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[No. nu] : >. '* roauwuu ; ' vi'' BY THOMAS W. LORRAIJ^.j. ? Ttrm$ if ifobtriptfin.?'TUxce Dollar* per annum?pay ! nblc in advance....No pa(>cf to lie discontinued, but at the option of the KditoV, until all arrearage* ate paid. ' JlilvtrtUimenf not excecdinjf fourteen hnci, inserted the first thne for ?ertnly-flve cenU, ami forty cent# for each subsequent inscrtiwi. to the Editor must beppatpald,nrthepottaftcwiUbech;u-K<d to the writer r . Misckllany. The bee excursive icck* tho tiuw'ry field, Ami suckt 11 if nwccU that |f*rdcn (florin yield i Tlcluniinff lioiuc, intohi* hive hotwira The Juice of nroin itic herbs mid ffow'ra i (jo we the hfutm u:?l quiuteiicHC* eiitrmt Of hill ui?l tlidc und every fertile tract t """Slhe bc?t Anw'r* of ipeecli adorn rvih ?tore ?j> honey for ? future ?fje.?Hamb. ?If. 1 MOM TtIR NKW'IOKR COUNIKH. TIIB TIMES. *vc heard some men complain of the of nowspa|>ers, in consequence of the u peacc which prevails. Theso people fthey depended upon human blood tor ly food. They sleep profoundly over a in a newspaper, aniens there is war r a trumpet in everr lino, to rouse and m awake. Politicly aro perfectly bo and poetry vastly lulling?wit can only em " jjrin horribly a ghostly smile."? ?o aro unfortunately at peace ourselves, aparte has left tho stage, they seem to at tho play is over, and cry out, " fate e curtain. I can see no more." Vor , I cannot see that the world is in that dull tranquility, which they seem to though Napoleon /inn finished bin part of edv. We havo daily accounts of restle ;! discontent in France. Sho seems ra jo in that equivocal state of quiescence < sometimes prelusive to a political tem* 3he has probably felt but one shock of an ake, whoso fires arc unextinguished! anil volcanic energies are regenerating ami tg to shake the world by another convul \tthough the great Corsican Dragon is and has drawn after him a third part of ?s of France, yet hi? deinoniack and in ous spirit is still fostered in that country, y soon produce another explosion, or mthcr tempest j and although Napoleon more do on the whirlwind and dirccl tljc Htorm" destructivcness of its undisciplined fury be less fatal to Franco, or less interest mnkind. Wc will inform our readers of battle which is imported from France, dlicd powers, who have done their very amuse us for several seasonif papt, seem a state of fearful tranquility, and it is hat we have teen their " law per But I can assure the publio, for mfort, that I do not believe the confede? ?f the august allies can bo of very long i. The conflicting opinions ana inte the pride, tho jealousy, the ambition and inacy of Kings make tho most solemn ? it, the most sacred treaty an " flax that ndcr at the touch of fire." After the tee of nearly six thousand years of per ? ar, we have but little reason to expect ? *sal peace long, at any time, and much ie present. is also in an unsettled and turbulent She is full of conspirators. One rebelll ipcn suppressed, out another seems to ng; the fermentation is visible. The do Ferdinand is in perpetual fear and Spanish dominions in South America arc W of actual rebellion, from Mexico to lorn. The standard of rebellion has been .?"?fully planted on the plains of Jluenos i, t'liili, Peru, and other part* of that ex region. Tlio wretched slave* of those .cos have had a tantalising taste of liberty, '?uinot rent until they ore satiated j they had a glimpse of the golden fleece, and will inter Dragons to obtain it. Thu similarity ?en their situation and our own, during otir utinmiry struggle, renders their present ef peculiurly interesting to Americans, anil d.to every man who i* desirous to see {he iw'i of the empire of liberty and the uenc aeltoration of the condition of his fellow ires. It must, however, be confessed, even isn who are most anxious for the triumph ?uhlicanism in Spanish America, that it is fill whether the Spaniards are tit for popu ? Trntnent; whether their liberty would i^unerate into licentiousness j their repub* 0 anarchy, and thereby prove a curse to It is admitted, that virtue, 'religion and ?al and scientific knowledge, constitute ihc <ure foundation of a republic \ that the) iscntial to its stability and perpetuity | Hut paniardsare notorious for qualifications di rirally opposite to these, and the temiile of liberty must lie reared upon a foundation tose I of vice the most deformed j tupcrsti 1 most extravagant, and ignorance the lipid. 