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TUB T'jflTß * > •* Trt’ ffi 4<l Ja ‘in S 41 - *> * From a 1 Million Foyer. FIFE AM) DEATH OF AN EDITOR. An inquisition was held on the body of Samuel Terry,. Fsq. a gentleman who was formerly connected with the public press, both as proprietor arid editor, and who was well known in the political circles. ‘1 he deceased had lately become reduced in circum stances; but, although very consideia b!v in debt, his creditors entertained tin* highest opinion of him ; lie had been in the S\ hitecross street pris on; and while he remained there, bis allairs were put in away ol settle incnt, and on i uesdav last lie was or dered to attend in the Insolvent Debt ors’ Court. On his way to \\ cst mi li ster for that purpose, the turnkey who accompanied him consented to allow him to call on his wife, living in South - nmpton street, lilootnsbury, where the deceased had occupied a house twen ty two years. Having taken somere-j fieshinent, he proceeded to the Court, and no opposing creditor appearing, he was declared entitled to his dis charge. lie returned from the Court to Southampton street merely to din ner, as the officer who accompanied him was under the necessity of taking him back to the prison, from whence he would have been discharged on “\\ ednesday, had he lived. Mrs. Per ry had prepai cd some dinner, to which he sat down, laughing and making some humorous observation ; but at the moment he was com eying part of a lamb chop to his mouth, he fell back in his chair, exclaiming “ Lord have mercy on us!” and instantly expired. Surgeons were sent for, but of no ] avail—the vital spark had fleet; and | on a surgical examination of the body,; it was discovered that his death was, caused by the sudden rupture of the ; main artery of the heart He was se- \ venty-eight years of age ; and a gen-] tlemari stated to the Jury that the de ceiwd’s lite was full of vicissitudes ;: lie bad been opulent and extremely i floor, lie had frier.ds, and was sudden ly bereft of them, and had many nar row escapes with his life in situations ( orfb>minrnt peril, and times of great) danger, one of which the gentleman re-’ lated : Mr. Perry w as, during the | French Revolution, no less than nine j times in French prisons, and was con- 1 fined, durii.gthe reign of Robespiere, j w ith I homas Paine,and was condemn ed to death by the ferocious assassin, without the then thought unnecessary form of trial. He escaped this dread-j ful doom, by ihe following most sin-! gularly fortunate circumstance. His! prison door was hung upon a swivel, | and could by the least motion be turn- 1 ed round. The custom was to mark ‘ with red chalk the doors of,the cells; of those who were condemned to die.! This course was adopted in his case; hut the gaoler, when leaving the cell j on the morning appointed for execu- : tion, accidentally let the door turn] round ; lie took no notice that the “mark of death” was turned inside, instead of being out; and before lie had noticed the circumstance, the officers of execution arrived in the prison, and took from every cell marked with the’ chalk the victims of revolutionary fu ry; and perceiving Mr. Perry’s cell not marked, they passed it; and, when ( the gaoler again came round, he was thunderstruck, on examining the door, 1o frnd the mistake he had made, but before he bad time to apprise any body of the circumstance, the infuriated mob bad burst the prison doors in searc h ofllobeipierre ; not finding him there, they shot the gaoler, released j the captives, who, in a short period, j saw Robespierre bleeding Ic'd ;< the block, and there with his life, in some measure, offer retribution for bis crimes. The Jury remarked on this most extraordinary escape, and la mented that a gentleman like him should have been reduced to such mis fortune, and subsequen ly be so aw fully summoned into eternity. They returned a verdict of — Died by the vi sitation of (1011. OSSIFICATION OF MAN. In the museum at Dublin is the skel eton ol one Clark, a native of Cork, who it is said was a young man of surprising strength and agility ; but having rnce laid all night iu a field, after indulging in great dissipation, the left parted his body began to ossify, [turn into bone,3 and the process con tinued, by slow degress, until everv part giew into a bony substance, ex cepting bis skin, eyes and entrails.