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he I: - ® 'r Brine. || Keacs mReiment. food F carried agflfiqfih; at, ye! blockade \ns sufficiently Strict to intercept beil supplies orpruovisions from without, and 'Seonfine thi imnutingers- to the accidental rae '.. stozes faid by in the: granaries of the fort. e -year an This quanuty was insuffic sient for their cof- mhes mforentty marked $y. sumpuon beyond & short siege. The ra- 'he s gut of the reluse of tc ; place in the A-\ mous were daily diminished: the common egderu.orkers wh0 . er foud was distribupeid unduly in proportion ~~ ty the meat and wike , and oue of those ex- s offncredible Eaistory, have : pouients began, to be adopted which mark prfiployed the ciscuinslanc :*»' tue progress of # si6ge by different degrees will be now detuiled,lo assis ness of their wits, and no Oh- disorderly party had no as be assigned for ling Omiss00,; species of distress, an /the facts thetuselves have not been ' former hardships of ti1 e to them. 'They were hushed up absence of internal subordination, also, e by those who hau aay interest ® | vented those seumble W ¢ t' of privation. It is easy Jo believe that the stomach for this itary distipline. 'The ich merformers or bystuanJers, for the | night have retarded the time of want by e- 'v w? which the pmmulg1 would Lgve been stieuded. rried isceratiient and houuesty of cur govetn BE:; and. the extont to which they wore | Ben seamed, in uu small degree, owing | ation Of compm.cing the original stock. Little.quar» ve | 1 Their ar- | rels ensued ; and presently the whole 're-| the other. hit some imputation upon | giment was broken up into factions, partly ivided by differences of country, partly by varieties of opin.on These cagals became more and more serious. Every hour gave nore than for the : ET &n rere No:! they were forater pulfed back to their and tied to the Femmant of poor life, which they kpew grdeed to be Jeasen- ing, but Which they codid not call quite en- ded, till those miuskets were primed 'and ldGaded, apd those men in their places-the preparatory word gives, the firelocks raised -the signal made-and theh-and then- ay ' a chance still left behind! What horror 'in the idea, what barbarity in thus allowing it! But I imust proceed. The parade at the Flotiana is a large open space, nearly square, lying beyond the outer circle of for- ' tiffcetione which render the city of Valletta impregnabie but by bribery or famine. @On one aide is the w fl ofa long narrow gar- ; den, open to the public; opposite to it are bastions, overlooking the smaller, or quar- 'antine harbor. called also the Narsa-muscet ; ' the other two sides are formed\ by the gla- ' cis on the one part, and a row of houses:on In this squaré, then were pla- iced the sufferers ; and here,t00, were drawn 'up a certain number of troops appointed to | 'inflict death according to the sentence. | i After the first discharge of shot, several of e ufffertaigty aud fecbieness of the; birth to some groun. of dispute, which ter-; those who received but slight or no wounds, ures instiluled by the perlod, a}go, was a slriircg one; bAd who were\ artually 'acqua.nted with ed their ifiportanCe terfere with his possessiun,aud, if the stron» great political 0C (ger party, wiest it from him. I1 looks,; anl perhaps also from close a point of viaw, > 7 PC fl fromm giipg magnitude. .A stram- gll utber uases, piece of detiphed history will fot, how eidisgovéred in the busy annals of ;time ;.. and sous amusement {ound jn the imperfect. grewi@ullettion aHore tf years has not been able t ake Cra c imp. the. pF 330025} til? resource of our ow Euntiy, theexpedient. was a oped by Gu Re Aovermment of eptering isto a commercial IE Lepatract. with diffgrent speculators, whocn- ged, fora certaim remuneration, to levy a The emmnergei.cy from the ips according 16 : or veteran troops. Ao-raise forthe Mediterranean service, a re 'glinent composed entirely of Greeks, 'The was struck, and M---proceeded jib-gather togetler from the Levant, the Ar * ghipelago, and the Continert, a horde 'o '~ Narious mer, Greeks, Albanians, Sclavont ; .g@ans, and what not, who were to be earclled, n’fanndér the Eugixsh banners, w th the trt'e of J -BC gesé‘uf the war, when the X gait? bi{largé military suppl ea was lard ~p néyfir‘y of differéi counties, to be ten- k ;£ré digphsaple.tor foreign service, where o did not appear to require more. 3 A Frencli * ~ Koble, devotes. to the Bourbons,and par con- : an enugrant at the tiime, proposed