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no, nor yet Lexiathan, when “in his
M cck remained) strength, and sorrow
U turned into joy before him”—was
halt so j iytul as I, when my prison
doors wcie thrown open, and I was
told to “go free.” I felt riot the
ground under me as I ran, or rather
flew, to the house of a countryman in
the town, —a Mr. Nightingale,—and
there found solace, welcome, and re
pose. My beard, which had beenj
growing for a fortnight, was shaved: I
’he tattered great coat, my sole and
s~arny covering, was exchanged fora
• lean shirt and comfortable suit of
clothes'j a hospitable board was spread
for my refreshment; and wine, thaj
“;n iketh glad the heart,” was substi
tuted in a limpid glass, for the ditch
water beverage, in a bullock’s horo,
which had been my cold, cold drink in
prison. 1 found from my friend Mr.
Nightingale (and, be it observed, in
justice to him, that all intercourse with
iiirn in prison, except with the prison
ers themselves, had been interdicted or
I should have seen him before,) that
my guardian angel, “red haired Man
uel,’’ had ridden to Buenos Ayres, a
distance 01 three hundred and twenty
miles, in the most incredably short
spape cf two days and two nights.
. He had taken his departure a few
Lours after he met me in my forlorn
rrecession to prison. He heard at
o ice, in the town of BaXada,all the par
ticulars of my capture,..and set off with
them, instantly to my friend Mr Thor
oughgood, known a* that time for his
cx’raordinary height 6f six feet five,
an I extensive dealings with Paraguay,
sometimes as the “Paraguay Giant,”
an 1 sometimes (his Christian name be
ing Thoma';) as “Don Tomas y medio,”
that is “Thomas and a, half.” Mr.
Thoroughgood instantly laid my case
before the Honorable Joscelyn Percy,
then in command;of the Hotspur fri
gate, and of his Britannic Majesty’s
ships and vessels in the river Plate.
This officer, with a truly Hotspur alac
rity and decision, yet tempered, in him,
as a seaman, by the discipline of mod
ern naval tactics, arid as a tfiploriydisf,
by a mandatory coolness of very defin
ed instructions from the Foreign Of
fice, determined 'it once what was to
be done.
fie had a beautiful little vessel,
watch he had built on board of his own
frigate after her mode), and. called the
“Little Hotspur.” He despatched
this man of-war yacht to General Ar
tjign?, ualer the command of a very|
gallant English tar, tAen Lieut.
He was familiarly styled, by his mess
mates, and very
Blow-hardand he is now a distin
guished post captain in the navy.
.v ita his smart coat, and more uncom
prosing cocked hat, this officer deliv
ered in the hands of the then all but
omnipotent chief Artigas the despatches
of Captain Percy. They were to the
short and simple effect, that unless I
were liberated, and my property de
livered up, (it being notorious that 1
had infringed no known law of the
country.) he would immediately pro
ceed to make reprisals of all property
u idcr Artigas’ flag. This spirited dis
play cf cool and reasonable resolution
hid its desired effect on the banditti
chief Artigas: he-despatched instant
orders for my liberation to the Gover
nor of the Baxada; and in consequence
us those orders it ivas, that I was ideas
e;l from prison.
But Captain Percy fro* stop here.
At the same time that he schVover h»s
ship-of-war to Artigas, be despatched a
well known, active, and athletic cou
rier, of tiie name of Bob Braveall, to
U’C at the Baxada, v. ith a communica
tion to the Governor ofthaitownio
this f ffect:—
“Sir, —You have, I understand, ta
ten violent possession of the ship, p ro *
pci ty, and person of the British sub
ject, Mr. Reinmnxe; I beg to inform
you that I have despatched the. bearer,
Air Braveall, to the Barada, for the,
purpose of conveying to you a copy of
my official notice, on the subject of Mr.
RcimnazJs illegal imprisonment, to
General Artigas. And 1 have to re
quest on the alternative there proposed
mat all proceedings agaipst. the Brit
ish subject refcrfrtexl to be suspended,
and himself in the meantime be libera
ted from prison, under such surveil
lance as you may deem prpper, until
you receive specific and final instruc
tions on the subject from the, most /x
--ccllenl Protector (so was ArtigaS then
styled) of (he independent provinces of
the rive r Plate.
“i have the honor to be, &c.”
Signed “Joscelyn Percy,
“Commandant of his Britannic Majesty's
Forces tn the Rio de la Plata."
