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signal usefulness in other respects, from sitting on a jury, and from enrolling yourselves on the catalogue of the militia. Yet, by your personal influence, you may protect the laws. And I doubt not, for a moment, should a hostile invader pollute our soil, you would cast away your privileges, fall into the ranks and spill your blood. Yes! and I will add, without arrogance or ostentation, that I am ready with a bible in one hand, and a sword in the other, to be your chaplain. A Bible! yes, my countrymen! can recommend nothing to be compared to it. Its influence will be as lasting as time Generations yet unknown, shall feel and venerate its power in all the freshness of youth and vigour. Opposition to its free course only sends deeper and deeper its expansive and outstretching roots, until they will grasp the globe we inhabit; and

when it reels, this beautiful fabrick of

things will fall with it, into the peaceful bosom of eternity. The Almighty has decreed it: &: more

rational would be the sicklv efforts of

infatuated man to rule the boisterous ocean, lashed by impending storms, than to resist the immortal reign of his truth. Deism and Socinianism have already done their utmost- Hume has pierced the sacred word by the malignant exercise of a Genius, acute in thought, and pointed in reasoning. Gibbon with insidious art, has levelled his keenest satire at its peculiarities. Voltaire and Paine, Bolinbroke and Shaftsburv.have at successive periods exhausted theirvenom, in lampooning the oracles of faith. Yet, like its author, the Bibie has never tasted of corruption, but has burst the bands of oppression, and arisen with new splendor from its attempted humiliation. Like some huge, towering rock of the ocean, the waves of opposition have for centuries broke against it, but it still remains a friendly beacon to the weary, and a well-known land mark in his voyage to an eternal haven. But who is Hume? And who is the baptized infidel, Unitarian, improperly so denominated, of modern days? Can he compare with Newton? Newton, who made the devious Comet his post-horse, and travelled through its excentric orbit up to natures God. Can sophistry outweigh (lie testimony of him who heard the morning stars shout the praises of the hand that arrayed them? Can he compare with Locke, with Bacon, who abandoned the delusions of melaphysicks, investigated man as they found him: and

through the wonderful combination of

his mysterious faculties, traced out the mechanism of an all-wise hand? Can Hume, or Priestley, or a host of talents equally splendid, overcome the pointed evidence of experience: experience, which exhibits to us, the pillow of death, bereft of its thorns, the freezing horrors f hie grave, and the awful uncertainties of an untried hereafter, met with composure nay, embraced with ecstacy. The Bible has withstood not only the iron tooth of time, but all the physical ind all the intellectual strength of man. it lias been assailed by weapons which vould have destroyed any other book:

and yet it survives. The arsenels of

learning have been employed to arm her for the contest: and in search of means to prosecute it with success, recourse has been had, not only to remote ages, and distant lands, but even to the bowels of the earth, and the region of the stars, it has been ridiculed more bitterly, misrepresented more grossly, opposed more rancorously, and burnt more frequently than any other book, and perhaps, than

ill other books combined: vet it is so

nently one people. Discrepancies of opinion, on various points, will from the

very coniormauon 01 uie iiumau intellect, exist. Yet, on all great national topicks, on all that is vital, on all that

is identified with true republicanism.

and real liberty, we are amalgamated.

The generous, and hospitable, and frank, and eloquent son of Erin the honest,

and reflecting, and brave Caledonian the unsophisticated Welchman the lineal descendants of the faithful martyred Huguenots the hardy and vigorous German the intrepid Hollander, distinguished for his patient perseverance, his personal integrity, his admirable ad-

herance to the unadulterated truths of

revelation these, these, blended with the sons of the pilgrims, the adventur

ers of Oglethrope, the followers of Ra

leigh, the pacific disciples of renn,

and the Swedes of Jersey, together con

stitute a body of sound thinking, and a

column of patriotism, that, 1 trust, will

never be destroyed, until the mighty angel planting one foot on the earth, and the other on the ocean, shall lift his hand to heaven, and swear by him that liveth for ever and ever, that time shall be 110 more. "Mid the thunder of war, and the fury of Jlame Rose Columbia's eagle in glory aspiring! And long shall he soar in the regions of Hame, Till earth is in ruins, and ocean retiring! Independent and free Our motto shall be, And death to the foe who saps Liberty's tree! For ne'er shall the lion of Europe regain The empire, he lost or the land and the main.'"

