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And wash away the blood-stain there.
Why should I guard, from wind and sun,
This cheek, whose virgin rose is fled,
It was for one-oh, only one-

I kept its bloom, and he is dead.
But they who slew him-unaware
Of coward murderers lurking nigh-
And left him to the fowls of air,

Are yet alive-and they must die.
They slew him-and my virgin years
Are vowed to Greece and vengeance now;
And many an Othman dame, in tears,

Shall rue the Grecian maiden's vow.

I touched the lute in better days,

I led in dance the joyous band ;-
Ah! they may move to mirthful lays
Whose hands can touch a lover's hand.
The march of hosts that haste to meet
Seems gayer than the dance to me;
The lute's sweet tones are not so sweet
As the fierce shout of victory.

B.

light, and perhaps elicit from others some
light, upon important facts. We have no
room to make an analysis of its contents;
but would briefly present some considera-
tions which they suggest to us. For Gene-
ral Hull's surrender of his forces and posts
to the British, he was tried and condemned
to death as a coward; and he lives to tell
his story through the mercy of the Execu-
tive. Whether he has wholly justified his
surrender without a battle, may be deter-
mined differently by different persons. We
suppose that most readers will agree that
his conduct could be accounted for without
charging with cowardice or treachery, one
to whom Washington entrusted important
commands. He has sufficiently shown that
much more than his due of punishment
visited his share of the follies, improvidence,
and misconduct, which characterized that
astonishing campaign. We feel no kind of
hostility to General Dearborn, and have no
[It is perhaps due to our readers, to inform them
acquaintance with, and no personal feelings that the following pieces, and others with a similar
towards General Hull; we know that we signature, are from a small manuscript volume of
are unprejudiced, and believe all who are poetry written by the late Rev. Mr Eastburn, one
20, will agree with us in thinking that some of the authors of "Yamoyden." As we have se-
thing of a load lies upon General Dear-lelected many of these poems for our columns, it
born, which he will do well to throw off as
soon as may be. General Hull lost all he
had;-General Dearborn did nothing
achieved nothing-suffered nothing; and so
far, perhaps, he had the best of it. But we
do not recollect that General Dearborn has
ever explained the singular lapse of mem-
ory during which he relieved himself from
the peril of a British force, and left that
force to go en masse upon General Hull--
who was likely to have enough to encoun-
ter without this addition. But when Hull
was tried, and Dearborn tried him, why
was the affair of Washington forgotten?
Whoever was guilty there, was answerable
somewhere; and it would be rather difficult
to persuade any one just now, that the loss
of Detroit and of all Hull's posts, afforded
more proof of cowardice or treachery than
that misconduct-whatever be its true name
or nature-which lost Washington. Gen-
eral Hull has shown that there was other
opposition arrayed against him than that
which arose from his military faults. But
they mistook their man. He was not a suf-
ficient scape-goat; he could not bear away
all the disgrace and punishment due to the
military managers of that play-and par-
ticularly to them who conducted the flight
of Bladensburgh.

POETRY.

SONG OF THE GRECIAN AMAZON.

I buckle to my slender side

The pistol and the scimetar,
And in my maiden flower and pride

Am come to share the tasks of war.
And yonder stands my fiery steed,
That paws the ground and neighs to go,
My charger of the Arab breed,-
I took him from the routed foe.

My mirror is the mountain spring,

At which I dress my ruffled hair; My dimmed and dusty arms I bring,

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ed them.-EDITOR.]

THE PROSPECT OF DEATH.
When sailing on this troubled sea
Of pain, and tears, and agony,
Though wildly roar the waves around,
With restless and repeated sound,
'Tis sweet to think that on our eyes
A lovelier clime shall yet arise ;-
That we shall wake from sorrow's dream
Beside a pure and living stream.

Yet we must suffer, here below,
Unnumbered pangs of grief and wo;
Nor must the trembling heart repine,
But all, unto its God resign;

In weakness and in pain made known,
His powerful mercy shail be shown,
Until the fight of faith is o'er,
And earth shall vex the soul no more!

E

-N.

PART OF THE XIXth PSALM.
The glittering heaven's refulgent glow,
And sparkling spheres of golden light,
Jehovah's work and glory show,

By burning day, or gentle night.
In silence through the vast profound
They move their orbs of fire on high,
Nor speech, nor word, nor answering sound,
Is heard upon the tranquil sky:
Yet to the earth's remotest bar

Their burning glory, all is known;
Their living light has sparkled far,

And on the attentive silence shone.

