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Peel, is possessed of property to the amount of a million or two in value. His origin in life was very humble: he became possessed of a calico printing establishment, at Bury, near Manchester, and subsequently established others. During many years of the war with France, Sir Robert had this branch of the business so much to himself that he earned 100,000 guineas per annum.

liam Pitt received a pension from the same lord Bute of three thousand pounds per annum, his sis. ter sent him back his own letter.

MONEY. The following account of the expenses of a dinner given by the mayor of Norwich, Eng. in 1561, may be useful to shew us what is value, when compared with or regulated by amounts of This "Mr. Peel," son of "Sir Robert," is now so money, put down in pounds or dollars; and, as afford. great a man as to have been spoken of as a pro-ing a lesson to such as calculate things by their apbable successor of lord Castlereagh he fills one of the first offices in the state, though his father was a calico printer!

FORGERY. The Democratic Press says-A legal friend has suggested that he knows no case in which the counterfeiting of a private mark is regarded as forgery. He made the remark after having taken, the trouble to look into the subject; he therefore suggests, for the better protection of American manufactures, that it may be necessary to have some cheap public stamp affixed to them, to guard against frauds, and enable the manufacturer or the government to prosecute for forgery. Those hints, at this time, are thrown out to induce the manufacturers to associate, to consult together, and digest some plan to protect themselves and their country from imposition. They should be up and doing. All our cities have their chambers of commerce, and why not their committees of manufactures?

SENATE OF THE U. S. The period of service of the following senators of the United States will expire on the third of March next.

New Hampshire-David L. Morril.

Massachusetts-James Lloyd, who has been recently elected for the balance of Mr. Otis' term. Rhode Island-Nehemiah R. Knight.

New Jersey-Mahlon Dickerson.
Delaware-Nicholas Van Dyke.
Virginia-James Pleasants.

North Carolina-Montford Stokes.
South Carolina-William Smith.

Georgia-Nicholas Ware.

Kentucky-Richard M. Johnson.
Tennessee John Williams.

Louisiana-Henry Johnson.

Mississippi-Thomas H. Williams.
Illinois-Jesse B. Thomas.
Alabama-William R. King.
Maine John Chandler.

One vacancy in Maryland, by the death of Mr.
Pinkney.

Governor Bell, of New-Hampshire, has been elected the successor of Mr. Morril.

MEXICO. The coinage in the mint of Mexico, from 1802 to 1821, amounted in Gold to 16,684,223 dollars. Silver to 286,292,811 Copper in 1814-15-16-21 342,893 The products of the mines of Mexico, in gold and silver, and coined, from 1690 to 1803, inclusive, amounted to $1,353,452,020: Silver drawn from the mines of Mexico, from 1690 to 1800, amounted to 149,350,271 marks, or 98,008,212lbs. troy.

parent cost-the great fault of those who pay no attention to public or private economy.

William Mingay, esq. mayor of the city of Nor. wich, his expenses for a dinner, at which he feasted the duke of Norfolk, &c. the lords, knights, and gentry of the county.

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A speech made by Johnny Martyn, of Norwich, a wealthy, honest man, after Mr. Mayor Mingay's dinner. Found in the collection of one Turner, of Lyn Regis:

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"Maister Mayor of Norwich, and it please your worship, you have feasted us like a king, God bless the queen's grace. We have fed plentifully, and now whilom I can speak plain English, I heartily thank you, master mayor, and so do we all; answer, boys, answer! your beer is pleasant and potent, and will soon catch us by the caput, and stop our manners. And so huzza for the queen's majesty's grace, and all her bonny braw'd dames of honor! for master mayor, and our good dame mayoress. His noble grace, there he is, God save him, and all his jolly company! To all our friends round county, THE RETORT. An historical fact.-When Miss who have a penny in their purse, and an English Ann Pitt, sister to the great William Pitt, after heart in their bodies, to keep out Spanish Dons, and wards earl of Catham, received a pension from lord papists with their faggots to burn our whiskers! Bute, her brother wrote her a very angry note, say Shove it about, turn your cap cases, handle your ing "he never wished to live to see the name of jugs, and huzza for master mayor, and his brethren Pirr and pension together." When the same Wiltheir worships!"--Loudon paper.

