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tilebncebon ftlorninv, September 19,1819
,I',::4< Brad:ord Rerormt
fragments from a portfolio.—\o.:.
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PANT FiItS.T
A A r nunste h•• ',sec! live was Irmraing,
,nrr.rg 'west rums trom rarer rrerM. , log string;
And w.th those lend
rig—
It •own !.er% V. u-as I.4 rUtiit g
And lho,ils 1 tmrnldid{ luarstrei d.c s.ng,
011.1 tr r:v-7 hoer seem• br ngng,
Upon ••, pa.,,ng '< wry new de I quo :
And nature • be•ut.rs a ; around as spr rig rig.
F. , .c;lttu! nx.wockt. ec s.ght. •
Sr _ 1 , ie. , 4g-Ti the grore's recca•ss.
A.d t !het:am:og r Their w•nfis they lace ;
r.1..< cults are Si Cr ng with Lilt 8011, COJcAnts
r 2-1: sOnit. .gt! ,ned. .at .u: Zr ph eSliVe.
Oh. i it s WrvOnfr7.—(oce ri c dna,. rs are Wnert,ll.rzg,
Ar , 1 vc“ rat.)) a • t1 , )1 ) fragrance sled,
ro.,:ers roar Ge roam.ng
T ". 4 .; ‘ ,....inrsa is round .al spread
dear w.th nature Lording.
• W, r. rrertre rwr , or Anr , rly ar!tor rest.
„, ..tro.;• he putrrner bad, unfolding
Wake!, sa*arc.: s :'ee bags in tt? breast'
Cl• • J • rryst a orh ef*.
flnen, , re.n n.. 6 .'r loneie vale and yore,
ronn. •OU:1111 n 111611111611,1 g her vespers,
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C A, a. L enr.4 :s round us throwtug,
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. c W be. Isere , eve tones eteel.egt
A. ir ,;yr g.. .e.: cal , broudvhe • 87111—
A 1•7 , 1111•11SI:re hg.
nc n. the son! of mirth
n.tel • adsonte hours are fleeting,
, n r . of P!es•a re by
st- u ` m
rn ncrec:,cm - the atitel tabcsung.
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sa.—Lncrd ones round arc am
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-a. raec , •t lo . br ma a aqab, aadoesa ;
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AL,: 31 1...-41 3 Rommo
A Story of the Press Gang,
77 , %I . FIC`X OF A AvlrE AND TAIE FLT:VENGE OF
OF A HUSBAND
P.•• inatlied Fate: ‘Voosifor,l, the
.r.f J.),Z)r z Iti o.nihma, who way U,
. tn Plymouth dockyard. of which he
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'X t' T an. Hen n• had loved Esther when she
•.‘ as .1 Z t:. bU: she had. in a jealous pique mar :e,I
the death of her husban.l. she
•, en: :.• : • ::er-in•law, taking wt h her an only
%V:' oy a sweet boy, 'brit of weak imellect .
9t• - e !l.e lore was revived, and !leer; Mason,
I.ld become mate of a first class merchant
man. tv;onguT. to the re house of Aleitsirs.
'ens. of London married the widow Esther
irr:-.ts of their subsequent life are thus reha!etl
Notes of a Dirtinguirhed Barrister. -
was'Airout eight months alter his tnarria-e—
-^-:zh he had been profitably enough ;asevl
interimz—that Henry 'Mason, in consecnei.ce
welcome annOuncemet t 11:1.4 !Ix ticw
/ as a: last ready for her captain and cargo, a:1:%e.1
..) L0r..12.1 to enter upon his new appoimment.
" riee '.othgings, Ether," said be, as he was
zo out, soon after breakfast on the
afier his arrival, " are scarcely the thin,g; and
as I like you. am ft a stranger in Cockney . -land,
Jad utter consult some of the firm upon the slat.-
before we decide upon permanent one& In
njeaalime you and Wdlie must mind and keep
.:.,loors when I am not arith you, or 1 ihall have
one or the other of you lost in this great vrildevnew
' a city. I shall Tenant m two or three hours. 1
c!,ler something, for dinner as I go along -
our puree. Good-by. God be merciful, ar.,l
you both."
fr.quiring his way ecerr two or three tr.Hu , es,
Ilason presently tonna htru.se:t in the vh..clty of
Tower Stairs. A beatfle ►n front of a public hou.,e
.r-lt2ntel his attention; and his ready tcm•+at`ttes
were in an nistant enlisted in behr..l, a vourz
•. vainly struzy„liniz in the grasp of sever.tl afn
f.Fc men, and crying lemuly on the gap:ng tly
5 in, , ers for help. gason sprang forw.?ril, eanhr
- -t - • of the assailants by the.collar, and hn•led him
same violence against the wail. A fierce ou:.
