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VOLl’MK 1. EDITED KY G. pOtniLL.& J. A. CUTriBERT. m THE FEDERAL UNION. MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1831. h NUMBER 52, *1 _ur rsios i« published every BaWnlay at THREE DOLLAR? .-'.iinuifi iflSalwiice, « r POLK,If Hot paid laciore the end of itie T'ie’odipe is oil Wavne-Street, opposite McCombs’ Tavern. am ADVERTISEMENTS published at tiie usual rates. ' \ ft B-irli Citation by the Clerks of the Courts of Ordinary that ,'rion I,cell made for Letters of Administration, must be SCI lished THIRTY DAYS at least. ■ r N(itii'i' be Executors and Administrators for Debtors and Credi- tnl-s to tender in tiietr accounts, must be published .six WEEKS. sales of NSgroes by Executors and Administrators must be ad 'tortised SIXTY DAYS before the day of sate. 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Orders of Court of Oru:oar;., (accompanied with ^ fo I»y of the ViiMl, or asjn-einent) ro make titles to land, must be advertised * F tih^^SesnmV.r : executions regularly granted by the courts, v,m h‘ advertised THIRTY DAYS—under moitgage executions, ' tVTV DAYS (Sales of perishable* property unuer order ot Court, jjiust be advertised, generally, TEN DAYS before the day of sale. All orders mr Adverlisements will be punctually attended U>. »_ • All I,.Iters directed to tins OlHcc, or tile Editors, must W post- -paid, to entitle them to attention. POETRY. MuTHRit OF iVAaHRSviTulS. {.The following beautiful lir.cti were written by Mrs. " Sigourney, a few years since, while on a visit to Fred ericksburg.] Mother of him whose godlike fame Tnc Good throughout die wo«ld revere, Ah! why without a stone or name, Thus sleep’st tliou unregarded here? Fair pensive brandies o’er thee wave, And Nature decks rite chosen dell; Yet, surely o’er ihy hallowed grave A Nation's mourfui sighs should swell— Rome, with a burst of filial pride, The mother of her Gracchi viewed; And why should we restrain the tide, Of reverential gratitude ? $!ic to sublime V<feimni.i paid, IJcr tribute of enraptur’d tears, When the dread Chief that voice obey’d Which sternly curb’d his infant years. Thau in the days of Sparta's might, H-ud’st logit on her illustrious roll rank’d amid those nvtirons bright, Who nobly nurs’d the great of soul— £Vr disciplin’d in Wisdom’s school, The lofty pupil own’d ihy sway, And well lnfr'lu he he skill’d to rule, So early nurtur'd to obey. . No enervathig arts refin’d, . To slumber foil’d his heave r.-born irnguf: Mb weak indulgence warp’d »hy mind, To cloud a hero’s nn».h every lamg is necessary, and may, tor any tiring we K.io*v u> me contrary, be sometimes, and to a cer ium extent, foreseen even by man in bis present im perfect state. This is especially the case as regards approach ing evil, while prosperity, even when it comes sud denly, is seldom or never preceded by any presage of its approach. How are we to account for this? We may adduce two solutions of the marvel. First: It is no doubt a wise provision to warn man of evil, as it is of more importance to him to receive a pre monition of approaching mischief—than a coming good. Second: All our powers and faculties are primarily devoted to our preservation, and are most violently culled into action, when this is endanger ed. HenCe even the very instincts of our nature frequently impart a salutary presentiment indispen sable to our safety. It i&nipon this principle chief ly, that we would account tor the presentiment of evti being so much more prevalent than that of good, which requires no harbinger to prepare us for its approach. And tor the very same reason, that we have sometimes a general and an indefinite pre sentiment of coming evil, which is frequently com plex in its character, we may have a distinct pres- sage of the approach of death, life most awful event - which we are called upon to meet in this present state of our mortal being. It is i well authenticated fact, that many, men dis tinguished tor great personal bravery, & in the most appalling forms, have on the eve of battle, been o- verwhelmed with a fated presentiment that they should not survive the comuat; and that, in no in stance, so far as we have been able to ascertain, has this presentiment proved false. The self-doom- municated to us these particulars, “shall I forge|Hfie impression made upon ui> mind by hearing Mjjc- kay’s full and deep-toned voice