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 *gagement, we celebrated this anniversary at {73} a sumptuous table, surrounded principally by dashing Scotchmen, at which, in a shower of champaigne, nearly all present were loyally drunk to the honour of Great George. As this feast was too highly seasoned with loyalty, no Americans were admitted.

5th.—My resolution, made on the 29th, was this morning carried into effect in the following letter to the editor of the Courier, copies of which I saw printed in other papers, nearly 2,000 miles from this city. From the Charleston Courier of June 5.

"The well taught philosophic mind, To all compassion gives, Casts round the world an equal eye,  And feels for all that lives!"

Mrs. Barbauld.

"Sir,—On my way to this city, from a short tour through the interior of this state, a few days ago, 20 miles west of Columbia, I was suddenly attracted to a spot of earth, over which a respectable company of citizens were deeply intent on witnessing the exhumation of the body of an animal, costing 1,200 dollars; but which its humane owner, (one Kelly) and three other persons like-minded, had seized and tied to a tree at midnight, and each in turn wantonly whipped until sun-rise; when, from excessive lashing, its bowels gushed out, and it expired, and was instantly buried in a {74} private corner on Sunday, the 23rd ult. But, on inquiry, the said animal proved to be of the negro, and by some was thought to be of the human species; and stood "guilty of having a skin not coloured like our own." An offence for which these arbiters of life and death, doomed it to die! To their honour, it should be told, that, when fainting, they threw cold water on its