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Thoso Advertisement* that dn not liavo tbo numbor of insertions marked on the p margin will bo publisliod until forbid, and charged e ; accordingly. 5 d."T All Lit tore addrciscd to this Office, must be poet c paid. * p ' ?? u Tiic ex-Queen of Holland.?The si duchess of Saint Lue, ex-queen of Hoi- u land, wife of Louis Bonaparte, and daugh- t< ter of the empress Josephine has depar- a ted tills life, at her chateau of Arenenberg, b .in Switzerland, at the age of fifty-four b years. - . - _ u , From, her life the lesson may be taught ti that grandeur cannot afford happiness, ilorlcnse Eugenie Bcuharnnis witnessed d the death of her father upon the scaffold, n a man os distinguished for his talents as li his birth?she witnessed her mother's n elevation to the throne; but she witnessed, o likewise- hf?r (lnsr.pnt frnm it ?a itIko >.!??? ( 1 mmm m w ?v ? V |^IUUV U to a stranger. Her husband was king of A Holland?her brother^ viceroy of Itally. ti Events separated her from the one?she v .saw the other die an exile in a little court h of Germany. Three sous had been be- U slowed upon her ; the eldest, for whom f< Napoleon destined the empire, died yoting, E and his death was, perhaps, the c.ause of tl the dit^rcc of Josephine, and the fatal marriage of Marie Louise: the second died, sword in hand, in Itafly, in 1831, in attempting to secure its independence; v the mad atlcmptof the third, at ?tratsburg. ct is recent and well known. He indeed h closed his mother's eyes, but she died;si conscious that he was a proscribed exile, k without an asylum in Europe. rt The tongue of scandal has not spared c< her; but yet, none can say that she ever1 Ji forgot her honor and divnitv as wife or #Y queen. Although she mixed -much in m political matters, she cannot be reproach* , hi cd with a single trait of party hate or; ri party vengeance. Patriotism was heriol real and ruling motive. In her misfor-;a< tunes she sought for.consolation in litera- la ture and the arts, and conformed herself b cheerfully to her altered fortunes. She tl has composed several pieces of poofry 01 and airs, which will survive her memory, ui Unhappy daughter?unhappy wife?still ti more unhappy mother?Ilortense de Beau- pi ha r no is never found repose but in deathh, pi which she met without a regret, but that a< of leaving her only child exposed to em- ci barrassed, and probably, rigorous fate. , i fc The French Government, at the time of w the Stratsburg conspiracy, wished to play fa a generous part in taking prince Louis fe Napoleon from his natural judges, but ei ittoa2 *. 1 -? 'k-. ? ^? ?? ?uo mi 11 utii uis|nayiiiy iiiu same sup* ct posed humanity towards the mother.? la On hearing of the audacious attempt of ih her son, she immediately set off by post, cj tynd arrived in the strictest incognito at ai Viry, near Paris, in order to intercede with the government for her son. But no pi sooner was it known that she was ,in ag France, than she received orders to take tii her departure immediately. In vain did w -the person who accompanied her reprc- tii sent to M. Dclcsscn and M. Mole, an an* ra cient servant of Napoleon, that grief, w uneasiness, and the fatigues of a journey cr too rapidly made, had brought on a state th of suffering which Absolutely required n< some day's repose, and the immediate.aid it of the most experienced physicians. The th ministers were Indexible; the unfortunate tii lady received fresh orders to depart, im- ig mediately, and traverse the country "as A quick as possible. Scarcely bad she re-: al turned to Arenenterg, when the terrible m malady which carried Iter off, from which ' to she had never before, these harrassing fo events, declared itself with a violence! r?l _ ?i I" which resisted all the succor of the rnedi-lpi qal art. b< As a commentary upon this conduct of cl the French Government towards the ex- th queen of Holland* one little anecdote le \v>ll suffice. m When, in 1815, Napoleon returned from ht the Isle of Elba, the dowager duchess of ul Orleans mothci of Louis Pniiippe* had a rA short time before, broken her leg, and pi wAs still ill* from the effects of this ncci- th dent. Queen Hortense* informed of her b? state of suffering, let her know .that she it would take her under her protection, and to waited upon the emperor upon his arrival, iy ?tom whom she obtained permission for ol the duchess to remain at Paris as long as ti< he liked; and an order to have her trea- w ted with all the honors due to her rank. v? The duchess of Orleans remained in Paris la during the whale period of the Hundred w days. f(J On her dcnth>bcd, the duchess of 8t. p< Luc expressed a wish to be conveyed to d< Rucl, and be placed there by the side of ki her mother, tlic empress Josephine. It e< will appear strange indeed if the present fr Ircnch Government refuses so little ?8 a di fravg In her.-own ?