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The late lord Castlereagh was as fine a looking man as any in Europe. His person was tall and well shaped, and he had a very handsome and ex- pressive countenance. Lord Erskine was very thin and tall, a good deal of the Scotch outline in his physiog- nomy. Grattan was small and awk- wardly made, but his address was very prepossessing. Curran was short and fat, with a large share of grimace in all his actions. Pitt, Fox and Grattan, lie beside each other in Westminster Abbey, without an in- scription to mark the spot, except the initial letters of their names, done in the most rude manner, yet lord Castle- reagh is denied even this, and I believe the majority of the nation think he would grace a highway grave better than the one he occupies.
EDWARD W. MONTAGUE, ESQ.
The celebrated Edward Wortley Montague, esq. died in 1776, on his re- turn from Venice to England. As this gentleman was remarkable for the uncommon incidents which attended his life, the close of that life was no less marked with singularity. He had been early married to a woman, who
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aspired to no higher a character than that of an industrious washerwoman. As the marriage was solemnized in a frolic, Wortley never deemed her suffi- ciently the wife of his bosom. She was allowed a maintenance. She liv- ed contented, and was too submissive to be troublesome on account of the conjugal rites. Mr Montague, on the other hand, was a perfect patriarch in his manners. He had wives of almost every nation. When he was with Ali Bey in Egypt, he had his household of Egyptian females ; each striving who should be the happy she, who could gain the greatest ascendancy over this Anglo-Eastern Bashaw. At Constan- tinople, the Grecian women had charms to captivate this unsettled wanderer. In Spain, a Spanish Brunette ; in Italy, the olive-complexioned female, were sohcited to take the honours of the bridal bed It may be asked what be. came of this group of wives ? Mr Montague was continually shifting the place, and consequently varying the scene. Did he travel with his wives, as the patriarchs did with their flocks and herds ? No such thing. Wortley, considering his wives as bad travelling companions, generally left them be- hind him. It happened, however, that news reached his ears of the death of the original Mrs Montague, the wash- erwoman. Wortley had no issue by her, and without issue male, a very large estate would revert to the second son of Lord Bute. Wortley, owing the family no obligations, was deter- mined, if possible, to defeat their ex- pectations. He resolved to return to England and marry. He acquainted a friend with his intentions, and he commissioned that friend to advertise for any young decent woman, who might be in a pregnant state. The advertisement was inserted in one of the morning papers. Several ladies answered it. One out of the number was selected, as being the most eligible object. She waited with eagerness for the arrival of her expected bride- groom ; but, behold, whilst he was on his journey, Death very impertinently arrested him in his career. Thus
ended the days of Edward Wortley Montague, esq. ; a man who had pas- sed through such variegated scenes, that a bare recital of them would sa- vour of the marvellous. From West- minister school, where he was placed for education, he ran away three seve- ral times. He exchanged clothes with a chimney sweeper, and he followed for some time that sooty occupation. He next joined himself to a fisherman, and cried flounders in Rotherhithe. He then sailed as a cabin-boy to Spain, where he had no sooner arriv- ed, than he ran away from the vessel, and hired himself to a driver of mules. After thus vagabondizing it for some time, he was discovered by the consul, who returned him to his friends in En- gland. They received him with a joy equal to that of the father of the prodi- gal son of the Gospel. A private tu- tor was employed to recover those ru- diments of learning which a life of dissipation, of blackguardism, and of vulgarity, might have obliterated. Wortley was sent to the West Indies, where he remained some time, then returned to England, acted according to the dignity of his birth, was chosen a member, and served in two succes- sive parliaments. His expences ex- ceeding his income, he became involv- ed in debt, quitted his native country, and commenced that wandering trav- eller be continued to the time of his death. Having visited most of the eastern countries, he contracted a par- tiality for their manners. He drank little wine, a great deal of coffee, wore a long beard, smoaked much, and even whilst at Venice, he was habited in the eastern stile. He sat cross-legged in the Turkish fashion, through choice. With the Hebrew, the Arabic, the Chaldaic, and the Persian languages, he was as well acquainted as with his native tongue. He published several pieces. One on the . Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire,' another an exploration of ' The Causes of Earth- quakes.' He had great natural abili- ties, and a vast share of acquired knowledge.
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THE BOSTON NEWS-LETTER,
BOSTON : SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1826.
A gentleman has informed us that the body of a sailor was picked up by one of the Navy Yard boats, eight or ten days since, near the Navy Yard, with his hands tied together behind, and a large wound on the back of the head. A coroner was notified, who deferred an examination, and thus a human life has gone, without any meas- ures being taken to ascertain whether it was by the hand of violence.