pealing forth ‘Scots, careless hustle of a camp, or ute needless hum ami popularity of the busy world; hut in the silent ami secluded glen, the gloomy grove, or the pine-clad <vha hae wi’ Wallace bled,’ under the destructive hnountain. To a soldier on the eve of battle, it is diagonal fire from the enemy’s artillery on tlie possible that a sad forboding lor the fortune of the re the village of St. Boes. A soldier; morrow may find ready access to tile heart. The effect of sucli an incident heights above only knows the thriilin^ at such a moment!” Yet this singular man was seized with-one of thp.se fatal presentiments of which we have been speaking. On the eve of the battle ofToulouse, he suddenly became thoughtful and silent. His previous character rendered this alteration more ap parent, and Ids comrades eagerly crowded round him to require the reason, being at first inclined to jibe him with what they filled his “Methodist face” but, on observing his dejected look, the wild and unearthly expression of his eye* and the determin ed obstinacy with which he resisted all solicitations to join their party as usual, they stared at each oth er with astonishment, and ceased to annoy him. It was his turn to go on duty to the outpost, and hr, consequently, soon left them On his way to his post, lie met a young officer, who had shown him much kindness, and whose life he had been chiefly instrumental in saving. “Ha, Mackay!” said the'officer, “Is it you? Bless me. how ill you look! What’s the matter? Are you unwell? Stay— I will go to the Colonel, an<T request him to let some one else take your duty.” “I thank you kindly, Mr M.” said Mackay, respectfully saluting the officer. “I am not umvell, and had rather go myself. But I have a favor to ask of you. You have always been kind—very kind to me, and I am sure you will not refuse it.” “What is it? Speak it out at once, ed victim has in every case fallen as he predited.— | man,” said Mr. M. “It is frorne in upon my mind The following example, for the authenticity of which | that I shall fall to-morrow,’’rejoined Mackay: “here we will vouch, are strikingly corroborative cf the ' are ten dollars: will vo * take charge of them, and fact in question:— send them to mv mother? You know where she A young officer, of great promise, belonging to lives; and—and—if it was not too much trouble, the 92nd Regiment was observed on the day lie- sir,” he added, his voice laultering, “vou might tell fore the battle i.f'Corunna, to he particularly low her, if you should see her, poor old woman! that spirited, which was the more observable, as lie was her son—devil as he fr a been—has never ceased, generally gay, cheerful, and full of spirits. Hisbro- day nor night, to beg Heaven’s blessing on her ther officer^ enquired the reason—rallied him, as head, or to blame himself with leaving her solitary brother officers wont to do—but received no answer* ay. 1 destitute.” On getting an opportunity, however, of conver- The veteran wept like a child; and the young sing alone with one of them, to whom lie was much officer was scarcely less affixed. Taking the mo- attached, as he was a namesake, and a fellow- ney, he broke away from Mackay in order to con- countryman—“M.” said he, “ I shall not survive ceal his emotion; :u.d ;ie retired to his quarters, op- to-morrow, I know I shall not, and you will see it. pressed with the melancholy feelings which this His friend tried to laugh him out of this notion; strange scene had occasioned; but anxious, at the and said it was childish, and unworthy of a man, same time to persuade himself that it was a mere who had so often and so heroically faced the enemy,, hallucination of fancy, and that’the poor fellow’s to harbor such dismal foreboding. The next day j mind was touched. 