God 'mid their shining legions rears
A tent where burns the radiant sun;
As, like a bridegroom bright, appears

The monarch, on his course begun;
From end to end of azure heaven

He holds his fery path along,
To all his circling heat is given,

His radiance flames the spheres among.

By sunny ray, and starry throne,
The wonders of our mighty Lord
To man's attentive heart are known,
Bright as the promise of his word.

E-N.

AUTUMNAL NIGHTFALL.
Round Autumn's mouldering urn,
Loud mourns the chill and cheerless gale,
When nightfall shades the quiet vale,

And stars in beauty burn.

'Tis the year's eventide.
The wind,-like one that sighs in pain
O'er joys that ne'er will bloom again,
Mourns on the far hill-side.

And yet my pensive eye
Rests on the faint blue mountain long,
And for the fairy-land of song,

That lies beyond, I sigh,

The moon unveils her brow;
In the mid-sky her urn glows bright,
And in her sad and mellowing light
The valley sleeps below.

Upon the hazel gray
The lyre of Autumn hangs unstrung,
And o'er its tremulous chords are flung
The fringes of decay.

I stand deep musing here,
Beneath the dark and motionless beech,
Whilst wandering winds of nightfall reach
My melancholy ear.

The air breathes chill and free;
A Spirit, in soft music calls
From Autumn's gray and moss-grown halls,
And round her withered tree.

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A gentleman, at Burkil, not far from Bâsle, in Switzerland, by the name of Ventain, invented some years ago a sort of musical barometer, called, in the German, wetter harfe, weather harp, or riesen harfe, giant harp, which possesses the singular property of indicating changes of the weather by musical tones. This gentleman was in the habit of amusing himself by shooting at a mark from his window, and that he might not be obliged to go after the mark at every shot, he fixed a piece of iron wire to it, so as to be able to draw it to him at pleasure. He frequently remarked that this wire gave musical tones sounding exactly

an octave; and he found that an iron wire, extended in a direction parallel to the meridian, gave this tone every time the wind changed. A piece of brass wire gave no sound, nor did an iron wire extended east and west. In consequence of these observations a musical barometer was constructed. In the year 1787, Capt. Hans, of Bâsle, made one in the following manner:-Thirteen pieces of iron wire, each three hundred and twenty feet long, were extended from his summer-house to the outer court, crossing a garden. They were placed about two inches apart; the largest were two lines in diameter, the smallest only one, and the others about one and a half; they were on the side of the house, and made an angle of twenty or thirty degrees with the horizon; they were stretched and kept tight by wheels made for that purpose. Every time the weather changes these wires make so much noise that it is impossible to continue concerts in the parlour, and the sound resembles that of a tea-urn when boiling, sometimes that of a harmonicon, a distant bell, or an organ. In the opinion of the celebrated chemist, Dobereiner as stated in the Bulletin Technologique, this is an electro-magnetical phenomenon.

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called Bahar Dibber, or the sea of Ghimbaba. The Dibber is very large, and in the season of rain the land on the opposite side, although high, is not discernible. Beyond Jenny, the river, at the opposite outlet of the lake, inclines to the north till it reaches Timbuctoo. From thence its track is easterly to Ghou, having then traversed the district of Fillany. From Ghou it enters Marroa, passing through Corimen, Kaby, and Zamberma, as it inclines with a southerly fall to the Youry, and the lake of Noufy.

NEWLY DISCOVERED REPTILE.