<wfery to her, who i>ined so earnestly her solicitations to hose of her mother, to obtain from the irst consul a pension of 200,000 francs or tlie'downger duchess of Orleans and ier daughter, now Madame Adelaide, later to the king of the Frebch. The death of queen llortense was rorthy of her life. Her long agony had either wearied her resignation nor exlusted her endless benevolence. Up to er last moments her thoughts were only f those around her, who, on their side, nited as they were in one common syinathv and common nffliriinn # ? iUU ?V till ach other in demonstrations of zeal and flection. * Several of her old friends had orae from afar to have the melancholy leasure of seeing her once more before tsing her forever. lier relations ar.d ervants surrounded her bed of death, pon which religion, which had suppor?d her through life, was her consolation nd hope. Her son received her last reath, and- she left this world leaving ehiud her general regret among those rho knew her; for she won the admiraon and attachment of all around. The funeral service, should no ulterior impositions change the present intention, ras to be celebrated at Ermatengen, a ttle village situated at the foot of Areenburg; and, certainly, neither prayers r tears will he spared for her who was the enefactress and idol of the country.? .nd, to our minds, the simple and spontneoUs homage rendered in a humble illage church to her virtues, will not onor the daughterand sister of Napoleon ;ss, than if bet obsequies had been permitted with all the pomps of Notre tame, in Paris, and all the splendor of tic empire. TkEtasnnn a mr* LFrjorCiaai Cj UUUKAUK. The following instance of enthusiastic alor and contempt of life is not exceded by any thing which is recorded in istory. It occurred in India, at the .orming of the fortress of Bobilee, bemging to Rangaroa, one of the Polygar| ijahs. The attack (says the historian,) i tmmenced at day break, on the 24th, of nnuary, with the field-pieces against the >ur towers; and the defenders, lest fire light catch the thatch of the rampart, id pulled it down. By 9 o'clock seve-' il of the battlements were broken, \^ien II the leading parties of the four divisions ivanced, at tne same time with scaling iddors; but after much endeavor for } tin our, not a man had been able to get over te parapet, and many had fallen wounded; ther parties followed with as little succers, I ntil all were so falligued, that a ccssa on was ordered, during which the field- j ieces, having beaten down more of the' nrapet, gave the second attack more Wantage; but the ardor of the defence in-' reased with the danger. The garrison, >ught with the indignant ferocity of iid beasts, defending their dens and | tnilics; several of them stood, as in de-; ncc> on the top of the battlements, and ideavored to grapple with the first asmdants, hoping with them to twist the ddcrs down, and this failing, stabbed lem with, their lances, but being wholly tpoced themselves', were easily shot by in from the rear of the escalade. The assailants admired, for no Eurosan had ever seen such excess of course in the natives of Indoston, and con? J ir i . . . t I iiuu11y unereu quarter, wnieii was aiays answered by the menace and inlcnr?n of death; not a man had gained the mparts at two o'clock in the afternoon, hen another cessation of the attack isucd; on which Kangarao assembled e principal men, told, them there was ) hope of maintaining the fort, and that was immediately necessary to preserve eir wives and children from the violai>n of the Europeans, and the more nominious authority qf Vizernmrauz.e, number called without distinction were otted to the work; they proceeded every an with a torch, his lance, and poinard, the habitations in the middle of the ri,to which they set fire indiscriminately ying the flame with straw prepared with tch and brimstono, and every man stabid, without remorse, the woman or did, whichsoever attempted to escape e flame and suffocation.- Not the help* as infant, clinging to the bosom of its other, saved the life of either from ,the md of the husband and father. The most excesses, whether of revenge or 'ge, were exceeded by the attroeious ojudiccs which dictated and performed is horrible sacrifice. The massacre dug finished, those who accomplished returned, like men agitated by the furies. die themselves on the walls. Mr. Law, ho commanded one of the divisions, wired, while looking at the confla^rathat the number of the defenders as considerably diminished,. and he adinced again to the attack. After several dders had failed, a few grenadiers got rer tho parapet' and maintained their oting in the towar till more secured the. icsession. Rangoaraov hastening to the ?fcnce of the tower, was in this instant illed hy a musket ball. His fall increasI, if possible, the desperation of his iends; who crowding to revenge hir ;ath, left the other parts of the ramparts bare; and the other divisions o( the French troops, having advanced likewise to their respective attacks, numbers on all sides got over the pefapet without opposition; nevertheless, stone of the defenders quitted the rampart, or would accept quarter; hut each fell advancing