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BY D. W. SIM8, STATE PRINTER. COLUMBIA, SOU Til CAROLINA, JVLY91, 1820. VOLUME XV^HUMDEll 8^
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VARIETY.
MRS. RAMSBO T TOM'S TOUR.
AS IT ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN BULL
[continued.]
Parit, Dec. 28, 1823,
Dkar Mr. D.
I never wu to surprised in my life, m
?when we got your paper here, to tec thai
your printing people had called ma' and mc
lligginboitom. I was tore* and I told ma1
to,that it could not be your fault: bccuutc
you could not Iflive made tuch a mittakc in
my hand writing, nor could you have for
gotten me to much, as to have done iuch ?
thing; but I suppose you were to happy and
comfortable with your friends (forjudging
by the number of your enemies, you must
havt ahoat of them) at this merry neaaon,
that you did not pay so much attention to
yonr correspondents at usual. I forgive
you, my dear Mr- B. Christmas comes but
once a-rear, and 1 assure you, we had a
small lump of roast beef (portion /tour
deux), from M. Godcnu's, over the way,
to keep up our national custom-the man
actually asked ma' whether she would
have it de tnouton; so little do
they know anything about it. I send an-i
other portion of ma's diary; you spelt it |
dmiry in the paper: I don't know whether
ma' put it so herself; she is quite pleased at
seeing it published, and Mr.Yulmer called,
and said it was capital.
We have just comc from the ambassa
dor's chapel, and arc going to see St. Cloud
directly, so I cannot write much myself,
hut must say adieu. Always believe me,
dear Mr. B., yours truly,
LAVINIA RAM8BOTTOM.
ENGLAND AND FRANCE.
?Y DOROTHY JULIA RAMSBOTTOM.
( Continued, J
*' When we came near the French shore,
u batto (which is much the ttnme as n boat
in Englund) came off to ub, and to my
agreeable surprise, an Englishman camc
into our ship; and 1 believe ne was a man
of groat consequence, for I over-heard him
explaining some dreadful quarrel which
had taken place in our Koyal Family.
" He said to the master of our ship, that
owing to the Prince Leopold's having run
foul of the Dutchess of Kent while she was
in stays, the Dutchess had missed Deaf.
By which I concluded wo* a dispute at
cardst however, I want to know nothing
of state secrets, or I might have heard a
great deal more, because it apr ???????
the Dutchess's head was considerably in
jured In the aeufRe.
" I was very much distressed to see that
a fat gentleman who was in the ship, had
fallen into a fit of perplexity by over-reach
ing himself?he lay prostituted upon the
floor, and If It had not been that we had a
doctor in the ship, who immediately open
ed hia temporary artery and his jocular
vein, with alsncelot which he had in his
pocket, I think we should have seen his
end.
" It was altogether a most moving sncc
tacle: he thought himself dying, and afl his
-inxiety in the midst of his distress, was to
tie able to add a crocodile to his will, in fa
vour of his niece, about whom he appeared
very sanguinary.
*? It was quite curious to see the doctor
fleabottomixe the patient, which he did
without any acoldcnt, although it blew a
perfect harrico at the time. I noticed two
little children, who came out of the boat,
with hardly any clothes on them, speaking
French like anything} a proof of the superi
or education given to the poor in France, to
that which they get In England from Doctor
Bell of Lancaster.
'* When wc landed at Callous we ware
extremely well received, and I should
have enjoyed the sight very much, but Mr.
Fulater and another gentleman in the batto,
kept talking of nothing but how turkey and
urease disagreed with each other, which,
m the then state of my stomach, was far
from agreeable.
" We oaw the print of the foot of Louis
))eaweet, the French King, where lie first
stepped when ho returned to his c uotry:
he must be a prodigious heavy man, to havo
left such a deep mark in the stone; wc were
Surrounded by commissioners, who were so
hospitable ss to press us to go to their
houses without any ceremony. Mr. Ful
mer showed oor pass ports to a poor old
man, with s bit of red ribband tied to hi?
Jjutton-hole, and we went before the May
or* who is no more like a Mayor than my
f^ot-boy.
*
"Here they took a subscription M our
raont, and one of the m? n said that La
vinia had a jolly man ton, at which the
clerks laughed, and several of thcrn ?aid nhc
vraa a jolly feel, which ! afterward* un
derstood meant a (rretty girl; I mfounder
i.tood it for fee, which, being in a public
office* wat a very natural mistake.
