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After leaving our superfluous clothes, and all that could embarrass us, we began to climb with inconceivable ardour. Our efforts, which is not uncommon, were followed with extreme weakness; we found a rock on which we rested some time; after which we resumed our march, but it was not with the same agility; mine slackened very much. While my brother took a very steep path, which appeared to lead to the top, I took another which was more upon the acclivity. Where are you going?' cried my brother with all his might: 'that is not the way: follow me.'-'Let me alone,' said I; 'I prefer the path that is longest and easiest.' This was an excuse for my weakness. I wandered for some time; at last shame took hold of me, and I rejoined my brother, who had seated himself to wait for me. We marched one before another for some time, but I became weary again, and sought an easier path; and at last, overwhelmed with shame and fatigue, I stopped again to take breath. Then abandon. ing myself to reflection, I compared the state of my soul, which aims to gain heaven, but walks not in the way to it, to that of my body, which had so much difficulty in attaining the top of Mount Ventoux, notwithstanding the curiosity which caused me to attempt it. This reflection inspired me with more strength and

courage.

"Mount Ventoux, is divided into several hills, which rise one above the other; on the top of the highest is a little plain, where we seated ourselves on our arrival.

"Struck with the clearness of the air and the immense space I had before my eyes, I remained for some time motionless and astonished. At last waking from my reverie, my eyes were insensibly directed towards that fine country, to which my inclination always drew me. I saw those mountains covered with snow where the proud enemy of the Romans opened himself a passage with vinegar, if we believe the voice of Fame. Though they are at a great distance from Mount Ventoux, they seem so near that one might touch them. I felt instantly a vehement desire to behold again this dear country, which I saw rather with the eyes of the soul than those of the body: some sighs escaped me which I could not prevent, and I reproached myself with a weakness which I could have justified by many great examples.

"The sun was going to rest, and I perceived that it would soon be time to descend the mountain. I then turned towards the west, where I sought in vain that long chain of mountains that separates France from Spain. Nothing that I know of hid them from my sight; but nature has not given us organs capable of that extensive view. To the right I discovered the mountain of the Lyonnoise, and to the left the surges of the Mediterranean, which bathe Marseilles on one side, and on the other dash themselves in pieces against the rocky shore. I saw them very distinctly, though at the distance of several days' journey. The Rhone glided under my eyes, the clouds were at my feet. Never was there a more extensive, variegated, and enchanting prospect! What I saw rendered me less incredulous of the accounts of Olympus and Mount Athos, which they assert to be higher than the regions of the clouds, from whence descend the showers of rain.

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gularity of an accident, the application of which
it was so easy for me to make.

"In the midst of contemplation I had got,
without perceiving, to the bottom of the moun.
tain with the same safety, though with less fa-
tigue, than I went up. A fine clear moon fa-
youred our return. While they were preparing
our supper, I shut myself up in a corner of the
house to give you this account, and the reflec-
tions it produced in my mind. You are my
father, and I hide nothing from you. I wish I
was always able to tell you not only what I do
but what I think. Pray to God that my
thoughts, now, alas! vain and wandering, may
be immoveably fixed on the only trub and solid
good!"

COBBETT vs. WELLINGTON.
"Men should be taught as if you taught them
not,

And things unknown proposed as things for
got."

Dr. Franklin lays great stress upon this pru-
dent course. Perhaps there may be something
in Cobbett's manner that is disagreeable to
ministers, for notwithstanding his entire con-
fidence in his ability, and although he has
generously proposed to serve as Prime Minis-
ter-his offers had not been accepted up to
March 13, when he writes a letter to Lord
Wellington, of which the following are ex-

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"Now, greatest Captain of the age,' I could, I think, keep all the conquests, and yet bring down the taxes to the amount of 1792. I could do this; and another time, I will ask you why you cannot."

