bove them and not offend the author of our existance, by making so little use of it. The brutes act up to the talents given them, and shall man fali below the beasts of the field by not making use of those pow ers God hath bestowed upon him, but continues to walk contrary to reason? Let man who is the lord of this creation, conduct himself as becometh a reasonable being, and let him contemplate on the mighty works which are here allotted him to accomplish, and then will he not deviate from the path of rectitude, but will ad here to that which is just and good, SELAH.

Th Captain made no words but the next tha: died, he or dered him to be conveyed to the minister's house, and laid upon the table in his great hall; this greatly embarrass d the poor clergyman: who in the fullness of his heart, sent the Captain word, "that if he would cause the dead man to be taken away, he would never more dispute it with him; but would readily bury him and his whole company for nothing."

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An Italian bishop who had endured much persecution with a calm unruffled temper, asked by a friend how he attained to such a mastery of himself. By making a right use of my eyes," said he: I first look up to heaven, as the place whither I am going to live forever; Inext look down upon the earth, and consider how small a space of it will soon be all that I can occupy or want. I then look around me, and think how many are far more wretched than I am."-

LADY'S MISCELLANY.

NEW-YORK, July 20, 1811.

"Be it our task,

To note the passing tidings of the time

The City Inspector report the death of 83 persons in this city and suburbs during the last week, ending on the 13th inst

FIRES.

On Tuesday morning, between 12 and 2, three or four wooden houses, in Beaver-street, belonging to the estate of Mr. Cruger, where destroyed by fire. We regret to state, that during the fire, Mr. Ja es Bond fell in the street, and expired in a few minutes after he was carried to his lodgings.

Yesterday afternoon the upper part of a Stable occupied by three Cartmen, in Mill-street, was destroyed by fire, supposed to have been the work of some incendiery. Citizens, kep a good look out.

CAUTION TO PARENTS.

On Monday a child, between one and two years old, got up into the third story of a house in this city, and crawled out of the window. It so happened that it fell directly upon the back of a woman who was stooping over a tub of clothes below, and received no material injury. And the woman was less hurt than fright. ened by the fortunate though rather lu. dicrous manner in which she probably saved the child's life.

Raleigh, N. C. July 1.

Dreadful Occurrence 4 letter from a respectable gentleman of this county, mentions the occurrence of an awful in. cident on the night of Sunday the 22d ult. On that evening, he stated there was the most violent storme ever witnessed by any of the inhabitants. During its continuance, the house of a Mr. Buckner Pace was struck with lightning, and almost entirely consumed, most of the white people of the plantation being ab sent, and only an old black woman and boy remaining at some distance in their huts. Our informant observes that he was called on the next morning, by John Davis, esq. to go and examine the spot, found the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Pace, with their dwelling house, reduced to ashes. They were lying one on esch bed with their heads across towards the wail.

It was supposed, from this, that they had set down upon the beds at the commencement of the storm; and perhaps afterwards had laid down. The bodies were entirely consumed except the intestines; and at the end of the house where the beds stood, where found fractured pieces of wood, shingles, raf ters, &c supposed to have been torn off by lightning. The sight was the most afflicting that he, and hundreds of others' had ever seen. Mr. and Mrs. Pace were 70 years of age, had been long respectable inhabitants of Wake county: and have left three children behind them.

The storme took place after da k; and the old black woman and boy had fallen asleep while the rain continued. When they awoke, finding the dwelling house in flames, they attempted to alarm the neighbours; but no assistance was procured until morning.

Blacksmiths and colleers take warning!

James Deily, an Irishman, while employed in burning a coal kiln on Sunday the 7th inst near Middletown, Maryland, it for the purpose of adjusting some wood on the top While there, as it is supposed, the wood being nearly burnt throngh gave way under his feet, and distressing to-relate, he sunk in this burning pit. How long he remained in the fire we are unable to tell, or in what menner he extricated himself is equally nnknown, as there was no person with him. He was found some distance from the kiln in the most deplorable situation. Medical aid was immediately sent for, but to no purpose: the fire had penetrated his vitals. Owing to his indignant circumstances, the phy sician applied for his admisison into the poore house, where he arrived on the 11th, and where I had an oportunity of seeing him, with the loss of one of his eyes, his right hand and arm burnt to a cinder, and no part of the body that had escaped the fire. Although every possible assist. ance was rendered, it could not save him from death. He has left a wife and 3 small children to deplore his loss...

