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United States bound for its fulfilment. Hence his complaints were constant against what he called the duplicity, injustice and treachery of Lear, sanctioned

This caravan being numerous, and heavily loaded, was overtaken some days afterward by a lighter, and armed caravan, who pursued them for the purpose of plunder. And the caravan to which he belonged finding it must either fight or purchase terms, it chose the latter. This affair being settled, he heard two men of the marauding caravan talking to each other, concerning the grand dervise who had cured the Bashaw of Trebizond. He heard them say that recovery was confidently expected, inasmuch as the threatening symptoms had abated, and the prospect was every way more encouraging. The dervise then rejoiced at the beneficial operation of the caustic lime which he had ordered to be blown into the Bashaw's eyes, to eat the films away. On his return the physician presented himself before the govern He was received as a great and good man, and loaded again with

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donations.

At this place he remained until a caravan was prepared to undertake a journey to Mecca. To this body of pilgrims and traders, he attached himself as a dervise. They arrived in proper time in that region of Yemen. But the Wechabites had made great progress in their fanatical work. They had demolished in part the old religion of Mahomet, and set up their new revelation in its stead, burned the body of the prophet, destroyed the holy temple, and sequestered the revenue paid at the shrine of Mahomet The caravan feared to encounter these zealous and daring innovators, and halted at a distance. But the dervise, availing himself partly of his priestly occupation, and partly of his personal adroitness, went over to their camp, and was well received.

Having tarried as long as he pleased in Mecca, he went to a port near Jedda, a city on the Red sea. Thence he crossed to the west side, and coasted along to Suez There he made himself known to lord Gordon, a Scottish traveller, and entered into his employ, as an interpreter. With him he travelled to Cairo, and through the Lermar, to Nubia and Abyssinia. His last exercise previous to his seperation from that munificent gentleman, was to decorate with flowers, fruits, leaves, branches and chandeliers, the hall in which his employer, on his return, gave a splendid treat to the foreign residents and consuls, then at Cairo.

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From this place, he returned after an absence of six years, to Alexandria and on inquiring for his wife, was told she was in concealment. A separation was readily agreed upon by mutual consent, and she immediately formed a connexion with a Copt, a man of her own

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Being once more in Cairo, he wholly threw aside the character of a dervise, and assumed the occupation and uniform of an engineer. Here he was engaged in planning military works, and in superintending their execution. While he was thus employed, news was brought him that captain EATON had arrived, and wished a confidential and intrepid agent, to convey a message to Hamet Caramelli, the Ex-Bashaw of Tripoli in Barbary. At an interview which took place between them, the former first swore the latter to secrecy on the Koran, and then communicated his project.

Having agreed to the conditions, he took the earliest opportunity to desert the Turks, and to penetrate through the desert to the MamaJuke camp, where Caramelli was; in poverty and dependence,

by the administration. He frequently received letters from Hamet, some of which were forwarded to Congress; and exerted himself as far as in his

though respected. It is to be understood that Egypt is divided into English and French parties: the Turks being attached to the French, and the Mamalukes to the English. With a single attendant and two dromedaries, he proceeded with the swiftness of wind, feeding the animals with small balls composed of meal and eggs, and taking no other sleep than he could catch upon the back of the hard trotting beast. He reached the Mamaluke camp in safety. The Chiek, in token of a welcome reception, gave him a few sequins, refreshed him with coffee. In a short time he so arranged matters with the Ex-Bashaw, that one night Caramelli went forth as if on an ordinary expedition with about one hundred and fifty followers, and instead of returning to his Ma.naluke encampment, sped his way over the trackless sands, and with that force reached the rendezvous of the enterprising American.

