Controul, on equal terms, the operations of our while absent, has been in port and detained by pri"half a dozen fir built frigates," as she had sneer-vateers 19 days and becalmed 7 days. The result ingly called our little navy, and could do nothing then is, that she has sailed 4000 miles in 19 days, with them except literally to block them up in which is an average of more than 200 miles a day. ports and harbors, from which they would occasionally escape notwithstanding, and, having sea- these are sufficient to shew the perfection of buildOther cases of equal speed might be added, but room, go where they pleased: And then she went ing and managing vessels to which we have arrived. to work to build or fit out some thirty or forty ships Let this perfection be directed to the national serexpressly to manage the "half a dozen." But still vice, and no foreign army will ever again pollute she failed-her lesser vessels of war were always the shores of the United States. captured when met with, her commerce was assailed in every part of the world, and she was compel- of the line, in actual service is thus estimated:* The cost of supporting a naval force of 20 ships led to seek protection in a vast superiority of force, the "ultima ratio" against superior skill and couFor one ship of the line. rage. The term "cruising frigates" was expunged 280 able seamen, from her admiralty books-frigates were convoyed 233 ordinary seamen and boys by ships of the line, and fleets of merchantmen Pay and clothing of marines were surrounded by vessels of war. The Indepen-Provisions 92 officers and petty officers dence and Washington (74's) have been fully tried, Medicines and hospital stores and, notwithstanding all the croakings about them, Repairs and contingencies are highly approved-their general model and manner will probably he observed as to ships hereafter to be built; but from the science of our naval offi pay p ann. { 92,700 8,175 35,972 5,000 40,000 202,110 cers, so careful to observe and so competent to 20 ships at 202,110$ each per ann. is $4,042,200 understand all that belongs to their lofty profession, no doubt some improvements may be made. The drafting the militia, and their individual sacrifices The amount is much less than was the cost of ship building at Washington, under the zealous and losses, in a single state, in one year, during the and immediate inspection of the veteran Rodgers, war. 10,000 American seamen afloat, in ships fitted is spoken of as approaching the point whereat it is to protect the coast, would do more for the defence expected we shall have to stop. Our ships of the of the country than 50,000 militia, and at less than line have all the ease and swiftness of the best fri- half the cost, man for man-the losses of individuals gates with the power and strength that belongs to drawn from their business being superadded to their class; so that, barring accidents, they can their pay and subsistence. pursue or escape as occasion requires, with equal success. The preceding remarks originated in an examination of our "pigeon hole" of scraps, where we found the following items: "The United States ship Prometheus went from Boston to Cronstadt and returned, in seventy-sia days. She was absent only 101 days-25 of which she lay in Russia." There is a danger in vesting so great a power, as the establishment of such a navy would create, in the hands of the executive. But perhaps, this is an evil to which all governments are liable. Happily, we can correct by the the ballot box. The Southern Indians. "The United States brig Boxer, capt. Porter, was British regarding the Southern Indians, as peculiarWe have always considered the conduct of the off Turk's-Island on the 4th instant, all well, having ly cruel and unjust to them and to us as a wanton passed within 200 miles of Bermuda, and perform-waste of human happiness and human life. From ed a route of 1300 miles in seven days from the time the foundation of our government until the massashe left the anchorage ground at Staten-Island." "A ship called the Beverly arrived at Boston tribes had been our particular care: men of high cre at Fort Mims in 1813, the best interests of these some months ago from Canton. She left the former and honorable minds had been stationed amongst place in July, 1815; stopped three and an half them to assist them with counsel, and protect their months in Valparaiso; visited all the Sandwich just rights from every encroachment. Islands in the Pacific ocean; loaded in Canton; came peace was zealously cultivated, and much money in the eastern passage, through Dampiera Straits; expended by us to instruct them in agriculture and A spirit of stopped nine days at the Cape of Good Hope; and the arts needful to their prosperity. Instruments averaged for the whole time absent 5 knots and 1-8th; were furnished and schools established; and