The brig Patriot, of New | the neighboring towns about Columbus, the first part of this month, nearly twenty thousand were killed. The exact number, I think, was 19,626.Hundreds were seen every day swimming the Great. Miami, Mad river, Scioto, and other streams.Children, from 6 to 10 years of age, would wade into the shallow water, before the squirrels reached the shore, and kill them with sticks. Many of them are fat, and fine eating--many families almost live men, with from ten to thirty, or forty on their backs. They seem to be almost as destructive as the locusts formerly were in Egypt. They have never before been known so numerous in this section of the country. It is supposed they swim to find mast, as the nuts are scarce in this quarter, and then attack the corn fields. They will probably occasion a scarcity in many places."

ELECTION OF PRESIDENT. From the Richmond Enquirer. The 68th No. of the Federalist treats of "the mode of appointment" of the president. 1 do not mean to disparage the almost unqualified culo. gium which the writer passes upon this part of the constitution; for he contends that "it unites, in an eminent degree, all the advantages, the union of which was most to be wished for." The following are the desiderata which he enumerates:

A DESPERATE FIGHT. York, Horace T. Jacobs, master, on her voyage from Port au Prince to New Orleans, on the 7th of Sep. tember, being off Cape Antonio, and in a dead calm, was attacked by a piratical schooner of about 60 tons, with a crew of from 45 to 50 men. After noticing the approach of the enemy, we find the following account of the engagement in a New Orleans paper: "Capt. Jacobs then tacked to the south and eastward and hauled up the courses, and or-upon them. We saw many little boys; and some dered preparations to be made for action, which was readily and unanimously obeyed; the universal good spirits which pervaded all hands, (consisting of ten men and a boy), were truly conspicuous. When the schooner was close under the stern, captain Jacobs hailed her, upon which she fired a whole volley of musketry into the brig-and we in return commenced upon the schooner by firing the stern gun, which was under the direction of Mr. Johnson, the chief mate, which, with the musketry, did great execution amongst them. This gun was however dismounted the 3d round, and our colors were shot away at the same time, upon which the schooner set up a terrible shout to board from the bowsprit end her boarders were covered by an abundance of musketry, but notwithstanding their vast superiority they were very gallantly repulsed. She then set fire to the brig astern, by throwing fired wads in at the cabin windows and into the stern boat, which was happily extinguished without damage. She then made another attempt to board, but was equally unsuccessful. By this time her fire considerably abated, and we could perceive an almost clear deck on board of her, and that she manifested a willingness to get clear of us. She asked for quarters repeatedly, but it was suspected to be a trick, (and regarded as such), to get a sight of the people and knock them off. She had much difficulty in getting clear of the brig, as her jib-boom and some of her ropes forward had got foul of the brig's david and the stern boat's bow. Seven men "Nothing was more to be desired, than that every could only be counted on her deck with the glass practicable obstacle should be opposed to cabal, inwhen she was a half mile off. The brig's rigging trigue and corruption."-"They have not made the and sails are very much cut up: Captain Jacobs appointment of the president to depend on pre-exwas wounded in the head by a musket ball and is isting bodies of men, who might be tampered with supposed to have fractured his skull. He died of a beforehand to prostitute their votes; but they have lockjaw and violent convulsive fits on the night of referred it, in the first instance, to an immediate act the 12th inst. He has left a wife who was on board of the people of America, to be exerted in the in the action, to lament his loss: he had only been choice of persons; for the temporary and sole purmarried a little more than three months. Mr. John-pose of making the appointment. And they have son, chief mate, to whom reference has already excluded from eligibility to this trust, all those who, been made, is the only surviving officer of the brig, from situation, might be suspected of too great deand was wounded in the thigh by a musket ball. votion to the president in office. No senator, reHe is much to be praised for his good and perse-presentative, or other person holding a place of vering conduct. Mr. J. D. Walker, of New York, doing 2nd mate's duty, was killed in the action.

The following persons, comprising the crew of the said brig, to wit: Robert Greenoh, Thomas Stanley, Robert Mins, Henry Wilson, alias John Cot ton, Henry Brown, Wm. Brown and Jerry Dedon, are deserving of every encouragement for their intrepid conduct against so unequal a force, as well as their dutiful obedience throughout to Mr. John son, in bringing the brig hither.