6n the succeeding dav, how- after the heat of the action, the two young men | ever, when the remains of the regiment were mus- met by accident; and he who the day before derid-j tered, Mackay was missing: hut the tears of his ed the gloomy imagination of his friend, accosted surviving comrades sufficiently indicated the ful- pam of light. r)fT l ;V*TiSt, •y I tuny, ?i!V, when upon they sice 1 1 The Saviour el'his Count Vf hen his soft i’p to thine v. as prest, Wooing the a.verfrs from thy tonyuc—. *f.avM thou, prescient, o’er his brow Tiic shadowy wreaths of laurel start 7 Or, warn Isis infant hands were taught By thee in simple prayer to rise— £ iv, were thvown devotions fraught, With heightened incense for the skies'? "Well may that realm, ronf.d’P.y rest, Heroes end rmyhi.y chiefs to see, Who linds its infant offspring blest, With m ei'.toi's and guides like thee,. Some future aye, then ours most, just, With his shall blend thy honor’d name. And roar, exulting o’er thv dust The monument of deathless fame— Shall thither bid voting mothers wend, To bless thy spirit ns they rove, And learn, while o’er thy tomb they land, For I leaven *o tram the babes frier love. MISCELLANY. [FROM FRAZEN S MAGAZINE.] FATAL PRESENTIMENTS. u ’Tin the sunset of hfe teaches mystical lo And coining events casts their shadows before.” ^ CV;ti ,'heU. Every thing relating to futurity is powerful inter- ■fleting. The solemn obscurity of the dark and mysterious Future inevitably induces the mind to «omfemp!ate, with awfr or cv urn with—“WhatM! I thought you were to have I been killed:—did I not sav you should not?” His 1 friends replied , that nothing could convince him that j lie should ever see the sun of that, day set; and, t strange as it may seem, the words had hardly es caped from his lips, when he was struck in the breast, by a cannon shot, which instantly deprived him of existence. There are few regiments that have not some an ecdotes of this sort to record. We shall men tion one or two more, which have been communi cated to us by officers of great respectability, as having passed under their.ovvn personal observation. Lieutenant M I)., of the 43d, was so strongly possessed with tins presentiment on the eve of one of the battles in the Peninsula, that he sent for Captain S., of the the SStii, who was a countryman of his, and requested him to take charge of several little things, and to transmit them safely to his re lations, particularly to his mother. Captain 8. in surprise, asked him the reason why he (who was in perfect health) should think of making such ar rangements? M’D. replied, “ I know I am in per fect health; and I know also, that I shall never re turn from the field to-morrow.” Knowing M’D. to tie a particularly hiave man, (or he had already repeatedly distinguished himself, and never having heard him express himself in such terms before, Captain S. was lost in astonisliment, and his first impression was, that his poor friend was suffering from the delirium of fever. He, therefore, proceed ed to remonstrate vyifh him and to endeavor if pos sible, to rally him out of that desponding presenti ment, which appeared to elfect him so seriously. M’D. heard him calmly, and, without taking any fitment of his presentiment. He had fallen late in the action, beside one of the redoubts, pierced with more than twentv-hullcts. The last instance of this kind, which we shall mention, is one that will probably make a greater impression than any of the preceding, as it relates to individuals of great historical importance. Na poleon, on Ihe 7th of May, 1796, had surprised the passage of the Po at Piacenza, while Beaulieu was expecting him at Valeggio, and General Laharpe, commanding the grenadiers of advanced guard, fixed his head-quarters at Emetri, between Fkrni- bio and the Po. During the night, Li play’s Aus trian division arrived at Fiombio, which is only one league from the river; and having embattled the houses and steeples, filled them with troops. As the position was strong, and Laptay might receive reinforcements, it became of the utmost importance to dislodge him, and this, after an obstinate con test, was effected.^ Laharpe then executed a re trograde movement to cover the roads leading to Pivia and Lodi. In the course of the nfoht, a rc«ri- merit ot tue enemy s cavalry appeared at his out posts, an<l created considerable alarm, but, after a sliirht resistance, retired. Nevertheless, Laharpe, followed by a picquet aiyl several officers, went for ward to reconnoitre, and particularly to interrogate in person tit*’, inhabitants of the farm-houses on the road. Unfortunately, however, he returned to the camp by a different route to that by which he had been.observed to set out; am! the troops being on the watch and mistaking the reconnoitring warty ready bravest man may wish k> live, if not for himself j at least for his wife and little ones, his parents, or his kindred. And the fond remembrance of these, rusfiing wild all |fre force of separated affection in to his