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mISCE£ £ A S Y a GREGORY THE TIPPLER. “In the year ISO 1, the Papal conclave, after a confinement of ilfty-six days, during which-time they had ballotted and counter-balloted for a worthy successor of St. Peter, at last, by the voice of the" Cardinal Dean, announced an election in tiie following manner: ‘Magnum vobis annuncio gaudium. Habemus Pap am, Dominuin Cardina lcm C'apcllari qui sobi nomen assumpsit Grego rium XVI.!’ Never was a more unfortunate choice, than the result of such a long succession of ballotings, and the presence, as claimed by the conclave, of an infallible Spirit! Cardinal Capelluri, a native of Belluno, born a Venetian, and an Austrian subject, had led the life of a re cluse. In consequence of some distinction as a theologian, and his success in a negotiation on behalf of the Papal court, he had been raised to the dignity of cardinal; but he possessed no! force of character, no knowledge of affairs. A mere monk, advanced in life, lecblc and timid, he was utterly incapable of discharging the duties of the pontificate, at a time*, especially, of great! political excitement and financial depression. — Narrow and bigoted also, in his religious views, he dreaded liberty and detested science as the greatest of all evils. In his encylical letter of the year JBo2, he describes liberty of conscience as ‘that most pestilent error,’ and denounces the liberty of the press, as ‘ that worst and never enough to be execrated and detestable evil.’ Ilis whole pontificate consisted of a series’ of mistakes. The evils under which the Papcl States groaned at his accession were aggravated ; justice was badly administered ; the people were oppressed ; science and freedom were proscribed. The dun geons were filled with state prisoners, and thou sands of the noblest citizens were driven into for eign exile. Averse to business and timid to ex cess, with low and carnal appetites, and habits of indolence, lie was preserved from deposition only by the strong arm of the Swiss guards and Aus trian bayonets. In a word, be was thoroughly detested by his people, and contemned by for eign nations. On this account his death was hailed with secret rejoicings. W hen he was crowned, he distributee! copper coins to the pop ulace, saying; ‘Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have I give unto thee.’ At his death he lelt money and personal property to the amount ot two millions ol dollars to his nephews nieces; lor ot course none of the Popes have ativ direct heirs. lie was in the habit of receiving from the I reach, and other governments, large presents oi Champagne and other wines, when they wanted any favors from him; and his cellar alter his death, contained, it is said, twelve thou sand bottles of choice wines, since sold bv the order of his more abstemious successor. This circumstance was made the subject of the follow ing pasquinade in Rome at the time of Gregory’s death. It represents the deceased knocking for admittance at the gates of Paradise. “ ‘ Who wishes to enter V asks St. Peter. •‘ ‘ Gregory, your successor at Rome.’ “‘But,’ replies St. Peter, ‘Gregory the Great died and came here a long time ago. Who arc you, that have taken his name?’ \\ by, they called me at Rome Gregory Be vone (Gregory the Tippler!’) “ ‘ Oh, I have heard of you, come in.’ “ This shows the spirit of the Roman populace, and their estimate of Gregory Sixteenth. But the following, which appeared at the same time, is still more expressive, and withal of keener wit. “St. Peter and Gregory are represented as going to Paradise. The journey being hard and tedious for an aged man, he complains to St. Peter thus: “‘How is it St. Peter, that our journey is so long? I did not know that Paradise was so fir from the Vatican .’ “St. Peter replies. ‘lf \~ou had allowed the construction ol railways and steamers in your states, we should have arrived long ago ; but now you must stop for a while in purgatory.’ “ Alter remaining some months in purgatory, where (as the story goes) he met his friend Daniel O’Connell! Gregory set out with St. Peter again on his eternal journey. Coming in view of Para dise, the Pope asks St. Peter, ‘why the angels and his last predecessors in the papal chair did not come out to meet him ?’ “ ‘ Dear Gregory,’ replies St. Peter, ‘ as for the cs there are Jew if them in heaven , and the news of your death has not reached there; as it would have done had you established telegraphs , and granted the freedom of the press! 