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POETRY.
From Poulson’s Philad. Daily Advertiser.
SACRED MELODY.
/am the Way, the Truth , and the Life.
St. Joan, xiv. 6.
Tfeo* art the Wat—and he who sight
Amid tbiestarless waste of wo,
To find a pathway to the skies,
A light from heaven's eternal glow—
By thee most come, thon gate of love,
Through which the saints undoubting trod ;
Till fsith discovers, like the dove,
An ark, a resting place in Cod.
Thou art the Trbtr—-whose steady day
Shines on through earthly blight and bloom,
The pure, the everlasting ray,
The lamp that shines e'en in the tomb ;
The light that out of darkuess springs,
And guideth those that blindly go ;
The word, wfcose~precious radiance flings
Its lustre o’er the world below.
Thou art the Lir®—the blessed Well,
With living waters gushing o’er,
And those who drink shall ever dwell
Where sin and thirst are known no more.
Thon art the my stick pillar giv’n.
Our lamp by night, our light by day ;
Thou art the sacred bread from Heaven,
Thou art the LlFE—the TRUTH—the WAY.
DEFENCE OF FORT SULLIVAN.
June 28, 1776.
From Memoirs of the American Revolution, as re
lates to the State, of South Carolina—By John
Drayton, L.L.D.
[Concluded.]
The engagement hail scarcely begun,
when Gen. Clinton made dispositions for
attacking (ho north-ea*t end of Sullivan's
Island, defended by Col. Thorrtp-on. For
this purpose, the armed schooner Lady
William, and a sloop, which had been lying
in the creek between Loner Island and she
main came nearer that advanced post, for
tbe purpose of covering the landing of the
Briti-h troops —a number of shells were
thrown from the mortar-battery upon the
entrenchments on Sullivan’s Island—and
the soldiers, and some right field pieces
were embarked in boats: but Thompson
returned their fire from hi a 18-pounder:
which evincing their passage across the
breach would be disputed with heavy can
non, discouraged the en°mv from making
the attempt, and they remained quiet spec
tators of the action during the rest of the
day.—About 5 o’clock in the afternoon,
Colonel Thompson was reinforced by Colo
nel Muhlenburg. with seven hundred con
tinentals from Haddrell's Point; which
rendered his situation more safe, against
any attempts from Long Island, and effectu
ally put to rest any desire, which General
Clinton might still have entertained, for
visiting Colonel Thompson’s quarters.
At the commencement of tbe action,
Colond Moultrie, was only provided with
4,600 pounds weigh* of powder; equal to
about twenty-sis rounds for the cannon,
and twenty rounds of musketry each man.
Soon alter the action began, a farther sup
ply ol powder of 500 pounds weight, was
obtained from Charleston ; and 300 pounds
weight from the South Carolina schooner;
Defence commanded by Captain Tufts, then
lying in the cove at the rear of the fort. \
So that the whole amount of powder with
which Colonel Moultrie was supplied for,
maintaining that important fortress, was
only 5,400 pounds w eight.
While the British men of war were pour
ing their broadsides in one continued storm
of balls and grape shot, the cannon from
the fort were slowly-discharged, after I-- j
ing pointed with precision by the officers J
commanding; hence, altno-t every shot
from the tort look effect; which in a great
degree made, up for the scarcity of powder.
On this occasion, the fort expended, during
tbe action, about 5,766 pounds weight of
powder; while the Bristol alone,-carrying
the Commodore’s flag, expended 150 bar
rels of powder: equal to about 15,000
pounds w eight. The Experiment carried
12 pounders on both deck* ; therefore, cal
culating at one third the weight of powder
to she ball, she probably expanded in the
same lime, about 70 barrels of powder.
On Ihi“ cijlculaiior;, allowing 36 barrels to
the Active ard Solebay, constantly engag
ed ; 20 to the Syren and Friendship par
engaged; and 10 to the Acteon—an
?■’ 4ot 340 barrels of powder is pro
duced, (besides what the Thunder bom
- p ’; •>'* :) equal to about 34,000 weight of
p vd r; and at three for one, to JU2,000
•po-juds. weight of shot.—Many of these
ua is .ere buried in the spuegy logs of the
(*ri ; many passed over the Island, into the
marsh, towards the main; and it ivnscom
p i <3, not less than 12,000 shot were dis
c;:>:;?d against, the fort; of Which 1200
shot of different calibres, and some thirteen
idch shells, were collected in the fort and
it? vicinity, a few days after the action ;
which more than reimbursed the number
of shot which had been discharged from the
, fort.
