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and good Mercer designed it should be — ’
what the Baptist denomination is both wil
ling and able to make it—what it ought, in-1
deed, with its mighty resources, long since
to have become —but, let us add, and “ more
in sorrow than in anger”—what, we fear,
it never will become, until it is divorced
from existing associations and influences.
Repeating our hope that the Southern
Baptist will lav our defence before its read -i
ers, we dismiss tho subject.
THE SEPTICENT.
We beg leave to call the attention of Gov
ernment to the importance of issuing anew
silver coin, of the value of seven cents, to
which, for the sake of analogy, in the nom
enclature of the federal currency, we sug
gest the name of tho Septicent. The use of
copper coins in making small change,
crally felt to be an annoyance, and more on
that account, perhaps, than on any other,
they are not used at all in the South, unless
it may be in the larger towns, und there on
ly to a limited extent. It is, however, often
times extremely inconvenient to get along
without them, as for example, in pre-paying
a newspaper, or taking out a drop letter,
and in numberless other cases.
The issue of a septicent would obviate all
these difficulties, and with the other silver
fractional parts of tho dollar, make every
sum that can be desired for practical pur
poses. It is evident, that with our present
federal coins—of silver—no combinations
will enable the holder to pay either one,
two, three, four, six, seven, eight, or nine
cents, without receiving copper coin in ex
change. Let us now examine the result of
a combination of septicents with dimes and
half-dimes, and see if the use of copper will
not be rendered entirely unnecessary. We
annex a table, embracing eight propositions
to pay from 1 to 9 cents —omitting the 5 and
7 —using only silver coins :
To pay 1 cent, give 1 and 1-2 dimes, and
receive 2 septicents.
To pay 2 cents, give 1 septicent, and re
ceivo 1-2 dime.
To pay 3 cents, give 1 dime, and receive
1 septicent.
To pay 4 cents, give 2 septicents, and re
ceive 1 dime.
To pay 0 cents, give 2 dimes, and receive
2 septicents.
To pay 8 cents, give 1 and 1-2 dimes, and
receive one septicent.
To pay 9 cents, give 2 septicents, and re
ceive 1-2 dime.
This table embraces every possible con
tingency in which copper coin would be re
quired, and we think it would add vastly to
the public convenience to have such an ad
dition as that which we propose, made to
the national coinage. We commend this
subject, at all events, to the consideration
of financiers, and of our contemporaries.
our (Gossip Column.
The Stone Mountain.
This wonderful object has become one of
the great attractions of our State, and for
the one visiter of 1839, there are probably
one hundred iu 1849, thanks to the Georgia
Rail Road, which runs in the very “ shad
ow of the great rock.” We spent an after
noon there recently, to refresh ourself with
its sublimity and grandeur, and brought
away with us the following beautiful Apos
trophe by some inspired visiter ! W r e found
it in the public Album of the Mountain Ho
tel, and therefore print it without hesita
tion. It bears date of August 31st, 1848.
Farewell Stone Mountain! I bid you farewell.
When I shall see you again, I’m sure I cannot
tell.
But thi- I will say wherever Igo
You are the best in the State I very well know !!
Your clever and accommodating Landlord shall
have my best wishes
And 1 may return to you again Providence per
mittng
Your fame shall be sounded both far and wide
And I will run mbor you on land and on tide
Your Johnson and your Lee they’re the b >ys for
me
And 1 will remember you wheere’er 1 be :
Your form I’m sure I'll remember quite well
Farewell Stone Mountain ! I bid you farewell!
A Prize not Prized.
In a late advertisement of the American
-irl Union, the last subject upon the Cata
logue of pictures for the next annual Distri
bution, is stated as follows :
200 Small Beginnings. By A. Rutherford.
Our good aunt Betsey—a second cousin,
by the way, of Mrs. Partington —having
read the announcement, looked up, pushed
back her spectacles, and exclaimed—
“ Good gracious ! that’s a powerful lot of
small beginnings. 1 wonder why he didn’t
finish ‘em as he went along. Who, iu the
name of common sense, ’ud want to draw
such a prize as that. I hope you won’t
draw it, nephew, any’ how, for the parlor
Wouldn't hold so many scraps !”