With all the forces they could jointly assemble, they traversed, with extreme toil and suffering, the deserts of Barca, for the purpose of making a diversion in favor of the squadron of armed ships which the United States of America had ordered against the city of Tripoli. Af ter surmounting incredible hardships, they arrived at Derne, and gained an advantage over the troops of the reigning bashaw in a skirmish. This action spread terror through all the Tripolitan dominions, and exceedingly alarmed the Bashaw in his castle. Immediately after a peace was concluded by consul Lear. In consequence of this, orders were forthwith sent to the American vessels on the coast and the co operating land forces under EATON, to discontinue hostile operations. The Egyptian host was requested to embark in the American vessels. Part of them, thus stopped in midcareer, did so: and the rest remained on shore, subject, now they were inferior in martial strength, to the cruelty and caprice of the angry despot and his vassals.

Leitensdorfer was one of the persons who went on board and witnessed the mortification of the Ex-Bashaw and the ravings of his lieutenant general, at this unexpected order, so subversive of their plaus, and so ruinous of their hopes. He himself acted as a colonel. In this vessel he went, by way of Malta, to Syracuse. From which place he proceeded to Albina, taking the route of Corfu to Salona, with the design of inquiring by letter what was the situation of a son by his first marriage, whom he had left in Tyrol. Immediately on landing among the Turks, he was seized as an apostate Mahometan, and reduced to slavery. By degrees, however, he excited favorable sentiments, in consequence of having cured several sick sailors during the voyage. In addition to which he pleaded the necessity he felt, when in the American army of Africa, of conforming to the dress and manners of that strange and peculiar people of the west, under a belief that to be an American was not to be a christian. He was at length restored to the freedom of a faithful mussulman. He next visited Palermo, and there formed a temporary marriage with a female willing to engage in such a connexion.

About this time the new king of Naples threatened to conquer Sicily in fpite of all the resistance that Ferdinand the, Fourth, and the English could make. On this, Leitensdorfer became alarmed for his own safety, knowing that he had no mercy to expect from Frenchmen. He determined to embark as a passenger for the American States. But no master of a vessel could be found, who would receive

power for the restoration of Hamet's family. When he received information of his being appointed to the government of the Province of Derne,

him in that capacity. He then resolved to offer himself as a sailor; and was entered as such on board a vessel bound to Salem in Massachusetts Here he learned to hand, reef and steer, and do the active business of a seamnan He arrived at Salem in December, 1809, and Soon went on a visit to his old friend and fellow warrior at Brimfield. He was hospitably received, and left his late general, with honorable sentiments of his generosity and bravery. By him he was advised to visit Washington, and to present himself to the President and Secretary of State. For this purpose, EATON had furnished Leitensdorfer with recommendatory letters, stating the compensation due to him for his various services and losses. By these gentlemen, he was referred to the secretary at war; and was sent from one to the other until his skill in surveying, drawing and engineering became known to the surveyor of the public buildings, and he thereby acquired some of the patronage of Mr. Latrobe.

Thus he lived along occupying one of the vacant chambers in the northern pile of the capital, as a watch or an office keeper, providing and cooking for himself, and employing his hands in almost every kind of occupation, from the making of shoes, to the insnaring of birds, and the delineation of maps.

This extraordinary mar is about five feet ten inches in height, with dark eyes, black hair and brown complexion. His looks are lively, his gestures various, and his limbs remarkably flexible and vigorous. His forehead is ample, his features expressive, and his figure rather spare and lean. With such natural marks and powers, he has been enabled to assume the respective characters of Jew, Christian and Mahometan; and of soldier, linguist, engineer, farmer, and tradesman with uncommon ease And in short, he has proved himself to be one of the most versatile of human beings; having acted during his multifarious life in about thirty different capacities. In the course of his adventures he has received several wounds. And his eccentric life has afforded incidents to gratify the inhabitants of Vienna by a theatrical representation of his character on the stage.

He can utter the Hebrew words almost exactly like a rabbi in the synagogue. He can recite the Latin prayers and homiles of the christians after the manner and in the tone of the capuchins; and he pronounces the religious sentences of the mussulmen in Arabic, with the earnestness and emphasis of a mufti. All these he performed for me successively one morning with singular readiness and skill.