•-••• ;7 - ,-ezeJ this audacrons m:erference ti . r:h gen
who, m these g4ca times, ra-ese but exe•
- .rang he law in a remarkably g?nd okl manner
Lieu: Domaghen. a soMewhat celebrated snap.
r‘f loose mariners. emerged trpon the scene,
„a few minut e s was ertabied to esat in the
`eet - e poesftsion of an additional prize in the nn
ilrzt-ate Henn - Mason. who. too taw, dusearered
x he embroi!ed: himself with. a preys gang
Despera:e. frenzied were the efforts he made made
• t•i. cve him:Leif from the peril in which be had
r.-;red himself. In rain! His pro:es:a
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that he a - as a mate, a captam, 'in' the mer
serrice, wai unheeded or mockeil.at.
To a:1 hts . reutonstranum he :Nnly you the profes
''•tLzal ansa-er—" His majesty artukm you, and cleat
. 5 er•eh . so so come along and no ?more about
Irtfed exhausted. aim:et mad. he was borne
triumph to a boat. into which he arm , . throit
1..:11 several cebt7,s, and swiftlr rowed off to a m
elting ship in the river. Even there, his ;mer
lons and protestations were of no avail. Nothing
-of an Adentraitty order the officer in command
r:hildlytoid him, should ellerr hrr
s majesty was to wait of emmen, and he was
-rklentiv too smart a one to be deprived of the
;.or of servrag his c'iuntry. " You ntwa there ;
concluded the officer, as he turned
tits heel, t• do as tholzmands of other fine
nave been cotopeile.l to do--" gnu aria
-rr a in about three weeks from the date of
raprisontnent, Mason found himself sernn
.ne, Mediterranean, ern board the' Active" Erie
r- a7.atn Aleaar.der Gordo% without having
'le-- permitted one opportnniry of comarmicating
'cch the shore. This eras certainty very sharp,
g e ms net th e less very coirfenen 'melee in
Treat daps of triumphant battles by land and
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dymnly passed the time Tab the bereaved
' 4 e- Ref host and had promised to seed home
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something for dinner, and vaiious groceries : vet
hour after bour,went past. and nothing srrived.—
Slorning, Hushed into noon, gay faded to twihgtir,
'and stillitie well known and always eager step
sounded not upon the stairs. Whatcou!d have de
tained him from his wife, shot up, imprisoned. as
it were, in that hot, hurryiinr, stifling city ? She
feared to listen to the suggestions .of he boding
heart, and with feverish restlessness ran out upon
the landing, and peered over the stairs every time
a knock or ring was heard at the street door. This
strange behaviour was it seems . tit , ticed by the
landlady of the lodging-house. and injuriously in
terpreted. A knock Caine to the door, and that
person entered to know.at what time Mrs —, she
had forgotten the young Woman's name, expected
the dinner, she, the landlsciy ; had LicJertakca to
cook.
'Fo-ther timid:y replied that her hnsband had pro
mised to return in two or three hours at least, and
that she did not comprehend his corniuued
—was indeed quite alarmed about—
Your husband!'' said the woman e!ant-ingin
rderily at Estlier's figrre " Are you sure he is
your husband r'
The hot blood sntiosed the temples of the
rant Trite ns he saM, "This apartment, madam, I
telit,ve, is mice ?"
eenairly as long as yon pay for it:" and
ratlely Piammin 7. the door. the landlacty- departed.
wretched nicht WA over, Esther rose
t:le h ht , and after giving her son hi, b r e a k.
fast from the remains of that of the day before.
setoff w h him to the pl.l'te of b” , 'ness of
Ntesrrs R It wasyarly, and one ele:k only
had yel at-r.‘ed at the cff He ir.lormed bet:
that Mr. Henry :11as:on not been seen. anti that
the partners were greal annoyed about tt. as his
imrric•diate pre.e: - .ce was assolriel) nece,sarv.
