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EQUALITY OF RIGHTS IS NATURE'S PLAN AND FOLLOWING NATURE IS THE 31 ARCH OF MAN.-Eaiilow. Volume II. LAWRENCEBURGH, INDIANA ; SATURDAY, MARCH i, 1826. Number 9.

ivo??i .VilcS Register. LATE FOREIGN NEWS.

By nn arrival at New York, from Havre, bringing Paris papers of tlic 20th December. Great Britain and Ireland. The money-pressure was excessive these are among t lie banking bouses that have stopped payment Pole & Co. Williams, Burgess it Williams Sir Claude Scott, Williams & Co. Everett, Walker, .Malthy Sz. Co. Sikes, Snaith & Co. Salby L Olinhant Sterling Hodsoll. The drain of specie to supply the country banks was very large; one provincial banker carried 300,000 pounds from London. So great was the alarm of the people, and so clamorous their demands for money for the paper which they held, that it bad been necessary, at several places, to call out the militia to preserve the peace. Mighty eilorts were making to restore confidence the bank had raised the rate of discount to five per cent, (it had been four,) and for several days had discounted to the amount of a million a day ! Coaches were arriving every hour to carry oil" money and it was feared that, so large was the demand, that London would be left defenceless. An issue of one and two pound notes by the bank of England was expected. The governor of the bank bad had a long interview with lord Liverpool and the chancellor of the exchequer the result is not stated. The price of stocks had much declined, especially the Mexican and South .American, and indeed, of all foreign stocks. Consols were at 82 and a banking house had refused to loan 20,000 pounds on a pledge of .C0,000 in them. A large supply of gold was expected from' the continent for the Rothschilds arid 303,000 sovereigns had arrived, on which these bankers would speculate, &c. Or) the lit!) December, a meeting was held at the Mansion House to take into consideration t be "e x is t i n jjpti tcli o : j in Loudon, and to adopt such measures as should be deemed necessary. Only such nervous as had been invited attended. About loOofthe most respectable merchants were present. The lord mayor took the chair, and stated the object of the meeting. After some discussion .vir Uarm, oliereu toe lotiowmg re: oluli jus, v; hich were unanimously ados)ted: 4I. That the unprecedented embarrassments and diiliculties under which the circulation of the country at present labors, are mainly to be attributed to a general panic, tor which there are no reasonable grounds; that this meeting has the fullest coati lence in the means and subst aace of th banking establish:! nents of this capital and country, and they be-! lieve that tin; acting generally upon that coiiaueace would i relieve all those symp-jlv hich now show tiiem- t!i toms of distress which now show tiiemselves in a shape so alarming to the;

tttiiivl, and so fatal to those who arejceptable circulating medium. The la

forced to sacriuce their property tu meet sudden demands upon them, which it is iio imputation upon their judgment and prudence not to have expected.

2. That it having been stated to thisjbariks was terrific. Those that were

meeting that the directors of the bank! well supplied with gold, had not time to of England are occupied with the reme-!count it fast enough. At the bank of dy for a state of things so extraordinary,' England it was given out by weight fori

this meeting will refrain from any inter- 'the sake of expedition, when large sums. severe regulations, enforcing silence! from which, in a divided line, the nuns oft No wonder, then, the broken-hearted ference with the measures of the dircc- were required. The police oilicers inland contemplation. the community were seen, each holding! parents sunk in sorrow to the silent tors .of .the bank, who, they are satisfied, many cases, and in a few the military One of their symbol resemble the an- a large burning wax taper. They seem-'grave: for is there ought in the bitter vyill do their duty towards the public, jwcre called upon to preserve the peat e. cient custom of the Vestal Virgins; like'ed to be disposed in order of seniority Jcup of human misery, more deleterious

o. .1 nat having tne utmost coniidenco: in the stability of the public credit of the country, we declare our determiiatlod fo support it to the inmost ol our; rower. A. further resolution was also adopted, recommending similar declarations inj

