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AltlHlKS rir iia. PHILLIPS,
7h the electors of the county o/ .f/igu, on
- declining the foil.
B* iMgmt, gentlemen, it is With feel
tags rather of gratitude tlian of disappoint
ment, that I withdraw myse'.l from the
contest; upon the present occasion 1 find
that we cannot have * fair probability of
. soccers, and with ever/ personal rr»|rert
•for your late Members, and with the mast
bear licit affection for jog. I do nut feel
thyself warranted in putting them to the
expense, or yon to the inconvenience, ne
cessarily consequent on a contested elec
tion. The state of your registry, which 1
base but just received, has compelled in
to this determination. It is an .istonigo-
in; and disgraceful fact, tnat such is the
political apathy ol your country, that one-
‘twentieth of it* freeholders are not regis
tered. The only privilege which the pen-
•pi? are left, is the elective franchise, anil
even this, it seems, they have not the spir
it to exercise. After this, what right has
Ireland to complain, if, either on the win
dow tat question, or any other question
Tier representatives will not give thert-
‘gelves even the trouble of crossing tin-
channel i If yon are contented to submit
To this degradation, it is not for me to
-murmur, ca|Wble as I am, by my own con-
•duct, of redeeming ravself individually.—
As I hear, however, that some of your
newsroom wiseacres, have taken offence
tit an expression in my address, and aa
every man who puts himself politically
forward should he able to give a reason for
■“the faith that is in him,” you shall have
mine freely and fearlessly. The declare-
‘tion was, that if th- next parliament be
like the last, we may write the epitaph ol
the British constitution. I reprat it now,
«nd 1 further add, that it is quite impos
sible things can go on, unless there be
Some ebauge, either in the members we
return'to that house, or in the constitution
of that haute itself. Are you aware, that
-of what is called the house of commons,
eighty-two peers nominate 300, snd 123
'commoners nominate 18r; snd thus you
have, out of 658 members, 487 actually
■nominated by 205 constituents, and this
'they call the representation of the people!
If this continues, is there any use in elec
tions—is there any use in petitioning,
where hired majorities can stifle the one,
snd s bornugh-inongering influence can
defeat the other ? Does any man propose
a reformation of the system ? He is imme
dia tely denounced as a visionary, or worse.
8n it was in England, with Fox and Sheri
dan, and Ahe consequence was, she lost
America. So it was amongst yourselves,
with Grattan and with Flood, and the con
sequence was, those who bought you, sold
you. We were bartered into a province,
and but the other day, in the imperial par
liament, upon a vital question, seventy-
five of your members lel t yon at the mercy
•f a puppet majority, who not only rivetteil
your chains, but rebuked you for clanking
it! This is the way in which I wish to meet
the question—not by empty declamation,
but by stubborn facts—facts which are now
recorded to our shame, upon the adamant
of history. Look to the conduct ol the
very last parliament, in almost every in-
stance tne echo of the Minister, and the
ju • fication of the malcobtent—conduct
which, I will demonstrate, has dune more
to disgrace us abroad, and to enslave us at
home, than mere uneqvivocal, unblushing
dasnetism ever could have effected. Look
to tnat conduct. After a protracted war,
unparalleled in its duration^tnd unprovok
ed in its origin, during which, money
enough was spent to purchase, and blood
enough shed to insulate, the continent—
during which we alternately fought, aod
subsidized every faithless despot—now
libelling the worthless—now lauding the
magnanimous Alexander—to-day, in the
field with temporizing Austria—to-mor
row, bribing the convenient Prussia—now
smiling upon Poland’s plunder—now es
tablishing the Spanish inquisition—now at
A-nirns, acknowledging the French eon-
>, sul—mow at Waterloo, cheeriug the blood
eiy-uTlegitimacy. After this base aband
o.imcnt nr-pouiio principle—this barbar
ous gambling with the nation’s happiness—
we found out selves at last, consistent in
nettling but our inconsistencies, seated in
the legitimate congress of Vienna, between
the northern Autocrat and a seijeant of
Napoleon! Was not this a'rare, a na
tural consummation, well worthy the
orp:iansxe and the widowhood which
had rtuduwed England with woe, and
- the frantic expenditure which has al
io >it beggared her with debt? This