already and landed 755 tons of goods, consisting of 12,500 they had many pretty well-managed farms-the men packages, not one in the least damaged. And what is most remarkable, during her voyage the women were spinning and weaving, &c. The driving the plough and attending their cattle, and round the world, she did not lose a spar of the benevolent Hawkins was their common father; his smallest size, nor had the most trifling accident to whole soul appeared to be embarked in the project happen; and the very sails which were bent before of philanthropy, and every administration seconded her sailing were constantly worn during the voy-his beneficent views.he time seemed to have age." "The schooner Gazette sailed from New-York on fruits of an honest care of them-but the spoiler nearly arrived when they were to have reaped the the 10th of February last and arrived at St. Bartho came; the spirit that had destroyed millions on lomews on the 21st of the same month; next day millions of men in the east, entered the yet peacetouched at St. Thomas, where she remained 24 able plains of the west, and the restless disposition hours; then proceeded to St. Jago de Cuba, where of the indian was excited to raise the tomahawk she arrived on the 28th; remained there 16 days, against his benefactor! The plough was laid aside; and sailed for New-York on the 16th instant, and the quiet of the forest was disturbed by the war was only 6 days from Crooked Island to Sandy Hook -having performed this circuitous voyage in 45 days. Besides, it is ascertained that the Gazette, Weekly Register, vol. II. page 137. whoop of the savage, allied to Englishmen-defence their proceedings that, we are told, gen. Gaines less settlements were laid waste, and their innocent expects shortly to be compelled to invade their people destroyed with a degree of ferocity hardly country and "effectually subdue them"-for which to be paralleled. Hundreds of those who attacked purpose it is thought that a few of the Georgia miFort Mims, and massacred the garrison, with all the litia will be called out. women and children who sought refuge there (some The following letter has been published at Mil15 or 20 excepted, who effected their escape while ledgeville; and is, upon the whole, about as impudent the savages were busy in slaughtering and burning a thing as we ever saw. If the agent spoken of is the rest to death) spoke the English language, and ever caught within our territory, let him be punishhad been in constant intercourse with the whites ed-if within that of Spain he meditates murder What was the consequence? The besom of de- and excites war, a neutral country ought not to prostruction passed over them, and thousands of them tect him. The period of submission has past. The were swept from the face of the earth by the war republic is no longer in leading strings. England that gen. Jackson and others carried through all will never openly sanction such proceedings, if we parts of their country. Prostrate, they sued for openly punish them. British "humanity and phianpeace-and their life, justly forfeited by crime, thropy" towards the indians !!-Who placed the was granted to them. They had nothing to expect knife in their hands-who paid bounties for the but extermination-yet they were spared. Still scalps of babes-who permitted the burning of the Great Britain seemed unsatisfied-blood enough wounded? My soul freezes with horror when I look had not been shed; and, though she made peace over the pages of the REGISTER and view the things with us, she furnished the savages with the means that have past. But to the letter-if the "agent" of continuing war, and sowed the seeds of new arrives and accomplishes the object hinted at-the contentions. Depots of arms and ammunition were dissatisfied Creeks will be extinguished. What made; and a very strong fort in the Spanish territory, need of this? There is room enough for them and well furnished with cannon and every thing needful for us. Let them live and be happy. to its defence, was given to them as a rallying point. Arbuthnot to the commanding officer at Fort Gaine and place of refuge. The fort at Appalachicola was blown up by one of our gun boats, and its deluded "The head chiefs request I will enquire of you, tenants miserably perished. We then hoped the why American settlers are descending the ChataBritish had left the indians to themselves, and houchie, driving the poor Indian from his habitation, that a remnant might be saved. But the work goes and taking possession of his home and cultivated on-the desire to obtain a pack of peltry at any fields cost of human life, or maintain an ascendancy in Okolokne River, 3d March, 1817. "Without authority, I can claim nothing of you these tribes to injure the people of the United-but a humane and philanthropic principle guiding States, continues. Several successive