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. —■ a FRAGMfcN*T.
“Well, well, 1 think it’s likelyj hut dfci’t
tease me any more. Your brother has mar
ried a poor girl, one whom I forbid hfci to
Bfcarry, and I won’t forgive him if they all
starve together.”
This speech addressed to a lovely girl
scarcely eighteen rears old—beautiful as the
lily that hides itseli beneath the dark waters.
She was parting the silvery locks fa
ther’s high, handsome forehead, of which her
own was a miniature, and pleading the cause
of her delinquent brother, who had married
against her father’s will and had consequent
berm disinherited, and left to poverty. Old
Mr. Wheatley was a rich old gentleman, a re
sident of Boston. He was a fat, good natured
old fellow, somewhat given to mirth and wine
and sat in his arm chair from morning till
night,smoking his pipe and reading Hie news
papers. Sometimes a story of his own ex
ploits in our revolutionary battles, tilled up a
passing hour. He had two children, the dis
obedient son, and the beautiful girl, before
spoken of. The fond girl went on pleading.
“Dear father do forgive him, you don’t
know what a beautiful girl he has married,
-and ”
“ l think its likely,” said the old man,“but
don’t tease, and open the door a little, this
plaugy room smokes so ”
“Well,”continued Ellen," won’t you just
see her now, she is so good—and the little
boy—he looks so innocent—”
“What did you say,” interrupted the fath
er, “ a bey ! have 1 a grandchild ? why, why,
Ellen, I never knew that before ! but I think
its likely. Well, now give me my chocolate
and then go to your music lesson.”
Ellen left him. The old man’s heart be
gan to relent. “Well,” he went on, “Charles
was always a good boy, a little wild or so at
College, but I indulged him ; and he was al
ways good to his old father, for all ; but he
disobeyed me by marrying this poor girl; yet
as my old friend and fellow soldier, Tom
Boner, used to say, vve must forget and for
give. Poor Tom ! 1 would give all the old
shoes fve got, to know what ever became of
him. If I could but find him or one of liis
children—heaven grant they are not sull’er
ing !—This plaguy smoky room—haw my
eyes water ! if I did but know who this girl
was, that Charles has married—but I have!
never inquired her name, i’ll find out and !
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“Then you will forgive him !” said Ellen,
rushing into the room. •
“I think it’s likely,” said the old man.
Ellen led into the room a beautiful boy
about two years old. His curly hair and ro
sy cheeks could not but make one love him.
“Who is that?” said the old man wiping
his eyes- .
“That—that is Charles’ boy,;' said Ellen,
throwing one of her arms round her father’s
neck, while with the other site placed the
-child on his knee. The child looked tender
ly up into his face, and lisped out, “grand-pa
what makes you cry so?”
The old man clasped the child to his bosom
aud kissed him again iiudalgeft,* uc Ufag ilitf
child tell his name.
“Thomas Bonner Wheatley,” said the boy,
“I am named after grand-pa.”
“ What do I hear” said the old man, “Tho
mas Bonner your grand-father?”
“Yes, lisped the bov, and he lives with
Ma ”
me my cane!” said the old man, ‘and
come Ellen, you come along—be quick
child!”
They started off at a quick pace, which
soon brought them to the poor though neat
lodgings of his son. There he beheld his
old friend Thomas Bonner, seated in one cor
ner weaving baskets, while his swathed limbs
showed how unable he was to perform the
necessary task. Ilis lovely daughter, the
wile of his Charles, was preparing their frugal
meal, and Charles was out seeking employ
ment to support his needy family. Mr.
Whcatly burst into tears.
“ It’s all my fault!” sobbed the old man as
lie embraced his old friend, who was petrified
with amazement. Whop they became a lit
tle com[>osed —“Come,” said Mr .Whqatly,
“come all of you home with me, we will all
live together; there is plenty of room in toy
house for us all.”
By this time Charles had come. He asked
his fade r’s forgiveness, which was freely gjp.
on, and Ellen was almost wild with joy. •
“Oh, how happy we shall be,” she exclaim
ed, “and father, you will love little Thomas
so—and he’ll be your pet, won’t he?”