The Commandant and Governor of
the Baxada had received, the day be
fno, the order from General Artigas
himrelf for my liberation, issued in con
seqnen'-c of the receipt of Captain
Pony’s comumijo-iiion to him direct
by flip Little Hotspur. It was the day
after my liberation, that the courier
Mr Braveall, arrived at the Baxada,
from Buenos Ayres; and though the
demand for my liberation was no lon
ger necessary,. through this channel
yet it will be readily believed that I
did not the less gratefully or gladly
receive so triumphant a testimonial of
my innocence, and so handsome and
effectual a proof of the alacrity and
zeal with which British interests were
watched over, even in the remotest
parts of that uninhabited waste. I
have much pleasure, and I have much
pride, in paying this small, alas! ziery
small tribute of public acknowledge
ment and gratitude to Captain Percy,
be he now, where he may.
In a few days after my personal lib
eration, my property was restored to
me, and my vessel, with the trifling de
ficit of about* five thousand dollars,
which, besides the muskets, had been
actually arid irretrievably plundered
by the military cormorants of the place.
This vessel praceeded on her voyage
to Paraguay; I visited my friends at
Buenos Ayres, and thanked Captain!
Percy for his most timely and effectual;
interposition; I then went to the camp
of Gen. Artigas, and endeavored, but
in vain, to get compensation ffir my sto
len property; and I finally pioceeded
to Paraguay, on horseback, expecting
at any rate, there, to be received by
Dr. Flancta with open arms, after al'
! had suffered and lost on his account.
How far my expectations Were answer
ed, in this respect, will be shown in a
subsequent paper. It is solely with a
view to the further developement of
Dr. Francia’s character, by showing
the part he acted in the sequel ofthis
episode, th it it has been at all »•»*-
duced; 1 “0-
A 1 RAVELLIR.
SON OF NAPOLEAN.
A stranger who has lately arrived
at Rennea, and has taken up his abode'
at one of the principle hotels, has made
himself the object of general observa
tion by announcing himself as a natu
ral son of Napolean by a celebrated ac
tress. He makes a lavish expenditure
and declares that he has income of
300,000 f. He is particularly kind to
all the old Goidiers he meets, and the
very sight of a military uniform seems
to make his heart thrill with delight.
JFrench paper.
THE GREAT NAPOLEON.
•There was a gentleness, and‘even
softness in his character. He was af
[ fected when he rode over the field of
battle, which his ambition had strewed
with the dead and dying* and seemed
riot only desirous to relieve tffe victim?,
issuing purpose directions
which too often could no,t be obeyed,
but subject to the influence of that
more acute species of sympathy, which
is termed sensibility. Ite mentions a
circumstance which indicates a deep
sense of feeling. < As he passed over a
field of battle in Italy, he saw a house
less dog lying on the body of his slain
master. The creature came towards
him, then returned to the dead body,
mourned over it pitifully, and seemed
to ask his assistance.
“Whether it were the feeling of the
moment, continued Napoleon, the
scene, the hour or the circumstance it
self, I was never so deeply affected by
any thing which I have” seen upon a
field of battle. That man 1 thought,
has perhaps, a house,friends, comrades,
and here he lies, deserted by every one
but his dog. How mysterious arc the
impressions to which we are subject!
I was in the habit, without emotion, of
ofordeii.ng battles which must decide
the fate of a campaign, and could look
with a dry eye on the execution of ma
ucEuyr.es which must be attended with
great loss', and here I was moved, nay,
painfully affected, by the cries and
grief of a dog.. It is ceilain that at
that moment, I should have been more
accessible to suppliant enemy, and
could understand the conduct
of.Ac.'jlles in restoring the body of
Fleeter totu? tears
PHRENOLoCX- .
Phrenology receives,ever ann non » a
blow, which one might'suppose wouln
kill it outright. But iU advocates are
the most sanguine men that We have
ever met with. There seems,, indeed,
(c be something in the science when
one bgCOrnes thoroughly indoctrinated
which renders its disciples as inmovea
ble as the hills. How otherwise, can
• they resist the fact, that the skull of
Napolaen exhibited an absence of all
the prominent mental and moral traits
for which he was distinguished, and the
presence of others for which he posses
sed them at all, he . was by no means re
markable? We find it stated likewise,
in opr Jate papers, that the sltull.of the
hit? Baron Dupuytren, one of the most
eminent surgeons in France,' has been
subjected to critical examination, and
contradicts all the calculations that
were confidently entertained of its
structure; And it L also said that the
skull of La Place, which is in the pos
session of Dr Majendrie, when placed
between those of two idiots, cannot be
distinguished from them! So far, facts
connected with the organization of the
human cranium,seems to be clearly con-1
tradictory of theory upon which phre
nology rests—and if it fail in a single
instance, it of course ceases to have a
ny pretentions to the character of a
science. But it is said that a sheep's
head contains those organs in which
wit,metaphysics &, religious veneration
arc located-the last place in which we
should expect to find two of them, at
least. And we may cap the climax,
by the following anecdote: *A distin
guished professor pf phrenology had
the cast of a head, sent to him, for his
peculiar examination. He did examine
it with great care. It was indeed, he
said, a singularly marked head, of ama
zing width and size, and strongly indi
cative of a peculiar character of mind.
