,
Its gigurs, mosquitoes, Hens, sand-flies and bugs,
Its hooping-t rails, poor-jobs, sceughs, woodcocks and
buzzards,
Sal’manders, magophers, sirenas and slugs.
Hail, hail to them all—although luxury raises
No palace nor temple beneath the pine-tree,
Its ever-green branches, its burns and its blazes
St borders are dearer to me.
‘ten flowerets I
humbird,or traced bee,
l fawn until drowsy
just as playful anJflrcc.
;rs the vine jgfflg ascended,
, air and s^^>serejmy’ovvn;
i both ayncked ancTfl gilded
giuiiJns a tlfofte.
When father’s old cart£ >tu the town drove up sneak
ing. ~ H
Through bar;; jtfyere sp%iging to get at the geer,
iThcn under the usffer how wisrffilly peeping,
While on tiptoe, to see what was tnere.
And oftenjfith gladness—l wont say devotion—
In cWwn Sunday clothes we were wont to repair
To chto / h, while no breezes nor leaves were in motion,
f /r nature seemed pensive, and mutely* at prayer.
e hours of existence! too soon you have vanished,
The noon-clouds of life overshadow the scene,
*But time from remembrance never shall banish
*ik>w sportive, gay, happyaiul harmless you’ve been,
you rush on my soul like a stream on the desert,
and Relieving the pilgrim, reviving the tree;
For soon as the young rosy visions I gazed at,
A forest of pine is Elysium to me.
’Tis the place of inv birth, ’tis the grave of my mother;
Where kindness, simplicity, freedom reside,
Where valor and beauty, twin-sister and brother,
and laurels, have truth at theirsui|j|p^^*
And loW we’ll defend it who sneciyg|lP l ff^ifles
At Vhose departure souls mourn;
For
Inc foe will never rbturn.
THE REAL JUNUjaf^T
Copy of a lflHcr from H. F. A S. to a
LoNi)o 1 p March 18*19.
eX ’ and gfencr
otis manner in whicli you my
exertions in favor of the first of-fk jtisli
(Ossian,) and the pleasing task you impiuSV
i cd on me, to acquaint you with the transactions of
► the Highland Society, with respect to ray proofs
■pf that poet’s authenticity, (which flatteringly
to be ‘‘the only leasonahle ones offered
world,”) impel me toinloim you that 1
HR vc had no answer from the Highland Society
Hm the subject; but, my noble namesake, the earl
K>f Breadalbane, has an opinion similar to your
■ own, of the merit of the work—and, like a true
Gael, generously promised me that the lion,
society will avoid the imputation of negligence,
and do the author justice.
1 last wrote to you, I have been bufSlw
a:i(TJ*easurably employed so another .imfdwtnni
and have been as and
happy in thcfesult as 1 was in iho t fcfqj}y research
es in Ireland. ‘ v y - \
You will have scch rmhlic ’ftwinq thai
the will of the is tdtaHv void
of any clue thaypould lead toThe real lu4or of
‘ Tne Utters of Junius.' —Though his tcsTy an
swei to when the
subje.vV'uy that gentleman at lord
it evident to the world, that he partkuJa*
ly wished to have been considered thecgflTOrated
author. Hence you will infer, thagth^JSdinburg
Reviewers, fhougli passabfo£jijj|j,ha\ejnot yet
attained the secom. yA/wo to, their
countrymen, less gitrod pith the of
metaphysievthan they are. <*,
To belief with ray revererra’friend, f hasten
to apq’uaint him, that the University df Oxford
Jias the honor of having given to the w orld tfi%t
high priest ot political scrutiny, Junius, in one of
her greatest ornaments of oratory, and deep liter
ature, —the late Dr. Wilmot—and, that he was
consecrated by England’s once illustrious prime
minister, lord Chatham, and by lords Sondes and
Archer, at whose houses several ol his celebrated
letters were written,and thence conveyed to Mr.
