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CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, AUGUST l7, wit-1.

VOL. I. JVW

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'MAILS. h’lails by the Southern route to Be. Traverse, Tryon River. are mltlt' up sveryMonday morning at l0 o’clock. pm. Mann. Courier.

The Eastern Mails to Bay Fortune, Fair- tdd, Mount Pleasant, Lot 47, St. Mergarets. titPoters, Semis—every Wednesday mom- ..‘st to o’clock—Par. FIEHAN, Courier.

The Western Mails to Bed ue, Cascum. pc.Cavendish, Egmont Bey. t 16, New Glasgow, New London. Park Corner. lfort Hill. Prince Town. St. Eleanors, Tignish. Tmellet‘e Rest —everyThursday morning at in o'clock—RICHARD BAGNAI.!., Courier.

The Southern Mails to George Town—- Wednesday and Saturday mornings at.8 o‘. clock. To Belfast, Murray Harbour. Vernon hirer. Whi'e Sands—every Saturday at 9 o'clock, A. M.-SAMUEL LANE, Courier.

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running full speed towards me. mounted, and, on my way, for seven miles and a half, on this side ofthe field of battle, lfound the dead and the wounded lying on the ground, sadly cut in pieces. The further I advanced, the more these poor creaa tures lay heaped one upon another.

‘ That scenel shall never forget. The Cossacks as soon as they saw me, cried out, ‘ dear sir, water! wa- ter!’ Righteous God! what a eight! men. women, and children; Russians and Prtissians, carriages and horses, oxen, chests, baggage, all lying one upon another to the height ot‘a man! Seven villages around me in flames, and the inhabitants either massacred, or thrown into the fire!

‘ The poor wounded; what ahorrihle illustration of the war spiritl—were still firing atone another in the great— t‘st agitation. 'l‘he field of battle was a'plain tw'o miles and a half long, and wholly covered with dead and Ewoundrd; those was not even room ito set my foirt without treading on r some ofthem! Several bmoks were ten filled up with Russians, that I do

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some way, a Cossack’s horse came éyoung. yet their altered and cousisw l tent lives gave pleasing testimony

that God had truly renewed them by his Holy Spirit. Perhaps these pa- rents never felt that they had sttch abundant cause for gratitude, as at this moment. They could look upon two of their children as garnered up in glory, and five of those that were left them, had enrolled their names among the followers of the Lamb.— Though three of their sons were now absent, they felt that they were un- der the guardian care of Him who ruleth the raging urthe see, and ma- keth its waves to praise him. They ihad frequent and Eleasing intelligence lfrom G—— and —-—. And J——, i who had gone to the East Indies was iexpected in a few weeks. At length, through the public papers, they saw announced the arrival of the ship —--. in which he sailed, at the port of New York. They were waiting with eager atid anxious solicitude to wel- come him to the paternal roof. In the course of two or three days a letter arrived. lt bore the post mark ofNew-York. It must be from J—, announcing his arrival, and stating

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the deck, and swept him off in a mo— ment. Every effort was made to save him, but in vain. Ile ntt‘tt‘ rose to the surface. No trace ot his form could be found; and the still was obliged to go on her way. and leave young R to slumber m the depths of the ocean,till the rent:- rection morn.

When the first gush of grief had passed away. the solemn and start ling inquiry came up in the mlntla Ht these parents—” In what state i'wlk J-- gone to his last account? in was swept into eternity “'ltilul‘tt it moment’s warning! Was he prepar- ed to go? Had his heart beer. rr» newed?” These were fearful ques- tions. The clouds of darkness and uncertainty seemed to gather this. around his fate. One single ray of hope to lead them to believe that in had gone to the bosom ofthe Rim our, would recancile them to this o?.-~

pensation. Mr. [E— seemed at once to gather that ray of bone 2‘. . God’s covenanted promises. "I‘Em

child,’ said he, ‘ has long since 3H {'1’ given up in covenant to God; out i have faith to believe that (Sod change 2.5.. heath-did make itttr. 'l'u"-‘

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int‘l'irm it, they lay heaped one input the tim:'- when they might expect iiiui‘

lt'mrn were good, and strove to share Etch oilicr’s pain and woe,

tlrm few the lines ofgrief \vould wear, or wasting sorrow know.

The various ills of life would be Swept like the dew away-— :‘mil seasnns pass as pleasantly,

is where the angels stay.

Ni. envy would destroy the love That warm’d the happy breast-— But like the slnless train above All bedivinely blessed.

‘J'llicu strive, 0 man, to bear thy pail. In thy weak brother’s grief--

Ard when thcrloud is on My heart His smile will give relief.

