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l ma i'OETR Y. gmszsgr* repeat, I love J fr' - ? ' ? ~ FHOM TUM CEOHGIA A D V KH'1'1 S K & . I love, but not 10 see the eye Of beauty brighten when 1 speak ; I love, but not to hear the sigh That drowns iq tears a woman's cheek. X love, but not the sparkling bowl That moves on dissipation's board; I love, but not to imoiK the soul Of man placed on his ill^got hoard. I love, but not the breath of Spring That kisses every blushing flowery I love, but not lo hear the ring Of cannon in the midnight hour. f Hove, but not to *ee the sky _ Dress'd op in blight cerulean bkiei I love, but not to tear the lie K*. That traveller* tell so oft? -mon dicu.4 i ? ' r-i' irnv ^01* tkeJft&JU p aitcon* ? ,' INTER B8T1Q NARRATIVE, >v u ing Ob Mmeh9H| wliicb Ke-'de *?V? was |.?n ?a, a> few days since for pull by Mr. William Anderson, - " * of It. We had ? conversation with he communicated circumstances, leav fnds aft entite cop viction, is^eli through the scenes ^ _ may give tome further particulars of his htato~ ?y ill a future outtiber. Inihe mean iim#$ we 1/rilT ofoly say* that he is a InaiLof stron^ thou5>ji uncultivated tnindr of plain* and unsophisticated manners, adA possess^ a very re tentive memory, which has enabled liim (though debarred the privilege -^coiriqmting-atiy fact to paper) dur ing this involuntary exile from fcM country, to keep a -register of events and occurrences so correctly, that lie js willing to give them to the public -* **? the sanction of an oatti ? hav-, eviously established his claims to credibility. He has left this place for Winchester, ami we are in daily expectation of hearing; of his safe iMjfani Anderson, aged 37 years, (stftf of David Anderson, farmer.) a native of tlijs eHijte, was born at Ghesnut Level, Frederick county, near Winchester* > About Iffth Jan. 180S, having entered into partnership wttMieorge JWmson, {a young man about his own age,) son of a farmer of the eame name, ako residing in Frwi erick county, (hey left the place of] Iheir nMivrty tot Pittsburgh, whence they proceeded, with a number of flat bottomed bouts, loaded with veni son hams, bear skins, flour* whis key, tobaocti^ahd some cotton, down the Ohio to JW. Orleans. Here, hav ing sold their cargo, they purchased, a brig called the Betsey, vf N. Or leans, navigated hy capt. Geo. Ed Wards, Qti&totfk in a cargo of flour and dry goods, for occowit of Mr. Geo. Morgan of !N. Orteans, hik! |Miu W?, Morgan, York, e^led from that port on the 10th . of the same year, on a lra*Kug voyage, for Bio Janeiro, where they id of the cargo for spt&ie $ they were to proceed up the K&fea, and down the Coromaudel * to Cantoa. On or about the 1808, Anderson and John 4 seamen and to negro boys, lire on a fowling excnrnion, Arabian tsi tore, near Manilla, trere captured by i parly of wild Aral*. A. and J. were separated from their companions and carried to the Persian Gulph, whrtv they were sold to an Arab, who was lite Scheik of Russet k a inm, known in thatcoun* tiy by the name of Scheik Ahdallah. chief of th? Wahabee Pirates.? What became of the seamen and ne groes he canuot tveu conjecture. Al t<?T acquiring a toWalily correct knowledge of the language, and he oiniug useful Hi the military service, they were treated with great kindness, .ml at the expiration of two year* >tnd a half, they were transferred, under strong recommendations, tu i he Gwicuar, Priuce of <Juzzeral. residing at Broil era, the chief towu of that principality. They were now invested w4th a command in the army of theCwicuar, and contended with the forces of the British East India Company, until the death of the Gwicuar, on the succession of his son to the government, he made peace with the English, who deman ded that Anderson and Johnson should be given to them. The de mand however was not acceded to. At this juncture the Mabratta states were engaged in active hostilities against the English, and Anderson and Johnson were seut to join the standard of Fesantrow Holkar, one of 'heir chiefs. * The Mahrattaforcea were very successful, until the gen eral pacification of the European con tinent enabling the English to rein farce their army very .considerably, the Mahrattas were unable longer to contend wl them, and suffered a total s defeat on flie 25th c5r April, 1817? in a gener&l?engngetnenfti*ith the British under Gen. Malcolm, on the plains of Meedfioor, in* which battle Johnson teas killed _ The Maiiralta army b??iog now complete ly put to the route, and the English aud their allies in fall