Wilkes, who communicated them to Woodfall
the printer. This, ray dear sir, is not fancy. The
facsimiles of Woodfall and Hessey, and Taylor,
are now before me, contrasted with MSS. of the
late Dr. Wilmot—and there is not, nor cannot be
a shadow of doubt, but the same hand traced the
characters.
If there could be any doubt for a moment en
tutained of the fact, it would entirely he done a
way by the signature of lord Chatham to one of
the papers now before me, wherein that iilus
. tnous statesman promises “to indemnify Dr. Wil-
Htttot for any losses lie may incur by publishing his
essays; ana farther, by the death bed
tj.i doctor himself, declaring in the
t&jdUfr • ‘ r Um,
-jHj
tended to. On the whole, the comparison of the
MSS. in the possession of Woodfall, and that of
the “Heroic epistle tosir Wm. Chambers,”now
in the possession of sir Richard Phillips, and those
in possession of his niece, uncontroverlibly assert
that I)r. Wilmot was the author of the works in
question. The absurdity of the claims of the ad
herents and ticklers of sir P. Francis, to place
him in the chair of Junius, is so palpable, that I
wonder how any person who has attentively read
the letters of that author, could for a moment hes
itate to pronounce him one of the most unlikely
men to produce such writings, or to whom such
writings should be ascribed! The knight was on
ly 22* years old when the letters first appeared,
and the doctor was 51! The “pointed elegance
and acumen of his nervous style had been twenty
years a subject of admiration at the university;
and he had long been to Mr. Pitt and others,
what dean Swift is reported to have been to Har
ley, earl ot Oxford. To me every sentence of
the celebrated letters pourtray their emanation
from a comprehensive, deep, enlightened, and
well matured mind—not the mind of a clerk of
22, when the flare and frivolities of youth are
olten more attended to than the expansion of in
tellect; and such 1 have been told was really the
case of sir P. Francis at that age!
The limits of ray paper will not allow me at
present to cite extracts from the letters of lord
Chatham and his colleagues to the doctor; but I
might do so, and they would convince—such a
chain of unquestionable evidence I never before
“saw.
\V ith an elegance of person the doctor pos
sessed the easy politeness of a courtier, and, with
the assistance ot his intriguing friend, Harry
Beauclerk, he, like the great lord Stair, when
ambassador in France, turned appearance and
manners to advantage. On laying aside the
clerical costume, and assuming the bagand sword,
he was /urn finesse introduced by Beauclerk to
the celebrated Mrs. Abingdon, the then mistress
of lord Shelburne; and through his intimacy
with that lady, he acquired a knowledge of the
private views and transactions of lord S , that
was useful to him while before the public as
Junius.
I could recite what would fill a volume, of the
court transactions of those and later times, but I
find that I have written to the end of my paper.
—However, you may place the firmest reliance
in what I have written from the proofs before me,
that Dr. Wilmot, and no other man on earth,
wrote “The letters of Junius.”
And that I am, rov’d and dear sir, very faithful
ly your’s; Credat Judseas Apella,
11. Campbell.
* He was 23 years.
From the London Morning Chronicle , Feb. 23.
Avery singular motion was last night made in
the house of commons. Sir John Jackson moved
the appointment of a select committee to inquire
into the truth of the doctrine of contagion in the
filague. In the decision which took place on
this motion, Mr. Robinson, the president of the
board of trade, stated that “the question had been
brought under the consideration of the branch of
government with which he was connected, and
lie confessed he had been struck with the reason
ings which had been adduced in favor of the opin
ion, that it was not contagious , but cjiidemic.”
We apprehend, however, that this is a question
which the house of commons will find it one of
the most difficult to settle, of any which they
ever had before them. That by the inquiries
which this committee shall institute, much valu
able information may be obtained is, extremely
probable; but how the committee of the house
are to decide when doctors disagree, as they are
sure to do in this case, or they will belie their
character, we are altogether at a loss to conceive.
We like, however, this ardor for science on the
part of the house, and if they have in their san
guine confidence somewhat overrated their pow
ers, we arc disposed to forgive them.