Both Parties Suited.
The Editor of the Atlanta Intelligencer
returns us his thanks for saving him the
trouble of looking, in vain, into our paper
weekly, for something that he thinks wor
thy of being copied. We are certainly hap
py to have relieved him from an investiga
tion so painful—because so utterly beyond
bis intellectual capacity—and we shall not
soon forgive ourself for having sent our pa
per to him at all, in utter disregard of the
significant Scripture admonition—QO“6’as<
not your pearls before swine, lest they
trample them under their Jeet, and turn
again and rend you /”
Went Farther and Fared Worse.
One of the most excellent and popular
landlords in Georgia, recently related the
following incident as a fact in his own ex
perience : One day, a passenger by the curs
arrived at the A Hotel just before
the ringing of the bell for dinner. Not de
signing to go on in the train immediately,
be felt in no baste to secure his dinner, and
accordingly retired to a room and passed
the whole dinner hour in making a comfort
able toilet This accomplished, ho descend
ed leisurely to tho dining-room, and found
it entirely vacant of guests. Seating him
self at tho table—covered with the disjecta
membra of a once generous dinner—the ser
’ ants, at tho intimation of our host, who
bail just entered tho saloon, began to wait
“pon him most diligently. One after ano
ther placed dishes before him, until nearly
every variety was within his reach- The
guest sat, looking on iu profound silence.
but touched nothing that was placed before
him. By this time, the attentive landlord,
becoming anxious for the honor of his house,
stepped up to his taciturn visiter, and cour
teously remarked—
“ You are behind our dinner hour, sir,
and an unusually large number of guests
has nearly exhausted our supplies. I can
offer you, sir, I deeply regret to say, but a
very poor apology for a dinner.”
To this speech the guest replied not, ei
ther by word or look; and the landlord,
somewhat discomfited, seizing the most pro
mising viands within reach, urged him to
eat, again deploring the unworthiness of the
dinner.
Still the stranger was speechless and mo
tionless. And now our good-natured host
began to grow vexed, but rallying once
more, he said, cheerfully—
“ Come, sir, make the best of it; the din
ner is a poor one, I know—very poor—yet
not so poor, after all, but that I have seen
a worse.”
“ Then,” said the stranger gravely, and
looking into the host's face, “ then, sir, you
have travelled farther than I have
Our excellent friend, the landlord, retired
in haste, and left his guest to do the best he
could!
li A Pocket full of Rocks.”
The literal meaning of this phrase is a
pocket full of rupees, [hence, of any coin,]
rapes being the Latin term for rocks!
New Readings from Hamlet.
Act v : 2.
“ There’s a divinity that shapes our ends
Rough—he-,v them how we will!”
Act ii: 2.
“ You go to seek the Lord,—llamlet.”
Ibid.—
“ Still harping on, my daughter!”
[ To be continued, when the notion takes us.~\
Father Mathew and the Abolitionists.
We rejoice to see that the great “ Apostle
of Temperance” has given the “cold shoul
der” to the Abolitionists, in his reception of
their invitation to attend a forthcoming an
ti-Slavery celebration in Boston. Lloyd
Garrison, the bearer of the invitation, was
terribly chagrined by the good priest’s evi
dent determination to mind his own busi
ness and let other people’s aloue; and he
has since sought to cast odium on Father
Mathew, by representing him as traitorous
to the great cause of human liberty ! When
Lloyd Garrison has done the millionth part
for his suffering fellow-men that Father Ma
thew has accomplished, he will be entitled
to infinitely more respect and consideration
than he is note, as the leader of intermed
dling fanatics. The South should honor Fa
ther Mathew for his independence in dis
claiming alliance with the Abolitionists.
u The Schoolmaster needed Abroad.”
