Public Leger, Volume 2, Number 63, Richmond, Wayne County, 4 June 1825 — Page 4

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"ONE GLASS MORE." Stay mortal stay: nor heedless thus Thy sure destruction seal; Within that cup there lurks a curse, Which all who drink may feel; Disease and death, forever nigh, Stands ready at the door, And eager wait to hear the cry Of give me – ONE GLASS MORE. Go, view that prison's gloomy cell, Their pallid tenants scan; Gaze, gaze upon those earthly hells, And ask when they began? Had these a tongue, oh, man! thy cheek The answer'd crimson o'er; Had these a tongue, they'd to thee speak, And cry the – ONE GLASS MORE. Behold that wretched female form, An outcast from her home; Bleech'd in affliction's blighted storm, And doom'd in want to roam; Behold her! ask that prattler dear, Why mother is so poor? He'll whisper in thy startled car, 'Twas FATHER'S – ONE GLASS MORE. Stay mortal stay repent, return ; Reflect upon thy fate: The poisonous draft indignant spurn: Spurn, spurn it ere too late. Oh, fly the alehouse, horrid din, Nor linger at the door, Lest thou perchance, should sip again The treacherous – ONE GLASS MORE.

Oh ! then when the hours of life are past, And death's dark shade arrives at last, It is not sleep it is not rest, 'Tis glory opening to the blest. Their way to heaven was pure from sio, And Christ shall then receive them in ; There each shall wear a robe of light Like his divinely fair and bright. There parted hearts again shall meet In nnion holy calm and sweet : There grief find rest, and never more Shall sorrow call them to deplore. There angels will unite their prayers With spirits bright and blest as theirs, Am! light shall glance on every crown From suns that never more go down. No storms shall ride the troubled air. No voice of passion enter there ; But all be peaceful as the sigh Of evening gales that breathe and die. For there the God of mercy sheds His purest ii fluence on their headj, And gilds the spirits round the throne With glory radiant as his own. ANECDOTE OF SIR MATTHEW HALE. A gentleman worth about £500 a year, in the eastern part of England, had two sons. The eldest had a rambling deposition. He took a place in a ship and went abroad ; after several years his father died. The younger son destroyed his father's will and seized upon the estate. He gave out that his eldest brother was dead, and bribed some false witnesses to attest the truth of it. In the course of time the brother returned ; he came home in indigent circumstances. His younger brother repulsed him with scorn told him that he was an impostor and a cheat, and asserted that his real brother was dead long ago,and he could prove it. The poor fellow, having neither money nor friends, was in a most dismal situation : he went round the parish making bitter complaints and at last came to a lawyer, who, when he heard the poor man's mournful story, replied to him in this manner: "You have nothing to give me; if I undertake your cause and lose it, it will bring me into a foul disgrace, as all the wealth and evidence is on your brothers side. But, however, I will undertake your cause upon this condition: You shall enter into obligation to pay me 1000 guineas if I gain the estate for you. If I lose it I know the consequence, and I venture upon it with my eyes open." Accordingly he entered an action against the younger brother, and it was agreed to be tried at the next general assizes at Chelmsford, in Essex. The lawyer having engaged in the cause of the poor man, and stimulated by the prospect of a thousand guineas, set his wits to work to contrive the best method to obtain his end. At last he hit on this happv thought, that he would

consult the first of all judges Lord Chief Justice Hale. Accordingly he flew up to London, and laid open the cause in all its circumstances. The judge, who was the greatest lover of justice of any man in the world, heard the case patiently and attentively, and promised him all the assistance in his power. It is probable that he opened his whole scheme and method of proceeding, enjoining the utmost secrecy. The judge contriving matters in such a manner as to have finished all his business at the King's Bench before the assizes began at Chelmsford, he ordered either his carriage or his horses, to convey him down very near the seat of the assizes. He dismissed his man and horses, and sought out for a single house. He found one occupied by a miller. After some conversntion,and making himself quitc agreeable, he proposed to the miller to change clothes with him. As the judge had a very good suit on, the man had no reason to object. Accordingly the judge shifted himself from top to toe, and put on a complete suit of the miller's best. Armed with the miller's hat and shoes, and stick, away be marches to Chelmsford; be