S:Larte,!. ter: r, fie,' bew .taered by the fligh . ful
calamity %%loch sho believed had . ..befallen her, .she
telt cenvitter.l that her husband had been entrz:a
-a:•...! tr . e cf the m. - ”lcy
. I:.e a re:,•itc.l iscquali 101Lcied
to her lodging , . and threw herself on the bed in
,le-, , air. ‘Vhat was to be done for fond even
for her boy Iler husband had not only
%tali l.im contaming his larger money. but
I.ad taieu her purse! Stie was alone and penm-
IKrin a straoee coy! The hungry . wailing. of her
witless chi:.! towards ever..ng at letizzli aroused her
trom .t'ie stupor of despair into which Ale had fal
len. Tl - e miserable resource of pawning occur
red to her'. sl.e could at team, by pledging a . 731
of her watdrobe, proctor sustenance for her child
unlit she could hear from her si.ter: and with nem
cling hands she began artanging, a bundle of such
things as she could best spare, when the landlady
obrubtly riveted the room. n - ith a peremptory tle
inand—as her husband was not returned, and did
not ap:lear ILkely to do so—for a month's rent tl
aJ ranee, that 'veil rz the term 114 "apartments were
engaged to. The tears, Ent:ea:les, espcwulattons
of the nitseratt!e wife were of no avail. Ntit one
a-ticle, the woman declared, slamtld leave 'her
house tdl the claim was settled. She affected to
doubt, perhaps re g ally did so, tliat Esther was not
man ied ; and hinted coarsely at an enforcement of
the laws nra inst 'persons who had no visible means
of sulx,istet.ce. In a paroxysm of despair, the
unhappy woman rushed out of ttie house and ac
companied by her hungry child, againß(lo4.h , t the
counting home of the .151.mws. Roberts. She was
now 411 much too late as she had been ton early to
the merninis. the partners r;..1 clef}, had gone,
and she appears to hare been treatetl unit some
radetis by the porter, who was clo.in_ the prem
ises when she aarced. Pcestbry the wittiness of
her ;cooks 7.71 d the incoherence of her speech and
ala•,cer . , p-zxl:.:ce.l as intiression, cafes - on:hie t,l
;ter. Retracing *cu.,- steps--penntlemi., hungry., sick
at heart—she :hcaithi. as she afterwards defared,
-he recognised my wife in ore of the numerous
ta s , -..tcd before the corn-ter& of a foihionah:e
shop in one of itiorocurifam.„ She catered, and
not till she approached close to the lady, discover
ed her mistake. She turned despairingly away ;
when a piece of rich lace. is ing apparently un
needed on'ttie counter, met her eye, and a dread
ful suspicion crossed her fevereit tram here at
least was the means of procuritt^ food for her
a - eh 2.1.. She glanced' fearfully and hastily
round. No eye, she thought, observed her and,
horror of horrors! a moment afterwards she had
concealed the lace beneath her shawl, and with
tottering feet was beatify linsing the shop. She
had not - a/ten half a dozen steps when t bevy
hand.was tail open her shoulder, and a voice. as
of a serpent hissing in her car, etreamanded her to
restore the lace . she had stolen. Transfixed with
shame and terror, she stood rooted to the spot, and
the lace fell on the floor.
FeLch an °dicer; said site harsh voice, &dims
ing one of the shopmen.
" No—ao—no r' screamed the - firetebed wo
man, falling oo her knees in wila ani;:pticanoo.—
• For my ckuki s sake—in mercy of the innocent
babe as yet unborn—hare pity and forgive me r'
This han , li cutlet was venerated; and Esther W
SW. Unite* with shame and agony, was convey
ed to the pitisin in Gihspor street The next day
she was fatty eommted to Ness ate on the capi
tal charge pt privately itealiog in a shop to the
value of five pounds. A new hours after bee in
racrerattou within these terrible wags, she wiv-
Prematurely delivered of a finale child.
I have no moral 'doubt whatever, I never have
had, that at rice tune of the commits! of the facet
ious act, the intelthet of Esther was disordeeed
Any. other mipprwition in t e r visieur with the
wikole tenor of her previous life and titanichm—
" Lead CS not alto temptation : 2 is indeed the ho.
iron. became the benoblest, prayer.
Ttuee weeks has elapsed tekce the fist iotitna
tion of these events teached me, inworitektestAse
chiplain of lime gate, ea eacelhmt, kialheelted
roan, to whom Mn.s Pdseowhad etterided her sad
gory. I immediately hastened to thiptison; r end
is a lon interne 74 - >rPb ben-, elicited the :mewing
PIiBLISIED EVERY WEDNESDAY, AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. 0 1 11EARA GOODRICH.
" IWGALDLLY% or orstrscuriox Fs= A3l" orAcrsa."
i•tatement. I readily airsurcil her that all which le
gal 41;1 could do hi extricate her from the as ful
po,rion in ull,cir she s r, e ,f, ihe,i4 rav o- of nhrr:h I
did riot e (1..1•1 in , •-•lic sliou".l bd. donc. Ihe tit.-
fence with which she was charged hard supplied
the scaffold with numberless victims; and trades
men were more than ever elasnruous for the stern
execution of a law which spite of experience. they
still regarded 1111 the only safeguanl of their proper
ty. My wife was overwhelmed with grief; and
her amid) to save her unhappy fnetei-siser, caught,
with my knowledge, art interview with she prose
cutor. in the hope of imlneing him not to press the
Ilcr etidrts u ere Etna% ailing. Ile had suf
fered much, he. si..4d, from such practices, and was
!, upon principle,'' determined to make an:example
of every offender he could catch. As tothe plea
that her hti-barid had been forcibly carried oft by a
press gang, it was absurd.; for what would become
'of the prnpery of tradesmen if the wife of every
sailor so entrapped were to be allowed to plunder
shops'uti•t - i impuni:3 ? This magnificent Titon
so:dir4 was of cJu7se unanswerable: and the re
buked petitioner abandoned her booless errand in
despair. Messrs. Roberts. I should have mention
ed, had by some accident di-covere4the nature of
the misfortune which Lad la:lan:heir officer, and
had already made urgent application to the Admi
rainy for his release.
The o'.l Bailer sos-lan ndreorne on for some
;fete ; I, however 1,301: care to secure at once; art
did not practwe in that court. the htghest talent
%chid& Its tirr florde(l. Wady,. who had been plao.
ed it a wet khonse by t!to•suthorities, we had prop
er v taken care of tdi he couli be restored to Ins
rr..t.ner ; 11 the event of tier court - let/y:1, to 1./3
reLitiVe.:3 PeVOnbiare.