" We went then to a placc they call the
D<*-Anne, where they took away the poll
c.f my barurh; 1 wat very angry at ?hi*, but
they told mc we were to travel in Lemon
ade with a biddy* which I did not under
hand, but Mr. Palmer wat kind enough to
explain it to mc an we went to the hotel,
-which to In a narrow street; and contain* a
garden and court-yard.
" I left it to Mr. raimcr to order dinner,
for I felt extremely piquant, m the French
call It, ami a very nice dinner it wi*?-we
had a purcy, which tasted very like wop;
one of the men Mid It wae made from leath
er, at tenet to I understood, but it had quite
tha flavour of hare*1 think it here right to
ouliM traveller* aaaintt the A?h at thW
place, which look* very Rood, but which
I have reatfe te believe in very unwhole
womc, for one of the waiter* called it poiwm
while apeak tag to the other t the fifth waa
called maris* jjiii iii, bat it appeared like
?? They are ao fond of Bvonepart* ?%ill,
that they call the table-atatha Mt/i?, in
^Mbolment to him?thla t remarked to
myself, but Mid nothing about it to any bo
dy else, for fear of conseqeenccs.
" Oat of the waiter* who moke English,
nuked me If I would have a little Bergami,
which surprised me, till Mr. Fulmer said,
it was the wine he was handing about when
I refused it, preferring to take a glass of
Bucephalus.
?? v lien we had dined we had tome cof
fcc, which it here called cabriolet; after
which, Mr. Fulmer asked if wc would have
u chassc, which I thought meant a hunting
party, and Raid I was afraid of going into the
held* at that time of night--?but I found
chatse wnsa tickure callcdcureo?or<> (from
its healing qualities, I suppose,) and very
nice it was?-after we had taken this, Mr.
Fulmer went out to look at tho Jolly feels in
the shops of Callous, which I thought indis
creet in the cold air j however, I am one as
always overlooks the little piccadlliics of
youth.
" When we wont to nccoucher at night, I
was quite surprised m not having a man for
a chambermaid; nrnt if it had not been for
the entire difference of the stile of furni
ture, the appearance of the place, and the
language mid dress of the attendants, I
should never have discovered that we had
changed our country in the course of the
day.
" In the morning early we left Callous
with the Lemonade, whieh it Shafts, with
a very tall |>o?t-boy, in a violet-colofired
tackct, trimmt d witlt silver; he rode a little
torse, which i n ?ii<- ' a biddy, and wore a
nobbed tail, wUl.t*. thumped against hit
back like a patent wMf-actiuy knocker.
We saw near Bullion, Buonaparte's conser
vatory, out of which he used to look at
England in former day*.,
I ?? Nothing remarkable occurred till we
1 met a courier travelling, Mr. Fnlmer said,
I with despatches these men were called
' couriers immediately alter the return of the
Bonbons, in compliment to the London news
paper, which always wrote in their favour.
At Momrole, Mr. Fulmer shewed me
Sterne's Inn, and there he saw Mr. Sterne
himself, a standing at the door, with a
French cocked hat upon his head, over a
white night cap. Mr. Fulmer asked if he
had any because* in his house: but he said
no; what they were 1 do not know to this
moment.
"It is no use describing the different
places on nur roui, becuusc Paris is the
Kreut object of nil travellers, and therefore
I shall come to it nt once?it ii reproached
by n revenue of tree*} on the right of which
you see a dome, like that of Saint Paul's but
not wo large. Mr. Fulmer told me it wai an
invalid, it did certainly look very yellow in
the distance; on the left you perccive Mont
Martyr, so called fi om the number of wind
mills upon it.
** I was very much surprised at the
height of the houses, and the noise of the
carriages in Paris: anu was delightened
is just opposite the Kornl Timber-yard,
which is a fine building, the name of which
is cut in stone?Timbre Royal.
"The hotel which 1 have mentioned, is
in the Hue de la Pay, so called from its be
ing the dearest part of the town. At one
end of it is thcpincc Fumdttm, where there
it a pillow as high as the Trojan's Pillow at
Rome, or the pompous in Rgypt; this is a
beautiful object, and is made of all the guns,
coats, waistcoats, hats, boots and belts,
which belonged to the French who were
killpd by the cold in Prnssia at the fire of
Moscow.