In the review of Sir Charles Lyell’s Trav
els in the United States—mentioned in our
notice of the Living Age in another column
—the reviewer manifests a sad ignorance of
our Southern geography, by locating both
Macon and Milledgeville in Alabama! He
ought to be put in possession of Bonner’s
Map, or else have a course of lessons in
Mitchell or Olney. Strange as such errors
appear in English Journals, we remember
not many years ago, when the New Yovk
Knickerbocker [possibly, however, antici
pating the action of the Legislature of 1849
or 1851,] made Macon the capital of Geor
gia ! Is the Knickerbocker a prophet ?
A Mosaic.
Oft in the stilly .night
When stars are in the quiet sky
Sparkling and bright, with mellow light—
’Tis hard to say Good bye !
A life on the ocean wave
I love— oh 1 love tho free —
Where the scattered waters rave—
Oh woodman spare that tree !
our Book (Table.
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11 1 -t irv of England, From the Peace of Utrecht
to the Peace of Paris By Lord Mahon. Ed
ited by Henry Reed In two vols. Bvo—jp
567, 559. New York: D. Appleton & Co.—
1819.
We have not yet had time to read with
care and deliberation both of these large oc
tavos, embracing Lord Mahon's History of’
England for a period of half a century im
mediately succeeding the Peace of Utrecht,
in 1713. We have, however, read enough
to form an idea of its great merit, and to
discover that in candor, fidelity, compre
hensiveness of detail, and philosophical re
search, it has never been surpassed by any
History of England whatever.
Lord Mahon, grandson of the Earl Stan
hope, had access to the voluminous Stan
hope MS. Papers, from which he has drawn
largely, and thereby added vastly to the in
terest of his work. lie also consulted free
ly the celebrated Stuart Papers, and the
Hardwickc Collection, and lias thus been
enabled to throw new light upon many
points in the history of that eventful half
century.
These volumes were issued from the Amer
ican press just about the time that Mr. Ma
caulay’s popular History made its appear
ance, and in the favor which the latter ex
cited in the popular mind, the work of Lord
Mahon was, perhaps, too little regarded by
reviewers and readers. Now, however, that
everybody has read Macaulay, it is well for
us to assure our readers that his brilliant
volumes do not exhaust tho annals of Eng
land, nor even embrace all the salient points
of her wonderful history. Indeed, the work
of Lord Mahon treats of a period whose be
ginning was a quarter of a century later
than the close of that described in Mr. Ma
caulay’s two volumes. When his subse
quent volumes appear, covering the same
ground, we may find in them more
dazzle of rhetoric, of the fascination of style,
and of the charm of rapid and startling an
tithesis; but we shall not find moro of dis
criminating judgment of events, of search
ing, logical analysis of their causes, or of
unaffected charity of opinion, than are dis
played in Lord Mahon’s elaborate records.
The style is pure, und the narrative suffi
ciently entertaining to command the un
wearied attention of the reader who desires
improvement. We cannot hut regard the
work as an inestimable addition to histori
cal Literature, and as containing everything
that it is important for us to know of the
period to which it is devoted.
©0 © m ©1 17 § a E a V
Sermons, by tho lato Thomas Chalmers, I). ! >.,
LL. D.—lllustrative of different stages in his
Minis!ry, 1798-18t7. Onevol. 12mo. —pp. 512
New York: Harpor & Brothers. 1819.
This is the sixth volume of a uniform sc
ries of the posthumous works of one of the
ablest divines that ever lived. To commend
to our readers his writings, stamped as they
are with the double inspiration of genius
and of Christianity, would be a sort of im
pertinence, for the world has few Chalmers,’
and wherever the light of Revelation has
beamed, his name is hallowed by some of its
holy rays.
History or the American Birle Society, from
its Organization to the prosent time. Ivy \V
P. Strickland. With an Introduction by Rev.
N. L Rice, D. D. One vol. Bvo.—pp 466.
New York: Harper & Brothers. 1819.