1 “ When the saint and the Pope arrived at the gates of Paradise, St. Peter asks Gregory for his key r , which after some time the Pope finds and hands to him, but it proves to be the lccy of his wine cellar. “ Presently St. Peter is admitted within the gates, but Gregory somehow is lost in the fog.” [ Turnbull's Genius of Italy. We once heard of a traveller at a Pensylvania hotel, who rose from his bed at night to examine the weather, but instead of looking out on the sky, thrust his head through a glass window of a cup board. “ Landlord,” cried the astonished man, “ this is very singular weather; the night is as dark as Egypt, and smells of cheese .” A RELIC OF THE PAST, A friend has kindly fnrnislied us with a copy of The Scots Magazine, printed at Edinburgh, in 1742, from which we ex tract the following intelligence, 1 which is more lull, and piooa bly more correct than that found in either Stevens or Mcf all s history* (From tlie London Gazette-) An account of the late invasion of Georgia, drawn out by Lieut. Patrick Sutherland, of Gen. Oglethorpe's Regiment , lately arrived in England ; who was sent express on that occasion, but being taken by the Spaniards off the Lizard , was obliged, to throw the said express and his other papers overboard. The beginning of May last, the Spaniards fitted out then fleet from the Havannah, consisting of 5G sail, and between 8 and 900 men, with an intention to invade Georgia and South Carolina, and the other Northern Colonies. At their setting out, in turning the Moor castle, they lost a large settee with 150 men; a few days after their fleet was dispersed by a storm, so that all the shipping did not arrive at Augustine.— About the beginning of June, Capt. Hnmmar, of the Flnnibo rotigh, in his cruise to the southward, sent in to Gen. Ogle thorpe for intelligence; who acquainted him, that he would probably meet with some Spanish vessels to the Southward ot Augustine; which he accordingly did, and engaged ten sail, olt the Musquito’s, and drove them ashore ; but in the action lost his boat and 17 of his men. He on his return acquainted the General with what had happened, and could not then come in for the defence of Georgia, but proceeded to Charleston, to clean his ship. The General thereupon sent Lieut. Maxwell by water, and Lieut, Hugh Mackay, overland, to Carolina, with advice to the Governor; but no assistance came from thence till after the retreat of the Spaniards. Lieut. Colonel Cook was at Charleston in his way oo England, when Lieut. Maxweil arrived with the said advice. June 21 Nine sail attempted to come into Amelia Sound ; but tlie 13-pounders from Fort William, and the Guard schr. with 80 men commanded by Capt. Dunbar, fired so briskly that the}* sheered off as fast ns they could. The General, on this advice, resolving to support the forts on Cumberland, set out with a detachment of the regiment on board his boats, sent Capt. Thornton, with his company of grenadiers before and was himself obliged to fight his way with two boats tliro 14 sail of Spanish vessels, which endeavored to intercept him in Cumberland Sound. In this engagement, several of the Spaniards being killed, the said vessels set out to sea, and did not join their tleet till the day before they left St. Simons Sound. Lieut. Tolson, who commanded the boat of the greatest strength, instead of following the General, run into a marsh, where he was till next morning, and then returned to St. Simon’s; for which misbehavior lie was put in arrest, in order to be tried. Major Heron, from thp shore, seeing the General surrounded by the enemy, and hid in smoke t conclu ded, him lost ; but next day, to the great joy of the people, he returned, in the Guard schooner, to St. Simons, alter having withdrawn the command from St. Andrews, and the stores and artillery that were there, and reinforced Fort William, where he left one of the boats he had with him. Having laid an embargo on all the vessels in harbor, he took Capt. Thornton’s ship which mounted 20 guns, into the King’s service, and manned her out of the small vessels which were of no force ; he also called in the Highland company from Darien, Capt. Carr’s company of Marines, and the Rangers from where they were differently detached, and sent Mr.Mull ryne to Carolina to get ail the men he could. June 28.—The Spanish fleet came to anchor off St. Simons bar, who were diverted from coming in or landing any of their troops for several days ; in which time the General raised an other troop of Rangers; and, by rewarding those who did extraordinary duty, and promising great encouragement to all who should signalize themselves on this occasion, he kept up the spirits of the people, and increased their numbers daily. July 5. —With the tide of flood, and a brisk gale, 3G sail of Spanish vessels entered St. Simons harbor, nine of which were large topmast vessels. Wo received them with a brisk fire from our batteries and ships, hulled several of them with our 18-pounders from the fort and our 4-pounders from the lower battery. The Spanish Commodore on board a ship of 22 guns, with a settee with an 13 pounder, and two 9 pounders in her bow, attempted to board Capt. Thompson’s ship; but he with his great guns, Capt. Carr with his company of marines, and Lieut. Wall and Ensign OterbriJgc with a party of the regi ment, made so brave a defence, that the Spaniards were obliged to retire with loss. A show of 1G carriage-guns at the same time attempted to board our guard-schooner, but was also