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From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.

1 letter from an elderly gentlewoman to Mr. Christopher JVurth, My Dear Mr. North, I much Icar that this is the last letter you will ever receive from your old friend. Pm wcarm' awa. Kit! to thz land o the leal!' and that, too, under a complication of disorders, which have been undermining my constitution, (originally a sound arid stout one) fur upward of half a century. Look to yourself, my much respected lad and think no mure ol your rheumatism That, believe me, is a mere ti i lie : but think what you have been doing-, since the peace of 1703, (in that year were yoa born,) in the, eating and drinking way, and tremble. I know, my dear ICit, that you never were a gormandizer, nor a sot ; neither surely was I but it matters not, the mott abstemious of all, have gone through fearful trials, and I have not skill in figures to cast up the poisonous contents of my hapless stomach for nearly three score years. You would not know me now ; I had not the slightest suspicion of myself in the looking glass

this mormng. Such a face! so wan and wc-begone 1 No such person drew Priam's curtain at dead of night, or could have told kira half his Troy was burned. Well hear me come to the point. T remember now, perfectly well, that 1 Iiave been out of sorts all my life-time: and the causes of ny continual illness have this day been revealed tome. May my melancholy fate be a warning to you, cmd all your dear contributors, a eet of tr.en whom the world could ill spare at this crisis. Mr. Editor 1 have been poisoned. You must know that I became person-

lime, and mixed with sr.w-dust. And this a sad solitary unsuspecting spinster had been imbibing S3 brandy for so many years! A gleam of comfort nowshot across my brain ; I told Mr. Accum that 1 had, during my whole life, been in the habit of taking a smallish glass of

Hollands before going to bed, which I fain hoped might hav e the effect of counteracting the bad effects of the forgery that had been committed against me. I produced the bottle the white globular one you know. Death in the Pot tried and tasted and alas! instead of Hollands, he pronounced it vile British malt spirit fined by a solution of subacetate of lead, then a solution of allum : and

strengthened with grains of paradise, Guinea pcpper,capsicum, and other acrid ami aromatic substances. These are learned words but they made a terrible impression upon my memory. Mr. Accum is a most amiable man I well believebut he is a stranger to pity.

Mrs. Trollope you have been poisoned,' wa3 all he would utter. Had the brandy and Hollands been genuine there would

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ally acquainted, a few weeks ago. quite accidental! v, with that distinguished thetiisV well known in our metropolis by Che name of ' Death in the Pot.' He volunteered a visit to me at breakfast last

Thursday, and 1 accepted him. Just as I hid poured out the first cup of tea, and was extending it graciously towards him, he looked at me, and with a low, hoarse, husky voice, like Mr. Kean's, asked me if I were not excessively ill? I had not the least suspicion of being so but there v-is a terrible something in Death in ths lt.N face, which told me I was a dead wo'n iii. I immediately got up I mean t-trove to get up, to ring the bell for a clrrgyman but f fainted away. On awakiug from my swoon, I beheld Death in the Pot' still sta ing with his fateful

eyes and croaking out, half in solilo-

ju. half in tete-a-tete, 'there is not a life in London worth ten years' purchase.' I implored him to speak plainly, and for God's sake not to look at me so malagrugorously and plainly enough he did then speak to be sure Mrs. Trollope, you ere poisoned? 4 Who,' cried I out convulsively, ' who has perpetrated the foul deed ? On whose guilty head will lie my innocent blood f lias it been from motives of private re

venge r pcak, Mr. Accum speak! Hate you anv proofs of a conspiracy?

' Yes, Madam, I have proofs, damning proofs. Your w ine-merchant, your brew

er, our baker, vour confectioner, your

uroccr, av, vour very butcher, are in

league against you ; and, Mrs. Trollope

vou are poisoned !' fc When Oh ! when

v as the fatal dose administered ? Would

an emetic be of no avail r Could you not

vet administer a ' But here my voice

wa cboaked, and nothing was audible 'Mr. North, but. the sighs and sobs o your poor Trollope.