possession, of tlie country, Anderson bethought himself of an expedient to make. his escape, and for Ukis- purpose disgnis ed himse)f in the character of aMa home tan pilgrim going to Mecca, and made his escape to Muscat, where he was seized by the Sultan, put on board the East India Company V brig Vestal, capt. Watson, and carried into Bombay. ' Not finding any AinertomTStmsul, of American shipping at; Bombay, he was compelled to work his pas s4ge on board the British East India a|ip Hertfordshire, capt. Hope, to Canton, and thencc to the |>ort of iJondon, where be arrived aboutl 7th or 18th Sept. last, and madf Jinov^n bis rfrcumsta&ces loltol. Aspinwallf American consul at that pert, who treated him with great kindness, and sent him home* in the ship Henry Clay, capt. Oant, which m rived in ilampton. 1 toads oh the 3d inst. Mlieuce lie came up io this place.-? kind and merciful Providence, that he is onCe more permitted to tread his native soil, although in a very destitute condition. It is bit in ten ujwt to proceed immediately to the; place of bid nucl as soon as circumstances will permit, to |>ublisli a correct narrative of the interesting scenes through which he has passed, during -an exile of 18 yeal# in a country where civilization is alm65t a stranger. He has ample material* f^r such a history, v* hie h in tlie hand* pi a mat) of erudafion, would, lie thinks, yield a volume no less gratify ing to the, curious thau useful to the^ historian. From the A\>w- York Columbian. j Mr. Spooner,? If the following narrative is of sufficient interest to otcnpy a ph.ee in your columns, von wilt oblige by the insertion. Pfel eii Otbaqi5ktYr was I m son] of a man of cbrtsrdera tion among tlfo Indians of our frontier He lie longed to the nation of the Oneidas, and was classed among a divisiou of ihfciti designated l?y (he appclation <?t the Wolf tiibe. At the close of the revolutionary war, lie was no ticed hy the Marquis de lit Fayette, a iiohlnnan who, to KrtarHftl JlVoWess and a noble zeal for liberty, united the tuust philanthropic fcf.lingft.-r After the successful struggle ft* in dependence required only a formal acknowledgment from our opprtfe ^ors to perfect it, it appeared as if die Marquis still aimed ai the extottl sion of further benefit Co that coun try towards tlie (-mancipation (jf vhicli lie had so materially contribu* e<i. Viewing, therefore, this young ?avagk With ^etuLar inkiest, ain\ anticipating the happy results to In derived from his moral regeneration, he determined (o take him, though scarcely IS years ohl* France. ? Peter arrived at thai period when Louis XVI. and Macie . Antoinette were in the zenith of then* glory. lle was there taught every actum plishment of a gentleman; no care, was spared in giving him every ue cessary instruction to this was added the study of fXsic, drawing, and fencing; aiiHhe danced with a grace that a VestruNraiM net ^o( ad mire. At about , 18, his separation from a country, in which he hail spent his time so agreeably and so profita bly became necessary, a*id, laden with favours from the Marquis, and the miniatures of those friends he hat! left behind, he departed for America!, buoyed up, perhaps, wkh the idea that the deep ignorance in which -the nation to which he belong ed was buried, with that of the In diaos of (lie whole continent, might be dispelled by his efforts, and be become the proud instrument of the civilization of thousands. He came, soon after his arrival, to the city of Albany ? not the uncivilized savage ?not with any of those marks which bespoke a birth in the foiest, or years spent in prowling tire wilds of an un cultivated country ? but |K>ssessin? a commanding figure, an expres sive countenance, and ?n Intelligent eye, with a face scarcely indicative of the vace from which lie w as des cended. Fie presented, at this peri od, an interesting spectacle. A cbihl of the wilderness was Hbheld about to proceed to the home of his forefathers, having received t4ie bril liant advantages of a cultivated mind, and on his way to impart (lie benefits Which. civilization had given him, to t^e nation that owned him. It was an opportunity for the philosopher to Contemplate, and to reflect on the fu ture good fills young Indian might be the meanis of producing. Short* ly After he arrived in Albany, where he visitd the first families, he took advanitfee of Governor Clinton's journey to Fori #taiiwik, to make a treaty wifb the Indians to return to ilia tribe. On the toute,' Otsaqnette amused the company (among whom were the French minister, Count Moustiers, and several gentlemen of respectability) by his powers on va rious instruments of music. At Fort gtanwix, after a long absence of sev eral years, he found himself again with *Iifc ?iifl?pamona 4?f 4iis early days, who saw atod; recognized him ; his friends and relations had not for* gotten him, and he was welcomed to his home and to his blanket. 