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sons as the wife of General Arismendy , and was immediately arrested and put into a dark and damp dungeon in the citadel . Arismetidy , who almost always put his prisoners to death , had spared three Spanish Colonels and Majors , whom he put into one of his forts , that they might serve him as hostages in case of need . The governor of Porto Cabello
knew their situation . They were beloved by their superior officers , aud the governor sent one of his officers to Arisr oendy ' s wife , with his word of honour , that she should be immediately set at liberty if she would write a line to her husband and persuade him to release the three Spanish officers in exchange for her . She feared that her husband would
be weak enough , as she expressed it , to consent to the proposal , and she positively refused to write . By the urgency of the governor , she understood the importance of these officers , aud told him plainly she would not write . After she had received a number of visits to the
same purpose , the governor came himself , and endeavoured to persuade her , but in vain . They then threatened her ; but she replied , laughing , that it would be cowardly to torment a defenceless woman , whose only crime was being the wife of a patriotic general . They next employed more rigorous treatment with regard to her living , but still treated her respectfully , and promised her immediate
liberty if she would write to her husband to release the officers . At length she became vexed with their importunity , and told the officer who came to her , that if General Arismendy were informed of their cowardly treatment of her , he would be nuad as a tigqr , and would put to death thousands of Spaniards , men , women , and children , all that might fall into his power ; and that , for her part , she was determined never to commit so
weak and vile an act as they required of her , and that she would suffer a thousand deaths rather than attempt to persuade her husband to forget his duty . " During three months she was treated with great barbarity , but she remaiued firm , and constantly gave the same
answers . The Spaniards at last finding that nothing could alter her determination , permitted her to go to the-Island of Trinidad , fearing that if her husband should hear of her detention , he would do as she had predicted . Such was the wife of General Arismendy at the age of twenty-three years . "— II . 228—230 .
Very glad shall we be to And this publication leading , by discussion aod further information , to the solution of the
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doubts -which have been felt here as to the character of Bolivar . Very glad , indeed , shall we be to find him " more sinned against than sinning ; " to have a satisfactory vindication of his past conduct crowned by his future patriotism ; and to recognize in him not the blundering ape of Napoleon , but the manly imitator of Washington .
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Art . VIII . —Memoirs of the Lfe and Times of Daniel De Foe . By Walter Wilson , Esq . 3 Vols . Hurst .
1830 . The " Life and Thnes , " should rather be entitled the " Times and Life " of Daniel De Foe ; for it exhibits but a scanty stream of biography meandering through an immense field of political history and disquisitiou . The great events and characters of those days are made to pass in review before us simply
because De Foe animadverted upon them , as if the opinions of a pamphleteer , even though that pamphleteer was afterwards the author of Robiusou Crusoe , were a thread sufficiently large and strong to hold together the facts of history . So large a picture required a central figure rather more colossal in its proportions . De Foe is often not very prominent , and sometimes scarcely visible , in his own
life . It was scarcely possible that , ou such a plan , an interesting book , to the great majority of readers , should be produced . A long succession of long quotations from hy-goue controversies ; even including that protracted one on Occasional Conformity , will be too much for the many , and not enough for the few , who make such matters their study , and who after all must have recourse to
the publications themselves . At the same time , the principles , spirit , and power of the author , the Cobbctt of his day , with integrity and consistency to boot , are an apology for Mr . Wilson ' s propensity to extract , which we cannot but feel . The really biographical part of the work we have very briefly epitomized for our readers .
Paniel de Foe ( the de was an interpolation of bin own , his father was plain James Foe , a butcher in St . Giles , Crip - plegate ) was boru in the year 1661 , and , it is supposed , baptized by the Rev . Samuel Anuesley , LL . D ., an ejected minister who then preached at a meetinghouse in Little St , Helen ' s , Bishopsgate Street , on whom his parents attended . He was educated in an academy at New ~ ington Green , couducted by the Rev . C « MQrtou , who afterwards emigrated to
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58 Critical Not ices . — Miscellaneous .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1830, page 58, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2580/page/58/
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