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V^iirst Tuesday in the month, botweon the hours of
the £ ii lt . OA the niteriiooii, at lit'*
! J" '* conntv in"whir’ll the property Is si-
Co, " ^N!,ticos of the sale of laud must he givanm a
‘“l^'.TlwoUo stxrv days, and of uegroes Fonrv days,
I 11 -", 0 * j 0 ,| in dav of sale.
pl \ u!res of the sale of personal property most be gw-
N he manner, FORTY days previous to the day of
e ", " Also notice to the dehtms and creditors ol ay
s ,lk '- nuhliihcd for FORTY days,
astate mu \ ,j cat - lon w ;|l he made to the Court of
N| l C v fir leave to sell land, must he published for
irttl Government which they justly e.nlcu-
lutefl wpultl soon lie supplutL'd liy it ntoti*
archy. '1 he adoption of the Federal Coil*
stitution frustrated their views, and they
next endeavored to elect a creature of their
own, to be President of the newly created
Mexican states. Bravo was selected but
defeated by Victoria, yet the Government
was in fact in the hands of the aristocra
cy. In this state of things, the Repub
licans determined to marshal their ranks
in the manner adopted by their opponents
ils foreign creditors, and went on aug
menting its expenses, which it found
means to pay by the most ruinous money
operations ever resorted to in any country,
anticipating the revenue derived from
maritime duties at a loss of seventy-five
and eighty per cent. Daring this dentil
struggle of the Government to satisfy hun>*
gry and clamorous pensioners, and idle
and useless officers, their attention was
constantly occupied with fresh conspira
cies. Whenever otto party prevailed so
tlio line °f Printing, will nice! with
MR. POINSETT,
rppo Mexican government is the only
one with which our relations tire at all dis
and the Minister whose name is
■at the head of this article is the innocent
JSH The calumnious attacks made
ttnon liiin in a pamphlet published in Great
Britain, and supposed to be the production.
«f Mr. Ward, lute British Charge at Mexi
co have, as we on Friday remarked, been
-successfully repelled by an able writer in
flu- Philadelphia National Gazette; and
as the characters of such public servants
as Mr. Poinsett ought to he dear to us, we
diall g> v e a succinct statement of the.
charges, and the manner in which they are
met,'closing our remarks with an extract
f rmn the Gazette, showing the present dc-
they established a press, and through its j fur as to give some prospect of tranquili-,
agency influenced the elections of mem- ty to the country, the President with the
hers to the Congress,mid shortly und coin-1 most iinaceountahlc blindness would raise
pletely succeeded in w resting the power up the fallen, audas it were encourage
from their adversaries. This result was them to renew the combat, in older, ns he
charged to Mr. Poinsett, who was thence-i used gravely to say, to shew his imparti-
forth regarded as the cause of the triumph ! ality ; and the government itself remnin-
of their adversaries, and of their own sig- ed a passive spectator of these collisions,
nal defeat. Mr. Poinsett arrived in Mex- to which its own imprudence guve rise, uti-
ico only a few months before these e-
vents occurred—lie Imd been marked out
ns an object of hostility by the monarch
ists before his arrival—At the reception thev
gave him, naturally brought him into closer
habits of association with the republicans
and creoles, for the Europeans Imd also
then joined with the native monarchists
against him. That in this intercourse, he
spoke in praise of the institutions of his
own country and of her doctrines on trade,
there can be little doubt, but surely this
cannot be tortured into a wish to counter
act the views of the British Government.
It is not believed that the British Govern
ment sanctioned or even knew of the con
duct of their agents towards Mr. Poinsett.
tikyahlc stale' nf Mexico, and the true can- Failinor to elect General Bravo and conse-
«r niter-
roof. The more general object of
the pamphlet, is to give “ unquestionable,
evidence of the United States having a-
doptecl a line of policy with regard to South
quently to drive Mr. Poinsett out of the
country by that mode, they next induced
the Legislatures of Vera Cruz and Puebla
to petition for his dismission. These Lc-
v "7 * ' r i i r "a 4 4’ * _?/ I I utaiujBCiiMh k Iirsu 1jU»
America, to say the hast of it, not jncnaly mslutures were elected during the predom-
. -.4 If..',*,, rt.wl 0 J-
Jio the views oj (ireat Britain”—and this
evidence is said to be found in the instruc
tions of our government to Mr. Poinsett,
innucy of aristocratic power. None of
these plans havingsuccedcd, although in-
... -ii . . trigue and calumny, appear to have nearly
id in the interference of tbelattei in tne exhausted their efforts, the author of the
internal affairs ot Mexico. 1 be mstruc- pmnphJet concludes that Sir. Poinsett was
lions have been published, and the perusal j on | v llC |i,,rr according to orders, and that
el them w ill convince any but such as the | jj ( .| 10V( . s the British Government to he on
l iter of the pamphlet, tlmt the ullegution
is utterly fa he.