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"Please, my lord, to read the MOTTOS, and look well at the DATE of those mottos! Thus, you see, it did not require sixteen years to enable ME to see what would be the bitter fruit of these conquests; these boasted conquests; this rich indemnity. I saw it at once. I saw it, while the nation was drunk, and while you and the foreign kings were enjoying the defeat of the poor Yankees on the Serpentine river! And, what is more, I had the courage to say it at that time. Read these MOTTOS again. Read them ten times over. Let the nation read them: let the ruined nation look at the DATES of them: then let them acknowledge, that I was the man to have prevented this ruin; or, let them PERISH.

"Since you took upon you that office which I ought to have filled, I have repeatedly told you, that if you resolved not to reduce the taxes; if you resolved to keep up the expenses, the nation would have to deplore the day that it bragged of its conquests! In August, 1823, (16th day) I told you all about the conse quences of these fatal conquests. It really does appear, that I have left nothing unforetold upon these subjects: it seems that I have now nothing to do but to wait for events; and, as these arise, to show, as applicable to each, what my foretelling has been."

After quoting something from his own writings, Mr. Cobbett proceeds:

"There, Mr. Prime Minister! That came from a man with a head upon his shoulders. That came from a man who could foretell all the consequences as soon as the peace was made. That came from a man, who was sober "After having satisfied my eyes for some in 1814, when all the rest of the nation were time with the delightful objects which elevated drunk. That came from a man able to foresee my mind and inspired me with pious reflection, events. And, oh! what this nation has sufferI took the book of St. Augustine's Confes-ed, and has yet to suffer, not only because that sions,' which I had from you, and which I always carry about me. It is dear to me from its own value; and the hands from which I received it render it dearer still. On opening it I accidentally fell on this passage in the tenth book:- Men go far to observe the summits of mountains, the waters of the sea, the beginning and the courses of rivers, the immensity of the ocean, but they neglect themselves.'

"I take God and my brother to witness that what I say is true! I was struck with the sin

ments, are now felt in their natural consequences; and TIME is avenging the men who suffered death, or imprisonment, or ruin, or bitter persecution for their public spirit in endeavouring to prevent the war of 1793. And is he not avenging the wrongs done to TRUTH? What was the real case between us and the French people? Our rulers, our nobles, our clergy, all our pastors and masters,' had been, for three hundred years, telling us, that the French government was a cruel despotism; that the noblesse were tyrants; that the people were slaves; that their priests taught a religion that was idolatrous and damnable. This, in books of all sizes, in lessons for the young, in homilies for the old, in parliamentary speeches, in sermons from the pulpit; in all manner of ways, from the cradle to the grave, this was what had, for three hundred years, been dinned in the ears of the people of England, who, accordingly, looked on the French people as beings scarcely above the level of dogs.

Well at last this enslaved people rose upon their king, their nobles, and their priests, drove them from their country, and put down the idolatrous and damnable religion.' And, then, oh then! did our rulers and teachers rejoice? No: they received the expelled parties with open arms; they fed them and cherished them at our expense; they made war upon the people of France; they subsidised (with our money) others to make war upon them; and, when they, with the aid of a million foreigners, had forced back the ancient kings and nobles upon France, they held a grand jubilee in England, of which the people of England paid the expense; and that expense, of course, now forms part of the load that is pressing us to the earth."

[From Wheaton's Travels in England.] Mrs. Hannah More.-Mrs. More is rather below the common stature, and sits for the most part in her easy chair, with her table and work before her. It is three years since she has left her chamber-not literally, for she has in that period occasionally rode a short distance--but since she has left her place in the. drawing-room and at table. Cheerfulness and good nature are strongly depicted in her face; and her fine dark eyes retain a brilliancy and expression altogether uncommon in persons of her advanced years. Age and sickness appear not to have dimmed their lustre in the least. Whatever may be the topic of conversation, she engages in it with great feeling and vivacity; her ideas are rapid, and often playful; and if the authoress sometimes appears, it is only for a moment, and while she is giving utterance to some sentiment of more than common importance. There is evidently no effort to talk in a written style; but her general mode of expressing herself is in short, pithy sentences replete with meaning. The room where she sits is furnished with a copious selection of standard authors; and the furniture of the different rooms is plain, but neat, and in good taste.