far from sinking under the effects of its

toes, that the probability, nay, the ecrlinty, of its surviving, until the final t:onsummation of all tilings, is now established. The rain has descended: The rloods have poured forth: The storm has beat upon it: but it falls not; for it is founded upon a rock. Like the burning bash, it has ever been in flames yet, it is still unconsumcd: a proof, strong as U holy writ, that he who dwelt in the bush, the great God our Saviour, preserves the Bible. Press it then closely, and yet more warmly to your hearts It will deliver you from the fury of the devouring clcient which is eternal, after you have l' reserved others from that which is temporal. Permit me to add, that I mourn sine-rely with you, over the recent loss vhich you have sustained, by the death f one of your most amiable associates. You are called to-day to sing of judg-:a-2nt as well as mercy. We sympathize 111 the afflicted widow. Our hearts

ADDRESS

Of Stephen Van Renselair, Grand Master Elect,

in reply to the Address of Past Grand Master CiiNToir, published in our lst. I accept the distinguished honor con

ferred upon me by the grand lodge of

this state, with emotions ot prolound res

pect and gratitude; to be selected by the

members of this numerous, ancient, and

respectable fraternity, to preside over its

deliberations, to guide its councils, is a

mark of conhdence which I shall ever highly appreciate. And although I cannot bring to the station the talents, or the learning, which in former years? have a-

dorned it, I still may venture to promise,

that on my part, no exertions shall be wanting to reunite the brotherhood into one bond of union; to illustrate the vir

tues, and to extend the influence of ma

sonry. The lucid, judicious and eloquent ex position which the brethren have thi: day heard of the nature of our associa

tion, the interesting narrative of its vari

ed fortunes in foreign countries, and the . J T I 1 'I I 1

sinking euiogiums on inc ciepariea as

well as living ornaments of our own nation, must leave a vivid impression on ev

ery mind.

such a statement cannot fail to cor

rect much of that misconception which

has assailed our best endeavors, and to

remove many of the prejudices which have affected the utility of masonry. Supported by such testimony, we may proceed with confidence in our efforts

towards its extension always keeping

in our recollection, that the virtues which

are the object of cultivation in the fra

ternity, should appear and shine in the

life of every one ot its members. In entering on the duties of (he high

office with which I have this day been

invested. I rely with assured confidence on the cordial aid and co-operation of the officers associated with me. Residing in various parts of the state, they will

be enabled to render all useful informa

tion as to the progress and welfare of the craft. Thev should watch with great care, that its honors be not tarnish

ed, or its utility impaired, and above all,

they should enforce with prudence and

judgment, the discipline which all devi

ations from its institution and duties imperiously require at the present time. It is not among the least gratifying 1 iii- . 1

circumstances attending this occasion,

that the grand lodge have directed the present ceremony to be performed bv

one of its most distinguished members.

who has filled the highest offices, and who amid the duties and honors conferred on him by his country, has cheerfully appeared at this time, as the friend and patron of the order. Its thanks most justly await him, and I should indeed be insensible, were I not to add my own, for the kindness and partiality evinced.