13o( that which occurred soon after his reception, led him to a, too fear# fill anticipation of an unsuccessful project; for the Ootid as, ' a^jjf they could not acknowledge Otsaquette attired in the dressed he appeared in before th*m, a mark which cIhI not disclose )hh nation : and thinking he Had assumed it as if ashamed of the garh and liai.i!imenls of bit ances tors, lore' it from him with a savage avidity and a fiend- like ferocious&f s* ; daubed oh Che paint to which he had been sotong unused, and cloth ed him witOjifi uncouth g^menis that the tribe held sacred. Their fiery im|H&tno*ity hi tlie |>erioruiaDfe of tbe act, showed but too welt the hold stand they were about to take against the innovations they supposed Otsaquette was to l?e the agent of ef fecting against their, oaftioms aud manners, which, from the venera ble antiquity of their structure, it would be sacrilege to destroy. The reformed savage was taken back again to his native barbarity, and, all ii to complete the climax of degraJ dation to a mind just susceptible of itfe own powers, was married. Ftofti that <tay, hewas no longer accomplished Indian, from whom] i*Uof philanthropy was ex realized; lie became no] exit hy whose pow Aancipation of hisr coonti'jr M? Ihe thraldom of ignorance id *u|m rstition, wa# to lie effected ; from fite day Utsaquette was a^ain an inmate witb the forest, he wa*J ' once more buried in his original oh scurilv, c*d his oatiuu only viewed him as an equal ; and ewn the 1' heral grant of (he state* failed i>f giving him that superior considera tion a tnong them which his civiliza tion had p roc tired for him \n iih the re&t of mankind. --The commanding |ire -eminence acquired from winch it was expected ambition would have Sprung up, and acted as a double stimulant, from either the natural in feriority of the savage mind or the predetermination of his countrymen, became of no effect, aud, in a little! time, was destroyed, Otsaquette uas lost! llis moral perdition began from the hour lvc left Fort btanwix. Scarcely 4hree months had transpir ed, iK'fore intemperance had marked him for its own, aud soou hurried him to the grave ; ami, as if the very transition had deadened all the finer feelings of his nature, the pic ture the . Marquis gave him ? the very picture of his affectionate friend himself, he parted with. # Original Language of tke American Lord Monboddo, who wasjestee tri ed one of the most profound critics in the ancient Languages, of any author, w ho has treated- or written upon the philosophy of Language endeavors to prove that the Celtic or Gaelic, was the original language oi all the lndiaus in North America, from (he Esquimaux to the natives of Florida. ? Lord Monhoddo relates a nurabei of curious circumstances, to support his opinion. He mentions, that when Ut France, he was acquainted with a French Jesuit, a man ascelc-. brated for his veracity, as for his* scientific and literary acquirement*. That this Frcnch Jesuit told him of a tact, which Ire himself could attest, that one of his mission having lost his way in the wnodfl. and .strolled, into the country of the Esquimax, staid long enough to learn the lan guage of that people ; aim which he came hack-again to his countrymen ; and happening one (lav to go aboard a French ship at Quebec, he found there among the sailors a Basque, that is, a native of theTcountry at the foot of the Pyrenean mountains on the side of France, whom, by his knowledge of the Esquimaux, lan guage, he understood very well, and the Basque likewise understood him, so that they conversed together. Now, the language which the Bas que* sp%pk, Lord Monhoddo tells us, is undoubtedly a dialect of the CeWc, and differs very little from the highlajiders of Scotland. TWs ac count of Lord Monhoddo seems also confirmed by a fact we have noticed in one of the late Scotch papers in regard tot lie Esqoimaux whoaccom i ? i ,i . ??i/ . ? - >. -?