sun. you have sometimes seen in a cloudy day, retreating over the hills, before the invading presence of the But Erskine in his turn, rallies himself, and easily persuades all, that except in that particular case, he is superior to Gibbs, and though vanquished, he is prepared for another combat. The judges, as judges, have doubt less most reverence for Gibbs; it is evident they look up to him with veneration, and are disposed to suspect their own, rather than his judgment. Yet this man, a plebeian, is candidate for nothing; while Erskine, the son of an earl, is candidate for the lord high chancellorship. I say not this in direspect to Erskine, who honours England more than England can ever honour him. PORTRAIT OF GARROW. GARROW is not a lawyer, nor is he, in the extensive sense of the word, an orator; yet not less extraordinary than Erskine or Gibbs. His person is respectable, rather raw-boned; his face a square fiat; his complexion a dry, brown red; his forehead high, which appears higher through a total defect of eyebrows; his chin is triangular, and a little prominent. Garrow, the son of a country clergyman, was considered, in his childhood, a dead weight on society. Until the age of thirteen, he was a cow-boy; and, at that age, his intellects promised nothing. His father sent him, about that period at a venture, to London. What occupation he followed I know not; but he found his way, at length, to the nightly debating societies, at which he soon discovered a wonderful readiness in reply, and a copious flow of original matter, which his want of education rendered all his own. He entered on the study of the law, I suspect, under unfavourable circumstances, for he commenced at the Old Bailey. Hence, if human nature wore but one aspect, Garrow would naturally paint it black. Most men, in the profession of law, if they have ability, attain eminence by degrees. A lawyer never appears full grown at once, like an air balloon, or a new created lord. He is obliged to arrive at certainty through the labyrinths of uncertainty. Garrow, though he became famous, soon as he showed himself, did not depend on his acquisitions for celebrity. As counsellor for felons at the Old Bailey, he was necessarily a spectator of human depravity, from its first moment of lax principle to the last degree of abandoned practice. The criminal code of law, in this country, is so disproportioned, so barbarous, so unnatural, that Garrow might frequently deem it a matter of principle to save the guilty. Hence, the more desperate the situation of the felon, the more severely would he tax his ingenuity. Garrow, while at the Old Bailey, was an impediment in the way of justice. The only remedy was to make him a king's counsellor. This placed him, at once, beside Erskine, Gibbs, Dallas, and Park, in the king's bench. The sagacity which distinguished him, in criminal cases, followed him to the more ample field of litigation. There, amidst the intricacies of self-interest, fraud, and cunning, he divests the cause of every assumed colour, or, as readily, extricates suffering innocence from the fangs of the oppressor. His wonderful knowledge of human nature is only equalled by his facility of entering into the feelings, views, and conduct of mankind, under all circumstances. He is a perfect master of the doctrine of the probabilities of human conduct, while the variety of causes which Guildhall affords, gives him an extensive view, broad as the relations of society. He is a metaphysician, and, what is more, knows how to reduce his metaphysics to common sense, and to the purposes of common life. No casuist could enter more sagaciously into the theory of the will, motive, degree of necessity, and so palpably distinguish between the necessary, the indifferent, and the perverse of human action. But his chief excellence consists in impressing on the jury a full and distinct apprehension of the merits of the case. It is the fault of some great lawyers to enter too deeply into their causes: they injure them by attempting, before the jury, to give them a false importance. Garrow, on the contrary, comprehends with a glance, just how much the case will bear, and to what length he may presume on the jury. Then, after a clear and precise opening of the cause, in which is contained the real outlines, which he knows his evidence will support, he rises in a moment to the middle style of eloquence, and with a fluency surpassing Erskine's, turns his back on the judge, and worms himself into the common sense of the jury, with whom he never hazards a dubious point, by urging it beyond the fair bounds of plausibility. Here he takes his stand: by resting his case on their own competency, he pays deference, and engages their self-love, while, without any considerable effort on their part, they follow him at their ease. Never, like Gibbs and Erskine, does he address himself partly to the judge, and partly to the jury; but he seems to leap over the bar, forgetful of all the solemnities of his profession, into the midst of the jury, his fellows; him self at their head, a sagacious pointer, they are ready to follow from White Chapel to Hyde Park. Nothing great, no sublime apostrophes, no appeal to the passions, no distracting digressions, no learning, not even law learning, trouble the pure stream of his eloquence. With the rapidity of lightning he touches on all the important