Mr. Poinsett is charged directly with
hnvit g organized eighty-two political so
cieties in Mclico, connected with one cen
tral body in the capital, controlled by him
self, and with being the leader of the Far
its guard against the machinations of this
most dangerous person, mid against tiic
insidious policy of the United States.
It will he remembered by our readers,
that the President has recalled Mr. Poin
sett, hut with just approval of his course;
and the following nccount of the present
hiim party, one great object oj whose la- state n f jM, ; xico and the tnle causes there-
lours it Ike inculcation tj the particularly ivi „ t tni>t nd j,, d to what precedes,
views of the (loveniment of the United | dnec Mr. Poinsett on ground which ca-
til it was nearly overthrown hv that of the
4th December lust. The new President
Ims not taken warning by the disasters of
his predecessors, llis cabinet is divided,
and the ministers excite the States to pe
tition for the removal of each other. The
states themselves are all marshalled n-
gainst the general government, and a-
gainst each other, and are, moreover,
torn by intestine divisions; mid the only
remedy which suggests itself to the admii
riistration, is to ferment these disorders, in
order that the parties may keep in check,
and if possible destroy each other.—
When, to this extravagance, improvidence
and impolicy of ihe genera! government
scichce, the moss of the people is two cen
turies behind ours; their literati, half u
dozen years before us." The following
of the young Indy defendant, is intentionally omit*
is a more finished picture of the social j ted ontlio nccounibf licwlf and friends—the rea*
condition of Europe, drawn after ho hntlj ,Hn "dH «ppenr more tally in the developetnent
visited the greatest part of Franco, I °( ‘'m facts, wlimem art nmlnl.lo, educated and
of the facts,
. .. , , , ,, I virtuous girl lias been subjected to a putiblimciit
part of Italy, and passed some months in severe to be m„l without tears, viz: the pun.
Enghiud. Writing to his friend, Mr. \ ishniunt of bniirisoninent until the trial day nrriv-
Wvtlie, from Puris, Aug. 13,1780, he says, «d in the snail like chronometer of law. A Mr.
“Our net for freedom of Religion is ex- ! is "^Goad, store of Messrs.
A , ii. rtn ai » n Mpllen a- 8ancer f of this city, whs udtlressoil by
troiklis'y n|ipiHiiueu t J. he AniUtio^nuors &> I die defcndanl in a lute hour of the afternoon of
Ministers of the several nntions of Europe, j November tilth, with the (junsUou, whether lie
resident at this Court, have asked mu cu- ' v "! ll , d exchange a pnlr uf kid mils for gloves, to
pies of it, to send to their Sovereigns t
it is insetted, at full length, in several | pei'piiir, ami the mils oll'cri'd liy her were marked 3a
books now in the press; among others in Od, which she suit! she Imd purchased of herfrletid
the new Encyclopedia. I think it will! ‘’'.'.'f ,?‘ 1 - Art.-rhia sltew-in:; his nr rather the cloves
.. , 'i j ol llollp.n tv hunffpr, (o(lie Inrfv, he stepped (»i« ho
produce considerable good, even m those | , 0 llno ,„oc nnrt of the coWr.r, whl,e he
. ) toiuiotlicr part
countries where ignorance, superstition, t was nt a distanceIrouiher,liesuw lie.r deliberately
poverty, and oppression of Itodv ntid mind select n pair of gloves from his assortment, und
io every form, are so firmly settled on the |’ ln ;V* i " l "' 1 ; hnndkorrhief or bundle, then,
*.» . , . rn r nis own Mnry, lie returned iiiKi onBcrvrd to her
ninss ot the people, that their loueiuptioii I that n pair of glovo.shiid dropped, and looked over
from them cun never Ik* hoped. Il nil 11ic where she stood, ns if to find them ; she denied
sovereigns of Europe were to set them- dint fl,, y l ,a ‘ l dropped on that side—he thert pre*
selves to work to emancipate the minds of 'r mlri1 ' 0 look oa 1,1s own side, and found none
. . .. r . . 1 there—ho next took tip her liumllo nrut producod
their subjects from their present ignorance ; the gloves from it, which lie s-iid she denied hav-
and pri'judiees, aiul that ns zeulottsly as ing in Iter possession, and used language of repru-
tliev now endeavor the contrary, a thou- [beusion towards him for accusing Iter of stealing,
rf ynn r ' ,w sot k
luglt ground on which our common pco- retaining possession of the gloves and mils in qurs-
|)le are now setting out. Ours could tion, the one, ns the propriety nl Messrs. Melleu At
hist witness enmo in immediately after the otlie_
witnesses had linen examined; made Ids way to-,
wards the stand, u stranger in the city, whose ve#
sel Imd just arrived nt the Whtn f, and wlm had not
twenty minutes belore Ilia nppenrunce known ql
the uccussion against the defendant. lie knew
her parents and herself, the latter from her influx,
cy; and on his arrival and knowledge of llie trial,
had hastened to the court-house to testify, un.