lus been the consvquence, and . what, do
you remember, was the mutiye of this ag
gression? Was it the establishment of
human liberty—was it the advance of hn-
WHn morals—was it the vindication of na
tional character—was it even any high-
toned and heroic impulse which flung a
factitious glory over the warrior* progrves,
aid gave the*battle horrors a visionary
s j i,tili-anon? Far from it. It was the
m-i-t unjustifiable motive that ever on-
B'tea-hed the British sword—the most un-
eonetitutionJ that ever stained the British
an ills. It was a bare-fitced interference
win a foreign country, in the choice of its
sw i gover-nneut—a direct infraction- of
tho very principle upon which England
founded her glorions revolution, k was
. a initiative denunciation of the doctrines
acted on in l688,ploc!aimiog James a mar-
—driven front this, it* next was peace and
retribution. Indemnity and security was
the Premier’s war-wnoop—and what has
been our indemnity? The massacre, of
isor population—the debasement of our
character—the accumulation of debt be
yond all spendthrift precedent—famine in
uur streets and fever in our houses—tfo
establishment in Europe of a military dee*
potitra, which leave* the very name o'
freedom a mt Aery—the payment of wat
taxes in time ot peace, scarcely leaving it
doubtful whether the burdens were impos
ed tu support the war, or the war com
menced to ja*tify the taxes—the suspen
sion of our constitution, if we offer to re
monstrate. This bat been our dearly
nought indemnity! Ami what is our se
curity?—cm holy alliance, forsooth! A
league of kings, unhallowed and mysteri
ous, bound by compacts which must not to
known, and fenced by b >yonets, which car
not be resisted! This isour security! Tin
breath of princes—-the caprice of an Hy
dra, now fatigued over the recent banquet,
and only waiting for its hungry lioui again
to glisten in ungorged rapacity! Alas,
what tenure have we even for such an al
liance! Is there a member of that pun:
horde who has nut been in turn the foe
his ally, and the ally of his for, and do y
expect they will preserve that faith to
wards ns which they have not been obi.. Co
preserve towards one another? Is there
* man of them who did not bow to Nip»
Iron, and confess his title, and court h:
confederation, and then denounce him as
ho illegitimate usurper? And was ther
among them, afterwards, a consistent re
oegade to deny the hand of fraternity ti
Bernodotie, raised from the ranks of that
very Napoleon? Perhaps this instability
of political principle may be counteracted
by a personal attachment. Let Prusria
answer it when she looks at Alexander
and remember the perfidious abandonment
of Tilsit. L»t Sweden answer it when
she think* of Finland. Let Poland and
Saxony acknowledge it to Prussia. Let
Genoa speak. Let extinguished Venice
proclaim it for Austria. Let Austria her'
self avouch it for France, and then turn
her immolated daughter—immolated with
a worse than Jewish cruelty, not to the god
of battles, but to the internal Moloch
self-interest. I speak not now of that d
voted France, bending over her violat-
charter, and with teais of blood expiation
the credulity that pat its faith in princes
But I speak of England, of the parliament
of England, consenting to the plunder
smiling on the partition, squandering ll»
resources pf a generous and gallant pen
pie—fleets and armies, aud generations,
and for what? To forward the fraud ol
the continental intrigoer—to establish the
inquisition, and torture and Ferdinand—
fm the Bourbon in France, and Die Bour
bon in Spain, and the Bourbon in Naples
—the rooted hereditary enemies of tl»-
country, for the obsolete blasphemy of di
viiie right, dug up from its tomb, and it
baptised legitimacy—fur the restoration
of those sanguinary frauds upon humai
freed jm, against which our sages wrote
and our warriors fought, and our revo<u.
tion thundered! Shades of Locke and of
Milton were these your doctrines!—Blood
of the Russels and the Hampdens,has this
been your legacy? People of England,- I
it for this that your orphan and your wid
ow mourn in silent resignation—that your
poor-booses are choaked with a famished
population? Let those men answer it,
who, in the name of parliament, rati*-
the treaties, voted the supplies, advanced
tie subsidies, and cheered the mini.-ter,
just reecking from that hopeful congress,
where legitimacy, drunk with human
blood, flung it* sword into the scale against
which the liberties of a world were balanc
ed.
tyr, and William an usurper, aod the peo-
n!.o no better than rebellious regicides!
