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THE NEGRO’S LAMENT FOR
MUNGO PARK.
Where the wild Joliba
Rolls his deep waters,
Pate at their evening toil,
Africk’s dark daughters.
Where the thick Mangroves
Mroad shadows were Hinging,
Each o’er her lone loom
Rent, mournfully singing—
• Alas! lor flic white man ! o'er deserts
a ranger,
No more shall wo welcome the vvliite
bosom'd stranger 1 .
“ Through the deep forest
Fierce lions are prowling :
‘Mid thickets entangling
Hyenas are howling:
There should lie wander,
Where danger lurks ever,
To his home, where the sun sets,
Return shall he never.
Alas ! for the wiiite man ! o'er deserts
a ranger,
No more shall we welcome the white
bosom'd stranger'!
“ The hands of the Moor
In his wrath do they bind him ?
Oil ! seal'd is his doom
If the savage Moor lind him.
More tierce than hyenas,
Through c'rkness advancing,
Is the curse of Moor,
And his eyes fiery glancing!
Alas! for the white man ! o'er deserts
a ranger,
No more shall we welcome the wliite
bosoin'd stranger!
“ A voice from the desert!
My wilds do not hold him ;
Pale thirst doth ijot rack,
Nor the sand-storm infold him.
The death-gale pass’d bv,
And his breath fail’d to smother,
Yet ne'er shall lie wake
To to the voice of his mother !
Alas ! for the white man ! o'er deserts
a ranger,
No more shall we welcome the white
bosom'd stranger!
” 0 lov'd of the Lotus
Thy waters adorning,
Pour, Joliba, pour
Thy full streams to the morning !
The Halcyon may ily
To thy wave as her pillow ;
But wo to the white man,
Who trusts in thy billow !
Alas ! for the white man ! o'er deserts
a ranger,
No more shall we welcome the white
bosoni'd stranger!
“He launch'd his white hark,
Our fond warnings despising,
And sail'd to the land
Where the day beams are rising.
His wife from her bower
May look forth in her sorrow,
Hut he shall ne'er come
To her hope of to-morrow !
Alas ! for the white man! o'er deserts
a ranger,
No more shall we welcome the white
bosom'd stranger !
m3 o&'&iarx*
ANECDOTE.
Darinf intrepiditu and address of
Col . White.
Just before the commencement
of the siege of Savannah, in 1779,
an enterprise was achieved, by six
Americans, remarkable for the ad
dress and daring intrepidity with
which it was planned and executed.
Captain French of the British armv,
with about one hundred men, had
taken post on the Ogechee river,
where were also forty sailors on
board of five British vessels, four of
which were armed, the largest
mounting 14 guns. Colonel John
“\\ bite of the Georgia line, with
Capt. Ftholm and four other poi
sons, oneot whom was tire Colonel’s
servant, after kindling at night a
number oi (ires, exhibiting the pa
rade of a large encampment, and
using other stratagems, peremptori
ly summoned the British comman
der to surrender. Capt. French
in order to save his men from being
cut to pieces by a force which lie
supposed to be superior to his own,
surrendered (Ist of October,) with
out the smallest resistance. Col.
White having thus far succeeded
pretended lie must keep back his
troops, lest their animosity, already
Stilled by great exertions, should
break out, and an indiscriminate
{.laughter take place in defiance of
his authority; and therefore he
would commit the prisoners to three
guides who would conduct them
safely to good quarters. This hu
mane attention of White was thank
fully received.—He immediately
ordered three of his attendants to
proceed with the prisoners, who
moved off with celerity, anxious to
get away, lest the fury ot \Vbite’s
corps, believed to be at hand, might
break out, desirous as he was to re
strain it. White, with two men re
tained by him, repaired as lie an
nounced to his guides and prison
ers, to his troops, for the purpose
of proceeding in the rear. lie
then employed himself in collect
ing the militia of the neighborhood
with whom lie overtook his guides
and prisoners.
This affair, says Gen. H. Lee in
his memorials, approaches too near
the marvellous to have been admit
ted by him, had it not been uni
formly credited, and never contra
dicted.
The following extract from the col
lection of anecdotes by the late Alex
ander Stephens, present the character
and habits of that excellent and patri
otic individual Sir Francis Buhdet,
in a singular point of view.
“On asking this baronet why, as lie
was able to effect so little in Parlia
ment he considered it worth his while
to hold a seat, he replied that it was
a protection, and that without it a pub
lic man was not independent of power.
