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H in I A private Soldier's uccount OF THE Battle of Waterloo. Copy of a Letter from Johu Lewis, a private in the 95th regiment rifl. corps, to his parents at Axminster. France and not only that, hut in Paris, July 8, 1815. thank God. Hear Father A Mother, 1 make no douUthul you have heard of the glorious news, and I suppose you thought I was killed or wounded, but yesterday is the first day we have halted since the beginning of the bat tle on the 8th of June, and my hands are swelled so with walking day and night, that l scarce can hold my pen. I do nut know w hart he English neivs ahout tlie liattle, hut, papers say thank God, I am living, and was an eye witness to the beginning of the buttle—to the end of it ; but my pen cannot explain to you, nor twenty sheets of paper would not contain, what I could say about it; for thank God, I had my strength and health more on the days we were engaged than I had in my iil'e; so what 1 am going tn tell you is the real frnth ; bat I think my brother Tom. as lie is such a scholar, if lie was to look in the newspapers, lie might see what officers was killed and wounded of the 93th regiment ; we have hut six com panions in the country, and after the battle we were only 255 privates; 3 colonels, 1 major. 15 officers, 11 ser jeants, and 1 bugler were killed ; my first rank man was wounded by part of a shell tlier-igh his foot, and he drop! as we was advancing ; I cover ed the next man 1 saw, and had not walked twenty steps before a musket shot e.inie sideways and took his nose clean off; and then I covered another man, which was the third; just after that the man that stood next to me on my left hand Ind his left arm shot away by a nine pound shot just above his elbow, and lie turned round and caught hold of me with his right ha.t.i, ..ad tin* Blood run all over my trousers; w- w-is advancing and lie dropl liicci-tly. After this, was or dered to extend in front of all our large guns, an I small arms was firing at the British lines in our rear, ami J declare to God, with narguns and the French guns firing over our heads, my pen cannot explain any thing like it; it was not -Mill yards from the French lines lo our British fint -, and wo was about 150 yards io fi, mit of ottr*s, so we Was about 25 > yards from the French and s .ncti ties rot 1 >0 yards, so 1 leave you to judge if ! hati nut a narrow escape of my life : as f just said, we notv extended in front ; Honey's imperial horse guards all tdoliied in armor, made a charge at us; we saw them coming, and we s I closed in an i formed a square ju»i as tin > came within ten y ids of us am! they fourni ihn could do no gooti with us; they fired v.iih their carbine on us, and mint* to the rightabout di rcr.lly, and at that moment the man on my right hand w is shot through the hotly, ami tin; Idood can out at hi helly ami buck like a pig stu. k in the throat; he dropl on ills side; i spoke to hi n, he just said, Lewis. 1 am done j'' and died directly Aii this time we kept U p a constant fire at. tin ittiperi I guards as they retre.; cd. hut I hey often came to tiie right about ami fired; and, as l was loading my rifie. one ol* their » nfs came at d r , sti ie k my rifle, not two inches above try left hand ns I was ramming doive tit» ball with my right hand,and broke the stm k, and bent the barrel in SU' It a manner th ,( J could not get (lie hall down; just at that time tie extended again, and nty rill" was no use. tome ; a nine pound shot came and cut the serjeant of our company right ia two, he was not above three files from me, so I threw ilutvii my rille and went and turn. Ids rifi", as it. was not hurt at the time.—Wc hod lost both our col oui Is, major, and two eldest tains, an ! only a y„ui command of its ; as for colon,i Wade he was sent to England about three weeks before the battle, had lost so many men and all our com manding officers, my heart began to fail, ami Boner's guards made another 1 barge on ns; hut we tirade them re treat as before, und while we was in square the second time the Duke of Wellington and his staff came up to us in all the fire, and saw wc hail lost cur comm.Hilling officers; himself, gave the word of command : the words lie said to cap captain to taki our regiment were this. "95th unfix your swords, left face ami extend yourselves once rnot'p, we shall soon Iiave them over the other hill;"—and then he rode »way on our right, anti how heeseap ed being shot God only knows, for all tbal time the shot was flying like hail stones. This was about four o'clock on