T .is war, however, of court*, had its pro-
I have Just touched their conduct, u to our for
eign relation*, lias it been compensated by theii
domestic policy? As far as in them lay. they have
virtually annihilated the British constitution, and
paved the way for a military despotism. The)
levelled, one by one, every barrier which the win-
.tom of ages raised around the libertiea of the
people: They suspended the hab&s corpus act.
Fathers of families were dragged from their homes,
haded with irons; subjected to disease; stamped
with ignominyi their helpless children turned
adrift to Beggary and prostitution; and then, «■
they had been imprisoned without crime, so were
they released without even the decency of aecu
a'ion. They then pissed the infamous gagging
set; public meeting* were forbidden—Ihepowir
•if discussion was withheld - the right of petition
was in fact annihilated. It was a natural conse-
pience of the former measure—when innocem-
is no exemption from punishment, the pririlegi
of eomiilaint is but a mockery. They then c> m
teuanced lord Sidm-iulh’a circular—a magistracy
perhaps ignorant, perhaps corrupt, perhaps both
—we at least, can fancy such a magistracy, we—
invested with sn arbitrary construction of the hb-l
cet, upon winch oar musi learned lawyer* bavi
differed in opinion. They then sanctioned the op-
prelive alien set, which flung back into the ja»s
of death the patriot victims of despotic power,
aod wrested from England her impreacriptibl.
privilege of giving refuge to virtuous destitution
They then scouted the repeal of the septennial
act, an act which they were never delegated tht
power to pass, and upon the principle of which
they might as well make the representation an
heir loom in their families. 1 will not further re-
capitulate their conduct, but 1 will remind you
that the situation of the captive under these mr»
urea, was solitary imprisonment. -Against all
law or precedent, even magistrates were forbidden
to visi: ihem—one man died—another, Mr. Ogden,
be subject of merriment, has survived only to
urotractcd agony. I past from the subject, it is
too painful to dwell upon. Wliat was the pre-
•enee for tins temporary despotism? a plot! a plot,
hitched by tnro apothecaries and a lame cobbler—
he tower was to be stormed, and the bank plun-
lered. and London garrisoned by a buckram ar
my. who-e treasury was a cypher—whose camp
equipage, was a blanket—whose ammunition cheat
waa an old slocking, and whose | ark of artdlen
consisted of the mortar which movt rebellious!;,
outlived the wreck of the apothecaries! Tbos’t
.■eople were arr.Wned upon the evidence of a vi|.
lain all leprous with ennui, whom the even:
proved to be the oniv convict. A wretch, who.
when we saw the predestined victim, and looked
at the high priest, filled the mind of. Ireland with
terrific recollections, recalling distinctively that
reign of blood when we too had our Castles and
our Oliver—wnen the bribed and perjured canni
bal weal forth inducing the crime that be might
betray the c irntnal when neither youth, nor age,
nor sex, nor innocence could conciliate, or avert
bosecoinete of human Tilood—those vampires of
Its first* was the French republic
the grave dho*
fore whose path I
Men without a name; be-
the freshness of humanity wither-
weed minds, conscience was oiw
|y aeoiamereial instrument; aad friendship, treach
ery; anfl gratitude. r™*'
land into one scene of hell, in which, toe pang
and the eunvulainna of the sufferer only stimulate!
the ferocious exultation of their tormentor* Who
crept into Uwfomtfjr <* the ncamat and the de*r-
e-1 courting the board, and pledging the cop.
a«d fondling the infant, even at the very moment
«hca they were waj-lajing the unguarded confi
dence ofthe parent to devote W« tothe acairold.
aad to rise ope"hi* tomb!—lam shocked to ask
did the late £arfa»r<* °*
' us a. d commercial cannibals? If tho
i the tmaning ofttie indemnity bill?