bosom, may conjure up tlDse feelings of des pondency, which, in their extreme intensity, may constitute these latal presentiments. But this can not l>e said of those, who, pursuing their calm, se questered path, on the wide road of human life, scarcely ew vary the events of their existence, and rarely quit the secluded s]K>t which gave them birth. And that such persons are subjected to the occurrence of fatal presentiments, is too well known to need illustration here. Supposing, then, that the occurrence of fatal pre sentiments be firmly established, is it possible, con sistently with any ljiiown principle of trie human mind, to offer any satisfactory explanation of lliis strange and mysterious phenominon? It is obvious, from the preceding anecdotes, that this “fatal {ire- sentiment” cannot he considered as a mental hallu- : A ioi.nu *as i..t .asfi Spot*winch snoinu iiuve thought offer its erection. Many is the insult which has been washed out, forgiven; or forgotten, on that ground. There hot blood has been cooled, sometimes with lead, and sometimes witfe apprehension. There youth has shown its madness, and there wisdom has sacrific ed to folly, there genius has substituted the sword lor the pen; there the lqver has exposed his heart to a weapon more dangerous than Cupid’s, aim for once pleased his mistress# by consenting to he kill ed; there walking hour-glasses have gone to have their sands hastened, or at least sadly shaken, by an exchange of shots; there cowards have trembled* before each other, like two aspen ieuws, an<i f ere tools and madmen, of all grades, have gone U l t, because they had not courage to let it alone. What a pity that the name of Hamilton .should bv found in such connexion 1 [A'cio York Constellation. HENRY BROUGHAM. ESQ. M. P. F. R. ft | Tins gentleman was born about the year 1773. j He has been more than twenty years at the . ar, (and has sit in Parliament thirteen years. Though descended from the eminent family of Brougham, in Westmorland# and heir to that title, he hapfen- ed to be horn and educated in Edinburg: in die dilation, engendered by cowardice or fear, as in all! the instances adduced, the individuals have been L .... , , . „ remarkable for their courage, firmness, and intre- j ^ ouso ^ Ins maternal gianumoiher, a ^cottishc.er- piditv. It is curious, too, that the most .striking! s v ulow arid sister to Dr. Robertson, the concomitant of this prophetic anticipation of death, j celebrated historian. In the year 1800 he was cal- is the strong and overwhelming conviction of its po- cc to the Scottish bar; hut tuat scene he. happily diest and most energetic ora tore, the northern circuit with the silk sitive realization. It may be urged, that a person thus fatally pos sessed, may become so cateless of existence, as, thereby, to insure his destruction. ' Be it so: hut, we ask, ivhat originally induces the presentiment? Soldiers, anti particularly veteran soldiers, familiar with danger and death, are not generally liable to be troubled with hypochondriac feelings, or with phantoms of visionary terrior. The evils to which they are exposed, are physical, not mental: their life has too much of stern realitv in it to be embit tered, or disordered bv the fanciful phantasmagoria of the brain: food anil rest after fatigue, and, after battle, victory and glory, are comiqonly the prime objects with which they concern themselves. It is, therefore, highly improbable that such gloomy fore bodings as those which we have narrated, should, m the first instance, be occasioned by any distem pered a flection of the mind; and it, is no less impro bable that the constant fulfilment of the prediction should he a mere accidental coincidence. Upon what principle, then are we to accountTor tne appalling certainty of approaching death thus irresistably “borne in”—(to use poor Mackav’s words) upon the mind? By what secret intervention ;s it t hus, m some instances, assured of the near ap- , roach ofan event, which fo the vast majority of men: “clouds and shadows iest upon,” till the fatal mo ment when it is revealed? Whence, too, the over whelming conviction with which it is accompanied? We confess we cannot tell: but we believe the fact, because the moral evidence in its favor is irresisti ble. The physiology of the mind is a subject, of which we must ever remain in total ignorance. Spurzheim may unravel all the perplexing convolu