had procured good lodging to his liking, and waited for the assizes that would come on the next day. When the trial came on, he walked like an ignorant fellow backwards and forwards round the county hall. He had a thousand eyes with him, and when the court began to fill, he soon found out the poor fellow that was the plaintiff. As soon as he came into the hall the miller drew up to him: "Honest friend," said he, "how is your case likely to go to day?" "Why," replied the plaintiff, my case is in a very precarious situation, and if I lose it I am ruined for life." "Well honest friend," replied the miller, "will you take my advice? I will let you into a secret which perhaps you don't know. Every Englishman has a right and a privilege to except against any one juryman through the whole twelve; now do you insist on your privilege, without giving any reason why, and if possible, get me chosen in his stead, and I'll do you all the service in my power." Accordingly when the clerks of the court had called over the jurymen, the plaintiff excepted to one of them by name, the judge on the bench was highly offended with this liberty. "What do you mean," says he, "by excepting against that gentleman?" "I mean, my Lord to assert my privilege as an Englishman, without giving a reason why." The judge who had been deeply bribed, in order to conceal it by a show of candour, and having a confidence in the superiority of his party, "Well sir," said he, "as you claim your privilege in one instance, I grant you a favour; who would you wish to have in the room of the man excepted against?" After a short time in consideration, "my lord, I wish to have an honest man chosen in," and he looks around the court. "My lord, there's that miller in the court; we'll have him if you please." The miller was chosen in. As soon as the clerk of the court had given them all their oaths, a little dextrous follow came into the apartment and slipped ten Carolus's into the hands of the eleven jurymen, and gave the miller but five. He obsercd that they were bribed as well as himself, and said to his neighbour in a soft whisper, "How much have you got?" "Ten pieces," was his answer. He concealed what he had himself. The younger brother was provided with a great number of witnesscs and pleaders, all plentifully bribed as well as the judge. Their evidence deposed, that they were in the self same country where the brother died,

and saw him buried. The counsellors pleaded upon this accumulated evidence, and every thing went in a full tide in favour of the younger brother. The judge summed up the evidence with great gravity and deliberation; and now, "Gentlemen of the jury," said he "lay your heads together and bring in your verdict as you shall deem most just." They waited but a few minutes before

they determined in favour of the younger brother. The judge said, "Gentlemen are you agreed, and who shall speak for you?" "We are agreed, my lord," replied one "our foreman shall speak for us." "Hold, my lord," replied the miller, "wc are not all agreed." "Why," says the judge in a very surly manner, what's the matter with you; and what reason have you for disagreeing?" "I have two reasons my lord," replied the miller, "the first is, they have given to all these gentlemen of the jury ten pieces of gold, and to me but five ; besides I have many objections to make to the false reasonings of the pleaders, and tbe contradictory evidence of the witnesses." Upon this the miller began a discourse, which discovered such vast penetration of understanding, such extensive knowledge of the law, and expressed with such energetic and manly eloquence, that astonished the judge, and the whole court. As he was going on in his powerful demonstrations, the judge in a surprise of soul stopped him with "Where do you come from, and who are you?" "I am come from Westminster Hall," replied the miller, "my name is Matthew Hale, I am Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench. I have observed the iniquity of your proceedings this day, and therefore, come down from a seat which you are in no wise worthy to hold. You are one of the corrupt parties in this iniquitous business, I'll come up this moment and try the cause over again." Sir Matthew then went up with the millers hat and dress on, began the trial from its original, searched every circumstance of truth and falsehood, evinced the elder brother's title to the estate, from the contradictory evidence of the witnesses, and false reasonings of the pleaders; unravelled all the sophistry to the very bottom, and gained a complete victory in favour of truth and honor.