I once advised him to give dinners to
his friends, like other men of his con
sideration. He complied and l was
of his party : but I found it lud been
served from a tavern and even in that
way he said he found it so incompati
ble with his convenience, that lie would
never give another. His habits are too
unsettled for the forms of society: lie
rises at all hours, goes to bed at all
hours, —eats at any hour, and in any
way, —and is in all things,from hour
to hour the creature of his personal
feelings. From this cause lie never
answers letters, —often does not open
them; and in his private connex
ions is the most uncertain man alive.
He is steady only in his devotion to the
principles of liberty but unsteady even
in his measures regarding them, l'lie
best of men yet from bad habits and
personal indolence the least useiul
man of his age.”
KNIGHTS OF MALTA.
The knights of Malta took their
origin from some Christian mer
chants of Amalfi, in the kingdom
of Naples, who traded to Palestine,
and being desirous of rendering
service to distressed pilgrims, built
two hospitals, which they dedica
ted to John the Baptist, whence
they were called Brethren Hospita
llers, or Knights of St. John of Je
rusalem. Their first Grand Mas
ter was Gerard de St. Dedier ; he
was followed by Ramond Duprey,
who was the first that ever led them
out to battle. The/ did not tong
reside in the Holy Land, but went
to Cyprus, and afterwards to
Rhodes, which they bravely defen
ded, until driven thence by Sultan
Solyman the Magnificent, in 1523.
On leaving this place, they wander
ed from city to city, until Charles
V. made them a present of the Is
land of Malta, where they establish
ed themseh es.
Sultan Solyman, enraged to see
his ships still exposed to the at
tacks of those enemies whom he
had driven from Rhodes, resolved
to attack Malta, and sent an army
of thirty thousand men to lay siege
to this small place, which was de
fended by only seven hundred
knights, and about eight thousand
foreign soldiers. John De la Va
lette, ti e grand master, though
then seventy-one years of age, val
iantly sustained a siege of four
months, and getting some rein
forcements from Sicily, he defeat
ed the Turks. It was one of the
rules of the Knights of Malta, that
if one of them happened to be in a
Christian ship at the time she attack
ed a Turkish one, he must be the
first on board of her.
While Malta remained under the
dominion of the Knights of St.
John ot Jerusalem, it was, perhaps,
the only country whe:e duelling
was permitted by law. As their
whole establishment was originally
founded on the wild and romantic
principles of chivalry, they found it
inconsistent with their principles to
abolish duelling ; but they laid it
under such restrictions as greatly
to reduce its danger. These are
curious enough. The duellists
were obliged to decide their quar
rel in one particular street of the
city ; and if they presumed to fight
any where else, they were liable to
the rigour of the law. But what is
not less singular, and much more in
their favour, they were obliged un
der the most severe penalties, to
put up their sword, when ordered
so to do, by a woman, a priest, or
knight.
Under these limitations, m the
midst of a great city, one would
imagin that it must have been al
most impossible that a duel could
ever end in blood; however, this
was not the case. A cross was al
wavs painted on the wall opposite
to the spot where a knight had been
killed, in commemoration of his
fall; and Mr. Brydone, when he
visited Malta on his travels, coun
ted no less than twenty of these
crosses.
Evasion ot the conflict was, in
deed, as we may gather from the
following instance, one ot the great
est stains which could attach to a
knight’s character. Two knights
had a dispute at a billiard table.—
One of them, after giving a great
deal of abusive language, added a
blow ; hut to the astonishment of all
Malta (in whose annals there is not
a similar instance) after so great a
provocation, he absolutely refused
to fight his antagonist. Ihe chal
lenge was repeated, and he had
time to re fleet on the consequences ;
but still he refused to enter the
lists. He was condemned to make
amende honorable in the great church
of St. John, for 45 days successive
ly ; then to be confined in a dun
geon, without light, for five years ;
after which, he was to remain a pri
soner in the castle for life.
SPANISH INQUISITION.
In Walsh’s Museum for Feb’y.
there is a statement extracted from
the “ History of the Inquisition in
Spain,” which shews the number of
those who suffered as heretics, un
der the several inquisitors of Spain,
from the year 1452 to the year 1808.
The whole number of victims is as
follows :
Burnt 31,718
Died before execution, or
escaped 17,511
Punished by whipping, im
prisonment, &c. 287,522
Total 336,751
More than 15000 were burnt du
ring the last century, but none af
ter the year 1783. The preceding
statement includes only the vic
tims of the inquisition in the Penin
sula. Immense numbers suffered
in the Spanish possessions in Amer
ica, Italy, Flanders, fkc.
The emperor Napoleon first
abolished the inquisition in Spain
in 1808, and the general Cortes af
terwards declared it incompatible
with the constitution. Ferdinand
VII, on his return re-established it.