The May Number of the Boston Magazine, as usual, is rich with matter. An interesting article on Cuba, con- tinued from the April Number, is par- ticularly worthy of perusal. Besides the other miscellaneous items, the po- etry which is interspersed in different parts of the Magazine, is a great treat to all lovers of fine writing.
BOSTON BARD.
We have read an affecting appeal from the Boston Bard, to the citizens of Boston, and strongly recommend it to our neighbours. He is a genius, and a sick and apparently forsaken one. Although we have no personal acquaintance with Mr Coffin, we fully believe him an object of charity and interest. It is remarkable indeed, that all poets of truly original genius, have been poor, afflicted, and in their life- time, often persecuted and despised. If there is any love of talents, and re- maining philanthropy in the bosom of a literary metropolis, it will redound to its everlasting honour, to exert it, in some degree, in behalf of this afflicted man. If he had no stronger claims than being a sick man in distress, duty and humanity would dictate what should be done. Mr Coffin is a poet. Smooth his pillow while he can appre- ciate your charities. ---
" Earth, earth, thou hast no place of rest !
No heart hast thou-and cold 's thy breast."
SABBATH IN BALTIMORE.
" Cheap and Pleasant Excursion .- The steam boat Eagle goes to Annap-
olis every Sunday and returns early the same evening, affording to every one the opportunity of visiting the an- cient and present metropolis of the State, without loss of time, and at the trifling expense of only one dollar for the whole trip."
The Albany Argus says buildings are erecting in nearly every part of the city, and the various other improve- ments, are not only indicative of its prosperity, but afford active and prof- itable employment to nearly all classes of the community.
THEATRICAL.
'Talma, now nearly sixty years of age, is listening to overtures from Elli- son, to perform at the London Thea- tres. It is supposed by the Editor of the John Bull that they will be ac- cepted, and that he will be brought be- fore the tribunal of a London audi- ence, immediately preceding the re- appearance of Mr Kean, who, it is understood, returns to England in August. Last dates from London say not a word about the re-appearance of Mr Pelby. It is not unlikely that Wallack has cut him.
A new play, entitled 'the Unnatu- ral Mother,' a tragedy in five acts, au- thor anon. is announced in the London papers. The Reviews speak highly of it, and a writer in the Morning Chronicle says, it is full of incident, the language is bold, chaste and ener- getic, and taken as a whole, is not in- ferior to any thing offered to the public since the days of Massenger, Beau- mont, Fletcher and Otway. We hope it will be brought forward in this coun- try, at an early day.
Messrs J. T. Winthrop, Isaac Wa- ters and Henry Sheafe, of the Com- mittee appointed at a general meeting held in Faneuil Hall, 20th April, for the purpose of collecting subscriptions for the relief of the venerable 'THOMAS JEFFERSON, have been deputed to com- municate the progress made by the committee, and the information on the subject committed to them. They
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state that the committee have been informed, that the property of Mr Jef- ferson has been divided, by the com- missioners acting under the authority 'of the Government of Virginia, into lots, which are to constitute the prizes in the Lottery granted for his relief ; --- The Mansion Estate at Monticello forming one lot and prize ;- The Bed- ford Estate another lot and prize, &c. &c. The whole sum to be raised being about one hundred and twenty thou- sand dollars.
It is within the expectations of the committee, drawn from such intelli- gence as they have received, that the efforts making in the different parts of this country, will result in a complete relief of the distinguished individual who is the object of them, from his present embarrassments, without the contemplated relinquishment of his entire property. But even if these ex- pectations should be disappointed, yet a very honourable and laudable tribute may be offered to the meritorious ser- vices and sacrifices of the author of the Declaration of Independence and its stedfast supporter, by a limited jus- tification of them.
It is understood that the Managers of the Lottery, having been apprised that subscriptions were projected in several sections of our country, and earnest endeavours using, to redeem the estates of Mr Jefferson, have made a valuation in money, of the various prizes, and in issuing the tickets will annex a condition to their sale, that the holders of the prize-tickets shall receive either the prize-estates or their said valuation in money, at the option of the managers, which option is only to be exercised for the especial pur- pose of preserving the said prize- estates to their present possessor.
Should then the sanguine hopes of benevolence and gratitude fail to be realized in their fulness, still it cannot be doubted that a sum may be raised, sufficient at least, to ransom the home of his fathers, and enable the care-worn patriot to enjoy in undis- turbed tranquillity and unshackled freedom during the evening of life, and
transmit unincumbered to his posteri- ty, the patrimonial Monticello, render- ed thrice dear to them, by having been the residence of its present illustrious occupant.
The Committee have not consider- ed it as a part of their duty, or in any degree necessary to appeal to the gen- erous sympathies of the public :-- They believe them to be sufficiently awak- ened, and that an offering will be made in this patriotic and benevolent cause, which shall be worthy of the accustom- ed liberality of Boston, honorable to the republic, and gratifying to him who is the object of it.