" At the top of the pillow is a small apart
mcut, which they call a yavillion, and over
that a white flag, which T concluded to be
hoisted as a remembrance of Buonaparte,
being very like 'lie table-cloths I noticed at
Callous.
"We lost no time in going into the gar
dens of the Tooleries, where we saw the
statutes at large in marvel i here we ?aw
Mr. Backhouse and Harry Edney, whoever
th?y might be, and a beautiful grope of Cu
pid and Physic, together with several of
the busks wntch Lavy has copied, the ori
ginal of whleh is in the Vacuum at Rome,
which was formerly an office for govern
ment thunder but is now reduced to a stable
where the Pope keeps his bulls.
" Travellers like us, who are mere birds
of prey, have no time to waste, and there
fore we determined to see all we could in
each day, so we went to the great church,
which is railed Naughty Dam, where we
saw a pi iest doing something at an altar
Mr. Fulmer begged metoobserve the knave
of the church, nut I thought It too hard to
call the man names in his own country, al
though Mr. Fulmer said he believed he
was exercising the evil spirits in an old la
dy in a black cloak.
" It was it great day at this church, ami
we tUid for m??s so called Irom the crowd
of people who attend it?the priest wa? ve
ry much incensed?we waited put the
whole ceremony, and heard Tcdcum sung,
which occupied thre^iours.
??We return^diWcr the Pont Neuf, to
called from being the north bridge in Pa
ris, And hern we taw .1 beautiful image of
Henry Carter; it is extremely handsome,
and quite green?I fancied I saw a likcncs*
to the Carters of Portsmouth; but if it hone
of hi* family, his posteriors are very much
diminished in *i*e and figure.
"Mr. Fulmer pr ?posed that wo ?hould
go and dine at a tavern called Very?bc
eaute every thing is very good there; and
I never watto malapropos in my life: there
were two or three Indies quite id nubibut;
but when I came to look at the bill o! (are,
I wh quite andeatcd, for I perceived that
Charlotte de Pom inn might be *er?t for o?ie
thilling nnd twopence, and l'.?tt> dr Veau
forhalf-r?-crown. I desired Mr. Fulmer to
let ut go; but he convinced mc there wa'*no
harm in the place, by thewing me a digni
fied clergyman of the ehurch of England
and hit wife, a eating away 1 k?: anything.
??We had a voule* vout of fowl, and
tome tailor's eeto, which were very nice,
and tome pieces of crape, no divguistd by
the tattce that nobody who had hern told
what it was, would have distinguished them
from pancake*; after the sailor'* celt, we
had tome pantaloon eutlctt, which were ta
voury: but t did not like the writing paper;
however, at it ?M * French cuttom, I cat
every t?M of it (they call *p*rrow-grt?t here
??perg?, f aoold not An* out wh*.
" IfI had not seen what wonderful men
the French oooks arc, who actually stew up
shoes with partridges, and make very nice
dishes too, 1 never could have believed the
influence they have in the "politios of the
country} every thing is now decided by the
cooks, who make no secret of their feeling*
and the party who are still for Buonaparte
call themselves traitors, while those who
are partisans of the Bonbons are termed
Kcstaurateures, or Irieuds of the Restora
tion.
" After dinner a French tnonsheur, who,
I thought, was a waiter, for he had a bit of
red ribbon at hia button-hole, just the same
as one of the waiter* had, began to talk
to Mr. Palmer, aid it wa* agreed that
wc should go to the play?they talked of
Kacing and Cornbill, which made me think
that the inounsheur had been in England;
however, it was arrnnnged that we were to
go and tee Andrew Mnckay at the Francay,
or Jem Nnrsc.or the Bullvards: but at last
it waa decided unanimously, crim con. that
we should go to aee Jem Kane, and so we
went?but I never saw the man himself af-1
ter all.
" A very droll person, with long legs nnd
a queer face, sung u *or>g, which pleated
me verv much, becutse 1 understood the
end of u perfectly: it was *ul de I?1 dc IhI
de Ul,' and *ouuded quite like English.
After he hart done, although every body
laughed, the whole house called out ? beaut,
beast,' and the man, notwithstanding, was,
foolish enough to sing It all over again."