“Ay,’’said the oldman “Ithink it’s likely.”
Woman. —As the vine which has long en
twined its graceful foliage around the gnarled
oak aijd been lifted by it into sunshine, will,
when the aspiring plant has bebanae the har
dy ruder of the,forest.and is then marred by
-the riding thunder belt, still fondly cling
with its caressing tendrils around the riven
trunk: and delicately bind up the shattered
boiAsdts of-its former supporters; so it is beau
tifully ordered by a Providence ever benign,
that woman who is naturally dependent and
-ornament of ruder man in his happiest hours,
-should be-fiis stay and soUci when smitten
by calamity. For thongh in converse with ;
the world man may hide the blast with or-!
dinary resolu ;on, woman m the moment of
sudden adversity evinces a-more exalted for
"titude, amiable and mildly blending the
calmness of moral firmness with the loveli
ness of Christian resignation. While she cn
fibres herself into flic recesses of his nature,
gently upholding the drooping head, and
trooing tlic barb of anguish from the core of!
the wounded heart, she chastely presses him
to the dove-like resting place-of sympathy
and thrilling tenderness.
Female enthusiasm.
It is, especially when under the influence
of !o\<* of jealousy, or of superstition, in Ihe
transport of maternal tenderness, <or in the
manner in which they partake of popular e
r.wtions-—it is in these, cases, more than in
other,that.woman excites our astoniah
t and admiration ; lieautiful as the sera-
J'Hr-a of Clupstock, terrible as the demon of
THE MACON ADVEItTiSEH, AND AGRICULTURAL AND MEIiCAN’I'ILE INTKLLIGENCER.
Milton. The distinctions of j busy & conten
tious life, interrupt and repress the passions
of men ; but woman broods in silence and re
tirement over those which occupy her mind.
“To plunge a woman into madness, who is
under the influence of intense emotion,” says
M. Diderot, “it is only necessary that she at
tain the solitude she seeks.” “A man,” he
continues, “never sat at Delphi on the sacred
tripod ; a woman alone could deliver the I’i
thian oracle, could alone raise her mind to
such a pitch, as seriously to imagine the ap
proach of a God, and, parting with emotions,
to cry, “i perceive him ! 1 perceive hiuv!
there; there ! the god!” It was a woman,
too that walked barefooted in the streets of
Alexandria, with dishevelled hair, a torch in
one hand, and a vessel of water in the
other, exclaiming, “I will burn the heavens
with this torch, and extinguish the fires of hell
with this water, may love his God
for himself alone.” Such parts are to be act
ed by women alone.
From the National Intelligencer of Aug. Vi.
COL. JOHNSON’S REPLY TO MR. ING
HAM.
Blue Spring, 2d, August, 1831.
Messrs. Hales and Seaton : After having
finished the within letter, I discovered in
your paper of 23d ult. that Mr Ingham had
published his letter to me as well as his state
ment. You will please, therefore, to publish
this letter as my reply, and oblige your obe
dient servant,
R’H. M. JOHNSON.
Blue Spring, July 31, 1831.
Dear Sir: —Yours of the 16th instant was
this day received, accompanied with a state
ment, which, it seems you have prepared for
the public, purporting to contain separate
conversations with the President and myself,
relative to an allegation made in the public
journals that General Jackson had author
ized a Member of Congress to require of
Messrs. Berrien, Branch, and yourself, and
your families, to associate with Ma jor Eaton,
and his family, under the penalty -of being
dismissed from office. You refer to tw o ar
ticles in the Globe t-o justify your appeal to
I the public, previously to receiving my answer
in which it appeared that I had denied the
above allegation, if it had any allusion to
me. After the publication of this accusation
against General Jackson, I received a letter
from a friend, intimating that I was the mem
ber of Congress to whom allusion was made,
and requested to know if I had ever made
such a communication. In my answer, 1
confined myself to the specific accusation
thus publicly made against the President and
which is attributable to yourself,and most un
equivocally denied that General Jackson ever
made such a requisition through me, and as
positively denied having ever made such a
statement to you. On the contrary, l assert
ed, and now- repeat, I did inform you, in
each and every ]'f n A ! htimiYo I ]hterfere
in any manner whatever with the regulation
of your p. .vatc or social intercourse.