If the history of nations, states and indi
viduals, is interesting and valuable, how
much more so the history of an Institution,
moro elevated in its aims, more comprehen
sive in its field of operations, more enduring
in its results, than any other merely human
agency whatever. Such an Institution is
the American Bible Society, established by
benevolence and sustained by the same spi
rit, through a wonderful career of progress
and grand moral achievement, in compari
son with which, the trophies of warlike cru
sades and expeditions grow dim and insig
nificant.
The volume before us is a narrative of al
most unequalled interest, since it is the re
cord of moro than thirty years’ endeavor,
on the part of American Christians, to give
the word of God to every nation and people
under Heaven. Our limits will not allow
us to review the operations of the Society,
and we must confine ourself*to a few hasty
glances at their results.
The receipts of the Society,from all sources
whatever, from its organization in 1810 un
til the present year, have exceeded three
millions of dollars. The entire Scriptures
have been translated into more than fifty
different languages, and published by the
Society. In some languages, two or more
versions have been prepared, to meet the
wants of the people The New Testament
complete has been published in sixty-six
1 mguages and dialects, and various portions
of the Bible, particularly the Gospels and
the Psalms, in most of the same and other
languages. The total number of copies of
the Scriptures issued by the Society, is es
timated at six millions.
Until 1835, all the Evangelical denomina
tions in this country were united in the
American Bible Society. In that year,
however, an unhappy collision arose, which
resulted in the withdrawal of the Baptist
Church iuto a separate Society, under the
comprehensive title of tho American and
Foreign Bible Society. Mr. Strickland
throws the responsibility of this separation
on the Baptists; we should do them injus
tice, however, if we did not add that they
claim to have acted ex necessitate rei.
The present operations of the American
Bible Society, are conducted on a vast and
extending scale of Christian benevolence, as
the volume before us will shew. In an Ap
pendix we find many letters, circulars and
addresses, by distinguished Bible advocates
—constituting a judicious and valuable ad
dition to the elaborate narrative of Mr.
Strickland.
Ranking’s 11.u.f Yearly Abstract of the Med
ical Sciences. No. 9—July. 1819. Philadel
phia: Lindsay & Blakiston.
It is certainly needless for us to commend
a work, the value of which is acknowledged
by the entire Medical profession of the Uni
ted States. The vast amount of matter it
contains —the diligence and judgment ex
hibited in its compilation, and the compre
hensiveness of its range—combine to render
it invaluable, especially to the physician of
limited time and means for professional
reading. It is published at .81.50 per an
num.
The Hill Difficulty, and some Experiences of
Life in the Plains of Ease. With other Mis
cellanies. By Geo. B. Cheever, D D Ono
vol. 12mo. —pp. 383. Now York: John Wiley.
1819.
Among the allegories of this volume, we
find the famous tracts entitled Deacon Giles’
Distillery and Deacon Jones’ Brewery, the
former of which subjected its author to a
: suit for libel, by some rum-selling deacon
1 who saw his own portrait in the vivid lim
: ning of the satirist. Probably no tracts
were ever more conducive to the progress of
the Temperance reform than these. Beside
them are some beautiful allegories of a still
higher order of moral, and among them that
which gives title to the book. There are,
also, numerous descriptive and meditative
pieces in the second part of the work, writ
ten in the author’s happiest vein. The third
part contains several miscellanies of a criti
cal and speculative character, marked by
vigor, purity and independence of thought
and style. Dr. Cheever is a distinguished
preacher of New York City, and his zealous
defence of Puritanism, not less, perhaps,
than his pleasant volumes of travel in the
Jungfrau and the Alps, and his Lectures on
the Pilgrim’s Progress, have made him wide
ly known.
our (Hontemporarics.
Littell’s Living Age. No. 276—September 1. —
Boston : E. Littell & Cos.