" Mountaguttftlnce, \
Friday, jfirtt.M, 1824. 5 I
"My Dkar Mr,
" I think you will ho auiprisodat the pro*
Herintion of this letter, witn the P. P. mark
of tno twopenny pout; but poor Mr Hams
bottom being seriously ill-disposed, wo
were off from Paris at a uiomen'ts notice,
for as good fortune would have it, my em
hatgo, which 1 wroto about, wan quite re
moved, by the use of Steem's hospalittle
dog and bang shows overy night.
17 Mr. H. in a litUe (tetter, and lias lost a
?ood deal of what the French call no up; in
end our medical man relies very much on
tho use of hiii lancaulot. The fact in, that
the turtle* is come over from the West
Hinges, and Mr. 11. committed a fox jaw
at the King's Head, in the Poultry, which
caused our doctor t (who lives in this neigh
bourhood, and is lively as he is kind) tosuy,
that as Mr. Ramsliottom nearly died by
Bleaden, so blcading must restore him.
Bleuden is tho name of the gentleman who
keeps tho King's Head, and bleeding, as
you know, is the vulgar term (br fleatat
tomiptag.
"I fear you have not received mv journ
al regular; nor do I think 1 havo tofdyou of
our seeing the I,ouvor, which we did tho
very day before w? left l.nnm.
amongst thrive moat. A a for Reuben's pic
tures, I could not look at them: for though
Mr. Fulmer kopt talking of the drapery, I
aaw no drapery at all; and in one, which is
of Adonaas preventing Venice from Iwing
chaste, the lady is sitting on a gold r.triped
jacket. Mr. Fulmer said alio had got an
enormoua anacreoniam, at which LaVy
laughed; ad I suppose it had aome allusion
to nor favoato write* Mr. Moore, who ia
called Anacreon?why I could never under*
atand, unless it rofors to tho fashionable
Maladies, which ho has introduced into tho
boat society.
" A boauliful statute of Apollo with the
Hypocrite pleased mo very much, and a
Fawn, which looks liko a woman, done by
Mons. Praxytail, a French stone Mason, ta
really curious. I
" A picture of the Ricknolls, ia I auppoae
a family gropo; but tho young womon ap
peared tipay, which ia an odd atate tone
drawn in. The statute of Manylawa ia
very fine, and ao is Cupid'and Physic, dif
ferent from tho ono which 1 noticed be
fore.
" Mr. Fulmer showed us some small old
black pictures, which I did not look at.
much, because he told us they were Rem
nants, and of rourae very inferior. A fine
painting, by Carlo my Hearty, pleased me;
and we saw also aoinething, by Hall Vata
roaa, a lady, who waa somehow, concern
ed with the little woman I havo seen at
Heckam Fair, in former days, called Lady
Mortran.
??We had ono dinner at Riches, a coffee
houxe on the Ilullwardx, and cuHour
enough, it wax the very day th*t poor Mr.
Ram overeat himaelf in the city. Wo had
MonmHtewed Angle*. and a couple of Pull*,
done up in a dixh of Shoo; whicli Uinuchof
a inurhnom with Kngliah fowl andcabbage.
We had afterward* an amulet aulphur, and
aomo thing* done in crumb* of bread, which
they wanted to pa** off* upon me an wheat
ear*; Imt I had not lived at Brighton two
*ea4on* for nothing, and do happen to know
tho diflWciici' between wheat-fan and oy?
ter*-,and no I told them.
" Mr. Fulmer ordered a bottle of Oil of i
I'urdry, which tast<*d ? g<Nn| deal like
('hampaigne, Imt he Kaid it wan mouse; the
SrU liked it, and Lavy laughed no loud,
at who quite a*tnni*hcd an officer of the j
rhindammery, who wan drinking cafe at
the next table.
" I havo left my third and fourth daugh
ter* in Pari*, to fl'nitdi their education; they
will Im taught f jty tiling that girl* can
l>o taught, awl am to he regularly boarded
every da jr (without regard to itaheing Lent)
fur lewt than aoventy pound* per ann. and
thoy learn w> many more thing* in France
than girl* do in Kngland, that when thoy
return they might set up for mmtrefMc*
theinnilvoa. What ?n advantage there
I mu??i Im to a young woman, who m likely
to have m.e?mon for H in hor latter end, in
a continent (duration; they call thene
*chool? puncheon*. .
