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i Cm == FOREIGN SUM_>f\RY. On the 25th June, in tbe house of commons, JSr. But- terworth gave notice of a motion for the next day, for ^extracts of the dispatches received by the government? from the colonies, respectingthe proceeding of the mis sionaries in the two last years. General Thornton moved that ari address be presented to the prince regent, praying his royal highness to give orders for the erection of several free churches, in com memoration of the battles of Trafalgar and Waterloo.— This he considered the most acceptable manner of ex pressing our gratitude to our gallant defenders, and to the Giver of all Victory. He had received several letters, approving of his motion, from two of which he read ex tracts. After some remarks from the chancellor of the exche- u quer, it was negatived; it being: understood that the ad ditional churches will be built on a moderate plan and 'unconnected with the idea of monuments, for which they were deemed unfit. A writer in the Journal des Debats, in a critique of a translation ofRoscoe’s “Leo X,” speaks of the reforma tion in the severest terms; he says, that the pretended reformation has caused more evils to Europe than the french revolution; that almost every throne has been shaken by it, and that it has desolated all nations with the scourge of war. , The Morning Chronicle asserts, that according to ac counts from Sierra Leone, dated in the last week of April, every thing was quiet in that colon}'. The new chief justice, D. Hogan had arrived and wai sitting to Vy civil causes as recorder of Freetown, which put to gether with the silence of the letters as to any insurrec tion or disturbance, may be considered as ample proof of the faleshood of the American story lately in circulation, Stating, that the blacks had massacred the whites. Mr. Smith, an Englishman, has been lately liberated from the dungeons of Paris, after near four months im prisonment, and published an account of his confinement. The cause of his incarceration, was that he knew the cor respondent of the Morning Chronicle in Paris, but would not inform the police of his name. At repeated inter rogations he refused to disclose it; and was at last deliv ered by the interference of the British minister. During the month of February last, “no less than twelve slave-ships entered the port of Bahia, Brazil, from the coast of Africa, with full cargoes of men, women and children, to the great disgrace of all concerned.” So, British treaties with Portugal, the boasted activity of Bri tish cruixers to prevent the traffic, and the famous decla ration of the congress of Vienna prove to be—nothing. Mr. 'Efavy, the celebrated chemist, mineralogist and geologist, has been justly complimented in parliament for his invention of a safe lamp, calculated to give liglit in mines and Save the miner’s lives by preventing explo sions. Yesterday (June 25,) Mr. Kean received from the hands of Mr. Palmer, (the father of the Drury Lane stage) the magnificent Cup which the committee and the performers awarded him for his admirable performance of Sir Giles Overreach. The ceremony took place at two o’clock on the stage. A French woman, who was lately condemned to ten years imprisonment, “for stabbing a man, at his own re quest, who wished to commit suicide, has appealed for a revision of her sentence.” The reverend sir H. Bate Dudley, has distinguished him self as a commander in putting down riot in England, and in preaching occasional sermons; uniting the beauty and energy of the Cassock and the sword in his august person. He is likewise a magistrate !! Cobbett’s Register of June 22, relates the following; ■*i\ singular and very mysterious affair has just happen ed in the neighborhood of London. Several days ago, perliaps twelve, a review of the troops was, in the public papers, said to be about to take place, on a spot called Wimbledon Common, about five miles from London. Spectators assembled; but there was no review. It is ad ded that a heath, at a little distance, was, by some acci dent, set on fire, and that “it was feared that this might provoke the mob to set the wood on fire; but the seasonable arrival of the ouiRDS restored tranquility.”—This wood ij a country seat of lord Liverpool. Thus, you see, these guards are things by no means kept for mere show. They are things of real utility.” A London puper gives us a specimen of •‘sacred songs, duets and trios,” by T. Moore, Quaere, is this sacred melodist the same who translated Anacreon, and wrote little’s poems? If he be, we cannot but smile at the ambition of a man who seems determined to furnish po etical repasts for “all manner of persons” and palates. Columbian. A superb statue of Mr. Fox has been erected in Bloomsbury square, London. It is in bronze, the workmanship of Mr. Westmacott, and does him high ho nor. The surplus of the sum subscribed for the monu ment in Westminster Abbey of this great and lamented patriot, has been devoted to this very beautiful work. It is reported that the senate of Lubeck have ordered the Jews settled there to leave that city. A London ed itor inveighs very feelingly against this superstitious act of injustice, and thinks it sufficient cause (if true) for de priving that city of her privileges; that the treatment which the Jews have received has been a disgrace to all nations, See. A Grand Canal.