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PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND ADVERTISER.

CHARLOTTETOWN. SATURDAY, JUNE 15, rim.

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i [No. 363

cent, receive Mediterranean—— The fleet was a noble command. e of about twenty five sail of thu‘Iline, tw fa’hundred guns, and fiv rigates, and fifteen or ‘~'stxt ,essels. _ Among- the o i-i ames which subsequent

(RE,

ollingwood, 6w. an

ust tribute to the new a

The French fleet,

ain body cruised

tied, and sontliit

.' mndén‘tl ofthe b

tiritish, the admiral ha

, ith the conquering repu . Penl)’ hostile. - “(18. because Spain had fifty- °YOWd 0f llitigate ' The diflicu . ‘ n was new int-4% by the failure of provtsxons. d of November, the admiral sent

ld him that he now and had

raltar ,with all

"e night of the sé on it the master of the Victory, and to . . ‘d not the least hope of being reinforced, : ade “P his mind 1° Push down’to, Gib ossible dispatch. The passage became a stormy one, . 'risiderable difficulty that the fleet reached Gibraltar. ome of the transparts werelost, a ship of the line went . um, and several of the fleet were disabled, - The prospect now darkené’d round every .quarter 0‘ n. horizon. The power of Austria had given my, Holland were combined against our nava . - Italy was lost; a French, egpeditipnhthi’eal- ', - there was a strong pro .1 i ity o t e inva- ngggzgijgal; and the junction of the French and ' h fleets might endanger the .I‘agus fleet to th numbers so superior, as to leave I invasion. The domes- their share. The necessrty of if not thrown

at least given so formidablea

. it: and

encounter 'wi " 0 British shores open to G‘difliculties, too, had . ' riding can I

. rum upon the nation,

:5 u r t r g . WHAT [8 LIFE? And what is life? An hour glass on the run, A mist retreating from the morning sun; ‘ A busy, bustling,still-repcatin'g dream.'

Its length? A minute’s pause, a moment's thought.

And happiness? A bubble on the stream, '1 hat to the act of seizing shrinks to nought.

And what is Hope? The pnfl'in gale of morn, That robs ‘eacli floweret of itséem—and dies? A cobweb, hiding disappointment s thorn,

Which stings more keenly through the thin disguise.

And what is Death E 15 still the cause unfound? '1 lint dark mysterious name ofliorrid sound? A long and lingering sleep the weary crave. And Peace? \Vlierc can its happiness abound? Nowhere at all, save heaven and the grave.

Then what is Life? VVlten stripped ofits disguise, A thing to be desired itcannot be: Since everything that meets our foolish eyes Gives proofsuflicient ofits vanity. ’Tis but a trial all must undergo, To teach nnthankful mortals how to prize That happiness vain man's denied to know, Until he's called to claim it in the skies.

The following lines were sent With a white Rose from a lover ofthe House of York to his mistress ofthe House of Lancaster :'-— '

’Though a pale rose ofl'end thy sight, This in thy bosom wear:—

’Twill blush to find itself‘less white, Atid turn Lancaslrian there.

But iftliy ruby lip it spy, And kiss it thou sliould’st deign, With envy soon 't-vtll fade and die, And Yorltist turn again.

nitrraturr.

(From Blackwood’s Magazine.) THE BRITISH FLEET.

STATE OF EUROPE.

b payments at the Bank had,

the Victory could bring her guns to bear upon him, she thundered in two of her broadsides, Sweeping the Spa-

. .

iggogigied lfofite fallacies and bitterness-of the Opposition, p y to embarrass even the fortitude of the great zards E‘EHYZSHCEH now see how slightly all these ha- , y afi'ected the real power of Britain; and we now feel how fully adequate the strength of this ‘ extraordinary and inexhaustible country was to resist all obstacles, arid turn the trial into triumph. was busy, party predicted ruin, public men used every art to disptrit the nation and inflame the populfle' and the result was, a state of public anxiety of which do for-

mer war had given the example.

