amount of 500,000 dollars; which was read, and on Mr. Calhoun replied, and Mr. Quincy read the folthe question shall the bill now have a second read-flowing memorandum which he had taken on the day ing? Mr. Basset moved to reject the bill, some de-of its date, anticipating that some difficulty might bate took place on this motion. Mr. Roberts moved arise. that the bill lie on the table. Motion lost. The question again recurred on rejecting the bill. Lost. "MEMORANDUM. 31st March, 1812. "Mr. Calhoun, of South Carolina, a member of the The bill was then read a second time and com-that "the committee of foreign relations had come committee of foreign relations, this day informed me, mitted to a committee of the whole house on Friday to a determination, that an embargo should be proposed to congress for its adoption to-morrow." next. ferred to the committee of the whole house. I Mr. Calhoun from the committee of foreign rela-asked him, if I was at liberty to mention this as a tions, reported a bill authorising the departure of fact from him. He replied, that "I was at liberty." ships and vessels from the ports and harbors of the He said, "that the gentlemen of the committee were United States in certain cases. Read twice and re-generally of opinion that the subject should be kept Mr. Tagrert had leave of absence from the 27th had declared, that he would not consider himself secret. But Mr. Randolph, one of the committee, instant, and Mr. Rodman from Monday next till the bound to any such obligation. The committee, give an equal chance to all the gentlemen in therefore, had thought that it was but fair to congress. And that he informed me of the fact, that I might communicate it to my mercantile 's a member from a commercial town, in order end of the session. An engrossed bill continuing for a limitted time the salaries of certain officers of government therein meationed, was read a third time and passed. Mr. Sturges had leave of absence from Monday next till the end of the session. The doors were closed about half past two o'clock, end remained closed till past 3 o'clock, when they were again opened: [see the law passed page 107.] (For Thursday's proceedings see last page.) The case of Rounsavell, riends." "I find the same information has been communicated by other members of the committee to various members of congress. History Of the Invasion of Portugal by Bonaparte. ABRIDGED FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES, (CONCLUDED FROM PAGE 81.) Mentioned in the proceedings of congress inserted “JOSIAH QUINCY.” in the last number of the REGISTER, and also in our too little interest to be detailed ensued-finally Mr. Much desultory conversation, too tedious and of "Political Notices," occupied a great portion of time Rounsavell was brought before the house, and havin the house of representatives from the novelty of ing agreed to answer such questions as might be prothe matter and the diversity of opinion respecting pounded to him, was discharged. The whole stateit, and him, among the members. He gave informa- ment as inserted in the National Intelligencer oçcution of the passage of the bill for laying an embargo, pies eight columas, to which our readers are res to the editors of certain papers printed at George. pectfully refered for further particulars-if they town and Alexandria, and being brought before the desire them. committee of foreign relations, refused to answer the questions proposed to him by the chairman. Detained in the custody of the sergeant at arms he was brought before the house, and the same interrogatories were put by the speaker, and he again refused to answer questions which went to ascertain by what means he obtained the aforesaid information. An irregular debate ensued, and several motions were made, which finally terminated in Decommitting him to the custody of the sergeant at The Portuguese were little likely to endure in pa-arins. The next day (Tuesday, April 7) he ad- tience these aggravated evils. They have been redressed a letter to the speaker disclaiming the in-proached for their propensity to revenge;—that protention of violating the respect due to the house, pensity proceeds not more from a lively and per"declaring that the conversation which the writer vered sense of honor, than from the supineness of had was inadvertent as he believes on the part of their government, which, by suffering all crimes to the members who partook in it, and entirely with-be comunitted with impunity, loosened the bonds of out any intention on their part, as he believes, to society, and left every man to take vengeance for violate the order of the house; that he had been re-himself. They have, also, like the Spaniards, a fused by the committee an opportunity to explain deep and ever-present remembrance of their for ner his testimony; and that his only motive for refusing greatness. The vanity with which this is some. to answer was, that if he