repulsed by Capt. Dunbar. In the engagement, which lasted three hours, tlic enemy lost 17 men, and had 10 wound ed. They passed all our vessels, and proceeded up the river ; on which the General held a council of war at the head of liis regiment, where it was the opinion of the whole, immediately to march up to Frederica for tlio defence of that place. The General accordingly gave orders for the regiment to march, ordered all tlie troops that were on board the vessels to come ashore, and directed Capt. Thomson, with tlie guard schooner and prize sloop, to make the best of their way to Charlestown. And this was all done in sight of the enemy. The General, during this action, being obliged to be some times on shipboard, sometimes at the batteries, and to act as Engineer, found himself under a necessity of having a Lieut. Colonel with the regiment: he therefore appointed Major Alexander Heron Lieutenant Colonel, in the absence of Lieut. Colonel Cook, who was also Engineer; and whose Sub-Engi neer, having attended him to Charleston, was also absent. — Late at night tlie General arrived at Frederica, after having destroyed all the stores at St. Simons, sunk the vessels that might be of use to the enemy, and rendered tlie guns incapa ble of service, he ordered tho wounded to be carried oft’ on horseback. That night the enemy landed their forces on a dry marsh about a mile and a half from the camp, under cover of their great guns. They lay all that night under arms, and the next morning took possession of the camp which we left. About noon the Creek Indians brought us five Spanish prison ers, from whom we had intelligence that Don Manuel do Mon teano, Governor of St. Augustine, commanded in chief the expedition ; and that Major General Antonio do Rodondo, Chief Engineer, and two Brigadiers came with the forces from Cuba ; that tlieir whole number consisted of about 5000, and that the night before they had landed about 1300 men. One of the prisoners the general sent with Mr.Bodon to Charleston. July 7. —About 9 o’clock in the morning, a ranger ot the patrole, brought an account that the enemy were marching within a mile and a half the town, whereupon the General im mediately ordered four platoons of the regiment to march, and in the meantime went himself with the Highland company, who were then under at ms. The Indians and a party of rangers came up with the enemy about a mile from the town, as they were entering the Savannah, to take possession of the ditch they had a mind to make use of as an intreuchment; but the enemy were attacked so briskly that the General soon overcame them; most of their party, which consisted of 120 of their best woodsman, and 40 indians, being killed or taken prisoners. Tho General took two prisoners with liis own hands, Lieut. Scroggs of the Rangers, took Capt. Sebastian Sanchio prisoner, who commanded the party. Tooanohowi, being shot ! through his right arm by Capt. Magleto, drew his pistol with his left, and shot him through the head. The General pursued the enemy near two miles, and halted on an advantageous piece of ground until the party of the regiment came up; ho posted them with a large savannah or meadow in their front over which the Spaniards must past in their way to Frederica : after which he hastened back to Frederica, and ordered the Rangers and company of boatmen to make ready. In the mean time two companies of grenadiers of fifty men each, and 200 more of the enemy’s best troops came up with shouts and drums beating. Whereupon the General hearing pla toons firing, immediately made haste that way; and met three of the platoons, who, in the smoke and drizzling rain, had relieated in disorder ; and the fire continuing, he ordered them to rally their men, and follow him ; who hastening on found that Lieut. Sutherland with his platoon, and Lieut. Chas. Mackay with the highlanders, had entirely defeated tho said 300 of the enemy. In which action Don Antorio Barba was taken prisoner, and mortally wounded; several others were killed and two grenadiers were taken prisoners. Capt. Dome rot and Ensign Gibbon rallied their platons and came up to tile ground. Capt. Carr with company of marines, and Lieut. Cadogan with a party of the regiment came up at the same time, and were followed by Major Heron with the body of the regiment. In both actions the enemy lost two Captains, one Lieutenant, two sergeants, two drums, and about IGO private men; one Captain and 19 men were taken prisoners. The General with regiment halted all night about a mile and n half from the enemy’s camp, to intercept those who had straggled in the woods, and expecting the enemy to make a second at tempt to march in the morning. But the General having ad vanced with a party of Indians before day-break towards the Spannisli camp, found them all retreated to the ruins of the fort and under cover of their cannon. Next morning the Gen end and his men returned to Frederica, and ho appointed a General Staff, viz : Licuts. Primrose, Maxwell, and Hugh Mackny, Aids-de-camp; Lieut. Sutherland, Brigade Major : and Sergeant John Stuart, 3d Ensign for liis bravo behavior in the last engagement. July 9 & 10. —All hands were employed in the works at Frederica, and the Indians bronght us some scalps and pris oners. July 11.