At last I became more composed and

Mr. Accum asked me what was, in general, the first tiling I did 011 rising from bed in the morning. Alas! I fcltthatit was no time for delicacy, and I told him at once, that it was to take off a bumper ofbiahdy for a complaint in my stomach. He asked to luok at the bottle. 1 I'roujit it forth from the pres in my own chamber, that tall square tower-like bottle. Mr North, so green to the eye and smooth to the gran.- You. know the

bottU' will; it belonged to my mother be tore me. He put it to his nose he poured out a diiblet into a tea-spoon as cautiously as if it had been the black ll0n he" tasted itand again repeated tJue terrible wtnls, "Mrs Trollope, you ire poii Jhed. 4 U has, he continued. a peculiar disagreeable smell, like the bieaih of habitual drunkard. Oh ! thought I. has it come to this ! The smell over seemed to my unsuspecting soul

rmt fragrant and delicious ' Death in

the Put then told me, that the liquid I

bud been innocently drinking every morn tor thirty years, was not brandy at all, but a vile distillation of Hiitish niolasties out wine lees, rcctiCri over quicK

have been no harm but thev were imi

tation, and M oo are poisoned.'

mv.seli rcrv laint, I asked, nat-

in my situ

ation, for a glass of wine. It was brought but Mr. Accum was at hand to snatch the deadly draught from m lips. He tasted vh;it used to be called my genuine old port. Ami in the scowl of heaven his face Grew black as ho was sipping. It is spoiled elder wine rendered astringent by oakwood saw-dust, and the husk of filberts lead and arsenic, Madam, are ' but mv cars tingled ami

I heard no more. I confessed to the amount of six glasses a day of this hellish linuor pardon my warmth and

that such had been my allowance for many years. My thirst was now intolerable, and I beseeched a glass of beer. It came, and Death in the Pot detected at once the murderous design of the

brewer. Coculus indicus, Spanish juice, hartshorn shavings, orange powder, copperas, opium, tobacco, nox vomica such were the shocking words he kept repeating to himself and then again, Jlrs. Trollope is poisoned.1 May I not have a single cup of tea, Mr- Accum,' I asked imploringly, and the chemist shook his head. He then opened the tea-cad

dy, ami emptying its contents, rubbed my best green tea between his hard horny palms. Sloe-leaves, and white thorn, Madam, colored with Dutch pink, and with the fine green bloom of verigrise!

Much in the course of your regular life

troducing into my stomach. It appears that I have never, so much as once, either eat or drank a real thing that isj a thing being what it pretended to be. Oh! the weight of lead and copper tl.t has passed through my bod?! Oh! too, the gravel and the sand! "But it is impossible to deceive me now. This very evning some bread was brought to me. Bread ! I cried out indignantly Take the vile deception out of my sight. Yes, my dear Kit, it was a villainous loaf of clay ami allum! But my resolution is fixed, and I hope to die in peace. Hence

forth, I shall not allow one particle of

matter to descend into my stomach!

Already I feel myself 4 of the earth, earthly.' Mr. Accum seldom leaves mv

bed side and yesterday brought with

mm several e.itaules and drinkable?

which he' assured me he had analyzed,

subject to the tct act, and found them

to be conformists. But I have no trust

in chemistry. His quarter loaf looked

like a chip cut otf the cornar of a stone

block. It was a manifest sham loaf. Afte

being deluded in mv Hollands, bit in my

brand, and having funs.il mv 111 u Hi ns a mockery, uever more shall I be thrown

on 111 v guard. I am waxirir weaker ana

weaker; so farewell! Bewildei ing in

deed hr.s bee 1 the destiov of SUSANNMI TROLLOPE.

THE !IiALY.S.itr TKUiirVUllY

ycu must have swallowed" Might I try the coffee?' Oh! Mr. North Mr.

Extract of a letter from His Kxcellencv

Gov. Miller to a fiiendin iVtershorn' N. H. dated Pwst of Akansaw, Sept 2, 182:).