'I'ho political condition and the ? /Spain become still mote interesting to hen we reflect upon the difference which ? \etwecn our government and hers. It i* pinion of some of our wisest statesmen, here will be a war between Spain and the ?d St tes. Mr. Clay, who ought to be ac ?ted with the political relation* of the two ries, was so certain of the fact, that lie in* I upon having a standing army of twenty ?nnd men. Indeed the frequent captures of cs*cl*ttho repeated insult* and injuries we received from thc.mt and theiijate extra it demands upon render Mr* Clay'* o n highly plausible. Why then do we talk erlastitr; peace ? White we hear daily of rectiomlri Old Spain) of battles, rtvoluti . p ons and counter rc^otaUoni in 8outV Amerto I of insurrection and slaughter in Baitfadoet r < tlio cn:?turo or our owni vessel* Arid the murtH of our citizcnabr the Spaniards, why dower tho times aro aUil and yntnteresUng j tfc 1 ?tArm Uld forcvcvqr j that our i shaltbetaat injto^loughihat*?kand our apetiH into pruning hooat f .? To come nrttjfr. Koine \teHs we not told authentically afew daysago that a considerable body of hostile ,sa' actually marching, agpinstonu of our have \vd not reaso^fo suspect thai tn or somebody else have promi?ed? and will rer derthtmtalstancer Then cheer up; ye lovei ot wart ye cannibals who delight in banquet of hu man carnage, f? Tamil I the blood of a Spanish] man." But le>\is grant for a moment that the 6e, and will continue I peace so very unfavorable to human ind are thorc no Hubject* for our con iqnally as interesting, nnd Jar more profital than tin nan happiness, contemplation, more profitable than those which relate to foreign wars ? I)o not tho people who are their own rulers; whose prosperity de|>ends upon their own wisdom and political knowledge, do they not feels anxious tol watch over those who administer their govern* mcnt, and who control their destinies ? Will [ they not scrutini/.e their measures and ascort^l if possible, the true policy of our country. " Are they not concerned for the prosperity o! our commerce, our navy, our manufactures, ot? | arts and scienccs ? or arc their minds so absorb^ led by the fate of Bonaparte, that all their domeA^ tic concerns arc forgotten, or disregarded as un interesting and unimportant ? Hut admit for a, moment, not only that the world is at peace',' which is not a fact f but also that our domestic' I politics arc destitutes of interest and unworthy* | of our attention, which is equally untrue } yet u nothing left us, by which to remfer the press en | tvHaining ? Is not " tho world of science alt I before us ?? Can wo find no entertainment in i the ingenious speculations and profound rcscar I (-.lies of the philosopher ; or the useful and won derful inventions of tlie mechanician? Are we indifferent to the enchantments of litcratntm, I and dead to all tho luxuries of intellect ? Has I the wit lost his power and the poet hi* Inspirati on ? Cannot the bard, who like l'romcthcus | steals his fire from heaven to animate our torpid | minds i Can he not aniinato theip ??Can he no longer charm us with his battles without bloofc shed )?his splendid feasts without expense ? his horrors without danger j. his shipwrecks, hi| conflagrations, his tempests and his earthquake# without loss or injury ??Is it no pleasure to I make incursions with him into the land of visi 1 ons and of dreams ??44 To rove with him tli rough the meanders of enchantment j to gazo on the magnificence of golden palaces, and recline by1 thi! waterfall* ofElysiin gardens ?" Or can our cannibal palates relish nothing but blood ; our cars nothing but the cries of human agony ; our tumultuous spirits nothing but tales of moral de pravity i political disorganization and military horror ? ( hope the people of the United States have not become so much denaturalized and in fatuated. Hut again, tho present era Is eminent ly interesting in a religious point of view. All enristendom nave united for the pur|K>se of ex tending the empire of Cbrist to the ends of the earth. An enterprise so vast and so infinitely important in its aim was never before underta ken. A crusade is on foot, a Christian warfare is commenced^ more interesting and important than those which deluged with blow! tho plains of Austeriitz, Borodino and Waterloo. The advantages which are to result are infinite, the laurels which are to be won are immortal. And is no one anxious to watch the progress and has ten the result of this grand enterprise ? View every quarter of the globe, 8c consider each quar ter in every point of viow,mid you must acknow ledge that the world was never in a more interest ing situation. Then how can tho press be unin teresting, when like a concave mirror it reflects in miniature, all tho intellectual am) corporeal transactions of mankind ? Though Bonaparte is lost, " all is not lost." Tho aj-ts anil scien ces were not crushed beneath tho ruins of his fall. The interests of Christianity, did not suf for | nor were the Muses slain | and who can lie so dull as to slumtar in the groves of Acade inus} to grow weary in the paradise of tho poet, or to hear with indifference the sound of that trumpet which calls the nations of the earth to the battlo " of the great day of the Lord f* TIIR PAIIIS WKGTATOIt. A person wIki hud only one day to spend in 1'ari*, might, without ouittinu the I'nlnh /loyal form a tolerably exact Idea of the resource*, ad vantage* alid inconveniences ofthis immense ca pital.?