represented as very critical. It appears'

that the ilospodar left ins capuaj sy) to lay the first stone of a church about to be constructed. The inhabitants of several districts availed themselves of this opportunity to represent to him that they had no longer any resources left, wherewithal to pay the enormous contributions leveled upon them, and for which they had been continually harrassed. Numbers of these unhappy beings have been chained and cast into dungeons by the officers belonging to the finance department. There is not the least doubt, that had it not been for the presence of the Turks, this oppressive people would long since have revolted against their tyrants. The prince seems to have paid no attention whatever to their complaints or remonstrances. The most disastrous accounts are given of a famine, which prevails in Barbary to such an extent, that the wretched inhabitants of Tangier drop down dead in the streets. A subscription has been opened at Gibraltar for their relief. Calcutta, July 22. It appears from the Penang Papers that the Straifs of Mallacca, which, not two years since, were navigable in safety from Pirates, almost for an unarmed boat, are now filled with them. The Minerva, (a brig, we believe) has been attacked by them; but beat them 01T, after a smart action, near the Sambilans: and the Mediterranean of

this port, fell in with them near the same place, and attacked and chased several of them: we believe that any decently armed merchant vessel would beat 01T a dozen of these prows with a breeze; but in a calm they sweep, and if once they close with a vessel of that description they must inevitably carry her by numbers, in which case commander, officers and crew arc sure to be butchered bv these inhuman wretches. We believe that the Penang Government has already taken up some vessels, to cruize in the Straits, and we should think that with the aid of a number of well armed vessels of light draft it could be no difficult matter to extirpate these barbarian marauders altogether. Arracan. We learn hy letters from Arracan, that sickness prevailed there to a most distressing extent, the two Medical Gentlemen, Doctors Tytler and Sandford were ill and the sick were in consequence in great want of medical aid, nearlv all the crew of the brig Colo

nel Young, that brought down supplies, were sicklv, and the twoyoung men who

came down in charge of them, Messrs.

Peggie and Kerr, were dead. Doctor

Grant too, was very ill. The unfortunate colonists at the Cape

of Good Hope, arc still groaning under

the iron yoke of Lord Charles Somerset and the Dutch laws.

From tiik Boston Palladium. FROM SPAIN. Gibraltar, .Xov, 3. Spanish Consulate : Being convinced that up to the 22d Oct. several false documents were issued from

my ollice under counterfeit signatures,

and the circumstances generally appertaining to such documents beinLr illegal.

; -ieed for the orphan children. And oh! I make them known the same to the pubU it inappropriate in a minister of Jesus fic, in order that merchants and others "-rist, affectionately to exhort you, to therein interested may have cognizance admonished by this premature and of the same, and thereby urotect them-

iMen departure, to keep your lampsTscWcs from the injuries which might rc-

nmed and burning, your loins :'irt, and suit from them.

be always ready for the coming of thc FRANCISCO LEPER.

'6)11 of Man? Gibraltar, Oct, 27. Wstnrrhiv nino

Fellow Citizens Spanish merchant vessels werecantured

Our circumstances are most auspi- by the Colombian cruizers, one only es-

?JS lUC IftlC WIIT UUS mciUC US dill- mnrn. ruin nwnn I

I -1 - - - ' - wi 1 (IllUll 1 W VU I batteries, which were opened upon the privateers. It is no longer possible to bear these repeated captures. The posture of affairs at Moldavia is

.Mr. James Quick, one of the Committee of r raements, who was in perfect health on the . ,t Sunday of Jane, and & corpse on the follow ) g Mondavi

perscd, shewing however, that much P'on of the duty on thosi articles can be expect.

Theatrical. The play-going world

at New York and Boston, and indeed,

the more serious body of the people of

those cities, have been singularly agitated by the appearance of Kean, in their respective theatres. After a very boisterous reception, this actor maintained his ground in the first named city, and was tolerated, if not liberally patroniz

ed, by numerous audiences. From thence

he proceeded to Albany, where he was quietly permitted to perform several

nights; and having proceeded to Boston,

he prepared for himself a favorable re

ception by the publication of an apology as impudent and as pvppyish as any thing that we have met with. The press to obtain tickets of admission into

the theatre, on the night he was toper-

form, was wonderfully great, and. they were sold at a considerable advance by strong-armed and hard-headed fellows who fought their way through the crowd