.. u til re, between the (icrpetntor
Jf'a deed and th. minister who instigates it. and
ibe parliament who prohc-s it? I can see ri™>
• I tee them chained together in one communit
of infliction, and whether I touch ihe highest or
the lowest link, the thrill of horror is the same in
its communication. Gentlemen. I aay rgain, il
ihetething*continue, we m.ybid farewell for
rvrr to our iiovrtie* Of whai iue are all our via
. nary safeguards—of wha: use is the responsible
ity of ministers, if it is to de;,i nd upon the will ot
a pi.-ii mtnt. w'n-sc ia jon y is the erei.iurr of
time minis via? W.i*' avdv our to celebrated
'aw* if they are to be ll,U‘ oq-ririou ly su-pen l
rd? What is uur cuwatkution with ils theoretic
blessing-, but a practical aid splendid mocker).
■Tits nobiwt < inanwnu art to be < {fared at will,
•nd its vt en .th u -red in*.', an engine of o pres-
iiou? Oh! 11; •»*, e lliav fatuity in .is to deceive
-.Ur*. Ives The so-er in w;ncli we trusted iun.-
•nit at 1*>1 m be bo; * y»->dly virion; fair indeed
the eje. but «< false as il is fair. faUing to pie.
c.Aal die wand of die minister, whin the
people approach it for protecti-n.
»uih, gr.itb.roen, sre my reasonr for the asser
tion I have ms le; their murence ma be, per-
lops d ubied by rna.-jr. Who cun ne»er *ee a >y
v.tng, evtnprotlcmj'.ical in thr basest conduct
ot ‘die powers uia> be**—their exit'ence; however
at least, is uudcnublc
In tski.ig nr leave i fyou. for the .nsvent, let
.nr express m* gra* tude to the pr- mpt. irnn j,
and decided fr.e-id», who su mepend. u 1 ly proffer
ed me, nut o-.lv their i&teiest. but their purse*,
and particular!, to the professional friends, who,
n addi'iou, vn'.unterred their aeri ices
I'hr-p. ri. d is approsciiing when all may be m
eesaaiy; in the mean time, let every >nde;>eiid< nt
nun in th<- county, register lus freehold and awa t
with eonlid -nee the hour of hi* liberation
lam. genlhmeo, with graiitud' and respect,
yuurfeliu v^i.untryman,
CHAKLES FHILL1P3.
Dublin, Jur e 21. 1818.
Frem the AVw-To.h This . AJre liter, 31 tt ah
xxTsirr or a Lxrraw Tt. tbs xmtob, dat. d
-Hurtfe'd. Jiusruet 27
“The Coiivenlion met t..i> morning .
-nineo’clock. Mr. Fairchilti uamldl in
resolve for the appointment of a cumin,
lee of three trom each county, to be clmse
by ballot, to frame'tln constitution. Alex
under Wolcott spoke against the mutio
and in favour of discussing general prii.
ctples b'forc the reference. Juds
Root also spoke against the m.itinu—
Messrs. N. Smith, Hoot, Trvadweil, Au-
till, and Burrows, for it. The resolutiu
passed almost unanimously. The wlini
of tile day was taken up in chousing tt.
committee, which an —
Hartford County.—Sylvester Wells
Timothy Pitkin, Elisha Phelps.
.Yew-Haven-— Wm. Bristol, N. Smitl
Wm. Todd.
Jfew-London.—Moses Warren, Ainas..
Learned, James Lanman.
Fairfield —Fierpnint Edwards, Jam
Stevens; Gildenn Tomlinson.
Ifindham:’—Peter Webb, George Lear
ned, Edmund Freeman.
Lichfield.—John Welch, Augustus Pei
tibone. Orange Alerwin.
Middlesex—Joshua Storr, Wm. Hun
gerfurtl, Thomas Lvman.
Tolland.—Daniel Burrows, Asa Willey
John S. Peter*._
There is one federalist from each coun
ty, except Fairfield—17 democrats and 7
federalists. This committee are expected
to report by piece-meals, so that we cai
be at work—they meet this evening at 8
o’clock, and I understand the debates wil'
begin to morrow.”
txTBicT raoic abotbeb xxttxb, dated.
“ItanfirJ. Auguet 28, 1818.
We have done very little to-day. R
Fairchild was chosen assistant clerk. N
Terry reported the rule* for the Cnnven
tion which wereadopted with some amend
merits ad additions. ' One addition to t'.i
rule was that a majority of the delegate
chosen should be a quorum. In the afu->
noon at the opening, governor Treadwell
moved to reconsider the vote of the
ffrenoon establishing the rule that a ma
jority should be a quorum, but the Cnnven
tion refused to consider. Several spok*
for and against it. After this debate wa-
thruugh, the committee reported a pream
ole and a bill of rights—adjourned and or
ilered 600 copies to be printed.