Much of her valuable life has been passed in a sick chamber. She remarked that she had been about twenty times brought near the borders of the grave; but that in all her sick. nesses her mind had been perfectly clear, so that she could give directions concerning her affairs. "If I have any genius," she observed, "sickness has been the author of it; for it has forced me to be industrious, when I was able man has not had power; but because those to hold a pen." Her views of Christian phiwho had power, resolved not to do what that losophy may be gathered from the following man recommended to be done! Aye, and, gene-incident: Five years ago, a fever of twelve rally speaking, it deserves to suffer; for it months' continuance entirely destroyed the might, Tong ago, have given power to that senses of smell and taste; "but see, she re anan." marked, how I have been compensated. For a year longer, I was obliged to take medicine eight times a day, and have taken it more or less every day since. My life depended on it; but had my taste been spared, I could not possibly have taken these nauseous black

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draughts." This was what she called the doctrine of compensations.

Among the letters she had received from various correspondents, one from Cobbett was produced, dated at Philadelphia, which I was desired to read aloud for the benefit of the company. It was moral and religious, and all that -full of compliments to Mrs. M., for ber useful and instructive writings. It was written in 1796, and represented the government of the United States as a patched up sort of a thing, without coherency or stability, and on the eve of a revolution. "This was before I knew him as well as I do now. When he came back, I used some exertion to get him made editor of the Anti-Jacobin Review. I thought him a fit person to be set up against Tom Paine-he was strong, coarse, and vulgar; but wrote in a style to take with the common people; and I believed he had good principles. When he had got the paper, he turned about and abused me.-Such was his gratitude." The history of her early correspondence with Cobbett she related with great good humour.

Mrs. M. is gratefully sensible of the popularity of her works in America, and speaks of us and our institutions in terms of high regard. She hoped there would be no more differences between the two countries. They are one in language, one in religion, and one in blood: why should political differences divide them? I observed, that the English journalists had done more, by their sneering, ill-natured remarks and misrepresentations, to exasperate the people of the United States, than all the acts of the government put together. "That is just what I said to Lord S-; and he acquiesced in the same opinion. He thought they provoked the revolutionary war; he was sure they did much to bring on the last one; and lamented that they would persist in misrepresentation and abuse. But so it is. The editors of Journals and Reviews find that a spice of malice and abuse makes their works sell; and that is all they want. They are far from expressing the feelings of the English people, and they ought not to be seriously regarded."

THE MAROON WAR. [Part of an article in the Museum.]

every white inhabitant. At length we obtain- | ed from the Mosquitoe shore, a body of semisavages, Mulattoes, Indians, and Africans, called Black Shots.. These men, under an English adventurer, named James, fought the Maroons in their own style, but with very inferior success. The ferocity of the war, and the cruelties practised upon the white inhabitants, are incredible. At length, by the aid of these Black Shots, and at an enormous expense of lives, we penetrated to the vicinity of Cudjoe's fastnesses. Upon a high table land of several acres, called Flat Cave River, we built a set of barracks, with four bastions and high walls. In these we kept our stores of provisions and ammunition, with a considerable body of militia and regulars. The fatigue of bringing up supplies from the coast, by which, in that climate, our troops had suffered great mortality, was now spared, and the predatory excursions of Cudjoe were considerably checked.

The Government now thought the Maroons were in their power, especially as they had been quiescent for several weeks, when they suddenly learned that Cudjoe and his whole tribe had decamped from their scene of operations in the south-east of the island, and had moved to Trelawney, near the entrance of the great line of cockpits to the extreme northwest of the island. The first and largest of these cockpits was called Petty River Bottom. It contained about seven acres of verdant soil, and the inaccessible sides were covered with the largest forest-trees. The entrance was a mere fissure, passable only by the most vigorous and agile of mountaineers, and from the sides of which a few riflemen might have defended the defile against any numbers or any species of attack.

