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It is stated, in a Savannah paper, that on the 4th inst. an attempt was made to set fire to the town of St. Marys-it was however discovered in time to prevent the dreadful conflagration which was threatened.

An attempt was also made on the 12th inst. to set fire to the house of Mr. A. Weyman, at Savannah.

Married.

On Thursday morning last, at St. John's Church, by the rev. Dr. Hobart, Mr. John Oldham, Merchant, to Miss Maria Elsworth, daughter of the late Mr. John Elsworth.

On Monday evening last, by the rev. Mr. Broadhead, Col. Francis Saltus, to Miss Anna B. Loyd.

Aa Connecticut Farms, Mr. William S Chapman, merchant, of this city, to Miss Abby beach, daughter of Col. Beach.

Lancelot Fidler, of Hudson, to Miss Mary Taylor, daughter of John Taylor, of Albany.

At Staten Island On Saturday evening last, by the rev. David Moore, Mr. Warmoldus Cooper, of the firm of Cooper and Keeler merchants of this city, to Miss Eliza Seaman of the former place

Died.

On Sunday evening, the 29th inst. Mrs. Mary Halsted, wife of capt. Benjamin' Halsted, in the 29th year of her age.

A Cambridge, the hon. Francis Dana, late Chief Justice of Massachusets.

At Baltimore, Thomas L. Roe commission merchant.

On her passage from Havana to Bal timore Mrs Charlotte Antoinette Muller, consort of George H. Muller, esq. of Bal timore-she had been to Havana for the benefit of her health. Her remains were interred on Wednesday, attended by he afflicted relatives and friends.

On Monday afternoon last, after a lingering illness, Miss Jane Remsen, daughter of Mr. John Remsen.

On Saturday morning last, after a short illness, in the 56th year of hic age, Mr. David Law,sen.

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OR,

WEEKLY

THE

VISITOR.

FOR THE USE AND AMUSEMENT OF BOTH SEXES.

VOL. XIII.]

Saturday, May 11,....1811.

KILVERSTONE

CASTLE.

A Tale.

(Continued)

Lord Wentworth was a man whose early life was dissolute and. vicious; every degree of fashionable error was familiar to him; in his lasciviousness, he ruined half his vassals; in his ebriety, he mastered the Herculean cup of Alexander; in him, ignorance begat obstinacy; his resentment was insatiate; his will was arbitrary; and his whole domains groaned under his authority. Age and disease had weakened his faculties, but left his mind all unreformed. The churchmen took possession of his soul: they ingrafted bigotry upon the darkness of his understanding; wound up the springs of superstition; and, from the horrors of their doctrine, induced his avarice to bend in purchase of salvation. Large endowments had been made, and father Pe.

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ter's monastery enriched with vast donations. The enmity to the old Lord Audley first gave rise to the prosecuted claim of his estates, and Lord Wentworth had devoted it, for a thousand masses more, to the same monastery. The death of old Lord Audley removed the object of the ecclesiastic's vengeance; but his estate, the object of his avarice, was yet in being. The active spirit of the young heir Mervil, and the respect his excellencies gained him, together with the determined purpose of appealing to the king in person, seemed to throw such obstacles to a design which fraud and and iniquity could not support, that the father's subtlety was confounded. He was convinced that young Mervil would not be the same supine opponent that he had met with in the former Lord Audley, his father. He also reflected that the claim was founded in forgery; that the king, whose mind was not so bigotted as his predecessors, saw a little through the artifi

ces and bigotries of the church, and therefore would give but little credit to the doubtful legends of a monastery.

ment. One morning he was called by some particular friends to join the chase. Willing to remove the melancholy ideas which had for some time pos

The world already entertain-sessed his mind, he accepted ed suspicions of the artifices of ecclesiastics. Their large acquisitions had promoted jealousies, and thence their author ities grew distasteful. Ant An apprehension of a discovery of this fraud brought many ter He reflected that the young Lord Mervil was now the only one remaining of his ancient house; and that, without an heir, his lands reverted to the lord.

rors.

An easier passage this, than what he had devised in the days of Lord Audley.The death of his son now would accomplish all his purpose.The perpetration committed by his own hands precluded discovery, and left `no accomplice to betray the treachery. With a callosity of soul inured to the vilest purposes, he resolved upon the horrid project; but a superior power interpos ing, held his hands, and frustrated his desing.

Notwithstanding all these alarms, young Lord Audley was not entirely lost to the wholesome diversions of young men of his age and situation. Hunting was his favourite amuse

the invitation. The boar was roused, was fierce, and made the hunters exercise all their alacrity and skill. Lord Audley was seperated from his friends; and only one companion left with him in the same thicket, a stranger, who, during the diversion, seemed merely a distant spectator; but, upon a nearer approach, appeared a spectator masked. The sumthe freedom of the air, the mer sun was vehement, and for

youth had opened his bosom, where the onyx shone with rays distinguishing some propitious moment was at hand. The stranger still approaching, seemed with very cautious looks to survey the wood, as if he feared their privacy might be interrupted. He drew near, when, opening his upper garment, and the mask being withdrawn, discovered him to be an ancient hermit, whose venerable look, and gracious countinence, bespoke benevolence and virtue. The appearance of such a person gave the youth some surprise; the secrecy of the place, the disguise, the

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