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>r- rr iful UttteiPoem^aayS iife editor trier) »the production of C*ptkn „ „ „ officer in the army of the Lmted Stales, npt ST 11*4“ *“ -^rith additional interest, when the reader is apprised, that ‘tfce author was himself m the battle.] . A NIGHT VIEW * or THK FIELD OF K.VISIN, AFTER THE BATTLE. Jfhe battle's o’er, the diin is past, fright's shadow on the field is cast; The Moon, with pale and sickly beam, Looks pensive on the bloody stream; The-Indian yell is heard no more, And silence reigns on Erie’s shore. Now is the time, my friend, to tread 'the field on which our warriors bled; i To raise the wounded chieftain’s crest, And warm with tears his clay-cold breast, To treasure up his last command And bear it to his native land— ft may one ray, of joy impart To a fond parent’s bleeding heart, Or, for a moment, it may dry . The tear-drops in the widow s eye; Vain hope, away'—The widow ne’ef Her hero’s dving wish shall hear! The Zephyr Bears no passing sigh, No struggling chieftain meets the eye Sound is his sleep by Raisin’s wave, OrE lie’s waters are his grave. O! send, sWeet Moon, one ray of light; Across the dusky brow of night, That 1 may know each warrior’s form Who sunk beneath the battle-storm. -Gradual, the heavy clouds^giye way— The Moon-beams on the waters play; * See, on the brink, a soldier lies! •J’ale is his vissage, dim his eyes, And 1 like a stranded vessel’s sail His red locks wanton on the gale. It is the gay and' gallant Mead—- In peace, mild as -the setting beam That gilds the tranquil summer stream— In war, the fiery battle steed. The foe, no more, shall dread his arm, His mirth, no more, the ear shall charm; >But on his low and silent grave, The laurel, tresh and green, shall wave. But, who is he, so pale and low, Stretched on this bloody bier of snow, Beside the waters’ silent flow? The fierce fire of his eye is dead, The ruddy glow, his cheek has fled; . Yet fair in death his corps appears; Smooth is his brow and few his years. For thee, sweet youth! the sigh shall start In thy fond mother’s anguish’d heart; For thee, some virgin’s cheek shall feel -At midnight hour, the tear-drops steal; And play-mates of thy childhoods’ hour, Four o’er thy grave griefs’ warmest show’r. Could modest merit ever save, Its dear possessor from the grave; Thy corps, Montgomery, ne’er had lain, Upon tins wild unhallow’d plain! But what were modest merit here? Or what Were virtues’ pleading tear? The hand that laid that hero low, The eye that saw his life-blood flow, Could ga£e, unmov’d, on scenes of wo. Theft, sleep sweet youth, tho’ faraway From home and friends, thy lifeless clay. Yet oft on fancy’s pinions borne, Friendship shall seek thy lowly urn; There shall the Zephyr softly blow, .There shall the billows gently flow;- There shall the wild flow’r love to bloom; And shed its fragrance on thy tomb. Close by bis side, young Me Ivain Lies stretched upon the bloody plain! Upon bis Vissage smooth and mild Death calmly sat and sweetly swil’d; Y« seem’d his eye, of tender blue. Moisten’d witb pity’s pearly dew: *Tis thus the infant sinks to rest JSerenely on its mothers’ breast. Yes, pity was his better part, Bity and ■friendship form’d his heart, Nor oft was heart so good and kind, United with such noble mind, .Here venturous muse, thy flight restrain, No farther go—the task is vain— Mere Graves and Allen meet the eye. And Simpson's giant form is nigh! And Edmumlon, a warrior old, And Hart, the boldest of the bold. These; and their brave compatriot band. Ask the sedate Historian’s hand— Mine only strews the fading flow’rs Which tnem’ry calls from friendship’s bow’rs Ilis shall entwine immortal bays, Which Brighter glow thro’ future days. ANECDOTE OF SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS TITLES. James M‘Ardell, the mezzotino engraver., having taken a very good printfrom the portrait of Rubens, came with it one morning to sir Jo shua Reynolds, to inquire if he could inform him particularly of the many titles to which Rubens f»d a right, in order to inscribe them properly under his print; saying he believe that Rubens had been knighted by the kings of France, Spain and England; tvas secretary of state to Flan ders, and to the privy council in Spain; and had been employed in a ministerial capacity from the court of Madrid to the court of London, to ne gotiate a treaty of peace between the crowns, and that he was alsoa magistrate of Atwerp, &c. Dr. Johnson happened to be in the room with air Joshua at the time, and understanding M‘Ar- dell’s inquiry, interfered rather abrutly, say ing ^pooh! pooh! put his name under the print, Peter Paul Rubens, that is full sufficient, and more than all the rest.” This advice of the Doctor’s was accordingly followed. nance W °A* ENwMA.^At a banquet, wbenjsolving igiuas was one of the diversions, Alexander ,oia to his courtiers^ 4 What is that which did not come last year, has hot .come this year, and will not corae’next year?” , /A distressed officer, startingup, said—‘*Ii cirtiiinly i*u*t be owtar-i rears of pay.”