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AI’«I!STA.’
Monday Morning-, Fob. 12.
HAMPTON COURSE. —Last Day.
Puree $4OO. —100 to the second best horse —
Mits Hkatb, best three in five.
Col. M’Cargo’s ch f Missouri, 2 111
Hammond & Lovell’s ch f Eclipsa, 3 3 2 2
Col. Adam’s ch f Simple Hannah, 1 2 3 dr.
Time, Ist heat, 1m stis —2nd, Ira 57s—3rd
lm 56—4th, 2m.
We learn by the Southern Argus, published
at Columbus, Miss., that the Hon. James F.
Trotter, (Van Burenite,) has been elected Sena
tor in Congress from that Slate to fill Judge
Black’s vacancy. Mississippi is now represent
ed by a Walker and a Trotter.
In the Charleston Courier of Friday morning
there appeared a letter purporting to be from the
Mayor of Lexington, Ky, to the Post Master at
Charleston, giving the particulars ot a great fire
by which half the town was burnt down. We
suspected it to be a hoax when we first saw it, as
the information ought to have come to us earlier
through the Express Mail. Havingsecn nothing
xt confirm the report since, in any of our slips or
exchange papers wc have no doubt but is a hoax.
A Veteran indeed. —Captain Robert Elliot,
105 years of age, died at his residence, in Mont
gomery county, Virginia, on the 4lh day of
January, 1838; having served his country both
as a soldier and a captain during our revolution
ary war.
Indians ik tux United States.—The num
ber of Indians cast of the Mississippi is 48,365.
The number of Indians who have emigrated to
the West Os the Mississippi is 52,327. —The
numbers composing the indigenous tribes within
j striking distance of the Western Frontier,
amounting to 231,806. And the whole number
of Indians within the limits of the United States,
332,498. Assuming that every fifth one may bo
a warrior, the number of their fighting melt is
66,500.
[communicated.]
A Countryman ” asks the edllol- of the
Chronicle & Sentinel “if he is in favor of Mr.
Clay os a candidate for the Presidency.” It is
neither the policy or duty of the South at (his
time to hitch their fortunes to the car of either
of the Presidential candidates. Indeed wo do
not know who are the candidates. Between
Messrs. Clay, Van Buren, Webster, and Harri
son, toe do not hesitate to declare our unqualifi
ed predilections in favor of Mr. Clay. He pos
sesses more elevation, talent and character, is
more with the South on all her favorite measures,
and can by the weight of his character and pat
riotism effect more than all the others together.
We can further inform “A Countryman” that
many—very many of the Southern people prefer
Mr. C/ay to any other candidate that has yet
been named. Akotiieii Countryman.
[from our correspondent.]
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 1838.
«After my express letter of yesterday was sent
ox, the House continued in session until half
past six o’clock. Tho question on the adpotion
ofMr. Howard’s resolution declaring that Messrs
Plenties and Word are not entUed to seats us
members of the 25th Congress, was then put,
and carried in the affirmative by thecasling vole
of the Speaker! Tho ayes being 117, the nays
also 117.
Mr. HOWARD then offered another resolution
directing that the Speaker inform the Governor
of Mississippi of the fact, which was carried.
There is, therefore, no representation of the State
of Mississippi in the. House.
I Mr. GRUNDY of Term., presented !o the Sen
ale to-day the resolutions recently adopted by the
Legislature of that Stale, requesting their repre
sentatives and instructing their Senators in Con
gress, to oppose the passage of any act for the es
tablishment of the Sub-Treasury System rccom
bicnded by the President in his Message ofSep-
Hciubi-i last. Mr. Grundy expressed his belief in
right of instruction, and considering that the
now before the Senate is within the purview
the resolutions, he declared bis determination
vote against the bill in every stage, in com-
with the instructions. The resolutions
liw printed were laid on the (able.
Mr. WEBSTER then called the attention of
e Senate to the report of the Secretary of the
reasnry, in reply to his call for information re
eding the payment of pensions and fishermen’s
(unties, in notisof the Commonwealth Bank
[Boston. He moved to refer the report to the
on Finance. The distinguished Sen-
remarked on the facts admitted by the Sec-
B||ary, that the payment could not be made in
as an important lesson to the advocates of
Ixclusive hard money currency. Ho also
id out the violation of law committed by
cparlmenl here, in allowing the pension
a to derive enormous compensation Irom the
’ the money entrusted to them. The pen
act distinctly prohibits any compensation
(.that given by authority of law. But now
nieral practice, is to keep the pension agents
lonlhs in advance, whereby tho pension
is enabled to realize nine or ten thousand
s from the uao of the money, $3211,000
t is remitted to him in semi-annual instal
iin advance. He has constantly on hand
000. The same practice prevails in other
i, and the agents derive from the fund given
im in advance a proportionate income!