were to answer the question as propounded to him, it might have the effect of criminating those who had committed no crime, and from whose conversation, but for previous and subsequent knowledge, he could not have ascertained that an embargo had been the subject of discussion, &c. &c." times manifested has excited the contempt of those who are little acquainted with the real character of the nation; but it is more generally a feeling of * "Mr. Calhoun has since stated to me, that the reasons given by Mr. Randolph for refusing to agree to the injunction of secrecy were, 1..That he doubted After which Mr. Smilie proceeded to state that the right of the committee to enjoin secrecy. Mr. Rounsavell probably gathered the facts stated That having just returned from Baltimore, he from being present at a conversation he himself had had heard, while in that city, that the intention with a member who was absent from the house to lay an embargo was already known in that city, when the vote was taken, exculpating Mr. R. from and that the British consul and a great mercantile al! blame therein. Mr. Smilie made some remarks house there, were then acting on the information. Implicating the character of Mr. Rando'ph, to which J. Q." 2. melancholy pride. The degeneracy of the Portu- had effaced the old enmity between the two Bat guese was confined to the higher ranks, whom every tions, and an union had thus naturally been effected possible cause, physical and moral, combined to de-along the border. They are a fine, hospitable race, grade. Generation after generation, they had inter- of whom, as indeed, of the nation at large, those married, not merely within the narrow circle of a persons who have been most few privileged families, but oftentimes in their own: them uniformly speak the best. The upper boughs conversant with uncles with their nieces, nephews with their aunts. were cankered, but the trunk and root were The canonical law was dispensed with for these al- sound. liances; but no dispersing power could set aside the Soon after Junot entered Lisbon he established law of nature, which rendered degeneracy the inevi- his head-quarters at the palace of Quintella, who table and righteous consequence. Thus was the was supposed to be the most wealthy man in Porbreed deteriorated; and education completed the tugal. The contributions which were levied upon mischief. The young hidalgo was never regarded this man's purse were immense, but his conduct was as a boy: as soon as the robes, or rather the banda-so contemptible that no one pitied him. On the ges of infancy were laid aside, he appeared in the arrival of the French, he gave a sumptuous enter dress of manhood, was initiated in its forms and tainment to the generals and chief officers of the follies, and it was rather his misfortune than his army, in hopes to ingratiate himself with the com fault, if at an early age, he became familiar with its mander in chief. His guests seemed highly grati vices. When he arrived at manhood, no field fied with the civilities of their host, and surprised for exertion was open for him, even if he were qua-at such a display of opulence. The costly paintings lified or disposed to distinguish himself. A wast-which decorated the walls, of which many were ful expenditure made him a bad landlord, and a productions of the most eminent masters of Italy, had paymaster; a deficient education made him a particularly attracted the notice of the general en bad statesman; and a loose morality made him a bad chef, who is said to be a great connoisseur. So patriot. There is an original goodness in human singularly had they hit his fancy, that henext morn nature, which not unfrequently survives the most ing despatched a note to Quintilla, complimenting baneful circumstances in which it can be placed. him on the taste he had shown in his collection, These causes of degeneracy were common to all and requesting, as a favor, that the pictures might the Portuguese nobility: the effects, of course, were immediately be sent him by the bearer of the mesnot equally apparent in all; and they who followed sage. He also took occasion, soon after, to ob the prince regent to Brazil displayed no common serve to his entertainer how much flattered he felt by Joy ltv. hi politeness, and how happy he was to see the The clergy were not so learned as their predeces-affection he had manifested to the person of his sors nor were they so intollerant. The middle master, the great Napoleon, observing at the same classes were improved-the peasantry uncorrupted; time, that as he had seen no house in Lisbon which their occupations were the same as those of their he liked so well, he intended in future to confer on forefathers, nor did they differ from them in any him the honor of residing in it himself. Quintella respect, except the very important one, that a long thus had the pleasure of maintaining the general and and frequent intermarriages