The ship Lion, Townsend, arrived here from
Canton, has brought to this country, three natives
of Madison*s Island, in the South Sea, which it
will lie recollected, was taken possession of by
captain Porter, in the frigate Essex, in Novem
ber, 1813, for the United States. Two of them
are young men, upwards of 20 years old, probab
ly, and the other a lad of about 12. They are
copper colored, and tattooed according to their
custom, by puncturing the skin, arid introducing
a dark liquid, which has a singular appearance.
They appear to be, inoffensive youths, and as
they are American citizens, having been ado/ited*
into the great American family, we trust they will
be treated with kindness and hospitality.—Provi
dence, R. /. paper. [* When, w here?]
Extract of a letter, dated Lisbon , Feb. 20.
“Flour might be forced at six or seven dollars;
but there is actually no demand for it. You may
rely that branch of business will be soon extinct
here, inconsequence of the grain supplies from
the Levant, and the result of newly constructed
mills, possessing all the machinery and facilities
of those in England or America. From the
above you may calculate that corn and wheat arc
ruinous articles from your states, and, therefore,
we dare not quote prices.”
When Mr. Clay was somewhat unpopular with
the people of his district for favoring the famous
compensation bill, Mr. Pope, who has had the
misfortune to lose an arm, w as run in opposition
to him. During the electioneering campaign,
Mr. Clay, in a playful manner, asked an Irish
man which candidate he intended to vote for.
The votary of St. Patrick immediately, though
with much good humor, replied, “and faith, Mi
iCda), I think as how ( shall vote foi the man w Ik*
ImllfiljLbiT out; unn into tW. n^....v. ” ¥
AMERICAN CHARACTER.
Ther e is, perhaps, no period since our exist
ence as a people, in which our national charac
ter lias been so big in the estimation of Europe,
as at this hour. To be known, as an American,
is now a sufficient recommendation in any part of
the civilized world.
It is, indeed abundantly gratifying to hear of
these things. An American must feel a more
noble swelling of the heart; he must step with
more firmness, and hold his head a little higher,
when he finds it expected of him.
There is a fact attending the intercourse of
American travellers with France, of a nature ex
tremely flattering to our national pride, and yet,
not so universally know n as it ought to be.
We have been in the habit, for many years, of
sending our countrymen abroad to complete their
education. At the worst, there is rarely any hai m
in this—it is only a little innocent vanity—but it
is often productive of great advantages. A man
feels his attachment to nis native country strength
ened, in proportion as he becomes more and
more familiar with the customs, manners, in
stitutions, and governments of Europe. And, as
for those w ho are not men there is no more
lost in sending them abroad, than in keeping
them at home. At best, they are very harmless,
inoffensive sort of furniture—and will be so,
wherever they are.
Just after the late tremendous struggle be-!
tween France and Great Britain, when peace was
concluded—aflairs settled—and the whole nation j
of France, the most astonishing people that ever!
lived—were completely garrisoned into tranquil;- J
ty, there were many young Americans at Paris.
1 hey were treated with the greatest distinction.
Instead of diminishing, that respect has continu
ed to increase, until a short time since, when it
had gone so far, that (for all the Americans wore
cockades,) the Englishmen in Paris mounted the
y//>zmcottcoc£r/e.Thatisthegrcatestcomplimciit
ever paid to our country. — Balt, paper, 24 th ult.
LOUISIANA.,
At the last session of the legislature, the fol
lowing resolution received the sanction of both
branches of the legislature, and the approbation
of the governor:
Resolved, c Jc. That the governor of this state
he required to solicit from the president of the
United States, to order that a sufficient naval
force be stationed on our coasts, to protect them
against the depredations of the pirates which
desolate them, and which impede our communi
cations with Vera Cruz and other Spanish ports
in the gulf of Mexico.
MORE LOOSE LEGISLATION.