tions of the brain—he may discover new organs, new passions, and new combinations, he may in snort, exert all that ingenuity, lor which he is so renowned; but he gains nothing by the efr tort, but our admiration for his anatomical skill and dexterity. The mind may have latent pow ers, which can only lie called into action by a particular combination of circumstances; winch . ... ^ combination may he of rare occurrence, and be- j l >or can obtain, that every exertion of Mr. Brovgh- yond the reach of our inquiries, when it does Lap- ! aT P ail a ^ vanCe of reputation, an additional proof pen. Many of the lower animals are gifted with a j k ,s powers, a fresh laurel lor lus brow. Both soon abandoned, and entered upon the more auspi cious theatre of English law and eloquence. The foundation of his lame was literature. He early distinguished himself both hv Ins essays in the Ed inburgh Review, and by separate publications in his own name. His “Inquiry into the Colonial I'o- I icy of the European Powers," gave proof a I once of talentand inibition, of politico I observation & states manlike views. When, in 1808, he appeared at. the bar of the House of Commons as counsel against the orders in council# his name attracted eager crowds, and his eloquence equalled the partial ex pectations which had preceded him. He soon he^ came distinguished in Parliament, as one of the rea* In 1820, he went gown, as the Queen’s Attorney General. In the ensuing year, on account of the death of the Queen, lie was ob liged to return to the stuff ropes of a junior barris ter; yet his business kept increasing. The duties which lie had to perform in the House of Peer.*, in 1820, as attorney general for the late queen, were incentrovertihly the most arduous undertaken by counsel, and certainly greater energy, promptiti.de and felicity were never displayed by man. His peroration was admitted h v all judges, of what ever party# to have been eminently elaborated and powerful. Mr. Brougham is decidedly a man of genius.— He grasps strongly whatever he seizes upon, illus trates it fluently and forcibly, and conveys his own impressions to others with great address and im posing eloquence. But he has proved his sound judgment and enlightened ambition, by never at tempting any public effort in mere reliance upon spontaneous ingenuity or rhetorical skill. Knowl edge is the foundation of his success in the Senate. His attainments are various and profound, in strict science and elegant letters, in ancient ami modern languages, in popular discourses and in legai subtle ties. His, application# too# when any particular question is to he discussed# is close, comprehensive, exhausting—hence the proud result which only la- tfrein by nature for their preservation. j tremely powerful, and capable of the most solcmft Man, in general, is placed in a less enviable situ- ! an “ pathetic modulation. His style derives n uclf ation; because he has reason, instead of instinct, j ? rave authority from the use of antiquated, l ur apt tor las guide. Yet it has been believed, in all ages, j ariv ? eioquent phraseology. But the most tlistin- [ that men have been, occasionally, forewarned of j gin^hed aiinnuteof Mr., Brougnaw. iS'his terr.fri 1 their aporoactiing dissolution, and that “sounds by; sarcastic invective. I he individual once | no mortals made,” are intelligible to “death’s pro- i selected for his visitation, runs; ever bear the n.aras' phelic ear/’ This belief, probably, originated in j 01 its powers# lhr a detachment of the enemy, opened a brisk fire j the observation of facts similar to those we have j eu ‘ of musketry, and Laharpe fell dead, pierced by the been mentioning; hut how, at the “sunset of life, _ _ bullets of his own soldiers, by ichom he was dear- j coming events cast their shadow before#” is a mys- ul anxiety, that state of good notice ot what he said, repeated his request in so j lv beloved. It was --“narked that, during the ,ac-j uny too abstruse for our mundane faculties. It is to which we all must come; and, as death is i ant ^ collected a manner, as to leave no doubt j tion of Fiombio, throughout ihe evenoig pruct-dine-1 equally imjiossible, we suspect, even to conjecture, common to every one, so are its pressures eagerly j t,iat ,ie AVas iu the h'll and perfect possession of all j his death, Laharpe seemed very absent and dejec.