with the Spaniards, sufficient to repress the people till the revolution in interval of peace, and their frequent intercourse all his staff. The vigorous measures which Junot adopted were *The Portuguese historians with a modesty pecu-Spain broke out. liar to themselves declare that the descriptions of were sent to Bayonne: they were composed of those Deputies, as they were called Elysium, and of the garden of Eden as given by persons whom it was thought proper to secure in the poets, are not merely shadows of imagination, France, because of their loyalty, and of others who but real pictures of their country, and its capital would be fit tools for Bonaparte's pleasure. Europe, says one of them, Antonio de Macedo, is the former was the Marquis of Abrantes, the pre Among the best of the four quarters of the world. Spain sident of the regency, appointed by the prince before is the best part of Europe, and Portugal the best his voluntary banishment-whose estates, with the part of Spain. It is manifest, observes another, title of duke, were conferred upon Junot, when. Luis Mendez de Vasconcellos, that the Europeans the emperor created his new nobility. A letter are superior to the rest of the world, and that they from these deputies to the Portuguese nation was who inhabit the most temperate regions are most circulated by the duke-intruder, informing them of perfect by nature. It is therefore evident that as their interview with the emperor: that nothing coul Lisbon is situated in the most temperate aspect, equal the extent of his genius, and the generosity the influence of the heavens must necessarily make of his principles; that he had spoken with a noble its inhabitants most perfect of all incorporeal indifference concerning the rights whieh events hat, beauty, and mental excellence. The same grave given him over Portugal; had treated of the means of author in a work called O sitio de Lisboa, which was raising them to their due station among the powers written in the beginning of the 17th century, of the continent, and of delivering them from the and has since been printed by the Academy, ac-yoke of British influence, under which they had se cordingly proves from Plato and Aristotle, that long suffered; for he would endure no English colony Lisbon is the first of earthly cities. A Portuguese on the continent; finally he had declared that them divine, in speaking of the temptations offered to own fate was in their hands, depending on the upour Saviour by Satan, who showed him from the rightness with which they should embrace the gemountains all the kingdoms of the earth, ex-neral cause of Europe, and the firmness with which claims; "Ah fortunate is it that the kingdom of they should resist temptation. Portugal was concealed from his view by the moun- But these artifices were of no avail when the peatains of Spain, or our blessed Lord would never ple heard of the revolution in Spain. The insurrec have been able to resist the offer." It is a common tion began in Algarve. Here were the commotions observation among them-"all the word allows in Andalusia could not possibly be concealed from that our country is the finest, on earth." They the people, an edict was fixed up in all the towns, also say "Portugal is small, but it is a lump of calling upon the Portuguese to take arms against sugar the Spanish Insurgents. This was done on the day of the Corpo de Deos, in the little town of Olhao, a great advantage, both to the Portuguese and the place inhabited by sea-faring men, about a league Spaniards, by marching to the relief of Lisbon, In from the city of Taro. Jose Zopes de Sousa, a the north of Portugal, and consequently at no great colonel in the Portuguese army tore down the edict, distance from Gallicia, the French were still in and cried out to the people "ah Portuguese, we no force. Sir Arthur therefore proceeded to Oporto, Jonger deserve that naine, and we are now nothing" on his arrival there, the overror informed him that Tired at the reproach they replied they were ready the Portuguese force was sufficient to deter thre to sacrifice every thing for their country. A meet-French from making any attacks, or if not, to repel ing was immediately held in the church, where Jose them. That he might be able to form a more corLopez was elected their commander. They then rect opinion, sir Arthur, however, left his forces at made preparations to defend the town, knowing Oporto, in order to have a conferrence with sir that the French in Faro would attack it as soon as Charles Cotton, off Lisbon;-with whom he consultthey heard what had passed. General Moraiu, the ed about the practicability and prudence of fore French governor of Algarve, resided at Faro, anding the entrance of the Tagus, and attacking the on the following day he sent a detachment to invest forts in the near vicinity of that capital. In the Olhao. They were driven back with some loss: and mean time, while he