. WEBSTER justly characterized ibis as
f the most dangerous, and in every respect
ionable modes of compensating public olli
that could be adopted; and he urged upon
ommittee tho importance of giving it serious
Deration, and applying some remedy.
. WEBSTER also took occcaston to notice
udied design exhibited by the official organ
e Admistration to produce tho impression
le is or was a debtor to the Commonwealth
and he again repelled in the strongest man*
(very thing imputing to him that Le stood
f such relation to that Bank.
Mr. CRITENDLN pointed out another enor
mity in Ilia transactions with that hunk, where
by the conn ry has lost §70,000 ! Two hundred
and seventy thousand dollars of appropriations
for a Custom House, wore deposited with the
hank, and when it laded it had in its possession
seventy thousand dollars. Why was so much
money advanced] §300.000 dollars were already
in the hands of the Commissioners of the build
ing, and yet the Secretary advances §70.000
more. Mark the time, for it was in April, the
most critical period for their declining institutions.
These advknces were intended to sustain the
oank. They could be of no use to the public
service under color of which they were made.
Mr. NILES and Mr. BUCHANAN agreed
that the disclosure of the affairs of the Common
wealth Bank, demonstrated the necessity of es
tablishing the Sub Treasury System. Both these
gave up the Banks to the most severe condem
nation. *
Mr. CLAY commented severely on this
den unculion by the experimenters on their own.
bantlings; the very banks now condemned as
faithless and enriupt by Messrs. Buchanan and
Niles, were only three years ago landed to the
skies by the same gentlemen; and he declared his
belief, that if litis Sub Treasury system could ho
established, its authors would denounce it three
years hence as they do the Stale Bank system
now; and then bring forward some other measure
to delude the people and destroy tin ir interests.
Mr. Clay then teferred in a very spirited man
ner to the Tennessee instructions that had been
read, and the manliness of Mr. Crundy in ex
pressing his thtermination to obey them. He
went the rounds of the other States n which
resolutions of the same or a similar character were
then pending; and addressing himself to Messrs.
Morris and Allen ol Ohio, Wright of New York,
Buchanan of Pa., and others, expressed his hope
that they would each ami all conform to the
wishes of their constituents. The subject was
then laid aside on the motion of Mr. Preston for
the purpose of taking up the special order.
Mr. HIVES look the lloor, and concluded his
speech on he general subjects which have been
introduced in the debate ou the Sub Treasury
Bill. AT,
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7th, 1838.
In the Senate, the debate on the Sab-Treasury
Bill was resumed : and Mr. Hubbard ol N. 11.
undertook to defend this monstrous scheme for
a Government Bunk, and to reply to the argu
ments of Mr. Webster and Mr. Rives. The Sena
tor from Virginia came in for the principal share
of this very inconsiderable person’s attention.
The determination of “the party,” is to make a
dead set upon Mr. Rives. His able and eloquent
speech against their new experiments, on Monday
and Tuesday, will never he forgiven. Huhhatd,
the Secretary of the Treasury's man of all work,
has been employed to denounce him first. He
declared Rives had gone over to the “enemy,”
and affecting to lie classical, said, he was acting
the part of Thcmislocles against the liberties of
his country !
Mr PRESTON called up a joint resolution,
offered by him some days ago, to authorize the
Library Committee to cause the Madison Papers
to be printed and published; and, after some con
versation. the subject was referred to the Library
Committee.
Mr. LINN of Mins, introduced a Bill to au
thorise the occupation of the Columbia nr Oregon
River. It proposes to establish a Territory north
of latitude 43 degrees, and west of the Rocky
Mountains, to be called the Oregon Territory,
authorize the establishment of a fort on 'hat river
and the occupation of the country by the milita
ry force of the United States; establish a purl of
cn ry; and require that the country should then
lie held subject to the revenue laws of lire United
Stales; and to effect these objects, it makes an
appropriation of fifty thousand dollars. This
measure w«s referred to a select committee, of
which Mr. Linn was appointed Chairman.
In tile House of Representatives. Mr. Garland,
of Va. offered a resolution authorizing the Secre
tary of the Trcusuty to employ additional clerks
so as to enable him to comply with the call of
the House for copies of all correspondence in re
lation to jibe defalcations of public officers. The
Secretary lias, in compliance with a resolution
of the House, given a list of the defaulters, and
the amount of their defalcations; but, says the
correspondence is so large, that copies cannot he
prepared without the aid of new clerks.
The object of Mr. Garland in persevering in
the call fur the correspondence, is to show tits
infinite difficulties already experienced by the
Government from the employment of individual
agencies in keeping the public monies; and thus
to demonstrate the dangers of the Suit Tieusnry
System. No decision was come to on the reso
lution —tlte debate having been out off' by the ar
rival of the hour for going to the orders of the
day.
Mr. EVANS of Maine, then moved 1 1 refer
the President’s Message in reference to the North
Eastern Boundary, and the imprisonment of Mr.