Thus, in a matter in which I was engaged
to serve you and other friends, in a matter
of a delicate and highly confidential nature,
and in which Lsueceeded, unexpectedly I
found myself presented in the public journals
as a witness impeaching one of those friends,
and ascribing to him declarations which he
never made; and placed in that attitude by
you, self-respect and self-defence called upon
me to correct that erroneous statement. 1
cannot, therdfflrc, agree with you, that I did
in any degree change rny view of the subject
in considering it improper in any of the par
ties to come before the public without the op
portunity of comparing our different recol
lections. But if you feel un ler any obliga
tions of a personal or political character to
come before the public previously, you will
find me already as yourself io meei any fe
sponsibihto- or difficulty which such a course
may produce. this date, I have con
sidered my correspondence with you and Mr.
Berrien of a character ribt to be divulged to
any one, and have therefore confined ii to my
own bosom. The object of my first letter to
you was to declare frankly and candidly, in
the spirit of perfect respect and friendship,
that I was misunderstood, provided I was the
member of Congress to whom reference was
made, tlrat you might have it in your power
to correct your misapprehension of my com
munications.
I did not see how it could impeach your
character or lessen your reputation to consid
er and acknowledge it a mistake, without
yo tr assumption of the ground that you un
derstood ine better than l understrod myself,
and that you could make the public believe
so. My standard of confidence and friend
ship, arising from’a personal and political in
timacy of twenty years, would have dictated
that course tome. Such a course could have
been injurious to none, and less troublesome
to all. But so far as lam concerned, I fee!
perfectly willing to take the course adopted
by yourself, of placing our views before the
public. Ido not, however, think that it will
be much benefittod by our labors; and I am
farther induced to believe that the public
will place a less value upon the controversy
than you do. In denying the confidential
character of our conversations, you urge, as
one consideration, that the intimation to in
vite Maj. Eaten and his family to your large
parties was .offensive, although you arc kind
enough to believe that I did not so intend it.
If the nature of the suggestion changed in
your mind the character of the conversation,
and the relation of that perfect friendship
which had so long existed, would it not hare
been magnanimous and generous in you to
have advised me of it? I now come to the
material point in controversy—whether Gen
eral Jackson, through me, required of you to
invito Maj. Eaton and his families to your
large parties. This was made upon my own
responsibility, with an anxious desire more
effectually to reconcile the then existing dif
ficulties.. But Gen. Jackson never did make
such a requisition, in any manner whatever,
directly or indirectly; nor did I ever inti
mate to you that he had made such a demand.
The complaint made by Gen. Jackson against
this part of his cabinet was specific, that he
had been informed, and was induced to be
lieve, that they were using their influence
to have Major Ea'ort and his family excluded
from all respectable circles, for the purpose
of degrading him, and thus drive him from
office ; and that the attempt had been made
even upon the foreign ministers, and in one
case had produced the desired effect. He
proposal no mode of aecoii:modatiflor satis
faction, but declared expressly,that if such
was the fact he would dismiss them from of
fice. He then read to me a paper contain
ing the principles upon which lie intended to
act, which disclaimed the right to interfere
with the social relations of his cabinet. —
Acting in the capacity of a mutual friend,
and obeying the impulse of my own mind,
can it be supposed that I would have misrep
resented any of the thus defeat
the object I had in view ? I should have con
sidered it a gross violation of tire ties of that
friendship which then existed between*is, to
have carried on to you such a message, as that
you should invite Maj. Eaton and his family,
or any other persons, to your large or small
parties, under a menace of dismissal from op
fice. When the President mentioned this
charge of conspiracy, 1 vindicated you agaitHt
it. I gave it us mv opinion that he was mis
informed. To prevent a rupture, I request
ed the President to postpone calling upon
those members of his cabinet till Saturday,
that I might have the opportunity of two days
to converse with them.