_It ts incontostihle that the ' tof the British" navy at this period of the war exhibit cimeris of British character—brave, intelligent, and in- defatigable men, ready for any service, and equal for all; With all the intrepidity of heroes, .possessing the birth- est science of their profession, and exhibiting at on thathqti-heartedness, and thit knowledge, which cave carrying Nelson and Collingw the British navy the command of the ocean. c if_ we were to assign the highest place where all were high, we should probably assign it to Lord St. Vincent, : The as an admiral. Nelson certainly, as an executive officer, put his helm down. defies all competition; his three battles, Copenhagen Aboukir, and Trafalgar, each of them a title to eminent; Sir Edward Berry, distinction, place him as a conqueror at the head of all. But an admiral has other duties than those of the line.‘ ofbattle; and for a great naval adtninistrator, ciplining a fleet, then supplying it w victory—Lord St. Vincent was perhaps the mast coni- pletetexample on record of all the combinerl,qualitios that make the British Admiral. his stern but salutary exactness of command. his incom- parable judgment, and his cool and unhesitating intrc- pidity, form one of the very noblest models of big mantl. All those qualities were now to be called int full exertion.

The continental campaign had left Europe at the England was now the only enemy, and she was to be assailed, in the first instance. by a naval war. To prievcnt the junction of the Spanish and French fleets, the Tagus was the station *d upon by Ill luck seemed to frown leOn the The Bombay Castle, a seventy-four, going in; the St. George, 3 ninety, grounded in coming out, and was obliged to be docked ; still the admiral de- termined to keep the sea, though his fleet was reduced The day before ht: left the Ta- gus, information was received that the enemy’s fleets had both left the Mediterranean. Brest, the Spanish, first to Tonlcn, then to Cartitngena, and was now proceeding to join the French at Brest. A line now fortunately joined the fleet off the Tngus; but at the same time in- formation was received that the Spanish fleet oftwenty- seven sail of the line, with fourteen frigates, had pasacd Cadiz and could not be far distant. junction of this immense force with the powerful fleet already prepared for a start in Brest, was of the utmost national importance; for, combined. they must sweep the Channel. The admiral instantly formed his plan, and sailed for Cape St. Vincent.

BATTLE OFF ST. viNan'r.

On the announcement of the Spanish advance the t was to gain exact intelligence, and ships were stationed in all quarters on the look ottt. otc, in the Niger frigatc,joined, with the he had kept sight of the enemy forthree al was now to have a new reinforce- n heroes; the Minerva frigate, from the Mediterra- Nelson shifted his pendant into the ly frigate, with Lord Garlics, was made, “To On that day.

Victory then tacked into her station, and the con

raged with desperate fury. At this period ofthe be

some of the noblest spe- waiting till his turn to tack should bring him into action.

into the ran an brunt of the battle. He now attac Captain’s fore topmast being now shot away, Ne! he might board the

'ing itito her mizen chains, ship; Nelson leading his boarders, and a party of llici immediately followed, and the colours While he was on the deck ofthe , disabled, firll on board.

first‘dis‘l69lh regiment, ith all the means of, were h San Nicholas, the San Jos -Ne|son instantly seized the o portunity of boarding her from his prize; followed by Captain Berry, and Lieu- tenant I’icrson of the 69th, he led the boarders, and u'mped into the San Josef’s main chains. He was then " informed that the ship had surrendered. 0 battle ships had now been taken,and the Santicsima Trinidatla had also struck; but she subsequently made her csca~ e, for now the Spanish leeward division, four- teen sail, having re-formed their line, bore down to sup- der-in-cliief; to receive them, Sir ged to form a line of battle on the starboard tack—the enemy immediately retired. Thus, at five in the evening, concluded the most brilliant battle that had ever till then been fought at sea.

His profound tactics,

Four line of

mercy of France. port their coniman Joli'i Jervis was obli

Lord St. Vincent.