against or struggling with an antagonist; and even when fallen, and in the last ngonv, would resign his p dniar only to death. The slaughter of the conflict being completed, another much more dreadful presented itself intheuerabelow:the transport ofvictory lost all its joy: all gazed on one another with silent astonishment and remorse, the fiercest could not'veiusc a tear for the deplorable dcstructioji spread before them ! Whilst contemplating on'it, an old inau,| leading a boy, was perceived advancing from a distant recess: lie was welcomed' with-much attention and tespert, and con-; | ducted by the crowd Id Mr. Law, to whom 1 ! he presented the child; with these w ?r s : | "This is the son of Rtngaruo, w hom 1. j have piescrved against his father's will." Another emotion now succeeded, and the i preservation of this infant was fell hy all as some ulleviation to the horrible catastrophe, of which they had been the unfortunate authors. The tutor and the I child were immediately sent to M. Bu sy, 'who, having heard of the condition of the fort, would not go into it, but remained in his tent, Where he received the isacred captives with #he humanity ol a 'guardian appointed -by the atrongest claims af nature, and immediately co nmunded patents to b* prepared, appointing the so lord of the territory which he had offered the father in exchange f >r the i district of Bobilee; ar.d ordered ihetn to be strictly guarded in the camp from the malevolence of enemies. The ensuing night and the two ru-'coo(Hng clays passed in the usual attentions; especially the care of the wounded, who were many; hut in the middle of the third night, the camp was alarmed by a tumult in the quarter of Vizeramrauze. Four of the soldiers of Rangarae. on seeing him fall, concealed themselves in an unfrequented part of the fort until the night was far advanced, wheu the)' dropped down the walls, and speaking the same language, passed unsuspected thro' the quarters of Vizeramrauze, and gained the neighboring thickets, where they remained the two succeeding days, watching I until the bustle of tho'camp had subsided; then two of them quitted their retreat,] and having by their "language again deceived those Ly whom they were questioned, got near the lent of Vizernrnrauze; then creeping on tl^ ground, they passed under the backpart, and entering the tent, found him lying on his bed, alone, anc{ asleep, Vizeramrauze was extremely corpulent, insomuch that he could scarcerear himself from his seat without assistance: the two men restraining ?h?*ir vcr\ breath, struck in the same instant with their pninards at his heart; the tirst gr m brought in a centinel who fired but missed; more immediately tnronged in, but the murderers, heedless of themselves, cried* out, pointing to the body, Hook hero! wc arc satisfied!" They were instantly shot by the crowd, and mangled after they had fallen; but they stabbed Vizeramrauge in thirty-two places, llad they failed, the otlisr two remaining in the forest were bound by the same oath to , o -ill ... % i pcnorm me accu, or pcrisn in the attempt. Youth Betrayed.?A few years ago, the green of o rich bleacher in the north of Ireland, had been frequently robbed at night, to a very considerable amount; notwithstanding the utmost vigilance of the proprietor and his servants to protect it, and without the slightest clue being furnished for the detection of the rob her. Effectually and repeatedly baffled by the ingenuity of the thief or thieves, the proprietor at length offered a reward of 100/ for'the apprehension of any person or persons detected robbing the green. A few days after this proclamation, the ! master was at midnight raised from his bed by the alarm of a faithful servant, i 'there was somebody with a lantern cros sing the green." The master started j from his bed, flew to the window?it was j so?he hurried on his clothes, armed him- j self with a pistol; the servant flew for his * loaded musket, and they cautiously fol- i lowed kthe light. The person with the < lantern (a man) was, as they approach d, < on tip-toe, distinctly seei\ stooping and < grouping on the ground; he was seen .i lift'ug and tumbling the linen. The ser vart fired; ihe robber fell. The man and I master* now proceeded to examine the i spot,. The robber was dead; he was recognised to be a youth about nineteen, who resided a few fields off The linen was cut across; bundles of it were tied up; < and upon searching and examining farther, the servant in the presence of the master, picked up a pen-knife, with the name of the unhappy youth engraved upon tho handle. The evidenee was conclusive, for in the morning the lantern war acknowledged by the afflicted and implicated father of the hoy to be his lantern. Defence was dumb. The faithful eervtat received the bun* idretl pounds reward, and was besides proj.inoted t<? be the confidential overseer ot* ihe establishment. .? k . This faithful servant, the confidential overseer, was shortly after proved to have been himself the thief, and was hanged at Dundalk for