" I ricmired, of counts, that Popi*h
Prater, or Pri**t, tmgM have po con.?,,nj.
riitinti with tiiy gin*. I don't approve of
what they call the horal conf?m*ion; to tw
Mire it in a mere matter of feeling; hut I taw
one yoking lady in Haint HurplXto one day
a eonfcuaing away to a fine handaome Pra
ter, and I though it would been much bet
ter done in eome private ptaee, than a
ehureh. I noderwtorxl afterward* ahe waa
a lady who had been long married, hut her
huahand had no hair to til* property, und
rhe uwf to rotno every day and eonffa to
*n?lprmy for a child?poor thing,
J very much in ?rn?t 1
i onion of Lavy with Mr. Maimer
i? the French call it) ooMtlnp?.1
' ren to the Lut moment, Lavy and
aw analyxing themselves ?> go
> great picture of Pompey, in tho
Lavy means to write to you next
rwclf. Your* truly,
DOROTHEA J. R A M SBOTTOM."
\
Oi the visit of James the first of England,
to & J and in the yaar 1617, he ?u very
desli it to hear a syllogistic disputation.
He a ordiiigiv ordered the Professor* of
Edin rgD college, which he was accus
tom c to oall his own college, to attend him,
in thi "oynl chapel at Sterling castle, on
an aji tinted day, where he was surround
ed by he flower of the nobility and by ma
ny I? ited men of both nations. Tho sub
ject c iispuUiiou had been previously an*
noun d
Mi Henry Charters, th <s principal, be
ing ntrnc to such a publ' opearance? de
put eJMr. John Adam* ., -ne of the pre*
fessca to preside in the disputation { and
Mr.lameH Kairley to defend the thesis:
Mr. Andrew King, Mr. lames Hcid and
Mr.hViUlam King were appointed to im
puglit. The king made his remarks up
on ij which he delivered with grtit?utho>
rityftnd pedantry, but not with much deli
c<(ck* One ol the theses was on M1oea) mo
tion' The Jtiug was much pleased with
thef cfence ahd advanced some arguments
ngijist the thesis, observing with great tri*
unfit, to some of the doctor* near him,
?? fe*c men know Aristotle* m)nd as well
asImtelf white lie lived."
In some of the other theses, liis Mfhjc?t>
sometimes spoke for the impugner and
sdietimes for the defender, in good latin,
a| with considerable knowledge of tchol
afc philosophy.
After disputation, the king went to iup
I r, and toon after commanded the masters
< the college to wail upon him, and in their
] esence, he disconrsCd very learnedly* of
I the purposed which had been agitated,
id then arireuicd the actors.?" Me
links" said he, " these gentlemen hy their
jylnnmeo, have been destined for the
irts they have acted to-dav. Mr. Adam
( n you were president?Adam was the Ca
t err of all, and very fitly Adam-son had the
{ nt part of the act. I he defender H justly
< lira Fair-lie?his thesis had aome Jair
I r, ami he supported them fahrlt/, and
i th many fair lit a given to the impugners.
i id why sriould nut Mr, Hands he the first
t enter the tandt, but now I clcarly sec
t it all sandx nte not batren, for ccrtainly
} hath shewn a feekles* wit. Mr. Young
i tcry old in Aristotle. Mr. lived need
t Lbe red with blushing for his acting to
Y??rp .?arf
nirtry of reawn over anger and all the pas
?ions/* (Jn . who stood by, told his Migesty
that t9*ty was one of the company of whom
he hsd fftten no notice, viz : Mr. Henry
Chater*, principal. "Though averse to
*pea( in fiulitic in so great an assembly,"
wUqr answered the king " his name agi-e
eth jery well to his nature, tor charters
con tin much matter, yet say nothing, but
put k*at purposes in men's mouths/'
H majesty continued hi* discourse, up
i ^ purjK>*cs of the dispute, till ten
, o'cl<k at night, ami professed that he was
excfiiugly satisfied with the exhibition I
Outline? of P/iilutofihical JiJu
eatk>
ANtlSH INN KEEPEft?ar.o:?T ??*tco
P.ng% GmtUfKfin. Hollo? House.
Lamfd. I don't know any one of that
tint hereabout*.
Gent Arc you the matter of this Inn?
Lant Yet, sir, pirate your honor?when
mjtte's from home.
OrnrBave you a bill of fare?
IjumYes, sir, surely-the fair of Kildo
renjiext week, and Ballys pug molanc
thdftk titer.
Gen/Tut?-how are your bed#?
IjancJtry well, I thank you sir.
flm/fvour cellar good?