* The king ’fras so diverted, that le commanded him to be paid up; and also in creased his salary. AN EXTRACTS. Tacitus says early marriage,makes us immor tal. It is the soul and chief prop of empire.— That man who resolves to >ivi without woman and that woman, who t<-* *•- • to live without man, are enemies to the tohii' :. ..y in which they dwell, injurious to themselves, distinctive to the world, apostates from nature, and rebels against heaven and earth. Fynti Cobbett’s Weekly Register May 25; John Bull’s Ambassador to America was, it would appear, disappointed at the reception he met with on his landing in your country.— My authority is the following paragraph; pub lished in our newspapers. “The Narcissus, captain G. A. Croftoii, ar rived at Portsmouth, on Thursday, from Hali fax and Bermuda. The Niger, captain Jack- son, had arrived at Halifax, having landed the honorable Mr. Bagbt, ambassador to America, at Annapolis. Mr. Bago^ had no reason to feel flattered with the reception he experienced. It appeared to the officers of the Niger, that the Americans were apprehensive, should they even suffer their natural curiosity to be gratified at the moment, it might give a degree of eclat to the arrival of the English ambassador; they therefore shut themselves up in their houses.— They could not fire a salute,as their guns up on the 1 fort were out of order. Eight of the Niger’s men deserted from the boat, and no au thoritative aid could be obtained to discover their retreat. The Niger, so soon as she had landed all the ambassador’s suite, proceeded to Halifax, and was there preparing to receive on board general sir John Sherbrook, for Quebec, he having been appointed governor of Upper Canada. The Narcissus was 18 days from Ber muda. She has sailed for the river to be paid off.” What flattering did Mr. Bagot want, I won der? Did he expect you to run out and prostrate ^yourselves before him, and lick his hand, or nis shoes? What! these “officers of the Niger” expected, I suppose, that the people of Anna polis, were to range themselves in two lines with bare heads for the honorable Mr. Bagot to walk through? He ought, I suppose, as they thought, to have his way strewed with flowers to the city of Washington, that grand scene of the exploits of Ross andCockburn? “Eclat” in deed! what eclat should the people of Annapolis make upon such annccasion? What cared they for the honorable Mr. Bagot any more than for another man? And what should they care? I do not believe, however, that they “shut themselves up in their houses” to avoid him. They are not such fools. But it is one the follies of John Bull’s gentlemen, that, wherever they go, they are surprised if all the world do not run gaping after them, and pulling off hats to them. The people of America care nothing about people.” If the “officers of the Niger” had wanted a shouting mob at the hhels of Mr. Ba got, they should have taken out a detachment of the bullet-proof-coach rabble, and such as those who followed “old Blucher” about. But, in order to have effected their purpose in a hand some manner, they should have carried out a dozen ton of strong beer as well as the rabble. Then Mr. Bagot would have been most cordial ly welcomed. “Fire a salute,” ineeed! What should an American fort fire a salute for upon such an occasion? What subject of joy was it to America, that an English public envoy had arrived? The silliness of all this surpasses even its conceit and impudence. Was it because is quite enoi accotfht of the tatei ygmHhat _ „ ithouta nfew War on rdftyqfthe people of Anna- BEATTIE & VOLTAIRE. There is a remarkable fine allegorical picture painted by sir Joshua, representingthe portrait ot Dr. James Beattie. The Doctor is in his uni versity dress as doctor of flaws, with his vo lume on the immutability of truth under his arm. 'The angel of truth is going before him 5 ; and beat- -*> ing dowp the,vices, envy,! falsehood, &c. which are represented by a group of figures falling at his approach, and the principle head in this group is made an exact likeness of Voltaire. When Dr. Goldsmith called on sir Joshua and saw this picture, he was very indiguarit at it, and remon strated with him, saying, “It very ill becomes a mao. of yourtemineui-e and character, sir Joshua, to condescend to be’a mean flatterer, or to wish . to degrade so high a genius as Voltaire before So c-’ mean Jwmter as Dr, Beattie.^—for Dr. Beattie 0*^4 together, will, in the,space of ten yeata^hUt he known ever to have been in exis tence,but your allegorical picture, and the fame of Voltaire, will live forever to your disgrace as a flatterer.” Useful Knowledge.