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mestic happiness of the parties, which I
is now said to have been destroyed by’
Captain Webster. No proof whatev
er had been adduced as to the period
when the alienation of affections had
taken place. What evidence was
there to show when Mr. Webster had
become acquainted with the lady?—
None whatever. Even the French
maid was not called to prove it; all was
left to surmise and conjecture. The
letters unquestionably “denote a fore
gone conclusion,” that the parties must
have frequently met; but, under all the
probabilities of the case, he would ask
who was the seeucer? All evidence
had been most judiciously kept back,
except those who were merely able to
speak to the superficial appearances of
the drawing-room: not one word, as to
the “secrets of the levee,” or “the
mysteries of the Boudoir,” or what was
going forward on those evenings when
vhe husband had absented himself from
home. Was this, then, a case from
which a Jury could say that consider
able damages should arise’ Under all
the circumstances, he could not help
thinking that very moderate damages
would amply satisfy the justice of the
case.
T ie Under Shkhiff told the Jury
tha’ they had heard tue evidence, and
it would be for them to say, under all
the circumstam es, what amount of da
mages justice required.
The Jury deliberated for about half
an hour, and returned a verdict lor the
plaintiff—Damages 1,000/.
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4! /-a FIFE i'TE . m-
Tlie following particulars of the eas
tern tour of tht General we have taken
from the Piovidence American:
On Tuesday 31st August, he left
Boston, and after passing through
Chelsea and Lynn, proceeded to Mar
blehead, wnen he was received at the
line and conducted >y a handsome,
procession in escort, to the Bank
House. He was then presett ed to the
authorities of the town in the usual
from. When ascending Washington
Hill, the General was met by the pu
pils of elev en public schools, amount
ing to 900, one of whom pronounced an
address written by himself.
After bt eakfasting with the Town
Authorities the ladies and citizens
were introduced to the illustrious
G test, who passed through the princi
pal stree s, receiving the loud cordial,
an! enii.usta-.Uc cheers of the citizens;
and was conducted by the Committee
to th Saiem boundary, where lie was
reo iv and bv the Salem Committee.
At Salem, notwithstanding the un
p! asantness of the w heather, the Gen
e at “as received in a manner, even
su assing tlie expectations which the
spl udid arrangements had ex* red. A
vc v numerous cavalcade, the Tt tick
-311 ti in white fi ocks, and the Town
Amiioriiies, met the General, and after
th usual salutations, escorted him in’o
tow n. The General rode in a bar,-inch
and four, accompanied by the Hon.
Judge Story.
The Procession passed through the
prieipal streets, which were thronged
with spectators; while the windows of
the houses were trowed with females,
all eager to see and welcome the her
oic visitor.
Civic Arches, historical and patriptir
inscriptions, memorable etas, wreaths
o! flowers and evei greens, banners and
flags were displayed in many of the
streets enlivning the scene, animating
the cheers, and affording gtatehil re
collections. N > less than nine arches
with appropriate mottos and devices,
were erected over the streets th ough
which the General passed Wreaths
and tasteful combinations of flags were
displayed at numerous points.
On Washington Square the General
passed between two lines of boys, about
one thousand in numbte, arrayed und
er their respective instructor* all hear
ing La Fayette badges; and as the Gen
eral pass cl they shouted “Welcome La
Fayette ”9 Upon the plain above the
bridge about two hundred sailors in a
neat uniform, with La Favette ribbons
■upon their hats, greeted the approach
of thisillustriousbenefactorofour coun
try by hear'y cheers and the most rap
turous tokens of welcome and pleasure,
who seemed to receive with much
emotions this unexpected congratula
tion of the hardy sons of Neptune.—
The General was conducts*! to the Es
sex, now called La Fayette Coffee
Home , where lie was addressed by
judge Story, the President of the day,
An impiessive circumstance occurred
in the delivery of the address. When
the Judge came to that part which
S)tiys,
“We could 7iot forget them if we
would: we -would not forget them if we
could;” (alluding to the acts of La Fay
ette iu our revolution) the spontaneous
as., nt of the assembled people to the
sentiments was given* by “JVo never.” j
| repeated by thousands of voices, and ac-
I companied by deafening shouts ot ap
j plause.
, After the ceremonies at this place,
! the General was conducted to Hamil
’ ton Hall, where he dined in company
with numerous gentlemen of distinc
tion.