Greely in the Frederickton j til, in tire British
Province of Now Brunswick, to the Commit ee
on Foreign Affairs, witir instructions to report a
bill to provide for surveying the North-Eastern
Boundary line, according lu the provisions of the
peaty ol peace of ,1783.
Mr. EVANS rn dean able and eloquent speech
m support of litis motion. The subject was then
laid aside, and the bill making appropriations for
the payment of the pensioners of tlte United
States was then taken up; and alter being engaged
for some lime in its consideration, tlte House
without corning to any decision, adjourned.
Mr. Mublerthurg of Penn, lias been nominated
by the President to bo Envoy Extraordinary, and
Minister Plenipotentiary to His Imperial Majesty
the Emperor of Austria. M.
From the N. V. Corn. Adv, Fob. 7.
VERY LATE FROM EUuUPB.
This morning we received Pans papers to tiro
Ist of January, brou ,hi by lire packet ship Silvio
De Grasse, Capt. Weideiholl. Cupt. W. sailed
irum Havie on the 2d ot Janua.y, and hail to
pul lino Torbay, f England.j wnencc ire sailed on
the sth ol January. *
We are indebted to Messrs Fox, Bolton & Li
vingston, for the use of a London papet ol the
4th of January, which was obtained by Captain
Wetderliull, while at Torbay.
GREAT BRITAIN.
The Canaiias. — Tiro affairs of Canada were
the principal suhject of comment in the L indon
papers. Despatches ftom Sir John Colhorne to
lire 2Ulh of November had been received. The
intelligence through other channels was to the
4th of December.
It was stated in the Standard of Doc. 23. it.
that tiro bug Inconstant ol 30 guns was ordered
without delay to the North coast of Spain; and
the. rumor was that the object of .he expedition
was to lake on hoard the battalion ol marines, sta
tioned at Passages, and convoy them to Lower
Canada, via Ha tfajj. —The. brig had taken nn
boatd at Portsmouth 1000 muskets and a large
quantity of military stores.
1 lie same paper stales that tiro Hastings was
. ordered to Portsmouth, there to lake on board
■ troops for Canada. Tlte 93td Highlanders was
I ordered to Nova Scotia, and it was reported that
the 23rd riflemen and the 71et light infantry
wore ordered to Canada. The 65(1i, stationed at
linrhadoes, was ordered to Canada, to be repla
ced by the CUtii from Demarara.
1 bat pdtt of the President’s message relating
to ibe North 1£ isiern boundary, is much coin
monied on by the London papers. It is said to
have caused a slight depression in the funds. The
message gt nerally was not much liked in the
• commercial and linaneial circles.
1 Or UK at Fiub in London.—There was a
• g r cat tiro in London on the 28ih of December,
on Davis Quay, opposite the Tower.—The "ware
houses on this quay contained three thousand
\ barrels oj turpentine, with great quantities of
oil and oilier intiammablo materials, and three
i brigs lying alongside were also loaded with simi
lar articles. All were destroyed. The fir© raged
from halt j ast 6 in the morning until 1 P. M.
i 6000 barrels of turpentine and 800 tons of oil
wore consumed, besides three bugs and a ware
house lull ot grain. The oil alone was worth
i $200,000, The whole loss was estimated at
. £120,000. or i 600,000.
From the Lon Jon Morning Post
1
Canana.—The intelligence which reached
Lend n yesterday from Canada, and lh« United
, i Slates, the most important particulars of which
’ we hastened to lay before the public in a second
i ! edition, is of a mingled character—partaking in
j pretty equal proportions of the gloomy and the
j cheering in relation to the actual position of as-
I fairs, and presenting us alternately with sinister
I and wi h an-pic.tins otnenso of the lulurc.
Perhaps the most formidable source of danger
j brought into view by the advices of yesterday, is
j the disposition manifested by a part of the people
it not also by the government of the United
I Stales, to make common cause with the Canadi
an insurgents. Shouid-ihis disposition prevail to
any considerable extent in the American Union,
it is clear that the struggle in which Ureal Britain
is involved by the imbecility nr treachery of her
rulers is a struggle from which there is no possi
hility of honorable retreat, and which can only
he successfully maintained by the prompt, un
sparing, and energetic employment of the ut
most powers and rcsoutoes of the Stale/
FRANCE.
The Journal ties Debuts of Dec. 31st con
tained a paragraph, of which the following is a
translation ;
“A courier arrived from Berlin has brought an
autograph lettor froth the King of Prussia ta his
majesty Louis Philippe, in which his Prussian
majesty say* that he agrees perfectly with the
King ot the French relative to the affairs of
Belgium, and that he relics upon the wisdom of
King Louis Philippe to arrange the difference
that exists between Belgium and Holland. The
minister of war was immediately summoned to
his majesty, and after a brief conference, couriers
wetc despatched with counter orders to those Is
sued in the morning, ’
The Times says that an army of observation;
30,000 sfong, is to he posted on the Northern
[' and Eastern frontier of France. The head
quarter* to he at Metz. The army waa to bn
, provided with 100 pieces of cannon. It is ru
mored that the Duke of Oilcans would have the
, command.