IxititAli, never fear that sir?I only
wane buyers to make mc the sel~
ler 1
Gentl your port fine?
Jband ever a finer port in the three
khq s, Sir than Cork lmrbor?and
*ur quite convenient to it.
Gent' ivcyou Any mountain?
Ixtnd n, sir, plenty?the whole coun
try 1 of mountain*.
Gent ive you anv porter?
Ijano no I, is ft??I'll engage Pat is
an i lent porter; he'll make out any
plo|atl.
(ientM. 1 mean Dorter to drink.
iMtui , sir, he'd drink the ocean?not
id i that.
(Jen/1 vc you any fi*h?
fjina cy rail myself an odd f.*h.
dent, think no, I hope you are no
thfi
iMttd , ?lr, indeed?-I'm no lawyer. I
(Sent re you any sole.' |
Ijotid ryour boot* and *hoe*t tir.
Gttil a!?have you any plaice?
Iximt ?ve not, wr; hut 1 wa% promised
ont I only vote the way 1 did not at
the cction.
Iienl. c you any wild fowl?
Jxtnd :yfreUmc enough now, for that
ma< >T they have been killed theto
ten!
(3entI *t ?c myteff.
I.una wclcome, ?lr?I'll fetch you
a h ;la*? iu a minutr. ? Lonil, /At.
Kid
i courage and grnrroitfK?*
M-equal bravery, ulthwigfi by
kjutuly match rd hi aixe ami
bucninr to meet near the front
fch?c, in n?u m?wh, of Hcot
I a fierce battle* the noi*, .a
|rew to one of the window* the
tuition. To her Infinite terror,
Jfcr only ton, a boy between fire
atwlMlofage, belabouring with ft Miff
ct*J|?4w?ter of the befllgerentt.?
"fttilufftMt wluit are you about >M
excllr lUrr.ghted w*hir. "Help
ing ttluln vm the gallant yonng he
rZe'rif rn* Iff. (Jin <
{From Hi* Foraige lUvievr.]
Clam pi, one of tbe most eminent of mo
dern Arehoeoiucists, has written a paper to
prove that the Runic character* are only
variations of the Greek and Latin charac
ter*, which tbe Celt* and Scandinavians
brought home with them after their Incur
iions into the Roman Territory.
The Marquess de Fortiad' Urban and M.
Mielle announce a complete History of Por
tugal, from the earliest period to the time
of l)en Miguel to be contained in ten vol*
times.
De Maries, the translator of Con tic's His
tory of the Arabian domination in Spain, has
announced the two ft ret volume* of the gene
ral History of India, from 2000 years A. C.
to the present time?It will exrxad to six
vols, 40.
The Geographical Institute (of Paris)
consists of 348 member*, amltheteare at
preneitt 23 travellers employed on missions
with a premium for Important dlteovfries,
in Peru, Colombia, Chili, Pertia, India,
Thibet, Arabia, Georgia, Armenia, Nubia,
Abyssinia, the Antilles, and round the
world.
It is wall known thai no institution ie Eu
rope is so rich in oriental MSS. as the Roy
al Library at Paris. The last catalogue
was printed in 1739, and since that time the
number has been more that doubled. For
some years past a new catalogue of the Ara
bic, Persian and Turkish MSS. has been
preparing, and it is now shortly expectcd?
The notes of Silvestre de Sacy, which will
accompany It, give promise of the highest
authority in this branch of oriental litera
ture. <? , :
[In manuscripts in Chinese, Mantchoo,
&c. the Imperial Library of St. Petersburg
is probably fur richer than the Kings' libra-'
?tyat Paris.?-Ed. Tel.]