When I made my report to the President,
I informed him that I was confirmed in my
ojiinion previously expressed, that lie had
been misinformed as to the combination and
conspiracy. I informed him of your unequi
vocal and positive denial of the fact, and
communicated every thing which transpired
between us calculated to satisfy his mind on
the subject. It was this report of mine that
gave him satifaction, and changed his feel
ings and determination —not his ground as
you have supposed; with me he had no ground
to change. He had assumed none except
that which I have stated ; nor did I ever make
use of such an expression to you that he had
changed his ground. It is true that I inform
ed you that the President was very much ex
cited, but I do not now recollect the precise
language used to convey my idea of that ex
citement. I presume you had the advantage
of your private memoranda, when you say I
compared him to a roaring Lion.
Aon attribute to me another declaration
which I never made—that on our way to Mr.
Berrien’s 1 stated that the President had in
formed me that he would invite Mr. Branch,
Mr. Berrien, and yourself, to meet him on the
next Friday, when he would inform you of
his determination in the presence ol Dr. Ely.
I never received or communicated such an
idea.
The paragraph is substantially correct
when that part in reference to Dr. Ely is ex
punged.
It is true, in some of our various conversa
tions, the name of Dr. Ely was mentioned,
but in connection with another part of the
,f imXameU ***_, tll^l
when the rumors against Maj. Eaton and his
family had been opened to him by Dr. Ely,
he had invited the accusers to make good
their charges, and that they had failed—this
is the substance of that part of our conversa
tion in which Doctor Ely’s name was men
tioned. Again, you say 1 called at your house
at about 5 o’clock, when we walked to Mr.
Berrien’s. The fact is that you called for me I
at my lodgings about that time, by a previous I
appointment. This is a mistake in a matter \
of fact of no great importance, except to
show how easily w& forget. If we thus dif
fer in matters of fact, how much more liable
to differ as to words; and still more as to the
time, manner, and circumstances in which
these words have been introduced, and still
more as to the precise meaning the speaker
wishes t-> convey to the hearer!
Having thought it important to memoran
dum our conversation, would if not have giv
en additional proof or your friendship and
confidence, and would it not have been an
act ofjustico to me, to have furnished me
with it, (so far as l was concerned,) that I
might have corrected, if necessary, any erro
ncous impressions which my conversations
may have made upon you? The witness in
court is often misunderstood by lawyers and
jury, and as often called upon to correct the
mistake and to explain his meaning; and
you have gained little, in your desire to be ac
curate, sp far as 1 am concerned, by failing to
present me with your private memoranda; and
if now furnished, I dare think that 1 might
put a different construction upon your own
notes.
Again : you are incorrect in supposing that
I informed you that the President requested
me to converse with you and your colleagues.
It was iny own proposition ; and in this you
will find l am supported by Mr. Berrien.—
Nor did 1 ever say that your families had uot
returned f tie call of Mr. Eaton ;?and that if they
would leave the first card, and open a formal
intercourse in that way, the President would
Ibe satisfied. Such an idea never entered my
inind ; for I never did know the precise man
ner in whirl, the social non-intercourse ex
isted between your families, whether cards
had ever passed from either or not ; and sure
1 am, that the President and myself never
had any conversation on the subject. From
first to .last my my efforts were put forth to
reconcile the parties concerned; they were
for the time being successful. I have never
claimed anv merit for what I did: 1 felt, hap
py, however, that I was in .any way instru
mental in prolonging die political relations
which have since been severed, in which 1
have had no agency, and which 1 deeply re
gretted. Having thus acted, to. my great mor
tification I find myself dragged before the
public to vindicate myself against sentiments
and conversations imputed to me by a part
of those friends, without the opportunity of
explaining to them their misapprehension of
what.l did say.
M ithout adverting to any farther inaccura
cies of your letter and statement, I have the
honor to he,
Very Respectflly,
Your obed’t serv’t.
„ R. M. JOHNSON.
Hon. Samuel D. Ingham.
LATEST NEWS FROM EUROPE.
Since our last, advices have been receiv
ed from Europe up to July. The Packet
ship* Manchester and Sheffield, both arrived
together on the 10th,at New York, bringing
Liverpool papers to the 7tli of July.