The Cortes since the late revolu
tion, have again abolished it, we
fervently hope, for ever.
This infernal tribunal which has
shed so much innocent blood and
occasioned so much misery on
earth, was dignified with the title
of “ Holy Office,” and was pretend
ed to be established ad majorem
Dei gloriam, for the greater glory
of God !
It has been no unusual thing to
make a comparison between the
ladies of the present dav, and those
who lived a century past. If wc
go but a little further back to the
days of Anne Bullen, the contrast
seems to present the greatest pos
sible burlesque. In that tune very
few ladies went to court; the great
officers of state left their spouses
at their magnificent mansions in
the country, to entertain :heir spor
ting neighbors—Good madam was
then delighted to have a snug party
dance in the parlor with the
squire’s wife, the parson of the
parish and his wife, and perhaps
tin? butler, and a couple of chairs
to make up the set. She always
rose at five o’clock to see breakfast
which was then a principal meal
served in the great hall. Master,
mistress, and servants allfeasted i
t’ne same, not omitting to relate
their dreams of the night. The
men after breakfast went to the cel
lar to drink ; the lady to her poul
try and dairy ; and the young la
dies to their usual occupations ol
making their clothes and stockings,
weaving and knitting not being then
known. At twelve they dined in a
room neatly strewed with rushes,
and supped at six, which was their
greatest entertainment ; tv tuen
amused themselves withjdes, or
sports, till eight, and wei all in
bed before nine o’clock. hth this
mode of life compare that! a mo
dern ladv of fashion.
The simplicity of ancifljt times
, even in their luxuries, is inusing
in the retrospect. It is ltd of a
President of the Parliamef, in the
reign of Henry the Sefcnd of
France, that in all his lnndpleAsecl;
to his tenanis, he inserted a dayse
obliging them at stated times Vi flu
year, to furnish him with a curved
cart, well carpeted with les'i
straw, for the use of his wife int\
daughters, and also an ass for his
chambermaid to ride on ; to his
fashionable cavalcade he prefixed,
himself on a mule, w hilst his sec
retary performed his part of the
journey on foot.
Even so late as the reign oi Eli-
zabeth, in England, the. draw/nf
rooms were spread with rushes;
and when the maids of honor of that
princess laughed at Granuweel,the
daughter of an Irish chieftain, for
applying her fingers to her nose,
the polished heroine accused them
of want of cleanliness for putting
their handkerchiefs in their pock
ets.
A vault was opened belonging to the
parish church of St. Saviour, South
wark, and the bodies of two men were
discoverd.in as perfect a state as if they
bad been interred but a tew hours. It is
ascertained that the vault lias not been
opened for 500 years, and a method
was adopted to presrve the bodies they
are each about six feet long, and the
skin is as dark and as dry as the head
of a drum. The college, of Physicians
have offerd 3,0001 for them.
Land, paper.
Maria Pike, a lady of respectabi
lity, has lately been convicted at
j Salisbury Sessions, England, for
stealing some bricks. This lady
has been one of the most benevo
lent women in Salisbury ; and the
Magistrate knowing her character,
‘and thoroughly believing that a
lady of her respectability could not
have been guilty of such an offence,
instead of seven years transporta
tion, mildly commuted it to four
months imprisonment. The bricks
were valued at three farthings,
and tire expense to the city will be
135.
MASONRY
And Christianity are not incom
patible in word or deed ; much less
directly opposite, as malice or igno
rance has affirmed; for although
we have excluded the sound of the
axe, the hammer, and every iron
tool of bigotted feeling or political
passion, though we, meet with the
child of Zoroaster and the son of
Confucius, on the level of equality,
and depart in equal peace wtth the
disciples of Moses, and the follow
er of the Lamb, while both stand
plumb on the square of virtue ; yet
the man who enters as a Christian,
never passes into Deism, nor is he
raised by infidelity : but being
taught to regard the first great light
of the Holy Bible as the most pre
cious of gifts, he finds himself
strengthened in faith more than
assured in hope, and divinely im
pelled to abound in works of cha
rity.
In a word, the Christian Mason
is taught to esteem the first great
light in the golden candlestick, as
infinitely superior to the light of
nature; reason and philosophy-,
united in triple rank, superior to
the sun of genius, or the morning
star of science. This light of Hea
ven itself, his raptured spirit hails;
and faithful as the star which led
the adoring Magi to Bethlehem’s
vale, this light in death shall lead
the sons of amity and peace, the
friends of virtue and man, to the
Eternal Fountain ot light itself,
who alone is worthy of the norning
song, the moontide shoutings, and
the ceaseless anthem of praise
from all his works.