Kentucky Legislature. —During the last ses
sion, at the very time when the assembly was de
liberating on their famous fienalty bill , against
the brahehes of the United States’ hank, the gen
eral Court, in another room of the same house, in
which the assembly sat, was sitting in judgment
on the law of the previous session; and after am
ple investigation decided, thus under the nose of
the assembly, that the said previous law was null
and inoperative, because it imposed a /ienalty on
persons acting under a paramount law of con
gress: yet the sage majority of the legislature,
with this example and decision staring them in
the face, actually passed another law, which has
been pronounced by some of our ablest judges
to be palpably founded on the same /irinci/ile ,
being manifestly on the face of it a penal statue
also.—Kentucky Republican.
There are various reports in circulation in
this city respecting the Ontario, all apparently
agreeing as to one fact; that a misunderstanding
had taken place at Valpraiso, between captain
Biddle and lord'Cochrane, who acts as admiral
of the Chilian fleet. There is some variation in
the reports as to the cause of this difference; by
some it is stated to have been owing to the refu
sal of captain Biddle to salute the eccentric ad
miral. It is even said that there were some in
dications, from the movements of two of Coch
rane’s frigates, of an intention to intercept the
Ontario on her coming out of the port. We
shall probably have a more authentic statement
to-morrow.— Balt. Fed. Gaz. 28 th ult.
INDIAN COURTSHIP OR WOOING.
The following anecdote is taken from the six
teenth chapter of Ilcckcwelder's account of the
Indian nations, that once inhabited Pennsylvania
and the neighboring states. The work from
which the extract is made, is the first number of
the publications by the Historical and literary
committee of the philosophical society of Phila
delphia.
“An aged Indian, who for many years had
spent much of his time among the white people
both in Pennsylvania and New-Jersey, one day,
about the year 1770, observed that the Indians
had not only a mucheasier way of getting a wife
than the whites, but were also more certain of
‘getting a good one. “For” said he in a broken
English, “white man court—court —may be one
whole year! may be two years before he marry!
Well! may be he then got very good wife—but
may be not! Maybe very cross! Well! now
suppose cross! Scold so soon as get awake
in the morning! Scold all day! Scold until
sleep! all one—he must keep him! White
people have law forbid put away wife, be he ever
so cross—must keep him always! Well how
docs Indian do? Indian—when he see industri
ous squaw which he like—he go to him —place
his two fore fingers close aside each other, make
two look like one—then look squaw in the face
see him smile—which is all one he say YES!—
so he take him home, no danger he be cross!
No, no! Squaw know too well what Indian do,
if he cross! Throw him away and take another!
Squaw love to eat meat! No husband—no meat!
Squaw do every tiling to please husband,-—he do
to nleas v muaw i-iwc iwopit. M
!• rom the Dublin Patriot of March 13, received at the
office of the Heston Patriot, by the Falcon from Liicr
pool.
ANECDOTES OF BONAPARTE.
Under the head of “Memoirs to serve for ike
If’ “f a celebrated man,” there has recently ap
peared in Paris a work, containing many anecdotes
of Bonaparte, his court, and his adherents. To
the latter class, indeed, the author may be more
than suspected to have belonged; but since the
reign of Napoleon I. seems to be now irrcvocab
: ly closed, the Bonapartists in general have fixed
their hopes on Napoleon 11. a disposition which
, it is manifestly the object of the work before us,
to encourage. It may be thought a little extra
! ordinary, that the circulation of such a work
should be not merely tolerated, but favored, by
; the persons in power at Paris; —w hile they re
gard it as a crime to publish a syllable in com
mendation ot the character of Monsieur, or of
the virtuous daughter of Louis XVI. but such is
the present state of things in the French capitol!