In the British House of Commons, on the
oth ult. the Reform Bill was ordered to a
second reading, by a vote of 361 to £il ; ma
jority 130. The 12th was fixed for the dis
cussion in Committee.
The King of France has summoned the,
Chambers for the 23d of July, instead of the
9th of August, the day previously fixed ; in
dkler, it is said, to secure time for the pas
sage of a law to authorise the receipt of the
contribution i idirecicrs. The Morning Her
ald affirms Paris to be still in a ferment; and
adds :—“all eyes are still turned towards the
approaching anniversary of the
which is invoked mth exultation by the move
ment party, dreaded with horror by the
friends of tranquility, and anticipated with
intense anxiety by all. The Ministry seem
to be fully fusible of the danger in which
(bey particularly are plneed, and are now bow
ed before a force which they manifestly in
tended at first, by calling 30,000 regular
troops to their aid in Paris, to have opposed,
and hoped to conquer. The King, it is now
said, will attempt to take the direction of the
great national celebration into his own hands
by imposing upon it something of the shape
of a Court ceremonial; but it will be for the
event to show whether this Citizen Monarch
still possesses the magic wood by which he
could 12 months ago lay the wliirldwind of
men’s minds, and guide the storm ot their pas-
sions.
Prince Leopold lias consented to accept
the Belgian throne, on terms, which, it is
supposed, will Ik- at last agreed to by their
Congress. The" London Courier criticises
his letter as “too cold, too calculating, too
diplomatical;” and says :—We would there
fore implore the Bclgiams to look at the spir
it rather than the letter of his qualified ac
ceptance of the Crown, and to comply with
the conditions imposed by their Sovereign.—
We may not implore this in vain, when we
tell them that their friends (who are then
friends because they are the friends of nation
al independence every where) in the Confer
ence have resolved, that the obstinacy of the
King of Holland shall not prevail against the
spirit of justice and equity which has rcgida
ted the decisions taken with respect to Belgi
um. If the Belgians do what is right they
may be assured that the Kingof Holland must
do what is liberal, or have to contend, single
handed, against the Kingdom of Belgium.—
There are those in the Belgian Congress who
will understand what we rnean, and explain it
to their colleagues and tho nation.
Brussels papers of July 6th, had reached
London :—There have been some stormy
discussions in the Congress at Brussels, one
party declaring tor war, and the other re
commending the acceptance of the terms of
the Allied Powers, and of Prince Leopold as
SoVCrP'ff 7 ’ If ic antopefotl
that the latter party will carry the question
by a respectable majority when the matter
comes to the rote.
A private letter from Brussels, of July 4,
says—“ The Regent is suspected of not being
indisposed to increase the obstacles to the
immediate settlement of the crown. M.Sur
rct Cholltr appears to have, found out all at
once that even the reflection of the sover
eign power is not quite so irksome as he af
fected to think but a short time ago. The
agitators it appears,have been at work in Lou
vain, and some other places where there had
been some troublesome movements.”
The London Courier mentions a coinage of
five franc pieces, to the value of 50,000/.
sterling, with “Henry V Rio de France,” on
one side, and the lleur de lys on the obverse
and states that proclamations to the. French
people in the name of Henry V. have been
printed in London. We can hardly believe
the exiled Burhons to be so besotted is an
enterprise for the recovery of their dominion
in France would bespeak them to be.
William Roscoe, Esq.—This elegant and
enlighted historian and scholar, died at Liv
erpool, on the 30th of June. His declining
health Jiad,for some p - it, precluded any hope
that his valuable life could be prolonged to
any distant date.
The London Courier of July 6, says :
“Wild and senseless as tlic project of counter
revolution in France by the ex-Royal Fami
ly may apjicar to be, we understand from an
authentic source, that there are, at this mo
ment, many persons ready to receive them in
France, and that the partisans of Henry V.
calculate on success, not so much through
the influence and exertions of that party, as
through the dissatisfaction which many of the
Liberals are said to feel at the want of ener
gy in their present Sovereign, and the stagna
tion of trade in the French capital, by which
many thousand are in a state of destitution,
favorable to any attempt at revolution in
which money may not be wanting.”