the country towns. want ot tood, because the gold and silv er grasped under the garment by an iron. struggling w ith the solemnity of the mo-'eveiy moral feeling, and sunk, no morj; The alarm however, was rather sub-. disappared at once, and paper would not; girdle which is never loosened. ment, in expressing their innocent de-jto rise! for what "balsam can heal a siding. It is more than probable it has' be taken inpayment for bread and meats. " It appears that the fortunes of the fair; lights in beholding the approach of her, wound at the heart? Oh, there is none! been chiefly caused by some grand .yj-jThis lasted two or more days in some; being w ho was this day to take the veil,' who had that day otlered up her vows,1 It conquers time, and rimain- uncondilations, that have been going on and pi. ices, and at others the employers werej had been marked by events so fall ol.and became one of the community. querable, while memory hokishcrthrcne the Rothschilds, may be at the bottom compelled to open shops for the accom- sorrow, that her story, which was told The others stood in successien. with or reason her empire in the mind. ciofit, to add to their present immoderate' mo lation of their working people. In'in whispers by those assembled, was not' looks more subdued, pale, mild, collect- catrized, indeed, it may be, but a touch wealth and mighty command over the;several of the towns the principal inhab-: listened to without the greates emotions. led, the head gently bending toward? vv ill make it bleed afresh. Virtue is an

money-market ot the w orld. Russia. The following telegraphic despatch was transmitted from Strasbourg to Paris. ;The French minister at Berlin to the prisident of council: 'The emperor of Russia died at Taganrock after a few days' indisposition. 'The express which brought this intelligence left Warsaw on the Cth inst. 'The grand dukes Constantine and Michael had not yet departed from the capital for St. Petersburg." His late imperial majesty was born Dec. 23, 1777; ascended the throne of Rustia March 4, 1G01, and became king - .

of Poland June 0 , 17 15; on the Cthj

of October, 1703, he married Elizabeth' A'exiewna, princes of Baden, but has no issue. The empress, mother, a princess of Wirtemberg, widow of the emperor Paul I, is still living. His majesty has left three brothers, namely 1, the grand duke Constantino, bora 31ay 8, 1779, married February 20, 179G, to a princess of S axe Cobourg, from whom he was divorced in April, 1801. In 31ay the following year, he married the princess of Lowiez, but has no issue. 2. The grand duke Nicholas, born July 2, 1700, and married July 13, 1 817, to a princess of Prussia, by whom he bad one son and two daughters. 3. The grand duke Michael, born February C, 1708. The late emperor has also left two sisters, the one married to the hereditary prince ol Saxe Weimar, and the other to the prince of Orange. The death of the autocrat is said to have been caused by a t-ore leg, which terminated iu St. Anthony's fire. 1JU brother, Constantine, who succeeds him is spoken of as possessing a very fiery temper $c a cruel disposition. He is beloved bv the armv. Greece. The Egyptian squadron, consisting of 13 frigates, Id corvettes, 28 brigs 12 schooners and GG transports, (one of which was an American and 7 English), is said to have arrived at Navarino on the 5th of Nov. and had completed the landing of the troops on the 0th. A part of them wero to march immediately to reinforce Ibrahim Pacha at Tripolitza and another corps was to iroceed to Missolonghi. It is not worth while to detail the various reports about the state of the Greeks they are not to be relied on. Wre take it for granted, however, that the 3Iorca must now submit to Ibrahim Pacha. His power is seemingly too great to be resisted, and we may expect to hear of dreadful enormities. The Greek llects are at sea, ami in good condition, but can hardly be thought able to cope with the Egyptian and Turkisb, umlcd. There is a report that Rcdschild Pacha had been severely beaten near Missolonghi. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. By an arrival at N. York from Liverpool, with London papers to the 25th December. Great Britain and Ireland. The e ountry banks were failing in all directions. A Liverpool paper gives a list of no less than furtfj-Jive that had stopped payment. 31any more had failed and others were expected to follow; for one breaks down another, to the end of the chapter, and the credit of almost every one is severely shaken. Powerful ollbrts were making to obtain, or furnish a supply of gold. The laborers in the mint has been so increased as to throw oil 000,000 sovereigns weel If there is bullion enough to keen tSiem at work for a short time, .at this rate there cannot be any great want of an actest papers express a hope that the or-: ileal has been passed, and that confidence! was returning, with the supplies of gold.! The rush of people at some of the

