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nvind with abundance of threats.
Macdoaough then told him with
firmness, that he was not accounta
ble to him, but to captain Smith ;
for his conduct. ' The Ehglishman
threw out some threats that he would
take the man by force, and said he
would haul the frigate alongside the
Sircg^br that^ purpose. ?To this
Macdoriough replied, " he sup
posed his ship could sink the Siren,
but as long as she could swim he
should kee^the man." The Eng
lish captain said to Macdonough,
" you ?re~a very young, andavcry
indiscreet youngman ; suppose I had
been iti the boat, what would -you
hive done;" "1 would have taken
the man, or lost my life.Y " What
-sir, would you attempt to stop
me if I were now to attempt to, im
press men from that brig?" -** I
would, and <o convince yourself I
would, you have oiiy' to makethe
attempt, >p? this the Englishman
returned, and shortly afterwards
wa# seen in his boat, bearing her in
a direction <frr the American mer
lianc brig. Macdonouglv-ordered
hi* boat manned and armed, got in
ta her himyelf&and was ih readiness
for pursuit. The Englisman took
a circuit. r+und the American brig,i
and returned again to the frigate.
When captain Smith came on board,
he justified the eonduct of Macdo
nough", and dectfred his intention
to pro.ect the American seamen.
if
nfrtly visited the
mmujm
y? naiwi
a
Durigg the
our
nm?fitpiilh baa bfig.
theiatreat portions
ly, once tile ream
cradel fertUlity ? ? the
sea ofttbe world-^holl
idea# of
if tf yom and
r hacked or dsstroyed by the miserable coo
S P***"1 <3*M*e de#
encknt poet, awl gsttflE
S.TTha trfth? wwWJa WMrthe^
uitu wh^e thw lblll proceeded
Into insignificance, and are
vedifrom xiblWion by the w?]
^ " "IV wic
fame has long survived evei m
>e splendors thty celebrated.
t*a of Sicily bet been Mm theme
in every age, and the hardy
northern nun, who ia exposed to the ib
clemenoesof winter, H?ree-fourtl?e of-the
year, and whose tails ark repaid by a trim
? ? . .
ery m
vales c,
hundred
. --?? j - ">-ir
ight perhaps complain of
distribution of Providence,
of the gehial rite, the fcw?<
a ruddy akiea? anddeliciooa'
ly, where the eaul* yUfld
I. But when he flhda in
nation*, that such a cllWn
and such a sort iitw the concomitant; or
rMber the parent of idleness, lu*try, and
s|??&S3g?
soontf or later are ever the p# y of tyr^M
IWThQ 1 reconciled ?o frosts and]
now*, fiid wintry blaeta, andbaVren hills,
and Je grateful for being born beyond the
Zh JVhwrtws indulgence, t, befol- ,
ai'twsaaKJSwc
ly, but of all Italy. Rich?t may enslave
a country, but will never make it free ; for
it la only the po?r and the haVdy that can
sustain the labors and privations, hy which
the struggle for freedom must be itiain
tained.
With the exception of ftortie, the city
of Smouae was the most celebrated In all
Italy, and ita islands* In its most flourish
ing *t?te it a*tend*d twenty-two miles i*,
circumferem*, and maintained an army of
one hundred tho*aand foot, ten thousand
horse* with a navy ef four hundred ships.
It waa said of the inhabitants of Syracuse,
that tiWMmrifc* best of men when vir
? ? . - w. anvil WHgn 1
I tnewi the most wicked when deprived by
vteious pursuits. Unhappily they verify
* Diodot ui Mculus, toy#* thekounth /oaf
ike *cmt of their game in hunting, truing to
m fir o fusion of odoriferoue filanta that per*
fumed the air in Sia'ty. J
the truth ol the latter position at this time*
Our officers all agree that no community
can be in a worse moral state than the I
people of tibia city. .The nobility are im
poverished and corrupt*? mono poli rcrs of
almost every employ c men t ? out nobleman
has the mono(fbly of baking bread jy a
city, and no one is permitted to bake but
himself; another has the rare privilege Of
supplying Messina, or tome -other pi
with fish, and it is not many fears: sh.iv^
this last city was"obliged to liacf Upon taint
ed fish "for several days, because the !
prince who had the monopoly of that arti
efts, and Who, if tc remember
claimed a dcscent from the Cyclops, who
once po#csscd Sicily, chose to enrich him
self at the expence of the wretched popu
lace. * in short,/ every thing fs a monopoly
im Sicily; and the peasant who has a *ur-1
plus of grain to fell, cannot dispose of it
until a price is fiaedbyga certain chamber
at Palermo. Ceitainly it is worthwhile tP
\ >? A iVk r, s : - - ? *? ? ~
Robberies and assasinatrons are the
nightly amusements of Syiacusaps, and
our ofiicersin their evening rambles, were
frequently assailed by soldiers, or fellows
arnwMggh knives orda
of fighting
Idles, and in that situation their knives
and daggers are the most dangerous of all
weapons. On some occasion, which oc*
curred in Syracuse, Macdonough was at
tacked by three of these desparadoes; with
Na back against a door, he had the good
jrtune to wound two, and the other took
tenant, who pushed hjm so hard that he
climbed up to the root of the barracks* whi
ther Macdonough followed him still, and
finding- - n* Other means of- escape,
jumped off, with the loss of his life.
in the interval between the T
Var jpd that which commenced .
no occasion occurred to our naval %
for ajgnaljsing themselves, atad weshi
K>fS?ihcient important* be !
tenant 1
of
vtcis^
r, are only of consequence to
our immediate friends;
rosy run counter to.