—We learn from Sweden that no do mestic questions have diverted the public mind from the canal which is to open the communication with the North Sea and the Baltic. London, June 23. By private letters from Paris we learn that a Somewhat singular report prevails there respecting the late nego tiations between the courts of Spain and Portugal. The court of Brazils, it is said, proposes to cede all the Por tuguese territory in Europe to the crown of Spain in change for a large part of the Spanish South American possessions. With the view, as is supposed, of conquer ing these latter from the insurgents, either as a principal or an an ally, most of the Portuguese troops have been drawn from Lisbon to the Brazils. Buenos Ayres is cer tainly unable to hold out long against any powerful at tack; and on the other hand, however indisposed the inhabitants of Portugal may be to submit to the Spanish yoke, it does not appear that they possess any means of resistance in the absence of their soldiery. We know not what foundation there may be for these speculations. French politicians are never easy without discovering, or fancying that they have discovered, some deep intrigue; but if any manoeuvres of the sort are really going on, it would be desirable that our influence at the court of the 'Brazils should be a little better supported than it has been of late. We believe there is no British minister of smy rank there at present, b June 29. * For several days past a report has been current in the ^litical circles, that the earl of Liverpool is about to "jgn his situation as first lord of the treasury, and he wh'^be accompanied in his retirement by Mr. Vansittart, th*‘icellor of the exchequer. The retreat of the earl of crejrpool is occasioned, we understand, by his declining ®°fith; his physicians having advised him to try the bene- T- the spa waters. We shall know, in a day or two, t^Okat heterogenous manner the new administration ticulige composed.—Morning Chronicle. first ^ MEDITERRANEAN NEWS. Jg Tonis, May 3. f On the 30th of April last, at nine o’clock in the even- «nr. all the gates of the town being closed, and the soldiers, to the number of three thousand, issued from their quarters, and having divided themselves into small parties, proceeded, by different routes, to the palace of the governor of the town, and the houses of the chief lords of the court. They had taken care, in -the mean time, to seize on the gates of the town. In less than half an hour, they became masters ofTunis, and of the ci tadel of Gaspa. The divan were immediately assembled, and were compelled to pronounce the deposition of Ma- hamud Dacha, and of the bey, Sidi-Assen. Sidi-Musta- pha, brother of Mabamud, and Semain Bey, his uncle, were proclaimed in their places. The Barde was appriz ed of this event by a message which required a surrendei to the divas on the following morning. The Turks set tled in the town, and the principal inhabitants conceived that Sidi-Muatapha and Semain Bey had planned this re volution with the soldiers. We passed the night in the most painful anxiety, dreading every instant the excesses «/an unbridled soldiery, who ran through the streets in disorder, and without any determined object. At six in the miming, ofthe 1st of May, the divan en- <Jt.»*-•••« •• <%»-«-• it**-- edorders that ffersons and fwbberty*s!iotit<f be respect-iprivite causes lor pfubuk. IHk a fault found wjthther Weave batfwo small Ware* in which there will be afederti ■ '* ' - -- 1 r- - -Vi majority in general^ballot. ~ Only sixteen years ago fir ,_ " 1 ’’ ’ inipa 4-U* ^ . Lit.* ed: an .official message wait addressed to ib£ foreign con suls, announcing to them the nomination of the new Ba ch* and Bey, With an invitation to raise the flags of their respective nations in sign of peace and friendship. But the revolutionaries soon received the answer of the Barde; by which he apprized ‘ them that Sidi-Mustapha and Se main Bey “declare that they would not separate therri- uelvea from the -party of the Bacha arid of Sidi-Assen, Bey; that they were ready to die in their defence, and that in theic-quality of nearest relatives of the sovereign they would take no part in the revolt against him.” At tiu* moment the plans of the rebels were discon certed, and it was clearly seen, that their object was to replace the existing government, by an elective Turkish government. In reality, one of their principal officers, Deli-Ali, had nominated himself Bacha. The first act of his power had been to grant his accomplices the pillage of the town for eight days, an augmentation of pay, and the abolition of several imposts. Happy for us, some of the less violent were of opinion, that before all, it would be necessary to seize on the Goletta, an essential point of communication to