The Gazette de France (Carlist) has a long
article, not exactly in f.vor of the insurgent
Canadians, but in favor of • direct intervention
. by Fiance in their sid, as an excellent line of
policy to injure and humble England! The Ga
zette says that such would be the course of a
Heury IV, a Louis XIV, a Louis XVI, or a—
; meaning by this blank a Henry V.
The President’s mes-age was published m the
Paris journals of Dec. 29.
Extract from (jalignani, dated
Pa Ills, Dec 20lh.
The rich American banking house ofMcssrs.
Wells <fc Co., in this capital, on occasion of the
laic commercial crisis, received assistance from
the Bank of France, on the guarantees of Messrs.
Welles, and also of some great capitalist# at Paris,
Lyons, and Marseilles, to the amount of 3,200,-
000 francs. The sura offered to lie lent by the
Bank of France was 4,200,000 f.; hut ol this Mes
srs. Welles availed themselves only to the amount
of 2,375 000 francs, and on the 24th inst. they
repaid the w hole of this sum to the bank, and
thus effaced the last vestige of the temporary
shock sustained by their house.
On occasion of this, I omit d’Afgout, governor
of tile Bank ol France, has written to the per
sons who were guarantees for Messrs. Welles,
to itnform them that the obligations which they
had thus contracted were terminated, and that
they were entirely freed from their honorable co
operation in an act as useful to commerce in
general as to a hou c which has so well justified,
by its good laith uod readiness in paying, the
confidence of which it has been the object.
Count d’Argi.ut has also written to the house
in question, to say that the council general of the
Bank Was desirous of giving a striking testimony
to the good faith of Mr. Welles, and to the ex.
Ireme promptitude which he had employed in dis
charging his obligations to the Bank, before the
time of the engagements which ho had contract
ed falling due.
HANOVER.
The opposition to the despotic projects of King
Ernest seems to have pone on increasing. The
' Gazette do Let, sic of Dec. 10th states that oa
the p-reeding day the advocates of that city were
required to sign the declaration of fealty, but that
the principal part of them refused.
At Osiiahutg there had been commotions
growing nut of the arrest of one of the burgomas
ters, who refused to administer the oath offesltjr.
The populace attempted to rescue him, bat the
military pul them down.
The burgomasters of Stade had unanimously
I protested against the King’s manifesto.
SPAIN.
The Commerce contains the foil .wing para
| graph: "Toe Gazette Uaivcrielle do Lcipsic of
' the 25th *of December, speak- of a new treaty,
i which lilts been signed by the parties to the
| treaty of quadruple alliance, in consequence of
I which, all the Hoops who may ho sent nil t Spain
will curry lbs ll ig of their respective nations.’’
Accounts of the 241 h uluftom Madrid announce
possttively that, with the exception of Espaitero,
w ho retains the war department, the entire of the
cabinet will ho renewed. Count Toreno, and M
Martitx’zde la T >sa, it is said, are to form port
of the new combination, and Cotdova is to be
named C mmandcr in Chief of the army of the
north and Viceroy of Navarre. Alaix is to rc
i place Baron IVlcer in Catalonia, anJ the latter
i is to have the government of I lie Island of Culm.
Delicts of the 28 h ml. from Bayonne, con-
I firm toe intelligence previously announced, that
I Don Carlos estab.ished himself on the 24th at
Orduna. The news of the mrach ofa Carlist
I exp ditiun under Garcia is not corroborated. The
sum of 125.000 francs (5,0001.) promised by
' the Spanish Ministry for the payment of an in.
slalmeiiton the amount due to the British Aux
f diary Legion, was expected at Bayonne, Three
' steamers wete to take on hoard the remnant of
! the legion, at St. Sebastian.
Woman. —Sumo women have as many
hearts to give away, as a king has snuffbox
“ es; and all bear the likeness of the giver, not
y of the receiver.
vwjujotMiM i inm mm i iwnw n umjtmwh mib .■liwu.tb. am
LADY LUCY'S I’ETI PiON.
A Title founded on Fuels.
‘And is in) dear papa shut up m this dis
mal piece, in which you tiro taking me,nurse!”
asked iho Luly Lucy Preston, raising liur
eyes fear fully lu ihe tower of London, as the
coach m whch she uus sealed with Amy
Gradvvell, h r nurse, drove under the gate
way. Sim tionible'd and hid her face in Amy’s
cloak, when they alighted, and she saw the
soldiers on guard, ami tiie sentinels, with
their crossed partisans, before the portals of
that part of the fortress where the prisoners
of State were confined, and where her own
tut Lei, Lord Preston ,of whom she was come
to lake her last farewell, was then confined
under sentence of death.