The ses....sion Avere at 13-It on •a 'c true ag-ainst
E-ter Ma. , ,n for shop lif inz, as it was popu lady
termed, was unhe , ca . .n . n.:ly found, and wiih a heavy
hea: t, I wen Jed my way to the cowl to watch the
iwo,-ee,inz. A feu- minutes aher I entered, Mr.
Jusiwe I.^ BlAnce and Mr Bart , rl W,-,od . wh o h a ,
assi.eeJ at an case of stakk :we; COll
- ;ea the ',en( !t ; the teamed recor
der being doutrieea.. considered quite equal to the
of a rr ere capital hare of the it.
The pri,,rmer %vas in the Jack ; be ry as
Imight I could not 1-ok at her. It tiappened to be
a cairn bright summer (lay. the air, as if in mock
ery of ;hose ileath- ,- e.si•srif, hemming kith busy, les
ty life; sr, that, sctit.g wrh my back to the prison
er, I could, as it were, re.ul :her demeanor in the
shadow throw:ll , y her fizare on the opposite
snn
lighted wall. There she stood, during the brief
moments which sealed her earthly doom, with
downcast e}es and utte:ly dejected posture , her
thin fingers playing rnechar.:ca::y eh the flowers
and sweet scented herbs that lie scattered seatitili:
before her The trial was eery brief: the evidence :
emphatically conclusive, was confideudy given.
and vainly crows-examined. Nothing / remained
I.:: an el.ibc rate ad :ntierw.)rbi-z7n, wtsaiice- de
fence which hail been prepared by me, and which
the prisoner begged her consul might be allowed
to read.: This was,of course refused ; the recorder
remarking, they mig•tit as well allow counsel for
felons to address ji.n.ef.., as read defences; and that,
as every prac:ical man knew, would be utterly
subversive of the due adaiinistration of jiistice.—
The clerk of the court would read the paper if the
prisoner felt WO agitated to do so. This Was done,
and very vilely done. The cLeik, I dare say, read
as well as he was able ; but qtd, near-sighted, and
possessed of eeerythine bur a clear enunciation,
what could be expected ! The defence, so read,
pc:Ai:iced not the slightest effect•cither.on the ,court
er . ;ary. The recorder briefly commented on the
ofihe evidence for the presectitinn
and the ,ry. 1.1 same brief, La-ines.s hike mar:-
net- ft-to-lied a ver...ixt of ge::;y.
" What Lo%e you to say," dernanJed the clerk
why the sentence of death shotdd not be p.o.soun
ted upon you_ accor3ing to law!t'
The shatlnw started courukzirely as te territsle
words fell from the mad.l. lips ; and I saw that the
si.-ddealy ;vivise c t eves of the prisoner were fasten
ed on tie lace of the fearful questioner. The tips.
too, appeared to move ; butno sound reached my
ears.
" Sneak. w,oman s " said the teconier, <• d you
hare anything to urge before sentence isproneunc
ed."
I
nailed op and ft:min to the prisoner, besozqbt
her in, horned accents to speak. " Rimaind them
of the mbint it your breast—your husband"—
" Who is that cenfernagwith the'prisceser I" de
manded the judge in an angry reice.
turned and coufrented him with a look as cold
as haughty as his own. • Redid not OM* , proper
to pones the inquiry fe 4 rther and sifter Mevering
stnnething about the necessity of not interrupagg
the proceedings of the coon, again asked, the pris
oner it she bad anything to urge,
" Not for myself--not ler my sake," at isstfainv
ty murmur& the trembling woman ; " but for that
of my poor dear infant—my poor witless boy ! ido
not think sir, I was kr my right mind. I was stir.
ring. I was friendlem MT husband too, whom
you hare heanr—She stopped abruptly; and a
choaking sob struggled in her throat ; and - bat for
the supportix*, arm of one of the trenkcys, she
wouhrhire fatten - to the ground .
Lt Unhappy, /platy woman," mid the recorder,
with the coolness of a demon, "the plead Marti
ry you would set up is utterly untenable. Year
hmband, it seems, is serrate his Majesty" in the
roys! nary; defending his country, *art his wile
was break Miles laws, by a eemseissirm of a came
which, bat for the wan repression of the law,
would sap the koundatials of the security of *P
etty, anal"
1 weld mime, sess,reore.: The atemerbere of
the cow. seemed teed& me ; -and I garbed keret
fiel c inio the open air. Bebe". bewerev I 'dad
read* the Meet, a bog, Rirteresteeteste
eteaseiLdtat the hooted iadirt had thweart
No edlogt wasipared - dotimg 1 iiiereatverith
etopsett Eireoa'z to the rentder,poieilliot !rs
port to the privy council—a peculiar privilege at
that time attached to the office—to produce a miti
rorioa of the sentence. A petition, :teeing, forth
the - peculiai et rc u rnmauces of the care. via, careful-
ly prepared . and by the ulfaiigable exertions of an
e'ceilena Quaker gendeman—whom. as he is still
afire, and rrt;bl not choose to have his name bla
zoned to the world, I will call Williain Friend—
was soon very numerously signed. The prosecu
tor, however. obstinately refused to attach his name
to the document, and the absence of his signature
so strangely did men reason. on such matters in
those ilays—wonkl, it was feared, weigh heavily
against the success of the petition. The amiable
and enlightened Sir Saniii-1 Rowdily not only at
niched his name, but aided us zealously by his ad
vice and influence. In short nothing was omitted
that appeared likely to attain the desired object.