The hall was ornamented in a style
that does great credit to the fair genii
j of taste, the ladies who presided at the
‘decoration. The Lamp of Aladdin,
had it been in possession of the ladies
of Salem, could scarcely have furnhh
i ed a more tastefal array titan was pie
! semed on this occasion. The scene
was enlivened in that full orchestra,
and several fine toasts were drank.
The General left Salem at half past
six o’clock, and continued his journey
to Nevvburypoit, notwithstanding the
i badness of the weather. “The day
j was very inclement; but* the circum
! stance appeared to give interest to the
; fete. Although every one was wet
through and through, yet none thought
of shcltei—the cold drops from the
clouds could not cool the ardor of
gratitude.” ;
In La Fapette’s passage through Be-j
verly and Ipswich, suitable demonstra- 1
lions of respect and affection were;
shewn him.
He arrived at Newbury port, the!
31st of August, about 10 o’clock, P.
M. At that hour, and in spite of the
unpleasant rain he was received by a
numerous escort, with the usual demo
stration of joy, and even the ladies were
not detered from joining in the scene.
The streets thtough which he passed
were brilliantly illuminated with iights
and ladies, and tastefully decorated.—
The pupils of the schools also paid
their tribute to the illustrious patriot.
The General was conducted to the
residence of James P ince, esq. where
after the usual address, he partook of
supper, and passed the night. He
slept iii the same room and bed which
was occupied by Washington, in his
tour of 1789. At an early hour, after
having received the visits of the citizens
General La Fayettee set out for Poits
mouth. He entered this town about
noon, and we can only repeat what has
so often been told. The prooression
extended nearly two miles. Every of
fering that taste could biing or affec
tion tender valuable, was laic! at the
feet of the man, the people so ntuc
delight to honour. Gov. Morrill re
ceived him in the name of the State,
and the municipal authoiities tender
ed their congratulations After pay
ing-some visits, he attended a brilliant
B ill; front which at half pasc eleven,
proceeded to Ins caniage, set out
on his nturn to Boston, passed .New
bury port about one o’clock, and i each
his mat city, after seven
o’clock on Thursday morning.
In Greenland and Dover, in New-
Hampshhe,the General was welcom
ed by lasie, beauty and arms. In the
former pine, seveial arches were
etec.tcd. One of them was supported
bv two young ladies, in appropriate
dresaes, tepieseruing Liberty and
peace. On the General’s arrival at
the arch, the first offered him a civic
wreath, adorned with flowers and made
the following address:
“Venerable sire, condescend to re
ceive this emblem of the hero’s glory,
as a token of the nation’s gratitude,
veneration and love.”
The second presented to Ivm the
olive branch, and addressed him, with
“Good and faithful servant, everlas-’
ting peace and all happiness await
thee.”
He received these tokems with his
accustomed c omplacency, took each
by the hand, and made a short and en
dearing reply.
In passing through Lexington, after
leaving Boston, the General was gree
ted in a manner worthy that spot, con
secrated b> the blood of the patriot
maslyrs. He was conducted to Hie
Monument where he was appropria
tely addressed. Near the Monument
the General was introduced to 14 of
the seventy minute men who compos
ed the-company on which the British
troops first fired in 1775.
At Concord (Mass.) the General
took Coffee with the ladies in a beauti
ful decorated Bower creattd by their
taste. This is said to be the first in
stance in which the Ladies have had
their share in the substantial as well
as sentimental part*of the feast.
Hartford. —Owing to numerous of
ferings made to the General in the
wealthy and populous county of Wor
cester, and an accident which occured
to his carriage soon after entering Con
necticut, he was obliged to stop at
Stafford (Springs) on Fiiday night, at
10 o’clock, 17 miles from Hartford.
He was expected at Hartford on
Friday night, where arrangements had
been made fur a brilliant illumination
of the city, and citizens continued in
the streets till one o'clock in the morn
ing.
lfe entered the capital of Connecti
cut at 10 o’clock on Saturday morning i
i preceded by a military escort and civ
ic procession, and was welcomed by
those splendid demonstration of res
pect and affection, which the sense
population, ability and taste of the citi
zens of the Slate, one and all, were en
abled to profei.
j His stay at Hartford was necessarily
short and many thousands were depri
ved {for the present) of the anticipated
plesure of being introduced to the
Friend of America.