— His joints became stiffened,so that lie could neither bend bis body, lie down not rise up without assistance ; when placed Upright, like a statue, be could stand ; but could move no more than if dead. Ilis teeth w ere joined, and formed into one entire bone, so that it became necessary to break a hole through them to convey liquid sub stances,to preserve a miserable life.— Ilis tongue lost its use, and his sight left him sometime before he expired. This preparation shows the ’progress of this singular instance of disease, a i a.all* Ito which is not perhaps to be found in any oth- r collection. Profitable Mice. —A person in Scot land is said to have invented a small machine for spinning thread, which is put and kept in motion by a rotatory wire cage, in which one or two mice are kept, and cause the gyrations.— One person states the profit on two mice at sd. per day; and another pro poses to have an establishment in which 10,000 mice shall be employed. The little animal in the labor or amuse ment of a day. in his tread mill, trav els about 10 miles and a half. If some profit can be made in this way from mite how much more could be made from rats and squirrels ? Preservation of Grain, Av. from Mice. Mi. Macdonald, of Scalpa, in the Hebrides having some years ago suffered considerably by mice, put at the bottom, near the centre, i and at the top of each stack, or mow as it was raised, three or four stalks of wild mint, with the leaves on, gathered near a brook in the neigh bouring field, and never after had i any of his grain consumed. He ] then tried the same experiment w ith liis cheese and other articles kept in store, and often injured by mice ; and with equal effect, by laying a few leaves, green or dry, on the ar ticles to he preserved.* Pk i l oso phi red Mag az i ne. Cure for the Cancer.—Sheep sorrel [leaf like that of the clover,] ex* i press the juice on a pewter plate ; j expose it to the sun until it assumes 1 the consistency of salve, apply this : as a plaister to the cancer and \ change it occasional!’ as necessity j may require. It will fully and en tirely extract the cancel. If the dis- i ease he really the cancer the appli- 1 cation will cause pain ; if not, no pain will ensue. Charcoal is very highly recommend ed, as a preventive to billious fevers, and that it is a perfect cure for ague and fever. A table spoon lul of pulve rised charcoal, in a cup of sweet milk taken night and morning, is the usual quantity for grown persons, for chil dren in proportion. The following handsome compli- j ment to the free institutions of our ; country is from Bell’s (London) j Weekly Messenger; “ We earnestly hope to live to see 1 the time when the European contin-! cut will become as free as the United : States of America are at the present] instant, it’s amazing to us, that the common sense of the continental na tions should so long remain the dupe of the ignorance and absurdity of tiie O . ill ‘ • feudal systems ; and should have ima gined, and still continue to imagine, that such bodies and such institutions, such a mob of nobility, and such princes, suili diets, ami ‘■iich chamber lains and courts, in an mfinate num ber, should be necessary t<> manage the concerns of nations ;or should be enabled to manage them better and wiser than Councils and Presidents selected more immediately amongst themeselves. r l he mischief of this folly, we have often had occasion to say, is not that it promotes or occasions any actual tyranny, but that, by the means of tax ation, it takes two parts out of three of every man’s subsistence, and im poverishes whole nations lor the bene fit of the few. Almost die whole pol ice service in America is performed by an unpaid militia, instead of hav ing those vast standing armies which Austria, and Russia are compelled to keep up in order to control the people. \\ ho can reflect upon the recent events in Portugal, for example, with out the most painful feeling ? The an cient despotism, fully triumphant.