SQUIRRELS. A letter from Chillicothe, gives the following account of the damage sustained by those little animals, the quantity of which almost exceeds belief-"As we passed through the country, from Dayton to Zanesville, it is impossible to describe the havoc and destruction, made by the grey and black squirrels. Whole fields of corn, from 5 to 10 acres, are said to be wholly destroyed-not an ear left. During a squirrel hunt of about a week, in

"It was desirable that the sense of the people should operate in the choice of the person to whom so important a trust was to be confided."

"It was equally desirable that the immediate election should be made by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station, and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements that were proper to govern their choice."

"It was also peculiarly desirable to afford as little opportunity as possible to tumult and disorder."

trust or profit under the U. States, can be of the number of the electors. Thus, without corrupting the body of the people, the immediate agents in the election will, at least, enter upon the task free from any sinister bias. Their transient existence and their detached situation, afford a satisfactory prospect of their continuing so, to the conclusion of it."

"Another, and no less important, desideratum was, that the executive should be independent, for his continuance in office, of all, but the people themselves. He might otherwise be tempted to sacrifice his duty to his complaisance for those whose favor was necessary to the duration of his official consequence."

"But, (continues the Federalist), as a majority of votes might not always happen to centre in one man, and as it might be unsafe to permit less than a majority to be conclusive, it is provided, that, in such a contingency, the house of representatives shall select out of the candidates, who shall have the

five" (reduced, by the amendment of the constitution, to three), “highest number of votes, the man who, in their opinion, tnay be best qualified for the office "

my own mind; language is incompetent to their ex. pression.

But a few days since, our friend was associated with us in the labors of giving to this territory a The Federalist fails at the very point where it system of laws, in all the pride of life and vigor of was necessary to justify the constitution. Why intellect; endeared to us not only as a constituent was it requisite to appoint in the house of repre-member of our council, but as a companion con. sentatives, by a majority of states, and not of mem-spicuous for his social virtues, and distinguished bers? Why reduce New York, with 34 votes, to the same level with Delaware, which has only one vote? Is this the way to make the "majority conclusive?" to prevent "cabal and intrigue"? Suppose a state of things which may occur-Oc-ed the duplicity which governs ordinary politicians: cur? must it not inevitably occur at the next elec tion, if so many candidates be held up, and there be no means, provided by the good sense of the people, to concentre a majority of the votes upon one of them? Suppose then the election goes to the house of representatives.

for those sentiments of honor which adorn the human character, and give to intrepidity and talent an elevation far above the schemes of faction, or machinations of intrigue. His noble soul disdainExempt from every vicious and visionary passion, he was frank, sincere, generous, and brave; his cheek of innocence never was crimsoned by the blush of guilt; he accompanied the illustrious de. fenders of our country in the north, and in the south, wherever patriotism invited, and his coun. I put out of view all the opportunities of corruptry's security required, a bold and daring ention and of intrigue-all dangers of failing to make terprize, to awe back the savage to his native wil an election at all, but under the most tremendous derness, or repel the lawless foot of British depresacrifices of private faith or public good-I will dation. dismiss all these considerations and calculate only how far it is possible to trample on the will of the majority-in other words, what few men may give a chief magistrate to this union.

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"The loss of such a citizen, Mr. Chairman, is to be regretted as a most serious calamity to our territory, and indeed to the whole United States; for, in times, of difficulty and danger, the eye with plea sure and confidence is directed to such men, as the guardians of our rights, and the defenders of our country. With the most flattering prospects of extending the sphere of his usefulness to our territo ry, as a delegate in congress, he has been sacrificed by the iron grasp of death, which no virtue can prevent, or bravery avert. His body is deposited in the cold chamber of the grave; but his memory will be embalmed in our hearts so long as we preserve a recollection of his virtues, and when all the busy scenes in which we are now engaged shall have passed away like the "baseless fabric of a vi sion." As a testimony of our regard, I move you, sir, that the following resolutions be adopted:

"Resolved, That the members of the legislative council wear crape, for sixty days, on the left arm, as a testimony of the respect they entertain for the memory of their much esteemed friend and pre sident, Dr. J. C. Bronaugh.

"Resolved, That the council now adjourn."
Unanimously adopted.

BATTLE OF NIAGARA. From the Buffalo Patriot of Oct. 15. The facts contained in the following ar ticle were furnished us by a gentleman who recent.