Under these circumstances did a few hundred savages keep the whole island of Jamaica in terror, baffle our military force, and oblige us at last to offer terms of peace. Col. Guthrie was sent to make the overtures, and the scene between him and Cudjoe was characteristic in the extreme. The daring savage suddenly became a timid slave. The negotiation took place in one of the wild fastnesses of the mountains, to which Col. Guthrie had advanced to offer terms. Cudjoe was rather a short man, uncommonly stout, with very strong African features, and a peculiar wildness in his manners. He had a very large lump of flesh upon his back, which was partly covered by the tattered remains of an old blue coat, of which the skirt and the sleeves below the elbows were wanting. Round his head was a scanty piece of dirty white cloth; he had a pair of loose drawers that did not reach his knees, and a small round hat without any rim. On his right side hung a cow's horn, with some powder, and a bag of large cut slugs. On his left was a knife, three inches broad, in a leathern sheath, suspended under the arm by a narrow strap that went round his shoulder. He had no shirt, and his clothes and skin were covered with the red dirt of the cockpits. Such was the Chief; and his men were as ragged and dirty as himself: all had guns and cutlasses. This treaty, signed in 1733, was, as if between regular belligerents, but it stipulated that in future the Maroons should be registered, and have two white agents residing amongst them. From this period to the last and most serious war of 1795, the relation of the Maroons to the whites became totally different. Their connexion was friendly, and the planters had created in them both a contempt and a hatred of the ne

The Maroons were the descendants of the aboriginal inhabitants, and of negroes who had fled from their Spanish masters into the interior, when we captured the island in 1655. Their numbers had been increased by runaway slaves of every description, but particularly by the restless, brave, and ferocious African tribe of the Coromantecs. Among the Maroons was a class with jet black complexions and regular handsome features. The whole tribe of Maroons, however, were tall, well made, and athletic; and when the Duke of Kent, after their surrender and shipment to Halifax, inspected them, he pronounced them the most extraordinarily fine body of men he had almost ever seen. Their feats of strength and agility surprised our officers. They could climb trees like monkeys, and could ascend rocks, and bound from crag to crag, where our most active soldiers could not approach. Their keenness of eye was most extraordinary; and so acute was their sense of hearing, that with their ears to the ground, they would detect our movements at a distance, at which theirs to us were totally inaudible. Patient of hunger and fatigue, they could select nutritions roots and herbs from the many which in that climate were deemed poisonous; whilst our ig-groes, whom, when fugitives, they always norance prevented our discriminating the oue from the other, and consequently deprived us of the use of all. Almost every inan possessed a rifle, fowling-piece, or musket, and their accuracy at fire was proved by the sequel to be superior to any thing on record.

Their first Chief, Cudjoe, had carried on a regular war against us, until his name became the vexation of our officers and the terror of

caught and restored to their masters. In this war it was proved that all the movements of the different chiefs or leaders of gangs had been isolated and independent: there had been no communication between them, and the ef fect is therefore the more astonishing.

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Lord Balcarras proceeded immediately to Montego Bay, where he published a violent

philippic against the Maroons, telling them that their town was surrounded by troops, resistance was in vain, and that he had set a price upon the heads of all who did not surrender in four days.

This impolitic proclamation struck terror into the hearts of all the inhabitants, and roused the Maroons from equivocal submission to the most determined resistance. A similar circumstance of an unfortunate nature had just occurred. Col. Gallimore, who had been sent to negotiate with the Maroons, had, during a conference, contemptuously taken from his waistcoat pocket a handful of musket-balls, and shaking them in the faces of the chiefs, declared that those were the only arguments they should have from him. The Maroons shortly after attacked his house, and wreaked a signal vengeance upon his family. General Palmer had given passports to six Maroon captains to proceed to the Governor in the capital. Midway these men were seized by the commanding officer of the militia, and, notwithstanding their passports, were ordered into irons by Lord Balcarras. The General expressed himself highly incensed at this breach of faith.

