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  2. SLAVE TRADE.

    We lately gave some interesting facts relating to the slave trade as carried on by the French traders. The same source from which we furnished ourselves with we have already published on this head, provides us with the following ...

    Article : 1,185 words
  3. BANIAN TREE.

    The following is a description of a tree, of which there is, we believe, a specimen in the Colony, and growing on the South Shore near the Heads:— "The Banian, or Burrtree, the ficus indica of Linnaeus ...

    Article : 1,019 words
  4. HOW THE DEAD MAY HEAR.

    About 1759, a merchant at Cleves, named Forrisen, who had become almost totally deaf, sitting one day near a harpsichord while some one was playing, and having a tobacco pipe in his mouth, the bowl of which rested accidentally ...

    Article : 221 words
  5. RECIPE FOR FINISHING A YOUNG LADY.

    Take a daughter of a cheesemonger, a tallow-chandler, or any other tradesman, who has some money but not much information, and if she be an only child, so much the better for your purpose. Staff her with ...

    Article : 638 words
  6. HOBGOBLINS AND SINGULAR TRIAL.

    PARIS, DEC. 15.—The following singular and amusing cause was heard before the Tribunal of Correctional Police here, a few days ago:—In 1821, Mr. Berbiguier de Terreneuve du Thym ...

    Article : 1,191 words
  7. A PROTESTANT GALLEY SLAVE.

    The galleys, formerly at Marseilles, were in 1789 removed to the arsenal at Toulon. Five were moored near each other, and had their names on the stern, as the Firm, the Intrepid, the Brave, &c. In them were about sixteen hundred ...

    Article : 855 words
  8. HONORABLE MEN.

    There are certain absurdities in France, which in England we could scarcely believe it possible to exist. An instance of this occurs to my recollection at this moment. One morning while we were in Paris, our lacquey de place did not ...

    Article : 224 words
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  10. ATROCIOUS MURDER.

    Two females, who lived in a village near Loughrea, in the county of Galway, having a small fortune, received the addresses of two men, who were considered by their friends as below than in rank. They made ...

    Article : 247 words
  11. DRUNKEN TEMERITY.

    A Hull whaler was moored to a field of ice, on which at a considerable distance, a large bear was observed prowling about for prey. One of the ship's company, emboldened by an artificial courage, derived from the free use of his rum ...

    Article : 587 words
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