I enclose you the bill of rights.
1 The committee to whom was referred
1
the subject of drafting a constitution to b*-
snbmitted to the consid- ration of the .-on
ventiou beg leave to report in part—the
following preamble and bill of rights.
Pierpoikt Edwards, chairman.
PHEAMBLE.
The people of Connecticut acknowl-
edging with gratitude, the Providence of
God in having permitted them to enjoy a
free govenment, do, in order more effoctu-
ally to define, secure, and perpetuate the
liberties, rights and privilege* which they
nave derived from their ancestors, hereby,
after a careful consideration and revision
'•rdain and establish the following ronsti-
lotion aud form of civil government.
ABTirLX I.
DECLARATION OF BIGHTS.
That the general, great, and Essential
principles of Liberty and free govern
ment maybe recognized and established—
WE DECLARE.
Sec. I. That all men when they forth a
social compact, are equal in rights; and
that no man, or set of men are entitled to
xclusive separate public emoluments or
privilege* from the community.
Sec. 2. That all the political power is
inherent in the people, and all Iree go-
vermenta are fonmled on their authority,
aud instituted for their benefit; and that
they have at all times an undeniable and
indefeasible right to alter their form of go
vernment in such a manner as they may
think expedient. «
Sec. 3. The exercise and enjoyment of
religious profession and worship, without
discrimination, shall forever be free to all
,w,' m - % .
- v» * Td
persona in this state, provided
right hereby declared ond established,
shall not be •• consti ued as to excuse acts
of licentiousness, or to justify practices it.*
const*tentwith the peace and safety, of the
state.
See. 4. No preference shall be given
by law, to any religious sect or mode of
worship. '
S c. 5. No person shall be molested for
his opinions on auy subject whatever nor
suffer any civil or political incapacity, or
acquire any civil or political advantage, in
consequence of snrh opinions, except in
cases provided for in this constitution. .
Sec. 6. Every citizen inay freely speak,
write, and publish his sentiments on all
sutyects, being responsible for tbe abuse
ol (hat liberty.
Sec. 7. No law shall,ever be passed to
eurtial or restrain tbe liberty of speech,
>ir of the press.
Sec. 8 In all prosecutions or indict
ments fo. libels, the truth m.iy be given in
evidence and the jury shall have the right
to determine the law and 'the facte, under
the direction of the court.
Sec. a. The people shall be secure in
tbeir persons, houses, paper* and pusses-
aiuns from unreasonable searches or sei
zures; and no warrant to search any place,
nr to seize any pcisnu or things, snail is
sue wituout discribing them as neariy-as
maybe, nor without probable cause, sup
ported by oath or affirmation.
Sec. ID. In all criminal' prosecutions
tin- accused hath a right to be beared by
himself and by counsel; to demand the
nature and cause of the accusati in, to be
confronted by the witnesses against him;
to have compulsory process to obtain wit.
nesses in his favor; and in all prosecution*
oy indictment or information, a speedy,
p'unlic trial by an impartial Jury, lie
cannot be compelled to give evidence a-
gainst himself nor be deprived of life, lib
erty, or property, but by due course ol
law.
Sec. 11. No person shall be accused ar
rested, or detained, except in cases ascer
tained by law, aud according tu form;
which ti>e *am< has prescribed; and no
person shall be punished but in virtue of a
law established and promulgated prior to
tne offence and legally applied.
Sec 12. The prop, rty of no person shall
be taken for public use, without just cum
pensation therefor.
Sec. 13 Ail courts shall be open, and
•very person for au injury dune him in I:
lands.good* person or reputation, shall
nie ivwedy, by due course of law, and
rigu - n-i justice be administered without
.. e, deni ',or delay.
Sec-14. Excessive bail shall not be re
quireil, it.r excessive fine* imposed
Si-c. 15. All prisoners shall before con
wetiou, be bailable by sufficient sureties
•xcept for capital offences, where the proof
s evident, other presumption great: and
tiie privilege of the writ of habeas corpus
shall not be suspended, unless when in
one of rebellion or invasion the public
-sfety may require it.