On the 8th of August Lord Balcarras sent his despatch, commanding the surrender of the Maroons, on pain of setting a price upon their heads. On that day, Col. Sandford, with one hundred and thirty of the 18th and 20th Light Dragoons, took post about four miles north of the Maroon town. Lord Balcarras, at the head of the 83d regiment, established himself at Vaughan's Field, a mile and a half from the Maroon town, whilst several thousand militia were at Kensington estate, in his rear, to protect the convoys of provisions. The regular troops amounted to about 1500. The Maroon town lies twenty miles southeast of Montego Bay, and eighteen miles from Falmouth. The road from Montego Bay for the first nine miles is good, after which it is steep, rugged, and affording facilities of defence against any hostile advance. The same may be said of the last four or five miles of the road from Falmouth. The Maroons, terrified by this military array, on the 11th of August sent their chief and seventeen leading men to offer submission and fealty to Lord Balcarras, who however put these men in irons, and sent them on ship-board. Of all things, the Maroons had a horror of being shipped from the island. One of the chiefs committed suicide by ripping open his bowels, and this experiment of surrender taught the Maroons what little clemency they had to expect from government. Two of the chiefs who had come to the out-posts to parley about pacification, on their return found that the Westmoreland militia had destroyed their town, burnt their provision grounds, and ill used their families.

The sword was now drawn, and the scabbard was thrown away. Lord Balcarras had with him one hundred and fifty of the 13th Light Dragoons, dismounted; detachments of the 17th Light Dragoons, under Capt. Bacon; and one hundred of the 62d Foot.

So far from surrendering on the 12th, the Maroons were so incensed, that they attacked two of our detachments on that day, and severely handled them. Lord Balcarras ordered Col. Sandford to make a forward movement, which, in conjunction with the movements of the 83d and of the militia, was intended to surround the Maroon town. The Maroons allowed Col. Sandford to advance into a defile, when they opened a tremendous fire upon him from ambushes on his right and left, and killed bin and almost all his men. Not a single Maroon was hurt. The whole plan had been badly contrived.

It was now resolved to surround both towns, and to destroy all the provision grounds. A track was cut through the thick brambles and brushwood, the line being guided by the bugles of the 17th Dragoons. After infinite toil in the rainy season, a light field-piece was brought up through this track, and both towns were taken possession of. But, to the astonish

ment of Lord Balcarras, they were found abandoned; the Maroons, as might have been expected, had retreated to the cockpit with all their valuables. Into this cockpit our troops were made to fire repeated volleys, the echoes of which were succeeded by loud bursts of laughter from the Maroons, who rejoiced at our waste of ammunition. Lord Balcarras now retired to Montego Bay, and left the command of the troops to Col. Fitch, of the 83d.

More wisdom now guided our measures, but, from unavoidable circumstances, almost all our outposts were surprised, our working-parties were destroyed by ambuscades, and our convoys and detachments generally cut to pieces. In but one instance could we ascertain that a single man of the enemy had been killed. Many parleys took place, but the horror of the Maroons at being sent on ship-board, prevented any favourable conclusion."

Colonel Fitch employed a strong working party of slaves, supported by several flanking companies of regulars and militia, to cut a line through the brush-wood and thorny brambles, that he might communicate with some corps on his right. They had scarcely worked half a mile from head quarters, when the party fell into an ambush, the troops suffered severely, and the Maroons massacred a great number of the negroes. About a mile and a quarter from head-quarters, in another direction, there was an outpost of between thirty and forty men, commanded by Captain Lee, of the 83d, who had secured himself with palisadoes and a breast-work, but had reported that his post might be commanded by the Maroons from the heights. On the 12th of September, Colonel Fitch, at nine in the morning, went to visit the post, in company with the Adjutant of the 83d and many other officers. We may judge of the nature of the country from the fact, that Col. Fitch was obliged to make use of a com

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body of troops, with a howitzer and field-piece, powerful nation would be able to overcome.
up a hill, and at daybreak began to pour shells This will be sufficiently evident from the fol-
and grape-shot into the cockpit. The Maroons, lowing concise view of the concerted expedi-
terrified at this novel mode of attack, precipi- tions against the Algerines, and the bombard-
tately fled to the next cockpit, from which ments to which their capitol has been subject-
they were driven by similar means. They ed, during the three last centuries.
were thus driven from post to post, and cut off |
from their supplies of water. The measles
broke out amongst them, and they became
greatly distressed. Still, however, they were
able to send out numerous skirmishing parties;
and notwithstanding we were often able to at-
tack them with greatly superior numbers, in
no one instance could we obtain complete suc-

cess.