secure a retreat, in case of accident, and to provide themselves with powder and ball. This opinion prevailed, and we were saved. They re sorted also to send to Constantinople, a petition signed by the principal personages of the town, whom .they would have arrested, declaring to the grand seigneur, that the people of this regency could no longer endure the bad government of Mahamud and his son, and pray ing him to confirm the new Turkish Bacha, whom they had put in his place. This petition being signed, one of the officers offered to undertake, with four hundred of the most determined Turks, the expedition against the Goletta, and proceeded on it at night-fall. Hardly nad they departed from the town, when those who had remained with (he intrusive Deli-Ali, instead of obeying liis sanguinary orders, threw themselves on him, disarmed, and cast him into a dungeon, as the principal author of the revolt, and supplicated the bey to grant a general amnesty to the other Turks, who, they said, had been seduced, and led away from their duty. Tranquili ty was tiius established almost without exertion. In the mean time those who had marched against the Goletta, apprized of this last event, lost no courage.— They continued their march, and about one o’clock in the morningthey carried the fort, which submitted after a weak resistance. Had they desired to maintain them selves there, tiiey might easily have resisted all the ef forts of their enemies, and preserved the key ofTunis, but it seems their sole design was to proceed to the Le vant. They seized on five corsairs of the town, ready for'-sea, that they might be enabled to perform their voy- age. On the morning of the 2d, they commenced plundering the houses of the Kaya, of the Christians, and of the Jews, established at the Goletta, throwing into the canal what they could not carry off, and spiking the cannon; they were preparing to set fire to the arsenal and all the shipping, but the sudden and miraculous appearance of the English frigate Euphrates, which cast anchor in the port, all at once interrupted their pro ject, and saved from the flames the Spanish, English and French ships which were in the harbor. Apprehensive then of being severely handled, the re bels hastened their departure, and about II o’clock in the morning, they embarked to about the number of seven hundred, on board the five corsairs, setting sail with a favorable northwest wind, in the direction of Constantinople. At that moment arrived by land, the Sidi-Assen, the bey, with a large body of cavalry. He found nothing but the smoking traces of plunder and conflagration.— In this confusion, and in spite of the failure of their en- terprize, the authors of the revolution have still had the good fortune to save and carry off the best corsairs of the regency. This morning (May 3) the intrusive Deli-Ali and one of his accomplices were strangled, ami search is still making to discover tbe authors and ramifications of the conspiracy.—Gazette of Madrid. The following is an extract of a letter, received at Rome: The accounts of the disturbances at Tunis, which reach us by way of Naples, are very contradictory; some letters state, that the bey was assassinated; others inform us, that he voluntarily resigned the government to his son, while a third class assure us, that he retired to a for tress, where he defended himself, with his brother, who had previously refused to assume the reigns of the admi nistration. But all letters agree in stating, that the insur rection was caused by the treaty concluded between the bey and lord Exmouth. They add that one thousand re bels embarked in five large Spanish vessels, wiiich they armed with thirty cannon, and sailed towards Italy. As they had but little provisions, they must soon disembark. We wait with impatience the part which the English will take. This is a new proof of the stability of treaties con cluded with the barbarians! Bisehte, May 26. There has just arrived from Bona one of the vessels which escaped from that harbor. According to the ac count of the sailors, it appears certain that in consequence of the insurrection ^gainst the Christians, at least sixty persons had perished. The pillage was general. The house of the English agent was sacked, but himself es caped. All the Christians, to the number of nine hun dred, were arrested and put in irons. They were threat ened with instant death, and all suffered dreadful agonies. These unhappy persons remained in this state till the day following. The English consul went to them to en courage them, and assured them that every thing would be restored to order, and that they had nothing more to fear; but some hours after they were set at liberty, ail the Christians took to flight with their vessels in every direction. The authors of this insurrection are Arabs and Turks, They are now endeavoring to exculpate themselves, by accusing each other. xfp' « From the London Examiner. There is a sonnet in the Spanish language, which sets out with proposing to write a poem, goes on complain ing of its difficulty, and finally discovers