Englishmen, me, I hope the same will influence you-and if such under Spanish license or sufferance, with an official is really the case, and that the line marked out by or sort of official character, have been with them the treaty of peace between Great Britain and the -exciting hopes that they [the agents] know can- United States, respecting the Indian nations, has not be realized. Where is this business to stop been infringed by any of the citizens of the latter, It must stop. Any British agent found among these you will represent to them their improper conduct, Indians, within our territory, exciting them to mur- and prevent its continuance. der, ought to be seized, and tried, and punished, "I have in my possession a letter received from with less pity than is due to a sheep-killing dog- the governor of New-Providence, addressed to him and, if Spain lends her territory to such men to by H. B. M. chief secretary of state, informing him organize hostility in the tribes, Spain must be dis of orders given to the British ambassador at Wash possessed of it. The law of self-preservation re-ington, to watch over the interests of the Indian nations, quires it. The women and children of our frontier and see their rights are faithfully attended to and shall not hold themselves dependent on the mercy protected agreeably to the treaty of peace made of British indian agents for their lives. between the British and the Americans. We have said that the conduct of the British in "I am in hopes that, ere this, there is arrived at regard to the Southern indians was peculiarly cruel New Providence a person from Great Britain with and unjust. Their conduct was eruel and unjust to authority to act as agent for the Indian nations-and all the tribes, in wantonly leading them to war; but if so it will devolve upon him to see, that the boun they whose consciences may permit them to justify dary lines, as marked out by the treaty, are not inthe murders and burnings at the River Raisin, &c. fringed." will feel much at a loss to palliate the proceedings of the enemy in respect to the Creeks. These were led to battle with a moral certainty that they would be beaten. It was true, they might massacre a few harm- A very respectable society has been organized at less individual Americans, but no one could have Philadelphia, under the name of "The Pennsylvania been fool enough to suppose that they had power Society for the promotion of Public Economy." Its to affect the general operations of the war-and objects are stated in the following preamble to their their engagement in it was a wanton waste of hu-articles of association man life, and a marring of the most benevolent Public Economy. schemes that had been adopted by us to ameliorate The Floridas were not neutral during the wartheir condition. all the excesses of the Creeks were put in motion The Lower Cracks have lately manifested a very at Pensacola, &c. and the British transported arms, unquiet disposition. They have already forgotten &c. through the country unmolested. Every printhat we refused to exterminate them, as we might,ciple of natural and civil law would have justified when they exterminated our people, as they could.us in seizing upon these colonies, and it was a grand They have again listened to the seducer, and are mistake that we did not do it. It would have added acting in a way that will go far to reconcile their nothing to the cost of the contest, and might have best friends to their extermination, which, I fer-led to a speedy settlement of our differences with vently say, may heaven forbid !---Such have been Spain. "The prosperity and happiness of a nation depend the attempt is given over, and they perish in the upon the industry, the economy, and the morals of bottom of the holes. its people-to promote, to encourage, and to pro- Thousands of them are now perishing in my neigh tect these three great essentials of national wealth bourhood, by this mode of procedure; if one hole and character, is therefore of the first importance is not sufficient, more may be made at discretion, to the statesinan, and the philanthropist. To mul- with ease and despatch. Very respectfully, from tiply the productive powers of labor by ascertaining CALEB KIRK. † and pointing out its most profitable direction, is to Dr. James Mease, vice president afford additional leisure for the cultivation of the of the agricultural society, Philadelphia. mind-to inculcate a prudent and judicious expen- A writer in the Federal Republican recom diture of money by instructing the great mass of mends the scattering of a tea spoonful of live ashes, the community in the modes of economizing in their or two tea spoon's-full of dead or leeched ashes, on fuel and diet will encourage temperance and accu- every hill of corn, being careful that none of it falls mulate the productive capital of the country on the