The Deaf and Dumb-We witnessed on Wednesday last, at the Capitol, a scene which created a most lively and profound interest among a large assembly convened at the unusually early hour of ten o'clock, in the Repretwo pupils from the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Philadelphia, under the care of Mr. Weld, the Principal of that Institution, who attended in person with these interesting youths.-Among the audience we noticed the Hon. Secretary of the Navy, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and numerous other members of both Houses of Congress, all of whom, together with the strangers and citizens present, appeared sensibly affected by the beautiful display of the youthful deaf mutes. Mr. Weld introduced his pupils to the assembly in a very handsome manner, and with an address so brief

sentatives' Hall. It was the exhibition of the

that we could have wished the time before the meeting of the House, (11 o'clock,) would have allowed him to enlarge on this most important subject. He stated the number of deaf mutes in the United States to be about six thousand. He presented the youth with him, not as hav

Charles V. of Spain collected at Majorca 70 galleys, 200 ships of war, and 10 smaller vessels, in which were embarked 6000 Spanish infantry, 5000 Italians, 8000 Germans, and 209 cavalry, with 3000 volunteers, the greater part of whom were veteran soldiers, and which sailed on the 15th of October, 1541. After a very unfavourable voyage they arrived before, Algiers on the 20th of the same month. Hassan, to meet this powerful armament, had in garrison but 800 Janissaries and between 5 and 6000 Moors, part natives and part renegades, from Grenada. The natural obstacles of the country, the depth of the sands, and the steepness of the shores of the rivers to be passed, preventing the passage of the guns and movement the troops from the night-dews, the violent of the military, the want of shelter to protect. storms that impeded their march and stranded the vessels, co-operating with the valour of Hassan and his Arabs, the Christians were driven back to their ships, and compelled to reembark and retire, leaving on the shores the wrecks of 15 galleys and 150 of their transports, with the bodies of 8000 of their drowned companions, and at least an equal number dead of fatigue, or fallen under the sabres of the Mahometans.

June, 1775, under the command of Rear AdmiThe Spanish Expedition in the month of ships of the line, 14 frigates, 24 gun boats, and ral Castejon and Gen. O'Reilly, composed of 7 other vessels, with 22,000 infantry and 1,100 arrived on the coast. cavalry, after a favourable passage of 24 hours, The landing was effected, but with great difficulty; and the Span

pass, and to set his watch by that of Lieute-ing been trained for this particular exhibition, iards, though making the most obstinate efforts

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sons of the assembly, were the following: "Who is the greatest man in the United States?" One of the boys immediately wrote on his slate, with incredible rapidity, "Mr. Webster," the other, "General Jackson."(Both parties, we presume, were satisfied.), "What ideas have you of the Supreme Being?" Answer. "He is the great infinite Spirit, the Creator of men, of animals, of all things: He "Who is is here and there and every where." Jesus Christ?" "He is the Son of God,