Soon after the action comtnonceit, the
three 12 pounder? which were in the cava
lier to the left of (he fort, were abandoned;
the works not being sufficiently high to
protect the nsen that manned them. And
lome time after, the flag staff <'f thp fort
was shot away, and fell with the flag out
side of the fort. Serjeant Jasper, of the
grenadiers of the second regiment, no soon
er perceived this misfortune, than he leap
ed down from one of the embrasures, and
disengaging the flag from the staff, hp re
turned with it through a heavy , fire from
the shipping; and fixing it on a sponge staff,
he planted it once more on the summit of
the merlon, amidst a shower of halls.—
Then giving three cheers, he retired to his
gUD, where ho fought throughout the en
gagement. The loss of this flag was ob
served at the different posts and at Charies-
1 tee * when tome thought the fort had sur
rendered: but with its restoration, the
drnoping spirits of the people were restor
ed ; and, while they gloried in tbe gallan
try of the garrison of Fort Sullivan, they
offered up theirprsyers to Heaven for vic
tory.
The fire from the fort was principally
directed at the Bristol and Experiment
ships, carrying each fifty guns. The first
was the flag ship, on board of which Sir
Peter Parker was stationed; and Lord Wil
iam Campbell, the late Governuur of the
Province, having volunteered his services
on board, he was complimented by Sir Pe
ter, with a command on her lower deck.—
Twice was Sir Peter's quarter deck clear
ed of every man but himself, by the deadly
fire from tbe fort; and, even Sir Peter him
self, received two wounds; the gallant Com
modore, however, remained at his post, en
couraging his crew, and reinforcing his ship
with men, from the other vessels, not so
hotly engaged. At one lime, the spring
rope of his ship was shot away ; when the
Bistoi swung round by the wind, rode With
her stern to the fort. All tbe fort guns
were therefore pointed at her; and for
some time, she was raked fore anil aft—
the word passing along the platforms of
the fort, “ to initul the Commodore—mind
the two fifty-gun ships.” The day being
very sultry, with a burning sun, the wind
was extremely light; and tbe water con
sequently smooth. .Had it been otherwise,
it is probable the Bristol could not have |
been kept from fiiiing; as she was shot
through in many places, betwixt wind and
water; and was otherwise so damaged i.i
her large knees and timbers, that the car
penters of the squadron were called to her
qss.slauce, while the battle raged in all its
fury. The Expuruneut was also exceed
ingly damaged in her hull; several of ber
ports besng beaten in.
On the part of the fort, at one lime,
three or four of the enemy’s braodsjdes
struck the merlons at the satne motnrnr,
which gave them suen treutour, that it was
apprehended a few more, equally well de
livered, would have tumbled them down,
and during the whole engagement the
south-western curtain of the fort was so
enfiladed by the line office from the ships,
and the caDn”n mounted there were so of
ten struck and indented by bail -md grape
shot—that had tbe frigates taken their sta
tion at the cove as was intended, they could
not have been opposed from the guns on
this side, as the men on the platlorm would
have beeD exposed to the taking fire of the
shipping in front of the fort, which unless
the frigates couid have been beaten off bv
the batteries at Haddrell’s Point, at long
shot; would have made it a slaughter stage
indeed, as General Lee had said.
While the battle was raging, Gen. Lee
despatched a teller to Col. Moultrie, bv
Major Byrd one of his aids, ordering him If
he should expend his ammunition, without
beating off the enemy, or driving them on
ground; to spike up his guns and retreat
with all the order possible ; he however
intimated to him, that he knew the Cnl.
woold be careful not to throw away his am
munition.—Thus situated, Col. Moultrie
was placed in a most delicate situation. If
be exhausted hi- ammunition he was to de
sert the fort; and thereby subject Col.
Thompson at the extreme end of the Bland,
to be cut off, with the whole of his com
mand. If he could retain a part of the am
munition, he was not required to abandon 1
the fort. He-prudently pursued the latter ■
mode of conduct; and by ordering the dis
charges of the cannon to be slackened to
intervals of about ten minutes each gun, he
was enabled so to protract the defence, a
to save himself the dishonour,& his country
the loss which would have resulted, had
the fort been so hastily abandoned. The
powder however, getting too much reduc
ed, and a rumour spreading that (he British
effected a landing between Col. Thompson
and the fort, Col. Moultrie ordered the
cannnn to cea c e firing; or if they did, to
fire extremely slow upon the shipping.