This number contains the admirable re
view of Beattie’s Life and Letters of the Poet
Campbell, from tho London Quarterly; three
pleasant Stories from an English Annual
for 1850; and several other brief papers of
varied interest. Littell furnishes 2500 roy
al octavo pages of choice eclectic matter, for
Six Dollars. We supply the work, with the
Gazette, one year, for Seven Dollars, to
new subscribers.
The Literary World. New York : E. A. & G.
L. Duyckinck.
This is unquestionably the literary paper
of our Continent. It well deserves the very
handsome reputation it has acquired as the
best American source of literary intelli
gence. Its reviews arc able and as gene
rally candid as such performances may be.
Its notices of new books are discriminating
and agreeable. Each number contains plea
sant miscellanies in prose and verse, and
sprightly gossip of a literary character. —
To tho litterateur it is a sine qua non, and
in every intelligent circle it would be a most
wclcomo visiter.
Whelor’s Southern Monthly Magazine. Athens
and Charleston. C. L. Wlielor, Editor.
Tho September number of this excellent
work is before us. It is filled with its usual
variety of interesting articles. Among the
contributors to the present number, are
Charlton,GouldAVhite, Journot, Miss Knox,
and others.
The British Reviews.
The Edinburgh Review. July, 1849. N. York:
L. Soott & Cos.
There are some admirable papers in this
number, of which the best are Sbakspeare’s
Critics, English and Foreign—a review of
Bulwcr’s King Arthur—and Do Tocque
villc’s Reign of Louis XIV. Avery reada
ble paper on Sardinia, and an Examination
of Croker’s Review of Macaulay, will both
repay perusal. There are some able politi
co-social articles in this issue, especially j
that on “ Transportation as it now is.” The
old fire of tho Edinburgh still gleams out
not unfreqnently. It is among the ablest
reviews in the world.
The Westminster Review. July, 1849. New
York : L. Scott & Cos.
This reprint is upon our table with great 1
promptness —suggestive of steam processes i
in printing. It is an issue of average merit j
—containing some choice articles, among j
which we particularly commend to our read- \
ers a sterling and finely appreciative article
on Tennyson, and an instructive paper on
Botany. Other attractive papers there
are, but we have not yet had time to read
them.
The London Quarterly. July, 1819. New York ;
L. Scott & Cos.
We have read with no ordinary interest, (
among other articles iu this number of the
Quarterly, a review of Lyell’s Second Visit
to the United States. It exhibits a gratified j
1 interest in the progress and development of:
this great Republic, ns depicted by Sir
Charles ; and the reviewer means no small j
compliment when he says, that his impres- j
Ision, in journeying with our distinguished
traveller, was, that he was travelling in a I
Transatlantic England, although strange
and striking dissimilitudes and contrasts 1
l
perpetually presented themselves. The spi
rit of the article, like that of tho delightful j
volumes it reviews, is full of kindness and ;
interest for our country.
Papers on the Life and Letters of Camp
bell, The Marriage Relation, Chess Playing, ‘
Democracy, The Antiquities ofScotland.lt- [
aly and Austria, &c , make up a most in
viting “ bill of fare.”
<Ll]c Citcnuu lllorlir.
Life of William Wirt Lea & Blanch
ard have in piress a Life of William Wirt, by
Kennedy. It will command attention.
Splendid Illustrated JVork. D. Apple
ton & Cos. announce “ The Women of the
New T Testament,” corresponding in style to
“ The Women of the Old Testament,” pub
lished last Fall. It is to be edited by Rev.
Dr. Sprague.
Madison University. Anew Board of
Trustees was elected at the lust session of
the N. Y. Baptist Education Society, which,
by a full vote, decided against the removal,
from Hamilton, of this excellent College.
The Cacique of Acabce. We have had
the pleasure of looking over early sheets of
anew volume, to be entitled “ The Cacique
of Acabee, and other Poems,” by our friend,
Wm. Gilmore Simms. It will be published
in Charleston, by Mr. John Russel.
