The Massachusetts Spy, and Worcester County Advertiser, 1825-09-21

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There is such a thing as pampered sorrow, which the heart cherishes without being a aware - ware aware of its own selfish enjoyment. In Indolent, - dolent, Indolent, perhaps, and called to the dis discharge - charge discharge of no duties, the mourners give themselves up to the indulgence of feel feelings, - ings, feelings, which are known to be natural, and which they conceive of as amiable, till the remembrance of the loss sustain sustained - ed sustained becomes evidently fainter and faint fainter, - er, fainter, in a mind still surrounded by the comforts and blessings of life; and at last, the afflicted return to their usual avocations, without having undergone much real, or soul-searching and heart humbling distress. But in the abodes of poverty, there is no room, no leisure for such indulgence. On the very day that death smites a dear objec*. the liv living - ing living are called, by necessity, not. to lie down and weep, but to rise up and work. The daily meal must be set out by their own hands, although there is in the house one cold mouth to be fed no more; and in the midst of occupations needful for them who survive, must preparations be made for returning de decently - cently decently dust to dust. This is real sorrow and suffering; but although sharp, the soul is framed to sustain it: and sighing and sobbing, weeping and wailing, groans *' Th wilful imnietv, o.utcries to a cruel Heaven, and Die delirious tearing of hair - these are not the shows grief, which nature exhibits on the earthern floors, and beneath the smoky rafters of the houses of ihe poor. The great and eternal law of death is exe executed - cuted executed there in an awful silence ; and the survivors go, each his way, upon his own special duty, which is marked out to him, and which he must perform, or perhaps he and the family utterly perish. Under such circumstances, the dis discharge - charge discharge of duty is painful indeed; but it is also consoling. If the heart then knoweth it its own bitterness, so know knoweth - eth knoweth it also the sweet infusion of resign resigned - ed resigned faith. If the father of the house me, the fire must still be lighted ; the floor swept, the board spread; the cradle rocked that holds one, since morn, an orphan. Not otherwise will God feed the poor. But the hand is connected with the heart; and both must exert themselves to procure peace. Trials of .Margaret Lyndsay. [From the Christian Observer.] The opinions and conduct of Lord By- Ton with regard to the female sex, form certainly one of the most revolting fea features - tures features oi his character. Upon this sub subject - ject subject he displayed a mixture of levity and inconsistency, not unusual among men of lax principles and dissolute habits. At one moment we find him indulging in the most contemptuous reflec'ions upon the understandings of women ; - the next, perhaps, giving a loose to expressions which savour of all the homage of gal gallantry, - lantry, gallantry, falsely and absurdly so called. From an unhappy concurrence of cir circumstances, - cumstances, circumstances, his early youth had been spent in comparative solitude <vith re regard - gard regard to pleasmg female society. He had no quiet domestic circle, no sisters, no female relatives with whom he asso associated. - ciated. associated. Mr. Dallas informs us, that "he thought lightly of family ties." He was little acquainted with those examples of modesty, simplicity, delicacy, gentleness, and discretion, which, amidst all the avidity for flutter and display, may still not unfrequently be found, it is to be hoped, in the higher walks of life. On Only - ly Only a few such acquaintance would have taught him more respect for the female character, though his early habits might have been licentious. But unfortu unfortunately - nately unfortunately he derived his estimate of tnat character from very partial and inade inadequate - quate inadequate knowledge. It was from the friv frivolous - olous frivolous and the dissipated - too large a class, it must be admitted - that he formed his opinion of tho whole sex. If there were any exceptions, lie seemed to think that they were to be found only in the ranks

O.V THE CIRCJISSIAN WOMEN. History, travellers, and romance, have said nothing of the beauty of the Circas Circassian - sian Circassian women, which is not below thp truth. Beauty has been considered iv an imaginary being, a thing of invent tion ; and to justify this extravagant idw it has been alleged, that what is beau beautiful - tiful beautiful to the eyes of one people, is not so to those of another; that a Chinese beauty would have no charms in France or England, and, in like manner, that a French or English beauty would have no attractions in the eyes ot a Chinese, But the beauty cf the Circassian women is a sufficient answer to this reasoning, since they are acknowledged to be beautiful by all nations. They are ev every - ery every where sought after, and are the or ornament - nament ornament of all the seraglios of Asia, Afri Africa, - ca, Africa, and Europe, because they possess that pleasing union of features, that proportion of all the parts oi (he body, that splendor, those brilliant