—-The celebrated Mil- ton, while he was a youth, preparing to enter on hisfrsvels over Europe, asked advice of sir Hen ry Wooton, as to the general manner of conduct- fog himself; who gave .him the following rule: “Keep your thoughts close ? and your counte- Mr. Bagot was the son of a Lord that all this piece ot work, all this eclat, was to take place? Just as if the Americans had not seen lords, and knights, and honorables, before! Just as if they had not seen Sir George Prevost, Sir James Yeo, Sir Alexander and Sir John Cochrane, Sir E. Packenham, and the ever memorable Sir Geor ge Cockburn, to say nothing of Sir William Howe, Sir Henry Clinton, and Lord Cornwal lis? Smyth tells a story of the capture of Lord Percy, now Duke ofNorthumberland,ator just after, the battle of Lexington. The Yankee Soldiers had put his lordship in prison in a room of what we call a public house, and what you call a tavern, in some country place. The people of the neighborhood, who knew nothing of Lords except by hearsay, crowded to the ta vern to see the Noble Personage; when a youtig girl, who was looking through the window at him, exclaimed: “What! is that a lord, you? Come away Jemima!” The people of Annapolis have, I dare say, something else to do than to stare at Lords, or Lords’ sons, or at any such people. I’ll engage, that there were very few of them who knew who Mr. Bagot was, and not one who w ould have shut himself up in his fiouse for the sake of either avoiding him, or for any other purpose connected with ms arrival But, pray, when did the people here give any eclat to the arrival 'of an ambassador? And es pecially an American Ambassador?— When did we fire salutes upon sucli an occasion? Oh! we are big^John Buill Verily, this insolence is a little ill-timed as to America. It may do wjth regard to the poor, erawling r lousy wretches in Spain, Portugal, and Naples, and the other countries that are under the dread of England; but it will not do with regard to Amenta, ex cept, indeed as far as relates to the Cossacks of New England* who, -perhaps, might have been willing to crawl upon their bellies to give eclat to the arrival of a Lord’s son. The best way, upon such occasions, is for the Blue and Buff to hold their tongues. They can not complain with any effect. They can obtain no redress; for, I can assure them, that John Btjll, conceited gs he* is, is not prepared to add We hundred millions tq his debt; and twenty millions a year to his taxes, in order tb‘ave this pretended slight to the honorable C John will have to pay the t’s Salary and the expencei polis. No, no! “the officers ofthe Niger” will not succeed in otirring Up atrife between the two countries upon this -account. The history of the events of the last war is stin before us.. - But; they must Italic; they must send forth pa ragraphs; they must let'their anger haie vent. What in all the world but an Unconquerable propensity to do this could have induced them to publish to the world, that “Eight of the Ni ger’s men deserted from fov boat” which^land - ed the Amba'SSador? This must have been near ly the whole of theboat’3 crew. Now, what could be the cause of this? These were not. pressed men; for the ship was manned with pen ile enlisted since the peace. - It is well known, indeed, that she lay a good while waiting for men. We never hear of any American seamen deserting* At any rate, why was this fact told to the world?—Were the men bad men? If they were, it is well known, that the best of a crew are generally selected for such services; and what, then, were the rest of the ship’s company? And could no better men be enlisted? If they were good mep, what could make them leave their boat? Was the temptation so strong? If so, ithat was that temptation? What a country must that be, where such powerful temptations to remain exist?—These eight men, it seems, werfc not discouraged by the cold reception of the Ambassador. They 'clearly expected a dif ferent sort of reception. When our seamen and in Spain and Portugal, or any other of the Social Order countries, we never hear of their running away. The land ot America seems to be spread over with bird-lime; or, else, the people must have love-potvd«!r to give to our fel- ows. Be the cause what it may, however; the best wav would be, in all such cases, to hold our tongues; for, the complaint, which the statement of this fact was intended to introduce, was, that ‘no authoritative aid could be obtained to dis cover their ret reat.” This is the jet of the nar rative. This was the object principally in view. As if the government, or nation of America had in this case, committed an unjustifiable act against us; against England. In the first place, what should the people of Annapolis w ant these men to desert for? What good could their desertion do any of the people of Annapolis, or any other of the people of America? Why should any Governor, Justice of the Peace, or any body else, wish them to desert? And in the next place, how should any of the people have any thing to do in the inducing of them to de sert, or in the secreting of them, seeing that “all the people had shut themselves up in their houses?” No “authoritative aid could be ob tained,” certainly, because no Justice of the Peace could grant a warrant for any such pur pose. The moment the sailor was landed, the It ■of aw protected him, I presume, and I am sure it did, unless breach of contract could be urged in this case; and then, the affair would require le gal investigation. How was any magistrate to issue his warrant for discovering the retreat of these men? For, I would hare the English nation bear in mind, than an American’s house is real ly his castle, and is not to be stormed with impu nity. Suppose one of “the officers of the Ni ger” had forced his way into a house in search of any of his men, and had been shot by the owner or his servant, or by the sailor, by the owner’s command: do “the officers of the Niger” think that this would have been murder? I can assure them that itwould not. And, as to searching with a warrant, upon what ground was the warrant to be granted? What was the oath to express? It could not alledge, that the man to be searched for had committed any crime against without such al- ♦L' I i ro J Jgh i th ^ d,afl ^ of f t deial (say* the National Advocate) we hear of late, many accounts of the defeat of the Patriots in b 0 utq America. We lament to observe, that adis. position is manifested by this party in the Unit ed States to discourage and discountenance the efforts of that enslaved and unfortunate por tion of America to acquire liberty and indepe n dence. We are at a loss to conceive why 0n " unfavorable sentiment should exist towards the patriots. Subjected as South America has been and now is, to the barbarous and inhuman sw av of a most detestable and abhor ant tyrant—lab<!) ingunderacode oflaws as bloody as thatof Draco —c ivi fixation, humanity and learning, are banish ed the land --torture, flam es and inquisition aree/ tablished; promoted and encouraged; it wcuM seem that the feelings, the philanthropy and rj cordial co-operation of a neighboring nat-on f freemen ought to be enlisted in their behalf." We should not take up arms against the cauJ liberty, and declare the noble efforts ofemancL° l tion to be fruitless and unavailing. It is not th favorable sentiments of the people alone u eni.h to see enlisted, we are dtesirous that the *overn ment should countenance their efforts jtis sistent with our policy and institutions. \yl should favor the cause of others as we were f a vored while we w ere struggling with the p PT '. plexing difficulties ol a revolutionary war. Had we sunk under those struggles—had we des paired ol success—Imd we tamely submitted to slavery—had we permitted misfortune to depress our energies—had W e sunk into submission, the new world would have continued a wilderness and the Voice of the republic M ould not have been heard and respected in the cabinets of Europe. South America once independent; nd this independence must eventually happen gov erned by a constitution which guarantees civifand religious rights, equal liberty and equpllaw, the continent will asume a rank which Will place Eu rope at defiance, and the United States wi\\ derive the greatest benefits from contiguity of situation and a reciprocity of feeling. The extracts of letters which we occasionally see in the federal papers against the cause of the patriots, are the works ofthe agentsof Ferdinand the fthinthis coutitry, who are anxious to pre vent any assistance being given to them, or any favorable sentiments evinced in their behalf. *The sloop Schoharie, eapt. Forsyth, from St. JagodeCuba, spoke on the 12th inst. a ship from Havana, the captain of Which furnished the fol lowing intelligence: St was reported at Hava na (though wim caution) that Bolivar had re cruited his army with 2000 men,and had made a descent on some part of Spanish Maine, (place not mentioned) and had been completely suc cessful over the Royalist troops. Mina (lately from"PhiIadclphia.)'had landed on he east end ofthe Island of Cuba, with a considerable force, and the inhabitants in large numbers w ere Hock ing to his standard. Captain F. gives this only as the report communicated to him. As such we give it to our readers. There is nothing im probable in the substance of it.—Charleston Southern Patriot 18th inst. the laws of America; and yet. legation, I am very sure, that no search warrant could be le, O » m w is peace in America. What do these officers mean, then, by their complaint? There was no legal authority' to assist them. Did they want to suspend the settled laws of America? The sailors who had deserted had as good a claim to be protected by the law as the Ambassador him self had. Not that they did right in deserting: for they had voluntarily entered; but the laws of America were not to be suspended for the sake of Hieir being taken back to their duty. A jus tice of the peace, in England, has no legal au thority to issue a warrant to search for an Ame rican deserter, if such a man should ever exist in England. Why, then, should we