The telescope. (Columbia, S.C.) 1815-1818, August 06, 1816, Image 2
CGiaing onboard by Can cm ii?\ itatiou i> bo ci
villy entertained in re<|uitall of the kindness
(thev supposed ho had received on slioar, untill
coming under the stern, those In the bout slipt
nimbly in nt tho gun room ports with pistols &c.
when one cmiragtous gentleman ran up to the
.deck, And clapt a pistoll to Blands breast, say
ing you fti e my piisoncr, tho boats company suiU
dalnly following with nistolls sword* &c. and
after'Capt. Larimoro (the cotnandcr of the ship
bo fore she was prcst) having from tho highest
uiul hindmost part of tho stern interchang'd a
signal from the shoar, by flirting hi* hankcrcher
ubout his nose, ill* own former crew had laid
handspikes ready, which they (nt that instant)
caught up &.c. so as Bland and Carvers men
were amazed and yielded.
Carver seeing a burly bttjly on tho shins deck,
wood have gone awav with his sloop, but having
lettlo wind and the ?Vip throatning to sink him,
he tamelv came on board, where Bland and he
with then* their purty were laid in irons, and in
H or 4 dales Carver ivas hang'd on slioar, which
t*ir llcnrv Chithclev the first of the council,
then a prisoner, (with diverse other (pmtloincn)
to Mr. Bacon, did afterwards ordaine against
uh a most rash and wicked act of the govern'r he
(in particular expecting to have been treated by
viy of repri7.ail, as Bacons friend Carver had
boon by tho govern'r. Mr. Bacon now returns
from Ins last expcdicon sick of a Mux ; without
finding any enemy Indians, having notgono far
by reason of tho vexations behind Turn, nor had
lie one dry dav in nil his munches to and fro in
the florist whilst the plaritations (not 50 miles
distant) had a snmer so dry as stinted the In
dian corn and tobacco &c. which the people as>
cribed to the pawawings i. e. the sorceries of the
Indians, in a while Bacon dyes and was suc-j
ceeded by his Lieuton't Gen'll. Ingram, who
bud onc'Wakolet next in cotnand under him,
whereupon hasten'd over tlic govern'r to Vork
river, and with Mm they articled for themselves
and whom else they coud, and so all submitted
und were pardoned exempting those nominated
and otherwise proscribed, in a proclamacon of
'indemnity, the principal! of whoin were Law
rence and Dromond.
Mr. Hland was then a prisoner having been
taken with Carver, an before is noticed, and in
a few duie* Mr. Drumond was brought in, when
the govcrn'r being on board a ship camc imedi
atelv to shore and complimented him with the
ironical! sarcasm ot'a low bend, saving " Mr.
Drumond ! you are very welcome, 1 am more
glad to see you, than any man in Virginia, Mr.
Drumond you shall he hang'd in hall an hour ;
who answered what yo'r hon'r pleases, and as
noon as a council of war cou'd meet, his sentence
colud he dispacht, and a gibbet erected (which
took up near two hours) lie was executed.
This Mr. Drumond was a sober Scotch gen
tleman of good repute with whome I had not a
particular acquaintance, nor do I know the cause
of that rancour his hon'r had against him, other
than his pretensions in common for the publick
but meeting him by accident the morning I left
the town, 1 advis'd him to be very wary, for he
saw the govem'rhad put a brand upon him he
(gravely expressing my name) answered " 1 am
in over .ihoes, ! will be over boots, which I was
sorry to hears and left him.
Tlte account of Mr. Lawrence was from an up
Ssrmost plantation, whence he and (Tour others
espersdo's with horses pistolls &c. march'd a
way in a snow anele deep, who were thought to'
have east themselves into a branch of some ri
ver, rather than to be treated like Druinond.
Bacons body was so made away, as his bones
were never found to be exposed on a gibbet as
was purpos'd, stones being laid in his coflin, sup
posed to be done by Lawrence.