blades of the stalk, as it would injure them whilst united with these to cherish a regard for almost as much as the worm, He says this promoral and religious obligation by the education of cess is not tedious-one hand may carefully ash the ignorant and the poor, is to elevate the human three acres in a day, and that it will effectually descharacter, to strike at the root of poverty and vice, troy or drive away the cut worm. and to render the inhabitants of the land contented, virtuous and happy. "With the view of assisting to promote the objects here declared by investigations into our present system of public economy, by exposing its defects, and by recommending to the public a radical reform, where one is desirable Mr. Phillips' Speech. From the Glasgow Herald of April 11. BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. BLAKE US. WILKINS. This cause which had excited universal interest, "We the subscribers, in accordance with the re- came on to be tried on Tuesday week, in Galway, commendation of a town meeting of the citizens of before the hon. Baron Smith, and a special jury. Philadelphia and the adjoining districts, held on the Every avenue to the court house was crowded at 5th day of May, 1817, do agree to form ourselves an early hour, and long before the trial it was im into a society, and for the better government of the possible to procure a seat. The plaintiff is a lieusame do adopt the following constitution." tenant in the navy, not above thirty years of age The by-laws provide for the appointment of the defendant is at least sixty-five, and is the widow several standing committees: among them are-the of the staff physician in whose arms general Wolfe library committee, to purchase works on the various died at the siege of Quebec. The plaintiff's case branches of public economy, &c. a committee on having been gone through, Mr. Phillips addressed the poor labs, to examine the system, collect facts, the jury on the part of Mrs. Wilkins, in pretty and suggest improvements; a committee on public nearly the following terms: The prisons, to report such improvements as may alle- May it please your lordship-The plaintiff's viate improper suffering and diminish the public counsel teils me, gentlemen, most unexpectedly, expences; a committee on domestic economy, to sug- that they have closed his case, and it becomes my gest improvements in the saving of diet, fuel, duty to state to you that of the defendant. clothing, &c. a committee for the suppression of vice nature of this action you have already heard. It is und immorality, to examine the existing laws and one which, in my mind, ought to be very seldom suggest amendments calculated to suppress tippling brought, and be very sparingly encouraged. houses and useless taverns, &c. a committee on public schools, to see if the existing laws for establishing such schools are duly administered, report improvements, &c. The Cut Worm. It is founded on circumstances of the most extreme delicacy, and it is intended to visit with penal consequences the non-observance of an engagement which is of the most paramount importance to society, and which of all others, perhaps, ought to be the most unbiassed-an engagement which, if it be voluntary, judicious, and disinterested, generally produces the happiest effects-but which, if it be Brandywine, 17th 5mo. 1817 either unsuitable or compulsory, engenders not onEsteemed Friend-A very simple, but important ly individual misery, but consequences universally discovery has been lately made, in retarding the pernicious. There are few contracts between hu progress of the cut worm, or grub, which is if pos- man beings which should be more deliberate than sible more destructive to the Indian crop this sea- that of marriage. I admit it should be very causon than that of the last year. tiously promised; but, even when promised, I am By making sharp pointed a piece of wood, from far from conceding that it should be invariably one to two inches in diameter, any length most performed; a thousand circumstances may form an Convenient to handle and by driving it in the hill impediment; change of fortune may render it imof corn near to the plants as they appear above the prudent; change of affection may render it culpable. ground, leaving a hole perpendicular six or eight The very party to whom the law gives the privilege inches, opened into the ground, (or less if kept of complaint, has perhaps the most reason to be open.) The worm uniformly takes shelter from grateful—grateful that its happiness has not been the rays of the sun after feeding at night, by bury surrendered to caprice-grateful that religion has ing itself very shallow under the surface of the not constrained an unwilling acquiescence, or made Joose earth, near its food, in order to resume its an unavoidable desertion doubly criminal-grateful feeding the ensuing