— Again, we say we hope to see these things at an end.” A cavern has been discovered in Herkimer county, New-York, the depth of which lias not yet been ascer tained. A number of trials have been made to descend to the bot tom. At the depth of thirty feet, there was great difficulty of breathing, produced bv the carbonic gas, and all matches and candles were extinguished—bu f below the depth of thirty feet, the air was pure. A Mr. Brown was late ly letdown by a rope to the distance of one hundred and si.rty Jive feet, which being the whole length ol the rope, he %as pulled out. At that depth there w ere no signs of a bottom. ‘The Kditor of the Little Falls paper observes,‘MV ho knows but this cav ern may prove to be only a trap door to Capt. Synur.es inner world.” Jinecdute of i aron Steuben —After General Arnold treacherously desert ed his post at ’Wesl-P* lot, the Baron never tailed to manifest his indignation and abhorrence of his name and char acter, and while inspecting Col. Shel don’s regiment of light horse, the name of Arnold struck his ear. The soldier was ordered to the front—lie was a fine looking fellow, his herse and equipments ill excellent order. “ Change your name, brother soldier, you are too respectable to bear the name of a traitor.” “ What name shall 1 take, General ?’’ “ fake any other name, mine is at your service.” Most cheerful y w'as the otter accept ed, and his name was entered on the roll as Steuben. He or his children! now enjoy land given to him in the] town of Steuben by the Baron. This brave soldier met him after] the war. “I am well settled, general, said lie, and have a wife and son : 1| have called my son after you, Sir.”— : “ 1 thank you, my friend, what name have you given the boy ?” “ I called him Baron,what eise could I call him?” Charles Thompson. —This vener able patriot, who was Secratary ol ( the old Continental Congress, is] now 95 years old, and is living, in , good health, about ten miles from i Philadelphia. London, bept. 5. i Up to a late hour last night no intelligence more recent than what Tuesday’s French papers contain had reached us, and any thing im portant in those papers we had an ticipated in our colums yesterday. ! No accounts had reached town of j the meditated attack on the Isle of : Leone and Cadiz. The deepest ! anxiety universally exists on the j subject.—Any thing know non that • head we shall have immediate in jtelligence of by private express, ~ ive, if necessary, in a second edition, ihe.French we do believe had attacked, as asserted, the fort of Matagorda, before which they had pushed their approaches with- | in pistol shot. Reports were pre- I valent yesterday, that they had been , repulsed both in the attack on the ] I Trocadero and an attempt to land j on the Isle of Leone, with great loss. Accounts from Bayonne to the 23d, represent Madrid with the ex ‘ ception of some passing acts of ven geance against the Constitutional jists,as tolerably tranquil. Ballas |teros ancl his army still remain in I the positions assigned them by Mo ] litor. The Regency were increas j ing their efforts to form a Roval ar my, but ihev had no funds whatev er to meet the expenses. In Ar- Tagon and Navarre the French ; troops were insecurely scatttered thiough the different towns, ‘i’he ; immense preparations for the siege ] of Pampeluna were said to be com pleted ; and it was asserted, that .on the festal-da) of old Louis, the i French would fire with their heavy | artillery on the place. The corps of the Spanish Col. Amor and of Lopez Banos, were said to be in strength in Estremadura, and car rying alarm through that province, j A heavy firing was heard on the i 21st, in the direction of St. Sebas ] tia.n, supposed to proceed from a I new sally of the garrison. Ac counts from Perpignan to ihe 23d, ! state that the troops which set out ja few days before for Montlouis land Arles, to prevent a violation of the French territory, w ere again re turning. The Constitutionalists, it is asserted, had retired from Ba gau, and the neighbouring posi tions occupied by him : they had moved, it was supposed, on Lerida. ;Ti amelin and d’E roles, still affect led to watch their movements. —; Old Moncey himself, with a col umn, also aided in the chase. It is imagined that the large convoy ol cattle which Milans had with j him was intended fur the supply of I Figueras. Reports were circula ted at Perpignan, on the 23d, that Figueras had surrendered, which i were considered utterly destitute jof likelihood or authority. Public .attention is now, however, exclu sively directed to Cadiz. It is said,! that on the French Ministry being apprised that Angouleme’s propo- 1 sitions