■ Jy,
known to her counftfl or friends. From all, thf
not have been so fit ill V placed under the I ^'’'"gei, nml the other ns suspected to be stolen,
, i • ... imisn.ucn as that the nuts were marked d.sgd v
their parent
lamination oi
ivlicn
ltd for them. This wtis
y’s testimony. The in
control of the common sense of the P«o-| ( i,e Vtiid she oniv giivu
pie, had tliey not been separated from the snbsnince of Mr. I
■' - • stock; und kept from’con- dictment which was fnime'd upon the'testimony
illier from them or the oilier "f'^snid, alleged tlmt the defendant, stole tl.n
I gloves atoresniu. valued nt sixly-six cents/com the.
people of the Old World, by tint inter-
t>nd culpable conduct of the states of tlmt | volition of so wide an ocean. To know
Union, are added die deep traces left by the worth of this, one must see the want
tho despotism and superstition of theco-jof it here. I think bv far the most iin-
lonial government, the render will he nt J portant bill io our own code, is that for
no loss for the causes of the melancholy I tho ihifusion of knowledge among the peo-
pliglit to which Mexico is now reduced— j pie. No other sure foundation can he dc-
enuses which so far from having been pro- vised for the preservation of freedom and
States; and he is indirectly charged with
holding meetings of the Yorktno lodge nl
bis own house in the capital—-'with “ the
collision" of the 4th Dec. liivri—and with
concealing the chief mover of that “ insur
rection” in his house during the explosion
—with'forcing Gen. Bravo into a situation
to he denounced as n traitor to his country,
because lie endeavored to put down the
the influence of Mr. Foiusctt.—These last
charges are made by questions, and are
therefore termed indirect. In support ol
.these charges, the only proof offered of
their being true, is that the Legislatures of
two of the Mexican states, had petitioned
fheirgencral government to send Mr. Poin
sett out of the country, on account of his
unfriendly disposition, which is complete
ly overthrown hv Mr. Poinsett’s published
exposition of his own views, and those of
our government, to which the writer of
the pamphlet makes no allusion. Tin
ivrit.-r in the National Gazette admits, that
die first meeting of the Yorkino Lodge
Was at Mr. Poinsett’s house, and gives as
the reasons, that he was applied to by tin
principal ojjicrrs of five. York Lodges to
■stnd to the United States for Charters,
ami that there w as no other person itt Mex i
co, who from Ins rank as a mason, and
commission from other Grand Lodges
W as competent to instal the Grand York
Lodge.
He was assured by the members, that
.the Government were aware of their inten
tions and did not disapprove of them.—
•1 he installation of the Grand York Lodge
at the house of Mr. Poinsett was consider
ed hy the Scotch masons (who hud used
Ate institution for political purposes) us
Wiirsltulling ngniust them the ranks of nn
opposite faction, and every effort was made
b’ them from tlmt time, to put down their
adversaries. Untilthai moment Mr. Poin
sett was not aware of any great political
excitement in the country, and as soon as
he became acquainted with the real state
ol the political parties, he withdrew from
od communication with the Lodges. No
other Masonic meeting was ever held in
his house, nor lias he had any communica
tion with the Lodges for the last three
.years. To the charge tlmt the chief mo-
vcr °f die revolution of last December,
Was secreted in Mr. Poinsett’s house dur
ing the explosion, a Jlat denial is given,
and the English residents are charged
With propagating the calumny, while they
said nothing of the repeated attempts to
shoot Mr. Ponsett, which was nearly ac
complished in one instance,'the ball Imv-
btg passed between Mr. Poinsett and Mr.