that it has achiev ed the requisite 14 lines, and so concludes. We are somewhat in the sonnetteer’s situation this week. Wait ing to see the result of a particular question, which was postponed, and having been mucii occupied previously with other matters, we found ourselves left without a subject for our present article, or suddenly compelled rather to chuse out of such a variety, that we fairly be gan to write, and shall probably finish, without having fixed upon any. We shall write an article of tiie proper length: and that is all we can undertake. To be sure, there is not only abundance of subjects, but the subjects in themselves are abundant. The ques tion of military dictation has been gloriously put an end to; but there is the Catholic question—there is th e liberty of the press—there are tvtfies, Elgin Marbles, royal marriages, French insurrection—and the ministerial pa pers this week have been worse than absurd. It is to no purpose; all this, as we have often experienced, only makes the matter worse. There is just enough choice to create indecision to overcome it. This perhaps is letting the reader into a secret, and may not be much wiser than taking a spectator at the theatre behind the scenery;—but, at any rate, it may serve to shew, that we do not wish to impose on him, or to be reckoned for graver and more methodical per sons than we are. We prefer truth to effect; and do not care who takes us for fellows in the prime of life instead peaceable inhabitants retired to their houses, the Turkish' of grey-beards. He may even fancy, if he will, that »we prefer a poem to Mr. Rose’s pamphlets, or go so far as to suppose us capable of yawning over Schedule D. of one of Mr. Banker’s Reports. We do not deny it. We only wish that other editors would be as candid; and then—how the town would be enlightened! and what an alteration in the grave faces of thousands that wait im patiently for the coming in of their newspapers, half careless of their tea and who imagine, while they are holding the streaming oracle to the fire, that they are going to be made acquainted with all sorts of intelligent opinions and pure matters of fact. It is the same with court and cabinet. Our readers are acquainted with things called Secret Memoirs and other court scandals) with which the French literature in particular abounds. Doubtless these are full of falsehoods, but there is as little doubt also, that in these, and not in the grader public histories, are to be found the real springs ofthe policy that has regulated or rather disturbed Europe from first to last. It is in Die political as in the natural world. We see only the su- perfices of things, mid not eren that correctly. We take -""•rt- •♦mnked 'rtr^strait, tangs for rulers, ancient historians, that they are fortracing every event to grand sources.' The same fault may pe found with •modern. A historian is mord liable to itthan any other writer, especially as he is apt to come to his task with such an exclusive notion of the'dignity of writing histo ry. There is a Quixotism in 'all the griivest a» well as wildest things, that mistakes windmills for giants; and tile historian looks great anil serious, and then mistakes his sejf-love for the nature of his subject. But princes and their connections are not merely like other people in their passions and affections; they are apt, unless from some strong and early circumstances of counteraction, to be still more subject to petty passions and influences; and supposing them but just like every body else, what an effect must their private life have upon their public. 1 — It is pretty well known from Bolingbroke and others, and even from the duchess of Marlborough herself) that the politics and great events of queen Ann’s reign, were owing chiefly to the petty passions of her majesty’s suc cessive favorites, the duchess and lady Masham. V ol- taire draws up a curious genealogical tree from these ladies for the present reigning family at Naples. Their little quarrels, he says, “gave rise to the treaty between the queen and Louis 14th; the treaty paved the way tor the peace of Utrecht; the peace of Utrtcht settled Phi lip 5th on the throne of Spain:—Philip 5th took Naples and Sicily from the house of Austria; so that the Spanish prince, who is now king of Naples, owes his throne to my lady Masham; and would not have enjoyed it. nay perhaps he would not even have been born, if the duch ess of Marlborough had been more complaisant to the queen of England. His existing at Naples is owing to a^piece of nonsense at the court of London.” 