were rejected, instructions’ were transmitted to him to attack j the place with all his force, a toute | hazard. If he has been repulsed, I the game with h'qn is completely . up ; he must retreat immediately. ‘Flic Mediterranean Packet having been ordered on her borne ward voyage ■ to touch at Cadiz to land and receive! letters, attempted to do so, but was fi, C (] upon by *“c Frctu • !L ci, and oj- i h-ed to come to anchor in the midst ol . them, where she lay all night, they ha ving sent no boat on board till next morning. ‘I he C aptmn then entered bis protest against the act oi hostility, and sailed for England. A letter from Lisbon, dated Au gust 14, says u 1 am sorry to tell you,-that since I wrote you by the Mentor, nothing but prosecu tions have taken place. Respecta ble men have been put in dungeons for the crime of receiving letters from abroad, which aliude to the politics of this country; in fact, one cannot open his mouth. It was for this reason I said in my last, I did not wish to trust to the casuali ties of letters. 1 repeat, do not write any politics nor send any news papers. J hope ere long to he able to write and express my mind at large.” The Arabian merchants in London, are, it is said, engaged in publishing an extensive edition of the Koran, to bo disturbed amongst the Mahometan tribes, in the same manner that the Christian scriptures are circulated by the British Bible Society. Progress of Light, —The famous IT niversity of Gottingen, in Germany, has been dossed for one year, and the students expel led from the city—not for their good conduct, we are to pres ume, unless the propagation o‘ liberal principles, which we suspect to be the cause, may be so termed. FROM GREECE Some accounts from Smyrna to the 25th July, are received at Boston.— Flie Turks it is stated in these pa pers, have commenced the campaign in the Morea with 6(1,000 men ; and the Smyrna Spectator says “ We are of opinion that the fatal hour of the, Greeks is near at hand.” The Greeks are said to be greatly divided among themselves. It is even said that Ulysses, (Odysseus) had offered to join the Turks—all which is directly con tradicted by later intelligence from other sources. The Turks are said to hold in the Morea, the fortified places of Coron, Morion and the cita del of Cm inth. On the 4th of July, according to their accounts, the Turks were within sor 4 leagues of Athens —from which the Greeks had fled, with the exception of 300 who had shut themselves up in the citadel with a year's provisions. On the other side some previous accounts, state that Odysseus had defeated the Turks at Thermopylae, and in a letter from Fiieste of tin’ 2(jth July, it is staled, that a considerable number of Turk ish troops, recently landed at Causto by the Captain Pacha, had been at tacked and completely defeated by the Greeks and the fleet of the latter, consisting of 15t; sail, was in pursuit; of the Captain Pacha, A letter from Missolonghi of the | 30th July, states also, that the defeat! of the 1 urks at Thermopylae and at! Salona had decided the third expedi tion of the Turks and that the people are united and enthusiastic, and the Senate determined to perish rather than to live again under the Mussul man dominion. The Greeks are said to pe negociating a loan with Eng land. From Smyrna. —Smyrna papers to the 14th August, inclusive, have ) been received at Baltimore. F.ve ry thing there, was perfectly tran-i quil. Daily reports were in cir- 1 culation there in lavor of both Greeks and Turks. The Greeks! were in entire possession of the Morea, excepting the strong for-’ tress ol Patras, in t,he gulf of Le- j panto, where there is at present a* numerous. Turkish fleet. The! Greeks fleets were at Ipsara and i i Hydra—at this latter island they] were to meet on the 22d August, where great preparations were said to be making to form a desperate attack on the Turkish fleet, ancl it was supposed that a great number of boats were to be sent in along with fire ships. ’1 here is no doubt that thtf Greeks are much more for ward in their cause than ever There was a report at Smyrna that a 74, two frigates and a sloop (Eng jlish) had arrived at Corfu with three of the chief Greeks on board, | Irom whence it is said they were ] going up to the Turkish fleet, j An article from Constantinople lof the sth August: says —“ “We i continue to experience complete tranquility, notwithstanding the mutinous spirit which exists among a certain class of the Janissaries.