—A settee and two quarter gallies came within gun shot of the town ; but on our firing some guns and bombs from the fort, and the General going towards them with his boats, they returned to their fleet, and with the rest drew up in line of battle. The next morning, an English prisoner escaped from them, who informed us that the enemy, on their landing, had resolved to give no quarters, but from the day their gren adiers were defeated, they having been in great terror, had in trenched themselves, an and given orders that no one should go without their sentinels, for fear of being surprised by the In dians. By other prisoners and deserters we wero also told 9 that on calling over their rolls,there were 240 men,and 19 of their Indians missing ; that there were great divisions among them ? insomnch that Don Antonio de Rodondo, who commanded the Cuba forces, encamped separate from those of Augustine, and that the Commodore had ordered all his seamen on board.— That night the General with 500 men, marched within a mile of the enemy’s camp, intending to surprise them ; but was pre vented by the treachery of a Frenchman, who having got among the company of boatmen, fired his piece, gave the alarm to the enemy, and then deserted to them. When the Genernl found his intention discovered to the enemy, he order ed all his drums to beat the grenadier’s march, and then re turned to Frederica. The General, July 13, in order to defeat the information of the French deserter, directed a letter to be wrote, and sent by a Spanish prisoner, who, for the sake of the money they gave him, and the promise of liberty, undertook to deliver it to the said Frenchman ; wherein he was instructed to acquaint the enemy’s commanding officer of the defenceless atate of Frederica, and encourage them to come up by water under his pilotage. Which letter the Spanish prisoner delivered to the Govenor of Augustine ; and it had so good an effect that the Frenchman was immediately taken into custody, aud look ed upon as a double spy, and thereupon put into irons. Next morning the Spaniards burnt the barracks and officer’s houses at St. Simons, and Capt. Horton’s house on Jckyll; and the same night they re-embarked with so much precipitation, that they left a quantity of ammunition, provisions and some guns behind them. July 15.—A1l the large vessels, with the Cuba forces on board, sailed to the Southward ; and the Governor and troops from Angustine, on board the small craft, went within land, and encamped in St. Andrew's, and caught 50 horses with a de sign to carry them away; but on the General’s appearing in his boats, the enemy shot the said horses, and burut the fort and houses at St. Andrews. The General, July IG, follow'ed the Spaniards wdth all his small craft, but was not strong enough to attack them. lie landed a manoutofhis boat on Cumberland,who that night pas sed the enemy’s camp, and early the next morning came to Fort William with advice to Ensign Stewart, that the Spaniards were beat oft’ St. Simons and the General was with O succor, and ordering him to defend the fort to the utmost. Ja’y 18. —28 sail of Spanish vessels appeared off Fort Wil liam, 14 of which came within land ; and attaked the fort from their gallies and other vessels, aad attempted to land ; but were repelled by a party of rangers from behind the sandhills. En sign Stewart, who commanded with GO men in the fort, defend ed it so bravely that after an attack of upwards of three hours, they were obliged to put to sea with considerable loss. The 18-pounders there disabled two of their gallies. July 19.—The General was on his way to Fort William. July 20.—The General arrived at Fort William, and sent},[ boats and rangers as far as the river St. John ; who return. ,] next day, anh brought advice that the enemy was quite g onc upon which the General gave necessary orders for the repair’ ing Fort William, and on the 22d returned to Frederica. \ p days afterwards, the men of war from Charleston came off Simons bar ; and Capt. Thornton, with some volunteers f ro „ Carolina, our guard schooner, and two gallies, cameintoSt Simons harbor; and Capt. Hardy of the Rye man of war, r .