1 The events of Europe at the present momeht happen to depend upon grandeur* and more public circumstances than usual; but similar petty causes liuve doubtless a great influence as far as courts are concerned. There arc a few ostensible rulers who are really such, and few of the real ones who rule from any thing like a true spirit. King Ferdinand, for instance, is supposed to reign at Madrid; but it is evidently the monks and an embroidered petticoat that settle every thing. The king of Naples regulates nothing but his fowling-piece:—and the French ruler who appears to superficial view a cor pulent smiling gentleman, who never pardons, is in re ality a superstitious junta, headed by a passionate wo man. Even in what his majesty does, it is doubtful how far lie himself, abstractedly and morally speaking, is con cerned; and whether this inexorable faculty of his is not rather to be traced to his soups and ragouts; whether marshal Xey was not in a manner shot with' forcedmeat balls—whether it was not a faction ot mushrooms that in vited his majesty to commute the sentence of Boyer and the other to ten and twenty years’ imprisonment; and whether it must not have been an indignation that refus ed to pardon the other day the person recommended to mercy even by a severe court of justice. J * Diet. Philos. Tom. 8. Chaine des Evenemens; Cologne, June 12. Steam Boat.—To day about noon, we enjoyed a sight equally novel and entertaining; a pretty large vessel with out a mast, ascending the Rhine, and proceeding with as tonishing rapidity, arrived before the city. All the ves sels stationed on the Rliine, in this neighbourhood, were in a moment covered with spectators, to see the arrival of this vessel which is a Steam Boat coming from Lon don, and bound to Frankfort. Every body was eager to view the progress, the motions and the organization of this master piece of art. This vessel left Rotterdam the 6th. The passengers affirm that it can go twenty-five leagues a day. By a rough calculation, the invention of steam engines gives the English nation daily a profit of 50,000 pounds sterling, by the saving in manual labor. There are now ply ing on the Clyde sixteen steam boats all of which, excepting two are soleiy employed in the con veyance of passengers. The cost and outfit of which could not be less than 60,000b The prince Regent of England, the national organ, for mally prorogued parliament on the 2d of July, to the 24th of August. On this occasion, the prince was addressed by the commons; after which he delivered a speech from the throne, which, in these dull times, contains nothing interesting to readers this side the Atlantic. The prince very fee *ugly regrets the continuance of the king’s la mented indisposition; and then congratulates the nation on the happy marriage of his daughter to prince Cobourg. "file prince regent also informs parliament, that he has given his consent to a marriage between tbe princess Ma ry and the duke of Gloucester, which, he calculates, will also be gratifying to his Britannic majesty’s subjects.— JYew-Fork Gazette, 15th inst. From the Gleaner of August 2. CARDEN AND THE MACEDONIAN. The editor of the Gleaner was on a tour through a part of New England and happened to be at New London when commodore Decatur came into port with his prize the Macedonian—the crew of which he then had on board the United States. At that time the following cir cumstances were related to him: While the Macedonian was building in the river Thames, a short time previous to the late war, general Williams of Norwich, (Con.) was in England, and was invited among other Americans then there to go and see the Macedonian launched. He attended, in company with captain Carden, who had already' been selected as commander of the new frigate. At that time much was said by captain Carden to the Ahiericans concerning the excellent construction of the ship, and the superior state in which he intended she should be finished. About a year afterwards it happened that general Williams was at Lisbon while the Macedonian was there, and was invited by captain Carden to go on board his fri- f ate which he said was in complete order, and had the nest crew in the British navy. While on board, the commander took occasion to speak in the highest terms of his ship, and made some comparisons between the Macedonian and the frigates of the United States, very- unfavorable to our navy, and turning to tile General— “such a ship as this, sir,” said he, “never was built in the United States!!—your’s have calico sides when compared to this!!” “I am not the best judge of ship building,” said the general, “but I am induced to believe there are few better built ships than those which compose the Ameri can navy.” “Boor calico things,” replied Carden, “I was out a few months since to America, where I saw your boasted frigate the United States:—why she is not to be compared, sir, with the Macedonian.” “That may be,” replied the general, “but as the relations between the two countries are very much unsettled, some of your frigates may have an opportunity of comparing themselves side by side with the United States.” Immediately on receiving the news of the capture and arrival ofthe Macedonian, general Williams hastened to New London to pay his compliments to captain Carden, when a prisoner on board the same ship he had affected to despise. The meeting was such as might have been expected—captain Carden was much more disposed to talk ofthe flavor of the wine, the hospitality of the Ame ricans, &c, than to compare the British and American fri gates. VOX POPULI—VOX DEI. It is an