- j with any degree of plausibility, whether these pre- Veceived and bv many implicitly credited. llls faculties. Captain 8.,therefore, readily promis- ted; giving no orders—appearing, as it were, dr- j monitions result from any internal consciousness, or ’ • - • * ed to comply with his wishes, should he -himself; prived of his usual energies, and entirely absorbed external agency;—from some latent power of the survive; they then separated, and each went to his hy*a fatal presentiment. La bane was one of the post. : bravest generals in the army of Italy—a grenadier On the fallowing day, after the tumult and melee 1 both in stature and courage; and although by birth of the battle-had subsided, the British being, as j a foreigner (a Swiss,) he had raised himself to the usual, victorious; a number of the officers met to rank of a general by his mere talent and bravery, congratulate one another on their safety. When) An anecdote, somewhat hearing upon the point, like yonder o;tk by lightning riv- In Scotland, the Bodaefi Glass announces the termination of human life to the appalled and trem bling persons; in Wales, the Caywylley Cyrph, or Corpse Candle, indicates the same doom, &. blanch es the bravest brow; in Ireland, the Death Fetch Jtas the same ominous power; while in England, the harsh ticking Death-watch points with equal cer The human mind is a strange machine, and when e<1 »l*> a muid, and, without saying a word he j saco, the troops, ignorant of the enemy s proxuni excited by intense anxiety, and wound up to the j ««*»"% returned to tne field to search for hun ; ty, and fatigued with their day s march, had lain highest pitch by despair and fear, it is no hard mat- ' amon g t!lP wounded—the dead—and the dying, uown on the summit ofthe ridge to take a little rest; teF to conjure up those “signs and tokens,” which 1 * or <hd Search in vain. He found him, already and both men and officers were soon fast asleep. a Hons zing tom* eet; and Hop**, “Which draws towards itself The dame with which it. kindles,” ture a fate. The same tiling happened in the case of Ser geant Ma • lonald, from Lochabar, as brave a fel- D., I have just had a most extraordiny dream; such as I had once before, the night before an nn- mmd suddenly called into action, or from the imme diate influence, of that Mighty Being, of whom it is only an emanation. Be this as it may, we have add iced a sufficient number of proofs to answer all the purposes of our argument ing readers reflecting on a most interesting importance. The E VENING AFTER BaTTLE. At the close of a day of oppressive heat in viie city, how, refr esh ing to walk.in the country, and while fanned by ihc cool air of the evening, to feel the caimness, and pw- rity, and loveliness of nature! At such an hour,- thoughts crowd in upon the mind, which no lan guage can express, hut which seem the revelation of some spirit, gently persuading us away front tins scene ofhuman passion and guilt, that we may hold communication with Him who sheds over ail :; and to set ouj- think- j His works, the unvarying light and sweet serenity subject, of great, and of His benevolence. As we in Duelling Ground.—Among the crowds of per sons who cross to Hoboken, in the summer season, a great many are strangers, who have never seen tiie “Duelling Ground, and who feel an anxiety to visit pfre spot where Hamilton fell. That spot’ how ever, is not, as strangers generally suppose, at Ho boken, hut in a secluded situation, some three miles further up the Hudson, called Weehawken. The Duelling Ground is close to the bank ofthe river, and of very difficult access by land—the ap proach being down a steep craggy hill, of almost mused, in a lecenf. walk, while twilight lingered behind the monarch of day, like affection longing to follow the glorious dead,-—and the moon walked forth in her bright ness, like some sweet spirit that comfortetli the mourner,—and the stars, one by one, looked genN ly down to soothe the heart of sorrow; how, we ex claimed, does Nature reprove the pride, the restles*F ness, the ambition and cruelty of man. How could Napoleon go forth in solitude at evening, after one ofhismost, terrible and destructive battles, and lift up his eyes towards the pure, and holy, and beau tiful Heavens? How does nature, in her saint-like majesty# reprove the man of ambition and blood? perpendicular descent, and so absolutely danger- j Even in the day-time, let him walk abroad