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vta.ro m council* on a proper certificate vd the i
good behaviour of die town, that he wu- so sat
isfied. U ntii thta should fiappen, the Custom-!
house officers, who were new not safe in Bos
ton or safe no longer than while they neglected
their duty, should be removed to Salem, where
they might exercise their functions.”j;
Upon these arguments, leave was given to
bring in the celebrated Poston port biil, which
will serve as a model lor any Charleston port fill
it may be necessary to prepare, and the reasons
tu opposition and support of which are so appli
cable, that gentlemen by consulting the reports,
may find their own speeches in those of Lord
P, orth, his partisans, or his opponents, with one
exception—a little better Lnglish. Lord North
for example is reported to have said, “ l hope
that this act will not in any shape, require a mi
litary force to put it in execution. The
rest of file colonies will not take fire at the j
proper punishment inflicted on those who have |
disobeyed your authority. \I e shall then he
nearly in a'situation that all lenient measures
will be at an end, if they do. ‘lut if wc exert
ourselves now with firmness and intrepidity, it is
more likely they will submit to our .uthority.—
li the consequences of their not obeying this act
arc likely to produce rebellion,those consequen
ces belong to them, and nut to us: it is not
what we have brought on, but what they alone
have occasioned. IVc are only answerable that
our measures are just and equitable. Let us
continue to proceed with firmness, justice and
resolution, which, if pursued, will certainly pro
duce that due obi dienee and respect to the laws
of this country, and the security ol the trade ot
its people which I so ardently wish tor.
We all know said Mr. W., that the bill passed.
If such a one comes to us, that coincidence, at
least, will I trust, be wanting.
After its passage, history informs us, that se
i oral gentlemen who had voted for it, were ne
vertheless of opinion that something of a con
ciliatory nature should attend this measure of
severity, and might give greater efficacy to it.—
That parliament whilst it resented the outra
ges of the American populace, ought not to
be too w illing to irritate the sober part of the co
loni s.”
A motion was accordingly made for a repeal
of the tea duty laid in 1767. The debate upon
the policy of a repeal at that particular time,
was long and earnest ; the party for the repeal
strongly urging experience, wiiich they insisted
was in their favor. That the attempt to tax
America had inflamed, that repeal had quieted,
an 1 the new taxes had inflamed it again. The
good effect of rigour would depend on a tinc
ture of lenity. The lenity might render the ri
gor unnecessary. They, therefore, earnestly
pressed the repeal of the obnoxious duty, as a
probable method of restoring tranquility, How
were these arguments met 1 The ministry
said, a “repeal at that time, would show such a
degree of wavering and inconsistency, as would
deficit the good effect of the rigorous plan.—
That Parliament ought to show that it would re
lax none of its just rights, but enforce them in a
particular way; that it was provided with I
means of compelling obedience when resisted.,
If this tax was repealed, what answer is tv be !
give.: when they demand the repeal of the duty
on wme.”t
On these grounds the motion was negatived.’
After the Boston port bill, came the hill for
the better regulating government in the
province of Massachusetts Bay.” Both these
memorable laws weie before them. They were
doubtless pattern acts for all lovers of strong
government; hut politicians, a little holder than
the British Ministry, would put them together,
lie would not go through with them. Gentle
men curious in engines of coercion, might per
haps liars scanned them clause by clause. In
bringing forward that bill, Lord North favored,
the House of C ommons with a dissertation
on tho posse comilalus.* Then came the bill
for the better administration ofjustice in Massa
chusetts Bay. That too would furnish some hints
to an American Draco. They would be gathered
U~go doubt. It was on that bill that Col. Bam
Was enabled to nanA U? proud boast: “It
•sistedtho violence of America at tne ,„'zard >
my popularity there ; I now resist your lr . ii/.
*t the same risk here.” it was then, too, .
gave his memorable, but fruitless warning, “ t
know the vast superiority of your disciphm .
troops over the provincials: but beware how you
supply the want of discipline by desperation.”