I would have answered vou sooner

but I have been sick almost ever Miice I received your letter; and this is the first day I have felt able to write ; I am now very weak. The sicklies here is fcvvr and ague ; a slow bilious fever, ;c. Yery few deaths occur by diea--s but people remain weak and fit fr nothing a long time. My brother is apparently better in health than he has been for two years. I suppose it would he agreeable fo

you to receive some description of this unknown country. It is situated betwixt3.V, and ?i 30', N. lit and extends from the Mississippi to the western boundary of the possession of the U. S. It is a very large e.tter.t of country.

1 1 1 r j I y settled. In the village of Arkansas there are seventeen houses, (dwelling) and this is, perhaps, as large a village as in the . tei rt-: y From this, oa the mail route, e to travel without a house or shelter three davs, to et to a settlement, across a Prairie. In crossing this. water is a scarce article. In fact, there is a great want of water all oer this countrv, with very few excep

tions. The .''rknnsaiv is a fine navigable river for more than a tho isand miles,

at a middle stage of water, and affords

of m.niey, nor do they use any anient spirits".

1 pitched my tent aooui nan a mue from tho town, and stayed five days.

They made dances and plays every

night to amasc me. 1 nose Indians nave a native religion of their own, and are

he only tribe, I ever knew, that had. t day break everv mornin, I could hear

them at prayer, and crying for an ho'is.

1 hev appeared to be as devout in tneir

wav'as any class of people. They made

me a present of eight horse Vv'ieu them.

I got there, two homed frogs they are

a curiosity. I kept one ot them aiie

twenty-two days it then laid twentytwo eggs, as large and about the shape

and appeal ance of a large white uean, and died. I have them all safely pres

erved in spirits. I obtained the skin of the young irild hog; this is a curiosity likewise, the skin of the badger. 1 procured also, some salt that came from the salt Prairie; which is covered, for many miles, from four to six inches deep, with pure. white, chrystalized salt. All men agree, both white and Indian, who have been there, that they can cut and split off a piece a foot square. This place is about 1300 miles, hv the course

nf thu rivor. a'lnvp ibis. Oiip branch of

tlw A id'Oncntw rt1CCiir 4 1 rt m n 1 tine

rie, and sometimes overflows it. When that is the case, the water in the river here is too salt to drink. There is a place about 150 miles from this, where the water gushes out of a mountain go not that you may scald add dress a hog with the water as it comes from the ground. This is a fact which admits no

TDK QUKKN. feome of the London monthly JnurnnU

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amused wuh the lamentations of those

u u.c Huumerui intent, rectinthe conduct of the people and the Pari ia mentary opposition. "Coolly t har and sedately to judge," ca vs L.:e of thf n used to be the characteristic of En' ghshmcn. Now all the lower ranks 'of society scenitobe frenzied The? rusA forward like wild horses, hcciilo. aliU of lash and rein."

" Alas for Kngland!" srts another, may the patriot and the moraiist exclaim, while they contemplate the occurrences of the last few weeks. Nw was such madness caused, never wera Englishmen before induced i-o far to forget themselves and all the - stat.'i-.ed maxims of law or the constitution, br means so barefaced or so paltry. Tl.; the accusation of a Quern vis,, ,",; .. a considerable disturbance i' r ,t the kingdom might be exnected ; still is might also be expected that before anv persons pronounced her innrn- V wouldat least wait to hear th - c-atges against her. Yet not only has this been forgotten, but all her accusers, the K:n-

and his ministers, have. been assailed

with unparalleled violence ami o.j

doubt.

Extract of a letter from Boston, to a gentlevian ii? Halifax. British aial American Boundary Lines. With regard to vour i.i;uiiies relatir.g to the proceedings of the Commissioners under the 5th article of the tieaty of Ghent, who were in session iti this town, in the month of May last, I scarcely know what to sav, their sittings were

Was, then, the Queen so dear to the rab

ble of London ? or was her innocence so clear, and her character always so unsuspected, that suspicious were' impossible ? No such thing. The truth is. that all those who, from motives of plunder ambition, or revenge, have determined on a rebellion in this country, hav availed themselves of the Queen's presence to forward their designs."