Carlyle in Ireland. Thomas Carlyle is
travelling in Ireland, and we may expect
soon to hear a voice potential from that ill
fated country.
Frank Forrester on Fishing. Stringer &
Townsend announce for immediate publica
tion, Mr. Herbert’s long-expected book on
“ Fish and Fishing in the United States.”—
It will be a handsomely illustrated octavo.
AA ew Indian Romance. “Frontenac,”
a Metrical Story, by Alfred B. Street, is an
nounced by Baker & Scribner as almost
ready.
David Copperfield. Mr. Dickens intro
duces, in Part IV of his present work, an
entirely new and very singular character,
which lends great interest to the story. —
Mr. Mecawber is a type of a remarkable
class.
(Tljc ©lft tUorlft.
The steamer Canada arrived at Halifax on
the 24th inst, she brings Liverpool dates, up
to tho 11th inst.
The Markets. Liverpool, August 11th.
—The transactions in the cotton market for
the past week have been active, at an ad
vance of 1-8 to l-4d on American. Thequo
tatious for Upland 5 1-4; Mobile 5 3-8d;
Orleans 5 3-Bd. of the week 78,000
bales; 24,000 of which were for speculation
and 6,000 for export.
England. The English papers are filled
with accounts of the enthusiastic reception
of the Queen in Ireland. The cholera is in
creasing in London.
The Harvest throughout England was
very satisfactory. The grain market was
somewhat depressed.
In the cotton a nd woollen manufacturing
districts, trade was very active.
Money continued abundant. The amount
of bullion in the Bank of England was four
teen and a half millions of pounds.
France. President Bonaparte denies any
desire to change the present form of Gov
ernment. Some of the journals insist that
Napoleon's visit to tho Western provinces
was a failure. Gen. Oudinot has resigned
the command of the Army of Italy, because,
as he said, he could not act in harmony with
the Pope, who has always treated him with
distrust. Gen. Uottslaw lias been appoint
ed in bis place. There arc serious rumors
of a change in the French Ministry.
Hungary. The accounts from Hungary
are flattering to the success of their milita
ry operations. Several recent and decisive
victories have been achieved.
It is announced that the Hungarians, un
der Hem, with forty thousand men, had de
feated sixty thousand Russians at Transyl
vania.
The London Daily A'ews gives tho follow
ing : The Austrian and Russian troops oc
cupied Ilermanstadt and Grcsstadt, to the
number of 60,000 men. Bern, with 40,000,
advanced against them, and a battle ensued,
in which the Imperialists were defeated and
fled precipitately, leaving 10,000 dead and
wounded nn the field, nearly all their artil
lery and 8000 prisoners.
‘fhe Hungarian General, Klapku, had ta
ken the stronghold of Kaab, by storm, and
captured a quantity of munitions of war.
Italy. The Homan army lias been dis
banded by the Pope’s commissioners.
V'enice is still unsubdued.
Xhreo American vessels had arrrived at
Venice with supplies for the inhabitants.
©literal Intelligence.
The Crops in Louisiana. We learn from
the Ht. Martinsville Creole of the lltli inst.
that the Corn and Cotton crops on Bayou
Bieuf have been almost entirely destroyed
by the excessive wot weather. The cane
crop has not been much injured. Wo have
the same intelligence from Buyou llouge.
Disappearance of the Cholera. It is with
heartfelt pleasure we announce to our read
ers (says the Philadelphia Evening Bulle
tin of Monday) the disappearance of the
Cholera in this city—not a single case hav- 1
ing occurred during the last forty-eight
hours. The Board of Health have discon
tinued their sittings.
Cholera. There were 9GB deaths in New-
York for the week ending 18th August, of
which 389 died of Cholera.
.Mormons. The St. Louis papers mention
that a train of about five thousand Mormons
crossed the river at Council Bluffs lately,
on their way to the Great Salt Lake.