Sir, said Mr. IV., th e fatal dilemma of At,.
Dunning is exactly that, presented to the Soutn:
“resist and we will cut your throat; submit, and
vye will tax you.
From this hasty review of councils, whose
folly and madness could be excelled only by our
own, it was grateful to turn to a safer, a wiser
precedent—that set by Thomas Jefferson, res
pecting the repeal of the embargo. It would be
unjust and imprudent to use any other than nis
own words : “Air. Adams called on nte pend
ing the embargo, and, while endeavors weremak-
sing to obtain its repeal, he made some apologies
lor the call, on the ground ofour not being in the
habit of confidential communications ; but that
which he had then to make, involved too serious
ly, the interest of our country, not to overrule
all other considerations with him, and make it
his duty to reveal it to myself particularly. 1 j
•assured him there was no occasion for any apol- 1
ogy for his visit; that, on the contrary, his com- i
anunications would be thankfully received, and
would add a confirmation the more to my entire
-confidence in the rectitude and patriotism of his
-conduct and principles. He spoke then of the
dissatisfaction of-the Eastern portion ofour con
federacy with the restraints of the embargo then
existing, and their restlessness under it.—That
there was nothing which might not bo attempted
to rid themselves of it. That he had informa
tion, of the most unquestionable certainty, that
certain citizens of tiie Eastern States, (t think j
io named Massachusetts particularly,) were in
negotiation with agents of the British Govern
ment, the object of which was, an agreement
that the JVew England States should take no fur-
ther part in the war then going on ; that, without
formally declaring their separation from the IJn-
J Ibid. 1774, pages 62 and 63.
i Ibid. 1 i 74, pages 6S, 69.
* furtbimentery lilatorv. vol. 17,1774, p. iltlj.
! ion of these Stales, they should withdraw front 1
! ul! its nii obediancc to them ; that their naviga
! tion and commerce should be tree from restraint
and interruption by the British ; that they should
be considered and” treated by them as neutrals,
and as such might conduct themselves towards
both putties, and, at the close of the war, be at
liberty to rejoin the confederacy. He assured .
tue that there was imminent danger ; that the
Cunven ion would take place ; that the tempta
tions wore such as might debauch many front
th. ii fide lit v to the Union ; and that, to enable
its friends to make head against it, the repeal of
the embargo was absolutely necessary. I ex
pressed a just sense of the met it of this informa
t'on, attii of the importance of the disclosure to
tlie safety and even the salvation of our country:
and however reluctant I was to abandon the
measure, (a measure which, persevered in a lit
th longer, we had subsequent and satisfactory
i assurance, would have effected its object com
pletely,) from that moment, and influenced by
that information. 1 saw the necessity ot abandon
ing it : and instead of effecting our ourpose by
this peaceful weapon, we must fight it out or
break the Union, I than recommended to my
friends to yield to the necessity of a repeal of
the embargo, and to endeavor to supply its place
by the best substitute, ill which they could pro
cure a general concurrence.”t
Mr. Wild;: was not unapprized, that,in some
of these details, the memory of Mr. Jefferson
was inaccurate. The correctness of the mate
rial part, however, remained unim;,cached. The
discontent of the East and the machinations of
. some leading men there, to produce a dissolution
of the Union, or temporary secession front it,
had been communicated to Mr. Jefferson; and,
instead of seeking means to punish the instiga
tors of Iks resistance to a lair of Congress, or
ashing new and extraordinary powers to enfon e
! it, Air. J. recommended a repeal of the embargo.
| This much Mr. W T , thought was apparent,
! even from the statement of the distinguished
j gentleman referred to, made with a view ofcor
tecting the errors of Mr. Jefferson’s oetogena
; rian memory. To avoid all injustice, Mr. IV.
would use his own language : “It was in these
letters of 1808 and 1809,” says Mr. Adams,
“that I mentioned the design of certain leaders
of the federal party to effect a dissolution of the
Union, and the establishment of a Northern con
federacy.