was on board the Hibernia, the when a reinforcement was sent from Faro, the inha-admiral's ship, he received a letter from general bitants of that city took advantage of their absence: Spencer, who was then, with about 6000 men, off a countryman put himself at their head and they Cadiz. This force was destined to be employed overpowered the garrison. The French returning either in co-operating with the Spanish forces unfrom Olhao to secure Faro, were repulsed and oblig der Castanos, in their operations against Dupont, ed to fly to Mertola, where there was a division or in conjunction with the expedition under Sir destined, with the troops from Algarve, to enter Arthur As the junta of Seville did not deem this Spain and succour Dupont. The countryman who assistance to them necessary, general Spencer was had so successfully exerted himself at Faro now ordered by sir Arthur to join him. The English hastened upon a pariotic expedition to Loule, Albo-general, having made himself acquainted with the feira, Sylves, Alvor, Lagos, and other towns;--the americal strength and disposition of the French French and their most notorious partizans were army, determined to land his forces in Mondogo male prisoners in every place, and in eight and for-bay, where he could effect it, and form his army, ty hours the whole province of Algarve had reco-Without any opposition from the enemy: and, at vered its liberty. Other parts of Portugal were the same time he would be assisted and supported less fortunate in asserting their rights. The open, by the Portuguese army which had advanced to and level country of Altentejo was peculiarly unfa- Coimbra. Soon after the disembarkation was effects vorable to a war carried on by peasantry and towns-ed, the force under general Spencer also landed:men against a regular force of horse and foot; and and on the 12th Aug. the army reached Legoria, on here Junot's threats were carried into full execution. the road to Lisbon, on the 19th the army halted, Two hundred persons were killed in the streets of and on the 20th the general came to a determination Villa Vigosa. Six thousand Portuguese attempted to attack the French under general Laborde, at to defend the city of Beza, and how bravely they Rolcia. vents. defended it may be understood from the admission Roteia is situated on an eminence, having a plain. of the French. That they did not give way till in its front, at the end of a valley, which commen; 1200 were left on the field. No quarter was given ces at Caldas, and is closed to the southward by and the city was given up to the soldiers. Simi- mountains, which join the hills, forming the valley Jar horrors were perpetrated to the North of Lis-on the left, looking from Caidas. In the centre of bon: towns and villages were burnt, priests mur- the valley, and about eight miles from Roleia, is the dered at the altar, and nuns violated in their con- town and old Moorish fort of Cebidos, from which the French piquets had been driven on the 15thSuch was the state of Portugal at the time when from that time the French had posts in the hills on the patriots in Andalusia were pressing on Dupont, both sides of the valley, as well as on the plain in when the intruder was marching to Madrid, and front of the army, which was posted on the heights when Palafox was so gloriously defending the streets in front of Rolcia, its right resting upon the hills, its and houses of Zaragose. These transactions on left upon an eminence and the whole covering four the peninsula excited the deepest interest in the or five passes into the mountains in their rearEnglish people, not so much for the hope, which Their force, at that time, consisted of about 6.09 had thus unexpectedly arisen, of advantages toinen, of which about 500 were cavalry, with five England, and to the general welfare of Europe, as pieces of cannon; but there was some reason to for the nature of the contest, their detestation of the believe that they would be reinforced on the right unequalled iniquity by which it had been provoked, wing, by general Loison in the course of the night.. and their sympathy in the instinct and principle The plan of attack was herefore immediately formby which it was carried on. The militia almost ed. The army was formed into three columns. The universally offered themselves for foreign service, right consisted of 120 Portuguese infantry, and 50 and the country called for an effort equal to the Portuguese cavalry, destined o turn the enemy's occasion, which, had it been made, would, in all left, and penetrate into the mountains in his rear. human probability, have destroyed the fortune of The left consisted of major-general Ferguson's and Bonaparte. brigadier-general Bowe's brigades of infantry, three An army of 10,000 men under the command of sir companies of riflemen, a brigade of light artillery, Arthur Wellesley, sailed from Cork on the 12th of and 20 British and 20 Portuguese