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itinerant cooper, carrying a pair of saddle-bags with his clothes and a few tools, knit his own stockings, and made up and repaired most of his wearing apparel in a substantial and workman-like manner. Some years since he hired at farming business in the summer season, and fulfilled his engagements with industry and punctuality; he sometimes hired for his board, and at intervals journeyed with his staff to visit his numerous acquaintance. He read with laborious attention judge Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, and also Gibson's Treatise on Surveying, and derived therefrom a good degree of valuable improvement in those abstruse scien

ces.

In the summer of 1803, he visited Charleston, in South Carolina, on foot, carrying his knapsack and travelling rations, consisting of biscuit, cheese, tea, sugar, molasses, &c. He went on some secret business, perhaps with the governor of that state, and spent above a year on the tour.

Since the troubles commenced in France, and his own difficulties increased in finding a suitable and permanent home, he has been much engaged in a mental and sometimes vocal exercise of what he called his devotions, being an odd mixture of unconnected sentences, expressive of no idea, nor object, yet he believed that his constancy in the performance of this duty was the only effectual means of preserving Great Britain from foreign invasion; he therefore frequently retired from company, standing in the open air uncovered, and appeared "rigid in thought and motionless," nor lightly quit his place or posture" on those occasions, either by day or night. Sometimes politely asking leave, he stood up, and taking off his hat, he repea edly went over his routine of words with some small variations, in a very solemn manner, and then would sit down and enter into conversation, taking no notice of what had passed.

The history of this man might be unimportant, but for what remains of his real character. He was of a middle stature and comely appearance, neat and clean in his person, and genteel in his dress and deportment, civil and friendly in his respects to

wards his acquaintance, whom he chose to be of the best rank of people; he was precisely strict and exemplary in his morals, and uniformly avoided using any invidious terms or remarks concerning the conduct or character of any person, sect, or party, but in this respect was the real philanthropist, the polite gentleman, and citizen of the world: his usual address was My friend," "My worthy friend," or "the honourable gentleman," and this civil disposition equally extended towards the family of the Stuarts, to Oliver Cromwell, and even to Bonaparte; and though he sometimes carried a brace of pistols or a sword, he never offered to use them. Though not possessed by nature of a remarkable docility, yet by dint of industrious application he had acquired some general knowledge of history and geography, and was tolerably acquainted with the improvements that have been made in public institutions, in farming, and mechanics, and appeared interested in most of the common subjects of conversation, in which he was regular, informing, and agreeable, social and respectful, and occasionally lively and facetious; he was mostly correct in his judgment, and never descended to the low or frivolous, but spoke in a good style, giving a plain description of his ideas, and seldom discovered, in his common conversation or behaviour, any symptoms of his strange peculiarities.

He was educated a member of the episcopalian church, but ever since his coming to this country, has attended friend's meetings, and oftentimes yearly meetings in Philadelphia, and always behaved in an orderly and solemn manner on those occasions. He had enjoyed a general good state of health, and finally wasted away by a gradual decline, and perhaps had arrived to the ne plus ultra of his human existence.

He died possessed of a personal estate amounting to five hundred pounds. It is supposed he has left no will nor any heirs in this country.

On Wednesday evening last (says the Londonderry Journal of August 25), a sailor, belonging to the American ship Hannah, fell from the foreyard on the deck, and was so severe

ly hurt, that he lived but a very short time after. About two hours previous to the melancholy accident, a female passenger fell out of the boat into the water, in attempting to go up the ship's side, when the deceased immediately threw off his jacket and shoes, leaped in, and rescued her from a watery grave. This generous and heroic act not only acquired him the esteem and regard of his messmates, but the universal admiration of the passengers on board, who, in order to evince their gratitude, eagerly pressed forward to treat him, by which means, it is said, he got himself intoxicated, which circumstance unfortunately led to the catastrophe. The next day, his remains, accompanied by all the sailors in the harbour, who walked in solemn procession, and many respectable citizens, were decently interred in the church-yard, where an appropriate funeral oration was delivered by the Rev. Mr. Hay. Never, indeed, have we heard a service more apposite to the occasion, or which seemed to make a more deep impression, and we sincerely hope a lasting one, on the minds of those present. What a warning to the unfortunate victims of intemperance, who sacrifice health, substance, life itself, and, what is still worse than all, the prospects of hereafter, to the wretched pleasure of drinking a slow but sure poison, prepared by a process to enervate the faculties of soul and body, and pave the way for the commission of every heinous crime.

For the Literary Magazine.

WEEKLY REGISTER OF MORTALITY IN THE CITIES OF PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK, AND BALTIMORE.

Health-office, Nov. 7, 1807. Interments, in the city and liberties of Philadelphia, in the week ending the 7th of November.