n sterns to be agreed that such a timejthem thcyare enjoined to watch continu-;and hid never before been seen in England J ullvover thesacred lamp burning forever.

The memorable epochs of 1797 and !015:The costume of this country diUers es-!

are said to have been but a small semblance to the present. In numerous instances the laboring people appeared likely to suffer from the1 .... , . r-- ... itants held meetings, and resolved to sup-,

port their bankers which generally had;ture had driven her to seek shelter in a a good effect; but sometimes they suth r lsanctuary, where the alilicted may weep ed lor it. The papers are tilled with no-;in silence, and where, if sorrow is not

ttces of such tilings. I he panic w as general, and the ruin has been very extensive indeed. The banks in Ireland have not been pressed at all. The king has been pleased to appoint the right honourable John Lord Ponsonbv, to be envoy extraordinary and minisU r plenipotentiary to the United Provinces of the Kio do la Plata; and Alexander Cock burn, esq. to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the republic of Co!cn;bia. ft rm

France. The price of the funds kept

up, notwithstanding the advices ot their depression in England. 31ighty dama ges have been sustained at Orleans, v:c. by a rising of the Lei re. Sixty lives were lost at one place, and the value of property destroyed is several millions of of francs. 31any houses and mills were swept away. A confidential clerk of Rothst liild is said to have lobbed him ol two million of francs. V ranee win not wunuraw ner troops from Spain until sbt- is paid for the keep ing of them, though l'Mdinaiid is now ex ceeding!) anxious tor their removal. ypiiiu. It is said that an extensive conspiracy has been usoovered at St. Sebastians, and that se eral persons had been arrested others scaj ed on board an English vessel, whih they siezed. The high price of breal was producing much disorder and disiess at 31adrid. Great misery prev ailed at Cadiz. The merchants were about t oiler the king a large sum of money to md;e it a free port. There is a large emigntion from Spain to France and Portugal with a view of passingto the new Amercan states. The country is infested withstrong bands of robbers. It was forbidden, fromthe 1st of January, 1 820, to introduce '.a to Spain anv work printed in a foreign country in the Spanish language, whatever may be the subject of it. PROFESSION O? A NUN. A.Moxa the institutions of the Roman Catholic faith, monasteries form a conspicuous' feature. It is impossble, I think', to retlect on the state of beings thus cut olFfrom all the socialities of life, without a sensation of melancholy; a sensation which is more especially awakened to the situation of the female votaries, their strictest rules, and more uninterruptedseclusion, separating them from the world by stronger barriers than those opposed to the other sex. The profession of a young nun can hardly be witnessed without exciting toolings ofstrong emotion. To behold her in the early dawn of youth, about to forsake the world, while its jovs alone are painted to the imagination, and sorrow, yet untasted, seems far distant to see her, with solemn vows (toss that threshold, which may not again be -repassed, and -w hich separates -her. for-ever,- from all. thesc-scenes-4hat'-give-int crest, -and dcligiitvandoy Xo ,life to imagine -her in vthcs!oncly-cell jthat-is-to -replaccthe beauty aiuKgrandeur of -nature, prescntsa picture Jthat jnust-fdl Jhe. mind with powerful feelings and sadness. Such is the illusion, such the sensation inspired by the solemn scene, that I believe that he whose faith hallows, or he whom a different persuasion leads to deplore, the sacrifice, w ill yet, for the moment, behold it with equal emotion. The mind, if not more than usually cold, will with difficulty suppress the tear that rushes from the heart, w hen contemplating in perspective, the long listless life which lies spread out, in an unvarying form, before her who is thus, for the last time, surrounded by a busy throng, and adorned with splendor that seems but to mock her fate.