Mason, the Secretary of the American Le
gation, while they were stnuding together
)[' balcony of Mr. P’s house, and
lumiiy cannot successfully rench.-
il/cr. Adv,
N. Y.
4 * It was supposed hy the Mexicans that
they lind only to adopt the same form of
irovernment as that of their sister Repub
lic, (the United States,) to rival them in
virtue, knowledge, and national prosperi
ty ; hut, filled with nn idea of their supe
rior wealth and resources, from tho cir
cumstance of their possessing mines of
the precious metals, and from the dreams,
of Baron de Ilumlioldt, they disdain
ed to adopt the economy which distin
guishes otir general and .state govern
ments, and at once established theirs up
on the most lavish mid extravagant foot
ing of expense. The loans they made in
England enabled them to defray these ex
penses for the first year or two, and in this
manner they luid the foundation of their
ruin. They not only kept up all the n-
buses of the vice-regal government, hut
they aggravated them ; their pension list
and salaries to superannuated officers, are
not equalled by that of the most ancient
and corrupt government in Europe. They
never thought of forming a system of fi
nance, hut relied solely upon their mari
time duties. The former were so badly
administered, that not more than one-fiftli
part of the nominal sum raised ever
duced by Mr. Poinsett, all who have had
any thing to do with public concerns in
that country, and who will speak im
partially, will do him the justice to testify
lie has used his utmost exertions to initi-
gute or to remove.”
MR. JEFFERSON.
most THE EOS DOS MORS ISO CHKOSICEB.
We have received the highest gratifica
tion from a work which has just issued
from tiie press—die Memoirs and Corres
pondence of that great and good man
Thomas Jefferson, the celebrated Presi
dent of the United States. The specta
cle of mnn of strong powers, devoting
himself during the whole of n long life to
the good of Iiis fellow-creatures, is like
the sight of an oasis in the African desert
to the spectator of the dirty jobbing and
selfish aims of those who call themselves
the great in this country. If Captain
Basil Hall's Tour in the United States
generated in him a hatred of the social
condition of a country in which there was
not a class of splendors and u class of
happiness. If any body thinks that Kings,
Nobles, and Priests are good conservators
of the public happiness, send him here.
It is the best school in the universe to cure
him of that folly. He will see here with
his own eyes, that these descriptions of
men are an abandoned confederacy a-
gainst the happiness of the mass of the
people. The omnipotence of their effect
cannot lie better proved than in this coun
try ; particularly, where, notwithstanding
die finest soil upon earth, the finest cli
mate under heaven, and a people of the
most benevolent, the most gay and amin
hie character of which the human form is
susceptible ; when such a people, I say,
surrounded, hy so ninny blessings from
nature, are loaded with misery by Kings,
Nobles, and Priests, and by them nlot e.
Preach, my dear Sir, n crusade against
ignorance ; establish and improve the law
for educating tbe common people. Let
our countrymen know tlint the people a-
lone can protect us against these evils,
and that the tax which will he paid for
this purpose is not more than the thou
sufferers, Jefferson on the other hand, sandth part, of what will be paid to Kings,
store nt' snitl Melina iSi Hiuigor. It appeared in n-
viiK’ticc in tbe Municipal < 'ourt, tlmt niter the trans-
iictloa, ns above sworn to by mid Emery, the rle-
i'eiuliint, leuviug sniil store win pursued by some
one with n constable, and while on her way to tho
pnekot in which she urns to take pnssneo to anoth
er stole, on board of which were her thin,”.s, beg-
tinge, and which pnclci't wns immediately to
sail, the defendant u ns niTrstf d, carried about dark
to the Police Court, nt which she gave n name,
but not hertrue our, ns wns afterwards shewn, und
sent to jail lotnke Ikt trial for the alleged offence,
on the first Monday of December next. The
packet sailed without her. after waiting some time,
ignorant of the cause of her delay, und none of
tier friends knowing ofdier situation in respect (n
tlie charge brought ngniust her. she. was committed
for trial for want of surety. Before the Grand .lo
ry this Mr. Emery, n md of about Iff, appeared,
the hill wns found, aitil the day of arraignment
came, when she wns to listen to"(lie complaint for
the offenro above sel forth.
Immediately after commitment to the walk
of the prison, she wns from (he agitation of the
scene through which she Imd passed, thrown into
dangerous fits of the most nppaling nature, and
from (lienee she was removed to the hospital of the
lioii«o of correction denari merit, underfill* charge of
Hie humane and skilful care A. science of Dr. Flint,
ils attendant physician—she still continued from
day to day to suffer under these dangerous attueks,
being thrown into them hy the slightest excitement,
such as naming her parents or alluding to (lie de
grading charge with which she wus accused. Un
der iliese circumstances, the sympathy, of Mr. Ed
mund Parsons, one of the overseers, of the house of
correction, was excited, and with parental watch
fulness, tenderness, und care, lie drew forth from
her iri the hours of her calmness, the true situation
and circumstances in vvliicli slie.uiiforttiimtcly was
involved. Ileeniploycd counsel, saw her friends,
soothed her affliction, and made preparations for
her defence.