night, and by this hole being that an offspring has not been sacrificed to an indemade immediately in the vicinity of its operations, licate and ungenerous enforcement-grateful that it serves as a place of retreat, from which it is never an innocent secret disinclination did not too late able to ascend, not being calculated for climbing evince itself in an irresistable and irremediable disso perpendicular a surface; and more especially as gust. You will agree with me, however, that if the crumbling earth falls in with the insect, until there exists any excuse for such an action, it is on the side of the female, because every female object He was, however, so far fascinated, as to bequeath being more exclusively domestic, such a disappoint- to her the legacies of his parents, when he found he ment is more severe in its visitation-because the was pre-doomed to follow them. To this circumvery circumstance concentrating their feelings ren- stance, very far be it from me to hint, that Mrs. ders them naturally more sensitive of a wound-Wilkins is indebted for any of her attractions. Ric!, because their best treasure, their reputation, may however, she undoubtedly was, and rich she stili have suffered from the intercourse-because their undoubtedly would have continued, had it not been chances of reparation are less, and their habitual for her intercourse with the family of the plaintiff. seclusion makes them feel it more-because there I do not impute it as a crime to them, that they hapis something in the desertion of their helplessness pened to be necessitous, but I do impute it as both which almost merges the illegality in the unmanli- criminal and ungrateful that after having lived on ness of the abandonment. However, if a man seeks the generosity of their friend-after having literally to enforce this engagement, every one feels that in- exhausted her most prodigal liberality, they should delicacy attached to the requisition-I do not en- drag her infirmities before the public gaze, vainly quire into the compatible justness of the reasoning supposing that they could hide their own contempti -but does not every one feel that there appears ble avarice in the more prominent exposure of her some meanness in forcing a female into an alliance? melancholy dotage. The father of the plaintiff, it Is it not almost saying, "I will expose to public cannot be unknown to you, was for many years in shame, the credulity on which I practised, or you the most indigent situation. Perhaps it is not a matmust pay to me in monies numbered, the profits of ter of concealment either, that he found in Mrs. the heartless speculation-I have gamboled with Wilkins a generous benefactress. She assisted and your affections, I have secured your bond, I will supported him, until at last his increasing necessiextort the penalty either from your purse or your ties induced him to take refuge in an act of insolreputation!" I put a case to you, where the circum vency. During their intimacy, frequent allusion was stances are reciprocal-where age, fortune, situa- made to a son whom Mrs. Wilkins had never seen tion are the same-where there is no disparity of since he was a child, and who had risen to a lieuyears to make the supposition ludicrous-where tenancy in the navy, under the patronage of their there is no disparity of fortune to render it suspi- relation, sir Benj. Bloomfield. In a parent's pane cious. Let us see whether the present action can be gyric, the gallant lieutenant was, of course, all that so palliated, or whether it does not exhibit a picture even hope could picture. Young, gay, heroic, and of fraud, and avarice, and meanness, and hypocrisy disinterested-the pride of the navy, the prop of the so laughable, that it is almost impossible to criti-country-independent as the gale that wafted, and cise it-and yet so debasing that human pride almost bounteous as the wave that bore him-I am afraid forbids its ridicule. that it is rather an anti-climax to tell you after this, It has been left for me to defend my unfortunate that he is the present plaintiff. The eloquence of old client from the double battery of love and law, Mrs. Blake was not exclusively confined to her enwhich at the age of sixty-five has so unexpectedly comiums on the lieutenant. She moved at times opened on her! Oh gentlemen! how vain-glorious into an episode on the matrimonial felicities, paintis the boast of beauty! How misapprehended have ed the joy of passion and delights of love, and ob. been the charms of youth if years and wrinkles can scurely hinted that hymen with his torch, had an thus despoil their conquests, and depopulate the exact personification in her son Peter bearing a navy of its prowess, beguile the bar of its eloquence! match-light in his majesty's ship the Hydra.How mistaken were all the amatory poets from While these contrivances were practising