And hence it vv ? supposed by the Briti-h,
that at this period, the fort was silenced.
This was between the hours of three and
five in the afternoon. However a supply
of powder being received the firing from
the fort was delivered at shorter intervals
through the remainder of the day. About
five o’clock in the afternoon, when the
supply of Ponder arrived, General Lee
with his aid, passed in a boat from Had
droll's Point to Fort Sullivan, through the
Br'tish line of fire ; and ascending the plat
form of the fort, he pointed two or three
of the cannon, which were discharged at
the enemy. He remained there about a
quarter of an Ijpur; then saving to Cos!
Moultrie, “ I see you are doing very weii
here, you have no occasion for me—l will
go tip to town again be left (ho fort it,
the care of those who had so well defended
it, and returned to Haddrell’s Point, through
the same line of fire in which he had pro
ceeded.
From every information respecting the
situation of the enemy, there i reason for
believing, that had the fort been better
supplied with powder, so that a cessation of
firing for two hours, with trifling excep.
tions, had not taken place, the two fifty
eun ships, would have been obiiged, to
strike their colours, or they would have
been sunk. As during a good part of the
day, the tide was against their retreating;;
anH if they had proceeded towards F"ft |
Johnson or Charleston, they would have i
had greater force and difficulties to contend
with.And such was the slaughter on board
of these two ships,—before the fire of the i
fort slackened, that a remonstrance was
made to Sir Peter Parker, that if the fire
from the fort continised equally severe,
these two their crews would be
destroyed. It was then contemplated to
abandon thpm, and to tow off the frigates;
but, by this time, the fort through the want
was in a manner placed
i hrs combat; ly which his Britannick
Majesty’s ships were saved from total ruin.
This heavy and continued cannonade from
the British ships of war damaged the fort
in a very small degree ; a? most °f ‘he shot
passed over it towrd? the main land, cut
ting off the branches of trees in their way
(Many shot however struck the fort, and
penetrated the palmetto logs, hut their
‘spungy texture received them without any
splinters being detached; and hence les
injury was done to the garrison, than might
otherwise have taken place. Ten men of
the second regiment, one matross of the
fourth regiment of artillery, and a mulatto
boy, belonging to Lieutenant Dunbar, were
killed, and twenty-three of the second regi
jtneut, including two officers, Lieutenants
Henry Gray and Thomas Hall, and two
matrosses of the 4th regiment of artillery,
were wounded ; the total number of killed
being twelve, and the wounded twenty-five.
The eighteen pounder next but one to the
flag staff, in the south-eastern bastion, had a
large piece of its muzzle shot off: and the
next eighteen pounder westward of it.
which was commanded by Capt. Ashby,
was at one time divested of half the men
wlto manned it, For, as six men (three of
a side) were in the act of hand-spiking the
piece up to the embrasure, after its being
loaded, a cannon-ball entered the embra
|Sore, and cut down at once all three of the
trun who were on one side. Their names
were Luke Flood, Richard Rodgers, and
Baac Edwards, belonging to Capt. Ashby’s
company; and so deadly was the effect of the
bail which struck them, that they fell down
on the platform immediately, torn to piec
es; and without saying a word, gasped
away thpir lives. Net quite so sudden a
death had the noble minded Serjeant
M’Daniel, of Captain Huger’s Company ;
for, although he had his stomach and bow
els shot away by a cannon ball, yet life and
vigour remained in him long enough to en
able him to address his comrades in these
words : “ Fight on my brave boys ; don't let
liberty expire -with me to day.” So noble a
sentiment passed with rapidity along the
platforms animating the officers and men
with an increasing desire of performing their
duties; and of revenging the death of a man
so honourably transferred in the service of
his country.
In this action the Bristol and Experiment
were greatly damaged in their hulls, spars
and rigging; and they were shot through
by many ol the 26 pound shot; it is said
that not less than seventy balls went through
the Bristol. She had upwards of one hun
dred men killed and wounded, and the Ex
periment not much less ; and each of their
captains lost an arm, and died in a few days
after. Twice the quarter deck of the Bris
ted was cleared of every person, except
Sir Peter; and he received two splinter
wounds, one on his thigh and the other on
his knee. The Bristol had nine 26 pound
shot in her mainmast; which obliged them ;
to cut it away fifteen feet below the bounds,
her rnizenmast was stricken by seven 26
pound shot, and was so shattered, as to ren : !
der it necessary for its entire removal.