harsh Words, fatal encuanters, bate, re- into a hell; and though they would destroy each other be- -![forse the offensive acts ouf the assailants should harm them in their den. But this is- S of a large section, who, in concert, burst o- 0 pen the gates, threw themselves into the midst of the English troops, and left as the relic of their regiment, abot a hundred and men, who still kept possession of. the B| fort, and defied the besiégers. - r natural st cugth of their situation, and the apparent torpor of their enemies, had hopes of Seing abic to dafint thein into an- acqui- escence with favotable terms of surrender. Accordingly, they still persisted in man- ning the walls, and maintaining the same hostile appearances as before. They not even showed any greater forwardness in conciliating or making overtures of concili- ation, but remained silent, sullen, menacing, -| and determined more in theit favor; they were now left without much dissension or bickering, for ~!the malecontents hud carried with them the £ principal factions, and the remaining men -I were principally Greeks, and unanimous id their c intentions. Their affairs, howeyer, wére soon to receive a new aspect, An Eng sue was wardedoff by the voluntary flight These resolute fellows, rélging on the There was one thing local authorities | munated in bloodshec, as a matter of course. } and not resigned, ap they who are 'sec#red | No wan was secure of his scanty allotment 'of food, for some hostile neighbor would in- ! U <in the usual and legal manuner,felt the strong natural throbbings of the love of life aug- mented, if not octasioned, by the exact knowledge they had of what was proceed- 'ing around them: the necessary celay be- vengefuiness, malice, couverted the barrack } fore the next discharge, the itrresolution of: the soldiers seemed as the officers, the blunders of the men, and 2' above all, the scene and situation in which ; they might pick out an escape. According» {ly many of th m started from their posts, | and, pinioned as they were, ran heliter skel- | ter over the open ground, As they fied,the armed soldiers were ~ofdeted to pursue. ‘ Some leaped the heights,or skiflked beneath | | ; hiding places, others continued their flight |. like hares over the country, aamed 'at every instant by the soldiers, and. of coursé, in the end, brought down, as.if by a sportsman in a shooting ekcursion. But one beyond the rest, was signalized for his hardibood and desperate attempts to escape. There was then partly blocked up b? rude® stones loog* ly thrown over it, but still} ced on the 'op. 'The soldier, impatient to uncertain method so clumsily put in execu- tion on that occasion, rushed forward to this spot and would have darted headlong into obstacle nearit failed bim.in that crisis,and brought him to the ground. .. He réeled for 'his sermon he paid- the Americana the high- | est compliment that was probably ever pal4 4 / rap] ‘Eoi‘ng’ to call on him'to day,and will request in the centre of the Floriana an old well; gecasionally re-: sorted to by the natives fo fill their -butkets,- which could easily be dipped into the witter: by displacing a iew of the thin blocks plat | die, and thinking it a luxury to perish by. 'any meaus rather than the lingering and. the.water but that his feet, caught by some - wind 'wrtle €# g moth more pleat ,) it; with any 'and tiate begn: m ctergy man, (Mr. pave ever beara. excepuMr.---. He yoe- terday gave usa serinun, Regoutinuation off- -~» one 'of the preceding Sunday;mgon the dis-} sémingtion of the christian religtegy 19. Uj ws party of the world, in the last #28 _ 4 years, and more particularly in the khevant.| taek in the Morex and the East. In the course ot: A!“ U. 8. them, so that every one of us, {and ther8] Tradesm@#¥ were about twenty of us present,) ¥ery much inclined to call out bravo?',1 am, 18} Chemical Bemk company with Lieut, --, ofthe Warren@@® North River Ba Bigk: Phicors Bank } >> $ Manbattan Bauk - | Mechakic's Salt* { Unions > Long Islznd«Bank jgelagaéfifim. . Dry Dock ©omp. / | Fuitod Bank- \ StuteBauky Alb, {: Bankof Albany | \Merch. & Farce, ~* {Commercial Bank : N whurgh 00> Columb, hudson: 'Midd le Disfflict - Dutchess Coun Orange Oo. < ~- !. Greene Cos SK Catskill | Vroy * Lose | Farom@r's Troy ~ . C000 - 1 Uneat -_,\ '. Utivta Branch -_ .- Geneva ©>-~ Niagara ||| %; Jg‘fi‘wérm Co. Wasb. & Warren Barker's 4412x131“? [ Rochester ~ .~ ° i.apsingbuigh ~ Canandaigua . a nburn QOniario . a Central La im to giveme a copy. gCENE.