A Committee has been appointed, to correspond with persons in other cities and towns in this and other States, in furtherance of the measures proposed.
The Committee commenced on the duties assigned them on Monday last, and it is said meet with flattering success.
ANCIENT PRINTING PRESS.
Mr Hale, in speaking of the first printing press in North America, says it was brought to Cambridge in 1638, and afterwards became the property of the College. In 1656 there were two presses at Cambridge, one import- ed in 1638, which then belonged to the College, and the other the proper- ty of the of the society for propagating the gospel among the Indians. After- wards in 1670, after the first edition of Eliot's Indian bible was printed, the last mentioned press was given to the college. They remained the property of the college, under the direction of Mr Green, who was printer to the col- lege for fifty years, and a great muin- ber of works were printed on them. Mr Green died in 1702. One of these presses we presume must be the same mentioned in the following paragraph, which we copy from the Saratoga Sen- tinel. If this conjecture be correct, it is a pity that the press should not be recovered by the college, and preserv- ed as a memorial of her early agency in diffusing knowledge throughout this infant country.
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" One of the first printing presses |[ en the Apprentices' Library, at Cin- brought into this country, if not the first, is now in Elizabeth-town, Essex county, in this state. [N. York.] It was originally used at the Cambridge University, Massachusetts, was brought from thence to Rutland, Vermont, nearly forty years ago, by the late Dr. Williams, the historian of that state ; and was sold to a gentleman in Elizabethtown about seventeen years since. Its appearance is truly antique.
HISTORICAL MEMORANDUM.
One of the first objects of a French peasant, when he becomes master of a cottage, is to furnish it with an excel- lent bed. This luxury is carried to such excess, that in the west provinces of France, they are obliged to ascend them by two or three stairs.
Marechal D'Aulterre,' a great land- holder in France, before the revolution, to punish six of his tenants, who killed some small game, belonging to him, ordered them to be harnessed to a cart, and obliged them to draw a load of water a considerable distance, every day, a long while, for punishment .-- This was a commutation of their sen- tence, instead of sending them to the gallies, for life, at Marseilles.
Children of thirteen years, before the days of Napoleon, have been sent to the gallies, for assisting their fathers in smuggling.
When Marmontel proposed D' Alem- bert to Madame de Pompadour, as worthy of a pension such as was granted to men of letters, she refused him, because he loved Italian music.
Three Sovereigns sat with M. Ge- rard, at a particular time, in Paris, in one day. At twelve, the King of France, at the Thuilleries ; at two, the Emperor of Russia called on him, and at three, the King of Prussia took his place. A curious incident this, in the life of a painter.
CHAPTER OF NEWS.
A new paper, called the Literary Lounger, is about to appear in Lon- don, also a Scientific paper, called the Phenomenist .== Mr Goodacre has giv-
cinnati, 12 dollars, the proceeds of an introductory lecture on astronomy == The quota of arms, by the War De- partment, to the State of Ohio, is 4153 muskets .=== A Commercial Daily Reg- ister is published at Cincinnati .= Prof. Dana, of Dartmouth College, has been elected Grand Commander of Trinity encampment of Knights Templars, Hanover, N. H .=== Mr Gallatin is ap- pointed envoy extraordinary and min- ister plenipotentiary to the court of St. James, vice Rufus King, === Robert Trimble is made an associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, vice Thomas Todd, deceased. =Capt. Charles Morris, of the Navy, is elected one of the board of Navy Commissioners =The carpenters of Albany have had a turn out for higher wages ; - hope they will soon turn back again, contented with the custom- ary fees, as they did the last season in Boston =Panama, where the much talked of Congress of freemen will assemble, is the capital of the province of Darien. It is pronounced Panama, so as torhyme with ah ! The fashion- able mode of pronouncing Niagara, by laying the accent on g is a devia- tion from the original Indian pronun- ciation == A boy has been whipped by some Justices, in Rochester, N. Y. to confess a crime of which he was inno- cent !== Master Coffin, now giving rec- itations in Baltimore, is pronounced an extraordinary chap =A Dr. Saml. McAuley of New York, lately had a bold attempt made upon him to extort money. He was called to examine a man's wife, and just as he was getting ready to make a professional examina- tion, the woman screamed, and her husband and a bully, rushed in and demanded a thousand dollars damages. Cutler, the bully, absconded, and was lately sentenced to the Charlestown States Prison .= \ Summer course of Medical Lectures are given in Balti- more, of great advantage to students .== George Hoadley, Mayor of New Ha- ven, and somewhat celebrated as Pres- ident of a certain Bank, has sent his resignation to the legislature .= The