Maryland Paper.

Poughkeepsie July 10.

The Weather. The intensity of heat, during Wednesday, Thursday and Fri day last, is supposed not to have been equalled in this village since the settlement of the country. We regret that it is not in our power to give the degrees

of heat during these three days; but such was the variation of the thermome ters here, that an attempt of this kind would be extremely hazardous One remarkable circumstance however, is this that the water in the Fallkill a clear,

Funning stream, of considerable magni tude, a little north of this village be'came so heated that cattle refused to drink thereof, and the fish therein died and floated in large quantities upon the top of the water.

Married.

On Thursday the 11 inst, by the Rev Mr. Broadhead, Mr. John Lockwood to Miss Leah Smith, both of this city.

At Oak Hill, seat of John Livingston, Esq on Monday evening last. by the Rev Mr Chester, Mr Robt. Watts, jun. Esq. of New-York, to Miss Matilda Ridley.

At New Rochelle, on Sunday evening 41th inst, by the Rev, Theodius Bartow, Mr. Lewis P Constant. to Miss Mary Ann Quick, all of this city.

On the 15th inst. by the Rev Nehem Tompkins, Peter Wolf, to Miss Hannah Hyatt, of this city.

On Sunday morning, in Zion Church, by the Rev. Mr. Willi ton. Capt Lemuel Woodbury, to Miss Phoebe Bliss, both of this city.

On Wednesday evening 10th inst by the Rev Wm. Bunkle, Mr. Titus H Keech, to the amiable Miss Elizabeth Hall, of this city.

Died.

At Albany. on Thursday the 11th inst. Doctor Hunloke Woodruff, of Albany, in the 57th year of his age.

At Elizabethtown. N. J. on the 25th ult. Miss Keturah Cox, a native of Charlestown, SC.

At Philadelphia, aged 106 years Eve Post. She was a native of Germany, same to this city when young where she has mostly lived since-during the last seven years of her time, she resided in the Alms House and House of Employment.

On Tuesday the 2d inst. at Cowneck L. I. Col. John Sands, aged 74 years. In Brookhaven, Mrs. Fudocia Garman aged about 60, wife of Mr. Samuel Carman.

In this place, Mr Abraham Myers, aged 38 years.

And there came the Moth, with her plumage of down,

And the Hornet, with jacket of yellow and brown,

Who with him the Wasp, his companion. did bring,

But they promis'd that evening to lay by their sting.

Then the sly little, Dormouse peep'd out of his hole,

And led to the feast his blind cousin, the Mole,

And the Snail. with her horns peeping out of her shell,

Game, fatigu'd with the distance the length of an ell.

A mushroon the table, and on it was spread

A water dock leaf, which their table. cloth made,

The viands were various, to each of their taste,

And the Bee brought the honey to

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WEEKLY

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VISITOR.

VOL. XIII.]

THE

MONK OF THE GROTTO.

A Tale:

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Eugenio, struck with a degree of terror for which he could not account, approached the sexton with an air of timidity and asked him in a low voice if the ceremony would take place that morning.

"Sr," replied the man, "I know not the precise moment; I believe, however, that it will be this morning; for it was at this very hour. yesterday that Sister Virginia Spanozzi breathed her last."

Eugenio uttered a loud erv, and staggered a few steps to-war is the Church door. Suddenly his limbs failed him, his eyes closed, and he fell, in a state of insensibility, over the cataletto which was near him; and in his fall struck his forehead against a Death's head carved in relief, at one of the angles of the funeral aparatus.

No. 14.

The sexton intent upon his business, had entered, immediately after he had answered Eugenio, a little chapple contiguous to the choir, and did not witness the fall of the unhappy youth.

Several minutes elapsed before Eug nio came to himself. His fixed and haggard cyes could not at first distinguish any of the objects that surronnded him; but the blood, which began ro flow from his wound, brought him to a full recollection of the extent of his mise

ry. His strength just allowed him to retire from the Church, and gain the fields in the environs of the monastery.

His slow walk, the cnlm and settled gloom that overspread his whole person, his countenance suffused with blood, and his appearance altogether, struck with terror and compas. sion a Celestin Monk, whose Convent was near that of San

Cipriano, and who was walking, with a book in his hand, in an avenue planted with pop