This design had been formed in the winter of
ISO 3-4, immediately after, and as a consequence
of the acquisition of Louisiana. Its justify ing
causes to those who entertained it, were, that the
annexation of Louisiana to the Union transcend
ed the constitutional powers of the Government
of the United States. That it formed in fact a
new confederacy, to which the States united by
the former compact, were not bound to adhere.
That it was oppressive to the interests, and de
structive to the influence of the Northern sec
tion of the confederacy ; whose right and duty it
therefore was to secede from the new body pol
itic, and to constitute one of their own. This
plan was so far matured, that tho proposal had
; been made to an individual to permit himself, at
j the proper time, to be placed at the head of the
! military movements which it was foreseen would
be necessary for carry ing it into execution. In
all this there was no overt act of treason. In
the abstract theory of our Government, the obe
dience of the citizen is not due to an unconsti
tutional law. lie may lawfully resist its execu
tion. If a single individual undertakes this re
sistance, our Constitutions, both of the United
States and of each separate Slate, have provided
a judiciary power, judges, and juries, to decide
between the individual and the legislative act
which he has resisted as unconstitutional. But
let us suppose the case, that legislative acts of
one or more States of this Union are passed,
conflicting with acts of Congress, and eanora
in r the resistance of their citizens against them,
and what else can be the result but tear,civil war?
Ami is not that dc facto a dissolution of tho Un
ion, so far as the resisting States are concerned ?
Lid what would be the condition of every citi
-71 ti in the resisting States?—Bound by the
r üble duty of allegiance to the Union and to
Mate, he would be crushed between the up
r atiii ”"ther mill-stone, with the performance
ff very civic duty everted into a crime, and
lilty of treason, by every act ol yu “d’ ( ' nce *°i
the law. ||
It was precisely this miserable state of things
■ 1 clearly and ably delineated by the gentleman
troni Massachusetts, [Mr. Adams]that he Mr.
v. desired to avoid. He conjured, nay, he im
plored his political friends to aid him in averting
it. If they turned a deaf ear to his prayers, he
reminded them thatthe Southrons were Italians,
not in their skies only. If they should trace up
the failure of peace to those whose cause they
had been upholding, there wasdangerthey might
adopt the desperate saying of Cosmo de Medici:
You shall read, said he, that we are commanded
to forgive our enemies—but you will no where
find, we are required to forgive our friends .”
Mr. W. wished to forgive all, or rather he
wished, by a comprehensive measure of concil
iation, so to bury every past cause of complaint,
that there should be nothing left to forgive. In
pursuit of that just object, he acknowledged no
friend but him who aided, he recognized no en-
I emy but those who obstructed it. Whosoever,
i in this hour of peril and dismay, would aid him
j in his h->ly purpose—whosoever would even
i dare to speak, what the freeman of the country
thought, hut had not yet uttered, him would he
grapple to his heart with links of steel! And he
who thwarted him in this most cherished object
of Ins life, would he tear thence, though he were
his brother ol the same womb, born at the same
birth 1
j) Correspondence between Mr. Adams and several
citizens of -Massachusetts, Boston, 1529.
.2 Poor man. —What is a poor man! A rich
subject for teflection. He is, or is suspected
to be, guilty of every crime. He is a traitor.
who, owning no sovereign, is ready to grasp at a
crown. He is a man of no note, and so perfect
a contradiction,that when he is doing his best to
earn money, he is most desirous of receiving n
‘heck ; in one sense his power is great, lor he
is aide t-i owe more than the the richest. lie i
a thief, for he robs himself to give to his wife and
children. V\ hen he sleeps, he is better off'than |
his coat rrhiit, neither of which have known the
luxury of nap tor months; ore easily seen
through, a circumstance which the curiosity ot
his elbows is apt to take, for let hint stay athomc
ns lie nmy, his elbows are always out.
MxsOTx&joiraoTrs.