to speculate in them, and the house was

filled at a verv early hour not a temale, however, being present. But at the time of raising the curtain, a great excitement was shewn. Kean wished to .-ipologize, but not a word was heard. Kean, soon after, presented himself, in a plain dress and melancholy phiz he was hissed and hooted at, and pelted otT the stage bv a thousand missiles. The uproar was general the manager attempted several times to speak at lenght a placard was displayed with the inscription "Mr. Kean declines playing" this provoked peals of laughter that made the houfe shake to its foundation because that the idea of declining to play was so extremeiy modest and retiring! Another placard was exhibited, "shall the play go on without him!" and then began the perfect confusion, and a roio which seems to have had noparellel in (he United States. A breaking of all things that were breakable, in the audience part of the house, commenced, in the hurry to destroy the benches & throw them out at the windows, some of the rt-m-dow-framcs were knocked out! and all

the lamps were speedily shivered into atoms. The doors were forced by the crowd from without, resolved to see the

play, or take a part in it some one at

tempted to read the riot act, and there was a plenty of knock-down blows given

and received; but the non combattants

and peaceable persons escaped through the windows, or in any other way that they could, and the victory was complet

ed at an early hour. At about eleven o'clock, the crowd was pretty well dis-

more might have been done, had more

been required, had they been furnished with lights to see what they might yet have had to do! Several thousand persons were engaged in this affair, and a number were injured, though no lives w ere lost. It is rather intimated that the mayor, whose energy of character is well known, was not disposed to prevent the people from "managing their own affairs in theirown way;" and it was supposed that Kean fled from Boston during the night, least some brawny Yankee might take liim by the nap of the neck, and souse him in the bay, in which some fifty years ago, the Bostonians made such a large cup of cold tea! This affair, as it regards Kean and his whole generation, is not worth the room that it occupies, and we regret that the insolent foreigner should have been thought sufficiently important to disturb the repose of so grave a city as Boston: But good will grow out of it, on several accounts. It will be useful to managers of theatres, and we hope, important in teaching the people of Boston a little more charity than they have shown for riotous proceedings in other cities. In respect to Kean, they made a fool of him when he formerly played before them they appeared as if almost ready to fall down and worship the fellow; and fortius he insulted them most grossly, treating them as rudely as tho" he were the very crook-back tyrant and king that he so often gives a mimic representation of. No one was sorry for this never was insolence and puppyism more desoirdly exhibited. Still, while we are pleased that he was not permitted to play, the manner of doing it cannot be approved of and Kean himself was less to blame for attempting to perform in Boston, than were the managers for making an engagement with him. jYilcs.

ed to affect the practice of intemperance. Noth

"m, perhaps, that the government can do, can

change the taste of individuals; and nothing can prevent the inordinate use of ardent spirits, by those who crave it, hut the want of means to procure it. Delaware Gazette.

List of the Vessels of the United State? J"avy in commitsion, and their stations.

STATIOSS.

HAM IS. North Carolina, Urandy wine, Constitution, United States, Constellation, Cyane, John Adams, Krie, Ontario, Peacock, Hornet, Boston, Spark, brig, Porpoise,

Grampus, Spark,

Dolphin, I

Fox, J Decoy, Storesuip, Barges,

HATVS. 44 J443 44 36 24 24 185 18 18 18

Mediterranean. Pacific. West Indies. Coast of Brazil. AVest Indies. Mediterranean. Pacific. West Indies. C Will be put in com4 mission in 1826. West Indies. Mediterranean. "West Indies. Pacific. West Indies.

Abstract of receipts at Post-Offices in the Sei cral States and Territories, for the year end in a; March, 1825.