tints, that whole that cannot be defined,but which exist, and necessarily constitutes beauty, since all men render it homage It is only in this point of vew that the inhabitants of Circassia (acountry between the Caspian and Blaci seas,) deserve the attention of the oberving traveller. It will easily be coiceived that the nation which considers vomen as merchandize can never make »er a companion, nor consider marriage is a sacred and indissoluble union. We iipd, accordingly, that the Circassians hefe | many wives, whom (hey change at plejs plejs- - - plejs- ure, but the first wife always has a j jperiority - periority jperiority over (he others, which noi noiing - ing noiing can lake away, and which she i itains - tains itains till death. The first wife, who is usually mr mrried - ried mrried when extremely young, is purch ti tied - ed tied like the rest in the public mark< s, where an innumerable multitude of women are exposed to sale, habitedfin the manner which is judged most lik ly to excite the desire of the buyer, io inquiry is made with respect to whei:e the woman was brought, and if le names of her parents are asked, it is i ily - ly ily to ascertain whether she derives $r birth from a stock of pure and ackno 1- edged beauty. The usual price oi a beautiful Circassian female is from eij H to ten thousand piasters. Women being the principal commebe in Circassia, every thing in their edi edition - tion edition and habitual life has for its ohict to preserve their beauty and facilitate its development. All domestic Hnne abandoned to the slaves WO WOmen - men WOmen are solely employed with the arts of the toilette and the means of pleas pleasing. - ing. pleasing. They make it a particular study to modulate their voice in soft and me melodious - lodious melodious tones, and to display grace and elegance in every motion. Their hab habitations - itations habitations are intermingled with gardens, and form small villages very near to each other, and consisting of about twen twenty - ty twenty houses each. And in the middle of each of these villages is a strongly for fortified - tified fortified tower, in which, in case of inva invasion, - sion, invasion, they shut the women and the rich riches - es riches of the country. These towers, as well as all (he houses, are built of wood, decorated with great art, and finished with taste. The dress of the Circassian men is a mixture of the Greek and Turkish hab habits. - its. habits. It consists of a pair ot wide panta pantaloons, - loons, pantaloons, buskins, a close boddice fastened with a girdle, a kind of domino with open sleeves, and a cap or turban not very high, broad at the top, and narrow at (he bottom. They shave their beards, leaving very long mustachios. The dress of the women is more sim simple - ple simple and pleasing. It consists of panta pantaloons, - loons, pantaloons, a boddice, and a long robe in the American taste, ora large furred pelisse. From the cap or bonnet, of the shape of a sugar loaf, hangs a veil. This bonnet is richly ornamented with pearls. The dress is never sold with the wo women, - men, women, unless agreed for separately The Circassian women, however, like the European, wear under all a linen garment which they change every day, and this garment the seller is obliged to give with the women te the purchaser. In this state he delivers his merchan merchandize. - dize. merchandize. [Hibernian Magazine.

efforts, aod, after trying to stop th horse in vain, at last began to bite his heels. " The merchant, absorbed in some reverie, wholly overlooked the real ob object - ject object of his affectionate attendant's impor importunity, - tunity, importunity, but waked to the alarming appre apprehension - hension apprehension that he was gone mad. Full of this suspicion, in crossing a brook, he turned back to look,if the dog would drink. The animal was too intent of its master's business to think of itself; it continued to bark and bite with great greater - er greater violence than before. " Mercy !" cried the afflicted mer merchant, - chant, merchant, "it must be so, my poor dog is certainly mad: what must I do? I must kill him, lest some greater misfortune befall me ; but with what regret! Oh, could I find any one to perform this cru cruel - el cruel office for me ! but there is no time to lose ; I nyself may become the victim if 1 spars him." " Wi.h these words, he drew a pistol from his pocket, and with a trembling hand took aim at his faithful servant. He turned away in agony as he fired, but his aim was too sure. The poor ani animal - mal animal fills wounded; and weltering in his blooi, still endeavours to crawl toward his master, as if to tax him with ingrati ingratitude. - tude. ingratitude. "The merchant could not bear (he sight; he spurred on his horse with a heart full of sorrow, and lamented he had taken a journey which cost him so dear. Still, however, the money never entered his mind; he only thought of his poor dog, and tried (o console him himself - self himself with the reflection, that be had pre prevented - vented prevented a greater evil, by dispatching a mad animal, than he had suffered a ca calamity - lamity calamity by his loss. This opiate to his wounded spirit was ineffectual: "lam most unfortunate," said he to himself; " I had almost rather have lost my