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translated the poems of Anacreon. Into this monastery, whith¬ 
er he came, he carried a reform of the most savage austerity.— 
The vow was perpetual silence; the miserable Trapp, 1st de¬ 
nied himself during his existence, every comfort of life. lie 
laid himself on a stone, and was frequently called in the dead 
of night to his devotions. His food was bread and water, and 
this but once in the twenty-four hours. Each day he was to 
remove from his intended grave one spadeful 1 of earth, in order 
to keep ever present to ills mind that he must soon entirely 
cease to be of this world. A French writer, (who is however, 
influenced by enmity) observing upon this monastery, says— 
C’est la '• qu'ils se retirent , ecu sc qui out cominis quelque crime se¬ 
cret dont les remords les poursuivent; ceux qui sont tourmentt's 
de vapeurs melancholiques el religie uses'.; ceux qui out oublic' qne 
Dieu est le plus misdricordieux cles pi x res , et qui no voyent en liijy 
cjue le plus cruel des tyrans , Ifc. 
I think it unnecessary to give my opinion on the nature of 
the institution—such institutions it must be acknowledged are 
not treated with much respect in the United States; we can 
hardly speak of them with candor, or think of them without pre¬ 
judice. It is true, this is the land of freedom and toleration, 
•but it is also the land of good sense. Every one may pursue his 
spiritual or temporal happiness, in what way he pleases; but his 
neighbors have also the liberty of laughing at him, if in the 
pursuit of that happiness, he exhibits singularities which ap¬ 
pear to the rest of the world ridiculous. 
(No. 6.) 
The following articles of the treaty of ’63, raise a necessary 
implication that France was the lawful owner of what is called 
West Florida. It will be seen that the cession was in fact made 
by France to Great Britain. 
ARTICLE 7. 
In order to re-establish peace on solid and durable' founda¬ 
tions, and to remove forever all subject of dispute with regard 
to the British and French territories on the continent of Arne- 