into the ous, that a man having any regard for his neck j fields or the forests, and a thousand voices will re- frequently put to flight by a sound, which at anv geant Ma • lonald, from Lochabar, as brave a tel- expected battle. Depend u{>on it, we shall he at-1 would not go that way to he shot. The space is ] prove him. The birds of heaven, the waving bar- other time would not be noticed. But it has been low as ever drew sword, or carried a halbert, and! tacked very soon.” The young man immediately too small and too uneven for ih J combatants to i vest, the refreshing streams, will teach him that amended, and by persons of no mean understand- , who had been in ten or twelve general engagements,} went forward; and, after looking between him and j make any great display—to march wheel and flour- j his soul is not in harmony with nature. But in the ing, that Fatal Presentiments are conveyed to the . in each of which he had distinguished himself. On j the horizon,and listening attentively to every sound j ish in martial style and tiie dueltsts having taken j evening, he will feel himself addressed as by a pro- '' ‘ i. i . *i ‘ thpir distance merely turn on their heel, and fire as ' phetic voice;—the moon, the stars, the solegm night, tnc fatal word is given. j will whisper wisdom, and in their silence speak re- A little on one side of this spaa*, and out of the • proof, more awful than the thunder which rriakSS natural range of the snots, stands a tree, in which ^the mountains tremble.—American Spectator. are shown sundry bullet holes, which bear witness’ 1 either to the shaking hands o> relenting hearts—to mind hv me; means, if not supernatural, at all events)one occasion, however, he was so ovenvhelmedjandmurmurwaftedonthenighthreeze,heretum- xnvsterious and wonderful; and numerous examples, 1 with this presentiment ot death, that, rb the day; ed, and reported that all was still. The Colonel - - rderi 1 ' t ~ ~ J ’ J —a *i— —~ '-- J 1 ' ’ — ■OS WO shall presently see, have been adduced, in i of battle, when his regiment was ordWed to ad- ! was satisfied, and they again laid dotyn. In less proof of' the unerring certainty of the warning, as vunce, his limbs refused their office, and his com- than half an hour, however, the Colonel again well as of its mysterious occurrences. Lord Roch- rades had literally to supjtort, and assist (fie man,. started up, exclaiming in strong language, that, ere «vfrer—a strange hut not a despicable authority— to whom they had been accustomed to look up as ' an hour elapsed, they should surely be attacked!— bilged an impression, that the soul, either by a an example and model of a brave soldier. The hat- j On seeing the Colonel and his voung friend throw tie had not lasted hail' an iiour, before he was shot ! aside their cloaks, and move oft, several of the of- throughthe head. I fleers by *them took the alarm. And it was high A private of the name of Mackay, a man of the time; fbi, on examination, it was found that theen- most reckless and dare-devil character, used to be indulged an impression patural sagacity or some secret notice communica ted to it, had a sort of divination by which these presages were engendered; while many of the an- oient philosophers believed t hat the mind was endow- A Preventive of Fever.—The.best commefc- ed, to a certain extent, with a power of prescience j the delight of the bivouacs, of tiie 43d, during the totally distinct from, and independent of, that con jectural sagacity in regard to the future, which is derived from enlarged and comprehensive experi ence of the past. This was the opinion entertain ed by Cicero; and in short, it is a tenet which has been common to men in all ages, embodied in their popular poetry and traditions, and disputed only in ages of sceptical refinement; and if we admit that eyer> r action and every event occur * n conformity to general laws; in other words, fliat there is no such thing as contingency either in human actions, or the course of events, but that each must be de- terpiined by an adequate notice or cause—there fleems nothing repugnant to reason, or inconsistent with the known operation of the mind, in admit ting the possible existence of such a faculty, though, for wise purposes, its ope ration is confined within narrow limits, and we are kept in salutary igno rance. #f futarity.