RECORDS OF STEAM.

About 208, n. c., Hero, of Alexandria, contemporary with Ctebiscus, formed a toy which exhibited some of the powers of steam.

.=. o. 540.-—-Antliemius, tect, etnployed by in thcdisputc about the w ed by the eioqucnce of Zeno. Anthcniins arranged scveralcaldrons of water, covered by the wide bottom of a l rose to a narrow top, with pipes extc ofthe adjoining building. the caldron; the steam 0 through the tubes, and the hous forts of the imprisoned vapour. ofthe power of steam, as rec Stuart, in his work on the steam royal Spanish archives recordt tried a steam-boat of 290 tons, before Charles V., at Barcelona, o, the chancellor, opposed it, and i d ofa caldron of boiling water. and a move- able wheel on each side of the ship.

It consisted on the o ofthem e of ninety-eight; thirty six een sloops and other armed

to eight sail of the line. rho Farm" hm] “one ‘0 a mathematician and archi- Jtistinian to embellish Constantinople, oils of a house, was vanquish- To avenge the defeat,

flicers of the fleet were almost all the ly obtained distinction in the teat naval victories—Troubridge, Hollowell, Hood, d first of the first, that star of the ritish seaman, Nelson. It is remarkable, and only a dtniral. that he, almost from his A‘arliest intercourse with those'gallant men, marked h hitherto theyE‘had found no oppor- ', unities of acquiring distinctidh—all were to come. of fifteen sail of the line, lay in oulon, ready to convey an army to plunge upon the Ind Ann“)- " ornan states. Sir John Jervis instantly proceeded to ‘ lock up 1 onion, keeping what is called the in'-shorc quadron looking into the barbour’s month, while the i outside. The admiral at once em- 1 loyed Nelson on the brilliant service for which lie-was n with a flying squadron of a ship of he line, three frigates, and two sloops, to scour the . past of [any -The duties of the Mediterranean fleet, lowerful as the armament was, were immense. Inde- . lockade ofToulon, and the necessity '4 “Eda”! . continually watching the enemy’s fleet, which might é brought ottt by the same wind which blew off the d the responsibility of protecting AMES PE‘ 4: e Mediterranean convoys, of sustaining the British iti- “ rests in the neutral courts, I ore, of overawing [sen peculiarly rest ,e general supremac - ibraltar. . The French, campaign ope b i" 797, and the Austrians were beaten on the followmg :a‘y at Montenotte, and in a campaign . Ute reached Milan. The success of the enemy in— eased to an extraordinary deg to or Let!" i ritish admiral. The repairs 0 . , and every other circumstance connected With the

i' nd, lay under increased impediments ; but they Were igence of the

reinforcement ofsix sail of the

eatlier tube, which nded to the rafters s kindled beneath f the boiling water ascended e was shaken by the ef- This is the first notice orded by Gibbon.

engine, says, that the at “ Blasco dc Garsy with tolerable success, June 171b, 1543. Ra-

t was laid aside.

To prevent the

13th Captain F0

intelligence that " The expense of

the experiment was paid by the Government, and a pre- sent made to Gutsy.

The first railroad was constructed at Tyne, England, A. n. 1650. The first idea of the steam the Marquis of Worcester’s Century of inventions, It. 0.

ment, not in ships btit i bearing Nelson’s l nean, arrived. and

iroad pendant, Newcastle-on-

-Engine in England was in

arrived from Corsica. keep close or Lord Garlies,

der, and prepare for battle." Sir Gilbert Elliot, and Captain Hollowcll, dined on board the Victory. he toast was drunk, “ Victory over the le from which they cannot escape to-

. . A ‘ . - 0f ass'Slm‘s’ the “'1'” °” Neivcomen made the first steam-engine in

the Barbary powers, which were with some

less and insolent, and of upholding At breaking up 1 y of England, from Smyrna to

l H‘ , . m ‘er 0 we“ plied by Savsry for taking

Steam-engines were first ap r raising great quan-

ballast or gravelout of rivers, and fo Patents granted in London, I . fcct steam-engine in

Dons, in the bat! ' ' titres of water.