mon money - ey money than my dog." Saying this, he stretched out his hand to grasp his treasure. It was missing ;no bag was to be found. In an instant, he opened his eyes to his rashness and folly. "Wretch that I am! I alone am to blame. I could not comprehend the ad admonition - monition admonition which my innocent and most faithful friend gave me, and I have sac sacrificed - rificed sacrificed him for his zeal. He only wish wished - ed wished to inform me of my mistake, and he has paid for his fidelity with his life. " Instantly he turned his horse, and went off at full gallop to the place where he had stopped. He saw, with halfa halfaverted - verted halfaverted eyes, the scene where the trag tragedy - edy tragedy was acted; he perceived the traces of blood as he proceeded; he was op oppressed - pressed oppressed and distracted : but in vain did he look for bis dog - he was not to be seen on the road. At last, he arrived at the spot where he had alighted. But what were his sensations! His heart was ready to bleed; he cursed himself in the madness of despair. The poor flog, unable to follow his dear, but cruel master, had determined to consecrate his last moments to his service. He had crawled, all bloody as he was, to the forgotten bag, and, in the agonies of death, be lay watching beside it. When he saw his master, he still testified his joy by wagging his tail - he could do no more - he tried to rise, but his strength was gone. The vital tide was (ebbing fast, even the caresses of his master could not prolong his fate for a few moments. He stretched out his tongue to lick the hand that was now fondling him in the agonies of regret, as to seal forgiveness for the deed that fad deprived him of life. He then cast ti look of kindness on his master, and closed his eyes forever."

a sister shared. He had forgetten the Jew of Wilna, when one evening in the spring of 1816, a man called at his hum humble - ble humble abode in the suburbs of Paris, and having satisfied himself as to his identity, placed in his hands a packet, and vanish vanished. - ed. vanished. On opening it, the Colonel found bills on a banker in Paris to the amount of 50001, with the following note: - " He whose daughter you preserved from a brutal ravisher, whose life you saved, and whose house you prtHected from plunder, at the imminent risk of your own existence, segds you an humble of offering - fering offering of his gratitude, in the hope it may be useful to you, and which fie can well spare from the ample means he posses possesses - ses possesses ; the only return he requires is, that if ever hereafter yon hear the Jews contemned, you will say that one of that race knew how to be grateful." - The sequel is still more extraordinary. - The old Jew died at Vienna; his daughter, the heiress of his immense wealth, the largest portion of which was in the French funds, visited Paris ; it was nat natural - ural natural she should seek the brave man who had preserved her frotn the worst of fates, and with no common emotions he found the young girl he had protect protected - ed protected now a blooming and beautiful wo woman, - man, woman, and grateful as she was engaging. He soon became a lover, and she soon consented to be his wife ; and with her hand they received more than 100.000/ as a dowry. Eng. pa. [From the New-York Statesman.] Letters from Europe - No. VII. DUBLIN, 11th JULY, 1825. On Saturday morning last, the 9th inst. we left Limerick in the post-coach, at 5 o'clock, and arrived at Dublin at 9 o'clock on the same evening. The distance is 91 Irish, or about 116 En English - glish English miles. Each of the horses belong belonging - ing belonging to this line, has a name stamped up upon - on upon the collar. Our coach was drawn by Bolivar, and other heroes. Relays are stationed along (he road, at the dis distance - tance distance of eight or ten miles. Changes are effected with great expedition, sel seldom - dom seldom occupying more than two minutes. So exact are the times of arrival at the different stages, that (he teams are stand standing - ing standing harnessed at the door of the inn, aid the only delay is the unhitching and hitching the traces. Irish horses are generally stout and well fed, calculated for strength rather than speed. They are not so fleet as ours. An American stage, with an American driver, would fly like lightning along an Irish road which presents no obstructions. I have smiled at the caution with which drivers in this country move. They begin to turn out by the time another team is in sight, always taking the left hand side of the path, exemplifying the solecism that in travelling, "the left is always the right." Where there is only a mod moderate - erate moderate descent, the wheels are chained. With such roads and such precautions, accidents very seldom happen. Trav Travellers - ellers Travellers feel so much security as frequent frequently - ly frequently to sleep upon the top of the coach, although at almost a dizzy height from the ground. We were told that our ride from Limerick to Dublin was a pretty fair specimen of English travel travelling, - ling, travelling, and if so, it has the preference in point of comfort over ours. The mo motion - tion motion of the coach is easy, and very little fatigue was felt by us at the end of the long journey.