Calais, July 2. —This town isat. this mo
ment in the greatest confusion, and nothing
for the last two hours has been heard but the
drums beating to arms, the word of command
from the military officers’, or the exulting
shouts of the populace from every quarter.—
The cause of this tumult, it appears, is, the
general discontent of the working classes at
the present extraordinary high price of corn,
which they attribute principally to the mo
nopoly of a few r -h merchants in this town
anti neighborhood.
From the London Courier, July 5.
The following letter has reached us from
our correspondent at Warsaw. If is stated in
another letter, of which an extract has been
shown to us, that the Poles having taken the
important fortress of Bobruysck in Lithuania,
whif'h served as a Russian depot for arms
and ammunition :
V> .viisaw ; June 23 — The head-quarters
are at \\ arsaw. The Russians have been at
Pluck, but they have again retreated from
thence; this morning a of troops
went through the Wolski Rogatka.
It was yesterday decided that a levy en
masse should be raised in this country, War-
saw exeepted, to give the Russian army in i
the kingdom a mortal blow.
According to letters from Lithuania, Gen- j
era! Gielgud has joined the insurgents, and
lias seventy thousand men under his orders;
he leaves there forty thousand ayd returns
here with the remainder.
Two regiments of Russian light cavalry
have joined Gen. Chlapowski’s standard, and
have already fought against the Russians.^
It is said tiiat the insurgents have driven
six thousand Russiansfinto Gallicia, where
by force they were obligeJfc lay dow
arms, a.rJ that, in the
Ambassador lias left \ ienria. This,
J do not guarantee.
Lamrerg, June 6.—The insurrection in
Podolia and the Ukraine extends every day
further, except in the immediate vicinity ol
Kaminicz, occupied by GeneraH-Biidiger,
Hvitli ilforps of 6,000 men. The nobility, by
jcmaDcipatingtheir serfs, have excited such
Ia spirit of enthusiasm, tiiat aliwdy 60,000
j men are under arms, and have s#orn fidelity
fictile National Government of Poland. The
family of Sobanski were the first to set so wise
and noble an example, and they were innad
diately imitated by the families* of
&c. The main force of the insurgents con
sist of cavalry. They are already in posses
j sion of 15 pieces of artillery, 9 of which were
! taken on the first explosion, and 6 on a more
recent occasion. A body of 500 Volliyniun
insurgents made an ineffectual attempt to
join Roinarino and Chrzanowski, but being
pressed by the Russians, were obliged to
throw themselves into Gallicia, where they
were disarmed.
Berlin, June 21.—1 tis reported that
I Field Marshal Count Paskewitsch is ill of the
i Asiatic fever, at St. (The
1 statement of the Posen Gazette that lie had
arrived at VVilr.a is not conSrnied.) It is said
j that he has declined to take command of the
I army-
Practje, Bohemia, June 11.—The Polish
corps of Dwernicki arrived on the Austrian
territory in the greatest misery, having been
marching several days and nights with little
or no rood, and incessantly engaged in com
bat with the Russians. The Emperor of Aus
tria having been informed of the arrival of
his corps, and their distress, ordered for fhern
new clothing, and every proper assistance,
but directed that the officers should be sep
arated from the soldiers. The separation was
painfully affecting ; the soldiers threw
themselves at the feet of their officers, clung
to their knees, and these brave companions
mutually shed tears when ordered to be sepa
rated. The cholera morbus is spreading
frightfully in Lemberg. The Emperor has
sent there his first physician in Bohemia, and
the counsellor of the government, Nadherney
with ten physicians and surgeons. A strong
cordon sanitaire is established between Mun
gary and Gallicia. The disorder advances
towards the west. The Austrian military
preparations are carried on with great activi
ty ; the army is at this moment more numer
ous iirnMieifer equipped than it was in the
years iBl2 and 1814.