At length it wns considered to he safe to ullow
following facts wore abundantly proved—tlmt til a,
defendant wns a daughter of respectable, and for
merly affluent, parents In the slate of....... ,gad
had received the first education (which wns not
entirely completed at the failure ot her father,r
which any ol the daughters of that country had -
enjoyed. On learning Iiis misfortune, she hasten'
ed home, und to prevent being u burthen to him ip.’
Iiis calamity, she came to this city to learn the art
of millinery; not being successful in obtaining
immediately a situation, she w ent to service in the
family of Mr. Itenj. Smith; the testimony of Mr "
S. wus truly interesting ns to her virtue, intelli r
geiien, honesty, education und purity ; in reply to
a question from herGoilnsel, should this jury ei
ther convict or acquit the prisoner, would you irt,
either case trust her h* you Imvc done ( Iiis r0| iy
was, while the tour stood in his eye; “niosl nssur-.
eilly, u itli untold gold.”
lie expressed his deepest conviction that she
was not capable of doing, or hud done any acf.
intentionally dishonest. The reason Why she line
left him wus. that her In ollli was not strong fenougk
to fulfil the duties’ which devolved upon her,
though to the lime when she went to Mr. Clark's,
she always discharged them with the utmost fidel
ity and cheerfulness, according to the best of her
ability. Mr. Clark testified us to her conduct from
the time of her leaving Mr. Smith, until tho HMh
of November, when she was arrested, (accord ,.g
to the indictment): and in tills lie was most fan
anil unequivocal, that she hud clinrgu of file in *st.
valuable tilings in Iiis house, such as plate, money,
Ac. und'that she wns to him utmost invaluable
(torn her carefulness, h musty, ability und integri
ty. That lie parted from her with the greatest re
luctance; and tlmt the reason of her going was the
reception of a letter from her parents, wishing her
return.
On the afternoon of the 10th, lie sfint.lier thing*
on hoard of the packet, und she went out to pur
chase some articles to carry home to her native
place. Nut hearing from lior again, though she
promised to return previous to sailing if she could,
' he packet would not wait,jgfuT
he concluded that th
that she had gone home, and was not undeceived
until afterwards. Mr Smith and Mr. Clark re
marked (hat nt times she w us absent in mind, tre-
(piently milking mistakes in the discharge ol soma
little errand or duty, which might arise from not
being accustomed to the station assigned her,-.of
from having her attention withdrawn by some new
object. Mr. Clark thought she was unusually gay
uml absent on the afternoon in question, caused
probably hy the idea of returning, after an absence
of some ten or twelve mouths, to her home und
parents. The Misses—— vouched for her good
character from her youth to the present time, both
while ut home, ut school, with them, and here.
Tho attorney for the delendunt (John VV. VVIritc-
mnn) then addressed the court in her defence.—
But the feelings and judgment of a Boston jury
needed not, in such a case, an eloquent appeal to
their justice or sensibility. The uiunly tear told
the truth, though their lip* Imd not uttored their
verdict. The hard drawn breath &. the quivering
lip, shewed that fathers and brothers were on the
punnet, lie turned upon the prosecutor (the clerk
tf Messrs. Mellon &, Hunger) to meet out upon
jpn
him a little measure of the sidfcriug which he Imd
caused Ihe defendant, and to tell him of the wreclc
which lie hud made, but in this he was stopped by
the court; the witness was shielded, perhaps, hy
them from the expression ot that indignation which
the cause on trial had excited.—Leaving tins, he.
took ii rapid view of the circumstances of tha
i. .Ask. n*. __n_.li- .
seems, durinir Iiis stay in Europe, to have J Priests, ami Nollies, wlto will rise up n- j her companions of vouth to visit her—the meeting, lease in which the Government called for a verdict
'notwithstanding she had mu.-tcred mi uerfoiiiiiiiie, f of guilty ugainst tliu defendant—of thut bud of
Iieett so shocked with the degraded con- j mono us if we- lenve the people in ignor-
dition of the lower orders, and the worth- junce. The people of England, I think,
lessncss ot the higher, ns to have return- j art* less oppressed than here. Blit it needs
ed from his mission more enamored tlinn |„,t hulf an eye to see, when among them,
ever of the equality of America. Indeed, that the foundation is laid in their rltspo-
we are disposed to think that the disgust J sitions for the establishment of a despo-
which the spectacle oi European society tism. Nobility, wealth, and pomp are the
could hardly fail to occasion to a lienevo- j objects of their admiration. They are
lent mind, had great weight in determin- i,y no means tho free-minded people we
ing him to thut attachment to democracy suppose them in America,
which characterized his Presidentship, &l • -rzgjjo-
which has since become universal in A-1 . .
rnerica. Inti letter, dated Paris, Octo- Unity of the Executive power.—As the
her 15, 1785, to a gentleman in America, j Confederation had made no provision for
lie strongly recommends a home edocuti- 1 a v >9thle Head of the Government, I pro-
on in preference to one in Europe, from I P 0S( 'd tho appointment of a Lonunittee.