-A COUNTRY sCHOOL.--A BOY BPEL LING. \o k. B Dy. G ‘l' &-88. l Teucher. Wy ell, what does B. Dou't know. T. What's in the window at home ? B. Daddy's old breethes. B. spelis C-a-r-e-l-e sa n-e #s. t . B. T. no a that spell P And What does thatspelil ?> Don't know. . « How came the window broke ? B. Why mofhersent the broovin, at Dad- dy, and he went to dodge, and being a little corned, feli on the flour, and the broom went clear through the window, sinash ! T. Where does your father spend the most ofhis time ? At the tavern I guess. Go on. | x* , L’al’l‘k. mec . e What does that spell ? Don't know. 0 ~.. ‘ W hat does your mother put in her tea ? Ruy sir. 2 - T. Beshrew me, but when the father spends adost of his time in the wrong place, the muthe: make a wrong use of the brooin, and. Rum i§ substituted for milk, there can be no wonder that the seat of honor losea its: covering the breeches gets thrust into the window ahd eventually, the family out at the door. __ \ho t C Che |. Certificate of Marriage.-An Irish soldier ngzgfas once waited on his. commanding officer,with | *C\ 002 Ou noo what he termed a very serious complaifot. | ,_ up sq ©. ~ - \Ancther man,'\ he said, 'had upbraided: > v0 C> \hrm that he was not married to his ow h wite, | /,., ddigtows - © whom he accused of being no better than| I she should be and called het many bad! bagle - +027 names} besides, which he should be ash2m - | Havens: tC. ed to.mention to hig his konof].: | jy, Monhantes \Well my good feli c#, lzgvegou any POO} wniw _ uondomr _- that you are legally marrle@?\\ BOldIET:= | ffijoy > *©Faith, your hoyor, b have the 'West pr Dofi‘fl’nmgflm, # 2 4 -\ Regiment. He toot with him ._ /gome Ge:man cuacjutors, nat merely to as- * sist in rais ng the recruits, but also to as- ~. gist in fueir traiaing. and to introduce the _) Aisuiplhne of thoi swo pation. . In a short *C. time the men were equipped, and so far >: ~,~ brought guiv a shuvw of martial order, as to \~ > the deemed fittys eMployinent on some south - : station. .Acgcordid@gly, they were trans- ble. ~! fiSrted to Sialta,' and. appointed to occupy [5 z.one: ouf tue insulateddistricts of stroug farti ~. @cation with which tjatrenow ned Island is \.< GGyereqg, Fort Rinagdlia, placed at the ex- . projec tioh of an hngulgr néek of land, \1 Réorrésponds with Fort St. Elincon the op- MKs .¢ ~*. posite shore, and the two together command WE -. ctho entrance Of that harbof, whica is es- x* .. one Of the easy and secure in P \\%. ,; the world, In its: ® a post of considerable in the world.\\ Here be took Off his B&t, OT] Nirwjep rather cap, and exhibited a cluitskUll, ] ppomes ., . © \Does your honor think I'd be afte? | vgydham Co - ; the same abuse from anly' body but a wife ?\: oc L Co- Shuffle Memoirs. _ Edgie lish naval officer, I think a Captain ColliGs; a moment, thes finding 'bimgelf headed by voluntbeerea ind ventured upon a well con- his pursuers, ahaudomed this acheme,and ta> ducted Assault by night; and having storm- king another conrse,ran transversely across ed the works;he got possession of the whole | the square in the direction of\the Bastion. fOrtexcept._uue IuleOl’LfllllbUi’d’fflg—tbe pow- This he reached before any one could over- der magazine. The Ereatbody of the mu- {take him. 'Then vaulting upon one of thet tineers fell into their hands ; and,upon reck- embrasures, he hurried on to the verge of oning up their prisoners, they found that the searped wall, and plungec instantly into the post they had fuiled in carrying, was| the ditch below. tie fell, down a descent gagrigzoned by siz men only ! 'This building, of perhaps sixty feet ; but alighting on soft situated nearly inthe centre of the fort, al ground, was still alive when the party of sort of. Acropolis, was not defensible in. it- {soldiers discovered him from the heights self ; but, a8 containing an inmenge store above, and fimshed the pangs ofdeath,strug- of amomfinition,' was a gigantic weapou \1D gling and protracted“ almost beyond a par 'the hands of these desperate men. It was ialiel. | - in vain to sttempt force; they knew that ___ [Concluded next week,} their last and easy resource would be as fa- ' - - . ya! to themselves as to the miltineers. Threats were equally incfféctive; and all 4 a NEW YORK PRICES CURRENT. CoRRECTED WEEKLY. _ * _ tet . n+ Mh » f «.a ASHES, Pot, first sort | -.