old saying, that what every body says must be true. The relative merits and demerits of the federal party have been under examination now for twenty years; and after all what does every body say? Since the abolU tion of federal gag laws, there has been no restraint on the freedom of public discussion, and God knows the federal istafcave taken the full benefit of the license grant ed them by the republicans in this respect. No sooner was the gag taken out of their mouths than they began, and for sixteen years have continued to slander and vilify every prominent republican and patriot in every state of the union—and after all, what is the result? The two parties have had a full trial at the bar of that generally unerring tribunal, public opinion, and what is the verdict pronounced by eight millions of people? let us compare the numerical weight of the two parties: r Rhode Island with^a population of about 80,000 souls Connecticut 270 000 Massachusetts v 700*000 Delaware 80^000 Comprise tbe whole ofthe states which are decidedly fe deral—the united population of which amounts to 1,130,000 souls; whilst, on the other hand, we*£numer- aUtfourteen republican states and four territorial govern ments, with a population of more than six millions • a majority of. si* to one; mid p^baps another ralism controlled the destinies of this nation 0 it power and forgot right;” if ruled with a rod of i TO , Look at it- now-~-“How blank its features, and how its liu^s!” how are the mighty fallen! Is this great falii- off no evidence of the badness of its principles’ Yes!" ^ speaks volumes, unless indeed, as federalists contend “the people are their own worst enemies,” public send ment gross delusion, and the public voice mere inocke ry. Suppose, in relation to any common occurence s jl persons out of seven, who were present, were to affirm one thing—die seventh man affirms the opposite—which should we believe, according to the plain rules of coir mon sense and judgment? We should certainly admitthe evidence of the six, and reject that qf the seventh. Sun. pose any speculative subject be submitted to the i m - e )T tigation^pf seven men—six of them coincide in the for" mation of a certain conclusion—the other man forms a different one—whose conclusion would any prudent man adopt? Cert:dnly that whifcli had obtained die assent and eonviedon of six out of seven. Apply this rule— throughout, the whole population of the United Stav" six voters out of seven have, for sixteen years declared the federal party unworthy of being trusted by the p (r ,_ pie, and the republican party to be the true friends of the people’s rights—and so will they, under the smile of heaven, long continued—we may lose a county or a shite through the means of temporary delusion, or the epheme ral influence of an ambitious faction—but the national government must and ever will be wielded bv republi cans.—-Baltimore Patriot. From the Democratic Press of August 12. THE EXECUTION. On Saturday morning last, about nine o’clock, a crowd began to assemble in the vicinity of the Philadelphia prison, to see Richard Smith brought forth to be taken pursuant to sentence, to the place of execution, to sutler death for the murder of captain John Carson, in the month of January last. The crowd continued to in. crease, not only in the neighborhood of tbe prison, but in the streets through which it was known he was to pass until fifteen minutes after ten o’clock, when the gates of the prison on Sixth-street were tiirown open, and tile procession began to move forward. The public officers ofthe city and county, and many respectable citizens on horseback and on foot, preceded and followed the cart The high sheriff of the county, from extreme indispose tion, was unable to ride, yet a high sense of dutv impel!, ing him to be present, he was seated in a gig "with ta co roner. The impression upon the crowd when the gates w— thrown open and the cart appeared, was of a char. - • of melancholy not easily to be described. Curiosri r. sell’ seemed hushed, not a sound was heard, a solemnV. leuce pervaded the whole assembly. The running hither and tluther of boys, the pusiiing of men, and crowdin* together of women, was all oter, and mothers pressed their little ones to their bosoms with more than a mo. tiler’s anxiousness. The cart was driven by the execu tioner, a black man, just behind* him, and with his b: ck towards the horse: on a low seat was placed the unh;.p- py Smith, by him sat the rev. Mr. Hurley, the officiating minister of the gospel, who had attended him since his conviction. In the rear of the cart, sat a gentleman who humanely volunteered to hold an umbrella over the heads of the clergyman and the prisoner, to shelter them from the rays ot a blazing sun. The prisoner was genteely dressed in a dark blue frock coat and dark under clothes; the priest sat with his head and body inclining to the pri soner, who was in a similar position in relation to the priest, and tuus, devoutly intent upon the solemn reli gious exercise they were reading, the procession passed through the multitude. It moved with more than ordina ry rapidity, for notwithstanding the interruption inci dent to crowded streets, and that the distance was a mile and a half, it reached the place of execution in thirty mi nutes from the time it had left the gaol. The cart being under the gallows, the priest continued in prayer with the prisoner for fifteen minutes, when in- quiry being made if the prisoner was ready and ansv c .