the murder of the youth ; whom lie ha<l cruelly betrayed. It appeared, upon the clearest evidence, , and by the dying confession und description of the wretch himself, that all this j circumstantial evidence was pieconcerted by him, not only to screen himself from i the imputation of former robberies, but to get the hundred pounds reward. The dupe, the victim he chose for this diabolical purpose, tvas artless, affectionate, and obliging. The boy had a favorite knife, a penknife, with his name engraved upon its handle. The first of this hand was to coax him to give him thai Knife as a keep sake. On the evening of the fital day, the miscreant prepared the bleach-green, the theatre of this melancholy tragedy, for his performance. He tore the linen from the pegs in some plu-. cos, he cut it across in others; he turned it up in heaps; he tied it up in bundles, as if ready to be removed, and placed the favorite knife, the keepsake, in one ol the cuts he hail himself made. I Matters being thus prepared, he invited il. I - me ucvuieu y<Milti to supper, and is the nights were dark, he told him to bring the lantern to light him home. At'siippcr, or alter, he artfully turned the couiersa-j tion upon the favorite knife, which he > ilF-cied with great concern to miss, and pretending that the last recollection lie ; hud of it, was using it on a particular spot of the hleech-gneen, describing that spot j to the obliging boy, apd begged him to ' sec it it was there, lie lit the lantern j which he had been desir-d to bring with I him to light him home, and with placrity j proceeded on his fatal errand. As so-ni as the msnsler saw his victim completely in the snare, he gave the , alarm, and the meluncholly ' crime described was the result. Could there*have been pdssibly a strong-1 er case of circumstantial evidence than I this? The voug mail seemed actually , caught in the fact. There was the knife \ with hia name on :.t; the linen cut, tied up in bun lies, and the lantern acknowledged by his father. The time, past -midnight. The master himself present, a maiii f the fairest character; the servant of unblemished reputation. State of Protestantism in France. ?We find an article in the. Transcript of week before last on this subject, accompanied by some quotations from a recently published work The book we have not seen; but the subject strikes us peculiarly interesting, both in a retrospective and prospective point of view. To the rejection of the Refor nation by the French people, we trace the character of almost all thai lias ainnn ? -.. ? - ..Uk- anil/1. I/IMIIUII lllU'lli and we look forward to its future adoption as the only possibility of moral j prosperity, winch the destinies of the na- ( tion, whatever they may be, can realize. . The actual stale of the mind of France j seems to favor the idea, that piotestantism may yet preva I th re. not, certainly " universally and lationally, but to an ex lent which may hav<- a general influence, ( even on her catholic inhabitants. All f educated, and most uneducated French- j men, belonging nominal y to t c Unman clinch, are completely disengaged from v jvery possible creed. Catholicism is ( found to he out of fashion; it may act as ^ \ pleasing opiate on the inert mass of so- ^ ciety, but can give no moral control and ^ direction to mental activity. Infidelity j is acknowledged by all the respectable, even though they inay be negatively unbelt vers thomselves, to be a principle i exclusively of disorganization: and the constituted anthoritip* nf Prant-o ? - rry against it from one end of the land to < the oth* r. The professed infidels oi th.it \ country, loo, are no longer what they I [Vrmerly were. They givte no point i blank denial to the truths of Christianity, i If they believe nothing, they deny no- t thing. If they will not be bound by en- I lliolieisin, with which Christianity is ' identified in their minds, hey qually re- i j< ct the dry doe<rines of Voltaire, whirli . provides no aliment for their affections, i Fluctuating between the two, th^y have . fallen in?o the fantastic: and are, evi- j lently seeking in ,h?dr %vild intellectual t excursions, to discover some truth u which they may find repute mii?' certe ??- i ? A ' " ly. j\ want, in oriel, is univi-r-Hlix it It I ?a want not openly avowed, betaiim a \ faith in revelation, which is scorne, can i alone show how it is to be met and sup- < plied?a want of religion. In the midst, i however,* of -the general torment of unset- * lied thoughts, of the absence of all moral convicti ns( which this produces, the pure truths of the gospel, it is consolin to kn w, arc silenily and imperceptibly spreading thro >gh the country. Here, then, is a speck of hope upon the horizon. We cannot forbear to think thst it will grow broader and broader. It is cer tain, ;ti least, that there has been of laie years a great revival of religi 'tis zeal and devotion among the' French * protestants, and that raa?y of the reiormed churches ?SB-gBBH BBS?BB? arc now making a combined effort with some