on Mrs. Anacreon downwards, who preferred the bloom of Wilkins, a by-plot was got up on board the Hydra, the rose, and the thrill of the nightingale, to the and Mr. Blake returned to his mourning country, saffron hide and dulcet treble of 65. Even our sweet influenced, as he says, by his partiality for the debard has had the folly to declare, that "He once had heard tell of an amorous youth, -took his stand fendant, but in reality compelled by ill health and disappointments, added, perhaps, to his mother's very absurd and avaricious speculations. What a loss the navy had of him, and what a loss he had of Royal wisdom has said that we live in a "new the navy! Alas! gentlemen, he could not resist his era." The reign of old women has commenced, and affection for a female he never saw. Almighty love if Johanna Southcote converts England to her eclipsed the glories of ambition-Trafalgar and St. creed, why should not Ireland, less pious perhaps, Vincent flitted from his memory-he gave up all for but at least equally passionate, kneel before the woman, as Mark Anthony did before him: and, like shrine of the irresistable widow Wilkins? It ap- the Cupid in Hudibras, he pears, gentlemen, to have been her happy fate to have subdued particularly the death-dealing professions. Indeed, in the epistle of the Heathen mythology, Mars and Venus were considered as inseparable. I know not whether any of you have ever seen a very beautiful print, representing the fatal-Oh! gentlemen, only imagine him on the lakes of glory of Quebec, and the last moments of its immor- North America-alike to him the varieties of seatal conqueror-if so, you must have observed the son, or the vicissitudes of warfare. One sovereign figure of the staff physician, in whose arms the hero image monopolizes his sensibilities. Does the storm is expiring: that identical personage, my lords, was rage-the widow Wilkins outsighs the whirlwind. the happy swain, who forty or fifty years ago, receiv- Is the ocean calm-its mirror shews him the lovely ed the reward of his valor and skill in the virgin widow Wilkins. Is the battle won-he thins his hand of my venerable client !—The doctor lived some-laurel that the widow Wilkins may interweave her what more than a century, during a great part of myrtle. Does the broadside thunder-he invokes which, Mrs. Wilkins was his companion-Alas! the widow Wilkins! gentlemen, long as he lived, he lived not long enough to behold her beauty "That beauty, like the aloe flower, "A sweet little cherub, she sits up aloft, To watch for the life of poor Peter." -Alas! How much is he to be pitied! How am ply he should be recompensed! Who but must mourn his sublime, disinterested, sweet-souled pa-[to this heartless cupidity! Thus beset, harassed,, triotism! Who but must sympathise with his pure, conspired against, their miserable victim entered ardent, generous affection! Affection all impatient into the contract you have heard-a contract confor an interview! Affection too warm to wait even ceived in meanness, extorted by fraud, and sought for an introduction! Indeed, his Amanda herself to be enforced by the most profligate conspiracy. seemed to think that his love was most desirable Trace it through every stage of its progress, and at a distance, for, at the very first visit after his its origin, its means, its effects; from the parent return he was refused admittance. His captivating contriving it through the sacrifice of her son, and charmer was then sick and nurse-tended at her forwarding it through the delicate instrumentality brother's house, after a winter's confinement, re- of her daughter, down to the son himself unflecting, most likely, rather on her funeral than her blushingly acceding to the attrocious combination, wedding. Mrs. Blake's avarice instantly took the by which age was to be betrayed and youth degrad alarm and she wrote the letter which I shall now ed, and the odious union of decrepid lust and proceed to read to you. M. Vandeleur-My lord, unwilling as I am to interrupt a statement which seems to create so universal a sensation, still I hope your lordship will restrain Mr. Phillips from reading a letter which cannot hereafter be read in evidence. Mr. O'Connel arose for the purpose of supporting the propriety of the course pursued by defendant's counsel, when precocious avarice, blasphemously consecrated by the principles of religion! Is this the example which as parents you would sanction? Is this the principle you would adopt yourselves?