New York Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Connecticut Rhode Island New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Tennessee Kentucky Ohio Indiana Mississippi Missouri Louisiana Alabama Arkansas Michigan Florida Dist. of Colombia

182,22

20.032 10,033 11,311 83,201 25,5G3 11,256 M,79G

110,517 01 4,004 54

C0,830 61,751 22,487 40,G14 3C,4C2 1 3,1 1 G

21,501, 50

24,900 14

4,701 8,587 6,173 22,443 15,331

27 32 GO 90 12 9G

10 52 03 44 42 53

01 81

782 1,345 1,093

9,504, 58

05 19

817,023 09

Treasury Report. In our last we presented our readers w ith the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, the extreme length of which, and the time at which it was received, precluded the possibdity of our accompanying- it with such re

marks as naturally suggested themselves to our

mind on perusing it. Our readers have doubtli ss been highly gratified with the very lucid and interesting vies which he has afforded of our financial concerns ; and they have not, we presumf, failed to observe that it makes apparent the fact that the estimates of the former able ar.d excellent head of the Department, Mr. Carwford, have been fully realized. It appears that the receipts into the Treasury, during the present year, are estimated at 781,414 56, which, with the balance remaining on hand, on the 1st of January, 1825, of Sl40,597 13, makf an aggregate ot SiS,728,04l 69; and the expenditures during the year are estimated at g23,442,976 91, leaving a balance in the Treasury, on the first of January, 1826, of 5,284,U9l 78. Of the above amount of receipts 5,000,000 were on a loan at 4 per cent, interest; and the expenditures nearly 8,000,000 were in payment of the principal of the public debt, bearing an inUrest of 5 per crnt. The present amount of the public debt, is a little rising of 81,000-OCO; and it is estimated that af'erihe year 1830, it will not exceed 40,000.-

000, no portion of w hich will be at an interest

excet dirg five per ctnt. and the principal part of

it at a rate s'ul lover; whilst the government

n olds siock in the bank ot the United States to

the amount of 7,000,000. When it is considered that the public debt, on ihe first of January, 1817, amounted to 123,491,-

965 16, of which 115,257,806 49 was funded,

bearing an average intertst of 5,56 1-2 per cent, per ani;um, the exhibit of which is given of the present state of the national finances, must be highly gratifying. Upon the subject of Mr. Rush's remarks relative to the Tar id', there will be a diversity of

opinions; and it may be expected that they will

not meet with avtry favorable reception, in some

portions of the country; but whatever view may

be entertained relative to the propriety of his

opinions, and the expediency of the measures

which might be expected to result from their

general prevalence, none will, we imagine, deny

that rie h&s treated the subject with great ability. He does not, however, recommend a revision of the Tariff, but submits "the expediency of effectively increasing the existing duties upon all manufactures cf cotton, of a flue quality;"' and "of lowering, to a small extent, the duties at present existing upon teas, upon coffee, and upon cocoa." That the latter measure is expedient and pro per, we fully agree; but we think that Mr. liush would be disappointed in his expectation of its producing a diminution in the use of ardent spi rits. We cannot imagine that coffee, tea, or co coa would be used as a substitute for tint arti :le, nor can we perceive how the proposal rechic

The English ship Rambler, A. B. Greaves, master, from London, on a whaling voyage, struck on a reef of rocks on the morning of the 10th Aug. 1825, on the west coast of Madagascar, about 16 miles to the Noithivard of Ft. St. Felix, and tvas totally lost. The following particulars are extracted from the ship's log bock. "Aug, 10th, Wednesday commences with sirons winds from the south

ward, the ship under double-reef'd topsails, and

heading E. S. E.