think of claiming 9uch interposition in America? Are the laws of all countries to give way at our nod? In short, it is impudence and ignorance that sug gest the publication of articles like this. You will, I am sure, stick to your laws. - V* A correspondent at Philadelphia, under date of the 3d inst. says—“Girards’ having taken the balance ofthe United States’ Bank\ Stock is at present the only topic of conversation in this city. Indeed, he has completely overset the plans of a number of our speculators. As soon a9 the books were re-opened, Girard, having previous ly prepared his papers, claimed and obtained the whole of the unsubscribed balance; while others, intending to subscribe largely and not suspecting Girard’s project, were most wofully disappointed. I know of four persons who in tended to subscribe each two hundred thousand dollars^a.nd a fifth one hundred thousand. They had all purchased their specie at 11 or 15 per cent advance, and it is now not worth 10. FERDINAND AND JOSEPH II. The paragraph of the late news, relative to the rupture of foe matrimonal negotiation for some time oa foot between foe courts of Spain and Portugal, if true a circuumstance of which we have some dout, may be considered of much im portance to foe independent cause of South Ame rica. It was no doubt an object with Ferdinand, iff the union which he proposed, between himself and brother and two of the Brazilian Princesses, to secure the friendship and assistance of Joseph II. against theinsurgent* of BuonosAyres,&«-— Qf the causes which haye fed tft this rupture, ; we aH hAt informed—yet eyed if it leads, to a W ’ sen the two Ugfimates. we cannot s^y but we most sinserelyreioi.ee atit-i Matagorde, which the patriot Mexican fleet under commodore Aury, is said to have taken, is a Spanish port, about one hundred ar d twen ty miles to the southwest of the Balize, the mouth of the Mississippi. It is conjectured, that they will attempt to extend their conquests to the whole of that coast, inclusive of Pensacola —the last would prove incalculably serviceable, as a depot for the privateers, which hover around the Havana.—Richmond Compiler, September 10. Every one has heard the school boy spouting, “Oft has it been my lot to mark.” Many con sider the reptile there described as altogether fa bulous, and used only for foe purpose of expos ing a conceited pertinacious traveller; but a late writer has added his testimony to foe reality of its existence and powers. “Chameleons are very common in the gardens of Rosetta, and upon the island in the midst of foe river (Nile) where ve procured two, that lived with us until we finally left Egypt. These were large, and of a most vivid green color when first taken. Afterward/ their ordinary appearance was that of a common lizard, and we found, as they became unhealthy, that their power of changing color diminished. Indeed this effect, is seldom rapid or instanta neous. It seems always the result of sudden apprehension or surprize, whence the poor de fenceless animal, having no means of resistance, gradually assumes the color of some substance over which it. passes, beings thus provided by na ture with foe means of concealment. Frogs and toa ds appear to possess this quality in a certain degree, although it may have escaped the ob-i r- vation of naturalists. After these reptiles have remained a certain time upon a recently turned border of earth, their color so much resembles that of the soil that they are not easily perceived; and sometimes among grass, when alarmed by foe sudden approach of any other animal, they assume a greenish hue.”—Port Folio. The Baron de Grimm relates an extraordinary instance of foe insensibility of this eccentric au thor, in his historical and literary memoirs and anecdotes, which places the character of this lit erary veteran in no very agreeable point of view. Fontenelle was particularly fond of asparagus, but, preferred them very much dressed with oil. “One of his friends, I think th® Abbe Ternasson, going in one day intending to dine with him, M- ae Fontenelle, said that he would make a great sacrifice to him and have half foe asparagus dressed with butter. Before the time of dinner arrived however, the visitor was taken ill, and fell down after a few moments in an apoplectic fit; M., de Fontenelle, on this ran with great haste tio foe kitchen, calling out, all with oil, all with oil, But the most horrible part of his sto ry is, that a short time after, being at dinner with lord Hyde, when & dish of asparagus made a part ofthe bill of fare, he observed that what he bad said, Seemed to have brought them very much in to fashion?* Fontenelle lived to the age of nn hundred years, and retained the faculties of his mind to the last, almost unimpared. He was dean of foe French Academy, and of th® Ac*" deiqies of science and inscriptions; and was th® anfoor ot several philosophical works, whichiFjd * transmit h*s na*ie tptheiatest posterity-—T* 7- -— Li. mrnm