- ton $1682 80 a- Peart, 142 859 a -- BEESW AX, White, ib. 40° &. s £00 - a & ‘ Yellow, .CLOTTON, New Orleans e Upland Alabama . .T. Gg&BEK wEopine. o_. [From the Philadelplia Chronicle.] a. -o Stpenugth,it is additionally guarded bf the BoE c u ,v i i wot a B- % 6 outwor ks :w} nch extend and rainify with the ~ pf tie ground itself, until they fall 1 (<- the Cotonera Lines,-a series 'of com- [- a L - municating fortificatiqns in the interior,plan- med, 1 believe, and in part executed, by French engineers, during the occupation of ~- the lsiana by Napoleon. From the sea, this %> fort, if tolciably garrisoned, would be quite impracticable. From the land side it could only be reacues by surmounting a long suc- cession uf strongly defended posts at each of wich the assuilants would be subject to |} itnmeuse, alinost insuperable disa dvanlages of position. +s e It was here, then, that Fipberg's Regi- ment was destined to pass its puviciate, and in order to perfect thein still farther than their first commanders unassisted could have done, an English drill serjeant or two, with an officer, were appointeu to the same duty, and some arstillery-men, as usual, re- maumed in the garnson to superintend the guns, Suil however, the German adjatant and his co-operators had the cuieft burthen Of metifsodizing these crude elements, and thei severity might not have been more | than is indspensable among Germans. But the inajority of the soldiery, having been lured with very specions but hollow promis es of projessional dignity, found this system ~ neither accordant to their expectations, nor congenial with the free irregular lives they had formerly led A frequent use 'of bodily punishment, aud that, too often inflicted at the momentary caprice of any superior offi- cer, gave thein a distaste both to the. ser _ vice and its employes. Some scarcely re- pressed the angry leinpet with which they seceived tue arbitrary orders of their com- mandefso, and when at last a few remon- strances were made by tlie more inpetu- ous, and followed by increased severity, thete sgcued little wanting to., circulate through cae whole corps that nutlinous spir- it which sad airéady immade way in 'the ima gray. Tis event was got long delayed. ising up against their officers, this wild - crew -proclanned themselves aindepenpent, . killing sume of their superiors, expelling ' others, and finally closing the gates against the whole garrison of Va.Jletia, In their strong uold tuey bade defiance to the nu- merous troops that were at that time sta- tione a on tho Island ; and thé dubious mea- ' sures of the military governor, then gecond ¢ in command, General V-----,50 far as- & - mem, as to leave nothing to be dread- \Ad but the consequences 'of the' blo:kade, whioh was diligently established fortliwith . milder negotiations were prohibited by the stern policy 0-General V -, who insist» ed unly upon iinmediaie 'and unconditional aurrender. _. - . - Leaving affairs within Fort Ricasoli this circuinsfanced,the fate of the prisoners,who were captured on the night o? the assault, deserves to be recurded.-Most uf these were senfenced, of course, to death ; some alone appalling and remarkable; but .. ly so from the want of any, precedent of the the English. Military punishments bad hitherto been kept within the lim- its ; and now that for the first time, an oc- casion was presented of putting into exe- cuting the mortal sentence of marual law, it seemed that the judgment of those who were responaible for the adiministration of that law had become paralyzed,or was star parations for inflicting the final. punishment 'and gibbet were as awkward. and cruel, as the executioner was timid and inexpert. Tales weie told.of the sufferings and pro- Jongation of misery, at which our nature shudders, and for which we cannot be com forted but in the revengeful consciousness of those retributive pangs which the blun- dering supervisors must themselves have endured. But those who received the oth- \hantled than their unfortunate comrades. Careless of the mode, so the mere letter of the sentence were observed, this ill fated troup were brought out to be shot, pinion- ed, indeed, but not blind-folded ; and thus exposed, not merely to anticipations of a torturing death,hastene ! by their own wrong bat to the more wretched power of ubsery- ing and distinguishing all the minute plans and preludes to their suffering; slowly and drearily lengthened out betore their eyes. There is a French paintiug representing a military criqunal sentenced 'to the same death ; he is kneeling before his messmates: who are drawn'up in a line to fire, and a dog, his own household animal, has broken away from a party of by -stanters to caress hipr once more, and add a new pang to his last farewell. The nation from whom the artist gprang, indulges in such conceits ra- ther p‘amfufi , but not truly . The specta- tor acknowledges the sentiment; but the cria.inal on the threshold of cternity,. cannot be drawn back even in thought,-nor will to be executed, others shot. 