London, June 30, 1831.—The accounts
from Poland are most gratifying. The main
army, which has remained at Praga since the
battle of Ostrolenka, having been refreshed
from its fatigues, and strengthened by new
levies, had broken up from its cantonments
and proceeded against the enemy. The death
of Diebitsch, the accounts of which had
reached Warsaw, about the middle of the
mouth, may have determined the Polish Com
inamler-in-Chief to make this movement.
The insurrection in Lithuania had succeed
ed beyond-the most sanguine expectations of
the friends of the Polish cause. General
Gielgud, with a brave and well appointed
army of 10,000 men, would encourage the
people to rise where they bad hitherto re
mained inert, or support them where they had
already revolted. The insurgents in the Po
lish provinces belonging to Russia had ac
quired strength, and would in a short time be
able to master the Russian troops in their
neighborhood.
About two o’clock this morning, we re
ceived an express from Brussels, \\:‘h the
news of Tuesday. The people of that capital
appear, from the journals and the private let
ter*, which have reached ns, to have been in
the highest state of excitement and impa
tience in waiting for the arrival of their depu
tation from London with a sovereign or anar
chy—with peace or war.
The deputies left London only on Sunday,
and did not reach Ostcnd till Monday after
noon. They would not be able to get to
Brussels till Tuesday afternoon, unless they
had travelled all night, which they had no
strong motive to do, as the result of their mis
sion was not to lie delivered to Congress till
Thursday, this day.
By a letter which we have received from
Ostend, we are glad to learn that the ac
counts of their mission, which the Deputies
allowed to be communicated to the inhabit
ants of that port, were highly satisfactory.—
They announced with an apparent triumph,
which is a good omen of their success in the
capital and with the Congress, tbM “the pro
tocols had been much modified, and that the
Prince had accepted.” We shall learn in a
day or two the cfhinion of the sovereign mob
of Brussels on the subject.
The Siamese twins having lately made a
country excursion from Boston, they were
somewhat intruded upon during their ram
ifies, ly the country people, and one of them,
whether Clung or Eng we do not remember,
fired his fowlmgpieee at an individual. Chang
and Eng were thereupon carried before a ma
gistrate and bound over (jointly we guess,)
to keep the peace. The Editor who gives
the account, observes quaintly enough that
there can be no great hardship in this pro
ceeding; since they have been under bonds
all their lives (?) it. would be lather hard
however, if Eng should commit a capital of
fence, without the volition or concurrence of
Whang, to inflict a joint punishment. Sup
pose for instance, that one of them should
commit a murder, without the assent, or
against the will and wishes of the other
what is tube done .with the criminal ?He
must of course ggynihangedor the ltl l .
must be punished with the guilty.
himself would be able to do as little v
justice in such a. ,case, as he has done 5
justice in the vile doggerelism lately
such honorable mention of by one of ,
tute and learned contemporaries. Utai
Carridcn JotA\
FROM THE NAVY
Extract of a letter from, Lieut. Josinl 7
nail, commanding the U. States sclm
Grampus, to the Secretary of the g
dated Pensacefa Bay, 20fA Juhj, \k-o
“Finding that [could he of no service
our commercial interests by remnininri
er.atSt. Cruz, I beat up to St. Barts, and !
through the Windward Islands, touching
cessively at St. Barts, St. Kitts, M ongw “
and Martinique. OffTaba, I fell in
English sloop from Tortola to St.,, Kit*/
masted, and fiwljng that she
<lespatq(|ps for the Governor of
tluulhcre- was prospect of her reafo 1
thafrsland, I took charge of them, atui" 1
questpf her Caplin, and conveyed thJ
their destination ; deeming it adaroralite
portunity of complying with that part of y
instructions enjoining on me the
of friendly feelings with all foreign antho
ties.