the 18th June, when lord Welii*g. t u rode away from our regiment ; and when we advanced like Britons, but we could not go five steps without S'u'ing a all he, walking over theJfcfttHMMl wounded ; Ind Honey's horses of Ä*e imperial guards, that the men was feillcu, Wfts running loose about in all directions. H our Tom had been a little behind in the rear, he might iiave oatehed horses enough to have had a troop or two like sir .John Delapole. Lord Wellington declared to us this morn ing that it was the hardest battle that he had ever seen fought in his life; but now, thank God, all is over, and we are very comfortable in Paris, anil I hope we shall remain here and have christmas dinner in Puris^f London cannot compare to it; 1 hard ly knew how to spare time to write this, for I want to go about the city, for it is four o'clock anil the letters go ofT at five ; hut 1 must say a little more on the other side:—We was all very quiet in quarters till 15th June, when the order came all at once, it twelve o'clock at night, for every man to he ready in one hour, and march at one o'clock: there we was all in a hustle, and off we goes, and it was not light, there was no moon : the order was, that the French was making dif ferent movements on our left, about twidlty-two leagues from us; mind the day of the month,—T sav this day, the 'Kith, we inarched till eleven o'clock that night which was twenty (wo hours march for us the first day. and we walked thirteen leagues in that time, or thirty-nine English miles; being dark, general Clinton ordered us to lie down on the road side for two hours; so we halted, and every man.got hair pint of real rum to keep up his spirits; weselotF again at ten o'clock in the morning ou the seventeenth day of June, anil marched nine leagues, about four o'clock in the afternoon;—then we was in front of the enemy, hut the rain fell su hard that the oldest sol dices there never saw the like in their life; I really thought that heaven and earth was coming together. There was a few shots tired on both sides that night, hut the guns would not go ulf. \\ c was on one long hill, and (he French on another, facing us ; there a or our an ; is in the the 3 my he not on and French on another, facing us ; there was a large wood behind us. and lord Wellington told us to get wood, and make us large fires, and dry ourselves, and get our guns fit by day, as the enemy could not hurt us. So we made large tires ami they was about four miles in length ; and when the French saw il. they did the same, ami it was me of the most beautiful sights ! ever saw ; ami Mie next morning as it was light we went at it ding-dong, und druvi all before us. till yesterday Mie 7ih July, that we entered Paris'; hut ever since the loth June, till 7th July, we have only laid down on lia ground with our clothes on; so leave you to judge if I am not fatigued mu. Biuctier rode by the side of I.. Wellington yesterday, tilt-niv d Paris; As we was on toe .filer the French*artny. •ve came lo. the people was all i<<- ! i'aris, and had taken a wav whit i ■ as > a. ,1 ev r odd ; ami British, Prussian ai ■insstan army, broke their houses >pen and plundered wlmt was most mid, and .set tire to some. Wine was oore plentiful than water, for all their eliai's was lull of wine, the same «« , ticker's is fall of cyder, und (let was tit" H»st. place tli" soldiers broke »pen. I have often been in cellars, and w hat wine tie could not drink and •■any away, broke in the hc.o.s of the casks and let it run uliout. Mittr-lird through towns as large Exeter, und in t a person l but all locked up and window shut ters fastened. There is at this time, upwards of 790,01)0 soldiers in We HS : ton. Parts and the suburbs; Init as for Honey >ml his army, it is gone, God knows where. \\ hen 1 have my answer to this, shall write yon again. Hope to sleep sound to-night, so no mote front your uifeclionale. sort, JOHN LEWIS. From the Liverpool Courier, April lfi The lieforniers. Popular reason, it has been oltserv mudness. corro ei), »an alone cure popular — The truth of til is position is berated by the evidence of history. B> the nostrums of knavish demagogues, a great proportion of the lower das " o> the propl ■ of this country has bc»n precipitated into a most violent »hd unnatural phrenzy. \\ hilbt the mania rages with vehemence, all at tempts to restore tlie imliappy patient to sanitykv ill he in ilectual : "it is only by watching its intermissions, anil rightly improving the opportunities which they afford of reasoning with tint unfortunate stillerer, that we aid in curing him of