CRUELTY. From the following extract from the proceedings of the British House of Commons on the 24 th Februarylast, it would seem that in refined cruelty we are yet far behind the polished citizens of London: "Mr. Martin rose to ask leave to bring in a bill to prevent bear-baiting and other cruel practices. In the course of his remarks, the honorable gentleman gave the following sketch of an exhibition made by one Majcndic, a scientific Frenchman, in the presence of several noblemen and gentlemen of the first distinction. "Having got a lady's greyhound, for which Majcndie paid the sum of 1 0 guineas, he first of all nailed its front and then its hind paws to the table with the bluntest spikes he could find, giving as a reason for so doing, that the poor beast in its agonies might tear away from the spikes, if they were at all sharp and cutting. He then doubled up its long ears, and nailed them down to the same table with similar spikes. (Loud cries of 'hear,' and 'shame.') lie then made a gash down the middle of its face, and proceeded to dissect the nerves on one side of it. First of all, he cut out those nerves which belong to the sight, and, whilst performing that operation, said to the spectators, "Observe, when I pass my scalpet over these nerves, the dog will shut its eyes." It did so. He then proceeded to operate upon those of taste and hearing. After he had finished those operations, he put some bitter food on the tongue of the dog, and hollowed into iU ear. The dog repudiated the food, and was insensible to the sound. This surgical butcher, or butchering surgeon for he deserved both names then turned round to the spectators, and said "I have now finished my operations on one side of the dog's head; as it costs so much money to tret an animal of this description, I shall

pocfrv-P th nthor side till to-morrow. It

the servant takes care of him for the night,

according to the directions I have given him, I am of opinion that 1 shall be able to continue my operations upon him to-morrow, with quite as much satisfaction to us all as 1 have done to-day; but if not, tho' he may have lost the vivacity he has shown to-day, I shall have the opportunity of cutting "him up alive, and showing you the peristaltic motion of the heart and v iscera." "Mr. Martin's bill was lost on a division, by a majority of eighteen. Several members opposed it, because, "out door sports kept alive that manly spirit which was peculiar to Englishmen!" From the New-York Telefcape. Last week a rjot took place, in the upper part oi the city, among about 200 Irishmen. Two of the police officers, in attempting to arrest the ringleaders, were considerably injured. An old offender, when brought before the judge, requested permission to speak; it being granted, he told the court, that the cause of so much drunkenness in this country, is the low price of liquor; the quantity of liquor which costs 3 cents here, costs one shilling sterling in England and as you have no tax on liquor, you throw temptation in the way of every poor fellow, and when he yields, you lock him up in prison for four months. You tempt us to sin and then punish us for sinning. You want moral courage to adopt the only sure remedy, which is, to lay such a tax upon liquor as to prevent the poor laboring class from so easily getting it, who will then be as sober from compulsion, as they are now drunken from attraction. So saying, with a profound bow he walked off with the officer.

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A Blunder. During a journey of the Bishop of Salisbury, (the celebrated Gilbert Burnet,) from his See to London, he had a sudden occasion to stop the carriage, which he desired might proceed at a slow pace, as he expected shortly to overtake it. Very few minutes had elapsed before his lordship was attacked by a robber, who in the Irish brogue, demanded his watch and money. Remonstrance under such circumstances being unavailing, he complied with the best grace in his power, expecting no further molestation. The coat, however, of the Bishop, happening to take the fancy of the thief, he insisted on its being exchanged for his own threadbare jerkin, in which the clerical dignitary was suffered to depart. During this transaction, the Bishop's coach had proceeded a considerable distance, and Mrs. Burnet, becoming uneasy at her husband's delay, put her head out of the window and saw him running towards her with all possible speed, in his new disguise, with the meaning of which she was soon made acquainted. The Bishop, a short time afterwards on putting his hand into one of the pockets of the jerkin, had the unexpected good fortune to find his own watch, and in the other, not only his own purse, but also another, containing upwards of fifty golden Jacobuses. English paper.