of fi-male scholarship, mental acquire acquirements, - ments, acquirements, and literary taste. Such ladies he constantly dressed up before his im imagination - agination imagination in blue-stocking costume ; and having thus atrayed them, he disliked them still more than he despised the thoughtless and the dissipated. In short, he looked upon women, for the most part, as mere toys and trifles, instead of regarding them as beings endued with the same faculties as men, subjects of the same moral probation, and hastening to the same issues of final happiness or misery. Meanwhile, he forgot to in inspect - spect inspect his own side of the account, and never appears to have duly considered the reciprocal influence of the two sex sexes, - es, sexes, in forming that specific character, whatever it be, by which each is chiefly distinguished, in any particular age or country. It may be remarked, in connexion with this topic, that the satirical sport of po poets, - ets, poets, novelists, and dramatists, on the vic vices - es vices and follies of the gentler sex, has probably done more, upon the whole, to check their improvement than to pro promote - mote promote it. As the object of such writers has been to produce rather a strong, than a natural effect, they have usually : coloured their pictures too highly. - They have sometimes, also, given us an individual for a species, forgetting that moral and intellectual character admits of, and exhibits, as many gradations and varieties as form and colour. Their careless and not very good-natured mer merriment - riment merriment has been productive of mischief in two ways. It has irritated women, 1 instead of reforming them; and it has tended to confirm the gay and dissipated of our own sex, in that contempt for the other which any unhappy examples within their own knowledge might have originally led them to entertain. I am far from meaning to include all satirists under this reproach. Cowper is a splen splendid - did splendid exception, and perhaps Young is another; but this charge applies to some names of the highest celebrity. How frequently do we find Pope diverting himself at the expense of (he female character! Boileau, too, has an outra outrageous - geous outrageous satire upon women, which, like his other satire upon human nature in general, for which he was censured by Addison, is never likely to answer one useful purpose. In fact, it is calculated to do much harm ; as it is neither more nor less than a satire upon wives, and a dissuasive from marriage. It may well be doubted, whether a single French la la. - . la. dy has become a better wife, in copse copseqtieuue - qtieuue copseqtieuue ot trn = veieurated invective, though composed upwards of a century ago. All such undistinguisbing severity is no less absurd than the opposite ex extreme - treme extreme of unmeasured compliment and chivalrous homage. Both are unworthy of the male sex ; and both tend to the degradation of the female, though in dif different - ferent different ways. The blandishments of the flatterer blind and corrupt the weak, and the unsparing lash of the satirist fails of reforming the wicked; while the truly modest, sensible, and virtuous portion of the female world regard both the one and the other as equally insulting and in injurious. - jurious. injurious.

Letters From Europe - No. VIII. LIVERPOOL, 15th JULY, 1825. On Monday evening the 11th inst. at 6 o'clock, we embarked at Dublin ot* board the steam-packet, " Town of Liverpoolfor this place. The bustle and confusion incident to our departure, and indeed during the whole passage, presented such scenes as we had never before witnessed. Our boat was a sec second - ond second ark, containing all sorts of beasts and creeping things. A considerable part of the cargo was taken in, after our arriv arrival - al arrival at the dock. It consisted, in the first place, of a stratum of horses, something like a hundred in number, occupying the bold. The process of letting them down, struck us as novel, althoughjt may be common in our country. A box suffi sufficiently - ciently sufficiently large to hold a horse is placed upon deck, with a sliding door at each end. The animal is led in enclosed and swung down ten or fifteen feet into the hold. Above the horses was a stratum of sheep, one hundred and fifty in number, going to the Liverpool market. On the deck were numerous crates of geese, ducks, pigs, and poultry, with all sorts of lumber thrown promiscuously together. To complete the freight, between two and three hundred Irish, consisting of men, women, and children, with their baggage and provisions, were strewed among the rubbish upon the deck of the boat. They were going over to Eng England, - land, England, with their families, to labour dur during - ing during the harvest. A gentleman on board informed me, that he bad three harvests annually - the first in England, the sec second - ond second in Ireland, and the third in Scotland. The difference in the seasons of the three countries is sufficient to give them time to cross and recross the channel. Scenes were exhibited at the embark embarkation - ation embarkation and on the voyage, which 1 sighed for the pencil of a Hogarth to portray. One group in particular arrested our at attention. - tention. attention. It consisted of a whole family, husbands, wife, sons and daughters, seat seated - ed seated upon their baggage in a corner of the deck. Their poor neighbors were constantly pouring in, one after another, bringing little presents of cakes, fruits, and other comforts, shaking hands, shed shedding - ding shedding a parting tear, and giving (he parting kiss, with many benedictions. - From the formality of so many long farewells and last words, we concluded they were em emigrants - igrants emigrants bound to America, and taking leave of their friends forever, until we were informed that the separation was only for a few weeks. When the boat reached the swell, the confusion deepened, Some were drinking, singing, and carousing; others huddled into corners with affright. All sorts of noises were heard, from the gabbling of the geese to the squalling of children. The. deck was literally cov-