success, though struggling with tna* .riy disadvantages; to propagate plain doctrines amonf their catholic brethren. Wt wilt not dweH upon the pleasing prosj pect, of which this circumstance affords us a glimpse; if wc did. we might be 1 thought to be indulging in speculations. ' VVe cannot help thinking, however, that the philosopher* and staeismen of France* who are at present really and earnestly seeking to discover some medium point in morals between superstition and irrelU gion, which may afford an anchorage ground for the popular mind, will, at last, come to percetVe that the protestant form of Christianity alone gives the great disideratiim. and ihut th?v will if only on account of its virtues in reialion to politics, give it every encouragemcni.?Sunday Morning- News. i ' r. From the 44Sketches of Western Adventurers,n . The two Johnsons ?KurJy in the fall of *93, two boys by the name of J >hnson, the one 1*2, and the. ojher t^ *, * years of age, were ?>iayihg. on the of Short creek, near the mouth ef the Muskingum, and occasionally shipping stones into the water. At a distance they saw two men, dressed like ordinary neir tiers, in hats and coats, who gradqagy, approached them, and from time to li$ber ihrew stones iuto the water, in imitation* of the children. At length, when within 100 yards o< the boys, ifiey suddenly threw off their masks, and rushing rapidly upon them, took them prisoners. They proved to be Indians of tiie Delaware tribe. Takio? the children in their arms, they ran hastily into to woods; and alter a rapid march of about six miles, they encamped for the nig.it. Having kindled a fire, and laying tneir rides and tomahawks against a tree, they lay -Sown to rest, each with a boy in Ilia arms. The children, as may be rot tly mippuscd, were loo much agU taled in sleep. The eldest at length be* gin t?t ,n?ve itlimbs cautiously, anil rinding that ih?' Vidian who held hira remained fast asleep, hu gradually disengaged himself from ids arms, and walked to the lire, which Itatl burned low. lie re* .named several minutes in suspense of what was to be done Having slirrcd the tire, and ascertained the exact position of the enemies* arms, he wltiispered softly to his brother to imitate his example, and if possible to extricate him-elf from his keeper* The little hoy did as his brother directed, and both stood irresolute around the lire* \l length the oldest, who was of a very resolute disposition, proposed they should kill the sleeping Indians, and return home. .The eldest pointed at one of the guns, and ussurcd his brother if he would only pull the trigger of that gun alter tie had placed it at rest, he would answer lor the older Indian. The plan was agreed upon. The rtlle was le veiled, with ilie muzzle resting on a log, which lay near; and having stationed his little brotner at the breech, with positive triiPiki ?inl l.i ????!? sK^v < ? - * 1 r. |#v? o M?r? ? > ll/UWII iliu II t^gcr uuiii lie rave the word He l en seized the toma lawk, and advanced cautiously to the deeper. Such was lite agitation of the rounder brother, however, that he. I >uchsd the trigger too soon, . and the report if.his gun awakenes the other Indian be^ ore his brother was quite prepared.? le sirur|i the blow, however, with firirtin*;-, at A ugh i. Hie hurry of the uc it vas done with the blunt part of the hatch- t, and only stunned his antagonist.? Quickly repealing the blow, however, ... J - -i * ' - IV. nuiit ieu a utTji wound Upon 1110 1Q: linn's head, and alter repealed strokes, eft him lifeless upon the spot. the other, frightened at the explosion >f his own gun, hud already taken to his .reapers, and with much difficulty was iveruiken by his brother. Having re.aimd the road by which they had advanced, the elder fixed his hat upon in tush, to nrirk the spot and by daylight hey regaiueil their homes. They found heir mother in an agony of grief for .heir loss, and ignorant whether they had teen drowned, or lakeu by the Indians,? I'heir tale was heard with astonishment, tot umningled with incredulity, and a few f the neighbois insisted u| on ac.compatving tin ni iu the spot where so extraordinary a rencounter hail occurred. The lace Was soon found, and the truth o< he hoys' story placed beyond a doubt. The tomahawked Indian lay in bis dot d where In fell, but the one who had teen shot, was not to be found. A broad ^ trail of bb>od however, enabled them to track lits 'outsteps, and be was at length overtaken. Ilis under iaw had been en lirely shut away, and his hands and breast w-re covered with clotted blood. Though very much exhausted, he still kept his pursuers at bay, and faced litem, from lime to time; with an air of determined resolution. Cither his gory appearance, or the apprehension that more were in the neighborhood, had such an effect upon his pursuers, that, notwithstanding their numbers ypt he was permitted to escape. Whether he survived, or perished in the wilderness, could not be ascertained; hot front the "so verity of the wound, the latter supposition is most probable;