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- fulhand of an honest and ingcnuousoid Soldier,
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. signing thesj‘e sacred rnzincs to the _protection of
' hour, and at all the public edifices in the city.---
From the fllbany Register of'July 7.;_ 4
GEN. MONTGO.MlS:RY.. _. .
The liallovvcdjremainstof our beloved lvrdsr.
iaoi‘~i1«:nv_are reiiiovt:“cl from a:‘fpreign~land, where,
for near 43 ‘years they had reposed, F‘.unknowing
and unknown.” From all the ‘busy world who
have ll3leD‘t.:(l .m:"z_1~-1'elation of.-bis patriotism,- his
devotion and his valor; from the host of thou-
sands, who‘ saw with amazement the might of his
h_e_rcule_an__arm, when raised in the cause __of Lib-
erty, one, one only could point totlle sod, under
whose favored pall our ‘hero slept. The coun-
try to which his manly and generous soul was so
exclusively-devoted, have received his decaying
fragments of mortality ‘to its bosom. In con-
our common inother, a‘gt'atefttl people will cher-
ish in their hearts :1 sweetreznenilirance of his
virtues‘ with an embittered regret at his untime-
3')’ futé. _ _
‘We have now, in relation to one of the Eatliers
of our couritry, redeenied our character from the
imputation of ~iNGIiA"l‘ITiJDE. All this was due
to the b'ereavt‘:d, disconsolate, andvenerablc corn-
panion of our fallen chieftan’s bosom, and infin-
itely more is due to the memory and remairw ofthe
devoted martyr to the sacred and imperishable
altar of FREEDOM. ' ' '
-The age-stricken ,.‘W1now of our hero yet
lives to see the loved remains of her’s and her
Country’s. .Ivlo’1i'r"con1unv, removed from the‘
plains of crimsoned Abraham, and deposited in
the bowels of a country, at the shrine of whose» feared to usefulness and respectability.
welfare he pttotfered ‘all the warmth of his soul,
all the energies’ of his mind, and all the mighti-
ncss of his strength. ' C
; The removal of the ‘remains, was left by his
Excellency the Governor, to the family of the
de’c‘eas‘ed*, -and Col; L. Livingston, (a nephew of
Gen’. Montgomery) proceeded to Quebec for the
purpose. They we‘.-re identified by thctlic faith-
who attended the funeral, and whose” retentive
memory, almost halfacentury after that mourn-
an era, is yet‘ spared to direct’ the hand of affect-
ion to that hallowed turf. Montgomery was the
personal and intimate friend of the Licut. Gen-
eral of the Canadas—-was recognized by him af-
ter the battle, and favored with a coffin, and de-
cent interment. He’ was buried within the walls
of the city. His aides-dc-camp, M’Pherson and
Cliessman, were both thrown into a hole ‘with
their clothes. _ i
V fI‘f~.'e coflin wliich c‘ont'ained the remains had not
fallen to pieces. It appearsto have been of a rough
structure, with a silver plate on its lid-'-there
is no inscription‘ visible on the’ plate.-—'-Th‘e Anat-
omy is in a perfect state of preservation. The
Skeleton of the head,‘ with the exception of the
tinder jaw, v’.'l-iich was shot away, is perfect.—-
Three teeth ‘of the under jaw are together.
T Gen. Solomon Van Renssclaer, was charged by
the Governor, with the direction of the ‘escort
from Vyliitehall to this City, and rendered the
solemniiies interesting-and impressive. ' The un-
SIAFNS were taken up with great care ‘by Col. L.
7 .31-wston,‘ and secured by binding a '1‘ar}zaulz'n
- .; . - zen‘ ‘He old cofiin, andenclosed them in an
= ' .: At Troy they took them from
’ -r r -.-. .2" bell, and enclosed them, togeth-
er . 1 unal Collin, in a most splendid
"Mahogany yin, made by a Mr. Jolm Illeade,
with the following inscription elegantly engraved
upon a silver plate on its lid.