Os the early events of Bonaparte’s life, dov. n to
the period of his divorce from Josephine, little is
said that is not either matter of complcjf notoriety,
or else mere conjectural inference (rom facts of
that description. It is known, that
the director Barras, the first patron of Bonaparte,
W'as ot noble birth: and that he hail engaged in a
plot to icstore Louis XV 111, It is also known
! th at Josephine noble, and that Bonaparte’s
| marriage with her was promoted by llarras, and
i connected with some political object or other. It
j is not an unnatural mode of filling up th% story,
j therefore, to represent that object to have been
the forwarding the king’s restoration. Such is
the statement of the writer who makes Josephine,
the instrument of engaging Bonaparte to act the
part of Monk. Ihe latter is to receive as earn
est the hand of the fair royalist, and the com
mand ol the army ot Italy. He accepts these
terms, becomes independent of Barras, and makes
his own way to the head of the empire.
In the work before us, a long chasm intervenes
between the campaigh of 179 5 and that of 1809.
At length Maria Louisa is brought on the scene;
and here we begin to perceive more distinctly
the tone and coloring which the artist wishes to
give to his picture.—Josephine had been painted
as one of the most interesting of women: the por
trait of Maria Louisa is still more flattered. The
intriguing Ilorrensia Beauharnais is represented
as “amiable,” and even the imperious Caroline
Murat, as “engaging beyond expression.” Os
Bonaparte himself, there is evidently less desire
,to draw a partial character; but every thing is
said of young Napoleon that can be imagined to
render him an object of the tendcrest interest.
The following is the description of Bonaparte’s
person at the time of his marriage:—
“Napoleon w r as then at the age of forty-one.
In his youta he was very thin, his complexion
olive, his countenance long, his eyes sunk, and
hair cut short; in a word, his physiognomy may
be said to have been every thing but agreeable,
i ime, which, after the spring of life is past, gen
erally takes away some of the charms of person,
far Irom producing this effect on him, occasion
ed a change for the better. His embonpoint gave
plumpness to the face, and a greater degree of
fairness to the skin. His eye acquired vivacity,
and his countenance something of dignity, from
the habit of command. Besides this, his hand,
his leg and foot were cast in the most perfect
mould, and the princess herself remarked this
last advantage.
“Napoleon was not always amiable in private,
lie had frequent violent passion, which not
even alt the address oßlosephine could moderate.
He was peevish, fond of giving pain; and still,
when he wished to say an obliging thing, no per
son acquitted himself with more success. Before
coming to a resolution, he listened to counsel
with patience, and knew perfectly well how to se
lect the best; but, once determined, he was im
patient of the least obstacle, the most trifling ob
servation made him furious; and if contradiction
rose to any degree of heat, he stamped with his
foot, struck his forehead, and even at times went
so far as to fling himself on the ground, like a
man deprived of reason, Josephine, frequently
the witness of such scenes, vainly employed her
address to prevent them. It would appear that,
having become the husband of a youthful prin
cess, he endeavored to prevent her from witnes
sing such things; for the persons attached to the
empress, during their service, never saw any ex
ample of the kind. He was not, however, less
the* slave of passion when not in her presence,
and it was frequently by a kick or a cuff that he
answered the observations of his ministers or
counsellors.”
ARCTIC DISCOVERIES.
The Gazette announces the prince regent’s ap
probation of the follow ing scale of rewards pro
posed in a memorial from the board of longitude,
taken intc consideration by his royal highness in
council, on the 19th March, viz.—
1. To the first ship belonging to any of his ma
jesty’s subjects, or to his majesty, that shall reach
the longitude of 110 deg. west from Greenwich,
or the mouth of Hearne’s or Coppermine River,
by sailing within the arctic circle, 5000/.; to the
first ship, as aforesaid; that shall reach the longi
tude of 130 deg. west from Greenwich, or the
whale island of Mackenzie, by sailing from the
arctic circle, 10,000/.; to the first ship, as afore
said, that shall reach the longitude of 150 deg.
west from Greenwich, by sailing westwards with
in the arctic circle, 15,000/.; the act having al
ready alloted to the first ship that shall reach
the Pacific Ocean, by a north west passage, the
full reward of 20,000/.
2. To the first ship, as aforesaid, that shall
reach to 83 deg. of north latitude, 1000/.; to B£|
deg. 2000/.;
the act havjp uft...’ ‘ alloted to the first sHp**”