-'Ilio garden?the galleries?the coffee* houses?the gaming-house* enclosed within the precinct* of trie Pal lain, present, at every hour of the day, picture* whose chief merit consist* in their variety. Toward* nine in the morning* in fine weather, politician* assemble near (lie Rotunda, And for the moderate contribution of one Hotio aro made acquainted with the. new* that are to form the subject of the day it'* convcr* Hation. At ten o'clock tlto coflVc-house th Chnttrr* begins to Imj filled with men of tmiiineM who conic to breakfast n la fonrehrttt% awl to wait there till the hour when the office open*. From noon till three o'clock at the Ismblln coflee houae, those who Are called the frequenter* of the Falai* Itovd assemble, to repair afterward* to the different receptacle* of business and nlea *ure of which this place i* com posedAt four o'clock the garden walk* can scarcely contain the crowd of merchant*?trading a?en(s?ami coiirtiert?who, too much aqucered in the Vir ginia passage, can here more freely regulate the Jimnterdam banco, the rate of the 'public funds, anil the price rif colonial produce. At Ave o' clock the scat* in thp name alleys are partly or cupicd by thoae poor devils who nro on the Nfotch for. the patting of sOmo friend, or nome ijupay (m whose pUrae they found their hopos of ndirtnen At seven o'clock tlioso who have been fortunatp at playtl?nd foreigner* who hive dined ht Shuttet'n or at theJFtYrf*-IVowrirdflk come to crtmpletfc" tholr l*eiffit under tbeCaveau withltos, 1l<|ucurA,6r IUwi lb the epening'thfe $romert*de of the | the weather be fine?or the arcades, faint?are reserved for the restless idlers, who have sptnt the morning In vain exertions to pro cure admissions to the theatres grath',or for the voMng country fellows, who arc nuitc surprised I at the sadden Impression they make on the fair damsels who people this retreat;?fur the inha bitants of tho Morals or the Flayn-lattn who icomeon a party of plonnure to cat ices in the Cafe de Foi. Finally from midnight till two o' clock, Lionuse coffee-house, and that of the Em pire, are tho resort ofn crowd of |>crttons, the minority of whom would hesitate to give n?> ac count of the way in which tlioy had spent the day. After having cant a glance upon the Fatal* Royal and its frcmienters, I shall draw a sketch of the garden oftno ThuillciicH.?This prnmc. node, the finest Ac mostcrowcded in l'ariH, has, liko all others, ita particular visitors, who suc ceed each other at different hours. About sfc ven o'elack in the morning, when tlic gates arc opened, tt is not uncommon to observe young men who have quarrelled at some public j>lace, enter two by two, to mcot their adversaries at Qodeau'n colFeo-housc, a proceeding which most commonly ends in a mutual explanation. At ten o'clock, some some actors come to trimly their parts in the shade of the side walks. To wards mid-day A swarm of thc*e damsels whose only business is to improve tlieir complexions, disperse themselves in tlic principal walks, where they scat themselves negligently, with a book in their hands, waiting for the arrival of j those new comers, whoso conquest they medi-, tate. .At four o'clock, youff men in their riding dresses, and belles in negligu's returning from the Bois de Boulogne, come to wait for the hour when it is time to repair to the toilette. At six o'clock the picture changes $?the walks und grass plots are covered with nursery maids and children {?and while the little brats arc shout ing innocently on the. turf, their young gover nantes are listening to the gallant proposals, or ?morousadvfinces ofthe lovers in livery who ac company them. At seven o'clock, all the po liticians of the Faubourg Saint Germain?the tenants of LilUMteet?iuuX old pensioners, as semble on ihtretUe-Prove nee, where they con terse-rrtlcaring their brains \yUh immense pinch es of snufF?