The I l ife. —To n fond and confiding girl, few
hours itt life are so full of buoyaney and hope,!
ol kindness and affection, as those of courtship;
and few, it may be truly *tid, are so important
to her future welfare and happiness. In her
lover she too often sees all that is worthy and
respectable in man ; the ardour of her affection
softens the most offensive tiaits of character;
and obliterates all minor failings. Whatever
she may have collected front poetry, is brought
in aid of her imagination, which pictures, in the
most glowing colours, the character ot a husband;
anil Iter affection persuades her that in her lover
she has found a perfect representative ol this
ideal picture.
In the dream of confidence in the prudence
of her choice; and delightful anticipations of
succeeding yi at sot ath oat ami happiness, she
is led to the aitar; and how tten, alas: docs one
! short year bring hr me to her ‘losom the sad re
ality of the falsity ami emptiness of hopes of
all mutual love, tender assiduity and lasting af
fection. Yesterday, the lover was all attention,
and love marked every action: to-day, the hus
band is cold distant and neglectful; preferring
the company of the worthless and dissipated to
that of her, who but a few days since, he flatter
ed himself was dearer to him than all the world
beside.
I can hardly picture to myself a situation
more truly heart rending and deplorable, than
that of a female who has found every want anti
ipated, and every reasonable wish gratified un
der th, 1 paternal roof, with the warm confidence
of youth, to t-epose on the bosom of affection,
but finding her confidence betrayed, her affec
tion slighted, and herself, with a helpless off
spring, left to struggle with unkindness, poverty
and want. Such, alas! is too often the case in
this world of uncertainty, where we find, mixed
with the kindest blessing of our Heavenly Fa
ther, evils which almost stagger our strongest
faith.
In my boyish days, when every thing was
bright and sunnv and pleasure ipor’ :d in beauti
ful perspective before me, I sometimes wander
ed to a neighboring farm house, a pt-s an idle
hour with its lovely inmates, aho vere as
thoughtless and cheerful as myself Among
these beautiful girls was one more advanced in
age than the rest, whose modesty and blooming
beauty was the admiration and envy of the vil
lage throng. Twenty winters have passed over
my head since I sbw her sporting on the green,
and yet, at this distant day, I cannot recollect her
sylph-like form* her spri"ht!” manner, arid her
affectionate smile without a thrill ot delight.
Eliza’s hand had been often solicited by her
equals, and even by those whose fortunes were
much superior to her own, but none were able
to win her heart. About her twentieth year,she
met at a friend’s, a young gentlemen who had
recently come to reside in the neighborhood ;
his figure was elegant, his features regular, and
his whole appearance such, as at first sight, was
calculated to excite the affectations of a young,
inexperienced, and susceptible girl. He was
flippant, bold, and even boisterous ; which, to
one little acquainted with the world, might indi
cate a great degree of spirit, but it was, in fact,
nothing but the ebulition of an irritable mil pet
ulant temper. To this man Eliza became most
passionately attached—he offered her iiis hand,
and it was accepted, in opposition to the ad
vice and entreaties of her parents.
It was about this time 1 left the paternal roof,
and new scenes and increasing cares almost ob
literated the beautiful Eliza from my recollec
tion.
During one of the inclement nights of our
New England winters, I was called to an ob
scure part of the city, to visit professionally, a
poor and helpless wretch who was pining with
disease produced by intemperance. As I sat by
the bed of the sufferer, I heard, in an adjoining
room the voice of a female, pleading with great
earnestness, l v *th °ne ffho appeared to be the
employer of her husband. “ For heavens sail?;’ I
she said, “do keep back every cent you can oi
his earnings; iu*t p shilling that enters his pock
et ever finds its way here. The tippling shop
and tavern take it all—it is hard, and, perhaps,
wrong, to speak of ones husband thus. The
time was wTien I did not believe it possible; but
what am I to do—where am I to seek suste
nance, clothing and fuel for those, my freezing
and starving children 1 But, my dear sir,’
she continued, her sobs almost suffocating her,
‘this is but e small part of what I suffer. Oh ! I
could sustain myself under poverty and want, I
could live with him cheerfully and affectionate
!y under all the vicissitudes of fortune, if I could
only receive the love and kindneess which is a
wife’s due.’