77:3 sv'A7't: or New-ronx
In Honor of Gen. Rrcmtnn Moxrcomsnv,
ll’/zo fell gloriously _,fz'g/ztiizg fir the I71d€’f1€72d€!l(.‘t’
and Liberty Q/‘the United States, before the walls
of Quebec, I/1e 3'18! day of Dec. l77'5 ; Caused
tlzcse remains of this Distingiuis/zed Hero to be
conveyed from Qziebec, and cl.-=/1osz'ted, oh the 8:11
day of July, in‘ St. Poul’.s- C/zurc/1, in the city of
JVe=w-York, near t/lc monument" erected to his
memory by the United Siiztes. '
[The military and civil authorities of the city
of Albany paid every mark of respect to the re-
mains, and when they were received on’ board the
steam-‘boat, the solemnities were peculiarly dig-
nified and impressive. On the route to N.York,
the‘ inhabitants of the towns bordering on the
Hudson, testified the utmost respect to the re-
mains, by firing minute guns,‘ and tolling the
bells as the steam-boat passed. From A‘lbany to
New-York, the remains were attended by several
revolutionary officers, and a’ guard of U." States
troops.) _ , _‘
New-Yo1i’x, July 9.
Yesterday, agreeable to‘ previous arrangements,
the remains of Gen. Rtciiann l\1on'rG‘oM'x-:n'v
were committed to the tomb, with all those sol-
emn demonstrations of respect, which his ch'ar-
acter and services in the war of the revolution
were calculated to inspire. ‘The day was unusu-
ally fine, and animmense number of the inhab-
itants of the adjoining country were present to
assist in the solemnities of the occasion. The
appearance of a part of Gen. Morton's Di-
vision of Artillery, comprising Gen. Stephen’s
brigade, as well as ‘also the other military, re-
flected high honor on their discipline and their
officers. The procession ofsocieties‘ was ifumer-‘
ous, and a‘ grand display of flags‘ and banners
with appropriate inscriptirnis, and shrouded with
black, added highly to the interest of the whole
scene. Through the day the national flag was
displayed at h‘alf mast on the shipping in the har-
During the mo_\fcm‘cnt of the procession,'- the bells
of the city were tolled, and minute guns fired
from the W'ashington, 74-‘, and from the forts in,
the harbour. On" arriving at St. Paul’s Church,
the funeral service was read by the Rt. Rev. Bish-
op liobart, and an eloquent and impressive‘culo-
gium was delivered by the Rev. Dr.'Mason.—
The remains were then deposited in the vault
near hisimonument with n‘rili'tary honors.
» prevent any extensive benefits from being4produ-
iced by the utmost vigilance and activity of the
" "- \\ ..l . 9 . , , _ ~ ': ~ .-‘-' ,-. ,
The following Report of the‘.C'ommittee, ap-
' pointed by the “ Society in D_anbury)for {fie
su;ljzr'cas:'o7l' (2/,‘ Intémfzera7zce,”. was_._intended for
our last wcek’s paper, but was not received in
season. We now ‘cheerfully give it a place in
our colutnns. ' A _ _ i
To the “ Society for the g su/zflresszan of Interli-
j jzeraricc.‘ . ‘ ‘ ,
_ The comniittee, appointed at a former n‘i‘eet-
ing, to report their opinion as to what measures,
in‘ addition to those already adopted, may be em-
ployed tb promote the object of the society, sub-
mit the following remarks, as the result of the
best consideration, which they have been able to-
give on the subject. . ' ‘
Among the reflecting and judicious part of our
fellow citizens, your committee believe, there is,
and can be, but’ one ‘opinion as to the character
of the purpose for which the society was institu-
ted. Disclairning all intention ofinterfering with
the private concern of others, beyond the point
at which the public welfare ceases to be obvious-
individuals; believing it to be their duty to en-
deavour to remove, as soon and as far as possible
the seductive example of intemperance from
the hourly notice of children and youth, whose
habits are yet unformed, alarmed at the present
magnitude. of an evil, which, they perceived, to
be rapidly augmenting; and feeling compassion
for the sufferings of families, who, with the aid
of a -husband's earnings and a father's example
and instruction, might live in comfort and be
The so-
ciety, at; its formation, proposed to make an ex-
periment, with the view of ascertaining the ef-
fects to be produced _.by adding the weight of
public opinion to a temperate and steady execu-