•Yes my duar child,’ returned Amy, sor
rowful; ‘my Lord, your father, is indeed with
in those sad walls. —You are now going to
vis.t Inm. Shall you (>o afraid of entering
line place toy dear'!’
‘Mo.’ replied L ady Lucy, resolutely! ‘1 am
not afraid 01 going ;o any place wiiore my
dear pap i is.’
Yet she clung closer to the arms of her
attendant, as they were aditii ted into the
gloomy precincts of the buildings, and her
little heart fluttered tearfully us she glanced
around her, and sue whispered to her nurse:
Was it not Imre that the two yo mg princes,
Edward the Fifth, and his brother Ktchard,
Duke of Y’urk, were murdered hy their crue.
uncle Richard, Duke of Glo icoster!’
“Yes my love, it was; hut do not he alarm d
on tiiat account form one will hurt you,’
said old Amy, m uu on ouraging tone.
‘And was not good King Henry the Sixth
murdered nere also hy tint same wicked Rlc
hann” continued tire hide girl, whose im
agination was full of the records of deeds of
hinod that had been perpetrated in this fatally 1
celebrated place, many of which heeu relate,:
to her try Bi igot Holdworth, the housekeeper
since her lather had heeu imprisoned nr the
lower, on charge of high treason.
‘Hut do you think they will murder papa,
mi st; 1 ’ pursued the child as they ascended
the stairs leading to the apartment in which
the unfortunate nobleman was confined.
‘Uush! hush/ my dear, you must not talk
of those things here, Stud Amy, ‘or they will
shut us both up iu a room with bolts and
bars instead of admitting us to see my Lord,
your father.”
Lady Lucy pressed closer to her nurse’s
side, and was silent till they were ushered
into the room where, in her joy at seeing Iter
father again she sprang into Ins arms, and al
most stilled him with tier kisses.—Lord Pres
ton was greatly affected at the sight ot his
little daughter,and, overcome by her passion
ate demonstrations of loudness, his own j
angilish at the thought of his approaching se
paration from Iter, and the idea ot leaving ner
an orphan, (for she had only just completed
her ninth year, and had lost her mother,) he
clasped her to Ins bosom, and bedewed her
innocent face with his tears.
‘Why do you cry, dear papa?’ asked the in
nocent cbilu, wlm was herself weeping at
lire sight of ms distress. ‘And why w.ll you
not Iftive this gloomy place and come home
to your own hail again.'
Attend to me, Lucy, and I will tell you the
cidse of my gnet,’ said her father, seating
the I ill le girl on his knee; ‘I shall never come
again, for I ha>o been conjoined to die (or
high treason, winch means an offence against
the King; and I snail hot leave tins plan* till
they bring me forth on the Tower lull, where
they will cut off my head with a sharp «xe,
and set it up afterwards over Tempel Ji uy or
Louder bridge.
At this terrible intelligence, Lady Lu y
screamed aloud, and hid le-r lace in her ta
lker's bosom,winch the wetted with heneai*.
‘lie composed my dear child ” said Lord
Preston, ‘for I have much to say to you, and
we may never mqet again on this side of me
grave.
‘No! no,dear papa,’cried she, ‘they shall
not lull you, for 1 will cling so fast to your
neck, that they will not be able to cut your
bead off; and 1 will tell them how good and
kind you are, and then they will not want to
kill you.’
‘My dearest love this is all simple talking,’
said Lord Preston, ‘f have offended against
the law us it is at present established, by try
ing to have my old master King James re
stored to his throne, and therefore 1 must die.
Do yon remember Lucy, I look yon once to
VVhna ntll to see King James, and how kind
ly ho spoke to you V
‘Oh, yes, papa 1 and I recollect l.e laid Ins
hand on my head, and said I was like whai
his daughter, Hie Princess of Orange, was in
my age,’ replied Lady Lucy wnh great ani
mation.
‘Well, my child, very shortly after younaw
Klin' J lines at Wo ti, hall, the Prince of Or
an re, who man led Ins daughter, came over to
England and drove Kmg James out of Ins
oalaee ami kingdom, and the people made nim
and the Princess ot Orange king ami queen
in his stead ?
‘Bui was it not very wicked of the Princess
of Orange to join with her husband to take
her lailier’s kingdom from him? I am very
sorry King Janies thought mu like her, said
Lady Lucy earnestly.
•llush, hush ! my love, you must not talk
so of the Princess of Orange; lor perhaps
she considered she was doing right in depri
vin''her father of Ins kingdom, bee use bet
had”embraced the Catholic relgiou, and ills ,
arralnsl the law for a king of England to boa
Calii-ilic. Yet I confess Ido not behove sbe
would nave cons ulted to sign ibo death w ar
rant ol so many of her fatlier’s old servants,
only on account ol their faithful attachment
to hun,’ said Lord Preston, wilh a sigh.