- aboutflio progress of the Louvre? tho length of the bridge of Jena?the height of the Be)n6-^tho variations of Chevalier's thermo meter?rjjfcrfectly aware that at nine o'clock their ?pMkces will be given up to little milliners, ijfliQ nave just then quitted their work rooms to re join some lawyer's clerks escaped from their desks.?Ten o'clock strikes, and the beat of drum gives the happy lovers signal to retreat.? Here Ihave only presented groups j?but what a nice varied hicturc might bo made out of one single day in the Garden of the ThuUteriea?it would furnish a subject for another Lk Saok ! DESCRIPTION OF TIIB ISLAND OF 8TIIP.I.RNA. Wc commenced by ascending ladder-hill, a precipice which at first sight seems designed by nature as a barrier that would forever defy the human race to scalt> $ jet human industry has by incredible exertions in blowing up the rocks forred a zigzag path to its summits. So wlicn proud Kome, the A trie warrior bravM, Ami high on Alps Ins crimson hanncr wavM i Though rock'* on rock* their bcetjng brows oj\jK>*o, With piny fortstn and unfathom'l hnows? Where girt with cloud# the rifted mountain yawns, And chills with lenglhcn'd shades the gelid lawns i Onward ho marchM to l*atium's velvet ground, With dres and acids burnt the rocky hound, ? While o'er her weening vales destruction hurl'd. And shook the rising empire of the world. About midway we stopped to take a view of the town, which, even from this height, looks like one in miniature, the streets resemblimg the little houses which we see in toyshops t the whole assuming such a mimic appearance, that a person would bo almost tempted to think he could cover a considerable part of it with Ills hands.? Looking upwards, what a Contrast appears ! who, without emotions of terror, can behold such gigantic projections of rocks hanging over him, in so loose and disjointed a state, that the excited imagination paints them in the very act of precipitating themselves headlong down tile horrid steeps. Accidents of this kiAd some* times happen aftei^rain, by the wild goat* Climb* nig uiun^ me pii,;cboI the precipices, and loosing Hinall pieces of rock, which rolling dowri, dls place others still larger, till at length whole for rents of thorn come thundering clown into the valleys, to the astonishment anu terror of the in habitant*. As from the mountnin'* emgtfy tiirclior.d t'.rn, A rock't round fragment 1-e* with fury homo, Which tVom the ?ttihl?oru atone n torrent rrndi, I'nT.piimo the pond'rou* umm denrcnd* j From Meen to ?tc?|>the rolling niin hound.*, At every *ho?k tt?e echoing vale rewound*, Rt ill gathering force, it Mnikc*: and tirjf I nnviin, Whirlslrapi, Uthunder*down impetuous to the plain. On this account no person wns allowed to keep tame goats on the north side of the island, and a premium it given for shooting wild ones. On Ladder-hill nrc mounted twenty-two or twenty-four pieces of cannon t sortie ranged a long the brow of the cliff that overhangs (lie town, and others along that which overlooks the roads. 8ix or seven of these are mounted on depressing carriages, to as to Are right down in to the town and roads, thereby completely com manding those places t the.rest .are mounted on common carriages, and ??erve the purpose of a saluting battery. Over tliese piccipiies IVw of us would venture to look. I^st the br^iutum. nnd Ihc deficient Tipple down l.fljdlotij(-?f- , ? From lumen we proceeded for High Knoll, o vor a tract that seemed the very emblem of ste rility ) every step we ascended, presenting new views of rocks and mountains, congregated ou eachsidoin the widest order, nnd without exhi biting nil atom of vegetation ! Hucli is tho pros nect when within a few pace* of the summit of nigfrKiwll, and which is finely contrasted with the glassy surface of on immense expanse of o coon, which tlio great height of.thc place enables the ore (o survey. We now ascended to the tower on the top of tho Knoll, which we no sooner readied* than all this rude scenery vanished like a umgicnl illu sion 1 leaving the oyc to range oter a series of beautiful little tallies, groves, and lawns, ver dant m tlio spring, and affording luxuriant uns turago to tho flocks and herds that strayeu n inong them. Throughout this piospcct were in terspersed small plantations, gardens, and haild some little country bouses, the whole surround ed by a lofty irregular ridue of hills and nrenni ce?, that formed n grand outline, ami striking contrast to tlio picturesque kcciics thev enclo sed. Here onr attention wos chained i'or wmic time; till at length, oil descending the nouth Hide of the Knoll, which is rather steep, we arri ved at the governor** country residenc e, called Plantation House. . 'It Im situated on the side ?