Public lands - i ;.t public lands have been disposed of to the amount of abou;

five ami forty million and that only half that sum has been paid. - . ; ge

a balance

can hardly

be

North, you know my age, and neveonce, during my whole existence, have I tasted coffee. I have been deluded br peas and beans, sand, gravel, and vegetable powder! Mr. Accum called it

shato coffee, most infamous stuff, and! as rich on both sides, as there is in the

unfit for human food! Alas! the davj world. In fact, on all the rivers is to

that I was born ! In despair I asked for ho tVaud land abundantly rich and fera glass of water, and just as the spark- tib-and uniformly fob? found. Back

ling beverage was about to touch my pale quivering lips, my friend, for I muM call him so in pite of every thing, interfered and tasting it, squirted it out of his mouth with a most alarming coun-

tenance. It comes out of a lead ci-;-

d

from the purchasers: wh.-f- tr

Johnson has introduced a resolve in tht senate to take back the land t.oi i.aiil ill of V ia .. .... . '

not public, and at the time excited wry '" , l"te, a o connria utu in.'rpt T!. iv tv.,. ...,.t'Jthe mIeta thc "niainder. I his prop--

iiitmn ia nnt rtslichn1 - . 1.1

v . v a ii v , i) t: oil' ltlH U V

httio interest. I lie only two

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winch the t ommissioners are empower

ed bv the. treatv to ascertain and determine, are, the North West angle of Nova Scotia, as described in the treaty of

IT38 and the North Westernmost Head of Connecticut liiver. " On the part of the British, I understand it is contended, that the former

point from whence the boundary is to run

the holders. But the danger to be apprehended, from having a numerous body

oi ueoiors residing together u;o.i :ui go tracts of land, is not to be slighted, V. Y. Ev. Post

tern it is deadly poison ' Here I threw

myself on mv knees before this inexora-

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irom the water streams the land is quite indifferent, you may say poor, till you go wvsr. tivoor three, hundred milctthen it is very good. The countrv is very fiat and fevel from the Mississippi west for 1 ."'0 miles, then it becamcs hilIv and broken, and rocky on all the hills.

Of animals in this country, both winged

ble man, and cried, Mr. Death in the i ami quadiupcd, we have no want

BALTIMORE, Dec. 2. Congress. The proceedings as vefr

I A .1 . fit ma aI. ...A a. .

Wnctivifii f iV- rnnt,t a,c,,ul"1 ,1,UL, mieresi, except as shew-

ccssarily, upon the true construction of '".f"1"8 "f t,,e Probable topices which the treatv, be found to the southward 6c be ;s.ed-nor is it probabel westward of the river St. John-this ri- thf ? important wnl be transvcr emptying itself into the Bay of Fun- acte V"1'.1 ar4t!,e constitution of Misdv.whiciriscdura distinguished through- f.ourl 13 Jf"dcd upon. In the mean out the treatv from the Atlantic Ocean, "me, we shall have the report f th and lar to tile east ward of.the St. Croix, 8retary of tht treasury, on the state of thc easterly boundary river of the Uni- 0Ur m?"e' l"atrs, which will set the,

ted States; ami thorefore, not being a ' T ."u5 fl"u nvprrnnti-nnlnf in d.u f.n.tv a ?, J and "e committee of manutactuics w ill

the course)

this season.

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will leave the whole of this noble river, A"a"- "c" "na's .lor ana against an inthe St. John, within the BritUh provin- Jreabe ol fhe duties on goods imported, ces r have already been referred to the last:

"On our side it is contended, with ' cnim.ttee--among f oem. that oL

equal earnestness, that the No;tli-west f.c ,lu"lcnTn 01 tip'tes, represen-

mv- intiLiiam?, a:iu uuiei s, niieres-

ted in commerce," recently assembled

at l oiladelphia, which we intend to Recisrnn. JVts.