Near this time arrived a small fileet with a re
giment from England 8*r John Berry admirall,
*ol. Herbert JclYeries comander of the land for
ces and Collo, Morrison who had one year been
a former governor there, all three joined in cu
mission with or to 8'r William Barclay, soon
after when a general I court and also an assent
bly were held, where some of our former assem
bly (with so many others) were put to death, di
verge whereof were persons of honest reputati
ons and handsome estates, as that the assembly
petitioned the governour to spill no more bloun,
and Mr. Presley at his coming home told me, he
believed the governor would have hang'd half
the countrey, if they had let him alone. The
first was Mi*. Hland*whoso ftriemls in Enuland
had procured his pardon to he sent over with the
ffleet, which he pleaded at his try all, ?as in the
govern'? pocket (tho* whether 'twas so, or how
it came there* I know not, yet did not hear
'twas openly contradicted,) but lie was answer
ed by Coll. Morrison that he pleaded his pardon
at swords point, which was look'd upon an odd
sort of reply, and ho was executed} (as was
talked) bv private instructions from England the
Duke of York having sworn " by God Bacon and
Bland shoud dve.
The goverirr went in the fileet to London
(whether bv comand from hit) majesty or spon
taneous 1 did not hear) leaving Col. Jcfferyesin
his piace, and by next shipping came back a
person who waited on his hon'r in his voyage*
and until his death, from whom a report was
whisper'd about, that the king did say " that old
fool hss hang'd more men in that naked country*
than ho had done for the murther of his ftather,
whereof the governo'r hearing dyed soon after
without having seen his majesty j which shuts
up this tragedy.
APPENDIX.
To avoid incumbering the body of the forego
ing little discourse, I have not therein mention*
erf the received opinion in Virginia, which very
much attributed the promoting these perturbs
cons to Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Bacon with his
other adherents, were esteemed, as but wheels
agitated by the weight of his former and present
resentments, after their ehftler was raisad ?p to
? very high pitch, at having been (so long, and
often) trifled with on their humble suppkationa
to the govern'V for hit {mediate taking in hand
ths most speedy mcancs towards
continued effusions of eo much
s stopping the
English bfoud,
from time to timo by tho Indians { whlwt comon
sontim'ts 1 have the more reason to believe were
tint altoj^ether groundless, because myself have
heard liiui (in his familiar discourse) insinuate
an if his fancy gave him prospect of finding (at
one timo or other) some expedient not only to
repairc Iuh great louse, but tnorowith to see those
abuses rectified that tho countrey was oppressed
with through (as he said) the forwardness avu
rico and Krcnch desnotick methods of tho go
vern'r and likcwUo I know him to be a thinking
man, and tho* nicely honest, affable, and witli
out blemish, in his conversation and dealings,
vet did he manifest abundance of uneasiness in
tho senso of his hard usazes, which might prompt
him to improve that Indian quarrel to tho ser
vice of hi# animosities, and for this tho inoro fair
and frenuent opportunities offered themselves to
him by nis dwelling at Jamestown, where was
the concourse frrim all parts to the governor and
besides thnt ho had married a wealthy widow
who kept a fargu house of publick entertainm't.
unto wftich resorted those of tho best quality,
and such others as businesso called to that town,
and his parts with his even temper made his con
verse coveted by persons of all ranks $ no that
being subtile, anil having these advantages he
mielit with lesse difficulty discover mens incli
nations, and instill his.notions where lie found
thoso woud be iinbibM with greatest satisfaction.
As for Mr. Bacon lame di;! lay to his charge
the having run out his patrimony in Kngland ex
cept what he brought to Virginia and of that the
I most part to be exhausted, which together made
him suspocted of casting an eye to search for re
trievmcnt in the troubled wators of popular dis
contents, wanting patience to wait the death of
his onpulent cousin, old Collo. Bacon, whoso es
tate lie expected to inherit.
But he was too yotinfy too much a stranger
there, und of a disposition too precipitate, to
manage things to that length those were carried,
had not thoughtfull Mr. Luwrence been ut the
bottom. '
LITEH.VttY.
TIIE 8TOKY OF KIMtM? A POKM.
DT I.>.11111 Ml'JIT.
>V? have, in tlie present affluence of poetical
genius, almost every stylo of poetry yearly i?
suing from Hie press ; the imaginative philoso
pi?y of Wordsworth, tho .bosom touches of 8ou
tliey, tlie stir and spirit of Scott, the voluiituous
ulegauco of Moore, the intense feeling or Lord
by ron and Juanna Daillie i yet we liave nothing
exactly in the manner of the 4 Story of Rimini,
tlie cany graceful stylo of familiar narrative.?