>? rw an ciuuuiacu, uiciu nap n otuitn highlauder, a native of ine island of Mull, one of the Hebrides, with whom in a Pew days time, he was aide to converse fluently. Lord Monhoddo seems, however, to think it very extraordinary, how the Cel tic language should have found its way from Europe, or the northern most parts of America, to a country so very rctnote us Florida, where, he says, there are the most positive proofs of the Gaelic language being spoken by many of the tribes. He mentions he was well acquainted with a gentleman from the highlanders of Scotland, who was ^several years in Florida, in a public character) and that the language there had the great Indians . pst affinity with the UacHc, anil par ticularly (hat their form of salutation, (1$ which (hey ask you, are you well t b the . very same. What is Mill more tcnifli'kshi^j in (heir war song, I toe discovered not only (he sentiments, but several lines, the Very same words as used in Ossian. l>e lndtau nran.es of several of (he streams, brooks, mountains and rocks, are al* so the same which are given to simi lar objects in the highlands v of Bcot i r 9 + of America having been visited by colony from Wales previous to (lit: discovery of Columbus. 1ft* kky-j tlio fad is recorded b\ several \Wlcu historians; ui.d lie speaks of it us one that cannot tie contested, lint, before the arrival of the Welch colo ny io the New \\ orld, Lord Mon boddo says that America was visited fyy some Norwegians from Green land ; for, that the Norwegians hav?** ing made a settlement in Greenland in the end of the tenth century, some adventurers from thence, in the be gining of the eleventh, discovered or ratlier visited North America, for as to the discovery of North America by Europeans Lord Monbotldo re gards that as an event as coeval with the siege of Troy. These Norwe gians, who visited America in I ha eleventh 'century (Lord Monboddo tells us,) made a settlement about the mouth *of the river St. Lawrence ; where, having found the vine grow ing, they, from thence, called th? country ff inland. This is recorded in the annals of Iceland, which was peopled from ^Norway* and from thence the colony came that made the settlement in Greenland, .Lord JMonhoddo, in hi9 excellent treatise on the origin aud progress, of language, as well as in some of his other writings, relates a vast number of curious anil amusing cir cii instances on this subject. One, however, of the most reoiarkahh*-is an account of an Indian Mummy, discovered in Florida, wrapped up in cloth, manufactured from the bark of trees, and adorned. ivith liierogly-, phic characters, precisely the same with characters eugraved upon a me tal plate found in an ancient hurrying grouud, in one of the Hebrides Is lands. ? [Pet&'fib. Int. Whatever wealth and honor may' be worth to the 4mi>g, they are no thing to tlie dead; nothing even to the oy teg ! That decisive change sun ders all the ties that bind a mortal to the world. The hour of distolu tion is emphatically ike hour of trial t Then^_more than at any other period, the affrighted, agonised victim . (feels dependence and needs assistance : And if there be anyr*fcing of power to do this ; any thing of power to abato the horrors and cheer the dark ness of the death scene, the bestow* ment of that , more than an^ otnfcr .token within the gift of Providence, ascertains who those are among the dwellers on the earth, whom the God of Heaven delights to favor aud to 1 lonor. . There is that of do this* The calm and tra rapturous and triumphant thousands is in proof of it The hope of eternal 1 sweet assurance of sin for ~ sight of heaven, breakii soul through tlie twilight of dismal night, of which dc hut the commencement ; something so precious, s<J so divine, in quell au exit fi World, that were it attainab by a life of perpetual martyrt should still devoutly pray to fret me, even on such terms, death of the righteous, and fast end be like his . Yes, ev_7 such ttfrms, I should account the g [man blessed: Ye#, even JML IMch term4*, I should covet the confessors dungeon ? 1 should covet the martyr 9 stake. dr. mot?. Jl Bon Mot.? Home thieves met man, nod after robbing him! botJB him and laid him under a IImHE they presently after met auotheM whom they also hound and lafl the other side of Hi? hedge^ J Irst presently exclaimed, wiflP heart rending aigli, " Oh ! 1 am un done, I am undone!" upou which, the other bawled out, and desireql he would come and unio him alsc*r Why is a tallow chandler the motft unfortunate of men ? because deeds are trtcfc-ed, and all mi wick-oA deeds are brought to lignL When a man fe in company with Ins superiors, it h more advisable to hear than speak ? to reap than sow. Modesty is the chief ornament of youth ; ahd has ever been esteemed a pressagc of rising merits