icn oiaies, ami inureiore, nui oein a , . river contemplated in the treatv, as one the committee of manutac ot the Atlantic Uivers.to be divided by Pr..b?b 7 avc resolved on tl, tiie Highlands. This claim if established, ,ch the V P'J"ue at th

Pot, is there in heaven, on earth, or the

waters under thc earth, any one nartioic

of matter that is not impregnated with

leath? What means this desperate

mockery? For mercy sake give .ne the very smallest piece of bread and cheese, or I can support myself no longer. Are

we or are we not, to have a morsel of

breakfast this day?- He cut oil about an

inch long piece of cheese from the identical double Gloucester that you yourself,

Mr. North, chose tor me, on your last visit to London, and declared that it had been rendered most poisonous by the annrtta used to color it. ' There is here, Mrs. Troll pe, a quantity of red lead. Have you madam, rvever experienced, after devouring half a pound of this

cheese, an indescribable pain in the region of the abdomen and of thc stomach, accompanied with feelings of tension which occasioned much restlessness,

anxiety, repugnance to food. Have you never felt, after a Welch rabbit of it, a verv violent cholic ?' 'Yes! yes often, often, I exclaimed. ' And did you use pepper and mustard ?' I did even so. Let me sec the castors ?' I rose from my knees and brought them out. He puffed a little pepper into the

palm of his hand, and went on as usual.

4 ibis, madam, is spurious pepper alto

gether it is made op of oilcake, (the

residue of linseed, from which the oil

has been pressed,) common clay, and,

perhaps a small portion of t. ayenne pepper, (itself probably artificial or adulte

rated) to make it pungent, nut now tor the mustard, at this juncture thc servant maid came in, and I told her that I was poisoned: she set up a prodigious fccream, and MrV Accum let fall the mustard pot on the carpet. But it is needless for ne to prolong thc shocking narrative. They assisted me to get into bed, from which I never more expected

to rise. ily eyes have been opened, and I see the horrors of mv situation. I now

remember thc most excruciating cholic,

and diers other pangs, which 1 :'.iought

nothing of at the time, but which must have been the effects of the deleterious

'Weatk t.fr; Pc

inert- is almost eve. y species of the bird

and fowl in ;(vut abundance wild geese and swaii, tui kies, quails, rabbits, raccoous, bear, wolf, catamount, wild cat, beaver, otter, deer, elk, and hu ffaloe the huntsman has full scope.

As to minerals, we have plenty of iron,

lead, coal, salt, &c.

i his country is toe nest lor raising

stock of everv kind I have, ever seen

A man may raise and keep, summer and

winter, any number he pleases. They

grow large and bandsomp. Cotton and corn are thc staple articles. The land, well tended, will average about 1000 in the seed to the acre; corn from 50 to UO bushels.' The crop

is good this year but thc birds destroy

vast quantities ot the corn.

I have spent more than two months

on a visit to the Llierokct and usage

Indians this summer. The most of the

rest of the time I have been sick. The object of my visit to the Indian Villages

was to settle a difficulty betwixt them. I went on to the chcrokees, (2J0 miles) and held a coonsel with them. Thev

agreed to send four of their chiefs with me to the 0ages, about 350 miles further. The settlement of the Ciierokees is scattered for a long extent on the river, and appear not much different from those of thc w hite people. They are considerably advanced towards civilization, and were very decent in their deportment. .Thev inhabit a Sovelv, rich part of the

countrv. The Osage village is built as

compact as Boston, in the centre of a

vast rrairie. W e rode forty miles into it,before we came to thc town. All the

warriors, chiefs, and young men met os two miles from the town on horseback, mounted on good horses, and as fine as they had feathers or any thing else to make them. They profesed much friendship. I got them to suspend their hostilities The Osage town consisted of 145 dwellings with from ten to fifteen

in each house. The average height of

the men is more than six feet, lhey aic entirely in a state of nature. Very

l few white people have ever been among

On Thursday, Mrs. Minty Grahim was tried on an indictment, as a common cod. After a tedious cxaminaiion of

an;lc of Nova' Scotia is nearly JOO miles

north ol the St John, anil this will carrv

the boundary neariv alonir the banks of

thc St. Lawrence, and within sight of the. walls of Quebec; and altogether intercept your present communication with Canada by thc route of t. John's. This circumstance as well an the vast

extent of frontier territory i:i dispute. n"crous witnesses, and a zealous prosannear to render foe m. ;i.n t h'cut,on elaborate defence, bv able