his malady, Wc flatter ourselves that the British pe - pie have passed the crisis of ihcirdis order, and coincide with the hope ex pressed by Lord Sidrunutli, in his let ter of thanks to the Boron»h ; Ae. of Manchester, that « the public tranquility will not agaio he endan gered." (tan reaves. a in go South American News. TranslatedJ'or the »V. F. Ev. Post. Extract of a letter from the Island of Trinidad, to a gentleman in this city, dated the lith of last month. The affairs of Venezula are every day assuming a better aspect. By the official communication of the pat riotick general Paez. who commands in Barinas, to Gen. Bolivar, dated the 28lli of February, we have seen that on the 18th of the same month, the eoyal army, headed by Murillo, loon infantry and 800 cavalry strong was attacked by the republican forces, commanded by General Paez, coin, posed of 1300 cavalry. The cavalry of the royalists were completely rout ed and the infantry were obliged (o form in solid column in order to se cure its retreat to the mountains of Apure; from thence they continued their retreat to the hanks of the river San Fernando de Apure and \imrito. without the fear of being pursued, as the patriotic force in that pari was altogether cavalry. The royal army lost, in tins engagement 300 horses, ihrer drums, a quantity of ammmti tinn, many muskets and carbines, and an immense number of lances, ninny irisoners, and some of the baggage of the s,tiff. The prisoners sdy that this a as all die force Murillo took from Sew Grenada. The particular situe, l ion of the patriot urm.v, and thé re sources in its power, seems to promise complete success to the p tiiotic ause. By the. accompanying bulletins you will see that our cause is progres sing by tribes in the east pact ol Ve nezuela, and liiot having once secured Giinzrna by nur arms the emancipa tion of the wanlc country will he the last result of this painful hut glorious task. Copies of several official reports of the Republican Generals. From General Piur. commanding in the province ot Guayana, to Gene ral Bolivar, supreme chief of the republic. I'lte inhabitants of the department ot Caroni. who till now had taken ot Caroni. who till now had taken no part in the war, have hastened lo offer timttiselvcs from the moment they could es ape the tyrant. The twenty nine loans, of which it consists, decidedly for the cause ofi liberty. Thisdniiiiti-v presents the most allur ring |tr.is|.. -is. on account of its a hunthinc'i •til ,.f ■ t ■ ant dies, anil i tin licence ofi the people. Th» towns are respectable It'id III» fields well : nltivated—O :r arms have gained throughout the aist cxtennwlin. ry renown, and have procure the utmost re to cotui-iuc in this province till tlm whole ul' it he free. • o to li-ei i t . xll'emily I w 11 any an,is e arid teertih'i'i h.tillages ti'ich are ant a:-t met with, and iifoiii must a i'iled w!.' a one.» obtained, Grm ia, Fcbrcro In, • -l. I think l lie enet iy i '•ii'i a. - ,ett i tie cu i t s itir t. S i. at . ; Signed) Mis Ex. the supreme chief. From the same to the same. MANUEL pi t» We arrived yesterday the 230 mst. ti the Prcg.i, and we only met with an advanced post men. tv ho were re consisting of six onnoilcring for the Me took three of them, who acquainted me with the condition uul strength of Guayana, and that the commander. Tnrrâlha was posted about a league from tl in •many. irre ; I there upon determined to march to it with 00 men, and destroy the only enemy who could in any way molest took the necessary measures to take I them by surprise; which although not entirely successful, owing to the roughness of the roads, ami two ad vanced posts ofi the enemy, yet he however, completely routed; and in such man er that only seven men could return to the fortress o(' the W- took one hundred priso ners. Upwards of 150 men threw themselves into a lake, and u as lawn. doubt whether 50 of them have been saved; they lead many killed ami wounded, and the remainder so dispersed in t|„. IlleUIlt .ins,' tll.lt - think it impossible lor them to return to their respective regiments. We have taken trom the enemy (iuo horses, all their equip, merits und stands of arms, and tin' f,.' w cattle they had out of the fortress. All of which 1 have the honor to communicate to your excellency. If. oft' Guayana, Feh. 2i, 1817 (Signed) MANUEL 1*1 All. His Ex. the supreme chief. 