-. ceiving a message from the General by Lieut. Maxwell, w; went on board him, sent for answer. That lie would take a cruise with the rest of the King’s ships. Fil l END OF TIIE FilinlT SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1949. AGENTS. Mr. J. M. Boardman is our Agent for Macon. Mr. S. S. Box for Rome. Mr. Robt. E. Skylk for the State of South Carolina. James O’Conxer, Travelling Agent. TO THE PUPL.Cr Our present number makes twenty weeks since tho com mencement of our enterprise and we feel no disposition to relinquish the undertaking. We have made n change in its appearance this week, by which our subscribers will receive nearly a column more matter, and if properly seconded, wo intend still further improvements. We offer the following premiums to individuals, clubs, <]i visions and lodges, the distribution of which to take place on the Ist September, and all persons competing will please state the fact when they send in their list of subscribers, wo ntako no exceptions in favor of town or county. To the individual, club, division or lodge, who returns us the greatest number of subscribers on or before Ist September Harper’s Pictorial Bible, Turkey, gilt edges, worth $25. To the second largest list—The American Agricultuisf, from vol 1 to vol G inclusive, bound in cloth, worth $7,50. To the third, Braude’s Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art, worth $5,00. To the fourth, American Farmer’s Encyclopaedia, worth $3,50. To the fifth, Downing’s Fruit and Fruit Trees of America, worth $1,87. The American Poulterer's Companion, worth $1,25. To the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth, Allen’s History and Description of Domestic Animals. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The lines of Miss S are always acceptable, and shall ap pear in our next. Tangent is received and accepted. His solution is corrca but as lie declines the premium, wo shall leave it open unjil next week, when his solution shall appear. To the inquiry of “An Old Resident,” whether there is a law prohibiting the sale of powder to negroes and children?— There is a law prohibiting the sale to negroes under a severe penalty which should be rigidly enforced, but we believe there is none in reference to children, it is left to the discretion of the seller, who should be as carefid of placing powder m the hands of a child, as arsenic or any other deadly poison. The letter of our friend from Marietta, was not intended for publication, but it contains so much spice and humor that we could not refrain from giving it to our readers, we hope he will pardon us for so doing. Many of our exchanges notice tho report from the Charles ton papers of the existence of tho cholera in our city.— We took some pains to ascertain the truth of the report when it first came to our knowledge. The case that this report is probably based upon, occurred on the 4th of July; a negro man who had been sick with diarrhea for a week previous, partook freely of sour spruce beer during the 3d, and nlso ate a quantity of cheese which someone told him was good for liis complaint, making his stomach a vinegar distillery, and of course ho died of cholera morbus, as any one else will do if they will try the same fete. To our friends abroad we have but to say that when the scourge makes its appearance among us, we shall make it known. Our city, under the blessing of Divine Providence, is very healthy nt present, but three deaths >vas reported by the Sexton during the week ending the 10th inst. En passant, the Sexton of Savannah, for there is only one, and he a public officer under the corporation, is bound under a heavy penalty, to report every death that occurs, and the disease or causuality, &c., &c., and that a record of the same is kept and can be referred to at any time, and he, or any other person falsifying that record would be indictable for the offence. As an evidence of the fact, fifteen years ago. when residing in Charleston, a legacy was left to three orphan chil dren, of whom two resided in Charleston, the third had resi ded in Savannah, but no communication had taken place be tween them for years, they* had heard a rumor of her death but could produce no evidence of the fact. Tlie husband of one of the parties, with whom I was intimate, knowing I had relatives living in Savannah, applied to me to get a certificate for him of the death of this relative, which I did in a sets days, and the survivors received the legacy. EXTREME MODESTY. The Editor of the Sunday Dispatch thus diseources: “If* the fashion now for editors to publish their portraits in their own magazines or papers. Freeman Hunt embellishes tD July number of tlie Merchant's Magazine with a very clever* well executed resemblance of himself ; and Clarke, of Knickerbocker , follows suit. Both the gentleman aro g°°d looking, and with both have the artists dealt justly. If it is par ticularly requested by a sufficient number of our subscribed* that we should submit our own face to the mercies of a pß’ n ’ ter and engraver—if fifteen hundred will send us two sliill^S 3 each, they shall have a “ screamer” of a portrait—a fine strt 1 engraving—which will be “an ornament to any parlor,” so* 11 * 3 time in the fall. But our modesty will not allow us to doth'* at our own expense. We couldn’t think of such a thing*'’ But we are willing to sacrifice our feelings, if our subscribed will hurry up two shillings each. We observe by the English papers that the Oxford Uni vfr ’ sity, conferred the degree of Doctor of Civil Law on Hon. George Bancroft, our minister at tho Court of St. Juint >: ”