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\ crwe ilffost instantaneously fc- .
ydatedh* new troops roming up close
pu,r ‘he first ; Hut these also shared
the sa-t.c fttes, until at last, after twen’
ty *ve,minute* continual firing through
vl.ich a feu platoons advanced tf* the
cdtre °f th** ditch, the column wjs tip
tirelv broken, part of the troops disper
sed. «nd ran to take shelter among the
on the right- The rest retir
eVtothf d’tch where they had* been
fi.st perceived, four* hundred yaads
from out lines
There the officers with some difficul
ty i allied their troops- and again drew
them up for a second’ the sol
diers having laid down their ikrtapsacks
ai the edge of the ditch, that; they
sn’ghtbe less incumberel*
Vnd now for the second time the co
lumn recruited with the troops that
formed the rear, advanced. Again it
w received with the same rolling fire
of musketry and artillery, till, bavtug
advanced without much order very near
our lines it at last broke again, and re
tned in the utmost cbnfpipu* In vain
din t*»e officers now endeavor as before
to revive the courage of their men ; to
no purpose did they strike them with
the fiat of their swords, to force them
to advance ; they w*re inseasihlte to
even’ thing but danger ; and saw noth
ing. Unt death which had struck so ma
ny of their comrades.
The attack on our line* bad hardly
Bey an when the British commander in -
chut the honorable Sir Edward Fack
#n k am fell a Victim to bis own ini re-’
pictfty. while endeavoring to animate
h -i troop* with ardor |for the as ault.
after his fall, two other Generals
\ ahe, and C ibbs, were carn.d >JF the
fit-id |6i battle dangerously wounded*
A urea* number of officers >f rank, had
f lien : the ground over which the co
fs mi) had miVched, was strewed with,
th dead and wounded.—Such slaugh-’
ter m their stde, with ifo loss on ours,
spread con lernation. thro* their ranks*
•s thev were now convinced of the lm*
possibility of carrying our lines, & saw
tl u even to advance was certain death.
I * word not w-tii standing the repeated
cii \ l*, of some officers t » make the \
tukps loim a tbird line they would
Hot advance, and alf that could be oo
taiiuMt front thent was to draw them up
in tlu cl'ith, whre they passed the. rest
of the day.
ht.ine ct the enetny*s troops had
valued mto the wo >d towards the ex
turo ty i t our lint, to make a false at
tack, ot to a sc. rial n wn.'the- areal one
were practicable. These the tiopps
under oerp ial Coffee no sooner per
ceived tnan they opened on them a
bn k ti re witti their rificsv which quick
ly made them retire* she greater part
‘»hpse ho, oh the column’s being
repuisud nad taken shelter in the thick
et’- o. fy escaped, our batteries to be kil
led by oui musketry. During the
WiKue »ou»’ mat the attack lasted our,
fire dip not slacken for a single mo*
H»e ;t apd it seemed as though the ar
tidefy amV musketry vied with each
in v ■ v.icity
VV cm.i the column first, advanced tm
the at ack, the tioups partly moved .for*
%atty, uuog the skirt of the wood which
( i;» th ;t pai t ioTms a curve* and were £
by Uat pi cans tiff they came |
within two hundred yards of our lines.
Jt\ UeV ti.v attack on our left had cora
m- iced, me enemy made a column ad- *
yunie o.n tin: rgnt by the road and be
* twsen Hie t »V4i‘ and the levee* j'hyy
column precipitately■ pushing so- w.- and
cii.y in our out"pus s. following them »
. to closely thai it cuitoj up to the unfiii*
■ redoubt bvloi ew* c >uld fire on*
it more loan tffo discharges o: our
camvon A part of Uie column leaped
imo ikediten, awl gut into the redoubt
tin /u. h vhe embtT&uies, and over ifie
Aiiape verpowci’ing ‘ita their nuiri
las inVh w men they iwuirtl there
■ St’ ers advancing along the brink of the
’ rivti killed hit: so and era hi tne sh, who
bi »vt f iy their postal; the point
%>l u K brt.yo.ut a number much .