A'his was a favorite stylo with tlie Italians.?
Chaucer brought it into our own country i but it
is, |>eriiap8 best known a* that which Dryden
adopted in his fables. Dryden, however, was
not tlie best fitted to excel in this kind. Power
ful interest, it is true, is not required in the
narration ) our pleasure is to arise ehiefty from
tlie description, and from the passion of the sto
K. it was exactly in these two particulars that
ryden failed f what he was acquainted with,
Dryden could indeed describe forcibly, for he al
ways went straight to tho point* never blunder
nig ubout his meaning | but there is hardly to bo
found, in all his voluminous productions* a sin
gle image immediately from naturo; anu he has
not a passage that strikes upon the heart, as if
sent from the heart. Accordingly, we believe,
the vigorous writing and free versification of
Jjrvdcn's tables, are inoro praised than read. |
We are very glad to see the style revived by
one so fitted to excel in it as Mr. Hunt. We
wish indeed that the story had moved on a little
more rapidlv| but we are not unwilling to loi
ter among the beautiful descriptions, and enjoy
tho fresh diction of Mr. Hunt.
The tale is soon tpld. It consists of nothing
but the gradual progress and final accomplish
ment ol a criminul passion?a mutual passion of
wife aud brother-in-law. We give the author
full credit for tho decency of his representations,
for tlie absence of every thing that can disgust,
or seduce, iullatne j but still we doubt, whether
such stones arc not likely to do some hurt to the
cause of morality t whether it is possible so to
distinguish between the offence and the offender,
as to render the one detestable, while the other
is represented ss so very amiable) and whether
indeed this ainiableness is not gotten by paring
olVsundry little portions of the sin $ such as sel
fishness?that uuhcroic uuality, on the part of
the seducer j base infidelity on the part of the
woman. Our objections to these stories on tlie
score of good taste, we have formerly stated.
iiut we hasten away from criticism to poetry.
Wa shall give the reader a few specimen* of Mr.
tl's. powers ill those two grand parts of poetry,
tlie descriptive and the passionate.
Nothing can bo more fresh and fragrant, more
urifcigne<raud conantorc, than tho following des
cription of a clear spring morning, with which
the poem opens.
? The sun Ik up, and tis a mom of May,
Round old Ravenna's clear shown towers und icy,
A morn, iIm loveliest which the year hat seen,
Last ol the spring, yet fiesh with nil its gn*n ?
For a warm eve, und gentle rains at night.
Have left a sparkling wctcoine tor the light,
And there's aery stale (earnest all about i
The leavesare sharp, the distant hills took out s
A balmy briskness comes upon tlie breeze i
Tlie smoko goes dancing from tlie cottage tree i1
And when you listen, you may hear a cod
Of bubbling springs about the grassy soil >
And all the scene, in sliort?sky. earth, and *cj,
Breathes like a bright-eyed face, that laugh* out openly.
? ''fit nature, full of spirits, waked and springing
The birds to the dclieioua time are singing.
Darting with freak* end switches up and down,
Wliere the light woods go seaward from the tow n ,
While happy faces, striking through tlie green
Of leafy roads, at every turn are u?o t _
And the far *hlp*? Ming then sails of white
Liko joyful hands, eOmeup with scattcry light,
Come gleaming up, true to ?>he wlsbed-forclft),
Andchace the whistling brine, and swirl into the bay.*
? Warm, but not dim, a glow was in the air ?
The softenedbreeae came smoothing hero and there i
And every tree, in passing, w?e by one,
Cleared out with twinkles of tlie golden sun <
for leafy was the road, with tali array,
On either side, of mulbnrry and bay,
And distant snatches of blue hills between i
And the* tl*tide* *? with its bright grctn,
And tl?? broad chc.?nut,a|Kl ttopopW* shoot.
That like a feather ?aw< from head to foot, 1 \
With, ever and anon, majestic pincai >
And * till front tree to tree the early vine*
Hung garlanding the way in amber line*.' pp. 32?33..
'Ilto following aro but touchcs, but they are
exquisite ones.
1 One day?-'twas on a summer afternoon,
When mm and gurgling brook* arc beat in tune,
And gr;vs*hop|>cr* arc loud, and day-work done,'
And shade* havo heavy outlines In the ?un.?^ p. 72.