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Governor of Cuba has forbidden the | Richard D. Harris has been appointed importation of all books which oppose the Catholic religion === Mr Kean is expected to be in Providence very soon .== Capt. Symmes, the man of the interior delivered a Lecture at the Exchange Coffee House on Thursday evening last, May 18, and as our good citizens are fond of notions, there is no doubt that they will de- rive great satisfaction from the reason- ableness of his Theory .== In conse- quence of late thefts, an extra watch has been employed in Providence, R. I .= The manufacture of salt has been commenced in Eastport, Me .== The Dawes estate, in State street, was sold on Monday last, for $15,374 per foot, amounting to $37000 .== There are forty three banks in Rhode Island, and thirteen petitions before the legis- lature, for new ones : six petitions for the augmentation of the capitals of old ones .=== Baltimore is about to receive $50,000 interest, from the U. S. which is to be used for diminishing the city debt .= The Steam Boat Codorus, when last heard from, says the Harris- burg Chronicle, was at Otswego, up- wards of 240 miles above Harrisburg. There is now do difficulty in the way of this boat's passage into Otsego lake. =The American Bible Society cele- brated their tenth anniversary, at New York, May 11th. During the last year, the society have issued 67,134 bibles, and 16,557 testaments. The receipts into the treasury, for the past year amounted to $51,389 and 68 cts. =Miss Clark, of Baltimore, is giving Lectures on History in Hartford, Conn. Ladies more generally excel in curtain lectures .== A shoe-maker, whose name was Champion, recently murdered his father and sister, near Paris, because they interfered in a love affair, in which he was engaged .== Rev. Messrs Weston and Fiske, have been prosecuting each other for slan- der, in Worcester County .== A leop- ard, a few months since, escaped from his cage, in London, ran across a street, and before he could be arrested, tore off'one cheek of a little boy. The boy is not expected to recover, and the keeper has been sent to prison .=.
Navy Agent at Boston, in place of Amos Binney == John Lowell, chair- man of the committee for procuring the statue of Washington, has inform- ed the public that the statue may be expected in the course of the present summer .== A man by the name of Parker, was committed to Jail on Wednesday for making an attempt on the life of a respectable watch-maker, in Washington street .== A writer in the U. S. Gazette asserts that Capt. Symmes's theory is at war with the laws of gravitation .== In consequence of an alarm that the small-pox was making its appearance, physicians have been employed to vaccinate the city of Cincinnati == While a Mr Josi- ah Weddington, of Cabarras county, N. C. was picking his gun flint, the piece went off and killed his own daughter .== Niles's Register says it is strongly suspected that Alexander died by the hand of violence : the numer- ous arrests in Russia mean more than is known .== The charter of the Con- cord, N. H. bank, expires on the first day of July next. Bills not returned before that period, will be lost to the bolders .== A bed of iron ore has been discovered in Guilford, N. H .== Mr Cooper, the novelist, is writing a work which will be called the Prairie .== Mr Rothchild has made arrangements to import £250,000 in gold, weekly, into England.
The Supreme Judicial Court in Maine, was in session last week, and several trials were bad in criminal ca- ses, among which was one of Ira Stone who was convicted of larceny, and sentenced to be punished by ten days solitary imprisonment, and four months hard labor in the State Prison. This trial excited much interest in the spectators, the accused being deaf and dumb : the charge alleged in the in- dictment was communicated to him by a female of his acquaintance, who could converse with him by signs ; and she made known to the court that he pleaded not guilty. It is said Stone . can read and write, and possesses con- siderable shrewdness and intelligence.
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THE BOSTON NEWS-LETTER,
For the Boston News Letter and City Record Mr. EDITOR,-The following lines and the story which gave rise to them, I had from a lady several years since. She is now living in Boston and is nearly ninety years old Yours, ANTIQUARIUS.
Doct. Mather Byles in his youth paid his addresses to the young lady who afterwards became the wife of Rev. Mr Morehead-She was a lady of elegant accomplishments and educa- tion ; possessed also of wit as well as worth. The Doctor's frequent severe jokes broke off the intended match, and she was shortly after addressed by Mr Morehead and became his wife. This Doctor Byles never forgave, for it is said they were very much attach- ed to each other, and the Doctor nev- er afterwards suffered an opportunity to pass without exercising his wit upon Mr Morehead and lady. Having suf- fered severely in company from the Doctor's wit, Mrs Morehead procured a small handsome silver curb bridle to be made, and braided silken reins for it herself and sent it to Doctor Byles, accompanied with her compliments. Soon after this the congregation of Mr Morehead procured a bell for their Meeting House in Federal St. but it was so small it received the nick-name of Dr. John Morehead's Leather Bell, and caused Doct. Byles to raise the laugh frequently at the expense of Mr Morehead and lady. This gave rise to the following lines, written by Mrs Morehead, and sent to Dr. Byles.
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