•up c.ni', #id epiuiuualiy incitas
* Jf* ‘ ; r:
\ o get intdlhe; redoubt was not a
%ci\ avdubus acpievMiieni ; the d*£fi,-
ctif’.y *u|ua : t0 4 Jnanit-.i'i oi at
an cfearhiit jbveast work ai* the en
t cut. qieju ip rear of this; redpubt
t-eUki -strUi"remained. to be attacked-’
AiK*d, T wote
detl advancing--6 encour
tiitf r men b/ yhetr example.
v ...oneUft. n.A.laU||«d migllJi
«r o.:tcet < <o.l'gii _%v;an («•
mouiK the bkast woVk, toe gil
laui Jp/ tlcmeh under
k at, wao dtfcludep htfaxi oi |hc
Jra m iqc tne%.aH a id theu* giayes in
go Me anw KI! eTipfTT
Ifumphref* battery No. I . Lieut*Nouns
No- 2. and the Yin Regihnent. which
’? t4ie only one with musket shbt
kept up a ttemendovia fire on the .co
lumn which like that on the left wa*» ob
liged io fall'back in disorder the ievet
and the brink of the river strewed vyiU
its dead and wounded* ;- . # •
The enemy had opened the fire ol th<
batterv which he erected on the roas
on the 28th of December as also ol
that erected on the Ist of Jant/ary be
hind the demolished buildinscs of §wi :
mett*s‘ plantation* The
Very brisk, and was principally direc*
ed .against Macarty’s House* hoping
Uhat the General and staff might etui
be there :—bo 10 the entmys disappoin*.
meat the the off- ccfs
had repaired to their posts on the fines
long before day break. The only,imis
nrtief dj >e by that prodigious ekftense
of balls and shells, was the Major kho
tard assistant Adjutant General receiv
ed a contusion in his shoulder, and'ibur
or five pillars of the house; were knock
ed down / Our oatienesj Nos. 2. 2 and
4, principally directed their fire agamlst *
• those of tiie enenav and dismounted
several of the gun s erected *near Chal
mette’s building* Battery No* 1, after
having poured a showed oi g>ape shot
on the euemy’s troops as they retreated
turned its fire against his battery which
vr s opposite, to it and inlessj than two
hours forced the iren| to evacuate it—«
The marine battery on bank
*-also bred on ihe e.«emv*s column as u
advanned along the brmk of
until the troops which’ landed on.,the
right bank pushed lor ward and obliged
the seamen wuo served it to attend to
thetr own defence* , . -J
By halt afce. eignt in the mormfig, the
fire ot ihe musketry had ceased.| Tpe
• whole plan on the ielt, as also the pde ui
i the river from the road to the edgejof the
water, was covered with the Urkijli uoi
die- s who nadiailen. About l-otij nuft- \
dr and prisoners were taken, and a* icast i
double tihat number ol>v;und and li&ii es- j
coped into the British camp ; andj what <
might perhaps appear in* tiough |
saany thousands were r ai/ t„ a.t ;t tne f
fa t, is that a space of g.ou and
ing from the diichofour l.iies c toj that
on vv.nch the enemy drew up ma tfopps
two hundred and fifty yards in ifngth
by ai> u two hundred in breads was
literally coveiod wita men eitheyjttead
or severely wounded. Abou. men
were killed in file ditch, up to wuicfc
they hid advin ed.and aeotit the seme
nu in her were made prisoners lhe ar
tillery of the linevkep up a tire against I
the tnemy,s batteries and the ju-pfps j
udtil two o’clock m the aiternooq. By \
the deposition of hie tae enqmy. j
appeared io apprehend lest yve should
make a sonic, and attack hum in. the
. camp. The soldiers wete drawn up to
the ditciieft in several parlliel lines,,
and al> tuose who ha t been slightly
wounded, as spoil their wounds were
dressed, were sent to join their corp,» to
make tneir numoer of eff.ctivCrnen ap
pear the greater, ahu sndW a filar coun
teaance; Tne enemy ’s loss ou the left
bank, lu the affafi: of the *tu oi?iawuary,
Whs immense, considering duo,
ration pi the contest ; the gtound was co--
yered v with the dead bodies ol tiie con
tending forces* According to the n»o,t
proba dc accounts, it caiino. have intoun
ted to icss nan tnree uioit*>aud"immiifr
kaied, w uaded and prisoners The
number, of orticeiV who ieil tn at id ay is
muen greater in proportion, owing to
the necessity tney were Under of’expo
sing themselves in the brunt of die oat
tie ; to encourage the men* and dead
them on to the desperate assault—-Bur
lu*sw»s comparatively
accounting to no more than thirteen in
kilted and ded, on the it£t bank, pi
the Mississippi.