and these are insipid, compared with those of the U. States. IVe have not seen a dozen orchards in the whole of our route. The few apple trees discov discoverable - erable discoverable along the road are dwarfish, and the fruit equally small and stinted in its growth. New-York pippins are spok spoken - en spoken ot in terms of admiration by those who have tasted them. They are very frequently brought to the principal cit cities - ies cities in Ireland. Our cherries are as much superior in size and flavor, as our apples; and the peach will not grow here at all. The traveller is struck: with the scantiness of the fare at the inos, compared with the profusion of our hotels. Nothing is placed before him,, but what is exprestdy ordered, and a dozen little articles axe not thought of, until the knife and fork are extended to take them. The necessity of mak making - ing making one's tea is awkward enough. We are not very well versed in Madam Glass; and our tea has on someoccasions been a strange kind of beverage. Ex Experience - perience Experience has, however, taught us to measure the quantity with tolerable ac accuracy. - curacy. accuracy. Kildare is one of the most celebrated places upon this route. The name sig signifies - nifies signifies the wood of oaks, it was so called from being originally surrounded by an. immense forest of this timber. Id the centre of the woods was a large plain, now called the Curragh of Kildare, once sacred to heathenish superstition. Su Bridgid, a natural daughter of an Irish chieftain, after her conversion to Chris Christianity, - tianity, Christianity, here founded a nunnery, as early as the s'h century. The Curragh of Kildare is now a common, across which the road passes. It is one ot the most extensive and beau beautiful - tiful beautiful in the world, containing about five thousand acres. It is perfectly level and smooth, covered with little tufts of furze, and the green sod, closely fed by thousands of sheep scattered over it. Large flocks of crows and magpies were seen walking over it, some of them within a few yards of the coach. The tameness of these birds surprised me, until I learned the cause. In the tur turbulent - bulent turbulent times, now in some degree gone by in Ireland, fire-arms of every descrip description - tion description were taken out of the hands of the people; and the crows have gradually become so domestic, as to hover around the cabins, and root up fields of potatoes with impunity.

How admirably do the doctrines and precepts of Scripture, particularly those of the New Testament, guard us against extremes upon this subject! There we do not find one of the sexes exalted at the expense of the other. In the conju conjugal - gal conjugal union, indeed, it seems absolutely necessary, for preventing the conflicts and contentions of a never-ceasing rival-! ry, that pre eminence should be given to one of the parties; and that pre-emi pre-eminence - nence pre-eminence Scripture has conferred upon the man, as due to his priority of creation, and to his general superiority of corpo corporeal - real corporeal and intellectual power. But his moral dignity, apart from which his oth other - er other advantages are worthless, must al always - ways always depend on his care to keep within the well-defined circle of his duty. To each sex the Bible has allotted specific and appropriate obligations ; and in the due discharge of those obligations it makes the whole honour and happiness of each toconsist. It assumes that there is a moral reciprocation established be between - tween between them, in consequence of which, the characters of both are, in a great de degree, - gree, degree, formed by the example of each continually acting and re-acting upon the other. Were ail this properly consid considered, - ered, considered, we should no longer hear of "ty "tyrant - rant "tyrant man" cruelly adding contempt to injury, and proudly despising the weak weakness - ness weakness of which he is often too ready to take advantage. Did he make any ac account - count account of moral strength, he would per perceive - ceive perceive that the charge of weakness may be retorted upon himself, and that he degrades himself, to a far lower level than that upon which stands the object of his unfeeling merriment, and perhaps the victim of his arts. A Roman Catholic curate, to free himself from the great labor of confes confession - sion confession in Lent, gave notice to his parishion parishioners, - ers, parishioners, that on Monday he should confess the liars ; on Tuesday, the misers ; on Wednesday, the slanderers; on Thurs Thursday - day Thursday the thieves; on Friday, the liber libertines; - tines; libertines; and on Saturday, the bad women. His scheme succeeded - -none attend attended. - ed. attended.