The feet have toes, detached and

Mr Dupuis, in his work upon Ashantee, lately published, says of the course of this mysterious river, that he never heard of two different opinions with regard to its termination. "South or north of the great desert, in Wangara or Mauritania, the sentiments were the same, that the great flow of water is easterly to the Egyptian Nile. Yet it must be confessed that none of my instruct ers had ever tracked its course beyond the western limits of Bournou. It was an orthodox opinion, that the Shady, as well as the Koara, united its waters with innumerable other large and small rivers (like the Amazon), which contributed to replenish its channel in the dry season, when it usualM. Marion has found, in the island of ly tracks its course mildly; and in the seaManilla, a species of reptile of the family son of rain, when it runs in tempestuous of the Agamoides, which has the faculty of eddies, sweeping off in its current whole changing colour, like the camelion. Its islands of matted vegetation. The Mos-head is triangular, pretty large in proporlems of Kong and Manding commonly used tion to the body; the tail long and slender; the term Wangara, as relating to Ashan- along the back, the crest or ridge is formtee, Dahomy, and Benin, east of the For-ed of soft scales, and under the throat is a mosa. Of the Niger, well known to them goitre. by its Bambira name, Jolliba, they report- very unequal; the scales are mostly trianed to this effect: that it has its source in a gular, imbricated, and especially those of chain of mountains, which bears west and the tail. The iris is blackish, bordered with something north of the capital of Kong, animal is very active, and feeds on insects. a little white circle about the pupil. The from whence it is distant eighteen journeys. According to this estimation, I conceive its When the author first came into possession The following newspapers are now pub-fountain may exist in about 11° 15' latitude of it, its colour, for twenty-four hours, was lished in Greece: At Missolonghi, the north, and 7° 10 longitude west of the a delicate green, whether held in the dark, Greek Chronicle (in Greek), and the Greek meridian of Greenwich. The intermediate or exposed to the sun,-whether kept moTelagraph (in several languages);—at Hy-space comprises a part of the district call- tionless or in a state of agitation: but next dra, The Friend of the Laws (in Greek); ed Ganowa, inhabited by the Manding and morning, on removing it from the inside of The surface, for a bamboo, where it had been placed, its at Athens, the Athens Free Press (in Falah [Foulah] tribes. Greek);-at Psara, The Psara Newspaper the first five or six days, they relate, is in- colour throughout had changed to carme(in Greek). All the above, in consequence clining to hilly, yet it is by no means ab- lite; when exposed to the air, this colour of an arrangement made, may now be ob- rupt; and forests alternately abound, but gradually disappeared, and the animal reOn this ground, certained in England by orders through the they are not so impervious as those of Ashan-sumed its green robe English Foreign Post Office. After the first hundred miles, the tain brown lines were soon after visible: traveller commences ascending a cluster the animal was then replaced in the bamof lofty mountains, and this labour occupies boo, but on drawing it out, it had acquired him six days. The mountains abound in a bluish green colour, and it was only in rivers and rapid torrents, which discharge the open air that the brownish tints rethemselves on the opposite sides into the turned; and at length, without any variaJolliba, and further to the westward they tion of form or position, the brown colour are so high and steep that no man can as- gave place to a uniform green, intermin"We are happy to find that the book-cend to their summits, which are barren, gled, however, with some brownish streaks. stores of America are beginning to furnish bleak, and oftentimes covered with snow. 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perhaps, of all things, that which is most to gardens and vineyards, wood and verdure, cattle and be dreaded and hated; but these are not groups of villagers, all blended in bright and gay conthe feelings which it usually excites in them fusion, arrest the eye, and address the heart. Here Recollections of the Peninsula. By the Au- whom its actual horrors do not reach; and you saw, in their cool and shaded cloisters, small thor of "Sketches of India." First Amer-one reason why there is so little truth in of their orders, observing us as we passed along; parties of monks, in the dark and picturesque dress ican from the second London Edition. the common opinions and sentiments upon there some happy family, parents, children, and Philadelphia. 1824. 12mo. pp. 260. this subject, is, that we consider it in the servants, would hurry to their garden terrace on the THIS book details the personal experiences mass, and not in detail. The true nature water's edge, and salute us with smiles and vivas; of a British officer actively engaged in the of war is concealed from the multitude by discern some solitary nun, who, from the high and while a little farther, in the back ground, you might Peninsular war. We can safely recom- its pomp and glories; but follow the indi-grated casement of her convent, looked out upon mend it as an interesting work; and we viduals who compose this mass, and observe the strange and brilliant show, and hastily withbelieve we may go further, and call it a the feelings which govern them, the deeds drew. About two leagues above Villa Franca, the useful work. The author does not attempt upon which they are bent, the ends they breeze died away, and not a breath of air stirred on to give a plan of the campaign, or to de- seek and the means they use, the doom the water. Our boatmen took to their poles, and scribe the movements of the military masses which few escape of toil and peril, of league, when the shades of evening closed in, and with all their exertion, made little more than a which were then combatting in Spain. As savage hate, of more than brutal enmity- we brought to near the bank. Here we found a he does not write for the instruction of sol- of suffering which it is terrible to read of, Portuguese tent, which had been pitched for some diers, he adapts himself to the comprehen- and, perhaps, the violent death towards day-guard, but was abandoned for the night; of this sion of others besides his martial brethren; which many are pressing,-and these idle my cheerful little mess took possession, and here and he narrates in a lively, unaffected, and glories will fade away. Military arrays are the gaiety of a party of pleasure. we ate our cold meat and drank our wine, with all very pleasant way, those circumstances splendid objects; the dancing plumes and which befell him personally. We abide glittering arms are beautiful; the trumpet, with him in his quiet quarters, during his and the echoing volley, will stir up the rare periods of rest, and follow him in the spirit; but these things are only the bemarch, and stand by his side in the battle, ginning, and the end is on the battle field, and thus learn what things they are, which where the fierce cries of rage and agony a soldier must do and suffer. That such a and the groans of dying men are heard, book must needs be interesting, our read- and the gay plume is bloody, and the wounders will grant; and we think it also useful, ed bosom is breaking beneath a crushing because it helps to do away certain errors, hoof; and, if the beginning and the end are and throw some light upon the folly and kept nearer to each other in our thoughts, wickedness of a love of war, and an admi- they will not wander so far from the truth. ration of military achievement. Wars will But, we do not mean to make this pleasprobably be necessary evils for some time ant book serve only to introduce a discusto come; but though necessary, they should sion of the true character of war; and we be regarded as evils. Universal and un- hasten to state its contents somewhat more broken peace cannot be established until distinctly. The author embarked at Portsmen love each other much better than they mouth, to follow his regiment to Portugal, now do; and, in the mean time, nations in the last week of June 1809. In Lisbon should not neglect the means of defence, he remained about a fortnight, and the denor refuse to acknowledge the necessity scription of this city and its beautiful viof defence, when this necessity actually cinity occupies the first thirty pages of the comes. The prevalence and common love volume. About the last of July his regiof war, is a strong proof that men are not, ment received orders to march for Spain; in their nature, so far from brutes, as they and for many days the march was a mere would fain think; for, though man may journey of pleasure, and every thing was submit to the necessity of conflict, it is es- delightful. The following extract will give sentially brutish and irrational to provoke our readers some idea of the treatment the combat and meet it with delight. That which the British at first received from the war may prevent worse evils is certain; inhabitants of the country, and also of the but let it rank with the earthquake, the change, and of the causes of the change, whirlwind, and the plague; let it stand which soon took place. foremost among the avenging ministers of God, whose visitations cover the face of society with a darkness like the shadow of death, and can only be borne as they come to purge away, with fear and sorrow, evils which would have led to direr wo and more dreadful desolation. War is essentially the science and art of mutual injury; and all possible modes of human suffering, all the forms which pain and misery can take, are its true accompaniments. It is,