moral considerations. “ Let us view (lie Tllis was t ’P re '' <, ,0 5 « Committee appoint-
stivs) the disadvantages of sending n ed, who entered on duty, quarrelled very
youth to Europe. To enumerate them [foon, split into two parties, abandoned
all would require a volume. I will select 1 their post, and lrft the Government iviih-
few—if he goes to England, lie learns ""t »"y visil»l«' Head until the meetiiq
drinking, horse-racing, and boxing.— C ongress. We have since seen the^sa
Head until tiie meeting of
une
thing take place in the Executive Direc
tory of France; and I believe it will for
ever take place in any Executive consist
comi'orl of the people, which will doubt
less augment the contraband trade uu hun
dred fold.
reached the coffers of the government;
and the latter were diminished bv an ex- These are the peculiarities of English e-
horbitunt tariff, which gave rise to au or- ducation. The following circumstances
ganized system of smuggling, and lately nre common to education in that and the! ever t ' ,k0 l ,lnc “ | n nn - v executive consist-
iiv tiie prohibition of a number of articles, I other countries in Europe. He acquires ot a ph'rabty. Our plan, best 11 he-
tfie most essential to tbe subsistence anil a fondness for European luxury nuu dis- ‘eve combines wtsdoirii and practicability,
sipntion, atrd a contempt for the simplici- | b y providing a plurality of ( ounsellers,
tv of his own country; he is fascinated i k" 1 n g,n K | c Arbiter for ultimate decisibn.
with the privileges of tiie European Aris-M w . as *" France when we heard ol this
f lie distribution of tbe brunches of rc- j tocrats, nncTsees with abhorrence the love- i 6C, ' lsln und separation of our Lommittoe,
venue between the General Government' ly equality which the poor enjoy with the)«" d speaking with Dr. I ranklin ol tins
rieli in bis own country ; be contracts a i singular disposition of men to quart cl and
partiality for aristocracy or monarchy.’*—! divide into parties, he gnve bis sentiment
Writing from Paris to another friend i»|" s USU! 'I b y way of apologue. He tnen-
America, September 30,1785, lie thus de- i tlol,c<1 the Eildystonc light house, in the
scribes the impression produced on him j British Channel, as being built on a rock
bv European misery: “ Behold me „t | in the mid channel, totally inaccessible iu
length on the vaunted scene of Europe ! wiuter, from tlte boisterous character of thut
It is not necessary for your information sea j n that season ; that therefore, for the
that I should enter into details concerning i two keepers employed to keep up the lights,
it. But you are, perhaps, curious to i n .H provisions for the wintertVero necessu-
know how this new scene has struck a sn- j rd y carried to them in autumn, as they
vugc of the mountains of America. Not | c0,, ld never be visited again till the return
advantageously, 1 assure you. I find the! of tl,e mild ‘ ;r tiial «» «'•» firs ‘
General fate of humanity here most deplo-1 practicable day in tbe spring, u bout put oil
ruble. The truth of Voltnir’s observation jthem with fresh supplies. 1 he boat-
offers itself perpetually, that every mm. ma, » " ,et nt the door one of the keepers,
here must be either the hammer or the nit- a,ld accosted him with n “ How goes it
vil. It is a true picture of that country
mid the States, deprived the former of a
great portion of its resources, ami
what was formerly the most productive of
all, that of tobacco, occasioned a deficit;
for the General Government bought of the
tobacco planters, and paid them, and us
by law the States were to be supplied at a
fixed price by the government, they receiv
ed the tobacco they required for their con
sumption, and are to this day debtors lor
that utnouut to tbe General Government
and now refuse to pay that debt, as the
contingent, or the contributions which
have been lately levied upon revenue
throughout the Union. Thus, the States
have produced a event deficit by insisting
upon the General Government’s adopting
Xtie ruinous system of high duties and
prohibitions, in order to encourage their; to winch they say we.shal! pass hereultcr,
manufactures, winch ary not iu a conditi-j and where we are to see tbe God and bis
on to furnish one tenth part of the goods) angels iu splendor, and crowds of the
o , 0 f that description which arc consumed in {damned trampled under their feet. bile
through the cloak of Mr. P* Veneral Bra- i the country, nor the one hundredth part) the great mass of the people are thus suf-
Vo dl( ! put himself in the wav of being de-1 of whnt would be consumed if the people! faring trader physical and moral oppressi
on, need a S „ Traitor bv endeavoring to I generally were decently clothed: Ami, jot., have endeavored tq examine more
*>»n the standing of Mr. Poinsett with the i not content with producing tins state of| nearly the condition of the great to ap-
Bepublicans of Mexico. They who over- i 'things, which most retard the progress of, preemte the true value of the circumstau-
tf'iew the power of the Emperor IturbidoI civilization iu the country, they refuse to.ces in their situation nInch dazzle the
"ere monarchists*—they did not like the j pay any tuxes to support the Goveriiwent j hulk ot spectamrs,
rnerica by every class
love occupy the
®o"arch. Soon after the death of Itur-j in the crisis to which their own iu>provi-| pare rt with that riegree
the party who caused Iiis death found denre has reduced it. The General Go-j tvhicli is enjoyed in Aiiierio
l! >t the people were strongly inclined to a! vernment itself, instead of meeting its cx-jot peoji t. n i^iu-s 1
remililifin !• „ h • . . . , . .,viw»ubphnthmno. vounsiur, and lhose w ambition tue older
t |Miniican torrn of liovcrnmcnt, hence Lierencieshy curtulinir its expenses ainnuit, jj* - ’ n
raat party vas anxious to estuldish a ecu- 1 only omitted to s ? ml Un dividends due to part of the great.. , Iji
friend 1”—“ Very well.”—“ How is your
companion.”—“I do not knyw.”—“Don’t
know ! is not lie here?”—“ I can’t tell.”—
“ Wave you not seen him to-day 1” “ Na.”