points, throwing out with the one hand and establishing with the other, whatever is immaterial or substantial; thus he lays before the jury the marrow of the cause, and, lest he should obscure it with circumlocution, when he has said all that the jury can bear, Garrow appears to be exhausted. He attaches more surely than Erskine himself. The latter sometimes strains the feelings too high: amidst a world of matter, he is in danger of losing sight of the question. Garrow never yet wantoned to the prejudice of his client. He never, like the eagle, ascends to the sun, but he never forgets his pursuit to chase butterflies. Though his style of speaking and tone of voice are always the same, yet his penetration is so subtle, and his conclusions so natural, that he succeeds in convincing the jury he is only elucidating their own sentiments. Thus, whatever he gains, instantly becomes a part of the verdict; no matter, whether right or wrong, that is the judge's, not his concern. REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES. IN the region of the sea-coast, from Maine to Virginia, the season appears to have been not only much more severe than winters past, but proportionably colder, and more abounding in snow, than in the interior parts of the country. The interior, truly, is covered with a good depth of snow, and the weather has been severer than common. But on and towards the sea coast, south VOL. III. NO. XVII. ward and eastward, the snow appears in many places deeper than it is here, and uniformly of greater depth than it has been known to be there for many years: the cold is proportionable. Stages have been impeded in every direction; the navigable streams and harbours frozen, commerce on the coast at a stand; no employment for the poor; fuel extremely scarce and dear, with 9 most of the other necessaries of life; the poor have suffered beyond all description, to whom, we are happy to learn, the hand of charity has been extended, in all the populous sea-port towns, with an unexampled liberality. A remark has been often made, that the climate in the United States becomes more temperate as we recede from the sea-shore, westward. The difference of temperature, in the same parallels of latitude, has been reckoned equal to ten degrees, in winter, between the sea and the Ohio and Mississippi. The justness of this remark appears to be confirmed the present season. While the people near the sea shore are suffering extremely from frost and snow, while they compare the present winter to that of 1780, we hear little complaint from the western country. While in New Jersey the snow is stated from two and a half to three feet in depth, we have accounts of heavy rains and destructive freshets about the head of the Ohio, and a ship of 300 tons was launched at Pittsburgh, on the 12th of January. Walpole Observatory. 2,687 hhds. Indian corn meal 5,799 barrels do. do. A statement of the expenditures of the president, managers, and company of the Frankford and Bristol turnpike road, on making two sections, of five miles each, of the said road; with an account of the amount of the neat toll received, on the first section, from the 17th of December, 1803, to the 7th of November, 1804. For levelling and arranging the road and aqueducts Paid contractors for stoning ditto, salaries to secretary and superintendant, until the first section was completed There has been expended on the second section, the levelling hills, &c. building two bridges, making aqueducts, and arranging the road Paid contractors for stoning ditto, and half salaries of secretary and superintendant Making the whole amount expended on the road $ 9,949 28 44,571 14 16,115 45 34,662 00 $ 105,297 88 They have received neat toll, on the first section, from the 17th of December, 1803, to the 7th of November, 1804, four thousand dollars. Nashville, Ten., Dec. 9, 1804. A man lately applied to a gentleman in the neighbourhood of this place, and proposed to trade him some notes, stating, at the same time, that he believed them counterfeit. The gentleman accordingly purchased some of them, with an intention of bringing him to punishment, and had him immediately af REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES. terwards apprehended; but the jury acquitted him, on the ground that he did not, according to the literal words of the law, say that they were good. He had in his possession upwards of five thousand dollars in notes of the different branches of the bank of the United States, all of which he acknowledges to be counterfeit, but will not tell where he got them, or who made them. Other indictments have been found against him, which will be tried at the next district court. About two months since an aged gentleman, by the name of Samuel M'Hatton, an inhabitant of the state of Kentucky, was on his return from the Natchez, where he had dispos ed of a cargo of produce, and received a considerable sum of money. Near the verge of the wilderness he overtook a countryman of the name of M'Kune, a young man, not more than twenty years of age, who was also endeavouring to return to Kentucky, but was destitute of a horse or money, and withal so sick as to Mr. be utterly unable to travel. M'Hatton took compassion on him, furnished him with necessaries, and waited until he was able to accompany him through the wilderness; but the first or second night after