I inquired the name of her who so strongly
excited my sympathy ; in a moment the beau
tiful Eliza flitted before my mind—she who at
twenty years was so beautiful, so affectionate
and so happy, that angels might almost have en
vied her lot. I arose with an indistinct feeling
that I should meet something which my youth
ful mind was wont to contemplate with such de
light. I entered the room but what did I see !
—the shadow of her whose early dawn was the
promise of earthly bliss. Would to God it ne
ver had been my lot to have thus encountered
her, who, in youth, had left such a magic and
undying spell on my mind.
The three friends — Trust no friend before
thou hast tried him, for they abound more at the
festal board than at the prison door,
A certain man had three friends, two of them
he loved warmly, the other he regarded with in
difference, though that one was the best of his
welhvishers. The man was summoned before
a tribunal, and though innocent, his accusers
were hitter against him.
“Who among you,” sgid he, “will go with
me. and bear witness for me? For nu
accusers am bitter against me, and the king is
displeased.,’ .
The first ol his friend, at once excused Him
self from accompanying Bim, on the ph a >i eth
er business. The second followed him I ’ the
door of the tribunal; there he turned back and
wont his way, through fear of the offended judge.
The third, on whom he relied the least, spoke ■
for him, and bore witness to his innocence, so
that the judge dismissed him and rewarded
him. , :
Man has three friends in tins world; how do
they demean themselves towards him in the
hour ol death, when God calls him to judge— ,
mpnlf His best beloved friend, gold, is the
first to leave him, and accompanies him not.
His friends and kinsmen accompany him to the
port tl of the grave, and then turn back to their
own homes. The third, when he is most neg
lected of, is his good works. They alone go
with him to the Judge’s throne and obtain mer
cy and grace.
The Cholera.—tty a late statement in the pa
pers, it appears that the Cholera continues its
ravages in Nashville, Te nnessee,and the annex
ed article shows that it exists to a distressing j
extent in other parts of the State.
Gallatin, Tenn. .March 8.
Cholera. —We are informed, by a gentleman
direct from the neighborhood, in whom implicit
credit may be placed, that seven severe cases
of Cholera have appeared in the family of a Mr.
Tribew, in the north-west part ot this county, 12
or 15 miles from this place, three of which pro
ved fatal within a very short time. The eyes
of one is said to have bursted.
The Cholera at Havana. —The brig Topaz,
Captain Granger, which arrived last evening
from Havana, brings melancholy accounts con
cerning the extent of the Chi lera in that city.—
We have seen letters under the date of the 10th
instant, which gave many distressing particulars.
One of these says, “business is completely at a
stand, in consequence of the panic ; goods lay
in the custom house day alter day, for, as noth
ing is doing, merchants do not care to take them
out. All the goods consigned to me are left in
the custom house.” Captain Granger informs ;
us that within the last four days beiore his sail- j
ing, the number of deaths in Havana from Chol
era, was between 4 and 000. The disease is
confined principally to the blacks, and to whites
of had habits, or broken constitutions. It how
ever attacked many persons of correct lives and
robust frames. As an instance of the rapidity
with which this malady destroys life in Havan
na, we may mention the following circumstar.ce,
A gentleman in this city received two letters by
the Topaz from Havanna, both of which are
dated the 10th instant. On opening the first he
found it to be from Mr. W. Ferrossicr, an indi
vidual represented to us to be correct in his hab
its of living, and of a hale and hardy constitu
tion. The letter was written in perfect health,
and made no mention of any illness existing in
the writer’s family. The second letter was from
a different person, and among others who had
been attacked with cholera, mentioned the name
of J. W. Perrossier. The writer had afterwards
interlined,immediately above the name, “he in
since dean; ’and in a postcript to the letter the
subsequent death of Mr. Perossiers wife is men
tioned, and the interment of both in one grave.
This is indeed a striking instance of the speed
with which the epidemic destroys its victims.—
A’, F. Eve. Post.