>i" a pleasant little valley, with small plantation;* km) gardens adjoining} and commands a very fine prospect of the^ca. In my opinion, howe ver the situation t|oo? no great crcdit to the per son who first pitched upon "it j as it is much infe rior to many place* which we afterwards saw.? Its proximity to tile town was probably the causo of its being preferred. Our road now took a winding direction, alon^ the declivities of winding littlo hills, whose green sides sloping down to the principal valley to the left, formed a number of little ulen* ami dells, from \$hose beauty one would be almost tempted to pronounce them the favourite haunts of fairies. We could not help stopping at eve ry turn of the road, to admire tin* interesting {landscape, whoso prominent features were pei tuaUy varying, from the different jnunts of view in wfdeh tney were seen. After a pleasant ride of about an hour, we came to Sandy-Hay Ridge, over which \va were to pass in our way to the bay of the -ante name. When near its summit we halted for a few min utes. in order to take a farewell look at tin-, northern prospect, not expecting to sec any thing like it on the island oirain ; So with long Ra*e fcdtniriiipt-ycs MioM The varied wndscupc nil in lights untold ; Huge rocks opposing o'er the stream project Their naked bosoms, anil the Ixwns n?furt i CJrccn sloping lawns construct'Vie sidelong srenr, And guide the sparkling till that glides between ; Dim hills Itelnnd, in pomp ?erUt r?*e, Lift tl?cir blue tops, and m<flt Into the skies. What then must l??,ye,^gPttout surprize, When, on mounting the rljW^/t-riBCCiie hurst up on our view, iih much aupe'nortb the one we hml ho reluctantly left, no tnfftfhe wan to a dreary health ? llut 1 shall not attempt to give a des cription of it. Had-Dr. Johnson, when writing hi* Prince of Abyssinia, been seated on Sandy Hay Uidjre, he might have described from na ture a valley more beautifully romantic than e ven his own fertile imagination has been able to form for young Hansel ah. Nature must certainly have been in one of her gootl?humored and inoftt^ whimsical creativo moods when she formed this bay, ami indeed St. Helena altogether } where (the bus strewed the sublime and beautiful with n band lil>eral even (o profusion, though in a very small space. In deed it might not, perhaps, be too poctical an idea to suppose, that nature, after finishing her great work, had retired to this solitude in the o cean, to construct at leisure a favorite scene, that would exhibit in miniature an assemblage of all the various features which she had scattered pro miscuously over the I'cst of the globe. DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. I present Huch readers as take delight in this nart of subject with an interesting letter which I received by a late arrival, from n correspondent in London whom I have not the honor of know* ing, hut who, if thin number of tho Kvcniu^ Post should over chance to meet hi* eye, will Iks plea to accept my beat acknowledgments. " to ru* kuitoh or Tiir. jr. t. r.vi.sijjo ?.?t. ? l/mlon,.2Kt fob. Ifllf?. " Sir?If the following account of the disco very of America, by the ancient llritish, .it a ve: ry early period should appear sufficiently inte resting, tne insertion of a lew paragraphs in your truly useful, valuable and re*poctahlo paper,"?ill greatly oblige many of your friends on this side cf th" water, who will be happy to give publici* in any of their papers, to hucii remarks as you may ne pleaded to express 44 It appear* from ltn? ? .... ?? iimiiij r|ii<?r.iI from various publication*, winch have boon ko Icctod by thu boat Hritish ar?ii<|tmi irs, both auri* out ami motlcrs that Prince Mndoc A p Owen Guv'neth, a Wfllcli Prince, discovered \nifrica, in the year 1170?throe hundred And twtnty two years be fori' tin* first voyage made. ?? v Co. lundm* ? mill the same Prince man toil ?al? ohmy on the we*t side of the M'ri.dssippi, the iIcm-i-h <iuiif? ??f whom are said (<? uulikiut in or near the same plactfbv above n hundred croilitnl.lf air - lhor?. who Imvo particularly expressed it : iind the tact in recognised in ancient Webb pm-liv, which existed lone; before thu fir#t voyasre v. a* |hm I'm inml by (Vlti'.nbii*. The l.vt writers on this ?ubjoct arc Or. Willininn. Itorlor of JiJy bin In.n, who ha* ;h*upiI two nublb .iiiocs, ainj tho Hev. (IforgR Murder, \. M. Ia(e of Coventry, who has i-sueil one?-ill of which aro repio'to with intororftinz intelliKcnce on thin poinl.? Tbo*o three booK-i have bicli peiu oil by flieh nrtt Mncko.v, rhK?f toale of (he Mnria, capt. Mil ler^ bound to Now-York. u for fin (her proof, please to lo<ik Into .'anion 'To-. o!!'< Lottery, vol. f, p. 71, cor.ccrnir.g tho