_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.
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