The Mobile Papers arc advocating the for
mation of a joint stock Company there, for j
the cultivation of the grape. The prospects !
of its success are encouraging.
The Cuba Project. The annexed extract 1
from a late New’York letter of “the U'ash- ;
ington Union ” makes some rather remark
able additions to the rumors current res
pecting this mysterious movement. If we
could only be satisfied of their truth, they
would deservo to be called important:
“Under these circumstances, and under
the belief that the English, French, and A
mcrican population of the island will gladly
exchange the antiquated rule of old Spain
for laws, institutions, privileges, and influ
ence in the State more in accordance with
the spirit of the age, a large number of weal
thy Creole families and individuals are pre
paring to assert the independence of the
island on the first favourable opportunity.
They have bought arms, military stores, &c.
to a large extent in this country and Eng
land, almost all of which have long since
passed beyond the jurisdiction of the Uni
ted States and Great Britan, having been
landed and stored (not in Cuba, but else
where) at points most convenient for the
purposes of the native Cubans.
“ For two years past they have been buy
ing such merchandise liberally among us,
as in England; and there are now a large
number of wealthy and patriotic Creoles of
the island in the United States, ostensibly
travelling for pleasure, but really picking
out men from among those distinguishing
themselves in the Mexican war, whose
names and experience would, if identified in
the first movement, be likely at once to crc
ate a deeper sympathy in their cause in the
breast of the American people, while it could
not fail to inspire confidence in their ulti
mate success on the part of all residents of
their island.
“ Thus, it is understood that had Gener
al Worth lived, he would ere this have re
signed his commission in the American ar
my, and commenced planting in Cuba, to be
ready to head the movement whenever es
sayed. The leaders in the proposed enter
prise—those who furnished the means—un
doubtedly considered him pledged to this
purpose, and have lately been sadly put to
it to supply the want of an American com
mander-in-chief of gallant daring, great ex
perience, and reputation —equal, in moral
effect, to half an army.”
The African Squadron. Com. Gregory
has been appointed to the command of this
squadron. The commodore will sail for his
destination in about two weeks, and raise
bis broad pennant on board of the flag ship
: Portsmouth, on his arrival out, relieving
j Commodore Cooper, who is lying ill at Ma
deira. The squadron consists of ships Ports
j mouth, John Adams, and Yorktown, and
j brigs Bainbridge and Porpoise.
tggi&fligifliL©® y*
THE SHAKSPEARX CALENDAR.
Prepared fur Richards’ Weekly Gazette.
August 20tli.—Battle of Cressy. 1340.
“ When Cressy’s battle fatally was struck,
And all our princes captired by the hand
Os that black name, Edward, lilack Prince of
Wales.”
[llenry V, Act ii, Scene 4.
August 27th. —Queeu Caroline died.—
1821.
“ Alas ! poor lady !
’Tis a hard bondage, to become the wife
Os a detesting lord.”
[ All's Well, Act iii, Scone 5.
August 28th.—l’leures in Switzerland
destroyed by the falling in of a mountain.
1618.
‘‘What ribs of oak, when mountains melt on them,
Can hold the mortise 1”
[Othello, Act ii, Scone 1.
August 20th.—The Treaty of Amicus.—
1475.
“ Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinklod
front.”
[Rirhard HI, Act i, Scene 1.
August 30th—llenry V. excommuni
cated by Pope Paul. 1535.
“ By the lawful power that I have,
Thou shalt stand cur.-ed and excommunicate :
And blessed shall he be, that doth revolt
From his allegiance to an heretic.**
[A'lm; John, Act iii, Sceno 1.
August 31st. —Henry VI. ascended the
throne of England. 1432.
“ Woe to that laud, that's governed by a chill!”
hard 111, Act ii, Scene 3.
September Ist. —Sir Kichard Steelcdicd.
1729.
“ Thou art a fellow of a good rc'spect:
Thy life hath ha 1 some snatch of honor in it.”
[Julius Cermr, Act iv, Scene 5.
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