Thus, it seems, that by possibility 31 representatives only may give a president to the union. Substitute S. Carolina or Tennessee for Maine, then 32 may become the majority. In other words, we can conceive of a variety of combinations by which an extremely small minority may be "conclusive." I confess I start at this conclusion only--without ly visited the battle ground, throwing in any risks, perils, cabals or corruption. During the late war with Great Britain, no action From these consequences, I trust we may be sav-with the enemy added greater reputation to the ed, by uniting in some fair and constitutional mode in favor of some man, so as to secure him a majority of the electoral votes.

CALCULATOR.

DR. BRONAUGH. We have already mentioned the decease of this gentleman at Pensacola on the 1st of Sept. The following are the resolutions of the council, with the remarks of Mr. White, in announc ing the deplorable event.

American arms than the sanguinary conflict with some of the best disciplined troops of Europe, who were also superior in numbers to the Americans engaged. This battle was fought about half a mile below the cataract of Niagara, on the Canada shore, at a place called Lundy's lane, and about one mile below the place called Bridgewater, by all which names it has been designated. The Chippewa creek, near which another desperate and bloody battle was fought, is two miles above the Falls.

Mr. Chairman, It has become my painful duty to announce to the legislative council, the melancholy The British army occupied a position in Lundy's intelligence of the death of our much respected lane, with their artillery on an eminence, command. friend and president, doctor. J. C. Bronaugh, who, ing the road, by which the Americans advanced, in the charitable office of interposing his me- and all the adjacent country, within the range of dical skill to arrest the progress of a violent epi cannon shot. From this position they were driven demic, which was spreading death and desolation by the Americans, and their battery taken, at the around it, has himself fallen a victim to its destruc- point of the bayonet, by the troops led on by the tive fury. I shall not attempt to paint the emotions gallant colonel Miller. Their battery was several which this distressing occurrence has produced in times taken and retaken, during the battle, which

continued until near midnight; and in their charges the bayonets repeatedly met before the lines fired; and a great number were bayonetted at the field pieces; which finally remained undisputed in the hands of the Americans; who were, however, una. ble to remove them from the field, in consequence of the loss of all the horses, and the excessive fatigue of the troops.

year for life! It is expected the price of a pair of boots will not exceed eight shillings, and a corres. ponding fall will be produced in all articles of lea. ther manufacture."

BRITISH REPRESENTATION.

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Ilchester and sir W.

Manners, (lord Huntingtower) In the last parlis. ment this borough was nominally represented by On the morning after the battle the American the honorable Mr. Ward, son of lord Dudley and army retreated towards Erie, and having no car Ward--The borough then belonged to sir W. Manriages, were obliged to leave their wounded and ners; and in the month of February, 1817, Mr. Ward, dead to the care of the enemy. To the wounded (representing the baronet's borough in the house we are willing to believe the necessary attention of commons), opposed parliamentary reform from was paid, but in disposing of the dead, a more ex-his place there, and concluded his observations by peditious method than usual was adopted. The saying that, "as parliamentary reform, however bodies were stripped and dragged together into an moderate, was the beginning of an inroad on the immense pile, intermixed and covered with dry constitution, and was dangerous, so he would firmly fence rails, and set on fire, which soon reduced resist every proposition that might be made on the them to a heap of ashes. To this mode of funeral subject." Mr. Oldfield, in his history of the house no objection is made, as the hot weather and situa-of commons, says, respecting Ilchester, that "this tion of the army would not admit of any other.-borough has been so imprudent in the exercise of But, will it be credited, that among a christian peo-its corruption as to have had the whole system seple, this pile of human bones and ashes should re-veral times exposed before committees of the house main uncovered until the present time; and such, of commons.' He then states that "the houses in we are assured, is the fact. Colonel Robert Carr, this place were purchased up about 1785 by the of Philadelphia, passing near that place a few days late John Harcourt, esq. who sold them to Richard since, visited the field of battle, and observed a Troward, esq. attorney at law, of Norfolk street. number of hogs turning up the loose ashes and Mr. Troward sold them again to his partner, the bones, on the spot where the field pieces had so late Mr. Albany Wallis, who bequeathed them to gallantly been won: on inquiry, he learned from a col. Bayly, from whom they were purchased by sir person who keeps a school a few rods from the William Manners, the present proprietor, who has place, and who was himself wounded in the battle, since possessed himself of nearly the whole borough. that the dead bodies of the soldiers were burned At the general election in 1802, a great part of the on this very spot, and that they had never been co- voters were bribed at 301. a man, to vote against the vered; he belonged to the English army, and stated proprietor. This caused the trial and conviction that their own dead were collected and buried, and of Alexander Davidson, esq. and his agents, at the that the Americans only were burnt, and that it was assizes for the county of Somerset in 1804, for which said at the time, that it was in retaliation for simi. they afterwards received sentence in court of king's lar conduct of the Americans at Chippewa. On be bench to suffer one year's imprisonment. To pre. ing asked what became of the bodies of the officers, vent a similar occurrence at a future election, sir he pointed to a place where they were interred, William Manners caused all the houses to be pulbut observed that a number of them must have led down, except about sixty, in order to limit the been burned, as they had been stripped during the number of voters, and erected a large work house night and very early in the morning, and could not to accommodate those whose disobedience had of. be easily distinguished from their men. fended him. The number of houses destroyed upColonel Carr employed a number of the school on this occasion was about one hundred, and the boys, by permission of the teacher, to collect a electors, who occupied them, with their families, quantity of stones, laying near the place, and co-have mostly resided in the work house ever since; vered the remains of his gallant fellow soldiers, at least sufficient to protect them from the hogs.