tion of the Laws. It was but an experiment;
and such have been the results already obtained
from the measure pursued, as, in the op‘inion’of
your Committee, to furnish strong grounds of
encouragement and perseverance. Although this
evening is only the commencement of the second
year since your organization ; although you have
had to meet and sustain the opposition, which an
attempt to root out old and vicious habits never
fails to excite ; yet the beneficial effects of your
labours are visible,4not only in the diminished
quantity of ardent spirits which has been pur-
chased by some individuals; not‘ only in the
improved air of comfort in several families, and
in the more abundant and more regular supply,
of the‘ necessaries of life, which the husbands '
apd fathers have been persuaded, by your ad-
vice, to divert from the self-destroying pur-
pose of gratifying their own vitiated appetites, A
and to carry home for the support of their wives
and children, who have expressed their tbank- j
fulness to the society for these benefits; but ‘
also, in what the society scarcely dared to an-
txcipate, an apparent reformation in those whose
longclierished habits, it seemed impossible to _,
eradicate or even to amend in any considerable *2,
degree. All who have been called to witness the‘
desperate hold, which the habit of intempcrance
fastens on its threatened victim, and especially. ‘
who have been placed in a condition which im-
posed on them the duty of attempting to disen-
gage it,
the extreme difiiculty, and, in some instances,
the utter hopelessness of the undertaking. It.
ought not, therefore, either to occasion surprize
or to induce you to slacken your exertions, that
there are cases in which the persons attempted
to be reformed, have hitherto remained deaf to
all your remonstrances, and unaffected by all
your measures; even if they should continue
obstinately determined to persevere in their un-
happy course, until it ‘shall terminate, as it cer-
tainly will, in untimely death ;' ‘such a result, in a
few cases, will not prove that your labours have
been ineffectual or injurious: theirs will be all
the folly and all the guilt, though unfortunately
not all the misery ; while yours will be the con-
solation of having faithfully endeavoured to save
them from so deplorable an end. -
But while your committee are happy to have
it in their power to adduce these arguments in
favor of a continuance of your exertions, they
feel it to be their duty to state that, from infor-
mation which they have received, they are led
to believe that a practice exists in this towniand
probably in others, which, unless it can be discon-
tinued or checked, will, it is to be feared, forever
society. The practice alluded to, is, that of deal-
their work: those who make more cider than
they want forthcir own consumption, are in the
practice, as we are informed, of distilling the res-
idue every year, and of storing thespirits, or a
portion of it,=in their cellars, where it remains to
be drawn out as occasion requires, and sold to la-
bourers‘ in part‘ payment ‘of their day’s work;
and this over and above the»quantity which these
labourers drink during the, day,.l1 ~
It is ‘with extreme regret that your committee
there is too much reason to believe that this prac-
tice prevails to a very considerable extent ; and
even with persons who hav‘e_;fsu‘bscr_ibed their
names to the constitution of tliis societyl Itis in
-vain that ourshops and_ our taverns are regulated
by law’; it is in3vain that soci‘et~ios areginstituted
to suppress ilitemperance ; so long as-the means
of intoxication are to be thus easily obtained in ev-
ery part of the ‘town. Your committee cannot‘
willingly believe that respcctablecitizens will, af-
ter reflecting on the subject, continue~to'fuI‘n'IslI
spirits to those who make an im roper use of. it,
for the sake of the trifling pro t which they re-
‘ ceive on it; and we would gladly hope that they
will, of their own accord, from a benevolent re-
gard to the welfare ‘of society, discontinue a prac-
tice, which-produces so little‘ benefit to them-
must have been forcibly impressed with 4,} _
been benefitted by their ministry, they are suc-
cessfully teaching both adults and children.