To complete his strange story, Mr. Bradley undertook to be his friend in the senate of the United States: and that body passed a bill, introduced by him, giving Leitensdorfer a half section of land (three hundred and twenty acres) and the pay of a captain from the 15th of December, 1804, to the 15th of December, 1805, being the time that he served as adjutant and inspector of the army of the United States, in Egypt, and on the coast of Africa.

The generosity of the house of representatives was manifested by the insertion of an amendment to give him a whole section of a mile square (six hundred and forty acres) of land, instead of three hundred and twenty. But the senate disagreed to it, and the house receded. So that his grant remained as originally introduced.

through the instrumentality of Doctor Davis, he expressed himself in the strongest terms of satisfaction, declaring he was then willing to die.

'In January 1810 he received a letter from Mr. Humbert,* long his most intimate friend while in Tunis, to which he returned an answer: Extracts follow.

MY DEAR FRIEND.

Brimfield, Jan. 15th, 1810.

FORTUNE has reversed her tables.I am no more EATON. I live, or rather stay, in obscurity and uselessness. The wound I received on the coast of Tripoli, and others more early, have deprived me of an arm's use and the use of a legWant of economy, which I never learned, want of judgment in the speculative concerns of private life, which I never studied, and, what is more, privation of the consideration of a government which I have served, have unmanned me.

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A fellow first fed on horse chesnuts and then on charity now bestrides the world, and fattens on gore: we Americans venerate him, because we have lost our national character; perhaps it was never well fixt. We can shew you citizens who fly to mountains and caves for a hiding place; but our

* THE FOLLOWING LINES WERE ADDRESSED TO MR, HUMBERT BY EATON WHEN LEAVING TUNIS.

Tunis Bay, March 10th, 1805.
Swift to the western world I wing my way,
Where light and freedom pour the radiant day;
Leave the curst shores of chains and stern despair,
To breath once more my happy native air !
Yet while o'er ocean's heaving breast I roam,
Rapt in the charm of Liberty and home,

My faithful friends shall claim the frequent tear;
But none more frequent than my friend Humbert. *
Once reached the wished for goal, Columbia's shore;
My cares forgotten, my misfortunes o'er ;
There from my peaceful fields again I'll write,
What plain and honest friendship shall indite.
Till then, adieu, Humbert; may God extend
Bliss to thy wishes, and preserve my friend.

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wars are on paper. Free presses, but no heavy metal.

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I am glad you are well; when I am so, I will write you more. Death has laid himself along side, and thrown his graplings upon my quarter and forecastle, but I keep him off midships yet."

During the winter of 1809-10, Gen. EATON was much of the time confined to his house or his chamber with rheumatic and gouty complaints. The severity and continuance of his pains and his sufferings had however no admonishing affect in producing a change in his regimen. His friends and relations, sometimes with timid delicacy, sometimes with reproachful openness, and often with pathetic tenderness, entreated and encouraged a reformation of his habits. His resolutions of amendment were not unfrequent, but never executed. No man was more sensible than himself of the inevitable consequence of his excesses. At times, wakened by considerations of duty to his family, and his hope of reestablishing his character, and becoming useful to the community, he would

Push his honest purpose to resolve,
In all the magnanimity of thought,
Resolve, and re-resolve;

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but was ever incompetent to performance. ions on his past misconduct, the loss of property by his imprudence, and the loss of reputation by his excessive indulgence, produced only sorrow and remorse, from which he sought immediate relief by recurrence to the temporary relief of the glass.

In the winter of 1810-11, he was much confined with an increase of chronic complaints and general debility. His appetite for food was almost totally gone. His feet and ankles became swolen, and a dropsy gradually ensued. His strength daily failed," so that in April he was scarcely able to walk. When the weather was pleasant he occasionally took a short ride in a chaise. In one of his last attempts to go abroad, he called upon a friend in the town, (Col. A. Morgan,) to rest and refresh himself.

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