* Twm a fresh autumn dawn, vigorous ami chill t
The lightsome morning atar was sparkling still,
Kre it turned in to heaven i aiul fur awav
A;>|>cared the streaky finger* of the vJay. P* W.
In this season of tlio year* when spring is ju?t
waking in the country, and bringing in hope,
and love, and poetry, wo cannot refrain from
tantalizing our Loudon readers with one extract
more.
? A noble range it was, of many a rood,
Walled round with trees, and coding in a wood :
Indeed the whole was leafy ? mid it had
A winding at roam a I km it it, clear and glad,
That danced from shade to shade, and on its way
Seemed smiling witli delight to tVcl the day.
There was the pouting niw, both rod and white,
Tiie flamy heart's eisc, (lushed with purple light,
lllush-hiiling strawberry. aunnv rolourud Im?x,
Ifvnciuth, handsome with his clustering locks,
The lady Itlv, looking gently down,
I'ure lavender, t??lay ill bridal gown,
Tlte daisy, lovely on both aides?in short,
Ml the sweet cups to which the liees resort.
With plols of grass, and perfumed walks lietwcen
Oi" citron, honeysuckle, and jessamine,
With orange, whose warm loaves ?.o finely suit,
And look as if they'd sliade a golden fruit ?.
And midst the flower*, turfed round l>eticath a shade
Of circling puies, a babbling ibuntaiu played,
\tid 'twixt their shafts you saw the Water bright,
Which through the darksome topa glimmered with allow*
ering light.
So now ymi walked (hmuIc an odorous lied
Of gorgeous hues, white, azure, golden, red ?
Ami now tin lied oil' into a leafy walk
(Jlow and cout .nunus, fit for lovers talk i
And now pursued the stream, and as you trod
Onward nnd onward o'er the velvet sod,
Felt on your facc an air, watery and sweet,
Ami a new sense in your soft-lighting fbet i
And then (K-rhans you entered ujion shades,
1Mlowed with dells and uplands 'twixt the glades.
Through which the distant palace, now and then,
Ixiokcu lordly forth with many-windowed ken i
A land of trees, which reaching round about,
(n shady blessing stretched thelir old arms out,
With spots of sunny opening) and with nooks,
To lie and read in, sloping into brook*,
Where at Iter drink you star ted the slim deer,
Retreating lightly with a lovely fear.
And all about the bird* kept leafy Ihiusc,
And sung and sparkled in and put the boughs ;
And all aiMtut, a lovely skyofbluo
Clearly was felt, or down the leaves laughed through ;
And h?re and there, hi every part, were seats,
Home in the open walks, some in rciriMt* ;
With howcring leaves o'crhead, to wh.cli the eye
looked up hall sweetly and half awfully?
flares of nestling green, for p<?ets made,
Where when the sunshine struck a yellow shade,
The slender trunks,, to inward |>eep.ug sight,
Thronged in dark pillars up the gold green light.'
We pass on to the human part of the ntory.?
The description of the bride is, we think, very
touching.
? Kl?c, who I mil l?ccn beguiled?she, who was made
Witlnti a gentle bosom to lie laid,?
To Ides* anil to l>c blessed,? to Ik: ItcarUhatC
To one who found hi* bettered likeness there,??
To think forever with him like a bride,?
To haunt hit eye, like taste |?cr*nn fled,?
To double hiadtl.glit, to share hi* sorrow.
And like a morning beam, wake to him every morrow.
Very amiable ton are tlig following linen, in
which the first feelings of love are described in
the brother. .
And hbe liccamc companion of hi* thought ?,
Hdcncc her gcntlene** liefore him brought,
Society tier *4:11*0, reading her book*,
Milne lier voice, every sweet thing Iut look*,
Wh.cli sometime* seemed, wlien lie sat fixed awhile,
To steal liencath hm eye* with upward tumle :
And did he stroll into some lonely place,
Under the tree*, upon die thick .soft gr.is i,
I low charming, would he tlnnk, to sec her here 1*
The following need* no comment.
? nut she, the gentler frame,?the shaken flower,
I'luckcd up to wither in h foreign bower,?
The struggling, virtue loving, fallen iilie,
The wife that was, the mother tliat might lie,?