1 Report from general Cedcno, acting under the orders of Gen. Piar, on llie south of the proviuee of Guay ana, to gen. Bolivar. J I hope your excellency will do me justice to believe, that there is noth ing I so mut It desire us to see myself by the side of your exc-lien-v, con tnbut.ng with all my fort », and co operating with all the means within reach io the re-establishment nl the republic, with all that zeal and patriotism with which I have always employed myself in the service of my country, and upon which I establish »II my glory. Previous to this time I have informed your excellency of the condition of the country in which I have made war, and of the resour ces it contains to prosecute it. My not receiving any communication from your excellency ou this subject, and (lie wants which you are in of some of said resources, as evinced by your excellency's official letter of the 10th of January, which colonel Beler put into my hands, induces me to appre hend that tiie correspondence lms miscarried ; in conscqnence whereof I am obliged to repeat, that in the department of Cayeara there are at your excellency's disposal and for the service of the army, 2.000 tame hor ses, from 30 to io.ooo wild mares, upwards of 1000 mules, and many other valuables, which I have taken from the enemy, and which now be long to the republie out of which your excellency may order to he sent l;n that quarter, what you may think necessary. They pass by Tuearagno Rio dato appears to me the safest: and it is easier to send the detach ments from San Diego dc Carhutica to conduct them, by giving an order •ilizcn Melian Iiolivar, .-ommand •of thatdepartmert, tA deliver them, and facilitate their exportation. Miink this a powerful aid in the pre sent circumstances. May it please your excellency to accept the homage of my considera tion. my OP hi • ■I 1 11. Q. at Alta Gracia, February to, 1817. (S'gned) Mis Ex. the supreme chief. MANUEL CFDENO.L In a burlesque descriptive of the performance of a celebrated actress on the Edinburgh theatre, when it was fashionable to extol, with the ill most exaggerat ion of praise, the tumid style is finally ridiculed, and the most austere of our readers will smooth their brows at the following : Port Folio. , about whom •til the world has been talking, expo sed Iter benefit adamantine, soft and lively person, lor the first time, in the theatre royal, it: the bewitching, melting, and all tearful character ol' Isaheila. The house was crowded with hundreds more than it could hoîtl, with thousands of admiring specta tors that went away without a single sight. Tli is extraordinary phenomenon ,.f tragic excellence, this star of Mel pomene this comet of the stage, this ■ mi in t lie firmament of the juuscs, tins moon of the blank verses, this queen amt princess of tears, this des ,.t of poisoned bowls, this empress Usty Fusty of the pistol and dagger. :s eltnos of Shaktqtear this world o r t reping clouds this Juno ofuotnmantl •g aspect, this Terpsi.hor- of the :■ i-i;>in and see rs, this Proserpine 'fi fire and earthquake, this Kitterfel ■ of wonders exceeded expectation, went beyond belief and soared above til description. Site was nature ; she was tin* most exquisite work of art; ■ rt ; she was the very dairy and prim rose, turtle rose, •aulilloivcr Yesterday Mrs wall llowcr, atni too, sweet briar, furze blossom, gilly flower, ami rosemary. In short she was the very hoquet of Parnassus. Several fainted before the uitain drew up—the very fiddlers in the orchestra blubbered like hungry children for their bread and butter ; one. hundred and nine ladies fainted ; forty six went into tits and ninety live had strong hysterics, hardly credit I lie assertion, that f 4 children, five old women, a one han ded sailor, and six common council man were actually drowned in the inur. lation of tears that flowed from the galleries and boxes to increase the briny flood in the pit. The water was three feet deep, and ( lie people, that were obliged to stand upon the benches were in that situation, up to their ancles in tears. Nature, surely, in 0fle of her smiling days, in one of iter weeping months, and in one of her all The world will sorrowing years made this hutiiuu lump of clay perfection. • «fa New York, May 27, Since the 15th March there have arrived at New York, from foreign P'O'ts, upwards of two hundred and lilty vessels, w hielt brought about 1600 passengers. S '*'P Fame, arrived at 1 iuladelpliiaon Saturday from Giiern sey, with loo qassengers. Baltimore, May 30. A Strawberry which grew in a garden in this city, measuring three inches and three quarters in circum eivnce, was brought by a gentleman to the federal Gazette Office this morning. From the JV*. V. Daily Advertiser. Monday. June 2. lsir. Dull Times." u In a scasun of universal