'The fact of so many criminals condemned to die,; was Kind singe the Island became a possession of tled away froin its due ezercise.-The pre- were slow and imperfect., 'The scaffolding: er sentence, if possible, were more horribly. The description of a Greek wedding, in the annexedextract from a letter by a young, officer of our nuvy, is a lively picture of the manners of the Levent, Theletter is dated Smyrna, Dec 1, 1828 -and addressed to one 'of the writegs nearest relations: +, , I was invited the other day to a Greek wedding,. and was a kind of groomsian, on the occasion, - Affer collécting all the com- pany at the house, amounting to Rearly for- tf} we each took a lady,anud contimenced our 'procession to the church, about a furlong distant, flanked on each side, and at a dis- carrying largo.-lanterns, with three candles in each. - The streets of this place areabout wen feet in width, very dirty and very badly paved. On our arrival at the church, we 'knelt\down and the Armenian bishop com- anid there. with latip, the marriage ceremo- ny. . No ope said a word save the bishop & 'his assistant, who made regular respolises, and told the bride and he declared them man and wife, and we entered the vestry room to witness the sig- nature of the marriage contract.. That done, we departed in the same manner we came Meanwhile, the wmhabitants of every house which we had passed or our -way to the church, \were prepared for our return=--and with and pelted with sugar all sizes and Hinds I received a blow on niy cheek,the effects of whic 1 feltali next day ; and several of the ladies were hurt, though better prepared for the pelting, as they expected it. On our arrival to the house, we were re- up stairs (évery body lives on the #econd floor) to thattunc. As soon as the bride was seated,.the fun commenced. The kissed her first, and then eveg bod 'ed so good an example; so that' 'ved about forty kisses. Afteral | the bride, we commented -kiss® maids, and then every womandi old and young, handsome aB handsome girls receivemi times as many as theft strangers}, were nami cone: kiss was al i therefore avi 1 never a tance from each other of ten feet, by boys, entered the chancel, the bride and grooin | , menced in modern interspersed heré® room when to ex-: change rings, which was all they did inthe |. ceremony. - After at least twenty minutes, . 1 scanthog, Pine .M ft . ' 0 - we were'deluged with otto of roses, diluted lums of - ceived by the band of an Austrian man of |g, war, playing 'Hail Colnmbia,' and marched {¢ Live, Foreign Of American _ C1sH, Dev Cod ewt Pickled Cod _._ bbl | * :Fall Mackerel, No 1 bbl *\auvy ngb . No 8 - 40. . _- Shad, Connecticut Mess 750 FLOUR, N: York sup'fne,- bhi, 37 Westers Canal 8 50 Philadelphia - Rye Flour Indian Meal <> '-GRAIN, N. River Wheat, bush * Genesee Rye Corn, yellow, nortb white, L I & Jersey , Sonthern Bagley ° e Oat >) - c >: ol . Peas, white, Iry 7 bush 4° ~ | * Black eyed. bush | \ Beans, per tierce, 7 bush -8 50 a . LEATHER, Sole, Oak lb. 22° Hemlock _. 40 # Dressed Upper 1 15 a LUMBER: Undressed 'do | Boards, northern Pine M ft _. 1‘s\ : ® . * « ak = - T:mber, Ouk sq ft: stares, W O ngg M hha 87 ~ Heading, W O Hoops, new ‘ HOLASSES, Hava. # AST cm\ or PLASTER, ton A * pBR Beg; it; . such a petty association waken any new te- AME \grete, or startle feelings that have not had {The lad@® their full excitement. But a real and tan- {out thai gible cruelty was inflicted . 6° these men;! Syl ; whose gyes‘,restiq% on the fire-locks of their hill executioners, could watch: eac# look ' moveme W‘sn‘ticipatefdeéeiv'vi, tos till the distinctops between |d wo o ne? are : w , 'Ainong the rest who . still were - imprisoned witht the fort, weresome English officers; ~ one of artillery particularly, who of cuoltse, . were compelled to seryé6 with the mutin: eers,- point their gang; their machap: BK | cal works, and threateir the-commurity in. t which they could number. pcthig zbquimnfis‘ liggunatry men, aod kindred, ''Phe officer ally- $0 bore no small share n:tbase un natai- UB iyi ‘(|. and, ithe4nefi’e‘9 he; men ,w\ tg AM c aad, bis mind, and', a d;