The Experiment had her mizen gaff shot |
away, the other vesseis sustained but little
damage, as the fire from the fort was prin
cipally directed upon the Bristol and Ex
periment. The Solebay, had eight men !
killed, and four wounded. The Active,;
one Lieutenant killed and six men wound- i
ed. And Lord William Campbell, who
during part of the action had commanded
and fought some of tbe lower deck ,32
pounders of the Bristol, received a wound
m his left side, which, it is said, ultimately
caused his death.
The morning of the 29th of June pre
sented a humiliating prospect to British
pride. To the south-west of the fort, at
the distance of near a mile, lay the Acteon
frigate fast ashore on the Lower Middle
Ground. Below the fort about two miles
and a half,the men of war and transports
were riding at anchor, opposite Morris’s
Island; while Sir Peter Parker’s broad
pendant was hardly to be seen od a jury
main top mast, considerably lower than
the foremast of his ship. And on the left,
General Clioton was kept in check by the
trnop3 under Colonels Thompson and Muh
lenburg. On the contrary, how glorious
were the other points of view ? The
azure colours ot the fort, fixed on a spunge
staff, waved geqtly on the winds. Boal?
were pas-ing and repassing in safety, from
and to the fort arid Charleston, and the
hearts of the people were throbbing with
gratitude and the most exhilarating trans
port- 1
At this time the garrison at sqrt Moultrie
fired n few shots at the Acteon; which
vere returned from her by Captain Atkins ;
and to prevent her falling into our hands,
. ■ set fire to, and quitted ber, with his
crew, leaving her colours flying and her
cannon loaded But this did not prevent
net- being taken possession of. For Lieu
tenant Jacob Milligan, of the Prospect ship
of w ar, and a party of men went down to I
her in three boats—boarded her while on ‘
fire—pointed and fired three of her guns
ai the British Commodore—stripped her of
what tne pressing moments permitted, and
finally brought off her colours, ship’s bell,
and as much of her sails and stores as his
■boats could contain. He ba<f scarcely
done this, when the Acteon blew up, with
an awful explosion ; and the smoke ascend
ing in columns, and afterwards expanding
| around, is said at its first expansion, to have
i formed an appearance not unlike the ma
jpstick stem and umbrella top of a palmet
to tree. This display was, therefore, pe
i culiarly grateful to the pride and feelings
of Carolinians : ns the fort, which had pro
; tected the town, and had obtained the vic
tory, was principally constructed with the
stems of the palmetto tree. In the course
of this day, many were the greetings which
took place at Sullivan’s Island, between the
garrison of the fort and their frienejifrorn
Charleston; uni Mr. William Logan lent
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the garrison a present of a hogshead of ex
cellent Antigua rum. His excellency the
President also presented them with a hogs
head of rum, desiring his particular thank
to the brave officers and men ; and assuring
them General Lee said no men ever did,
and no meu ever could behave better,—
and that he would do them justice in bis
letters to the Continental Congress.
i ii in in xrmn— —
NMA—M—WWW? i .i
General Intelligence.
THE LATE QUEEN OF ENGLAND.
We bad only time and room briefly to mention
in our last the death of this unfortunate female,
whose persecution and sufferings have excited a
general sympathy and attention wherever they
have been known. Below ws have collected
some of the particulars relating to her illness, anil
the observations which she made during the dif
ferent stages of her disorder, which plainly indi
cate, that her most inveterate enemies could not
have regarded her approaching dissolution with
more complaceucy then herself; and if there
were those who considered her continuance in
the world as an obstacle to the accomplishment
of their designs either of ambition or interest, >hey
were not more solicitous for the arrival of that
moment when it should be forever removed, than
the suffering subject of their jealousy and hale. It
is hardly probable, that the composure and resig
nation which she evinced on the bed of death,
arose from any other cause than that which she
herself gave—a desire to be relieved from the per
plexities and troubles sf a world where she had
experienced, for more than twenty-five years,
little else than persecution and insult, and in
which she could hardly expect any thing in fu
ture but a continued series of degradation, suf
fering and sorrow. Her family have been equally
distinguished for courage and misfortune ; most
of the male members having perished in battle,
A brother, who might have defended, advised and
supported her during the last eventful year of her
life, fell at Waterloo, and she was left without
any relatives of sufficient influence to interpose ef
fectually in her behalf. There are certainly few
women who would have sustained so much suffer
ing—so many heart-breaking and complicated tri
als, with that spirit and fortitude which have cha
racterized the life of the late Queen of England,
The desertion of a husband under the most aggra
vated circumstances—the death of an only child,
who had been long banished from her society by
the cruel mandate of the father—the frequent
loss of other relatives—the aspersions which were
constantly heaped upon her character—and a pub
lick arraignment for the alleged commission ofan
infamous crime, which, if proved, must have placed
her life in the hands of a husband who had abandon
ed and degraded her—together with all the in
sults and indiguities which she received, even af
ter her acquittal, and to the last hours of her ex
istence, from those who were bound to respect
her as the legal wife of their sovereign—were af
flictions, we should litink more than sufficient to
break down her spirits, and send her to an untime
ly grave. Our only surprize is, that she has borne
up so long under the persecutions and bereave
ments which it has been her unhappy lot to suf
fer. But she has gone to that world where the
malice of her enemies cannot affect her--and to a
tribunal where hate, or gold, or human pow-i
er, cannot impede the course of justice; and :
where the motives and conduct of herself and her i
accusers will be impartially examined, and a right
eous judgment rendered.