At night a man was stationed on the bow

sprit to look out for land. At half past 3 in

the morning the ship struck on a Coral Jieef,

about S or 4 miles from the main land. Called

all hands, put the helm a lee, and made every attempt to back the ship off the reef but to no purpose. She continued to strike, and at half past 4 had beat over the reef into smooth water. Cut a cable and let go an anchor, and brought the ship upon 4 fathoms water. Manned the pump and finding her leaking very fast, got a spare topsail under her bottom. At 6 cut away the fore and main masts to prevent her capsizing. At 8, the water being above the cabin floor, the officers and crew left the ship in 4 boats and proceeded down the coast for Bembatcoka Hay, as the nearest place w here they might txpect relief. Just after leavirg the ship and about a mile from her, passed the wreck of a large brig, white waist and billethead, laying on an intit-r reef, appeared not to have lain there long. On the 21st, the 1st officer st parated Irom the other 3 boats, and arrived at Bembatooka Hay on the 27th, and in the evening ot the same day the 3d officer arrived with another, and brought ihe melancholy news of the other 2 boats being cut off by the natives. The following is the account givtn by the 3d Officer: The 3 boats, on the 21st, put into a small bay between Manumbaugh and Cape St Ai.drews being short of provibionb. The crew, excepting two in each boat, landed, and the Captain, with several others, walktd up towards some huts. The Natives treated us with great kindness, and gave us some Indian corn to eat. The Captain gave them stveral presents. They then sent in

to the country atttr a bullock, and brought it to the bench, and asked for a rope to tie it. The Captain offered them money, but thty refused it. While we were killing the bullock we observed a number of Natives, arm; d with muskets laying hold of the boats. TheCkpi, imuuduteiy ran to them, but being pursued by ihtm he took to the water, when tv o of the Natives thrust their spears into him lie fell, but got up again and w alked to the shore, where they stabbed turn again. He fell in the water 1 hey then diagged him on shore, and stripped him While I was running to the beach, to regain my boat I passed some of my shipmites weltering in their blood, I was closely pursued by several of the Natives, but by the help of Goo swam to the boat. 1 then took up an unloaded musket and aimed at them, whtn they immediately fell on their breast and crawled away. This was the means of saving our boat, and several of the crew. I looked towaids the shore my shipmates were all massacred, except an English lioy and two Ulackmen, who were then closely pursued by the Natives. Names of those saved : Seth !) l isher, of Martha's Vineyard. 1st. Offi.

cer John Mills. 3d Officer John IWpI

I homas Lewis Henry Curtinton Jvhn Kerniun Ant Surran Maik Williams John UUke i Portuguese 2 Natives of Ohitahoo. Mr. F. has ar. at Holma' Hole, in the Nereus. Doston Palladium.

Galliopolis (Ohio,) Dec. S. longevity. Died, in Harrison township, in

this couoty, on Tuesday the 22d ultimo, Mrs. Ann Bailey. From the best account we havft

had, she must have been at least i 15 years of

age. According to her own account, hpp fa-

u J v ther was a soldier in Queen Aone's wars: that,

on getting a furlough to go home he found his

wife with a line daughter in her arms, whom he

called Aoe, after the Queen, as a token of res

pect. In 1714, she went from Liverpool to

London, with her mother, on a visit to her brother. While there, she saw Lord Lovett beheaded. She came to the United States the year after Braddock's defeat, aged then 4G years. Her husband was killed at the battle of Point Pleasant, in 1774. After that, to avenge his death, she joined the garrison, tinder the command of Colonel W'm Clendinen, where she, remained until the final departure of the Indians from the country, hhe has always been noted for intrepid bravery. Col. Wm. Clendinen says, while he was commander of the garrison where Charleston, Kenawha, is nowlocated, an attack by Indians was hourly expected. On examination, it was believed that the ammunition on hand was insufficient to hold out a siege of any length. To send even two. three, or four men to Lewisburg, the nearest place it could be had, a distance of 100 miles, was like sending men to be slaughtered; and to send a larger force, was weakening the garrison. While in this state, Anne Bailey volunteered to leave the fort in the night, and go to Lewisburg. bhe did so, and travelled the wilderness where net the vestige of a house was to be seen, arrived safe at Lewisburg, delivered her orders, received the ammunition, and returned

safe to her post amidst the plaudits of a

lul people l ret Press

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