Sec. 16. No person shall be attained of
treaou, or felony, by the legislature.
Sec. 17. The' citizens have a right, in
oeaceable manner to assemble together for
their common good, and to apply to those
invested with the powers of government
for redress of grievances, or other proper
purposes, by petition, address or remon
strance
Sec. 18. Every citizen has a right to bear
arms in defence of himseU and tile state
Sec. 19. The military shall in all cases,
and at all times, be in strict subordination
to the. civil power.
Sec. 20. No soldier shall in time of peace
oe quartered in any house, without the con-
eut of tjie owner; nor in time nf war, but
in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Sec 21. No hereditary emoluments
privileges, or honors shall ever be granteu
or conferred, in this state
Sec. 22. No citizen -•■ this state shall
■e exiled, or prevented from emigrating on
any pretence whatever.
Sec. 23. The right of trial by Jury shall
remain inviolate.
J
recollected that rapt Rich narpooned the
tea serpent, off Squam, on the 19th of Au
gust. At he i* repaeatrd «» moving with
great velocity, bo has probably ran down
the coast, after receiving a mortal wound.
It would be well for matters uf vessel*
leaving our ports to keep » look-out for
the carcase of this monster.]
. JriJOJIU FALLS.
We learn that a considerable part of
Table-rack, well known to all the visitora
of this grand natural phenomenon, ty tho
fine view it afforded of the Falls on' the
Canadian aide, broke oflT by ita own
weight, during last Thursday night, and
precipitated itself into the golf below-—-
The piece broken off, we understand,
is about twenty-five rods long, and from
one to six rods wide, comprising the
principal part of the Table or excava
ted rock. It may be considered providen
tial, that the fall of this piece, which dar
ing the sommer months has been a great
part of the time covered with visitors,
should have happened in the night, with
out any superincumbent weight or other
known cause to occasion it.—Buffalo Jour
nal, 4th inst. ^
Sr. Louis’ Day was celebrated on the
25th in«t. at the maosion of the French
miiiister in this city, who entertained an |
evening party. A numerous assembly,
('.insisting of the corps diplomatique and
ihe principal citizens and their ladies,* *,
were pn-scnt on the occasion.—Washing- i
tun City Oaxetle, 1st inst.
At the annual commencement of Cam
bridge college, on Wednesday last, say*
i ire New-Ytuk Evening Post of the 29th
ult. the honorary degree of doctor of laws
was conferred on the honorable Blockholst
Livingston and the honorable Wm. John-
st iii. judges of the supreme court olJttic
United States.
FHOM BKR.MUDA
A Bermuda paper of the 15th of August
gives the following list of articles of im
port and export allowed in American ves
sels: “The articles allowed to be import
ed in American bottoms, are tubaccu, noi
manufactured,pitch, tar, turpentine,hemp,
potatoes, flax, masts, yards, bowsprits,
staves, heading, boards,biscuit, flour, peas.
Deans, wheat, oais, barley and grain ol any
sort, horses, neat cattle, sheep, hogs, poul
try and live stock ol any sort, fruit of all
kinds, such commodities beu-g tne growth
or production of the territories belonging
t».- the United States of America. Sugar,
coffee, rum and molasses may be exported
from Bermuda in American vessels above
60 tons burthen. No other articles can to*
imported or exported in foreign vessels
without subjecting the vessel and noxious
articles to confiscation.”—Caz.
EXTHAoHUIA'.IRY.
The sloop General A. J*- kson, Christie,
arrived at New-York, in 12 d.-.y* from Sa
vannah, on the 20th August, in lat. 33, N.