Tea darabefcrre the petition was to be
.forward
cd to the proper quarter, Henry Mason arrived in
En.-laid, the exertions of his employers having
Preenit'd his diecharee The " Active" was one
of Captain Hostels squadron, which obtained the
celebrated victory nil Lissa, over the Franco Ven
etian fleet commanded by Admiral Dobourdieu.—
Henry Mason. it appeared by the testimonials of
the captain and officers of his ship, had greatly dis
tinguished himself in the action. We enclosed
these pavers with the petdion, and then, having,
done all in our power. awai:e.l with an tionsirritia
tience the rerj!t of the reeonler's report. It wit's
ara.cuaced to me, as I was sitt...aq, some slat later
than usual, at Chambers by Mr. William Friend.—
The yudirrnent to the was confirreel ! All our
representations had not rat:heed to clannterbafance
the supposed necessity or exhibiti.w, tei.ible exam:-
pies of the fate awaiting the pc-Fiera:ors of an of
fence said - o he greatly on the it:ideas. , Excel
fen! Wiiiiana Friend wept:l - c a child as he made
the annnu cement.
11.r•e arc may a!ive who recollect this
horrible trau- :y—t.hts nitionat rtis;:vre--this art
of gros:- barNittty 'n the pa-' of the :Tat person
age oho. first having , eirtte,l ct 7 rho poor woman's
hurl.-and, lea her to rite for at act :he very conse
qnence of .hat robbery. Who among tire spectators
can ever ford; that hear-renth.rmg s.-ette—the
hatrOnan taking, the to!1 , trom the b;ca.t of the
wretched crea:ure just before he put her to death !
But 'let us not rake np these terrrble revnint- , cences.
Let ns hope that the rt-t•ly rui!re arc for;:tven. And
let os take enti:44.l:ion from refiecdrig that this
event led the great 11....mti1y to eater on his celebra
ted career as a reformer or the crimmat krw. -
The:ernains E-iber.llason were obtained from
the Newga.e officials. and cuie iy interred in .5.1.
Sepuie!tress churvh-ya-d. A rta.a gab, with her
name ol.ly e'dieged upon i . , was some
time a f - etwards placed above the grace. A few
years 22%1 I ane•nled a funeral in the _same church
raid, and after a search, ilneoveredthe spot.
The inscription, though of worse much worn, was
still quite
• I had not seen henry Mason since his return;
but I WS% glad to hear from Mr. Wiliam Friend
that, after the first passionate burst of rage and grief
had =Wiled, he bail. apparently at least, thanks
to the tender and pious expostulations of his wife
—with whom, by the kind intervention of thealierr
ifs, be was permitted long and fiNuent interviews
--settled down into calm:mist and resignation.—
One thing only he would not bear to hear even
from her, and that was any admission that she bad
been guilty of even the slightest offerice. A hint
of the kind. however unintentional, would throw
him i::to a r.roiys - m of fury ; and the subject was
consequently in his presence studiously avoided.
A few dayi after the execution, Mr. William
Friend called on me just alter breakfast. accompa
nied by the bereaved husband. I eerec saw so
changed a man. All the warm liminess of his na
ture had vanished, and a-as replaced by a gloomy,
fierce austerity, altogether painful to contemplate.
Well, well, sir," said he, as he barely touched
my proffered Irma : they hare killed her s you
see, spi!e of all you could say or do. It much
availed me, too, that I had helped to wia (heir
boasted victories;' and be laughed with sava g e
bitterness.
" Ileary,—Heni7 r exclaimed Wiltrarn Friend
in a 4eptoaing accent
Well,'well, sir," rejoined Masan, impatiently,
Ton are a good man, and have of centime your
own notion on these matters: I also have mine.
Or perhaps you think it is only the blood of the
rich and great width:sired unjustly. brig forth the
iron harvest! Forgive me," he added, checking
himself. " I respect you both ; bat my heart is
turned to stogie, You do not know. ever
knew bat I—bow kind, bow loving, bow gentle
was that poor logv sulkning girt"
Re tamed from tr to bide that terrible agony
which convoked him.
