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thofe divine precepts, than the character, the invitation, and introduction of men into this counary, who have carried confufion and anarchy, poverty and defolation, into the land of their enemies; who have attacked and laid waste countries who fuppofed themselves to be in amity with them who have confidered nations as their enemies for no other reafon but because they had not waged war with Great Britain. Examining their conduct in Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, and Egypt, I have in them no proof of peace and good will; and yet thefe are the men (though you would wish it to be understood that you are an advocate for peace and good will) that you invite into this country. You fay your only motive and intention in writing this pamphlet was to fcatter around us the bleflings of liberty, of humanity, and the gof. pel. If we compare your conduct with your fpeech, it is impoffible you can be fincere in your profeffions contained in it, and alfo in your work, which invites into this country, a number of men, whose avowed object it is to fubvert our Conftitution, to plunder our country, and to extirpate its inhabitants. Your fpeech affects to breathe peace and good will to all men. However, from fome parts of it, men may be inclined to confider it as proceeding from the vifions of a deluded imagination; yet if we go, as we must, by the verdict of the jury, your pamphlet is malicious, wicked, and feditious. Your fpeech has a direct contrary tendency. In that part of your pamphlet, where you speculate on

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bleflings which England yet enjoys, and which the alteration you have mentioned, with 70,000 men brought into the country to effectuate it, would effectually banifh from this kingdom. words are thefe :-" This kingdom would be lost forever." one part of your addrefs, which is directed to our compaffion, we learn, that in your punishment muft neceffarily be involved thofe who have committed no offenceyour children. The Court will ever lament that the innocent

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fhould fuffer with the guilty. Such, however, is the present state of human affairs, that in inflicting punishment, that is, and must frequently be the unavoidable confequence. Lamenting this, I still more lament, that before you fent this mifchievous production into the world, it had never occurred to you, that the future happiness of your children was involved in your conduct, and that your duty and affection to them, however little you felt for your country, had not led you to fupprefs a work that might involve them, as well as yourself, in mifery and ruin. Thus you would have

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fpared the country the necefty of this profecution, yourfelf your prefent difgraceful fituation, and me the painful task of paffing fentence on a man whofe talents, whofe learning, and education, in the opinion of those who are eminently fitted to judge of literary merit, might have proved an ornament and a bleffing to the na

"The Court, taking into thej confideration all the circumftances of your cafc, doth order and adjudge, that for this offence you be imprisoned in his Majesty's jail of Dorchester, for the county of Dorfet, for the space of two years, and that you give fecurity for your good behaviour for the term of five years, to be comput

tion. We have deemed it oured from the expiration of that duty to confider whether a punish ment in this cafe, proportioned to the magnitude of the offence, might not be attended with perpetual imprisonment. The fir great object of punishment is, example the next is, the correction of the offender. It is never the wifh of the Court to doom men to perpetual imprisonment, unlefs the law has impofed that painful duty upon them.

term, yourself in the fum of 500l. with two fufficient fureties in 250l. each, and that you be farther imprifoned till fuch fureties be given. And may the hours of your imprisonment produce contrition and fincere repentance! And may the remainder of your life exhibit one uniform fcene of atonement for the offence you bave committed to your King, your Country, and your God!"

AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE of the EXTRAORDINARY SUFFERINGS and PRESERVATION of Mrs. ELIZABETH WOODCOCK; who, after being buried in the Snow eight Days and Nights, was taken up alive, in the full Poffeffion of her mental Faculties.

ON Saturday, Feb. 2, 1799, of eight nights and eight days,

Elizabeth Woodcock, the wife of a cottager at Impington, in England, was returning home, which was about three miles off, from Cambrige market.

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was found alive, with every mental faculty unimpaired, but had loft the ufe of her feet, which appear to be in a flate of mortifica tion.

As it is a cafe which human nature has feldom experienced, and indeed which it may hardly by fome be thought capable of fuftaining, it is thought proper to give the public fome of the particulars, by a perfon who has feen the pit whence this unfortunate

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woman was extricated-who has had his information from the object of it herself (which he is quite capable of detailing)-and who has had every other information on the fubject from the two gentlemen who firft found her. Let Philofophy fmile with pity or contempt on our weakness, yet the fuperintendence of a particular PROVIDENCE, interfering by fecond caufes, is fo flattering to human nature, and fo much needed even by the proud and felf-fufficient ftoic, that we cannot relinquifh the darling privilege; but muft keep it in fight from the beginning to the end of our narration.