cavalry, destined July, and arrived at Corunna on the 20th. Sir Ar- to ascend the hills at Cebidos, o turn the enemy's thur offered the assistance of the force under his posts on the left of the valley, s well as the right command to the Junta of Gallicia; but they replied of the post of Roleia, and to watch the approach of that they did not want men: that they wished for general Loison. The centre column consisted of nothing from the British government but money, four brigades under major-ge eral Hill and brig erms and ammunition. But they expressed their dier-general Nightingale, Cuford, and Fane, and conviction that his army might be employed with, AJO Portuguese light infantry, the British and Por toguese cavalry, a brigade of nine-pounders and ose lot would not have fallen in the army, unde another of sixes. The battle was fiercely contested, any other system than that of the co script, but did not continue long. The French were beat-though having been forced into it, the, had se pair. en, but the English purchased their victory by ed the worst vices which have ever degrade! it the loss of 479 men, killed, wounded, and missing. disgraced u.e profession of arms. In this battle the The loss of the enemy was still greater, but they ef- French lost 13 pieces of eron, 23 ammunition fected their retreat, in good order, to Torres Vedras, waggons, and about 3900 killed, wounded and mis. where general Laborde was joined by Loison. Sir sing. The English loss about 1950. Arthur then moved to Vimiera to protect the land- After the disposicions for the butle of Viniera ing of brigadier general Anstruther, of whose arriv- had been made, sir Harry Burrard arrived, as comal on the coast he heard on the evening of the battle.mander in chief, but from feelings of delicacy toJunot having heard of the large reinforcement wards sir Arthur, he declined to take upon hinseif under general Moore, which was expected, deter- the command of the army. On the following day mined to attack the English before it should arrive. he was superceded in turn by the arrival of sir Hew He, therefore, marched out of Lisbon with all his Dalrymple. Within a few hours after his arrival, a force, and assumed the command of the army at flag of truce came in from Junot, proposing a cesTorres Vedras. On the 20th news arrived that ge- sation of hostilities, in order that a convention neral Auckland was in the offing, and in the even-might be settled, by which the French should evaing of the same day, sir Harry Burrard arrived in cute Portugal When intelligence was received in Marceira Roads to take the command. Sir Arthur's England that Juno's army nad sustained a signal plan had been to march on the following morning, defea, it was expected that other victories would push his advanced guard to Mafra, and halt the main follow, and that it would ultimately lead to solid adbody about four or five miles from that place, thus vantages. But the convention soon arrived, in turning the enemy's position at Torres Vedras-which it was stipulated at the English govern Orders had been issued for this march; but the arrival of the new commander disconcerted, the plan, and the orders were consequently recalled. army ar ment should be at the expense of transporting the We have not room to expa Vimiera stands in a valley about three miles from the sea, and is screened from the sea breezes by mountains, through which the little river Maceira winds its way. The western termination of these tiate on the weakness and folly of the conquerors mountains reaches the shore, the eastern is separa- in receiving such terms from their fallen foe. The ted by a deep ravine from the heights, over which Spaniards and Portuguese were highly dissatisfied the road passes from Lourinha. The greater part of with the convention, and in England it was regard. the infantry was posted on these hills, with eight pie- ed as a deep and mortal wound upon the honor of ees of cannon, major general Hill's brigade being on the country. The London newspapers joined in the right, and major general Ferguson's on the left, one common cry of wonder and abhorrence, and having one battalion on the heights beyond the ra- the provincial journals proved that one reciing per vine. A hill on the southeast of the village com- vaded the nation-some refused to disgrace their mands all the ground to the southward and eastward, pages by inserting so infamous a treaty-others being itself commanded from the mountain to the surrounded it with broad black lines, putting their west. This hill was occupied by brigadiers general journal in mourning for the distnal information it Anstruther and Fane. The left of this hill was com-contained; some headed the page with a represen manded from the heights over which the road to tation of three gallowses, and a general suspended Lourinha passes; and that position was only oc- from each, cut in wood for the occasion. cupied by a picket, as