, - - I - v v t ' -v i -m . . . "

counsel, the Jury letircdand soon returned with a verdict of not guilty. It satisfactorily appeared, in evidence, that she was an uncommon scold. Maryland Paper. There is in the Library of Congest

ppear to render the question

great importance to your Provinces especially. With regard to the parallel of latitude, the commissioners have no power by the treaty of determining any thing. They are only to run and mark the parallel on the earth. IF rpnnrt: m. tni

this parallel has been found by the ob- ma"-V .c"rjlsitic n literature.

nervation of verv accomplished astroiio- VltM 1 ,s ucPree s ""rction ol ova- s, mers. emnlnved hv Kth ..o;,,, onfi in three volumes, folio, a work so scarra

using the best instruments that modern C"W ?r xt . c.l m an Eng!i,i

Ml pl

ot

of minuteness

to leave all the for

" o-ig

in

ovements can furnish ; ihe results , u u rai? dooks, ai iweie ,

which agree to a remarkable decree V;eu1Pw?no. s?,l,nS: 1 r:ere.

;to cross Lake Ch.rWam 1 urcnas 1 '"Kninagc, a single mait

such a manner t n .i ' f.. volume valued at fifty pounds, ano many

lif.cations at Roused Point clearly with- "tliersin equally high esteem, of which in the British line9. Congress become possessed by the toitu-

Mr. Jeffersons Library. Inte'l.

ihe newspapers talk ofacomnrom-

lse in this matter; hut I am at a loss to' conjecture where the commissioners are

to find a power tf compromise in running an astronomical line. Report also says the parties arc not a-reed as to thc northuafilnr niiwnt .rf.. ...... . .

nv.nii.iw-i uru'i n viiniiecilCUi itiver.

This point also involves a very consid-j erable and valuable portion of territory. !

1 lie trut.i is, that the tramer of the trea

ty of 1T83, undertook to describe a line!

Richmond, Nov 21 On Monday, the court ( the chitf justice presiding) took up the ca- of the live persons who were indicted with violating an act of conre , in having enlisted on board the armed Venezuelian vessel, the V' i'son, capt. Alrneids. Mr. Up-h-r appearei on the U. States ; Mesr. Douthat and John ti. WilKams lor ti c

llT l.All Tl lln ri l,i. a. navLar. .1.... j!

. """"U! J tlllll 4JL I C"IIIJ at LI1.1L III11P1 . . a t

M alto-ether unknown and unei,,lore,L P"nc. . Iwo junes were charge

jUnr. oil Jw- .r.ir...i.:-.. I first with th

.. v. i j V. V. uii llllic UIIHI.UIIIC9.

iC case of one of the i.ien, who

While the commission u.n, In .. Pcaa inal ne as icrccu 10 join v. s-

sion here, it was said that the urvevs of f next of the tour other pn.en. this year would compete the info-ma- " v' n Jri,r' tt,ri,,fti,e t, n . ... diet of. of Gtiijy.a?id tLe prisoners vveirt

nwii me KJi.iuiiasiuiit-i s rciiuireu, wiini .. . - , i i . .i . I ppfrilit.lv nuirlnrrpu.

regard to the geography of the countryJil-

in tuspuie, in tinier 10 a uecision on the - j . , Trr 7 points referred to them. But such afc UltltlV S H OPuS till eleinpnti nf n

course of thU boundary, tfc.t I nt,U4"M

solids and liquids "hich I was daily in- thsra. They kuow cothing f thc us for tUeoclves.

a very shrewd suspirion that the com,

mission will not settle the controversy. In such a case, a third power must be called in as umpire, under thc terms of the treaty ; or, which is more probable, all a. '

tnc two governments Will negottjtC anew

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