On the Saturday night fucceed. ing that on which Mrs. Wood cock was loft, a Mr. Munfey, of the fame village, had very strong impreffions in a dream, that there was a hare under a certain hedge, buried in the fnow. In his walk therefore to Cambridge the following day, in paffing within twenty yards of the fence, the circumftance occurred to him. A handkerchief, which the diftreffed reclufe had thruft upwards through the furface, drew his eye to this particular spot. However, if it had not been for his providential fuggeftions concerning the hare, this fignal might not have led to a very different and moft happy difcovery. For curiofity had been juft fo much awakened as to bring him near enough to perceive a small tunnel through the fnow, made by the breath, which revived in his mind his dream concerning the hare. And a fportfman will eafily perceive the analogy, fince he knows that when a hare is couch ed among the fnow, there is al

ways an opening to the furface for breathing. Prepoffeffed with this idea, he drew near with caution ; and by that precaution, he thought he diftinguished the fighs of a perfon as in prayer. On which he beckoned to the fon of Mr. Merrington and a fhepherd, who were fortunately near, but who, on the first mention of the circumftance, difcredited it: however, on his perfifting that she was there," and alive too!" they advanced, and were convinced; and immediately ran for Mr. Merrington's father, who quickly attended with a cart, blankets, &c.; and as they removed the fnow, they perceived this unfortunate woman's head. She inftantly recognised them, and fnatching Mr. Merrington's hand in ecftacy, would not quit her hold but with reluctance. On her entreating fome nourishment, that Gentleman gave her a piece of biscuit, and (with due precaution) only two tea-fpoonfuls of brandy, when he exclaimed, "O! this comforts me :" but, in removing her, the nearly fainted.

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The account fhe gives of herfelf is fo full of the fimplicity of nature, and gratitude to that Providence, whom, fhe fays, even in her bittereft moments, she never diftrufted, that it cannot be repeated without lofing its effect. Her feelings, or rather her ago. nies, were indeed exquifite, when, during the many fearches that were made, fhe heard the trampling of human feet at no great distance, and even diftinguithed her hufband's fympathifing voice, without being able to exprefs her fituation. The duties of religion, that great and laft refource, fhe fays, were her conftant employ

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ment; for he was all refignation. She tells her liftening friends, if it pleafe her MAKER to restore her, this fcourge of affliction from HIM fhall influence her future coaduct, exemplified in gratitude and praife. Having an almanack in her pocket, which he had bought at the market, the confulted it to know when he was to have folace from the moonlight. She pulled off two rings from her fingers, and put them and a one pound note into her nutmeg-grater; and fays, the frequently faw a beautiful white dove hovering around her. Both the Sundays of her entombment, she heard the bells of her village (which was only half a mile diftant) calling her ruftic friends to church. She, no doubt, would ftill congeal her icy manfion with a tear, at thinking fhe only could obey their folemn fummons, when they chimed her to her grave. However, the terms her more than fubterraneous dwelling a beautiful little ark ;" and, moreover, that she was presently infenfible to any pain but the crav ings of appetite. This fhe gratified, with eating the hardest morfels of fnow fhe could get with the hand, of which fhe ftill poffeffed the ufe.

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what fhe gratefully calls, the "beautiful little ark."

We hear this remarkable circumftance is to be matter of fpecalation for the Royal Society.

Nothing can be more applicable than fome beautiful lines from Thomfon's "Winter :"

-How finks his foul!

What black despair, what forrow fills his heart,

When for the dusky spot, which fancy feign'd

His tufted cottage rifing through the Σπον,

He meets the roughness of the middle wafte!

While round him night refistless clofes faft,

With every tempeft howling o'er his head,

He ftaggers on, till down at last he finks

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Beneath the shelter of the shapeless Thinking o'er all the bitterness of

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SIR,

To the EDITOR of the COLUMBIAN PHENIX.

HAVING found the two following relations among the papers of a deceased friend, which were wrote upon as real facts, your inferting them may not be unentertaining to fome of your readers.

I am, yours, &c.

S. N.

Two gentlemen of Genoa in the houfe; that it fad appears

alighted at an inn, and obferving a young woman fitting very penfive at the kitchen fire, one of the gentlemen asked her, was he married to which fhe made no reply, but went away in a feeming pet. She was remarkably beauti ful, and they afked the hoft about her, who faid fhe was his niece, and that she had been lately very much diftreffed by the continued vifits of an apparition, who entered every room in the house though the doors were locked. One of the gentlemen laughed, and the hoft told him it was too ferious for ridicule, and defired he might that very night be an ear and eye-witness of the truth of it; to which he confenting, begged it might be kept a fecret to all except his friend and the young woMatters being thus fettled, the young woman was called, and the young gentleman inquired of her in what manner the apparition addreffed her, whether it spoke, how many times it had appeared, and in what addrefs? To which fhe made anfwer, that its addrefs

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ed eight nights fucceffively in the . fame drefs, which was like a flame of fire in an angel's form, and that he could plainly diftinguish the wings; that fhe had one night perfuaded a young woman to lie with her, who was fo terrified at the appearance, that he never could fince obtain that favour from her or any other: She declared, that her life was miferable, and her cafe the moft fingular and perplexed that ever happened. She had, in her confeffion to the Priest, told it him in a very circumftantial detail of every the minuteft particular; that he faid, it was nothing but an over-heated imagination, a whim, a fancy, and what not, but that on her having lately reported it to him, and made her cafe public, he had thought more feriously of the affair, and advifed her to comply, let the event be what it would; that she dreaded the thoughts of compliance, as fhe did not know but it might be the devil, who had affumed that angelic form.

To this declaration the gentlemen very attentively liftened,. and offered to fit up, in or near her room that night, if the would permit them. She thanked them, and accepted of their fervice.

There was a clofet infide the room she was to lie in that night, whither they conveyed themfelves

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