the camp had been taken up It was in vain the ministry ordered the tower for only a single night. The cavalry and the reserve guns to be fired, and other rejoicings to be madeof artillery were in the valley, flanking and sup- The throne was besieged with petitions from all porting brigadier general Fane's advanced guard. parts of the kingdom, calling loadly for an enquiry At eight in the morning of the 21st, large bodies of into the transaction. An enquiry was set on foot, the enemy's cavalry appeared upon the heights to The opinion which the board delivered was, that the left, threatening the weak part of the British po- they could not pronounce with confidence, whe sition. Four brigades under brigadier general Fer-ther the victory of Vimiera ought to have been pur. guson were immediately moved across the ravine. sued; but considering the ex raordinary circumThe attack began upon the advanced guard, where stances under which two new commanders arrived. the French were bravely received. General Auck- from the ocean, and joined the army-the one dur land, with the last of the four brigades which had ing, and the other immediately after the battle, and been ordered to the heights, attacked them in flank those successively superceding each, and both the on his way; and, after a desperate contest they were original commanders, within the space of twenty driven back, with the loss of seven pieces of can- four hours, it was not surprising that the army was non. The attack was commenced about the same not carried forward until the second day after the time on the Lourinha heights; it was made with the action, from the necessity of the general's being acusual impetuosity of the French, and supported by quainted with the actual state of things. On a cona large body of horse. The British riflemen were sideration of all the circumstances, they thought driven in; but general Ferguson's division received no further military proceeding was necessary on the the enemy with a tremendous volley and brought subject; and however some of then might differ in them to the bayonet. They were the flower of the opinion on the fitness of the conveation, it was their French army, and they came to the charge like men unanimous declaration, that unquestionable zeal accustomed to victory. But in one moment their and firmness had been exhibited by all the geneforemost rank fell, like a line of grass before the rals. scythes of the mowers: The French gave way and The board was called upon to resume its consisix pieces of cannon were taken from them in the deration of the armistice and convention, and prog pursuit. Most of the wounded French were young nounce decidedly whether they thought me a men, and of delicate appearance-apparently mensable. The armistice was disapproved by the cul VOL. II. END OF H of Moira; the convention by the same nobleman, by “impertinent enquiries." A thousand tricks were desthe earl of Pembroke and general Nicolls; thus, terously played off, to discover his occupation, trade, six of the seven members approved of the armistice, intentions, &c. One offered to seli bin a land lot and our approved e convention. The proceed-tery; another proposed his taking "a contract for ings were concluded by a declaration from the king, building a bridge," and a third advised him to adopting the unanimous opinion of the board, that "place is unds in a manufactory of weaver's shutno farther military proceeding was necessary. tles; Duy up unpaid for Bri ish goods, 20 per cent, As the defeat of Junot and the deliverance of under prime cos; sed them by auction, and then Portugal were only mediae, and no he ultimate buy a paten for making improved fish hooks." Or, object of the Bri ish army, it marched from Lisbon, it he intended to become a schoolmaster, a lawyer, a under the command of sir John Moore,* to the as-parson, or a doctor, they advised him to travel else. sistance of the Spanish patriots. Travellers in America. where, as expeditiously as possible, for that people of that sort were hardly held in repute among tem." All these things and many more, which happened to the poor emigrant in the course o. "one short hour" naturally enougn dispelled his fair (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 96.) dreams of American independence, and shewed the Thomas Ashe, esquire, having met with nothing inabitants to him in their true light-“a race of m2 in the northeas ern, middle, or southern states, puden, selfish, soraad individuals, without either "worthy the observation" of his corresponden, fix principle or common honesty." Unwilling, however, es his residence for a time a Pitasburg. In his de- to form is judgment hastily, this man of Sussex inde, lightful spot be experienced much attention and up his mind to travel. He passed through "the nuhoopisali y from the inhabitants, who are "princi- gnant ordeals of the middle states; through the pally hish" and whose influence