What could ?he do, unable thu* to keep
Her strength alive, but sit and think, and weep.
For over stoop,ng o'er her broidery frame,
Half blind, oml longing till the night-time came,
When worn and wearied out with the day** sorrow,
Alio might lie (till ami senseless till the morrow.'
? Ami oh, the morrow how it used to rise !
Ilii>v would she open Iter despairing eye*,
And from the sense of the long lingering day,
Itudi.ng upon her, almost turn aw ay,
Uuth n^ the li|;hi,Hiul groan to sleep ng*in !
Then sighing once for all, to meet the pain,
Slit! would gel up in haste, and try to pus*
The time m patience, wreU tied a* it was i
Till pat cnce self, in bcr distempered sight,
1 Would seem a charm to w hie It she Imd no right,
And trembling at the hp, and pale with tear*,
HI'.c shook her head, and burnt into tre*h tear*.
| Old comfort* now were not nt her command :
I The falcon readied in vant from off hi* stand ;
The flower* were not refrc*licd i the wry light,
1 The sunshine, seemed a* if it ?1ioiioat night ;
The lea*t noise smote her like a sudden wound i
And il:d she hear lint the remote*! sound
O"songor instrument about the place,
Hbe hid with lioth lis'r hand* her streaming f.cr.
Hut \\?i'-e to her than all (ami oh ? thought she,
Tm.t ev? r, etersuch iiuorft&cnuld Ik- !)
Ti e ught of infant was, or clubl at play ;
Then Would *he turn, and naive her hp*, and pray,
That lie..ven would take Iter, il it pleased, uwi?).''
Her dentil must close our extract*.
Iler favourite Isyly then Willi the old nurse
Iteturued, and fear.ng site must now lie worse,
(icntly withdrew tbc curtain*, and looked in
O, who that feel* oitrgodl.ke '.park wiilr.n,
Shall say tlwt eirtbly suileringcnucel* not frail sin '
' There lay *he praying, npvardly intent,
hike a fair statue mi a monument.
With her two trembling hand* together pre*t, q
I'.dm against palm,anil pointing from her breast.
8heceased. and turning slowly toward* tbc wall,
They saw her tremble uiiurnly, feet and all,?
Then suddenly lie still. Nc.ir and more near
They Imtt with p?lo inquiry rind close ear
Her eye* were *ltu(?-no motion?not n breath?
The gentle snlfercr wo* at peace in death.' pp. 104?103.
The tendcrne?*, the exquitito pathos of tlicne
passageh, notwithstanding the affectation of
uuaintiio**, which occasionally deforms our au
thorV manner, cannot fail, wo think, to touch
the heart of tiift most careleMH reader, otitl to n*
waken emotion* very different from those which
wedcHci ibcd in ourlnnt numlier, to Ins excited
by the poiu?al of lord Byron** Parisiiin. it i*
impossible for us, however, to cluso (hit art
without adverting to the llippant and infill*; <
mailt which disfigures tlm Inst of (lie abovt
tracts* Whether Mr. Hunt disbelieves ii<
authority of Revelation, or is only ignorni ?
its doctrines, we know not 1 but on either -
position, this empty sneer nt the doctrinc o
atonement, is discreditable to his undersi.
itig, and does not argue well of his m inriol
Air. Hunt's talents might procure liim tlw
qualified thanks of thu public.?Eclcctic Ita
GUY MANNF.R1XO.
For many years pant I Imve been littlo it
habit of reading novel*, having almost cot
a conclusion, that in this department of li*.
ture I should lind 44 nothing new under thu t
Among the numberless novels which have .
published within the lr.?t thirty years, the ?
such a sameness of characters, of incident
and catuHtro|)he?such barrenness ofseuti ?
and uniformity of donga ; that little iti fout
pay the lubour of perusal. With the Hty'
moHt modern writers of novels i am not j
rally dissatisfied t this is mere mechanic :
The greatest blockheads are often the bent
rngruphers. The same may apply to moht
thors of novels t who can imitate style, an
may learn to imitate copperplate. The j.
rat deficiency is the want of original charut
novelty of situation, feeling thought, liumu
thus, or ridicule.