Dreadful Progress of the Cholera at liman—
na.—We have been favored with the following
extract’ of a letter, received in this city, by the
schooner February, dated
“ Havana, March 23.
“ Since our last, the Cholera has acquired a
character of a ten-fold malignity, and is making
frightful havoc. The number of deaths daily is
from three to 400; and though we have now had
it for a month, it shows no sign of abatement.
The city is nearly deserted, and many wealthy
persons have left the Island.”
Cholera at Oporto. —Capt. Jennings of the
brig Marccllus arrived at Philadelphia on the
21st inst. from Malaga and Gibralter, informs
that the C holera had broken out at Oporto, and
wh3 risking considerable ravages. It was car
ried thither by the troops sent out for Don Pe
dro’s army, several staff officers of which died
on the passage. The disease first made its ap
pearance among those of the inhabitants visi
ted by the troops. This intelligence was
brought to Gibraltar by the Hyperion, the mas
ter of which inadvertantly mentioned the fact,
and he was fiftwith ordered to Port Mahon.
The Portuguese vessels also arrived from Opor
to while the Marcellus lay at Gibralter, and
were likewise ordered off.—The new’s created
great alarm at Gibraltar. This is the first ac
count of the cholera in either Portugal or
Spain.
We regret to announce the total destruction,
. by fire, of the Treasury building; but we are
happy to add, that, as far as can now be ascer
tained, all the public accounts and vouchers re
lating to the receipt and disbursement of the
public moneys have been saved.
It is understood the fire was discovered at
about half past 2 o’clock on Sunday morning,
by a person accidentally passing. The flame
was first seen issuing from the windows of the
room on the upper floor adjoining the centre
projection, on the north front. The alarm was
immediately given : and by great exertions on
the part of the Secretary and other public offi
cers, as well as on the part of the citizens gen
erally, who seemed to take an equal interest in
the matter, the most important part of the public
papers were preserved. The public records
and documents, being the chief objects of so
licitude, the principal and earliest efforts were
made for their preservation
The manner in which the fire originated has
not been ascertained. The necessary meas
ures have, however, been taken to obtain infor
mation on the subject, and, as soon us the
Cult is known, it w ill lie communicated to out ■
readers. It appcars'that the messenger, whose
turn it was to watch, w as, absent, from sickness
and that the person who usually sleeps in the
building, was not aware of the fire until lie was
awakened from the outside.
The Secretary has, with great promptness,
engaged several contigious houses opposite to
■ Strother’s Hotel, for the use of the Treasury;
the public books and papers have already been
removed to them ; and the business of the De
partment will he transacted there to day as usu
al.—Globe.
John Randolph —The following spirited de
scription of Mr. Handolph is given in a letter
from Virginia, to the editor oi the JY. It. Pet
riot.
“While speaking, he stands quite erect’—
: His gestures ar few. but never fail of their ef
fect.—ln some orators, the rise to enthusiasm
is indicated by an increase of gesticulation, and
a more rapid and confused utterance. Not so
with him. ’1 he eyes of his auditory are not di.
! verted by any uncalled for gesture or ostenta
tions shifting of attitudes. The light of his
black eyes seem concentrated to a burning fe-
tus, which it is sometimes painful to encounter,
I ani yet is impossible to get away from the chnr
! ruing serpent. Like those in love, his hearers
i feel their bonds, yet w ould not he tree; “In tho
1 very torrent and whirlwind of his passion,” his
composure is greatest, and his enunciation
most deliberate and distinct. I have heard
some orators, whose words in consequence of
a defective move ment of the organs of pro
nunciation, seemed to be obtruded and lacerated
in their delivery. But his Lave a free full and
bona jiide discharge. All that is musical in
modulation, distinct in utterance, appropriate in
emphasis, felicitious in thought, an energetic
in expression, plant his words in the car with an
effect that defies the power of criticicism: anil
they fall too on tho tympanum, with that sort
of ringing w hich like new eagles from the mint
shows the metai to be sterling and the coinage
masterly. W hile under the spell of his enchant
ment, so completely is one satisfied, that ul!