Recorder.
SHEttP STEALING.
’I he tacts of the following story
actual!’ took place some years since
near New-Haven, in the state of
Connecticut.
A man in rather indigent cir
cumstances, surrounded by a large
family, being entirely- out of meat,
had recourse to his neighbour’s (a
wealthy farmer,) sheepfold for re
lief. The neighbour, having a
large flock of sheep, did not per
ceive he had lost any, until one of
the finest in the flock, w'ry l
and fat, was missing —and comuin
his sheep he lound he bad lost m.
veral. Unable to account for th.
extraordinary loss, lie resolved ;
•few nights after to watch. About
midnight, he observed an uncom
mon disturbance among the sheep,
by the sudden appearance of a man
dressed in disguise*. Luiiosity,
well to observe the conduct of the
person as to find him out, injured
him to lie still. In toe flock lhc:c
was a large ram, with whom, i t
seems the man was in the habit of
conversing as if he had been toe
actual owner of the sheep. ‘Well,
Mr. Ram,’ savs the nocturnal sheep
stealer, 1 l am come to buy another
(sheep ; have you any to sell ?’ l;p.
on which, he replied himself, as in
the person ot the ram, 1 Yes, I haw
sheep to sell.’ By this time, th
owner of the sheep perceived him
to be one of his own neighbour -
1 What will you take for that fat
wether ?’ says the purchaser.—
‘ Four dollars,’ replies Mr. Ham.
4 That is a high price,’ savs the
man ; ‘ but as you are so good as to
wait on me for the pay, I think [
will take him.’ ‘ Well Mr. Ram,’
continues the honest sheep-buyer,
1 let us see how many sheep l have
bought of you.’ ‘IfI am not mis
taken,’ says Mr. Ram, ‘ this makes
the fifth ;’ and then went on to cast
up die price of the whole, and after
giving Mr. Ram a polite invitation
j to call on him for his pay, and bid
ding him a good night, took the
wether and led him home, while
the owner lay laughing at the nov.
elty of the scene, and as highly
gratified as if he had received an
ample pay for the whole. A few
nights afterwards, when he suppo
sed his neighbour was nearly out
of mutton, he caught the old mm,
tied a little bag under his neck,
and placed a piece of paper be
tween his horns, on which he wrots
in large letters, 1 I have come
after my pay.’ Under this line
he footed up the amount of the
five sheep exactly as the neighbor
had done, as before related; he
then took the ram to his neighbors
house, where he tied him near his
door, and them went home. When
the neighbour rose in the morning,
he was not a little surprised to fkl
a sheep tied to his door ; hut it is
beyond words to express his aston
ishment when he found it was the
old ram with whom he had lately
been dealing so much in mutton,
with I'iis errand on his forehead,
and the amount of the five sheep ac
curately made out, as he had done?
few nights before, in the presence o!
tbe ram. Suffice it to snv,he obtained
the money, and after tying it up in
the little bag, and tearing the paper
from his horns, set the ram at lib
erty, who immediately run home
gingling his money, as if proud ot
having accomplished the object
of his errand—to the no small gra
tification of the owner. The deal
er in mutton immediately received
the title of Sheep II s, which
he ever afterwards retained.
Hypocrisy . —The first considera
tion with a knave is how to help
himself; and the second, how to do
so with the appearance of helping
you. Dionysius, the Tyrant strip
ped the statue of Jupiter Olympus
of a robe, of massy gold, and substi
tuted a cloak of wool, saying, ll gold
is too cold in winter, and too heavy
in summer : it behoves us to take care
°f Jupiter.”,
Dr. Mather Byleshavi ngpaid bis
addresses unsuccessfully to a lady,
who afterwards married a gentle
man of the name n.f Quincy; the
Doctor, on meeting Iter, said,“ So,
madam, it appears vott prefer a
to Riles > Yes, for if
there had been any thing worse than
bi/esy God would have affiicted J°k
with them.”
iVotice ]
NINF months after date, apj)li f ' v
tion will lie made to the honorable
Inferior Court of Jefferson county,
when sitting for ordinary purposes
for leave to 11 one tract of land con
taining twu hundred acres, more or
less, lying in the county of llurkf.
adjoining lands of John I’iercc ami
others, it being the real estate of
Isaac Harris, late of said county,
deceased, muj to be sold for the bene
fit of the beds an cl creditors of said
deceased.
JW-ej/’/ttn Bryan, J
Jhr.jcl Green, f-adm*:
Join Shli/, J
Seplem! Jr 4, 1822, ni f b >
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