the nomination of the members is thereby trans. ferred from about one hundred and sixty householders to an individual, (sir William Manners!"). [Lon. paper.

FOREIGN NEWS. We have extracts from London

things presented that seem worth present notice.

New wheat was selling at London at from 5s. to 6s. 3d. per 70 lbs. So there will be great distress among the farmers because of its abundance! 3 per cent. consols, for money, 80 5.8 1 2. Mr. Canning has received the seals as secretary of state for foreign affairs.

TANNING. A late London paper (the Globe) an. nounces the following highly important discovery: "Six weeks since, application was made to a person for the loan of one hundred pounds to a young che-papers of the 16th Sept. The following are the only mist, who had made a discovery he was too poor to substantiate by experiment. The money was ob tained, and, in a few days repaid by the borrower, already raised to sudden affluence by the private disposal of his invention. It is a new mode of tanning skins, combining such rapidity and economy, as promise to the public an immediate and immense advantage. Raw hides, hitherto lying twelve months Extracts from the Frenchpers shew an entirely in the tan pit, and subjected to a process otherwise different picture of the Greeks from that which we defective and precarious, are now perfect leather have hitherto received. They state that Chours. within six weeks, and at less than half the expense.chid pacha had advanced in despite of all difficulThe gentleman who bought the invention, is a noted opposition member and contractor; and, from the terms of his stipulation, we may form some judgment of the probable magnitude of the results. He has paid him ten thousand pounds down, he has given obligatory deeds, secured him 5,000. on the 1st of January, 5,0007. per annum for the four years next succeeding, and afterwards eleven thousand a

ties, that many districts had submitted, that the Turkish army in the Morea was 50,000 strong, &c. The truth of the accounts from this quarter may be estimated from a fact, as gravely asserted, that the squadron of the United States landed a great quan tity of arms and ammunition at Hydra!!! It is cer tain that no such thing happened. The number of the houses, destroyed or burnt by the Turks, when

they lately set fire to the city of Jassy, is given at 4,700!

Trials for conspiracies and seditions are numerous in France. Gen. Berton and 5 of his accomplices, have been sentenced to death--and many printers have been fined and imprisoned.

The "holy allies" are proceeding to their place of meeting at Verona. It is now stated that they will not interfere with the internal affairs of Spain. In Spain, the extraordinary cortes is to be con voked-gen Elio has been found guilty of treason. Many parts of the kingdom is still desolated by civil war, but the ultra royalists seem generally to be worsted; yet, at certain points, they appear in considerable strength

The scraps of intelligence that we have from Mexico, presage the downfal of the recently-made emperor-bat we chiefly receive them through Spanish channels.

It is reported that the government of Brazil has resolved to send deputies to the United States and England. Three have arrived at Rio Janeiro from Pernambuco, one white, one black, and one mulatto. In this country, there is no doubt of a complete amalgamation of the whites and the blacks, especially if it maintains its independence.