He arrived at Middletown in the
afternoon, and embarked at half past
3 o’clock, in the Oliver Ellsworth
steam boat, for N. York.
Titus has General La Fayete, says
the Centinel, fulfilled his engagements
with a rapidity and complacency which
nothing but his noble heart, good feel
ing and excellent constitution, could
have enabled him to perform.
From the Savannah Georgian.
THE LATE HURRICANE.
We continue to receive the most
melancholy intelligence of the < ffects
i by sea and land, of the late gale, not is
jit the loss of propei ty alone we have
> to deplore, a great many valuable lives
j have been sacrificed by its fury. In
| addition to the loss of ti:e stven unlor
i innate sailors, mentioned on Saturday,
and the probability of the six left on
the wreck of the Albion, having shat
ed a like fate, we have this day, as
will be seen by the accounts below, to
records yhe deaths of nine more poor
fellows. The West Indian, is the
third vessel belonging to the fleet men
tioned by Capt. Laughtin’s letter in
our last, that \ve have heat and, and judg
ing from the condition of the three,
one, we may sav, totally lost, and two
dismasted, with other damage, and a
loss of lives from all—we hardly dare
hazzard a conjecture as to the situation
of those not heaid of—that they were
more fortunate, cannot be supposed,
we have the worst therefote, to infer
fiom circumstances.
The folowing we received from capt.
Matthews:—
“The British Brig West Indian, of
Cork, N. Matthew s, with a cat go of
coffee, Logwood, &c. sailed hum
Kingston, Jam. on the 24th Aug. -
On the 14th inst. in Lattilude 29. Long.
80, being then in company with nine
sail of vessels, experienced a severe
Ilun icane, win n almost daik. Dui
tng its continuance, carried away all
our masts, boats, bowsprit, bulwarks,
See. and was forced to heave a part of
’he cat go overboard. The carpentei
and two seamen, were unfortunately
washed overboard during the gale. —
Onthe 17th inst. fell in w ith the wrec k
oftheschr. Martha Forbes, Caiman,
fiom Boston for Savannah. Took
one man all that tentained, front off
the wieck. Capt. Cat ntan was lash
ed to the Tafril-tail, and died just be
fore we got up. The remainder c l
the crew, five in number, had been
washed overboard, she was a complete
wreck, with only her stern out of wa
ter.”
We are glad to state that the reven
ue cutter Crawford, Paine, to sea
early yesterday morning on a cruise
in search of vessels in distress. The
Pilot Boat Vexation, Lee, lias been
chattered by two of our merchants,
and despatched in search of the wreck
of the Martha Forbes, and it she is not
found, to cruise for vessels wanting as
sistance.
The Br. ship John and Mary was seen
by the Steam boat Henry Schuitz, to
leeward of Charleston Bar, unable to j
get in, owing to the wind.
A Sc.hr. not before repotted, is up j
high an dry on Cockspur Island.
The brig Gov. Hopkins has got off and
is afloat in Musgrt ve creek, hut can
not get out until the Emperor is remo
ved.
The ship Emperor has been pat tially
removed front bet situation, and wifi
probaftly get off’this day. Her cargo |
will all be delivered in good order.
In addition to the planters already
reported Mr., T. Young, Messrs.
Potter, Williamson, Read, Timothy,
Wayne, Rutledge; Crus. er Rogers
and Huger, onthe liver and its vi
cinity, have all suffered severely Mr.
Young lost upwards of 1000 bartels of
rice.
All the houses except 1 on Burnsides
Island belonging to Mi. R F. Wiliams
together with the w hole of his crop are
swept away.
The Bridge on little ogeche is ear
ned away.
On OssaDaw Island, Messrs. T. N.
M orel, Jno, Morel, N. G. Rutherford,!
and Bryan Morel, are all sufferers—
nearly or quite the entire crop being
gone together with a number of barns,
negro houses Sic.
Some damage was done to the
wharves, at Beaufort S C.
By a tnulato man who arrived here
yesterday from St. Catherines Island,
vve learn that Mr. Geo. Walberg has
lost his cotton < top, negro houses, Bco.
Mr. J. Walberg’s cotton is destt ojed.
| The wind did thi principal damage oti
St. Catherines. He reports that
this to Sunbury it is one common
scene of ruin. Six feet of water w a .
onOgccliee causway. Mr. Page
the mail, was as far as Medway oa
Thursday.
