"On Thursday last made his appearance in this town, a certain John Hamlen, who, in the late war, left the state of Maryland, and joined the enemies of America. After joining them, he fitted out a galley, and cruised in the Delaware and Chesapeak, where he was very successful in capturing a number of American vessels. He was very fond of exercising every species of cruelty on those unhappy people who fell into his hands; among other things, he took great delight in cutting off the ears of some, and noses of others. Unluckily for him he was known by some honest Jack Tars, belonging to vessels in this harbour, who, in the time of the war, had been made prisoners by him; these honest fellows very kindly furnished him with a coat of _Tar_ and _Feathers_; and that he might not in a short time forget them, they took off one of his _ears_; they then kindly shewed him the way out of town, without doing him any further injury.--It is supposed he will bend his course for Newbern, and endeavour to take a passage in some vessel bound to the northern states." ------------------------- FROM THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE. _A GEORGIA SHREW._ "Why, sirs, I trust I may have leave to speak, And speak I will; I am no child, no babe: Your betters have endur'd me say my mind; And if you cannot, best you stop your ears." The Grand Jury of Burke have presented Mary Cammell as a common scold and disturber of the peaceable inhabitants of that county.[1] We do not know the _penalty_, or if there be any attached to the offence of _scolding:_ but for the information of our Burke neighbours, we would inform them that the late lamented and distinguished Judge Early decided, some years since, when a modern _Xantippe_ was brought before him, that she should undergo the _punishment_ of _lustration_, by immersion three several times in the _Oconee_. Accordingly she was confined to the tail of a cart, and, accompanied by the hooting of the mob, conducted to the river, where she was publickly ducked, in conformity with the sentence of the court. Should this punishment be awarded Mary Cammell, we hope, however, it may be attended with a more salutary effect than in the case we have just alluded to--the unruly subject of which, each time as she arose from the watery element, impiously exclaimed, with a ludicrous gravity of countenance, "glory to G--d." _Boston Palladium_, 1819. [1] She must have been an extraordinary scold to have disturbed a large county, where the houses are perhaps a half mile apart. ------------------------- Criminals after a whipping sent to the Castle to make nails. From "Salem Mercury," Nov. 25, 1786.