—“When did you see hint'?”—“Not
since last fall."—“You have killed him.”
—“ Not I, indeed.”—They were about to
lay bold of him as having certainly mur
dered his companion'; but he desired them
to go up-stairs mid examine for them
selves. They went up, and there found
tbe other keeper. They bad quarrelled,
it seems, soon niter being left there, had di
vided into two parties, assigned the cares
below to one and those above to the other,
and had never spoken to Or seen one ano
ther since. J “.fe^tr*w’s Memoirs.
A had notice oftlipirn|)|>rom'l), u ax too much; a rc
lapse* instantly occurred; the lax 3triupsof u brok
en heart gave way, and a scene of convulsions for-
bude for a while tl,c visits of any one. By de
grees she became able to see one after another
of those w ho felt a deep interest in her reuse.—
■She promised, und believed she could fulfil that
promise, to be it ill mid firm, w hen she wus umtigif-
ed ut llie bar for trial. The day cmne ; and u le-
inale (the defendant) wns seen conducted hy her
protector and her friends, with slow and tottering
steps to the tribunal of justice—she was young,
but the mere shadow ol that joyous girl which she
was but senre** one month since. Vet situ was
cheerful and wus confident that she could submit
to the ordeal, even of arraignment for crime.—-
dhe tottered intotlm bar, and with apparent com
posure took her sent, and the gaze of idl was fi:,od
her. Tho clerk began to read his indictment
w ith his customary impressiveness and solemnity,
while she remained standing to listen to the charg
es it contained—in it few moments n I'aullering und
sinking were seen in the p won of the defendant,
and when the words 11 did steal, take and carry a-
way" were uttered, the prisoner was senseless on
the floor of the bar, und there was n rush of the by
standers to sustain this wasted being, and to bear
her away to her prison,
There wus a vjsible shudder which ran through
the crowd around her, and the conviction of her
innocence wus written, as it were by the finger of
God, upon the hearts of the multitude. In h few
days she had so far recovered ns to say " not guil
ty" to the indictment, and these were used in pre
paration by Iter friends to impress her with forti
tude to calmly abide and endure llie trial w hich n-
w ailed her. tier two hoarding school friends the
Misses became tiie partners of her prison—
they assisted her with the consolation of friend
ship und religion—they made cheerful tiie grated
ceil and gluomy walls,and witli more than sisterly
kindness, endeavored to raise up this crushed
(lower und bid h blossom anew. Nor were they
alone ill their nnjelie arts—others pitied, admir
ed, and assisted the ill (fated one and her afflict
ed copartners in grief, und the tide of feelings ran
at first gently and theu strong in favor of 111is*
stranger to our city, mid her affectionate school
mates who had comforted her in.her lonely prison.
At length llie trial day came, when her compani
ons, together with the first one "Who had taken nil
interest in he.r cause, accompanied her into Court:
the Court humanely suffered her to sit with them
mid not in tiie criminal liar. Every indulgence
wus ullowed hy the Judge and County Attorney ;
the ii,dictment was read to the Jury, and Mr. Eme
ry was introduced on the pHrt of the Govt, asn wit
ness; so far, she had remained collected between
her devoted friends; the witness Imd not proceed
ed fur in his statement, before related, and was go
ing on to stule tlmt the defendant denied thut they
were in her possession, when a spasmodic affecti
on caine over the defendant, every feature mid
limb wus distorted us if a bolt of heaven had
stricken her—-again was she'carried'from the
Court in a slate seemingly of senseless, yet inde
scribable agony.