‘1 have heard that the Princess ot Orange
is of a morcilul disposition,’ said old Amy
Grad well, advancing towards her master,
‘and perhaps she might he induced to spare
your life, my Lord, if your pardon was very
earnestly entreated of her hy some ot your
friends.
Alas! my good Amy, I have no one who
will umierlul e the perilous olfi e ot soliciting
the royal grace for an attainted traitor, lest
they should he suspected of favoring the cause
of King James.’
‘Dear papa! let me go to tho Quoen, and
beg for your pardon,’ cried Lady Lucy, with
a cninsonod check and a sparkl ng eye. ‘1 I
will beg and so pray her to spare your life,
dear p apa, that she will not have Iho heart t
deny me ’
‘.Simple child!’ exclaimed her fat tier, ‘what
should yon be able to flay lu the Queen that
would he of any avail ?
•God would leach me what to say, and he
has power also to touch her heart with pity
for a child’s distrass, and to open her ear to
myjearnest petition.’
Her father clasped tier to Ins bosom and
said * I'lion vvoiildsi bo afraid of speaking to
tlm Queen, even it thou shouldsl be admitted
to her presence my clnld.’
‘Why would I bo afraid «f speaking to tlie
Queen, pupa! for even if she would be angry
with me, and answer harshly, Isliold think
ing 100, mucli of you father to nmitl it - dr if
she were to send me to the tower and cut off
my head, she could only kill my body, hut
would have no power at all to hmt my soul,
which is under the protection of One, who is
greater than any king or queen upon the
•arth.’
‘Vou are right, my child, to fear God, and
to have no other fear,’ said her father, ‘ft is
lie who hath, perhaps, put it into your heart
to plead with the Queen for my life: which,
if it be Ins pleasure to grant, I shall feel it
indeed a happiness fur my child to be made
the instrument of my deliverance from the
perils of death, which now encompass me;
but if it should bo otherwise, his will he done,
lie hath promise I to ho a father to the fath
erless, and ho will nut forsake my good ami
dutiful clnld. when 1 am low m ihe dust.’
‘But how, will Lady Lucy gam admittance
to the Queen’s pretence, my lord,’ asked old
Amy, who had been a weeping spectator to
the scene between the father and child.
‘1 will write a letter to her godmother, the
Lady Clarendon, requesting her to accomplish
the matter.’
lie then wrote itjfew hasty lines to that
lady, which li i gave to Ins daughter, tolling
her she was to go the next day to Hampton
Court, properly attended, ami to obtain n
sight of Lady Clarendon, wiio was there in
waiting upon the Queen, and deliver the
letter to her with her own hand, lie then
kissed his child tenderly, ami bade lier faro.
-wi I. Though the little child wvpt at parting
! with her lather, yet she left the lower with
a far more composed mind than she entered
it; for she had formed her resolution, and her
young heart was full of hope. She had si
lently committed her cause to Gad, uml she
trusted that He w'ou d dispose the event
prosperously for her.
The next morning before the lark sung
her matins, Lady Lucy was up an . dressed
in a suit of deep mourning, which Amy hud
provided as the modi suitable garb for a
daughter whose only surviving patent wus
under sentence of death. Tho servants, who
had been informed of their young lady's in
tention tb solicit the Queen for tier father's
freedom"; were assembled in the entrance hull
to see her deparljand us she passed through
them, leaning on her nurse’s arm, and alien
tied by her lather’s confidential secretary,
and the old butler, they shed tears, and bade
I God bless Iter, and prosper her m her design
Lady Lucy, arrived at Hampton Court,
was introduced into the Countess of Claren
don’s apartments before her ladyship was out
of bed, and having told her artless tale with
great earnes ness,d. hvered her father’s let
ter. Lady Clarendon, who was wife to the
Queen’s undo, was very kind to her young
god daughter, but plainly told her she must
not reckon on her influence with the Queen,
because the Earl of Clarendon wus in disgrace
on account of being suspected of carrying on
a correspondence with King James. Ins bro
ther-in-law; therefore she dared not solicit the
Queen on behalf ot her friend, Lord Preston,
against whom her majesty was so deeply
exasperated that she bud declared §hc would
not show linn any mercy.
‘Oh!’ said the little girl, ‘if I could only
see the Queen myself, 1 would not wish any
one to speak tor me, lor 1 should plead so
earnestly lo tier for my dear papa’s life that
she could not refuse me, /’insure.
‘Poor eh Id, wuai could you any to the
Q,ueeu V uskedjlhc C’uutliess, compassionate
ly-
‘Only let me see her and you shall hear’
rejoined Lilly Lucy.
•Well, my love, it were a pity but what you
tiled should have an opportunity, said Lady
Clarendon; ‘hut much I (ear thy little heart
will fall (bee, and when thou suest the Queen
taco to face, thou wi.l nut be able lo utter a
syllable.’
‘God will direct tbe words of my lips,’ said
Lite little girl, wuli tears in her eyes.