ing out ardent spirits to labourers, in payment for »
find themselves under the nccessityrof saying, »
and_ grief-of’f_t-ienids and relations ; they may hear
proofs of tljepi in the cries o,f,wives, and ghildfen
for bread 5 and in the contentious and quarrels of
parents, wh'tc.h‘ convert the domestic fireside, from
what it should be, a place of rest and peace, into
a scene, in which are displayed all the furious
and hateful passions of our nature.‘
These disgraceful exhibitions should be mbre
than enough to induce every man of feeling or
principle, cheerfully and cordially to lend his aid
in every possible way, to dry up the source-of
these calamities. A resort to these coercive
measures is at all times unpleasant ;‘ and partic5
ularly so in a cause, which requires.an'd dc-.s*er1‘2ea
the voluntary and firm support of all our fellow-
citizens ; _but it may not be genca-ally ‘known that
every person, of whatever occupation, who sells
distilled spirits, in any quantity less than ten gal-'
lons,‘ is as much liable to the heavy penalty of
the statute, asmerchants, taverns, and shop keep-
ers. -Those who will not refrain from the prac-
ly and materially affected by the -moral habits’ of *tice of vending poison to their fellow-creatures,
out of /zrinci/zle, may perhaps be induced to relin-
quish it from aregard to their own interests.
At a meeting of the society, holder) at the
court-house, in Danbury, on the 29th day of
June, 1818, ’
Voted unanimously, that the society approve
and accept the foregoing report of their commit-
tee, and that the clerk transmit a copy to each of
the printers in the county for publication.
l\’IAT’I‘l~lEVV. CURTIS,
Clerk of the society.
1'10}: -
A few days since, a young man, about 19 years
of age, called at the British Consul’s office, in
New-York, and made himself known as one, who,
but a few years before, the consul had taken into
his own Sunday School,vin the North oflreland,
as a poor, little, helpless, wretched outcast. No
nuptial tie had consecrated the birth of this child
'of misery, baptised in tears. No father owned
him for his son. But the Sunday school was to
him as a father, and a mother, a sister and a broth-
er. The precepts of religion and morality which
he learned there, have stricken deep root into
his heart, have blossomed in beauty, and are now
ripening into an abundance of fruit. He poured
into the consul’s.;lap more than a bund_red dollar s,
the earnings‘ of his bodily toil, in thisland oflib-
erty, this asylum of affliction, to be remitted to
his destitute mother, the forlorn daughter of
shame and sorrow. JV. Y. Pajzcr.
Clzrietian 1lIisaions.—We are informed (says a
London paper) that among the various Christian
fjmissions established in various parts of the world,
these sent out by the Wesleyan Methodists con-
tinue to prosper abroad, and are gaining a large
increase of support at home. Fifteen missiona-
fries have been sent out within the last 12 months,
and the number now employed abroad is’ above
one hundred. Their missionaries in Ceylon are
{pt-inting the New Testament in Cingalese, for
;‘.the Columbo Bible Society, and in that island a-
lone, they have more than 1100 native children
in their schools. Among the Namaqua Negroes
of Sou‘th'Africa, and the. slaves of most of the
British West-India Islandsnvherc thousands have
At the “Foreign Mission School,” establish-
ed at Cornwall,Conn. about 15 months since,are
six natives of Owyhee, and the other Sandwich
‘Islands, two from Otaheite, two Aboriginal na-
tives, two from the East-indies, and two Chinese,
who have made rapid improvement in. their edu-
cation. Three pious New-England youths are
also members of the school, who are learning the
Owyhee language, and preparing themselves for
the same mission, to go with the first that shall
be sent.
The gospel of Mark has been translated into
the Mohawk language by the celebrated Indian
chief, Brandt ; and the gospel of John by Ca/zt.
Norton, of Upper Canada : and the managers of
the American Bible Society have ordered an edi-
tion of 1000 copies of each to be published and
distributed among the six nations.
The legislature of New-York, at the last sess-
ion, passed a law to build a Church for the sec-
ond Chtistian party of Indians at Oneida.-
S4000 were appropriated, and agents have been
appointed.—Catsl.-ill Recorder.