langur in (he regions of news and politics, when there is no European war nor révolu lions to engage the public attention, excite its sympathy, or alarm its fears it is very apparent that news-paper editors must experience tnuchdiffivu 1 - ty in making up their papers from day to day, and from week lo week, with vigor enough to make them pass tolerably among their readers. This difficulty is the more severely felt at the present time, because the old re lish for tumult, and blood-shed In not entirely subsided, hut there is still to he found amongst mankind a good deal or anxiety to hear something of the boisterous and sanguinary charac ter of the times that are now passed, and gone. Uninterestin even , ; however, as the events of die present times are com pared with those which we have lately witnessed, the evil of the : sent sits more heavily upon the "edi tors, than upon their readers—for verily believe that dullness is more lull to him that prepares it, than to him for whom it is prepared. Nor do we think, notwithstanding this is considered as emphatically the charit able age, that any great share of that cheistain virtue is extended to editors. What an astonishing difference is there between the present times and the past ! A few years since, and tiling was easier than,to fill paper, even if it was the largest that was ever published in this country. Then almost every arrival brought us a Bulletin or some tremendous battle, an account of the capture of some cap ital, the dethronement of some mo narch, the annihilation of some stale or nation, the creation of some new sovereign, some terrible naval battle, Ac. Ac. On subjects of (his sort, the public attention is instinctively turned and fastened with the greatest possi ble degree of eagei ness and force.— \L such seasons, newspapers are in demand, and editors in high repute, ami however low the slate of taste for general literature may have become in the country, it never failed to rise to (he level of that which is contained .T so pie vve no a news r in the publiu gazettes. »Vow, all is changed. In the room of bulletins, and battles, »ml ;5on» parte, we have cutworms, and locusts, and frosts, and drought, and spots on the sun, and seasons deranged—hard winters, cold buck ward springs, prog nostications'of a barren summer, and approaching 'famine. If there is any amusement in all this it must he to hypochondriacs, who dwell with de light on such subjects ;—and, indeed, upon all subjects that are gloomy. A discouraging. Hut who can calculate a newspaper fur persons of this tem per.—who consider it as next to com milling the unpardonable silt to laugh and whose music, if prepared by them - selves, would consist only of a single tune, and that, would he We do not wish to mur Funeral Thought. mcr. or repine— résignation would he a much more useful frame ofi mind, both in editi rs and readers. Those of us, indeed, who are naturally dull, enjoy a real hem fit in the times—we charge our own peculiar characteris tic quality to the times. But to those, fetv who arc of a more lively and bril liant east of mind, we ran scarcely conceive of a more trying predicament than that in which they arc now pla ced—without one cheerful or enliven ing subject at home, to call torch the powers of their minds, or the trea of their understanding, and nothing abroad, except the disturban ce* in Smith America, of which we know hut little, and that little is lull as well calculated to depress as to exalt their spirits, or their genius. ; ; sures Cobbett and the Democrats. From the Albany Daily Advertiser. We are pleased to find that although most of our democratic editors had the arrival of Cobbett, as a powerful champion in their cause, whose labors arc to contribute largely to the sup port anil permanency of democracy •>'• this country, yet there are others ol them, who possess too much of the proud spirit of Americans, to feel willing to accept the unprincipled turn-coat us their oracle. We men tion with pleasure,,' that while the most of these prints are lating the public" upon and singing hosannas to his name, the American Feoman, published at Brat tleborough, Vt. and the Saratoga Courier, are not thus deeply infected with jacobin madness. The senti ments of these journals upon the sub ject, while they betray an honest in dignation at the obsequiousness ot their brethren, to the man, who per haps has abused our country, and some of our greatest anil best men. more than any other, arttie same time breathe n spirit purely American. The Feumun intimâtes that the lie a " congratu his arrival,