our Saviour." "What is ambition?" "The

but declared he should ask them such questions nant Dixon, of the Artillery, at head-quarters, as should arise from the suggestion of the mowho was desired to fire a field-piece precisely at twelve o'clock. Three hours were thus ocment, without their previous knowledge. cupied in traversing one mile and a half. Col. From simple propositions and questions, he went on to those more difficult, and required Fitch found the post untenable, and he proanswers to questions put by gentlemen present. ceeded with a small party a few hundred yards in advance, to determine upon a better posi--Among the latter handed by different pertion. Coming to two diverging paths, he hesitated a minute which to take, when a sudden volley from the Maroons in the brushwood killed or wounded almost every man of the party. Colonel Jackson was unhurt, but seeing Colonel Fitch sitting desperately wounded on the stump of a tree, and hearing some Maroons cock their muskets, he endeavoured to make him lie down, but even in this hurried effort another ball killed him on the spot. Of a return before us of ninety-three killed and wounded, we find seventy killed and only twenty-three wounded, so accurate was their fire. Colonel Walpole, of the 13th Dragoons, was now appointed Commander-in-Chief, with the rank of Major-General. He declared that the Island would be lost, if the troops suffered another defeat. While maturing his plans, an attack was made upon a strong outpost, commanded by Major Godley and Captain White of the 83d. One of the sentries had declared that he saw a Maroon passing in the dark. The men were turned out, and formed into two parties, and advanced at daybreak. No vestige of an enemy appearing, they returned, and Major Godley entering his hut, ordered his negro boy to bring him his coffee. At the instant, the boy was shot through the head, and a volley from the Maroons did great execution amongst our men. The post was bravely defended, but at last abandoned with considerable loss.

General Walpole resolved to act on the defensive during the rainy season. He trained his men to light infantry manœuvres and bushfighting; he selected the best rifle-shots, harassed the enemy by false alarms, and made feint attacks to draw off their attention, whilst he cleared the country around him of the brushwood and high grass. At length, making a feint attack at a distance, he pushed a strong

feeling of rising up to celebrity or distinction.' "What is the form of government of Republican." Every thought was combined and reduced to words with singular skill and promptness, while every expression of the countenance, and every motion of every part of the body, was "instinct with eloquence." No higher tribute could be paid to the signal success and pre-eminent usefulness of this mode of instruction, than was scen in the alternate smiles and tears of the deeply interested auditory.

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French Expedition against Algiers.-It is distinctly announced in the speech of the French King, that energetic measures are about to be put in operation for the chastisement of Algiers. There is no doubt she richly deserves it, and few will regret to see it inflicted. The acknowledged bravery of the French, and their powerful marine, will, it is presumed, enable them to do it effectually. But it ought not to be forgotten, in anticipation of this event, that Algiers is strongly fortified, both by nature and art; that pestilence and burning sands will aid her in the conflict: and, in short, that the undertaking is fraught with hazards and difficulties which none but a brave and

to advance, and sustaining the most bloody conflicts, were compelled to retreat in the greatest disorder, the cavalry being routed, and driven back upon the infantry, by a body of Arabs mounted on camels. The Spaniards had 600 men killed, and left behind them 1,800 wounded.

Of the bombardments of Algiers, the most celebrated were those of Admiral Duquesne, which produced but a momentary satisfaction, and that under lord Exmuth in 1816. On the last occasion, notwithstanding the terrible effects of the fire from the ships upon the harbour and fort, if the Dey had not yielded to the alarms and threats of the inhabitants, and had deferred entering into treaty for twenty-four hours longer, the British squadron would have been obliged to retire, without having obtained any other advantage than the destruction of for, one first rate man of man, one 74 gun ship, the few vessels which the Algerines possessed; and a 60 gun frigate, had suffered most severe. It is evident, therefore, that any expedition ly from the batteries, which were casemated. against this formidable horde of pirates, whether by sea or land, is an enterprise of the most arduous nature, and requiring the utmost foresight, prudence and energy.--Morning Journal.

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THE SPECTRE SHIP OF SALEM."

THE Rev. Cotton Mather, D. D. and F. R. S., an eminent clergyman of Boston, in Massachusetts, who flourished about the end of the 17th century, wrote a curious book, entitled Magnalia Christi Americana," in which he has exhibited, not only his own, but the prevalent superstitions of the times in which he lived. The country had been in the language of that period, exposed to "war from the invisible world," during which the inhabitants were afflicted with demons, and so wrought upon by spectres, as to pine, languish, and die

* Dr. Cotton Mather's Magnalia, Christi Americana.

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