It is mentioned in letter, that there has been an
uncommon attention to Religion in Chichester-,
N. H. within a year past; and that “ more than
one hundred have been added to the church, and
several others’ are hopefully the subjects of re-
newing grace.”
In \-Vard, Mass. 63 persons were added to the
Presbyterian, and ten or twelve to the Baptist
church, in a few months. The revival commen-
ced in August, 1816.
mt-
Pleasing Refutation.-—We are warranted, on
the most unquestionable authority, in contradict-
ing the statement, now going the rounds of the
newspapers throughout the Union, respecting
the execution of certain Americans. engaged 10
Mina’s expedition, said to have been captured
by the Royalists. Letters have been lately re-
ceived, (dated within 3 mom‘/is.) from Licut. Sut-
ton, late of the 29th regt. U. S. infantry, and
now a Major in the Mexican service, stating that
they (meaning those that embarked with him
from New-York, comprising the names of all
those reported to have been cxecuted,) were in
good health and spirits. Among them we recol-
lect Capt. Cook, late of the 4th ; Licut. Webb,
{of the 23d ; and Lieut. Stone, of the dragoons.
Raft. Citron.
Archibald M’Ken‘zie, for the murder of his
ed appearance of families the ihortificatibttt
:7 . -. := . .. ._
-—“ Mtmnnn, tI1o’z't have izo ion
“ With mostmi;-ac22lozzs‘org'arz§v.”
France, in the night of the. 17th’ March, has ex-*
cited universtfljnterest in tl1_at_ country, from the"
horrid features attending the transaction, an
some singular circumstances‘ which‘.o'ccut-red on’
the _ trial.‘ The facts respecting the murder ap-'
pear in brief to have been these. Mr. F auldezg“
an aged and respectable inhabitant of the Rhodes;
wliile passing a house ofill-fame kept by a Mr. and
M rs. Banéal, on the night above mentioned, was
"suddenly seized by several men and women, gag-"
ged, dragged into the house, ordered to sign cer-'-
tain bills .or drafs, then stretched on a table, one‘
woman holding his feet, another his hands, a tliird
a pail to catch the blood, whilcone of the‘ men,-'
Jausion, gave him a stab with a butcher knife, but
faultering and turning pale, he was thrust away
by another of the men, Bastide, who finished
the butcbery. ' ,
Just at this instant, a madame Manson, who dis-
guised‘ in men’s clothes, had been concealed in‘ ..
another apartment, probably awaiting the fulfil-’
ment of some assignation, hearing a strange noise‘
rushed into the room where the murder was per-
petrating, and fainted at the bloody scene. Bas-
tide immediately declared she mustbe killed to
prevent a discovery, and was proceeding to ex-
ecute his sentence, when Jausion interfered to
save her. During their altercation, Madame
Jausion, jealous of her husband,_ hadfulluwed’
him to his house, and loudly demanded admit-
tance. To prevent her alarming the neighbor-‘
hood it was agreed to admit her, and .conduct_
her into another -room. She however, rushed
into that where she heard voices, swooned , away
at the sight, but revived soon enough to save
madame Manson, wl.~: was made to swear on the
dead body that she would never inform who, were
concerned in the murder, and then conducted‘
home. The corpse was sewed up in blankets,
and then thrown into the river-’—the blood mixed
with bran and given to the hogs—the table and
floor scoured——and every precaution taken to‘
guard against discovery. A little girl, a. daugh-
ter of of Mr. and Mrs. Bancal, who had been put
to sleep that night up stairs was disturbed by the
noise crept down and saw the whole transaction
through a key hole. It being discovered that she’
was there, Bastide required that she should be‘
dispatched, which her mother consented to for a
certain sum of money 3 accoidinglynext morn-
ing sent her into a field where herfather was at
work, with a message that he must now_do, /18
knew what. She found him digging alarge hole,
which she supposed to be her grat e. She deliv-
ered her message, when he_ looked at her and
said he would not, and she might go. Fauldcz‘
was missing on the motning of the 20th-—the
body was found floating, his murder was traced
to Bancal’s--a number of persons arrested on
suspicion, of whom one, Bosquier, made a con-‘
fession in writing of his accomplices in the mur-
der and the circumstances attending it. Bastide,
Bancal and wife, Jausion, and some others, were‘
also apprehended and imprisoned ; and in the
«course of their trial ncai-ly-t=n't) hu4l‘v.lu.d~ _w_i’tnes-
_ses were examined. _ Front such examinations as
fhave reached us, the foregoing narrative is abrid-
ged. Bastide appears to have been the most
bloody-minded villian concerned in the murder ;
and'on the trial, his audacity was perfectly in char-
acter.‘ Madame Manson was relied on as the
principal witness, but her answers were full of
evasions, equivocations and contradictions, prob-
ablyoccasionecl by the terrible oath she had taken
on the dead body. Enough escaped her, howev-
er, to shew she knew more ; and it was hoped
before the examinations were closedshe would be
induced to tell the-whole" truth. The circum-
stantial evidence against the persons above named
was such as to leave no doubt of their guilt. Some
of the murderers had not been zurested.