theory, I will give you the result of tn.P T years practice, and tbe mode which r fully realized my most sanguine cxr tions. I planted" four gate p0ts of B ' ware oak, of very inferior quality. inch augur hole was bored through tl which was filled with salt, and pWcj both ends. As they were to support 1 W ly finished gates, they were cased boards, and some salt was put J their cases near the ground. The toeare now as sound as when put downjal' bid fair to last for some generations toccmp This experiment was tried under the irZ unfavorable circumstances, as the were so much worm eaten, that my cr' penters were averse to finish them, urithc belief that they would not last t years. I have since applied salt to the posts ef rail fences, by boring an augur hole about four inches above the ground, diagonally across the post, so as to reach atout h or three inches under ground; the hole i filled with salt, and closed with cedar ar.d chesnut plugs. With the result lam well satisfied, as I have not found any deeavamong them, although I have several the: sands so prepared. It has been observed by some who have seen them, that the salt would in time dissolve, and by leaving a hollow in thepi.it to retain the moisture, cause its decay. I have not found that the salt dirninhhei to any extent; and if it should, it nxit penetrate the wood and thereby previt decay. But to obviate such apprthe; r, nothing h easier than to draw the !::. and fill them again w ith salt at theexpntion of the eight or ten years, or when required, which would be a very distant reriod. This can be done at less than a fir:

a post, exclusive of salt, which it niu-t! ; admitted is preferable to planting then anew. I have usually paid the workmen a cent a post for boring, filling ar.d ringing: they generally earn two dollars a day. A judicious farmer on viewing ir.y posts, obeserved, he could see no rcas.a why salt should not preserve wood, w! -.cs it preserved so perishable a vegetable as cabbage during many years. Wm. PHIIUF5.

rrom the Philadelphia Rc-fTn.cr. LOTTEZIIES FOR THE BENEFIT OY CIirRcPrJ. Among the lotteries lately adverii.:uir. a Wilmington (Del.) paper, we i.otkc :.ic following, which are thus announced. "To the friends of Delaware and Church Establishments The managers of the letter for the benefit of St. Peter's church, in the borough of Wilmington, with crest satisfaction announce that the honcru e the legislature, has been pleased to fx:nu the time allowed for completing the rosary contemplated small classes 50 k0 enable them to recover what they hae lost, by delay in drawing the prrtioustf!owing to the neglect of their frier ds, vc. "To the citizens of Delaware.-" managers of the lottery for the cm pi of St. James' Church,' near Star.tcn. rt pectfully submit the following srherr.M the patronage of their fellow citizens c. Bv authority. Immanuel ChurcV Lottery, (New Castle,) being 4th class, V' ware new series Worthy the attcntw all who wish or w ant money at a cnenp

rate. This lottery, for the price

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in the United States, or perhaps n world. Orders from the country front' ly attended to Clubs dealt with en L ral terms." &c. , i How is the Christian religion dec by resorting to such means "for th" lu fit of St. Peters Church," "for the repletion of St. James' ChurcV and Insisting "Immanuel Church.''

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guished French Divine, "our l r" "I j and I will be a better man than ur;n;,

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"IJegin," replied the believer,"" u' -a better man, and you will oon ":,c. principles." The promise of Mirt"1. Redeemer harmonizes with thisscM1 "If any man will do bis will, lu' K the doctrine whether it be of God. As Noah's dove found no footing ' the ark, so a christian finds no coi.ttM but in Christ. t ,v. The frowns of the world wo1(,f jjif quiet us as they do, if w e did not -y Hatter ourselves with the hope ot , ; Modesty seldom resides in a h ai is not enriched with nobler virtues--He who puts o(T rcpcntai ce ti row, has one day more to repent oi 8 day less to do it in.