M. Charlen Lucas, a leading member of
thfe French bar; In the course of an answer
to an article of the Duke of l)rogtle, on the
punishment, of death, contend* tliat the
fear of death hat little influence upon the
criminal, and that the chance rf escaping it/
gives him strong encouragement. He states
that, in France, a person acoubed.of a capi
tal crime lias from fifty to eighty two chan
ces of acquittal in the hundred; and that
even when condemned, lie has an equal num
ber of chauccs in his favor that he will not
suffer death. In illustration of his position
he gives the following table
1U26 1827
Accused 915 876
Condemned to death 150 109
Commuted 28 30
Executed 110 75
From this he goes on to show, tlint from
the prevailing horror of the punishment of
death which is felt by juries, and the legal
clianccs of escape, the criminal is encour
aged in his course; whereas the dread of *o
*?r perpetual hunt labor
{tnigh^ opei ate strongly Upon him.?Lou J
Sobriety by no means ranks among the
conspicuous virtue* of our general popula
tion (New South Wales;) muny very many
of our dear citizen*, krepine up devoutly
the religious festival of St. Patrick from
year's end to year's end. " Why, Dennis"
said 1 to u Hibernian, whom I had seen for
mMip weeks in a state of obttvlon "surely
St. Patrick could not be born on every day
of the last month!"-?Moch, it is only my
own bad memory that makes me no partic
ular, sir; for having a mighty love for the
saint/ you see, ! always begin keening his
birth a fortnight beforehand, le^mhoutd
forget the day; and after it isove^Qhy the
devil burn me but I always forget to leave
off!Cvnnintfhatn't two yean in A'rw
South IVuIf.
jtnclent Painting$?The newly discover
ed paintings at Pompeii are far superior to
those previous! v found, and prove that pain
ting among tho ancients, was not below the
other arts. The frcsco paintings on the
walls of a very pretty house, representing
Ganymede carried off by the uujlc, ana
Bacchantes, arc not unworthy, of a Julio
Komanoor Giovanni di Udmc. Others,
with architecture, entirely refute the no
tion which some persons entertain that the
ancients were ignorant oi perspective; for I
the perspective drawing of the buildings is
pertect.?Loud. J At. Gas. f
The Traitor Arnold.'?The Traitor M
nold jMMeMod undoubtedly, animal cour
age; he could aUnd before a battery/ and
rail on his men to advance. He we* once
at a royal levee, directly after the clone of
the American war, when ho wan intro
duced to an Knglixh Lord, an Hie Ameri
can General Arnold '! Wh*f, the alitor
Arnold !" exclaimed thoNobknnan turning
on hia licet with dlagunt. A challenge wan
givon by tho General?acccntcd by h?4
antagonist, who received hia Are, and dia*
charged hia own pistol in tho air. " Why
do you not return the firol" exclaimed
the General. " Bocpuxe I am not an ex
ecutioner," replied tlio nobleman, folding
hi* arms, ana looking disdainfully over
one ahouklor at hia atitagoniat, aa he walk
ed aullenly from tho ground.?Chronicle.
A portrait of O'ConneU, the great IrUh
Liberator.?He i* a tall man, of jrimttc
manly appearance, somewhat iticlin*d to
*toop, anil, aw I thought, between ftPy and
sixty rear* of ago. Hi* faro in plotting, I
would almost say handsome:?aH hi* or
atory in of a fluent, easy, eonrtdcnt sort.,
which lieapealca in liim a perfect conscious
ness of hia own power*, and ereatea in hi*
auditor* a fading that they are listening to
a man of talent and a gentleman. OC'on
hell may err?Irish c?<thnsiafni may cart),
as it haa already, in many instance*, car
riad him too far, lait he I* not to be sneered
at, nor one who i* to lie regarded aa nothing
moro than a violent doeUumer. Let any
one see hiui and hear him In tho Four
Court*, and in the asaociation room*, m I
' Mffl beard him, and he will eomfrm that
O a tafentod, aa well a? an ele
K^OtMAtiHi vncfpiiioyiAiid Imtiirinitiv*. Stic)
with {Uofwltlnr
b^aiess^-r *",m"?*5
?HA that look hit noii I
wr at Rnnb, and H to i
now dlfect* the ener*
population (?* yre1an4.
AGRICULTURAL.
??
cultivation 1
clay aoMaon
mucA //4* a
sure good crop* in dry aead
Deep ploughing and effective
tionaro the two principal^M
tended to. inordertnthoaH
lib well known that, in il
noil, after a long drought, the
will be flbund extracted to the I
three feet and upwaide; while If
of the eameauil kept in aetata o? i
a mibetano* la, the more pow]
conduct heat} therefore,^
the more eom
and the mure
rapidly will It conduct the'heat downward
into the ground. By pulverising the soil,
and rendering it porouft, you ?Overt it from a
feed Into a had conductor of boat, .
opening it* pore* lor toe admMon ofmoia?