She was the daughter of Charles William Fred
erick; Duke of Brunswick, and her mother was
the eldest sistar of George Third. She was born
in 1768, and was married to the Prince of Wales,
now George IV., in 1795.
Her body, by her own request, was to be re
moved to Brunswick, and laid by the side of her
father and brother. Suitable measures for its re
moval were taken by the government, and a guard
of honour appointed to attend her remains to Ger
many. Her property, with the exception of pres
ents to her physicians, servants, &c. she has wil
led to William Austin, a lad whom she adopted,
and who has been her constant attendant. She
directed that her body should not bu laid in state,
aud that it should be sent off in three days. The
following inscription to be placed on her tomb :
a To the memory of Caroline of Brunswick, the
injured queen of England.”
From the London Traveller , Aug 8.
The following particulars of her majesty’s ill
ness have transpired since her death, anil their
accuracy, we believe, may be relied upon. They
serve at once to exhibit the state of her mind and
the excellence of her character.
When her majesty’s illness first assumed a seri
ous character, Dr. Holland requested her permis
sion to send for another physician, observing, that
whatever might be his own individual skill and at
tention, yet the.publick will necessarily expect,
ii the case of a queen, that every possible aid
should be had recourse to. Her Majesty answer
ed with a smile to the following effect : “ My
dear doctor, you please ; if it will be any
relief to your own mind to call in assistance, do
so ; but do not do it for my sake ; I have no
wish to live, 1 would rather die.” Indeed, from
the first moment that her majesty was assured of
the very serious nature of her indisposition, she
clung to the assurance with joy and gratitude,and
listened with a reluctant ear to the hopes of re
covery which her physicians and friends held out
to her from time to time. It was observed that
she desponded too much ; that Publick Opinion
was in her favour, and would make her amends
for all her sufferings. Her majesty asked, “ What
Publick Opinion had done for her ?” It was an
swered that it had defeated that late dreadful at
tempt to ruin her, the Bill of Pains and Penalties.
Her reply was prompt and firm—“ What am 1
the better fi'r the failure of that hill? If it had
passed, I should have been degraded, and what is
my situation now ? I have, indeed, the empty ti
tle of Queen, but am I Queen of England ? Have
1 the privileges, the power, the dignities of a Queen
of England ? No, no ; I am a private person—l
am not a Queen of England.”
On Friday the symptoms of her disorder had
become very alarming, and the physicians had
scarcely any hope of her recovery. She received
the announcement of her danger with admirable
calmness and composure ; and shor‘ly afterwards
proceeded to make her will. There was an air
of cheerfulness about her after she had signed it
which induced one of the professional ad .isrrs (we
understand Mr.Broughum) to express a hope that
she felt herself easier and better. Her majesty
answered, “ O no, my dear Mr. Brougham, 1
know I shall die, and Ido not at all regret it.”