The late southern storm.

dant on the charity of the few who had fortunately escaped the flames. This surely was a most appalling event-but aggravating and aggravated as it was, there was something in it to support, and to uphold and to cheer the hearts of the sufferers. It was not like that, which we are called upon to bedew with our tears--a scène of heart rending, unmingled, comfortless woe. No, sir, in the black smoke, which arose from the cinders of their habitations, they beheld the bright light of the independence of their country; and to counterbalance the temporary evils which they suffered, they had in prospect great and mighty political and civil blessings. But, alas! what are our consolations on this occasion? What is there to soften and alleviate the agonies of our grief? What to impart a ray of light to this Egyptian darkness, "the like of which no eye hath seen, no heart conceived," "and which no tongue can adequately tell." And here, sir, { do not allude to the loss of property, immense and incalculable as it is: though in recalling the disasters of that tremendous night our hearts are rent by the exhibition of adversities in this respect, almost too great for utterance. We are informed, sir, that some of our fellow-citizens who arose, on the Friday morning of the storm, men of fortune, possessing fair and fertile and ample plantations, cultivat ed and animated by cheerful and affectionate laborers, with their barn yards laden and groaning under We have briefly noticed the sufferings in the neigh the weight of a most plenteous harvest, and their borhood of Georgetown, South Carolina, by the hearts melting with gratitude to God, for the unprelate storm. The Winyaw, (or Georgetown), Intel- cedented autumn which we had then had; that these ligencer, of the 12th ult. contains an account men, sir, so gifted, so endowed, so blessed, found of the proceedings of the citizens, who met to themselves on the following morn bereft of every express their sorrow at the losses they had sus- thing, reduced almost to a state of bankruptcy. tained. The intendant was called to the chair-In casting their eyes over their estates, they bea committee of five was appointed to draw up re-held nothing but one confused heap of ruinous, dissolutions suited to the mournful occasion-on pre-astrous, frightful desolation; not a living creature senting these, Mr. Mitchell, (member of congress, was left to cheer the hopeless view; all and every as we suppose, from that state), made the following thing was swept from them by the unfeeling flood. remarks: This surely was an overwhelming reverse; a catasMr. Intendant—I hold in my hand the resolutions trophe as sudden as it was beyond all human calcudrafted by the committee of which I have the ho-lation. But still it is a reverse at which they should nor to be chairman. They will be found, I hope, not be inconsolable. For no man, here, can continue to indicate and express that deep and heart-felt poor, who is honest, and economical and industrious: concern, with which we are all afflicted by the loss and there is no country on earth in which a person, of those of our citizens who were swept away in so bereft by Heaven, will meet with such cherishthe late gale. We are not, however, sir, bigoted ing and universal encouragement from all quarters, to those resolutions. Should any gentleman of the if he will manfully put his hand to the plough and meeting submit others of a deeper cast of character, his shoulder to the wheel, as in this our most blesmore significant, more expressive of intensity of sed country. Nor is there any where else so little feeling, we will most cheerfully and readily concur connection between wealth and respectability. For in their substitution. The stronger the resolutions no citizen is here distinguished on account of the are, the more faithfully will they exhibit the an- number of slaves which he owns, or the number of guish of our hearts. All that we supplicate and en-plantations which he has inherited, or the amount treat, gentlemen, is, that whatsoever measures they do adopt, they will adopt unanimously and without division. For it will be admitted on all sides, that there is no event in the annals of this part of the country, so afflicting to the hearts of individuals, so desolating to our society at large, as the solemn and melancholy event which we are called upon this day to commemorate.

of stock which he holds in the national funds. We have adopted a different standard of estimation.The principle of our government is that every man should be considered, and loved, and respected, and honored, according to his usefulness; in proportion to the virtues of his heart, and the excellencies of his head.

What I have said of these individuals may with Our little village, Mr. Intendant, has been often equal applicability be said of the whole society.and often the victim of the most sorrowful dispen. Although, on whatsoever side we turn our eyes, we sations of Heaven. It is known to us all, that, durbehold nothing but ruin and disaster; yet, if our soing the revolutionary war, it was reduced by a merciety will exert its energies, in the course of a very ciless foe from a state of smiling prosperity to a short time, in the revolution of a very few moons, heap of ashes. Many of our ancestors, who arose every thing will be restored to its former order, and on that fatal morning, blest with fortune, found fitness, and comfort and beauty. For, Mr. Inten. themselves at noon stripped of every thing-Fa- dant, there is nothing which can resist the power thers and mothers wandered about the streets of man's industry. The earth must yield to the houseless, with young and imploring families, ex-spade, and the forest must fall before the axe. But posed to the fatalities of a sickly season, or depen-supposing that this wreck of property is irretriev

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