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raps/ 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 > 1 /