On Saturday and Sunday, in spite of some fa
vourable symptoms which iuspired the physicians
with hope, she still expressed her firm conviction
that she should die. bhe seemed to feel pleasure
in talking on the subject, and rejoiced in antici
pating her release from trouble—her escape from
the malice of her enemies. She said that in this
world, whether in England or abroad, the rancour
of her persecutors would always beset her ; and
it was only in another wurld she could look for
peace and justice. She expressed the deepest re
gret she was so little able to reward those fe.ilh
lul servants who had stood by her in her difficul
ties, but hoped that government would not let
them want. She declared herself ivurmly grateful,
and hoped her gratitude would be made known
to that generous portion of the people ofEugland
whose upport of her had been most wanted, and
who had never been frightened froai her enuse
eilhir by the power orcaluomy of her Oppressors,
“ England,” said she, “ has been to me a land
of sorrow and persecution; but 1 know how to
love those faithful English ivho have always sym
pathized with my sorrow, and have done all in
their power to defeat the malice of my persecu
tors.” She sent for Mariette Brune, to whom
she declared her perfect forgiveness of her sister’s
(Dumont’s) cruel falsehoods. Her majesty spoke
of her enemies in terms of pity—forgave them all,
and even made allowances for their conduct on
the score of human weakness and the frailty of
human nature.
On Monday night, her physicians seemed to.
think her majesty out of all danger; she was in
formed of their opinion, but insisted that they
were mistaken, adding, she felt she was dying,aud
thought she should die before nine o’clock the
next evening. It is not improbable that her ma
jesty then felt the symptoms of incipient mortifi
cation. To the remark of her physicians, that
conversation might disturb her, she answered, “ I
th<sfk my physicians for their kind attentions;
they mean nothing but what is right, but they do
not understand my character ; they think that it
agitates me to talk of death : they are mistaken ;
to me, who have little pleasure in the past, and
no prospect of future tranquillity in life, it is a
pleasure to contemplate my approaching death,
•and why may I not speak what I feel ? All these
observations were made with such sweetness of
manner, and such calmness of tone, as to make
an impression never to be effaced from the minds
of those who were present. She took occasion to
observe, that her adversaries had put in practice
two modes of separating worthy people from her
society ; one was to deter them from visiting her
by propagating the most atrocious calumnies
against her and them ; the second was, when
they saw her surrounded hy persons of honour, to
endeavour by anonymous letters, and all meant
in their power,to poison her mindjagiiinst them, in
order to induce her to break with them. “ Against
the former, (said she) I could have no help ; the
second plan I soon detected and defeated.” She
then alluded to the practice of opening the body
after death, and said that she saw no occasion for
the operation in her case, and wished it not to be
done. Bhe then begged that she might not be
made a show of after death. “ There has been,”
she observed smilingly’, “ quite enough of that in
my lifetime ; besides, there are persons who kept
aloof from me when alive, who may have no ob
jection to see me n hen dead, and there is no good
reason for satisfying their curiosity.” She then
again adverted with great regret to her inability
to bestow adequate compensation on her friends,
and servants, but said their kindness was deeply
written on her heart.
At 4 o’clock, Tuesday afternoon, an access of
fever came on, which produced for a short time a
greater exaltation of spirits than she had yet man
ifested ; during this period she expressed herself
with mpre vehemence of manner, but still with
forbearance of language, touching the cruel con
spiracies of her inveterate foes ; but her fever soon
subsided, and she recovered her usual gentle tone,
and her calm and firm demeanour ; the was again
all resignation to the will of God. A drowsiness
then came on which lasted till 8 o’clock ; when
she awoke, and observing by her bed-side, Dr.
Holland, who had often expressed a hope of her
recovery, said, “ Well, my dear doctor, what do
you think now ?” Her majesty soon became in
sensible, but remained alive for nearly two hours,
showing by her breathing a vigour of the lungs
and of the heart which the Physicians said ex
ceeded any case they had ever witnessed. At 25
minutes past ten herheroick and persecuted spir
it ascended to the regions of truth, justice and
peace. Her majesty died as she lived, a Bruns
wick—a heroine.
‘fhe tears of her friends, the agony of her ser
vants, we have before described, and have only
to add, that the physicians betrayed emhtions of
grief not eften seen among medical men.
Lord and Lady Hood, Lady Ann Hamilton,
Alderman Wood and son, the Rev. Mr, Wood,
Dr. Lushington, Mr. Wilde, Mr. Austin, and five
medical gentlemen were present at the time of
her death.
A subscription is proposed to erect a statue to
’her memory ; and the question already agitated
in the papers, “ Will the King marry again ?”
When the news of Bonaparte’s death reached
Vienna, the Court immediately went into mourn
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The Marquis de la Fayette had presented a pe
tition to the French Chamber of Deputies for the
removal of Bonaparte’s body.
A British fleet is to assemble in the Turkish seas,
for the protection of the merchants during the
present troubles.
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