plicated difficulties; when we witness him bearing up against the frowns of an unpitying world, the stings of poverty, and the poisonous arrows of calumny, with a mild and with a mild and calm philosophy, we canuot withhold from him the tribute Admiration. A mind that and unmoved, amidst stress, is capable of steming the greatest calamites; he can behold the deceit of this world with placid pity; he may sigh at the depravity of his fellow mortals, but at the same time. his philosophy informs him that treachery and falsehood is the concomitant characteristic of the human species, and his religion teaches him that it is his duty to suffer with patience. Ill's that at a distance appear in aspect the most horrible, upon approach, are found indurable by the man of maguanimity. What though friends betray and forsake you? a tranquil mind can never fail of resource by turning to itself. Should pain and sickness confine you to a valetudinary chamber ; if your levies are not attended with the hollow and hypocritical condolences of the great; some will be found to pity and console you; and you have a prospect of speedily changing (at least) but a mise rable existence, for a happy immortality. Should the wife of your bosom, or the mistress of your heart, after having made you believe that you were beloved more than all the world, and after a thousand protestations of everlasting affection, leave you for another the shock would be cruel in the extreme, but still the man of fortitude would feel a com. parative degree of composure, when he considered that others had borne the like evils without repining, and that misfortunes and disappointments were the inevitable lot of man. short it is a belief, universally adopted, that the majority of mankind, in various situations, render themselves more miserable than they would otherwise be, by mourning over passed incidents, and which it is not in the power of man to alter, whereas the magnanimously coolness, and proper reflections lighten, if they cannot wholly dispense with the burdens they are fated to support. In MR. SPECULATOR. And oblige your humble serv ́t. PEOPLE vs. HANNAH SCOTT. the fair sex capable of being so great a monster as the prisoner, Hannah Scott, I am pained to my very heart-Gentlemen, I feel for you, you have had a long session, and for your patience, and services during the present session, which I have witnessed, I do not hesitate to declare that you desesve well of your country. I know gentlemen, your great anxiety to return home to the wives of your bosom's and to the children of your affection, but recollect this is the last day of the sessions, and your labours will soon be ended. 1 therefore have to request you would have the goodness to hear, particularly to hear this case both on the part of the prisoner so well as on the part of the public proseThecution, and after you have heard the whole case for and against, if by your oaths you can conscientiously acquit the prisoner in God's name do it. But gentlemen, I now advise you if you have a tear of sensibility prepare to shed it on this occasion, for I shall prove to you such cruelty, and barbarity on the part of the prisoner exercised on and over this infant, as will set on fire every capillary vessel of the human frame. Know then that the lady who is seated by the infant is its real mother, that the father of the child, John Scott is the acknowledged father, that this Scott having become acquainted with the prisoner Hannah, at the Methodist Church, abandoned his lawful wife, who is the mother of At the general sessions of the peace, for the city and county of New-York, on Saturday, the 15th inst. came on the trial of Hannah Scott, for an assault and battery, committed on a child of the age of two years and six months only, of the name of James Scott. defendant plead Not Guilty. After the jury was sworn, and had taken the box, Doctor Graham, who had advised the prosecution, aad being retained as counsel by the real mother of the infant-appeared on the part of the public, when by the politeness of the honorable the attorney general, he proceeded to state the case which was nearly in the following words, to wit. May it please your honors, and you gentlemen of the jury-I rise to state a case for your consideration which gives me such painpain did I say? yes, pain indeed! because when I reflect, that there is to be found any one of the human species particularly one of the child and married the prisoner Hannah; afterwards the husband gets the child into his possession and Hannah who has become the convenient wife of Scott, also, becime nurse to the child, and while she is thus the new bride, and nurse I small prove that she treated, this little innocent, in such an abominable manner as would make an Algerin blush at the like barbarity. Gentlenen, I shall prove to you that the prisoner has at different times beat and pounded this infant almost to a jelly, that she has stamped on its little breast till she had nearly killed it, that the prints of her shoe is now to be scen on its body which was done some weeks since. I shall prove to you more, but gentlemen how shall I name it! my indignation rises at the thought to that degree, I want the power of utteranceI shall prove that this monster for such I am warranted to call her in addition to her other cruelties, has pulled out four of