’ — - True -fimcrican.
-——u--:'.:-'t3I-——- _
I-I.u.Low_ii.L, (Maine) July.4-.
Destructive Hail Storm--On Tuesday after-
noon last, one of the most tremenduous Hail
Storms, accompanied with thunder and light-
ning, was experienced in the upper part of this‘
county, ever witnessed by the oldest inhabitantsg
-'-—~th_e damages sustained by this calamitous vis-
itation are incalculable. In VVetetville, the house"
of Capt. Samuel Moore was struck by lightning,
his daughter, aged 19, instantly killed, and him‘-
self and two children wounded-—A school house‘
in the vicinity, containing about 30 children, was‘
likewise struck, and although the‘ building rcceiv-j
ed a tremenduous shock, (breaking nearly all‘
the glass and otherwise injuring it,) providential-
ly no person was hurt. Grain and fruit havesuf-‘
feted severely, and the window glass exposed to
the hail is generally broken. The size of the
hall stones is variously stated, from one to three
niches in diameter, but generally about the size
of hen’s eggs. . ‘
In China, five barns were blown down, and I
burnt with lightning.‘ Several houses were un-
roofed, and frames blown down. In Fairfax,"5
or 6barns were ‘blown down, and a number of
dwelling houses were either blown down or un-‘
roofed. One family in Fairfax, had but just fled
to the cellar, when the house full ; others were
blown down with people in them, but fortunately‘
no lives were lost, although some persons were
wounded. ‘From a barn, which stood several‘
rods west of a road, and which was‘ destroyed;
several large rafters were blown into the field
of the roof were carried nearly-a third of a
mile, some of which broke the windows of :2
dwelling house, and some pieces of boards with
nails in them, were driven against other. build-
ings about the same distance and were fastened
to them by the nails. Several buildings in Free-
dom were destroyed.
wood-lands is incalculable- Fences for a con-
““e, «§oii'z'.4,4é¢s:¥
_,--_A. murder which took place in Rhodes, iii‘:-
east of the road, some rods distant, and pieces‘_
The damage done to the ‘
selves, and such numerous and lasting injuries to
others. On‘ this occasion, itcannot be necessary
to enumerate the injuries : every man may see
proofs of them in the inflamed and bloated coun-
tenances of those who are ‘addicted to an intem._-
peratc use of spirits '; in the -poverty and wretch-L
On no occasion have we ever seen so great a
concourse of people in the‘ st‘rce‘ts, as were pres-
ent to witness, in general and resp‘ec”tful silence,
these patriotic and solemn ‘ceremonies.
Gen. Montgomery was born in Ireland, in the
year 1740, and was of one of the first families.]
wife,‘ and Juno Clarke, a colored woman, who siderable distance \vi:t'e blown. down.
wilfully, burned the house in which she resided,
which caused ‘also the destruction of two adjoin-‘ _
ino houses, have received the awful sentence of rence on the 24th May, by some seamen, in a ‘
deittl:-, in the Baltimore city court. , small boat. after a desperate contest.
A large black bear was caught in the St. Law-
Norwalk Chronicler