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’ FbbLat
‘ BY WILLIAM WlHt\ ESQ.
Talents wherever tfiey have a
sui able theatre, have nevtr failed to
emerge frotn obscufity and aasa ne their
proper rank in the estimation'cf
world* TfieMiebrat|fi fifiid
td hare bc«n the teaant of a gaffeft-V:
Ifct the poverty
of thtb he advanced.
tt^iunctw
Vm possible to turn over the British bio- I
graphy, without being s*ruck and char
med by the maltitude of correspondent
axampleS ; a venerable group of novi
homines, as the Romans called them ;
inen, who, from the lowest depths of
obscurity and want, and without even
the inluenee of a patron, have risen iq.
the first honors of their country, and
founded their own families anew. In e
: very age, and in every nation, great ta*
lents, thrown fairly into the point of
public observation, will invariably'pro
duce the same ultimate effect; The
jealous pride of power may attempt to
repress and crush them ; the bare and
malignant rancor of impotent spleen
and envy may strive to embarrass and
retard their fhgh ; hot these efforts, so
far from achieving their ignoblo purpose,
so far from producing a discernible
obliguity in the assent of genuine and
ligorous talents, will serve only to ‘in
crease their momentum and mark their
transit with an additional stream of glo
ry-
When the great earl of Chatham first
made his appearance in the house of
Commons, and began to astonish and
transport the Britis parliament; by the
boldness, the force, and rage of his
thoughts, and the celestial fire and par
thos of his eloquence it is welf known
that t K c minister Walpole, and his bro
ther Horace (from motives very easily
understood) exerted all their wit, all
their oratory, all their acquirements of
every description* sustained and infor
cjd by the unfeeling “ insolence of of
fice,” to heave a monntam on his gigan*’
tic genius and hide ittioirv tie war id.
Poor and powerless attempt 1 The U- <
bles were turne{fc He rose upon them !
in tbl might and irresistible eneregy of
his genius ; and in spue of all their con-
Toiuuohs frantic agonies and spasms he
strangled them and tht \v whole faction
with as muen ea-e as i/cycules did the
serpent ministers of jealousy, that were
sent to assail his mfa.it cradle Who
can turn over the debates of the day,!
and read the account of this conflict be
tween youthful aidor and hoary headed
cunning and power* without kindling
in the cadst of the tyro, and „ shouting
at his victory 1 fhai they should have
attempted tp pass off the grand, yet so
lid arid judicious operations of a mind
like his, as being mere theatrical start
gnd emotion ; the giddy, hair-brained
eccentricities of a romantic boy 1 That
they should have had the presumption
to suppose themselves capable of chain- 1
ins down to tfie floor of the parliament
a genius oo etheriei, tower,ng, and su
blime ! Why did they not, in the next
breath by way of rowning the climax
of vanity bid the m&gnificent fire-hall
to decend from its cxalttdand aid ap
propriate region* and perform its splen
ded tour along the surface of the earth.
When the Sonofithis great man* too,
our present minister and his compeer
andnval, first commenced their politi
cal career, the pubiic papers teemed
with strictures on their respective ta
lent*; the first was censured as being
merely a dry and eveu flimsy reasonsr i
-.the last was stigmatised as ail empty
decluimer, Bu. error-and misrepiesen
tation soon expire and are forgotten;
while truth rises upon their rasiik land
*♦ flourishes in emortai youth-’* Thus
the false, the light, .lugac ous newspa
per crmcisms whtch attempted to dis
stci and censure tho arrangement of
those gentlemen's talents, have been
long since swept away by the bosom ol
oblivion;
They wanted truth, that soul which,
alone can secure immortality to any li
teral y work. And Mr- Fill, and Mr*
Fox have for many >ears4>een, reel pro
cully and alternately recognised, just as
their subject demands n» either as close
and cogent reasoners, or as beautiful
and superb, rhetoricians,
lalenta therefore* which are before
the public, have aothmg to dread eith-*
ei iorm t .e jealous pride of power, dr
from the transteuiAnisrepreseniauons of
patty, splefea, or envy. In spite of op-/
position from any cause, their buoyant
Spirit will , lift them to their proper
grade—-it would be unjust that it should
lift them; higher.