the finger nails of this little babe by the roots! Gentlemen I understand, that there are some Methodists who are called to support her character, as being very good she and Scott being members of their church. It is possible they may swear that Hannah Methodist wise is very clear and very pions, but gentlemen I shall prove the material facts as stated by the most respectable witnesses and before I close the testimony on the part of the prosecution, I shall satisfy you that the prisoner in her barbarity to this infant possessed more Demons than did Mary Magdalen, the Ipse dixit of her friends, the Methodist to the contrary notwithstanding. Doctor Graham, then called four respectable ladies who were all sworn as witnesses on the part of the public and proved the case, in substance as stated-also, that Hannah the prisoner had once broken the childs arm in going to market, but it did not appear whether it was done by accident or by disign. Here the prosecution on the part of the public rested. Mr. Tucker, counsel for the defendant, then called two witnesses to prove the good and pious char cter of Hannah, who swore that· she was a member of the Methomild, humane disposition. Mr. dist meeting, and possessed a very Tucker then proceeded to address the jury-but he had not gone far ‹ in his comments on the testimony, when one of the gentlemen of the jury observed, that, it was trifiing too much with the feelings of the jury, to hear any thing farther from the counsel. On which Mr. Tucker abandoned the defence and the jury instantly found a verdict of guilty. The hon.the court were very lenient in their sentance, owing to the particular and critical situation of the prisoner which was proved to them by affidavit,their honors,there. fore very humanely sentenced Hannah Scott to 30 days confinement in Bridewell, only pay a fine of $10 and costs of prosecution. T. R. MR. SPECULATOR, SIR, It pleased providence to give me a strong constitution, and leading a life of perfect ease and plenty, I began, at the age of eighteen to grow rather plump, not to say fat and corpulent. Shocking epithet, and to avoid their being applied to me, I resolved to have recourse to such methods as I had heard were effectually used in reducing the body to a moderate size; I drank vinegar copiously, and all acids that I could procure; I lived upon vegetables,scarcely taking animal food; I laced so tightly as to squeeze myself in half my natural dimensions; and I sweated myself every day b.. tween two feather beds till I was ready to faint; these methods were not unsuccessful; I gradually shrunk to a lady ali skin and bone; I felt great complacency in success, ut I was little acquainted with consequences which were shortly to ensue. The state of debility to which I had reduced myself soon brought on what the physicians called an atrophy, and a most shocking figure I made; I looked in the glass with many a wishful sigh after my departed plumpness. I was obliged to call in a physician who discovered the cause of deaths door, and indeed I be- WINTER EVENINGS. Voltaire said of an apothecary, that his employment was to pour drugs, of which he knew little, into a body, of which he knew less. For the Lady's Miscellany. VARIETY. ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. Mirth, Iyield me to thy sway; Charm the canker care away.' some French vessels at sea, and searched them, France had taken Umbrage! The Sagacious Alderman, more patriotic than learned, took the alarm, and proceeding with the paper in his hand directly to a brother of the board, and with unfeigned sorrow, deplor It has generally been remarked the loss his country had suS ed, that when an ignorant man, by some casualty obtains a situation above that of his neighbour, he is continully prating about something above his understanding thereby rendering himself an object of pity, contempt and redicule. In every public department some of this description will be found, placed their either by the leaity or misinformation of their constituents-And the figure they make in the bodies to which they are attached is very ludiciously exemplified in the following anacdote, which we have extracted from the Narrative etc. of Donald Cambell Esq. "During the late American war, about that period when the King of France, was manifesting an intention to interfere and join the Americans, a worthy Alderman, in Dub. lin, reading the news paper, observed a paragraph intimat ing that in consequence of Brifish cruisers having stopped tained in having a place of such consequence as Umbrage ravished from it! desiring of all things, to be informed in what part of the world Umbrage lay. To this the other, after a torrent of invective a gainst Ministers, and Condolence with his afflicted friend, answered that he was utterly unable to tell him, but that he had often heard it mentioned, and of course conceived it to be a place of great importance; at the same time proposing that they should go to a Bookseller, (who as he delt in books, must necessarily know every thing) in order to have this Gordian knot untied. They according ly went; and having propounded the question, what part of the Globe Umbrage lay in ?" the Bookseller took a Gazet teer, and having searchad it diligently, declared that he could not find it, and said he was almost sure there was no such place in existence. To |