Hern tier counsel besought of thn ( court that the
trial might proceed; notwilliplomliiig the absence
' a wave allcxeeptious, eve
if the prisoner, heshdiil
ry technical illegality; he implored a verdict, he
H on whichsoever side it might be, before she was
colled to answer to a hisligr tribunal fjt the deeds
done in the body. The excitement of feeling
throughout the spectators was great. The trial
went on, and (lie w itness (Mr.'J tnory) thecsloted
that he, nt the time of inking oflhe gloves, believ
ed that the prisoner intended to steal them, and nj-
related llie facts relative to his keeping the
glove; taken, and hi; giving up thu mils to tbe otli-
cer under the suspicioq tlyit tiiuy were stolen, be-
or one slit said slje gavels. 3d. when the mark on
young hope, which such verdicts would blight--
of the height jewel of reputation which it would
tarnish ntid blncktni forever—of the dreadful con
sequences which already hud arisen, from the
mere charge of that offence staled in the fau'ict-
ment. which if true, at most w as but a venial error
ill affability, not of crime. He then arrayed the.
testimony of the defendant, providentially sent,
la opposition to the charge of one individual on
the part of Government: aigSeii tlint intent w as
u e mstitiicut part of criminal acts—that such in
tent was to bo gathered from the time, place, char
acter of Ihe party, und all the circumstances of
the case—tlmt she never intended to steal, and
that her whole life reprobated even (he suspicion—
mid that no one liud ever bronglK a character so
pure and unsullied into any Court-House, as tiie
defendant hud produced before that peurnfl. in
addition, lie urgued tlmt (lie protection of src!i a
character was of more consequence to the public
then India's mines ; yet In addition to having ta
ken away the pence of mihd, health, if not lilt, of
thu defendant, the prosecution wished also to
break down that, which, to the defendant, was
dearer tlinn life, her reputation', and this too fo/
the sum of iij ets. the difference between the price
of thu mils left, and the gloves said to have been
taken.
He appended to them liy the ties connecting that
Jury to those neur mid dear to them in their kind
liest relations iu life, to acquit the defendant with-,
out leaving I heir seats—to bind up the wounds of
a lacerated lieurt, and to send home to Iter alfre
tlonute parents, who were as yet unconscious of
i*uy accusation against her, a daughter who was
the pride of her friends in the circle Wherein she
moved, the objects or sympathy, respect and es
teem even- with strangers, who felt that she was
infioceiit ill her calamity, and not to deprive the
Hiithoii of her being of the solace of their de
clining years, by a verdict of guilty; which wduld
he, in effect, a verdict of death. Their acquit ■
lance might even now be too late. He impatient-"
ly waited the result. Col. James T. Austirt do
dined to argue the cause on the part of the Gov
ernment. llis Honor Judge Thaclier recapitulat
ed the facts, mid stated tiie ImV of Ihe case, and r(»
commended to the Jury not to act under any feel--
ings of excitement, but deliberately to weigh the
testimony, and calmly to decide on the result, m
the best method of coating to a correct coucuKion.
In sucli case, justice would more rufely be dour (
and if the defendant was acquitted, it would ope
rate more effectually to restore her reputation to
the high standing wiiic'
licb it had previously main
tained) according to the statement of tiie witnes
ses on tiie stand- Tiie Jury retired, and almost in«
staidly ret timed a verdict of NOT GUILTY.
The ubove is a, corre.et though brief view of the
case as tried at the present MunieiparCourt in tliiq
city. Tint defendant, long after her acquittal, re
mained iua slate of. alarming convulsions and in
sensibility. She bus since been made to under
stand her acquittal,Tut tile blow lias probably been
fatal; she lias nriw been removed to the house of
Mr. Clerk, who, together with Mr. Bmitfa Mr,
Parsons, and others, have exhibited throughout
the whole affair, u benevolence which "paasetu
praise.” But the consequences of the accusation
mid confinement, stili each day produce the some
delirium, with some intervals of calmness and rear-'
son. The arrow rankle^ at the heart, and I fear
lest the wounded deer should.dje before it reach**
the covert r r its
quiet home- She goes aw ay,
however, without the suspicion of any stain upetr
her reputation. never stole any thing bu»
tbe hearts of all W|h* knew her *B#it*ts Oati.
The London Times, iu an article intended («r
provh that Indian Wn is ( * “ '
■■■I trash, says that th«: Cala-s
Mans make their bread slit; that it'givatswfcMr
the mange, qo4 maw tkyjsettryy. , #