The convent in which we were now to;.as they shot through the long perspeetive'eity fading, drooping and decaying; behold this ceremony, belongs to an aus-jof the distant aisle. In the foregroundjart alone then brought votaries around tore order, stvled -Lame lacra," having; in a blazing focus of light, stood an altar,! her; v:soon after she died in the hospital.

sentially from that usually worn, and is singularly beautiful and picturesque ;; but. whih; it nleases the eve. it covers' - - - f - j , an ascetic severity, their waste being1 v t Circumstances of the most aflecting na assuaged, its tears are hidden. All awaited the moment of her entrance with anxious impatience, and on her appearance every e) e was directed toward her with an expression of the deepest interest. Splendidly adorned, as is customary on these occasions, ami attended by a female friend of high rank, she slowly advanced to the seat assigned her near the altar. Her tine form rose above the middle stature, a gentle bend muiked Lei contour, but it

seemed as the vieldingof a fading f.ower; her deep blue eyes, v hich were occasionally in pious awe raised to heaven, and her long dark eyelashes, gave life to a beautiful countenance, on which resignation seemed pourtrayed. The places allotted to us as being strangers, whom the Italians never fail to distinguish by the most courteous manners, were such as not only to enable us to view the whole ceremony, but to contemplate the features and expression of this interesting

being. She was the only child of doating parents: but while the aillicted spirit h und vent in the tears which coursed over cheeks ( hilled with sorrow, they vet bebeheld their treasure about to be separated from them, w ith that resignation which piety inspires, while yielding to a sacrifice made to Heaven. The ceremony now began, the priest pronounced a discourse, and other observances proceeded in the usual track. At length the solemn moment approached which was to bind her vow? to heaven; she arose and stood a few minutes before the altar, w hen suddei -ly, vet with usual action, she sank extended on the mailde lloor, and instantly the long black pall was thrown over her. Every heart seemed to shudder, and a momentary pause ensued; when the deep silence was broken by the low tones of the organ, accompanied by sofi and beautiful female voices, singing the service of the dead, (the requiem.) The sound gently swelled in the itir, and as the harmonious volume became more powerful, the deep church bell at intervals sounded with a loud clamour, exciting a mixed feeling of agitation and grandeur. 1 Pears were the silent expre ssions of the emotion which thrilled through every heart. This solemn music continued long, and still fell mournfully on the ear; and vet seraphic as in softened tones, and as it were receding in the distance, it gentlv sunk in silence. The young novice was then raised, and advancing toward the priest, she bent do-wn, kneeling at his feet, while he cut a lock, as a type of the ceremony that was to deprive her. of this her no longer valued ornament. Her attendant then dispoiled her of the rich jewels with which shet-was adorned ; her splendid upper vcstre was thrown oil and replaced by .nonastic garment ; her long tresses JAvA up, her temples covered with fur linens; the white ciown, emblem of innocence, fixed on her head, and the crucifix placed in her hands. Then kneeling once more before the altar, she utter her last vow to heaven at which moment the organ and choris tors burst forth in loud shouts oi tri umph, and in the same instant the can non from St. Angelo gave notice that her solemn vows were registered. The ceremony finished, she arose and; attended in procession, proceeded to wards a wide iron church from the moraistry, w hich, opentng w uie, displayed a small chapel beautifully illuminated; a thousand lights! shad a brilliant lustre, whose lengthened gleams seemed sinking into darkness, the two youngest were still adorned with the white crown, as being in the! first week of the novitiate. Both seemed in early youth, and their: cheeks yet impaled by monastic vigils, - bloomed with a brightened tint, u hilel o 7 their eves sparkled, and a smile seemed! w i

the earth in contemplation. The pro- amaranthine ilower, blooming and blushcession stopped at the threshold ofthejing with beauty, if nursed with care; church, when the young nun was re-j but cease to cherish it and it fades and

ceived and embraced by the Ladv Ab bess, who leading her onwards, was followed in procession by the nuns, each bearing her lighted torch. It might be the brilliant light shed on the surrounding objects, or the momen tary charm lent by enthusiasm, that dan gerous spirit of the mind deceiv ing the! eye and the heart, which gave thest fair beings a fascination more than real, but such were my feeling-, so fixed my attention, that when their forms faded