idea of any thing nearer to perfection than him
self, are either held in abeyance or entiiely ex
pelled the mind. There is this peculiarity
about his shrill and piercing voice, that liis
j words can be accurately distinguished as far as
their sound can be heard ; and each man in tho
crowd conceives his own proper ear to be tho
target at which are aimed the unerring bullets
of his rhetoric. In fighting, no matter what
may be the size of his anlogonist, there is no
adaptation of his bods to the dimensions of tho
object to be demolished ; but like the lightning
ofheaven which finds it as easy to shatter an
oak as consume a reed, the flash comes bury
ing in one common grave, the pigmy and the
giant. In witnessing encounters of this sort,
I have frequently wished (with the love of
slaughter natural to some) that his victims pos
sessed more recuperative energy, that
the period of dcmolation might be, longer pro
tracted. It is true he has handled some, who
like Goldsmith’s village schoolmaster, “though
conquered, could argue still,” but this reaction
was little more than sub sultiis lendium of ex
piring nature. He sometimes, however, by
way of “ good measure.” continues to gore
them after they are utterly defunct; hut 1 could
never look with much satisfaction upon his
mangling of a dead body or dragging a dead
Hector around the walls of Troy.
“ In private life there is no telling what he is. ;
He is not a subject of ordinary speculation. .
He is altogether, a splendid anomaly, an unique,:!
a sui generis, Ccesar out nullus, a lusiis natunr.A
a great man with many littlenesses, “of differ
ent natures, marvellously mixed connection,
exquisite of distant worlds.” He is the veriest
riddle to his dearest friends. Sometimes lie is
fond of men of parts, sometimes in rapture wit! j
those of no points. Sometimes he sees what is )
not to be seen,* again, cannot discover what ii ;
ever so plain. At one time he astounds hi” |
friends by rudeness, at another surprises his cn- |
emy by kindness. Fearing no one in the work J
he makes all the world fear him.
He is an ardent admirer ofiadies, horses, am 1
dogs, but does not know to which lie give s th J
preference, so equally is his esteem divide gi
among them. In his household he is plain bu|H
neat to Eastern scrupulosity.—drinks coffe *1
and wine, no milk—stnoke segars, and some J
times pipes ; chews tea for tobacco; at other
snuff; and detests whiskey.
* For optics sharp it takes I ween,
To sec what is not to be seen.
Great Battle between the armies of the Gram
• Sultan and the Egyptians.—Conslantinopi
December 26.—The greatest gloom prevail
here, The Sultan and his people appear [
have fallen into a state of apathy, indicative ot
fatal dissolution. The former gives up hi
case as desperate, and does not venture to el
cite the people’s minds liy artificial means,
he should not be able to calm them again, ar
keep them within bounds. The unlortunate rs
suit of the battle of Koniah, and the captivity (|
the Grand Vizier, leaves the capital without tl *
means of defence, There are still, perhap |
30,000 Turkish troops dispersed in Asia Mine
and 10,000 regulars in reserve; but their sp
does not correspond with the threatening ds
ger, nor is there any able leader, possessit
sufficient self-confidence, and who is considf |
ed as able to restore good fortune to the star |
aids of the Sultan, lledschid -Pacha was te*
only man possessed of these qualification
His former good fortune has deserted him. a#
gone over to his younger adversary. He fous*
valiantly, and when his defeat was decided, djfl
voted himself to death, which, however he m
not find. Superior to his uiversary in tm
number of his troops, he unhappily did not sjj
with prudence, which an able general shm||
never loose sight of. He resolved on the 21*
to fight a battle, which should decide the ca jj
paign at one blow. With this view, he folk j
ed lbiaham into the defiles of Karaman, to jjS
tack him there. Ilis measures were nearly J
billows • The main body of the Sultan’s trooSß
moat 42,000 in number, chiefly Albanians,
600 of the Grand Viziei’s household troops