-Have you never worshipped the bliss by which it has been hallowed when its torch, kindled at affection's altar gives the noon of life its warmth and its lustre, and blesses its evening with a more chastened, but not less lovely illumination? Are you prepared to say, that this rite of heaven, revered by each country, cherished by each sex, the solemnity of every church, and the sacrament of one, shall be profaned into the ceremonial of an obscene and soul degrading avarice? Mr. Phillips resumed-"My lord, although it is utterly impossible for the learned gentleman to say, in what manner hereafter this letter might be made evidence, still my case is too strong to require any Cavilling upon such trifles. I am content to save the public time and wave the perusal of the letter.- No sooner was this contract, the device of their However, they have now given its suppression an covetousness, and the evidence of their shame, importance, which perhaps its production could swindled from the wretched object of this connot have procured for it. You see, gentlemen, what spiracy, than its motive became apparent; they a case they have, when they insist on the withhold-avowed themselves the keepers of their melancholy ing of the documents which origined with them- victim. They watched her movements; they selves. I accede to their very polite interference. dictated her actions; they forbade all intercourse I grant them, since they entreat it, the mercy of with her own brother; they duped her into acceptmy silence. Certain it is, however, that a letter was ing bills, and let her be arrested for the amount. received from Mrs. Blake, and that almost im- They exercised the most cruel and capricious mediately after its receipt, Miss Blake intruded tyranny upon her, now menacing her with the pub. herself at Brownville, where Mrs. Wilkins was; re-lication of her follies and now with the still more mained two days; lamented bitterly her not having horrible enforcement of a contract* that thus beappeared to the lieutenant when he called to visit trayed its anticipated inflictions. Can you imagine her; said that her poor mother had set her heart a more disgusting exhibition of how weak and how on an alliance; that she was sure, dear woman, a worthless human nature may be, than this scene disappointment would be the death of her, in short, exposes? On the one hand, a combination of sex that there was no alternative but the tomb or the and age, disregarding the most sacred obligations, altar! To all this, Mrs. Wilkins only replied, how and trampling on the most tender ties, from a mean totally ignorant the parties, most interested, were greediness of lucre, that neither honor or gratitude of each other: and that were she even inclined to or nature could appease-"Lucribonus est odor connect herself with a stranger, (poor old soul!) exere qualibet;" on the other hand, the poor shrivelthe debts in which her generosity to the family led relic of what once was health and youth and had already involved her formed, at least for the animation, sought to be embraced in its infection, present, an insurmountable impediment. This was and caressed in its infirmity-crawled over and not sufficient. In less than a week the indefatiga- corrupted by the human reptile, before death had ble Miss Blake returned to the charge, actually shovelled it to the less odious and more natural armed with an old family bond to pay off the in-vermin of the grave. What an object for the speculacumbrance, and a renewed representation of the tion of avarice! What an angel for the idolatry of mother's anxiety, and the brother's desperation.- youth! Gentlemen, when this miserable dupe to You will not fail to observe, gentlemen, that while her own doting vanity and the vice of others, saw the female conspirators were thus at work, the how she was treated-when she found herself conlover himself had never even seen the object of his troled by the mother, beset by the daughter, idolatry. Like the maniac in the farce, he fell in beggared by the father, and held by the son as a love with the picture of his grandmother. Like a kind of windfall, that, too rotten to keep its hold, prince of the blood, he was willing to woo and be had fallen at his feet to be squeezed and trampled; wedded by proxy. For the gratification of his when she saw the intercourse of her relatives prohiavarice, he was contented to embrace age, disease, bited, the most trifling remembrances of her ancient infirmity and widowhood: to bind his youthful friendship denied, the very exercise of her habitual passions to the carcase for which the grave was charity denounced; when she saw that all she was opening-to feed by anticipation on the uncold worth was to be surrendered to a family confiscacorpse, and cheat the worm of its reversionary cor- tion, and that she was herself to be gibbetted in ruption. Educated in a profession proverbially the chains of wedlock, an example to every sugenerous, he offered to barter every joy for money! Born in a country ardent to a fault, he advertised She had signed a written contract to marry the his happiness to the highest bidder! and he now plaintiff. Lelicits an honorable jury to become the panders Sweet is the odour of lucre from whatever source. |