. " Henry," said Mr. Friend, taking him kindly
by the- band, awe pity thee rineerely, as thou
knowest, bat thy biller, revengeful expressions are
uocbristain, sinful. The authorities Whom thou,
not for the firm time, Wein on so w a ddly, acted,
be Irani of it, from asensaraf dray !it mintalrenone :
in my opinion, doubtless; stilt"---
" Say no more, sir," intemptedllasan- n We
after in opininanpon =hirer. And arm gen
demen, farewell. I wished to see yea, sir, before
T left this encwry, Swever, to thank you for your
kind, though finders elections.jar. Friend has
to
promised be steward for poor illy, for all lean
remit for his owe. Farewell. God blest yea both !-
He was gone.
Wii some afterwards brake out with the risked
State' of Jmaica, and 3tr. Friend_ discovered that
one of the most active and daring officers- in the
egmbrearintrty , was Efecti7 311 min, grim had en
tered dm &eeriest§ envies in the elaiden mine
hierviiilinidthat the latgelainisfla hict Testl!fed
k . 4 1 04t0 for the me ,o 4 Wily, *es. :
parriWniumuseasiatairgedaticsa at Balk,
nemeses. ibitimmiinvite.leriesatinedikalial‘
ehe deeris'ilian 6 rAle!NP 2 c/ iiii4 6l •
-
04f Mai* Nir-wilit,"-.7iisitivedAtizeiii4
some other channel to the.. Daviera, A-na whom toe
boy had been placed ; and le rapid- improvement
in their circumstances
_was toen Tiede
remittance s ce.asej about the .midd Le of 1814 : and - 4
a twelvemonth after the peace. with America, we as.
eertair e d that Henri: Mason bad been killed it 4.1
battle of Lake . Champlain, where he bad
guished himself, as everywhere else( by the tech. I
less daring and . furions hate with which , he fought 1
against the country which he accus.eil oft e Mur
der of his wife: He was recgQiised by one of h:s
former messmates on the Active,'' who convey
ed a prisoner on board the American Commander
Macdonough's ship, - recogiized him as he lay
stretched on the deck, in the uniform of an Amesi 2 I
can naval officer his countenance, even in death;
we:rin4 -the same stormfal defidlit elliression
w inch it assume.l on the day that his beloved ties- 1
trar peri.Dhed on the scaffold .
-.}.4 1; •
vve were (rim lc struck latelyi(says the kora
erbocki-r.) ;n reactime-, 'Dimes' f , Shores of. the
ghareehlly tblii-witartristed
&re:4 to.end rcturnut.
, frtrot Werarteo." The ?leo -
sesoitol.it,wpthai -Vaelmitc4.
We saw twoe„urriur, cittesphint galloping
each. with 1 4% bop= They insinieerildtiegglM
MaWlia a vanity. `..theseirlitlitgalifesifil
league's distance from us- .Then we set on .run
fling tuwifinhe thwitiertect'ErlitV4FoiEm:
pereur. T..' We a rriYetl breauhleas and mill Feted
-
mg the geripetorltlebmitareigiVes. I
thought he woulJ not atopi.whatevpr te!gli . t , be the
crowd awiiiing him ger' 4tb lr post
hou,e. when I.3l=k...dealt half, dead...wititlite run
n.re ; but at any rate! was there. In s moment
arsea'red, turning *Center of tritie . the foaming
I iiOlS i then the postillions - aal/ covered, width. 0)-
Tut Loss or Hosla —lt is stated in Laitig',: nos 1 buns, !het the coinages thewelNes,; thnt
idence in N'orway, that the prmistunent of dealt . l people f .I nw i ng t h e can -j ogai!. Ihn Ant , f i ngea.
was abolished in that
tithecot about the latter eri4 gatapped at the post. I saw Napoleon L Was
of the last cen•ury. punishment which is I in a green coat,. with liute apatidefs, sod'
the most effective, and which affords eonensice s wo re the officer's cross of the legion efimucn-
Ic
proof of the high tone of thought and.teeling peril I, „,„4..‘sa, his b un frant,,,Lits the %ba i t "! th n.546 ,..,
ding a whole people, forming one of the most ffiitiage window. Hi:ibises' tell optai hiseheste4liat
tingulshing characteristics - of that country, is fha t . et f el:pima wec t a w, b eat k e g, t b e _ o l4, : ft" E loper ,
Loss at Honor. This from the eatriest time was a (AS. His forehead fell totward; twotwervim
speciiied effective puni , frment fn.the criminal law ! movable, were of the yellowish This of was; on.
of liar-way, standing next in ~?riee to the lir=s ofly his eyes appeared to be alive,,,ticei nom.
on
life. The Theeof honor is not regareed by this per- his•left, was Ponce Jeroule,aling withoin a king
p!e as an onmeamag and trivial pun Aliment, as it dam. hs:t a f n i t t iti n ix, 4 er n ji n , nan rhat . penind
would by the poi)) and ignorant classes 'cif society ; a fine young man of airrAnd..tvreoty or thirty yew
among alrno.. every other nation. but it is viewed of o his features regular sad welkinnutdi- :his
n ith jrcal, as a ter - rib - 1e viiital , 'n • Many afftc" beard black. his hair elegantly artangerkir-:
atifi
and trusts. as committees, for carious purposes, val. I ared in place of his brother, whose vague Wanes,
':atnrs. arbitorc, or jorymeri; to say nothing ofm,re seemed lost in thefiateleflitiin the pro.—
ei•uations, devolved at tf e pevle unapt Opposite the Eutijeoat was:Luton Alta Auditelatup
e sope:internlance of. the legal au•norities. The an d ardent sokliert,...whe seented:atteallylP 14 0 4
e.N . citi,‘ion from these affairs and hav-tioris, which t h e , an. of
low,
an was w i lling ton, the.p ; 00 , 04 .