Johnson* we cat
^rstl^S
>tld th4
opinion
1 believing that the curiosity which is
fied by the important fact,
wort latohet* in his shoes, Is
4. prying village goSsip', than a
losophtr; because *uch a citt
inishesno elucidation e|'
?Sat |T jobbing Writer will contrive to swell
I the life of JtiHhed archdeacon, or of*
{ man who derives his sole claim to notice, 1
from freeciog ice in stommeV (as If wb had j
riA? m?iW. ' *
i-Jj' enough of it in
I btfk ?tu passing that of all (
put together^' A, w? hare
ra I r? ' Jk ixLiVu . JL
?)
[ of llw"Value pPsnc^Wu;^N?qu
yrllt proceed- *%?'? deB^of that '
. which the subject of ihia artWe
dUtinguiShedby the most fmpov..
Vices to his country, in gaining a
I'-ied lho toul failure of a
on the part of
would otherW^ hairtt prodi
most fetal consequences. . ' -
- Soon sftertfrrtiettSvitiou ofwaftin 18??,
L small na*sl foirc# created on
? VII lane
Champlain, fov^bf three-fokl object of af
fording protection to our frontier in that
quitter# facilitating military Iterations ;
and preventing, as far as possible* thf ene
my from receiving those supplies, which
were continually furnished by the corrupt ?
and treasonsble agency ol some of ottr |
own citisens. It boefcme
proportion as the operations U
Ws dlreetod to lUi! quarter,
this force, as well because
#Wj<do-operate In offensive
cause It ha<V become
I haps, from the
* - Of the
contest _ ^
from year to yean
relative force of the
follows t ' *
f jfwMtmn t- gun*.
* & Barstoga 26 yj
: Eagle* to
Iff icamfrroga, It
Preble, 7
j 10 gait, carrying 16
Total, i? ^ iFotSl, 95
Thus stood affairs, w^en esrly in the i
month September, in that year, Sir ]
George Prevost began Ills march at the
head of fourteen thousand men, with the
ntemion of dislodging general Macomb
from his works at Plattsbtii-g, snd then
penetrating into the heart of the state of
New-York. There is reason to suppos*
that this plan was cmeeted'with an attack
[<flr the tifty of N* York, by the force on oor
maritime frontier, had it succeeded in the
affair of Baltimore. Certain it is that this
appreheqpion had driwn the mjlitia from
the country above, and left it In a state
very much exposed to the incursions of
the erferny. The destruction of the Ame
rican naval force on lake wes_
*fWt thg that t
on fire di|i^
from
PeraUtud4!Jr?r
celtcd from pi
*qu?dron* n j| |
togbt haul. tJrmt?fty;two Willed and fifty
eight wound t-d ; that of tSe British eighty*
(out kitted and one hundred and ten wound*
ed. Among the killedon the American
Me was Htntenam Peter Gambfe a %nU
lant young officer, one of the |fl|' gal
lant brothel* who had devot?d dipihea
to tins service of their country* The
other two brothers ftiH ?u rvWe, one a
! Commandant in the navy, the other' a cap*
JBW Ot TTiBTlTl C? ) WlV' tKllff^iVnWI^ BWIWV^
the first officers of their grade in either
service. He who on the wttiaorabl#
1 1 tli September if inseparably connect
id with an event which will never be for
got ill this nation, and will, we tanst, hear
with it the recollection as well of the living
as of the dead who were inatromental In
gaining one of the moat important victo
ries of the war. The Ameiican squadron
carried two thousand and twenty-three
pounds weight of metsl, and eight hnn
! dred and twenty men ; that of the British
nineteen hundred and fifty weight of me
tal, and ope thousand and fifty men.
It Wtea i n this adlion that tWfrJhfrfamcd
I manomvie of coming clown head first upon ]
the enemy was first tried against the Ame
ricans, and itve resutt was, wilt
venture to predict it always will be, ivhen
tried against a force any way equal in skill*
numbers, and courage. The British ves
sels were cut to pieces before they werein
a situation to bring their guns to beat
against the Americans, and nothing car*
ries a stronger conviction to our minds of
the want-of proper skin and self-posses*
sion in the officers and wuH*ef those fleets
that fcato-teea^taken or defeated by this
manoeuvre than the^ fatal effects which
resulted from the attempt in this instance*
The liixiety of 1 the- public had long
drawn
ble D
of cir George" PrcW* operations, or
who felt mn interest in the fate of this
county. Jit was justly feared that the ene
afier succeeding against the fleet on
In i artd forcing the itutench*
mb.at PWusburgv
.t km* zss*.
communication, by means of the Hudson*
with ti$? Atlantic fleet and force*, should
r.York.
mt pi
l*
7 *n*d their
Qtnpkantrejt
peace that nl^,., ^
warrant, was breathe
and his gallant
sated the
gfbi
ll?d thus
farm**.
t>mhahlft
spendently
It
iiw
gsg:gg5?cr?$.&a,
"fhoie hones of ultimate &ucce**^^?deda
Vin breathless
iore? of the lake
points of land,
. unit urn animated- w?
the victory was greeted by
multitudes.^ It ta full hrot
gallant and amiable M
alh .In the
"f* I ??_. ? -I a
y^nresirtese
nt, the pro.
I of
betnp^itd tog^_
a? broth?ra in deserving!
* ttn?*?
brothers, n?
?IPm
*ueh^
?* tH
_ht
promoted,
command, ??"
fected byj^Ms
it somes seasons,
strangers. . Since
command of the .
New-Hampsfttre, where he now fs. Should^
the passions of men, the Interests of com
merce, or the ambitiah of an enemy -ftgatn
force us into a war, he is one of those to
whom we shall look for new exploits ; and
should the chance of battle again git*
him an opportunity for the exercise of
skill and courage, we feel confident the
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