James Watt made the first per England, 1764.

The first idea of steam navigation set forth in a patent to J go against wi sod this appli roy constructed one on lh cans published on it, voyage in one in I789. ISO? the experiment In the meanwhile. Job gated a boat by I outlie Delaware, 1797.

Ramsey propelled a boat by steam at October, I782.

But it was Robert Fulton, who first brought steam naviga that it became success s. As early “1793, h be subject; soon after,

ned on the 9th of April, he Sign, was made to form astern of tli'éyi'ctory, so asto steer w cleared off, and the British formed iii the clasest order; hing in two straggling leaving an open space be- ividing their fleet struck and at half past eleven t rough the enemy's line, and engage At twelve o'clock, as the Culloden enemy, the British fleet poned her fire.

At forty minutes past ten t line ofbttttle ahead and The fog was no fleet were seen admirably while the Spaniards were stretc bodies across the horizon, The opportu the admiral at once, was made to pass t them to leeward. was reaching close hoisted their colours, An extraordinary inci occurred to this fine ship. r directly on boa The first lieutenant, Griffiths, tain, Troubridge. that” help it, Griffith the hero's reply. The two of her double shot with such tremen about, and th cast loose, she loden passed tr broken the enemy’s he order to tac manoeuvre was so da ral could not restrain his dc “ Look, Jackson,” he raptu at Troubrid if the eyes 0 God they were, 1 know him." The leewprd divis fatal consequences 0 eavouréd to through the Br

of a month Bona— r onathan Hulls, or a vc ree the diflicultics of the

fthe fleet, the t)r0ViSl011' cation in America.

e Soane, l78l.

ow menaccd the British suprema- The victories of Bonaparte d'terrified all the Italian states into neutrality or abso- te submission; and the success of the Dirgctorv, and rhaps their bribes, influenced the miserably, corrupt nd eble Spanish ministry to make common cause blic. Spain at last became 'Thiswas a tremendous increase of ha- seven sail of the line.

lty of blockading Tou-

and the Culloden o dent even in those colossal battles The course of the Culloden rd one of the enemy’s three reported to the llision was inevita he weakest fend off," was Culloden, still pushing on, fired ted broadside: into t fl'ect, that the three decker went f her other side not being even ot, while fie Cul- Scarcely had she snder-in-chief Troubridge’s bat the admi-

attention tot and France; examined 8 in 1803. in conjunction w rican Minister in France, the Seine—and succeeded in per tiou in l807, when he started I practical steam-boat, the “Clermont,” on river, at New York.

Ame-

did not fire a single sh iumphantly through. line, than the comm k in succession. performed, t light and admiration. ronsly exclaimed, "look ks his ship to battle as him; and would to see. him to chvhst

and it was with

furnisormrtrn' iron on is at last taking a righ between debtors and creditors, swindling, under the name dealt with where it ought to

and a jury of bones

fall Englaigd lie—before scrimiusl court, Nothing is mot and to socist at l f the bankrupt co sartlcss mandrel final exlrninstions, and to alter the commissio Lord Cottenh

perceiving the order of sailing and to break

ion of the enemy,

f their disuntted “flick”, o

dened and h

{the mortals?!» springs b' ‘ ' ‘ t to an ukpd, . . ld," lid nygl?:onut:in a money, and for it, and did not get it .;

hing up to the kin her station. reat apparent here be stopped; an

and was reac she had come “P to

ral stood on with g

till within pistol shot, but ‘t

with certificates, faced robberies.