The Countess was impressed with the pie.
>y and tihul tenderness id ner little god
daiigh er; and she hastened lo rise ami dress
ih.it sb- might conduct me child into the pal
a e gallery, where the queen usually past an
uour in walking, alter tier return from the
chapel, which one attended every morning,
ilor nuqcsiy had notion the chapel when
Lady Clarendon an . Lady Lucy entered the
gallery; and her ladyship endeavored indirect
lli • anxious impatience of her little friend, hy
pointing out to her too portraits with winch
it was adorned.
‘1 know that gentleman well, ‘said the child
po niiog to a noule wuole length portrait ol
J ones the second. “Thai, is the portrait of
the neposed King Janus, Queen Alary’s fa
ther,’ observed toe Coolness, sighing, ‘and
very striking n is of that unluitnnute monarch
—but liarit, here comes the Queen with her
c aintierlam and ladies Ironl chapel, now,
Lucy, is the time. 1 will step into the recess
yonder, but you must remain alone, standing,
wlietc you are, and when ber majesty ap
proaches near enough, kneel down on one
knee beforfc her, and present your fallier’s
petition. Thegnio a little in advance is the
Queen. Ue ofgiod courage, and address
yoursell lo her.
Lady Clarendon then made a hasiy retreat.
Lucy’s heart fluttered Violently when she
found herself alone, hut h-r resolution did not
hul her, and wni.o ner lips moved violently in
ferven prayer to the Almighty lor his ussis
lance in tins trying iinmient, sin; stood with
folded hands, composed anil motionless as a
siaiue, awaiting tin; Queen’s approach; and
wnen her majesty drew near the spot, she ad
vanced a step tor.vard, knell and presented
the petition.
The extrema beauty of the child, her deep
mourning, the touching sadness of ber look
and manners, mid above all, the streaming
tears which bedewed her face, excited ti.e
Queen’s attention and inlurcsl; she paused
spoke kindly lo ner, and took the offered pa
per; but when she saw the name of Lord
I’reslon ber color ruse. iSbo frowned, cast
> the petition from her, and would have passed
m, but Lucy, who pad watched her countu
luneu wnh u degree of anxious interest that
amounted to agony, losing all awe of royal
ty in her fears for hei lather, put forth her
hand, ami grasping Um Queen's rube, cried
man imploring tone ‘Spare my father —my
ruyal lady!’ Lucy had meant to say many
persuasive things, but forgot ilium all in her
sore distress, and could only repeat the words
‘m«rcy, mercy,for my father,gracious Queen
:to>ir.Txwu«i>i»«w'j.v..M W t T i—i -n - .■'■jii linn—
i Ull liar vl'licineiii emo'.nni choked her voice!
and tUrowin-j l.er unris nroiitnl the Queen's
neck, she loaned liar Innid against. lior majes
ty e person.fur support and so. hod aloud.
Hie Intense sorrow oi a cliild is always pe
culiarly touching ; hut the circumstances un
der which Lucy appeared wore moie than
commonly affecting. it was a daughter, not
beyond the season ofinfancy, overmastering
the timidity of that tender age to become the
suppliant to an offended sovereign Cor thcliCo
ot a lather. Queen Mary pitied the distress
ol her young petitioner, hut she considered
the death ol Lord Preston as a mailer of po
litical necessity; she therefore told Lucy mild
ly but firmly, t"hal«!io could not grant her re
quest.
‘•Cut he is good and kind to every one’ said
Lucy raising her bine eyes,which were swim
ming with tears, to the face of the Queen.
*!le may bo so to you, child, 1 returned her
majesty, hut. he has broken the law of the
country, and therefore must die,
‘But you can pardon him if you choose (q
do so, madam, replide Lucy;’ and I have
read that (Jod is well pleased with those who
forgiy,*; for ho has said, ‘Blessed are the
merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.’
‘lt does not become a little girl like yotf
•° attempt to me,’ replied the
Queen, gravely, ‘ f am acquainted (with
my duly; amt as it is my place to administer
justice impartially, it is not possible fur me t*>
j pardon your father, however painful it may
he fi rmo lo deny the request of so dutiful ti
child.’
Lucy did not reply; she raised her eyes
with an appealing look to the Queen's and
then turned them expressively on the portrait
of King James,opposite to which her majesty
was then standing. There was something in
that look that bore no common meaning, and
the Queen whose curiosity was excited by
the peculiarly emphatic manner of the child,
could not refrain from asking ‘wherefore sliq
gazed so earnestly upon that picture;’ ‘I was,
thinking,’replied Lady Lucy, ‘how strange
it was that you should wish to kill my lather,
only because lie loved yours so faithfully!'