over the customs burnung levers which annually claim their ho sands and manners of the people, "has hindered the and depopulate the great towns of New York, Phi vicious propensities of he genuine American charac- ladephia and Bachnore," and arrived at 16th in ter, hom establishing ere the horrid dominion the South, where, though he found no yellow fever, they have assumed over the Atlantic states." Mr. be found what was sund worse, "slavery, tyranny, Ashe speaks in raptures of the ladies, with whoin, sloch, avarice, and licentiousness." Having now vi indeed, he seems to have been a favorite every where sited the whole or settled America," and experien —for he takes particular pains to exclude them from ced nothing but disgust, he began to reflect upon any share in he "supreme disgust" which the peo-the absurdity of renouncing "the honor of being a ple of the United States excited in him. In Pitts- British subject, for the degradation becoming burg they are better educated than the men, and citizen of such states," and wisely determined to quit make very praiseworthy and cons ant wives, never a country so "inamously licentious," and rear forsaking their husbands even in the yellow fever, to the undisturbed security of his own mild and pa when servants and all others have fled "he dread ternal government. contagion." As this is an instance of conjugal ai-ing, and one which must suffice to deter every man Another fact highly interest fection, not to be met with elsewhere, it richly merits for common understanding from a wish to emigrate to be recorded. There appears to be s ill some lit-to this country, is, that Priestly found so sad a con. the religion left in the place, which, however, it trast between unis and his native land, that he soon may be supposed cannot last much longer, as "they tell mo a deep melancholy, and are frittering it into a thousand ceremonies, a thou-juRATED." died BROKES sand absurd and eccentric shapes." Mr. Asire was well n gh frightened to death, by seeing an old man dug, makes an excursion to Morgantown, and Our traveller having performed this much of his emerge from the woods, wrapped up in a cloak, with Prest' sie; and, after fighting upon, various Inte a long beard flowing upon his breast; which he dian antiquities, and hoarding up a fund of witty absolutely mistook for a huge bear, until inform-anecdotes, rettens once more to Pitsburg, which ed that the object of his dread, was a harmless piace seems to have been peculiarly favorable to the "Menonist" whose religion prompted him to sob developement of his inventive faculties. He discotary ac's o. devotion, and to suffer his beard to grow vered, dan ing this peregrination, that the Americans unchecked. The scholastic establishments do no vereally preter to build their houses in "bot great credit to the town; bute markes are excel-toms," being too lazy to dwell upon the hills, from Tent, being abundently supplied with "provisionso. which their avocations would give them the daily every description." The amusements of the people trouble of descending: and tough they every day vary according the season; in winter they cariote "by toh light" and in summer hold "rural fes choice, still "they persist, and preter inactivity and ee the evil consequences resulting from such tivals in the vicinity of clear springs." But lest this disease to ne ln and comfort, when, the later are favorable account of Pit sburg should "dispose some to be purchased by exertion." minds on the other side of the wa er to emigration" with, in this part of the country, are really curi The stores to be met Our u veller akes care to wind it up with a long and osities, and are as well worth a voyage across the minute de all of the perplexities and calamities ex- Atlamic, as Mr. Jefferson's rock. perienced by a Sussex eriner, who had been seduced chi its a complete medley; a magazine where are "Each shop to leavelis native land, reading the "blasphemous reveries of Jefferson, Tom Paine, nd Priestly." The whistle and a piano-forte; a gill of whisky, and a to be hed both a needle and an anchor; a child's unfortunate enigrant arrived a. Bos on with his fogshead of Madeira wine." mily and "in an instant swarm of customhouse off-are an abommable set of rogues, who never fail to But the store-keepers cers were on board and began their work of searc extortion and pillage." From the e, however, the withstanding the "complete medley" or their shops, impose upon their customers, it possible; for notpoor la mer excubed, bit unhappily, only to mee with new difficune fo. Le Pad no sooner lander, They are sure never to have any article that is asked than he "oung rip if rounded by a crowd "I have known a person to ask for a pair of shoes, persons" when rent nnihilated him win thei and receive for an wer, that there were no shoes in the stoc, but some capital gin I have heard another ask for a fie gun, and be answered that * Vide Vol. 1. |