their departure, M'Kune murdered him with a club, robbed him of his money, clothes, and horse, and pushed on as fast as the small degree of strength he had acquired would permit him; but the body being discovered by some travellers, he was pursued, apprehended, and committed to the jail in this place. A bill was found against him, upon very clear testimony, by the grand jury of the federal court; but a few days before his trial was to have come on, he died a victim to the same disorder from which he had been partially relieved by his murdered benefactor. On his death bed he confessed the fact, but did not appear to be sensible of the enormity of his crime. The directors of the New York institution for the inoculation of the kine pock, respectfully represent to the contributors particularly, and the citizens in general, that since the establishment of the institution, in January, 1802, to the present time, its twofold objects have been regularly attended to, the infection has been extensively disseminated, and seven hundred and sixty poor persons have been gratuitously inoculated, viz. Bardstown, Kentucky, Jan. 11. We are informed, that three men were found froze to death, on Thursday last, in this neighbourhood.From the extreme severity of the weather, it is feared that more have suffered the same fate. Baltimore, Jan. 14. Yesterday, about four o'clock, P. M., a fire broke out in a frame building, in the tenure of Mr. Henry Browne, situated back of No. 164, Market-street, and in the rear of, and nearly adjoining, the post-office. To a slight fall of rain, just before the alarm was given, and to the serenity of the atmosphere, aided by the vigilance of our citizens, preserwe may fairly attribute the vation of the surrounding property, which, we are happy to say, sustained no damage. We learn, that the building consumed contained a small quantity of tobacco, and machinery for grinding snuff; but it appears no work had been done in it for some days: and this, the time of day it originated, and other circumstances, loudly declare, that the fire was communicated by some daring incendiary. Danbury, Connect., Jan. 16. In this part of the country, the winter, thus far, has been unusually severe. On Friday, the 4th inst., at sun-rise, the mercury, in a thermometer, exposed to atmospheric air, stood at 15 degrees below 0; and on Saturday, the 12th inst., at the same hour, 19 degrees below 0: an intenseness of cold very seldom experienced in these latitudes. New London, Jan. 18. A severe thunder storm was experienced here this day. The lightning was vivid, the thunder heavy, and the rain fell in torrents. At the same time, every object presented the dazzling glare of ice. Charleston, S. C., Jan. 21. The post-rider from the northward arrived on Saturday evening, without the mail, from the northward of Raleigh. The following communication, from the post-master at Raleigh, North Carolina, dated the 13th inst., was received at the post-office in this city, by Saturday evening's mail: "No northern mail arrived, owing to the bridges being carried away by the high water. We learn from a person arrived this day from Warrenton, North Carolina, that the mail could not get across Roanoke; and that all the bridges on the stage road from that river to Raleigh are swept away. Our informant crossed the Neuse by means of a canoe, and came here on foot." COURT OF SESSIONS. On Friday last, Richard Dennis, the younger, was brought to the bar, and put on his trial for the wil ful murder of James Shaw, late merchant of this city, in the month of August last. The trial occupied the whole of that day, and continued to a late hour in the evening, when, on account of the fatigue of mind of the court, the jury, and the advocates concerned, it was thought necessary to adjourn to the next day. The court again proceeded with the trial on Saturday, and it was not until late on the evening of that day that the judge delivered his charge to the jury, who, after being out for a considerable time, returned with the following verdict: "We find Richard Dennis, the younger, guilty, but recommend him to mercy." New York, January 23. John Craig, Adolphus Harris, and John Nesbitt, three apprentice lads of Mr. Hugh M'Intire, stone-cutter, during the absence of their master, went on the ice in the North River, at the bottom of Warren-street, with an intention of crossing to the Jersey shore: but, painful to relate, they have not since been heard of! January 24. The exertions of the persons officially employed in procuring the means of relief for the poor of our city, as well as those of benevolent private individuals, have been attended with happy success. The hand of charity has been opened in a manner that reflects signal credit on the citizens, many of whom have manifested a feeling and liberality that must endear them to the poor. Zealous to obtain and forward to acknowledge the contributions of the humane and generous, the mayor and city-inspector have made honourable mention of several individuals, who have advanced largely in behalf of their suffering brethren. Some who do good by stealth, and would blush to find it fame, have sent very handsome donations, under assumed signatures. A flour merchant yesterday sent a donation to the Alms-house of no less than twenty-one barrels of superfine flour, worth upwards of two hundred and forty dollars. This do |