Guy Mannering, a novel lutely puhlishe
thin town, written, it in said, by a young Si
gentleman, was, a short time since, rccomm
cd to mo. (I have perused it with much plei
and much interest. In the great necessar
a novel this is not deficient. 8overal oi
character* are entirely original, and most
supported?especially those of Meg Merr
Dick Hatteraick. and Dominie Sampson,
firsts gipsey $ the next a bold piratical den.
derof the revenue) the last a pious od
whoso conduct and language move much
muscles, without diminishing our respect.
The death song of Meg Merrilics over th
ing robber is extremely ttne.
Wasted, weary, wherefore stay,
Wrestling thus with earth and clay f
From the lxxly nous away i?
Hark, t)?e mas* i? sitiffing.
From tlieo dofT thy mortal weed i
Mary mother l?c thy speed*
Saints to hcln thcc nt thy nee*t i?
Hark, the knell in ringing.
Fear not snow-dr.ft driving fait,
Blcct, or li;iil,or Icvm blast >
8<xin the tthroud shall lap thee fast,
And the sleep he on thro cast,
That shall ne'er know waking. ?
Haste thcc, hatte thee to he gone,
Karth slits fast, and time drawn un,
Ciasp thy gasp, and gro.m thy groan,
iiav i* near the hieaknig.
The grand desiderata of a novel are not
originality of thought, or novelty of churn
anu situations; for originality of sentiment
be insipid* and novelty of characters and
limy be awkward, disgusting, or ridiculous :
without hucIi originality, whatever the othei
riU may be, tew novels can be interesting.
great object should be the justness and itnpi
on. The language* characters and Incit
should be natural. It is from the displuv ?
these principal ingredients of a novel, that I
been highly gratified in the perusal of Guy i .
uering. Alter all, every one must judg<
himself; but I wish no other criterion 01
merits of a fiction, than its effects in prove
the fretpient smile, and starting the tear ol
patliy.?Huston Gazette.
Official history of the 1Vqrs?An officer ol t<.<
late Army hM published " Proposals for puln.s i
ingby subscription, (In a neat 12mo. vol urn *
g 1 30) 'lite official accounts in detail, o >tl
the battle* fought hu land and *ea% in the <
between the (Jniteu States aud England, dt r.r
the years 1813, '13* *14, and Md." The pt -o
ser says : "As there is no such work, ex" it
and as the whole of the oflicial documents - ?? ?
very carefully collectetl and preserved, bj fu
old officer* for his own private use ? from <ii<
solicitation of his friends* and from a convit' ?>
that such a work ought to Ixj in every family v
a matter of record, he is induced to oflfer it t? > >
Sontlemen of the army and navy, as well a "
te citizens of the 1 'nited States generally.
AGRICULTURAL.
WHP.AT.
There is one particular that the farmers .>
in much, that is tn cutting their Wheat licfo i
U perfectly dry j which m almost the onl'
son of the *mtit troubling them. 1 con,,.,
let my wheat stand longer than my neighl
and never have been troubled with smut,<?\ ,
when I have Itought my seed j from which 11
concluded that it was the time of harvesting i
prevented smut from flour.
About thirty yearn since I bought a em] n
the ground) it proved tube very smutty?n ir
ly one-eighth. I thought to try what would ???
vent its uamitging the flour, so I let it stand *<!
it va* quite dry, so tlmt when cut* in bind ?.>
the grotiiitl was checked under the sheaf. IV < s
I threshed it there was no smut to be s <>?
Kver since, by the same method* 1 have fo Mi
llie sntne good effect. Wheat that is harvet ? ??.
after this iunnn<-r will he as good for seed a- \
there hud been no smut among it. Fanners
if opinion if their wheat shells in binding, tl
is threat Iohjj but they are mistaken j there >;
greater loss mi threshing wheat that is harvet
before it was dry, than is wasted in harve*
when it is over dry. (so termed.) If then
any smut in wheat that sweats in the least ? <
gree in the mow, it certainly will infect the I r
nel, and by that means smut is propagated.
Cutting wheat with acrndle is pcrmciou.4* < >
it collects a great fpiuntity of iyceii weeds*
which Injfore it is tlry* is put into tho mow ?
stack, and will certainly sweat* and by t <
means the smut, which is light, will be cart
with the steam through the w hole inow or *1;
?besides tho cradle cuts off that which if 1
standing would enrich the ground.
1 have hut little expectation *liit those rcmai