— But the Aga of the Janissaries, why, having been created a Pacha i with three tails, is consequently invested with great power, cxcer ases a most rigorous police 3t ,i causing the guilty to be public’ executed, he spreads a salutary ror among those who might |, tempted to imitate them and ta £ a part in their studious plots.” Lima, June Ist, “ The whole force of the Sp; m lards is concentrated at Xauxa’ , amounts to 9000 infantry and Kxjq cavalrv, under the command i> Hordez and Canterac. The counts of yesterday state th f 0) mer to have resumed his march back to the Coast, which hud bee, left vvholv unprotected.—'l he libe r . ating expediting to the diate ports, which sailed 10 dav since, is composed of 5000 mir under command of Gen. SantaCru — 2500 more from Chili to joi,, them, and boih divisions will j r . rive about the same time at their place of destination. Bolivaristo assume the command ol the uni to; army here, immediately upon his arrival, which is expected hourly, and will march to Xauxa with bOco troops accustomed to service. The government is very popu. larand uncommonly active. Rivj Aguero, the President, is a man of abilities, and the utmost confidence is reposed in him by all classes of people. An Agent has arrived on account of the loan effected in Eng land; with authority to draw for three millions of dollars. The rest'of the amount is expected in specie.” Accounts from Rio Janeiro of the 12th Aug. received at Salem, represent that government as not yet being a settled state. “The laws of the Cortes are dictated by the Emperor and his ministers.— He is a favorite with the people, but they view, with a jealous eye, any attempts to render him absc. lute. Ihe troops are generally well paid, and are often regaled with wine, &c. bvhim, at his resi dence, which is a few miles from the city. A short time since, he injured himself by a fall from his horse, and his first entrance to the city since his recovery, was made a few days ago. The rain fell in torrents. He and the Empress were on horseback, and I hope our American ladies would not think I told a trav eller’s story if I assur ed them that she rode ccnime un homme. Her dress was ordinary, her complexion very dark. You will recollect that she is a sister to the Empress Maria Louisa Bona parte. He is a decent looking man, but was distinguished only by his badges ol royalty. Thev were es corted by the military, who joined with a large number of negroes,it can scarcely be said, rent the air with “ Vivas.” At the entranced the city, his reception was said to be different, the inhabitants join ing in the usual acclamations. On Sabbath evening he visited the theatre which was crowded to over flowing—and was received with the waving of handkerchiefs, and with shouts. Ilis wife is consid ered a woman of much informa icn” From Fayal. —Capt. Kidder, arri ved at New-York, 25 days from Faya!, informs that the government of the Western Islands had acceded very re luctantly to the recent change in For tugal, the officers ami inhabitants ol the islands deing almost unanimous!.’ in favor of the Constitutional sys tem. At Terceira, on the governor and daring the change of government th the troops rose and dispersed the ©fli* cers, and it was said the governor “ a> killed. Three exiles from Lisbon were received with open arms. Destructive Gale —On the Bth a' l ” 9th of Juno a most tremendous g ;llt was experienced at Valparaiso, and” ring which seventeen sail (nine sl'.ips five brigs,two schooners and one slo'T of vessels were driven ashore and ei* tircly lost—-not a vestige of fourl^' 1 ’ of them remained after the gale. * O'Cain, and brig Canada,and the Gnu ian ships of war the O’lliggins, I ,al tara, and Dahlia, ami Peruvian .sle”! 1 of war Congresso, were all the vessel that rode out the gale. The war Vl ’ sels all lost more or less of then >1 2 ! and were much injured in their h UI The only American vessels that ■ sered were, the following: Charles,Swain, oil, was driven <>” beach, her bottom beat out and P a [, ! the cargo washed into the town-’"'* , Lion, Green of Providence, • ‘ ashore, nearly beat to pieces, soiia I her cargo saved, but all damage* ■ ’ Brig Hatton, Crocker of Boston, ‘-ho