This wise but artless reproof from the l'p»
of infant innocence, went to the heart of the
Queen; she raised her eyes to the onoe dear
and honored countenance of a parent, who,
whatever were his political errors its a king,
or his offences against others, had ever been
the tenderest of parents to her, and the re
membrance that he was an exile in a foreign
land, relying on the bounty of strangers for
liis daily bread, while she and her husband,
were invfesled with the legal inheritance of
which he had been deprived, pressed upon
her the thought of the contrast of her con
duct as a daughter, when compared with the
filial piety of the child before her, whom *
sentence of hers was about to render an or
phan.
‘Rise, clear child’ she ...id ‘tLou liis pre
vailed—thy father shall not die. L~;rant hiii
pardon at thy entreaty—Thy filial love halts
save him.’
Oh Rending Andy Lucy's Petition.
It must have boon a lovely sight lo v:i t t'vel sin
less child •
On whose young timid cheek and fascs
naliou smiled;
The quivering lip—the upraised ay—the. ’.l be
seeching glance,
Which speaks Cu avory fueling heart t’i.h D.tasa'e
eloquence.
Oh! young parlrician, after year* might give the
wenilii and power,
Bui could they e’er bestow on I be* a fi, I> - bk»
that hour,
When ibnt so dreaded voice bestowed ihy fond
bean’s first desire, ,
And yield 'd to thy prayers and tears, the pardon of
thy sire.
Thy sex, sweet girl, has often been, the saviour sf
man’s life: . ,
The maid has suffered fur her love, and U> kei
spouee the wile;
But I here’s no feeling of the heart so pur* and • tv
defiled,
As that which fur a father Alls the buaoia es kift
child.
There’s something so unselfish and so holy frith*
name;
There ‘love’s indeed »o counterfeit,’ it is a sacred
fiume—
It is an emanation caught from radiance ever bright,
A heavenly llama Irom him who la tin lather of all
Light. I>. L! S.
1 11 .a» isi . .1. i._-jli-hum
Georgia, Hcriven County:
» As JI LUKAS, Elijah Oliver applies fur Letters
v v of Administration on tliu t-slute *f Jaaals
Oliver, (Incensed, ol this comity.
These are tbcrclora t.i cite and admonish ell and
sing liar the heirs mid creditors of said deceased, lo
be anil appear at in} office within tint lime presari
bed by law, lo file their objections, if any thsy
have, to show oauso way said Idlers should not ho
granted.
Given under my hand, at office, in Jacksonbore’,
tins bib day of February, IB3H.
JOSHUA PERRY, u. c. ». a. o.
Pel. ‘I SOd >9
Georgia. Seriven County:
WHEREAS, William Greene applies for let
ters ui Administration on the Estate of John
W. Bryan, deceased, of (his county.
7’liesO are thereiure to cite anil ndmon'sh all and
singular the heirs and creditors ol said deceased, to
lie and appear at my office within the Unto prescri
b'd by law, to file their objections if any they have
to show cause why said letters should not be granted.
Given Under my bund, at office, in Jacksonhoro’j
litis bib day of February, 1838,
JO»nt;A PERRY, c c o ■ c.
Feb 9 30.1 9
8 AOUU months afterdate application will bo made
to the honorable the Justices of tha Inferior
Court of iS'crivon county j while silting for ordinary
purposes, for leave to sell the Lauds belonging lo
the Estate of John ill. Roberts, deceased, late of
said county. STEPHEN MlLLS,adtn'r,
DELIA ROBERTS, ndm’ri.
Feb btb, 1838 Itm 33
WILL bo sold on the fust Tuesday in May,
next, belore ilia court-house door,in Jatkeen
boro' between ibu usual hours of sale, the following
properly, lo wit; a negro woman by the tiara* ot
t iny and her two children Peter and Hour/, be
long ng lo the estate of Ally Ann Gross, deceased ;
sold agreeable to an order of the honorable the in
ferior court of Scm'en county, lor the benefit ol the
beiis of said decerned.
JAMES r. THOMPSON, adm’L
Fob biR, 183 d wtd 33
4 GREEAI’LL to an order.of the honorable the
Inferior Court of Scriven county, will be sold
Wfore the court bouse door in JucKsonboro’, be
tween the usual hours ot sale, one thousand acres
of pine Lund, in said county. Also, two hundred
acres hammock Lund, lying in the same county, be
longing lo the minor heirs ol John Black, deceased
sold for the benefit of said heirs.
M ARV BLACK, Guard rs.
Feb blh, 1838 »td 33
I Jiy the Court Ordinary (or said
n U rh, ' "until, \ Count'
vtaa/HEuEAS .S’arnh Smith Admmistratnx, \
V “'id Allen *' !j Administrator of
James J Smith, deceased, late of said county, have „
petitioned said conn lor letters dismissory, slating
that they have fully adtr mistered said estate.
These are therefore to cite and admonish all con
cerned to bo and appear before said court on the first
Monday in May next, and then o.xd there show
cause why said letters shall not bo granted. By
order of tho court
T H BLOUNT, dcc»ic
rtov 10 wdm 9M