oticnree, the !ern! ~• n!ct,-e of the loss of honOr l
too . , a. he , i ntd l ong 43.0 1 ire All g um h at .
ro.!uces, n, a Vinist e:rt Se rCre.y felt, dint ' ed . for a b out minute . Then the wahip. eaaukedi
stancr , e alter that portion of : t u g 4o , ses ne i g b e d r and all d' red
p , nst-vm_: in 4:airy for 3 cellaiirt Ile- I, riaLort.
i La.! been cornp:e . *.e,l. ietirnineto their chains.
I
'' s. • is , 11 - e
nnanolin; name pert nfferree. rather thav !Ire as
outcas.s u• the :sentence of .'u:.onor ; among
ttleir rormr.r f::en•;a
A Fitlf.ll D Bnitatte.---We - end Islifni."
mg in the Bahimoie tipper:
a k gr.nt'ernan recently retUrne3 front %Ilrnftet
as a trimuss., al the trial of Thai User, thpa:Au;
at Chestertown, Kent County, relaxed tows Me•fol;
:owing moo amusing eircoingstive, whicb meet'.
rfl at one of the principal ltotejs iu thkPlacr..:--
Arr.ong the causwaily large ZMajlei - 6 13 9 - ailitea4
there was one whose appetite at the table seemed
to know no bound's every'dish Fa his vicinity *al
a red 1 . ,y him be f ore any nue else. could get amain.
The la: .Itord very ca . iently bore it lorseteraldays
111 silence. indalpon in she hope that his boarder's
appetite most certainly have-au era.« Anithishops'
proved delouse; as every meal los appetite seem
ed, if possible, to sharpen up; till at length •the
landlord, unable to stand it any locger,yennated to
remonstrate.with his boarder, and reszticed.
•• Ilifriend, you eat so much that,l 4tall certainly
have to :harge you an extra half dollar 1 . ,' '.4n
elicit half dollar !' replied his boarder, • with a
countenance the very picture of despair:—"lce
zoodness' rake don't do tha i ti Ern most dead now.
eating three dollars' worth; wartif you put an extra
ball dollar's worth on, I shall mann* we yea it
maxmlaeghter.'" - .
Caliscrma_--There is hothiog which
adds E 0 welch to the beauty atickpowet of arici, as
a gook] character- It is his wealth—his indueceo
i.e. It digaiftes bun
,J3sery sothsni—ex-
tt:-s tm to - every condition = and glorifies ulna at
' every period of life. Scch a character is more to
be desired than everydung else or. earth. It niskm
a mar. free and independent. Yin . sersife tool.-no
crouchi.tg sycophant — no trimcherOus hnnor-seeker
ever bore.such a character. The pure joys of =h
and rigbteonsness never Riling in such a person.--
If young men but knew hoer ankh a good Cliarae.
ter would ilignFr gforiottsit
would make their pretpects, even in this fiki me.
er shoal we find them yielding to the grulietir..g
and base born passions of tniinan nature..
Du inim Womite.—Nine times Out of •teri,
wound will beef quicker if done up in its own
blood, than in any other stay. As for a boM;whit
ever will entirely arclade - tbW sir the quietest, is
the' best. - Conon will de Mi.. So will plied silt,
if spa darniat thi edges by any kind' of -kick
ing sabres. Port nothing On ID heal it Na
na, wffl seen do tbsg when the air is •eieluded
and the'pairwill almost imarediaviy iesse.
The son cf the poor die tieb—wbilwacce of The
rich die poor. Whateramoningthrtmgh
Fife aeqttire wealth 7d mitt our children! Serer
to make me of oar money as we go sliwq:::-Mhs
eate our secrettre their virtue lto 4abier 'ef Irr
duatiy,arid atodyjand let them take care of them
selves.- - •
To Bon. Coas;ina fir.Fi.-Pnt the beet in, isaier'
enough to mask, and let it heat slowly, ar . isbnil
do*, and be carefal i to take od tae gunt,le.
tbink it miach
. intptoced by bon*, p . olabaits,
tosnips'and cabb age with it. In this case:the yeg
etabies inont he peeled, and all the grease, can:fol
ly skimmed as fast it rises Allow about twe n ty
minutes of IxotTing, for each ppmd of met.