AN Amen-Scene or Barr”: .vmn SOLDIN.-—A travelling correspondent at his description, says'-‘ At one "clock, the cannonading ceased; and lwent out on foot to Soldin to learn to whose advantage the battle had turned out. Towards evening, seven hundred ofthe Russian fugitives came to holdin, a pitiful sight indeed; some holding up their hands, cursing, and Wearing: others ra 'in and raising the King of Pruiisia); firithmit hats: Without clothes: some on f0ot,othcrs two on a Horse, with their heads and arms tied up; tome dragging along bythe stirrtips, and others bv the horses’ tails. '

" When the battle was decided,and Victory shouted for the Prussian ar- m}. l rental-ed to the place where the csunonading was. After walking

ganother as high as two men, and ap- he would once more be with his he- ‘peared like hills to the even ground! loved parents -—~With intense inter- ~l oo~ild hardly recm'er myself from est Mr. It— broke the seahand ra- i the fright occasioned by the great and pidly glancml his eye over the lines. miserable otttcry vfthe wounded. A int no—it. was not the hand—it bore inoble Prussian officer, who had Inst not the signature of J«! Mr. R— '. both his legs, cried out to me: ‘ Mr. - read oil—the letter dropt from his pray ShOW‘tHO some C'illltlussltlll,alltlllllttltlfiv-flte tears rolled down his ‘dlspatch me at once.” Tijhvcks, and he exclaimed—“ The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken fawn: ,‘ ldcssetl he the name of the 1| Lord!" Oh! what a moment of an- ':-;i¢-ty was this to the family who were i were yut lththti|?-’1lttteti with the real . ‘ iii'itoi':;roticc the letter contained. it has already been intt‘tiiutut that, .t \Hnt i; it_what is it an was the ithese brothers went on dittcient toy-1eugpr inqugrf logos. J u— went on board of an: .. This loner,” sap] Mn R__’ u k il-Zzist-ludiaman, bound to llatavia . from Hr__’ the owner 0f the vessel imld Mimmnr A yo“. m "iii-"Hm" in which .l— <’;ilcd. The vessel has {months \H'E‘C expected to clntm- he. I Hymn“. but J__ is not (m boardor if‘” its ""“”'"- , thfuwliere is he?” was ask- l M" “d Mrs- R “9"” “9‘” Oil in: minty voices. felt so happy in the, mist-lice Hf llselri Cl‘ll‘lmn- They bellow-"l ‘iml ‘Miritlio father, his heart swelling with PM?“ 50" had "my 9.3%" hi“ hemtinitiations too big for utterance. ‘“ Go‘l- 3”“ that “19mm” “Nth-"5:! The scene that followed can be :Wtfl'e SC'lOMIY impressed Tm." "0“ i better conceiVed than described.— ‘cxperienved great consolation in the p Y“ God “a; in the mutt of them, “m'mhtv 3““ “my had 3“”‘1 UP “‘9” 3 and his comforts refreshed their souls. Oml’l'lnfi l” "“Ven’mt ‘0 ‘Iilltl- Tim.“ i The following facts were commu- CO"m not bl“ belle“: ill-'1t (it‘ll‘m‘l'd nicotod in the letter which announ- remcmhcr his covenant, out inakcimd J___vg dun“. Th9 crew hm] ,1 them the Slll’j‘wls Of his stating "ll'diphfipet-ms voyage to lntlirt, arrived transfer-cling grace. I tin a good stati- at nititu’IuJVilCI'i‘ they There were several occurrem‘tIi "‘1 discharged their cargo, nu l xvi-re on the circle of their own home to phony : r‘wit‘ any to Matilda, in the China and gladden their hearts. 't‘m tnop 9”, when the“), suddenly blew tip a 'youngest daughters, the one twelve ; heavy gala, land the other ten years of age. hadlwss in some dangvr. Jr- was on ' given striking evidence of lof heart. More titan ay

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“yln the bottom of the sea!” said'

a renewal i dock giving the men some orders itt ear‘hnd 0-irolntinn to putting the ship in pt‘o-. lapsed since this change had taken : p.31- trim in or other the gale, when a~

regenerate before he took him out it: this world,’

Restingr Upon thish inc. and r if- helieving that the Most High all things well, he stayed his soul upon God, and was at peace. Th: stroke, howeVer, to the \Vo‘tv‘Il"-- mother, was more than she coul-t “Ix. hear. Her health declined, and ~ii~ seemed fast hastening to the gran That which pressed upon her hm” from day to day like a. load oft: was not the recollection that her a- was in the bottom of the deep, u-Zt‘ sea~weed wrapt around his head-~ .r was not that he had been swept mu. eternity so suddenly,——hut tha‘ t - had gone without having left an » vidouco behind, that his peace made with God. '

in a few woeks the fatnin had an moututiti satisfactimi of receiving -:‘ - trunk, and various effects of .3 Every scrap of paper w'titten ir own hand was cart-fully examiam and snort: ly preserved. At they came acrth an unfinished ter, carelessly thrown into his ills-oh. which appeared to have lltfell {idlier seed to his parents. and was Mutt-.2! _'- written only a short time heforr h:- itlenth.

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