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LADY'S MISCELLANY.

NEW-YORK, MAY 12, 1810.

The price of the Misceldany is reduced to Two Dollars per annum.

The Office of the Lady's Misellany is removed to No. 317 Water-st. two doors south of Roosewelt-street.

Those of our patrons who have changed their residence, will please give notice at the office, in order that they may be served regularly.

A lady from France states, that Bonaparte has ordered a monu ment to be erected to the memory of Louis XVI. to be raised at the place of his execution; and that the anniversary of his decollation shall be kept as a national fast.

TORNADO A gentleman just arrived from the upper parts of the state, has communicated to us in substance, the following distressing information.

On Wednesday the 28th ult. the citizens of Laurens county were awakened, a little before sun rise, with an incessant flood of rain, and a frequent falling of trees. In about twenty minutes the alarm became general, and the destruction of every object round seemed to be threatened by ane of the most violent tornadoos

perhaps ever witnessed in Geor◄ gia. So great have been its ravages, that whole forests have been laid prostrate, and some of the finest highland in this state rendered a heap of ruins. Many of the best plantations have become unfit for immediate cultivation; houses, fences and stock have been swept away or destroyed; and the distress of the planters (many of whom were new settlers, and had just began to surmount their difficulties) is indiscribable. Some of them have lost their all, having neither a horse to plough,

nor a cow to milk.

The width of the tornado is supposed to have been about two miles; but its extent has not been ascertained. It passed over the Oakmulgies, about the 7th distriet of Baldwin, in an easterly direction. Sav. Rep.

Such is the progress of our settlements that a Gazette is propo sed at Zanesville in Ohio. Of Nashville in Tenessee it is said,

that 31 years ago it was uninhabi

ted, and not a white man was within 20 miles of it, but it now contains a property assessed exceeding 300.000 dollars, with a population of nearly three hundred persons, among whom are many artificers.

The London Statesman of Feb. 5, says The object of Colonel Burr's visit to Paris, is said to be

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to submit to the French executive a project for disuniting the American States, and for other measures of effectual hostility, in the event of a rupture between the two countries. Mr. Burr communicated his plans to our govern ment, together with his views of the means necessary for their execution; at the same time announcing his determination of applying to France in the event of his proposals being rejected.

The following are the names and ages of the adults who have been inter red in this city and at Potter's Field during the two weeks ending on May 3th, 1810:

Henry Howe, aged 28, John Coffin 31, John Coleman 78, Hetty Dezeny 30 George Nuller 30, Mary Richardson 60, James Main 34, Dorothy Patten 33, Mary Dougherty 19, Margaret La Boulay 63, Jonas Hussant 55, Fanny Cassady 50, John Smith 62, George Halley 20, Captain Whitney 27, Baltus Kearns 18, Abigal Conti 25, Thomas Howlett 59, Dorothy Ellsworth__70, Catharine Slade 45, Elizabeth Coon 87, John Ross 20, Mary Rose 23, Michael Parker 50, Richard Stoddard 35, Benja· min Stratton 73, Margaret Brown 40, Mary Johnson 27, James Gaugh 41, John Grant 30, Catharine Sweetman 45, Tone 21, Bryan M'Gowan 34, Conal Devolon 36, Madam Bernard 81, Michael Gardner 47, Jane Powers 50, John Rankin 52, Jane Munday 27, Amy Brown 39, Margaret Renard 40,

James Haga 25. Flora Sampson 70, Margaret Madlen 42, Charles Stewart 47.

JAMES HARDIE.

MARRIED,

On Saturday evening, by the Rev. Mr. Cooper, Mr. William B. Cozzens, to Miss Sarah Martling Evener, adopted daughter of Abraham B. Martling, all of this city.

A few days since, by the Rev. Mr. Guisenhimer, Mr. Issucher, Cozzens, jun. to Miss Mary Ann Spinks.

On Sunday evening last, by the Rev. Mr. Bartow, Capt. Benjamin Hunt, of East Chester, to Miss Ann Doughty, of the former place.

At Athens, Capt. James Foster, of New-York, to Miss Ann Colston, of Athens.

On Saturday evening, by the Rev. Mr. Williams, Mr. Thomas Smith, to Miss Henrietta Gatley, both of this city.

At Sag-Harbor, by the Rev. Dr. Woolworth, Mr. Nathan Cook, to Miss Polly L'Hommedieu, daugh.. ter of Samuel L'Hommedieu, Esq.

DIED,

At New Jersey, Captain George M'Aroy, aged 78, commander of one of the first continental vessels.

At Philadelphia, Jacob Broom, esq. of Delaware, member of the convention which formed the federal convention.

At Baltimore, on the 6th inst. Miss Euphemia White, daughter of the late Dr. Daniel White, of Westchester, in the state of NewYork.

At Elizabethtown, Mrs. Rachel Freeman.

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OR,

WEEKLY

THE

VISITOR.

FOR THE USE AND AMUSEMENT OF BOTH SEXES.

VOL. XI.]

Saturday, May 19,....1810.

THE TRIUMPH OF TRUTH.

A TALE.

IN a gay and flourishing city in the north of England, resided your Steinfort and Eliza, characters equally celebrated for their personal accomplishments, but whose dispositions were the reverse of what they were represented by the world. Steinfort in whom a detestation of the frivolous pursuits of fashion, was supposed a detestation of every thing sacred and excellent, appeared to the eye of the world as a sullen misanthrope; though it was secretly whispered that his private hours were spent in secret revels and sensual gratifications. Eliza, in whom united a masculine understanding, with the most feminine sweetness, owed the false colouring of her character to neglected beaux and sighted admirers, who coneluded that nothing but a miracle of affection and coquetry could have remained insensible to their forced sighs and studied exclamations.— Such were the opinions of the world of the two amiable characters who had been mutually stricken with each other's person, with

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casual meeting in their walks, or sitting in the same box at the theatre; and had secretly lamented an incongruity of disposition which unfitted them for that happiness which each had eagerly anticipated from the ties of matrimony.Steinfort being one evening in a mixed company, who freely handled the reputation of their neighbours, perhaps even without a superficial acquaintance, heard his fair Eliza pictured as the child of caprice and the dupe of flattery, insomuch, that every sentence which magnified her charms or extolled her virtues, was answered with the sigh of desire, and a look that seemed to thirst for more.

Revolving these thoughts in his mind, he strayed into a neighboring grove to ruminate on the deception of appearances and lament that personal beauty should be the companion of mental deformity.Having seated himself beneath an embowering oak in a remote part of the wood, he began to philoso phize on his present state of mind. Those principles which had hith erto been his sole motive to ac tion, seemed sensibly to have lost their influence, and he endeavored

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