A g ea g e *Ai% CIPIXI agiellenialre AXlOMS
ratios, expressed his surprise m thasnmSmisels
ib nistaof as Esselhantho lYiekeifs; Hoses
itc3/1*"
i t** fropien, ofillifrataorehas !Mir bear
roamed to a Mr. Pyft t-t.ele o4 : l l_
=tik-Twilestimofjc#olr4ls4 - ,_ •
to b e a h ou thd i skik t7A4f 4s g e -1 3 4-74 . *: 4
:serer that Mr. Pyion terrify. - '
~i„,KIIVaLini
ISM
. , ,
Wattveb.gam.
4 * * * ••• `it ~:,;41
it Three clays lifter:rani, loward'efinft, -se - rmsa
people 'err iris: freitASl libretitirt; 'diet-Add tbirai
theymitnetstra, they heard carnio.lpThe 'itiii‘
i gof tie seventeenth-sr erteritiotuffed-Airseeil
teted all-sdoug the soad,•,theurnoriciffory'•
The ettdeenduieshing., Thotridetiesedoddirg;
only segostitisourwere rabstedporiiiiigaiStAris
knew 'whence. At wassaid, tied ettre
at Brussels. The tWerniethAnieinen insugt,sl.l
wounded, and ridin jades:l_ooes allecivervisrith
foamientterird ,the.towai , and.eretecjititsAfriar:
rotnided by-the whole pegs:dation, as tel-ptaiedialle
the court-yen: of the towsteenter - Theee: stair
hardly spoke , stench. Thee bete,- , 4 basuiß
Westphatiara, bekgior. sontehow.to ow ertnV4.
To all oar gammons-they oultshook• theirlbeadi
-sadly, and ended by confeerhT that they had quit ,
ti.,l the fie id of bade of Waterier) at eight o'clock,
rod that the battle warioetrwhen daytime; Sway.
I wall-the adianceit-pard of the fegitives:.'•t%lie
.se
d not believe them •- , Wesaidflieemeneretta
inns spies:;. ?iapolecaralidd a be 4heithol.
• t fine army utite&Ww•fierreteet . clitestrold not
b degassed MO wanted triirtebwroorkhotia
nins mixer so quittly bed wo torgrrea 7 t3 and
'l4, to Nevem beirthe4eanceincli hid gone before!
*mother sac to, the foss, wherershe as the
whole day,..know linri was thetwthertseinc= Omit
arrive, trhatever it were. Dorkur duktintei !oak
ed out in the maps fori*atinfooitheitarreiwaidt
even I could not findiaad begneroa;thinkitlitrplare
was imaginary ; : was the nuas/tr- MlNlRlZellefthe
battle. , At bor. o'clock, marerlagitiveirderitrit,
who confirmed, the news of the finitecone
These were French, and could gitwa/Pthe deb&
which weaned for. Theyveyeatekwhatthe eth
ers had amid, only adding that Napderisfrand his
brother were killed. This•wa wooldwilf tlertetroP:
Naporeau =tin not- be invneciblehr&Smthrerible
he certainly ohm Fresh news asereurnide and
disastrous continued to rams is ma, tint agekek
at: light - • • - - -:. •,..4 , ...1
- At ten o'eloek. at eight ws-heard the ansiorefik
minima It stopped, and the Pistroastet went MA
with a light. We foticored ‘ hitn, as he-ran-le the
doorto ask for news, -Then he started astsptisek
and erieck." Ifs thegamette Pik l garcark:simits
be and hooked over my mothessintiderz4
was indeed-A-Nspoissit; seised in - terouniattanbe,
in-the some anthem; his _head as hirbiesitor be
fore. -Perhaps* wart:nit alinteriew7titthere
mot net n. llama his eonntenanee, not tin-stitied
femme, to mark what wentetheiselktor
gtesa gambler; whetted -joss staked-intilloskthe
world. Jerome and Leton we not withltint to
bow and•'sae in his place. Jerconeirss"
gsabG
ing meter the remains of thew/sr Twit: and
been main two by simausan bal. • ?lapoistiableil
Ms head sanely, kite* mood - as if ram Sem
a dream; mid then, wit blo, brieklifidtairringe,
place is. ihiiiPlat saidetiV4lkiettokeen,
"How marjr-Isegnes PT=
Femti o ssiar - veNisiinatiel-orell
die - post-bnyaboaniquidqtantmore think
hinted:kis& Mos the conter—of eels to bill: hi
- band-IsLost his chest. -ite - horses -eundairetti
alralf limey - bad winger • -
Thewortiltnaurs what4tod taken plaes*ltiA4
thesatvroappacition,olliipolitant'4=l '/'*-4***r
To Bois. A Tre4tr , --Bialtak-A-ainflia fonotat
csaer,..of chopped bleat-.24115na„...-c
andrikia -4301 rit *OP *lig
over the nutty ate petit to hail. in, told ''unimr,
with a voceduaokiatt in it, anatenoagbe WSlOrilk
oveHtweit: Ant itlaintnitr lintterninianiNiiii a .
OnielOgOil
- 4 11 oskrzie# 4 1sikkeeluir'dohitotlieilk
A-1:
- • • t'i ii is
the idea;sase of teeing Eter at themiiiineo.7?
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.?; ; - ,.:',4`::, t''' 1.