After an hour's labour in the morning, finding we made little or no way by water, we landed and marched to Santarem. The situation of this city is very striking; it is built on bold, elevated ground, hanging directly over the Tagus, the southern bank was quartered for the night in a convent, and I reof which it completely commands. The regiment ceived a billet on a private house. At the door of it, I was met by the owner, a gentlemanlike looking, well-dressed man, of about sixty, and of a very apartment, and a pretty bedchamber. I was covmild, pleasing address: he led the way to a neat ered with dust and dirt, and declined them as too good; but how was my confusion increased, when my host himself brought me water in a silver basin to wash, while his good lady presented me with chocolate, bearing it herself on a salver. I feared aulettes. and I explained to them that I was a simthat they had mistaken my rank from my two epple Lieutenant. No; they well knew my rank, but did not pay me the less attention; they perfumed my chamber with rose-water, took off my knapsack with their own hands, and then left me recover from the pleasing astonishment, into which to refresh myself by washing and dressing, and to their cordial and polite reception had thrown me. In the evening my party dined here, and the wor thy host presented us with some magnums of fine ples; he overruled them with true and unaffected old wine, and the choicest fruit. We made scruhospitality, and we, in return, pressed on his acceptance six bottles of excellent Sauterne, the remains of our small stock of French wine.

Such was my treatment in the first billet I ever entered in Portugal, and such, with very few excepby Portuguese of all classes, according to their tions, was the character of the reception given

means, at the commencement of the Peninsula From the quay of the Commercial Square our struggle, to the British army: rich and poor, the men sprung into the boats, and our little fleet was clergy and laity, the fidalgo and the peasant, all soon sailing up the river, under a favourable breeze. expressed an eagerness to serve, and a readiness quays and along the banks, to mark our fair array. the monastery, and the cottage, were thrown open It must have been a beautiful sight, for those on the to honour us. In these early marches, the villa, The polished arms, the glittering cap-plates, and at the approach of our troops; the best apartments, the crimson dress of the British soldiers, crowded the neatest cells, the humble but only beds, were in open barks, must have produced a very fine all resigned to the march-worn officers and men, effect. And we, too, gazed on a scene far different with undisguised cheerfulness. It is with pain I indeed, but most peaceful, most lovely. The north-am compelled to confess, that the manners of my (about six leagues) presents a continued succession a change in the kind dispositions of this people. ern bank of the river from Lisbon to Villa Franca strange, but well-meaning countrymen soon wrought of rural beauties: convents, chapels, and quintas, When they saw many assume as a right all which

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