“I found every thing quiet at Martini™
The insurrectionary spirit among the sla Pe
had been quelled, and our Consuf, appreiien,
ing no danger to our commercial in ten*
from that or any other cause, I remained k
a week at the Island. I there saw resident
from all the English Windward Islands wh*
slave population had been in a disorganize
state, and having perfectly satisfied tjijsi
that order was restored, and that my presen
there was not required, I made all haste
the Spanish Main, which I was led to thin
should find in a very unsettled condition,
I touched first at Pampaton, in the Island
Margaretta, and in succession at L-uj
Porto Cabcllo, Curazoa, St. Martha andCi
thagena. In Venezuela every thing >
quiet, with the exception of a small party
Camana under Managers, in arms against t
existing government. An attempted insi
rection of the slaves in the city of Cnraccas
few days before our arrival at Laguira, h
been promply quelled, and the ringleader e
ecuted. Venezuela still remained separat
from the Government of Bogota, but neitli
party appeared disposed to appeal to arms f
an adjustment of their differences. JtS
Martha and Curthagena, things irerc als
quiet.
“The Chiefs and principal officers oft
Bolivian faction had been banished, and
appeared to he the general, opinion, that!,
dominant party would be able to sustainitse!
The American Consuls, at all the ports
touched at on the Main, gave me the assil
ranee, that the treaties with our country bai
been strictly adhered to, and our commcria
rights respected by the different parts
which had successively administered theGo
eminent, &nd that since the downfall oftl
Bolivian party, the feeling towards oar com
try had become even more friencflj’ tlianfo
merly.”
“On leaving the Main, I touched a/',
maica, and returned to this port alorrt
south side of Cuba.-*-My crew are perfct
healthy, and we have lost but q§ic man din
the crujze; William Stewart (carpcntt
mate.)”
Remarks of the Hon. H.G. Otis; ill
meeting in Faneuil Hall, Boston infant
the sufferers by the fire at Fayetteville.
Mr. Otis said that it was superfluous 1
state the occasion of the meetjpg. He?
suaded himself that every man came tta
with a knowledge of it in his head, amid
feeling of it in his heart. It was knots
all that the late flourishing town of Fayrii
ville lay smouldering in ashes. Its housfa
population wanders through its streets ink
spair, bereft of property and of all the on
forts of which property is the source. H
stated that this is the most sweeping desii
tion that has ever occurred from the sa
cause in the United States. I have not(a
Mr. O.jthe data fortesting the correctness
the statement, but, without doubt, thecalan
ity was, in extent, and threatened eonscqMi
ces in the highest degree afflictiveamtupp
ling. The whole town is in a mannerann
hilated. The rich arc impoverished, th?P°
beggared, and the sound and hum oi ch®>
industry replaced by the wailings of bitta*
guish and the sighs of aching bosoms*
broken hearts. The most impassioned ft
cy would beat fault in attempting to dj#
ticc to this scene of sorrow and distress,®
it is not my province at this moment W
more than allude toil in general terms,Wj
my faculties equal to the undertaking. ""
are the people which are thus oyQtfty“ B * 1
by this most awful visitation? They m®*
fellow countrymen, friends, and p®.’ l *
i rethren. Not less so than tbr.se of Chare
to ■*. ii or Salem—what V'Tiuld be tlic
sensibility if luis '““‘.amity happened lolto
Making ‘he allowance 'for ’the relates 1
personal intimacies and connexions,fit®*®!*
fortunate sufferers have the same c ’ al ’
upon our charity and benevolence a® a
Their fathers fought
the buttles of the revolution, and
with them achieved our indepen®® 0
They live under the same Governing
and are patriots to the same Union,
they have ia ail time magnanimously db.
a disposition to uphold—they arc conn®
with us by commercial as well as hyp o ' 1
lies. —we have a deep stake in their [> r °v
ity—they form an interesting portion
State whose citizens are excelled by non®
the virtue and qualities which adorn *l'®
and the patriot. It is true they are ■ .
from us—we see not the smoke ot d )fltr ■
—we hear not the voices w liich cry h* w
wilderness, nor the lamentations of R IC .
weeping for her children, and refusu*#
comforted because they have no bread,
we.can/eel if v.e cannot hear. 5 -
can fly unfettered to the scene ol fhOir su . ■
ings. Our hands can lie extended tor
relief. Charity is not limited bv
cal boundaries, but covers with her an. .
canopy the calamities of distant friend 3
covers the multitude of our <?Wfl tfins '