He was much interested in it gave a
full written opinion of its qualities, and
requested to see the original'head from
which the cast was taken, and to con
verse with its owner. In answer to
this request, whirl; accompanied his
opinio of head wag informed by
letter, that the person who had thus so
solicited his professional scrutiny
would be very happy to oblige him
with an examination if in Iris power,
but he was sorry to say that it was im
possible, as only the day before he had
eaten it for his dinner—it was a turn
ip." “ ,
AN, ARREST- A FACT.
hunri*~-* 7 SU . M 'ffi a country not a
..cu miles from Adams, h small
sized man went to the plantation of a
certain gentlemen who was light in
wit, but rather heavy in flesh, with a
piece oi paper in his hand folded in a
legal form, and known by the abbre
viations “ca fa.” Having found the
owner of the plantation in the field, he
explained hit business, when he war re
quested to read the capias', yvhich pom
menced as usual, “You are hereby
commanded, without delay, to take the
body of,” &c.
“Humph!” says the prisoner, stretch
ing himself upon his back, “I am ready.”
“O 5 btit you don’t expect me to carry
you in my arms?”
“Certainly, you must ‘take my body,’
you know. 1 do not resist the process
of the law, understand, but submit
with much cherfulness.”
“Will you wait therd till I bring a
cart?”
“Can’t promise—l may recover
from my fatigue in the mean time.”
“Well, what must I do?”
“You must do your d,uty?”
And there fie lay-,immovable', until
the sheriffleft !rim.--JVcrtc/; Cou. Jour.
Jonathan’s Huntimg Excursion.
“Did you ever hear of the‘scrape
that 1 and Uncle Zekeiel had duckin
on’t on ffie Connecticut?” asked Jona
than Timbertoes, while amusing his old
Dutch hostess, who had agreed to en
tertain him under the roof of her lo
cottage, for, and in consideration of, a
bran new tin milk pan. “No, Inevei
•lid; do tell it,” was the reply.
“Well—you must know that land
Uncle Zeke took it into our heads on
Saturday afternoon to go a gunning af
ter ducks, in father’s skiff; so in we
got and skulled down the river; a pro
per sight ofducks flew backwards and
forwards I tell ye—and by’m by a few
on ’em lit down by the mash, and vent
to feeding on muscles. I catchcd up
my peauder horn to prime and it slip
ped right out of my hand and, sunk to
the bottom of the river. The water
was amazingly clear, and I could see it
on the bottom. Now I could’nt swim
a jot,, so I scz to Uncle Zeke you’re a
pretty clever feller, just let me take
your peauder born to prime. And
don’t you think the stingy critter
would’nt. Well says I, you’re a pret
ty good diver, ’un if you’ll dive and
git it,l’ll give you a primin. I thought
he’d leave his peauder horn, but he
did’nt; but stuck it in hrs pocket And
down he went —and there lie staid—
here the old lady opened her eyes with
wonder and surpnsc, and pause of
some n«.T u teS ensued, when Jonathan
added—l loGktd down and what do
brink the critter was doin?” “Lord!”
ekclaihled the old lady, I’m sure I don’t
know. 5 .’ “There he was,” said our
hero, “fitting right on the bottom of
the river pouring the peauder out of
my horn into hizen.”
A PHRENOLOGIST’S STUftY*
Casts,Boxes, and Shells arranged around
the room.
Dr. BRAIN, MRS. ATKINS, AND A CHILD.
Dr. Brain. — Well my good Mrs.
Atkins, I see that you have brought
your son to be examined.
Mrs. Atkins. — Yes, sir, if you will
have the goodness. Children are a
great pleasure, but then they are a
great care, and a wijew, especially a
lone woman, cannot help feeling anx
ious about setting them out in life. To
be sure, I have only my twins, a girl
and this boy but still it is a great
trouble. One does not know what is
fittest foi them poor things! .