- in the affirmative being returned, preparations for the last sad act appeared to be making, and the eyes oilt thousands of spectators wefe directed with more ihsa heretofore anxiety to the scene of sorrOw. The pnest rose irom his seat; some friends of the prisoner pressed around the curt and gasped him by the hand for the lust time. IV hen Snath himself stood up a murmur of pity was heard from every mouth. How could it be other wise! A stripling about five feet ten inches high, of an interesting aspect, deeply impressed with his awful situa tion; a youth, but in the morning of his days, stood be fore them in the full vigor of health, and yet bat a mo ment and he would be violently thrust from the stage of human life and consigned to the grave. In his deport ment was no display of fortitude, but there was a manly resigiation to his fate, and he seemed rather fluent on the world to come, than the world he was about to leave. His crime was wholly forgotten or remembered but to be wept over and forgiven. The trembling agitation of die almost exhausted priest was evident; all that Chris- tian love and more than ministerial duty enjoined had been done; hope was vivid for faith was in its fulness, yet human nature coultl hardly sustain the conflict of its own feelings, and it would have sunk under the trial had not some friendly arm intervened until the spirits rallied back to the heart and the soul collecting all its energies he poured forth his last blessing, with streaming eves im plored a last forgiveness and straining the uiirupp’’ young man to his bosom he resigned him to the merev ci his Creator and sunk in a state of insensibility into the arms ot friends who bore him away. If such, O vesaad more than we can give any adequate idea of, were the feelings of the reverend gentleman who attended on this melancholy occasion, what must have been the sent. rnents of the poor devoted being who stood upon tbe brink of eternity. No pen coutd describe, no poxil paint them. They were dimly seen through a mist of tears by thousands whose hearts ached at the sight— When all the fatal arrangements were made and he was launched into eternity, there was a general and involun tary shriek of horror; sobs and groans were heard on every side and fervent prayers were offered up—nnv they have ascended to the tin-one of Heaven, and muv his sins have been forgiven him. Hiere were tens of thousands of spectators, there wer; of ali ag-es, sexes and conditions, to behold this iwiul warning all behaved with the most perfect decoinui, the most respectful attention; all were solttuniy impress ed; all coimiusserated the unhappy young man. Richard Smith is no more. He is dead and buried — His crime has been expiated by his blood. He repented of uis offences; he forgave his enemies; with a contrite heart he humbled himself before the footstool ofhishcd; he trusted in the promises that have been made, anil He died as one hoping to be forgiven tlirough the redeem ing-blood of ihe Lord Jesus Christ. May his hopes be realized, and in the fulness of time, clothed with righte ousness as a garment, may he rise to life and immortality. • MOURNFUL CATASTROPHE. We learn, from undoubted authority, that a young woman, of good character, made away with herself 0!I Thursday last, about a mile from Hoboken ferry, where her body was found, and brought te this city and inter red on Friday, agreeably to the request in the following memorandum, which was found in her bosom. “That whoever finds my body may have some means of discovering who I am, I will give you the following particulars; “I was bora in the town of Rye, state of New-York; in my early life L lived with an aunt in that place. f° r these three years past I have resided in the city of New* York, and have committed many errors, but no. hideous crimes. My parents are now living in New-York. Ene* mies, have persuaded my mother against me; she t)j> treated me with th£ greatest coolness ever since I lived with her. It is this that has driven me to this horrid act- Why should I wish to live?—I have no friends; no * wishers; m v parents despise me. Who should I look “S for comfort?—I am determined to die! , “How shall I meet an avenging and justly offended God! How shall I appear at his bar, to answer this las offence!—I hope you will have the goodness to infony my parents where I am. My parents live at So. U J > Lombardy-street, New-York. My name is P—— -' I I'huve not completed my 18th year; but misfortuo- have brought me to this untimely death! I came litre that I might effect my purpose unobserved. I bid my dear sisters farewell! May Heaven bless you, and motfrgg be iMpdcp tq you, and love you better tijsss^