J from my view, when the ate was tlcsedlof a weak . ten

and 1 turned again towards the bu? throng and crowed street, 1 felt a heaviness, even to pain w eigh upon me. NO FICTION. Si s x L was a resident of a de )ightful village, situate on one of the small lakes in the western part of this state. Her parents w ere wealthy, and there was none more fair than Susan, their lovely daughter. Strangers gazed with wonder upon their lovelv tlow tr, so fresh and gay, so pure nnd innocent, while every eye shone bright at beholding her.-- 1 had been absent some months, ami just returned to this pleasant place, the home of mv infant days, and, as is usual, many strangers from the cities v. ere spending a few davs in our village, enjoving the pure air and lake ster.ery. Ooe, I learnt had been theie some time ; and rumour iaid, be was addressing the lovely Susan. At this period it was the season of walking and enjoving the beauties of nature, and evening rambles delighted me. Absence seemed to have given i change to every thing around my native village; and often after my return did I stray for hours upon the banks of the lake which stretched its clear waters far through the ales around. I was walking one everii g, involved in t.lK O'jhf it was a summer's eve, and aa uni loaded arch studded with the lights of heaven appeared above, The earth with its vanegaied mantle was still, as if chained by the somniferious god the. rippling current, and the murine ring rill?

alone, seemed soothing by their lulla bies, the surroundingobjects. Suddenly.., the rattling whet Isof a carriage thundering over the deep rutted road, awoke me from my reverie. It was near the. midnight hour: and aroused, I listened to the rapid approach of the noisy vehicle. It soon passed; but what w?rei my feeling- I saw the pride of our place, the fascinating Susan; she whom the day before 1 thought was innocent and pure as the fieecy clouds whieh veil the mountain's top. She was dvirig with a vilk m from her rarenrs, relations and friends: though 1 knew not then, else perhaps 1 might have rescued hiTj i: unmasked the base destroyer. It is no hction reader; the stranger had by false promises, ruined the tender plant, arid in secret was bearing it away. Not until morning was she missed, or suspected ; ami then a thousand tongues whispered in painful accents the tale of her frailty. I saw the parents after their darling had lied. The manly brow of the father was overcast with melancholy, and the mother! Oh, how altered! She had wept until the fountains of her tears ceased to ilovv.. "What a picture," thought I, kiis here,5 tor 1 had nev er before seen grief so poi nant. It was too much for them to bear; one short year, and they sunk under it; and the willow hung mourfully ov or their graves. Rut ohl where was she who was once their pride? How fallen was she now '.--She had been abandoned bv the v. ictcli whosworeso solemnly to pro tect her. lie had desolated the garden, and destroyed the tender flower; and

Uhe was eating the bread of infamy. I ' saw her once after this in the crowded

than grief caused by such an event? Is theieouht more shocking to the feelings of fi iends, than beholding virtue and innocence thus debased, dishonored, and abandoned? Is there ought more nohmant in sorrow, to narents. than n I O ' I 7 bch old the child of their bosom lost to dies. The b i c, c iz ir. ay r c m am, but blossoms no more. i The murderer who slays a human being puts bevond the reach of torment the sulietings of his victim in this world; and b v one blow sends his work into the nresence ot ins creator. J no rooher and slave-slealer, who plunders the m wretched race of blacks, and exposes his human spoils for j;ain, inflicts a less stain upon society, than the vile wretch who deliberately plans the destruction a. .. c.,..- n " r