is u ue there always are and always
wiU bo in «very society,find ividaals,
w;)0 will fancy themselves examples of
genius overlooked under-ratec or invi
diously oppressed, But the misfortune
oi such persons is imputable to their
own vanity, and not to the public opin
ion which has weighed and graduated
’mm. ‘ T
’ We rerfcember many of our “school
mates whose geniuses bloomed and di
ed within the walls wi Alma Maikr;
but wb«ae bod*e? stiu live U*o
animated afel affecting remembrance tut.
of he extre ne fragility of the human
intellect. We m*y remember others’
who have entered on public lift* v itb
theimost exulting promise ; have flown
from the earth, like rockets ; pfttr a
short and brilliant flight, have bur.uff
with one or two expiosi ons —-to hUz - i*
mart- Others by a few
scintillations of thought have led them
selves and their partial triends,to M>p© ‘
that they were fast advancing to a dawn
of soft and bcateous light and a nu rich**
an of bright and gorgeous efiVifjjtncf-
But their day has never yet broket*
and never will it break* They are doom*
ed forever to that dim* crepuscular l gl.tr
which surrounds *he frozen poles, wltei*
the sun has retreated to the
circle of the heavens. Then ‘s is the e* »
ttrnal glimmering of the brain ; and
their most luminous displays, are tne
faint twinklings of the glow-warm* We*
have seen others, who at their st it,
gain a casual projectility which iais<s
them above their pioper ,grade ; bu v ,
by the just operation of their specific
gravity, they art made to subside aga.iv •
and settle altimately in the sphere to*
which they properly belong.
All ‘hesc characters, and many other*
who have had even slighter oasis for
the*r once sanguine, but now blasted
hopes from a querulous and nieurcho
ly baad of declaims* a** •
gainst*the injustice of the world* die a«
geticy of envy, the force ol destiuv, &c.
charging their misfortune on . very
thing but the true cause; their own
want of intrinsic, sterling merit « their r
want of that copious, perennial spuue* ,
oi great and useful thought** without .
which a man may hope, in vain, op ,
growtng reputation- Nor are they *l »
ways satisfied with ‘wailing their own
destiny, pouring out the butcrest mpre
cations of their souls on die crut j star*
which piesided ut their birth, and asper
sing the justice of the public opmiow
wttich has scaled them ; too often in tho
contortions and pangs of disapoimect
ambition, they cast s serowlmgeye over
the w orld of man— stal l back, It blanche
at the lustre of superior merit —and cx*’
ert all the diabolical incantations of their*
black art to conjure up an impervious
vapoui, in order to shroud its glories
from the world. But it is <dlin vain —»•
In spite o- every thing the public opine
ion will finally do justice to us ail. ne
man whe comes fairly before the Worlds
and who possesses the great and vigor*
ous stamina which entitle turn o a
t niche in the temple of glory , lias
son to dread the ultimate result , how*
aver slow bis progress May be, he will
in the end, Most indubitably receive that
distinction- While the rest 11 the swal
lows of science,” the butterflies ©t ge«*
nius, may Butter for their spring ;<out
they wilisoou puss„avvay anti be ye me al
beit dno more* No cuieipirisfhg, man
t heieioi*. sand leastqf all ihc truly
great man J. Has reason to dreop or
pipe at any-efforts which he may*
pose to be made with the view to tie
press him ; su.bt he may rely on <h&
“ univci>ai and g truth, the
talents which are- be tent ibe Woi'ld
will most-inevitably find their proper
level ; and this as, Ccttam y alh that a
just man should cieture. Let, then, thw
tempest of envy or of malice howl ~a-round
round Ipm* ills genius w ill consecrate*
him , and any. atunipt to e tmgimsle
that, will be as unavailing, as would &
human effort “ to quench the stars “
William Mathews take, thia
method to express. his gratitude
’ tp the cittccus ot Jackson conn
a for the confidence they have
placed in him to represent them
in the state Legislature for .his
many years past*
Also to notify them that he
Will not be a candidate at the
next general Eleotion.
January 31 1817.
e&O/teiJ, dark County.
Whereas Lucy Mai able, Learider A-
Erwjn-and Mathew Marabie applies for
’ letters of administration on the estate of
John Marable deceased.
These arc therefore to cite and ad*
* monish alt and singular the kindred and.
creditora es said deceased, to bean 4
appear at my office within the time pre-o
scribed by law, to shew cause, if an f
they have, why said letters should noft
be granted. 4 , m
’ (liven under my hand at office this fitfn
4m ts l>bruaiy I*l7.
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