Dr. B.— Phrenology is precisely
what, will ease that trouble, Mrs.
Atkins. Our discoveries are particu
larly to that point, by observing and
following the natural indications. My
friend, Mr. Howston, I think, sent you
to irie! .
Mrs. A.— Yes, sir, he told me that
by looking at the boy’s skull—take off
your hat, William—feeling the bumps.
Dr. B.— Organs my good madam!
Call the organs. , . ..,
Mrs. A.—l beg your pardon, sir, I
will.—Mr. H. said, that feeling his
bump—organs, I mean—you would be
to tell me what to do with him. I
should like to bring him up to the
grocery line, like his father, and take
him into business at a proper time; but
the boy, it seems, has read a foolish
book, Robinson Crusoe, and is wild to
go to sea! W T hy don’t you take off
your hat, William, and let the docter
leok at your bu— organs? He won’t
hurt you, child, . For .all be is so bold
and full of ,tricks, the boy is as shame
faced before company as his sister.
Hold yourself up William.
Dr. B.— How old is the young gen
tleman.
Mrs. A.— Twelve,come neyt Michal
mas. He’s by t a ; scrimp of a H)
1 31 -- e boj. ; anny and he are so
muc » • jp n were no t f or their
cloaths we should not know them asun-,
der. Bst 1 suppose, docter, that’s only:
their faces? I take it their bum—l beg
pardon--orgins are quite different?
Dr. B— Undoubtedlyj my good Mrs
Atkins; difference of sex is attended
With difference of faculty. The per
ceptive organs, for instance, are usual
ly more developed in women; the re
flectiye organ in man. This is quite
a boy’s foi;ehad. — sir, let me
feel ? 1 shall do yoii no harm. [The
docter feels of the child’s head—Mrs,
Atkins walks about the room, looking
at the casts, And talking tohersett.]
A large distinctiveness— a prodigious
combahvoness!—-firmness strongly, enve
loped—adhesiveness small. Really,
Mrs. Atkins, this boy is the ncostin
stance of the truth of our sciec.ce that
I ever met with in the thousands that
I have examined. I never saf? the pro
pensities so strongly indicf|te<L Let
him go to sea by all it
would be of no use it you were to try to
keep him at home: witßsuch afirmness
and sensitiveness he wo'/id certainly run
away. Besides, it would bje a thou
sand pities. Here re ail the Organs
that make a great warrior—asuperli
distinhtivenvss— —a finer combativeness
than Lord Nelon’ f J should like to
have a cast of t’/e Soy.
Mrs, A.—A fd. well-a-day!
Dr. B. Acquisitiveness strong, too!
Mrs. ay—what’s that?
Dr. B. it means a desire io
possess, /which, in a boy, probably
shows il/elf in a love of maib!es,and
without being very scrupulous
as to Lie means by which they are ac
quitted. ; ,
f.Jrs. A.— ol it’s a wonderful art!
•%e, William, how the doctor finds
r you out! Yes, he—l take shame to
sa y
it—stole all the apples off our noupa
rail tree, last year, and can’t keep a
gooseberry in the garden for him. I
can trust his sister any where, she’s
such a good little quiet thing—-but
William—
, Dr. Z?.-iNever fear, Mig. Atkins—
it’s an excellent organ under proper
government, and will turn to a desire
to capture Dub h spice ships and Span
ish argosies. You must send him to sea.
Mrs. A.— Ah! well-a-day! Butdoc T
tor how jsityoucan tellali these things?
Di. 'B —rWhy, . look here, my good
madam, do you see that projection on I
the side of—just here, Mrs. Atkins: -
here my good lady. If I had another
child I could show you in a moment
what I mean.
Mrs. A—— Run and fetch your sister
William. t
Z)r. B.— Ay, then I can explain the
difference—l’ll venture to say there is
not such a combativeness—why don’t
you go for your sister my little man, as
your mamma bids you?
Mrs. A.— Why do you stand there
like a simpleton? Go for Fanny, this
moment!
Child —Pray, mama, don’t be angry,
I am Fanny.
Mrs. A.— Oh dear! dear me! this is
one of William’s unlucky tricks? Get
out of my sight you goodffor-nothing
hussy . What will the doctor say, to
be made such a fool of?
Dr. B.— Make a fool of me! Mrs.