ture. Moisture toeMllh through tbeee
mately penetrate, became heuvy rama forco
the |mrtU)lea of earth into such cloce ooatact
as to admit of their ?nriiii| their cohcaivo
affinities upon each other, ransiui
caking of tlw ground in stiff IsimIi i
ring the farther penetration of that
As an instanee at the strong pat
power of dew;?when 1 slept
canvass tent during the winter i
months, in thia colony, the daw
way so effectually that the blank
bed; afl<?er<ffjr'thing i? Jkct
tent, Were neanV as wet aa the
vide; and through * small hole f
could bawly thrust a nail, I '
falling dew penetrating lixe
It is by meana of their sp< .
tk itdewssnd other vi_
and if inroad was thus
close cauvasa of a t
what must ft* the case in respect to i
porous wall pulveriaed Boil! It V
vitably And its way to the vary
tho porous portion,or ss deep ini
pulverization extended} and thomorOi
minuted the soil, the more room w
there bo for the moisture to lodge in. .When
we see Iteavy dews lying upon the |
blades in a summers morning, and
because in a well pulverised Hold under n
course of cultivation, tho greater part of
this vapour would have descended by its
specific gravity through tho open notes,
and have become Ultimately united with
tho soil. Whore tiro soil is not very porous,
thoeo dews merely lie upon tho surrace, and
are imbibed cliiefly by the attractive pow
ers of the soil for water; wheress in the
other description, the water is carried down
in both these ways."
"The boat remedies fur this evil
burning up of plant* in Aft neut^titi] in
du aoil* arc, early sowing and de<p
ploughing. By the Jlrt you cfcabletbo
wheat to take deep root, shoot wall up. ud
defend the ground from the action of ttm
sun's rays, when summer cotnmfences; and
by the second, enable the ground to store a
kulfickmey or moisture for Aiftberinrtfce
vogetation in that parching m?m. 'War
ter is the medium by which the nutritive
particles are conducted through the tube*
of tbo plants. If too abundant in the aoQ.
or too quickly forced through the vessels of
the plant by heat, vegctatfoA will be rapid,
and the product spongy; but where, on the
other hand, there tea deficiency of mois
ture, the product will be andl, though
comparatively m^rt? compact, ft is in the
maintenance ofA proper equilibrium of this
kind, therefore tliat we must seek theae
curinp of compact grain, tho wheat from
our uphuMlrorustsousbeingftotn six to eight
pounds pdr bushel heavetr than that from
our alluvial*, while the wheat from the lat
ter ix^iore spongy, owing to ita more ra
pid/rowth."
1 /(The ?>hole of the authort o&tervation*
/n derfi fitoughing art extremely judlclout,
and we regret that want of room /iree/udn
ut from making further extract*? Ski we
think hit Ideat at to the fit netrating efftct*
of dew, while worthy of attention are not
warranted, by experience, to their full ex
tent. It ha* long tlnee been remarked by/
farmer* that the wheat produced in the
touthern etate* it much heavier than that
firodueed at the north%?Ed. TBt,.]
Ifog?.?"Th?y are usually fattened with
Indian corn. given whole in the cob,
which in far front an economical mode of
appropriating that grain, but Uie difficulty
and expense of shelling and cracking it,
in tho great l>nr to its being ground. Put
ting the coha into a barrel several data be
fore giving them to the pint* will, in a
great measure, answrir allthopurpot
grinding, aa the grain thua
purposes of
becorocs soft,
land ia easier masticated and digested. It wl
a common saying among the scotch house
wife*, that for everv pound of salt you give
a fatting pig, vou nave in return a pound
of pork; ami tho herring salt ia bought up
in 8cotland for thia very purpoee."?
ixmixrio.
(Kri.m tb? t:ti?riO'lnB Merr.nrv 1
A writer in the National IntftUigenrcr
nominate Mr. \Vm-r, lata Attorney Gen
eral of tlio United State*, a? a mndulate tor
the office of V ice- Praanleney. The pfiw
vcrance of tho Clay |>arty in nominating
candidate* lor office in really a*toni*hta|r,
knowing aa they do that no man nf that
party hn the leant pro*p?*t of mmmn.
Their K?ral, indeed, i* only equalled hy
their weakneaa. The fiurter they die, the
' Afht.
Ti?.(rfV*.)lhen?*ly appointed
to l-Wo arrived in New York
in*t to await the arrival of the
km Frigate from Norfolk, in
and Mr. Mc!*tie, the Miniater
d, were to rmh irk for their rife
ratiem