—If there be- nt owtingejooy, Peninsular war. He had a great deal of that coarse hut effective wit and drollery, which never fail to excite laughter; he abounded in anecdotes and stories, which he told with a remarkable de gree of naivette and humor; and often did he be guile the watches of the night, as poor Alan did with Mungo Park, by singing the songs of his dear native land. The instant Mackay appeared, hun ger, thirst, and fatigue were forgotten; the soldiers clustered round him, and seating themselves by the watch-fire, thought only of fistenmg to the joke, the tale, or the song. Even sohie of the officers did not disdain to mingle in these parties, and to acknowledge the rough hut powerful fascination which huncr on the lips of this unlettered soldier. No? were his humor, mirth and song, confined io the march and the carhp; in the tluckest of the en emy’s fire, he was as merry and as vivacious as in the Mvmac! “Notcf,” said the offices, who ooco- the cowardice or magnanimity of some ofthe duel- lists; while the surroundingrocks are inscribed with tary we can offer on the murderous practice, still the names and initials of many a visiter, who is con-j too general in sickly districts, of the inhabitants tent with a less dangerous immortality,than is to lie j using daily their bitters, viz: spirituous tinctures einv’s columns of attack were ascendingthe heights, j puschased with the use of cold lead. Those who j and infusions of vegetable hitter and asiringeitt with the utmost secrecy and expedition. Some of go there to be shot, escape the dangers of the cliff,! substances, with the hope of warding off fever, Ip them had then reached the summit, and deployed into line; before the British were ready to attack them. They were immediately charged, broken, and driven down the declivity with great loss. It is remarkable that the same gallant officer, now a general, had a similar dream in Egypt, on the morn ing of the 21st of March, before the British posi tion was attacked by the French, under cover of the darkness. The circumstance is certainly curi ous, although not exactly connected with the im mediate subject of the present article. The examples which we have hitherto adduced, are exclusively referable to incidents of a military character; but many of our readers, who reside in the secluded districts of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, or even of more civilized England, will find no dif ficulty to charge their memory with abundant proof of the realizations of the gloomy forebffi ngs of these fetal {veeentiaKtotst oot peepring ftoudgt the by landing directly on the spot from their boats. J lor us to lay before our readers the following from Strangers who feel a curiosity to see Hamilton’s a highly respectable source. The author is epeaki- monument, are disappointed, for that is no longer f ing of I Re malaria fever in the (fountry around there. It was removed, because it was believed to i Rome—diseases simila^to our bilious remittent fe- have a bad moral efiect, by encouraging others to j vers. * go and expose their lives on the s]X)t where so dis- j Pucinotti attributes the severity of the Rom ah tinguished a man had fallen. Instead of serving as i fevers in many cases to the use ofthe bark, spirits, a beacon to warn others away, it would be taken: and other, stimulants, which are by some used as as an excuse or justification for engaging in the j preventives; and he relates the case of an old man, same mad conflict—in fact, as a sort of lure to du- j who had come from Romagna every second year, elling. Hence those who never did a worthy ac- j to labor during the harvest, in the Campaign of tion, who were incapable of imitating Hamilton, in i Rome, who never had the fever, &. his beverage in any of his great or good qualities, would take a j the morning, and through the day, teas cold water foolish pride in following his only bad example, and I with a little lemcn juice. This practice, his father shedding their blood at the foot of his mohument. had adopted before him, with the same success: The fame of that great man requires no memorial! but his two sons, who would use spirit (brandy,) of stone; no inscription in marble, the hearts of his and even mixed with it at one time gunpowder, and countrymen retain the impression of his deeds.,. at another time cayenne pepper t both lei trisliBW th But if a monument were necessary, the Duelling ■ the fever.—Jotrmsd effieafch.