Mr. Geo. Anderson, has lost f rom
his plantation on Ogechee, near ioj
bales of cotton, a large quantity ol the
last and this years corn, negro house*
j barns &c. &c. The plantations in th s
neighborhood have fared little better
! Mr. Jno. H. Morel’s plantation in
I Bryan County, is a complete wreck,
Our river continues still rising, and
the water is already on some planta
tions. a short distance up. and consider
able damage may be done.
An effort was made on Saturday
to r isethe flat Surah Ann,with a steam
boat without success. Owing to the
rapid rise of the water, n thing further
can at present be done towaids saving
the cargo. About one half is got up
i he steam boat Carolina, owing to
an accident could not ptuceec! with the
mail on Saturday. A row beat that
carried up the mails of that day and
yesterday, returned last evening. No.
thing had yet been Iteaicf ot those due
from Chat lesion and Augusta. There
are now 5 Northern and 5 Western
mails due.
The brig Caroline ann, was got off
yesterday and will proceed to town im
mediately.
The Sch- Golconda, felt the gale in
a slight degree only 30, miles this side
of Cape fear.
We no doubt have serious accounts
to hear from the West Indies and to
the Southward of us generally.
The negroes of Mr. M’Leocl of Oge
chee, who were supposed drowned,
have been found. They were floated
away from the plantation, but have
sin< e returned.
The Steam boat Georgia, came
clown from Augusta on Tuesday, hav
ing sailed on Sui and . From Capt.
Dubois, we learn that the storm was
felt nearly as severely in that place as
in Savannah. The greater part of the
trees were prostrated, the jail consi
derably injured and some damage done
in slate Sic. The water had risen
22 feet highet -titan usual, and was at
one time two feet over the flom *>f the
Sicam Boat Office. The bridge esca
ped with injury. ‘l’ lie wait house
neatest the river, and matket house
in Hamburg, were bioan down.—
Beach Island, a tew miles this side of
Augusta, is completely covered with
watet so that canoes, See. sail over it
and the crops upon it of course destroy
ed. The plantations in the neighbor
hood at e supposed to have suffered in
a like manner with those around us.
The mail which left here on Tuesday
morning, arrived in Augusta on Satur
day, being the only mail received from
here since the stornr
Owing to the freshet in our river
nearly all the lice plantations in the
neighborhood of our city are under vva
tei, thus destroying what had escaped
the immediate effects ofthe storm. —
A part of Hutchinson’s island is also
under water at flood tide.
The ship Emperor, Bi ig Gov Hop
kins, Sc.hr. Jctte of New-York, and
sloop Cynthia, have all got off, gen
erally without damage and are now
floating in the liver.
- Charleston Se/it. 19.
A heavy gale of wind, at E. S. E. set
in on Tuesday evening about 6 o’clock
and continued to blow with increasing
violence until about 2 o’clock yester
day morning when it abated in some
degree: although it still continued ‘o
blow quite fresh, in nearly the same
direction, through the remainder of
the day. Fortunately the tide did not
rise in the night, to an unusual extent
to which circumstance vve may* attri
bute the trifling damage sustained by
the shipping at the wharves. Some
trees were biovvn down in the streets,
and many tile and slate torn from the
roofs of houses.
The brig Rcmfi, Capt. Lark bound
to Washington, (N. C.) was driven
from her anchors, and is ashore on the
flats, opposite Mount Pleasant, ( 11 acl -
di ell Point) she has on board about
3000 bushels of salt, and when Capt. L.
left her yesterday was nearly full of
water.
The ship Isabella , broke from her
fast at Chisoln.’s south vvarf, and swing
ing round lay across the dock between
that and Chisom’s north vvhaif, appa
rently little injured. She has since
been restored to her former position.—
The Schr. Burrows, at D’Oylev’s
vvhaif, with a cargo of staves and
shingles on boat'd, bilged and &unk.
The Sloop Coin. Perry, at Edmond
ston’s wharf patted her fasts, and came
in contact with the brigs Trader , and
llafud —carried away her jib-boom,
some of her stanchions, and did some
trilling injury to the brigs.
The Schr. James Madison , at Fi'z
simons’what Iliad her stern stovein,
and one of her quarters injured.