at 2 P. M. in the Gulf Stream, about 10
miles to the S. E. of its inner edge, the
winds being light, the water clear, and the
sea .of a beautiful transparent blue, discov
ered ahead aud on both bows, the water
tnnch discoloured. On comiag up with it,
beings little alarmed; sounded, but no bot
tom. On nearing it, it had the appearance
of blood mixed with water. When up with
it, it looked like brick-dust or red ochre
mixed, and was in many spots, some very
large, others small. In some places die
red appeared to be mixed with the water of
the surface; io others, considerably below,
as could be plainly distingui,heil by the
transparency of the water on top. * The
red iu many places appeared to come up
from the gulfbelotr, in branches somewhat
resembling tbe willow or poplar tree, and
to ascend to within a fathom or two of the
surface; in othersj tbe water appeared to
be thick without any of those appearances,
Dr. Thomas Wharton this of place, has
confined in a wire rage two live Rattle
Suaki-s, a male and female—the male has
9 rattles, the female 7—the male black, the
female of a yellowish cast; the male was
put in the cage on the 5th inst. it wa* quite
crass on the first dar, on the 6th the.fe-
male was put in and appeared quite pas
sive, but in a few minutes showed her an-
icr in biting a mouse that was put in toon
alter her; the little errature’sfate as antici
pated died in less than a minute; on the
7th a large rat was pat in with them, it
-lid nut appear in the least daunted, but
made a must spirited attack upou the rat
tle of the male, and bit off one half of it, at
this time it received abite from the female
which enraged it more, and it made a se-
• ouil attack upon the male ami bit off the.
balance of the rattle entire—while in this
..ct it received two bites from the male..
-ml was immediately taken nut and put in.
a wire trap to observe what effect the bite*
would have on it, and to the astonishment A
••fall who witnessed the scene, it sustain- If
•?tl no injury. The Snakes now appear !
quite harmless; The Doctor (we believe) >)
intends presenting them to the proprietor
•f the Alexandria Museum—IFoodstock f
( Fa) Herald, August 14.
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FEMALE SALAMANDER.
In the latest Glasgow paper received at
this office, by the Fanny, from Greenock,
we find an advertisement of a fire-proof
phenomenon exhibiting in that city, in the
• arm of a good looking woman, who calla
herself-Vaifame Utrardelle. From the bill
•f fare advertised to be served up on the
yening of the 25d June, we extract the
following. First, she is to enter into con
versation with any of the audience, in four
different languges. Whether she speaks
tiie Carraboo language wa are not inform-
•;d. She will then forge with her naked
feet, a plate of red-hot Iron—undergo the
torture by fire, as used in the Spanish Ins^r
quisition—pour boiling oil into her month
—drop burning sealing wax upon her tongue ■
f. nm which any g-ntlemcn may take impres
sions of tii.-ir seals—pour melted lead into
her mouth, either with her naked hand, or
with a ladle, and place her bare feet in the
same—dip her feet in aqoa-fortis—pass a
red hot shovel over her head, without sin- (
giag her hair—pour the strongest equa-
fortis on steel filings, and trample on.the
same with her bare feet—dissolve copper
in her bare hand with aqua-fortis-pour
the strongest aqua-fortis into her mouth
—and last, though not least, get into a
tot oven with a shoulder of mutton, and re
main there until it is thoroughly baked!!!
—These must certainly be rare accom
plishments, for a lady; they beat the cele
brated Day Francis all hollow., Indeed,
we think she puts all the fire-eating and
swunl-swallowing gentry completely in ?
the back ground. The lady requests'am-
ateurs of- chimistry, etc. to attend with '
any materials they may think proper, a-
to put her fire proof eoalitivs to the test '
The editor of the Glasgow Chronicle ob- '•
serves—“without pretending to divine by '
what “mighty magic” she effects such sur
prising and terrific fe-ts, we give our (
ready testimony to the performances, (or
whatever else they tuay be called) as de
tailed in her handbill, being gone through
in the fullest manner; and we may add,
that she applies all the dreadful tests of
her •‘supernatural” gifts with a smiling
confidence, ease and grace, well suited to
- drawing room.”
We think the American fair must now
yield to foreign superiority; for we doubt
whether any one of them would like much
to sup upon melted lead and aqua-frirti*
or to sit within a hot oven, and baste a le>-
of mutton until it should be tboroghlr roast-
ed—-V. Y. Evening Post.
Curious and importantfact in Geography.
In tiie communication of B. F. Sidkney, I
Indian agent, fort Wayne, it is stated that
there is an uninterrupted navigation from
lake Erie to the Rivers; and also from fake
Michigan to the Mississippi,by the Auplairt
river which throws part of its waters into
the lake, and part into Illinois river.—
Ohio Fed.