" ' tiou determtna "wide rm “ch m

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“rovision that persons guilty of fraud should!» proceeded . g gainst criminally. and tried by sjury, and punished by niard’s decks, and so terrified him, that when hilJails ‘, imprisonment. if found guilty." This is so it should be; filled, he ran clear out of th? battle altogether. 'l‘heland we trust the clauses of'the bill on this subject will ict ‘; be rendered soclssr in the definition of what constitutes . tlle, I; fraud, that there will be no loopholes left for the ingenuity the Spanish commander-in-chief bore up with nine soil "of lawyers to creep through.

of the line to run round the British, and rejoin his lee- ward division.

Wc are not quite certsin,however,thst even imprison-

:nils “'33 3 {Olmldflblymamellflei bu} l mom will be an adequate punishment for some ofthe 2" 50°06? W“ H Fomfnencwi than i“! eye “"8” fl ' frauds that" the march of mind" has oflstc yours taught

whose greatest Wish I! ever was to be the first to find. . mm of talent to put in practice against honest and on. and foretnost to fight his enemy." Nelson. instead Orisuspicinn! tradesmen. Certainly cases have wt!“ be- . . lforc the Commissioners of Bankruptcy for which, if took it upon htmselfto depart. from the prescribed mode ' mural justice had been done to the parties implicated, if pf attack. and ordered his ship to be immediately wmcéthey had not been shielded under the name attrition, I'his masterly manoeuvre was completely succcsfil, tit once arresting the Spanish commaitder-iti-chicf, an l

we should have thought them fully entitled to s free pu-

d ,sagc to our Australian colonies. A man nt‘sy be on It'll d 3 guard against the comnton dcprcdstor: he may in sum 1 . . . ked ll“? {01" decker. ltlegrrc secure his property witlrbults snd bars—lie but the Santtssnna Trttudada, also engaged by the Culloden. lllle vigilance ofthe police '0 Infill him 9 IN" ll ll ‘3" son ' ficult to find protection from the plausible ingenuity ofs

and let her come to the wind, that . practised su'itidler, who assumes the mark of fair dealing. San Nicholas; Captain. afterwards Where there is no dintinction in the moral gill". '0 do me“ 3 Passenger ‘V'lh Nelson. j‘lmp- inot think there ought to be any in the punishment. In- was the ti .t in the enemy'sgtlependcuily, their-fore, of the ameliorating portion of

Lord Cottcuham'tt hill, nbolishingimprlsonmcnt for debt. which is the main object of it—we think his lordship has matured a material hon-tit on the trading community by his rquirabls dealings with fraudulent debtors.

Every reasonable mind, we imn inc, has been lon convinced of the total utility of imprisoning iin inso - vent debtor merely because he is insolvent; snd consi- deralile disappointment was experienced at the time, (in lS3S,) that the act for n'lishing srrctit for debt on tncstie process did not go one step further. Thst rte Lord Cottcnham has now taken, by proposing to sbolis imprisonment for debt on execution. Imprisonment in all ages has been n punishment indicted for the com- mission ofoffcncc, and, therefore. to justify the practice iii the clue of a debtor, it wo'uld be requisite to show the debt was contracted under criminal circumstances. It was on this principle that tltc insolvent chtors’ Act appeared to be founded; but that act was faulty both in its principle and in its practice; it began at the wrong end: it first inflicted the punishment, sud then inquired into the ofl'ence ; it was also faulty in practice, because the inquiry instituted before the court was rather to so- certain the available assets of the insolvent, than to in- quire whether the debts were fradulentl contracted or not. The object of the creditor is,‘o course, to get paid. and it is quit. proper that the means of the debtor should be sought after; but where there are on users. and no ft’sud, imprisonment, to II the least of El, must prove a very futile guarantee. t was ascertained by official returns, that the whole amount recovered by cre- ditors, through tltc instrumentslity ofthe Insolycnt Court, was so insignificant as scarcely to deserve notice, and far short ofthe expense to the country ofthe court itself. It certainly was some improvomcnt in the luv to abolish It‘- rest on menus process, but the great oviloi Imprisontfint, in which fraud and misfortune wcrc confounded, still remained untouched.