Atkins,! should like to see the person
that could do that.—lt is not all the
tricks of men, women, and children
that can put down Phrenology. But I
give you warning, my good madam,
that whatever trouble ypu may have
with your son, you will have more with
your daughter. I was never mistaken
in my life, and there are organs in that
little noddle fit to belong to a Joan of
Are. Good morning) Mrs. Atkins.
She’ll follow the drum, I tell you—or
go to sea, Good morning madam! Make
a fool of me indeed.
; LIST OF LETTERS
O EMAINING in the post office at
* Cassville, Cass county,Get rgia t
July, Ist, 1835, and if not taken out
within three months, will be sent to
the general post office as dead letters.
... ■•!
• Samuel H Doling, esq. James B,
Blair, Elias J. Baker, Robert Beard,
Pleasant Baker, James Blair, John
Burk, Wm Black, John L. Baird.
' - . J C
Jacob Crittenden.
-.. D . -; . .
John M.-Dowdy, James M. Duff, Is
rael P. D*vis, Daniel R. Dee?-, ALx
der Dickion, Wm. Dunaway, Wm.
Davis. F
William 0. Falkner.
i G
James Gray.
W. ,M. Henson Esq. Mr. Harrison,
Robert Henderson*
;. . ... I;-’ t .
Wi/i. M, Jones- Mitchell B. Jones,?,
. Jones, 3.
L
Sarah Leverton, James S. Laney 2.
M
Samuel McDow, John Murchison,
Robert Martin.
P r
fteuben H. Pogue, Thomas Pettit,
Wates Packet, Asa Pope.
Q
Henry Quinton.
R . ..
Spencer Riley b, Wm. S. Rodgers,
Joseph Rogers, Jesse Roberts, John
Richards. , S ;
; Nathaniel Snrfitb, James Smith,Jane
Q. Stewart, James Stewart.
T
Thomas Treadaway, John Thomp
son, Wm. Turner,Matthew Thompson*
Wm. J. Tarvin. '
. > W v-
James Ward, Wm. H.. Williams, A*
P. Watkins, A. Wellborn Esq. Thom
as Woodali z. ’ 7
CHESTER HAWKS, P. M.
July Ist, 1835. ■ • .
Cherokee SRevWV’s sale. ’
i \ FOR AUGUST.
WILL BE SOLDt on the FIRST
Tuesday in AUGUST next, before the
court-house door, in the town of CAN*
TON, between (he usual hours of sale
the following property, viz: ;
Lot, No. 1172, 21st dis. 2d sec. Che
rokee county, levied on aS the proper
ty of Hartwell Freeiiaau to satisfy sun
dry fi fa’s issued from the Superior and
Inferior courts of Franklin county in
favor of John feoswell and others, vg
said Freeman. - ...
Lot, No. 201,14th dis. 2d sec. Cher
okee county, levied on as the property
of James Bell, to. satisfy a fi fa issued
from the Inferior court of Coweta coun
ty in favor of Austin B. McAfee, va
said BeO.
Also, Lot of Land, No 105&, 21st
dis. 2d sec. of said county, being a lot
condemned as having been fraudulent
ly drawn, sold by consent of the infor
mer, and an order of the Judge of the
Superior court of said county, in terms
of the law. • ,
M. J. CAMDEN, D. Sh’ff.
July 1,1835.
‘ NOTICE. !
GEORGIA, CASS COUNTY.
JOHN before
G. W. Underwood, one of the justices
of the Peace for the 828th district, G.
M. a Small Flea Bitten, Gray Mare,
marked with-the collar, and some sad
dle marks, 14 hands high, 12 or IS
years old, in low order. Appraised by
George B. Russell and Samuel Smith,
tx fifteen dollars. ,
G. W. UNDERWOOD, j r
Wm. C. H. SMITH, cic.
July 6, 1835. 2
The Governor,
On the Information of |
Alexander Hawkins, )>.
vs |
William Berßyhill. J
Sci. Fa. Paulding Superior Court, April
Term, 1835.
IT appearing to the court, from the
return of the sheriff of Merriwe
ther county, that the defendant is not
to be found, and from the affidavit es
the Informer, that he does not believe
the said defendant resides within the
limits of this state: On motion, it is Or
dered, That service be performed by a
three months notice of this rule, in one
of the public Gazettes of this state.
JNO. HENRY LUMPKIN,
Atty, for Informer.
True extract from the minutes of the
Court, 20th April, 1835.
E. R. FORSYTH, Glk.
July-131835. 2